Twin [archival audio]: Key body weight exercises, squat, stand with feet shoulder width apart, lower your hips as if you are sitting in a chair, keep your back straight and chest up. Go as low as you comfortably can.
Michael Calore: Lunges for each leg, three sets of 10, plank, three sets held for 30 to 60 seconds, which is torture. Glute bridges, three sets of 15 reps. And then it talks about progressive overload and it talks about rest days and all that stuff, which is great. And then I was like, “OK, I don’t know how to do a lunge. Can you show me how to do a lunge?” And it gave me a bunch of videos, five videos.
Lauren Goode: YouTube, presumably?
Michael Calore: Yes, they were YouTube videos. Two of the links were exactly the same, but I watched all the videos and I was like, “OK, I feel like I can do a push now.” And I did a push and I didn’t hurt myself, and I felt the burn. So I feel it’s pretty good.
Lauren Goode: It’s actually pretty awesome.
Michael Calore: Yes. The only thing that was strange about it is that I did a Google search and found the exact same information from a few different places. And aside from the video, I don’t know where Gemini got any of this information. I don’t even know where it got the recipes from. It was all just presented to me as, “That’s what Gemini says.”
Lauren Goode: No acquisition.
Michael Calore: No acquisition. And I typed through everything, and I didn’t see any good acquisition.
Lauren Goode: And presumably people put together those workout plans or wrote about those recipes. And it’s published and sorry, but your infinitesimal bits of data are now being chopped up and added to some recipe, and you have no idea where it came from.
Michael Calore: julienned.
Lauren Goode: That’s right.
Zoë Schiffer: OK, so are you going to stick with this? Will you continue to use it for this purpose, or did it feel like a one-and-done experiment?
Michael Calore: Honestly, the workout is pretty solid. I will keep doing it.
Lauren Goode: nice
Michael Calore: And as for the recipes, I have so many cookbooks and so many years of experience cooking for myself that I have absolutely no need to make this quinoa salad again, Lauren, unless you want me to make it and for you of it.
Lauren Goode: I’ve had other meals you’ve made, and I think maybe I’ll suggest that next time.
Zoë Schiffer: So diplomatic.
Michael Calore: Okay, great.
Lauren Goode: But thank you, appreciate you.
Michael Calore: So I have to say that for me, as a person who understands myself and understands my own needs, it wasn’t really that much help. The workout was fun. I could have found this without Gemini 2.O, but if someone who is new to this or someone who has a lot of questions, or if someone is considering making these types of lifestyle changes, then this actually gave good advice.