Gemini [archival audio]: Key bodyweight exercises, squats, stand with your feet shoulder width apart, lower your hips as if you were sitting on a chair, keep your back straight and your chest up. Go as low as you can comfortably.
Michael Calore: Lunges for each leg, three sets of 10, plank, three sets holding from 30 to 60 seconds, which is torture. Gluteal bridges, three sets of 15 reps. And then he talks about progressive overload and he talks about rest days and all that stuff, which is great. And then I said, “OK, I don’t know how to make a leap. Can you show me how to do a lunge?” And he showed me a bunch of videos, five videos.
Lauren Goode: YouTube, probably?
Michael Calore: Yes, they were YouTube videos. The two relationships were exactly the same, but I watched all the videos and I was like, “OK, I feel like I can make a leap now.” And I made the leap and I didn’t get hurt, and I felt so I feel like that’s pretty good.
Lauren Goode: That’s actually great.
Michael Calore: That. The only thing that was strange about it was that I did a Google search and found the exact same information from several different places. Other than the video, I don’t know where Gemini got that information. I don’t even know where his recipes come from. Everything was just presented to me as, “This is what Gemini says.”
Lauren Goode: No source.
Michael Calore: No source. And I listened to everything, and I didn’t see any good source.
Lauren Goode: And people probably put together those exercise 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 they’re coming from.
Michael Calore: Julienne.
Lauren Goode: that’s right.
Zoë Schiffer: OK, 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 regimen is pretty solid. I’ll keep doing it.
Lauren Goode: Nice.
Michael Calore: And as far as recipes go, I have so many cookbooks and so many years of experience cooking for myself that I absolutely do not need to make this quinoa salad again, Lauren, unless you want me to make it and give you some.
Lauren Goode: I ate other dishes that you prepared and I think I would suggest them next time.
Zoë Schiffer: So diplomatic.
Michael Calore: OK, great.
Lauren Goode: But thank you, I appreciate you.
Michael Calore: So I have to say that for me, as a person who understands himself and his needs, it was not a big help. The exercise was nice. I could have figured it out without the Gemini 2.O, but if anyone who is new to this or anyone who has a lot of questions, or if anyone is thinking about these kinds of lifestyle changes, he actually gave some pretty good advice.