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Nick Best Happy Birthday: Slow Methodical Gains, Patience & Smarter Training · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 1: Question one. When you were filming The Strongest Man in
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  Speaker 1: History with Brian, Eddie Hall, and Robert Oberst, you had
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  Speaker 1: four completely different personalities. Boy, that's putting it mildly.
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  Speaker 2: Mildly.
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  Speaker 1: Traveling together, competing, and recreating legendary feats of strength. What
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  Speaker 1: was the most What was the funniest or the most
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  Speaker 1: memorable moment involving all four of you that never made
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  Speaker 1: it on the television? That was actually, I think, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, that was during the pilot. And Eddie was
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  Speaker 1: pissing off the dock into the little harbor that was
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  Speaker 1: there that we were at. And the drone was flying
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  Speaker 1: around taking extra film footage and it had gone underneath
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  Speaker 1: where eddie was peeing and the drone came up and
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  Speaker 1: kind of caught eddie going to the bathroom it kind
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  Speaker 1: of blew some of the urine around too so it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty funny.
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  Speaker 2: All the way around little updraft he.
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  Speaker 1: Got a little little uh of a shower he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to get yes a little bit of an updraft
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  Speaker 1: you know but i think that was probably one of
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  Speaker 1: the funniest things or like like brian had to go
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom so he'd get out of the out
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  Speaker 1: of the van while we were waiting for production. He'd
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  Speaker 1: walk a little bit and then start to pee. And
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  Speaker 1: Eddie come hauling tail, trying to come next to him
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  Speaker 1: and pee on his leg. That was pretty funny. So
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of really, really funny kind of
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  Speaker 1: hijinks things that those were two, probably the funniest in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, or Eddie farting in the van and Brian
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  Speaker 1: threatening to hit him and knock him out and kill him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty good. Cause he was hot boxing us.
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  Speaker 1: He'd locked all the doors. he was sitting where he
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  Speaker 1: controlled the, uh, the switches and we couldn't let the
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  Speaker 1: windows down or anything. I was just very happy. I
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  Speaker 1: was in the back of the van, so I got
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  Speaker 1: it the least cause it didn't travel as far. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was just so many really funny things that happened that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's just, it's just hilarious, but it was
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  Speaker 1: a really good time. Um, uh, and if you guys
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  Speaker 1: got back together, uh, for another season today, uh, what
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  Speaker 1: would you think would cause them? Who did you think
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  Speaker 1: would cause the most trouble? Same person who caused the
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  Speaker 1: most trouble last time. That's probably gotta be Eddie. And
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  Speaker 1: then followed closely second, a very close second by Robert Oberst.
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  Speaker 1: So they, they both, uh, they, they both are quite
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  Speaker 1: fun characters to be around and we're always getting into something.
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  Speaker 1: You always had to kind of watch your tail, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Robert was, Robert was quite the jokester as well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there's a video of us in Scotland and the three
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  Speaker 1: of them are trying to mess with Brian. The two
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  Speaker 1: of them are trying to mess with Brian and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just sitting there just shaking my head. So there, there's a,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of like little really funny things that
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  Speaker 1: happened between all four of us, but Eddie would definitely
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  Speaker 1: cause the most trouble. If we follow closely second by
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  Speaker 1: Robert and then it would probably be me or Brian
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  Speaker 1: kind of tied for not really getting into too much trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So a little more on the straight and narrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So kind of like the dad that just sits there
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  Speaker 1: and shakes his head at his kids, you know, going, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you guys need to stop this. It was still good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun. We really did. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: question two, life philosophy and wisdom. Okay. You've experienced, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Incredible highs in your strongman career, but you've also faced
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  Speaker 1: some serious challenges in your life, you know, especially with
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  Speaker 1: respect to your surgeries and recovery. Looking back at everything
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  Speaker 1: you've been through, what is one philosophy or life lesson
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  Speaker 1: that helped you get through the toughest moments? And what's
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  Speaker 1: something that you believe when you were younger that you
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  Speaker 1: see completely different today? Um, wow. Uh, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Um, you know, philosophy on going through the
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  Speaker 1: surgeries and dealing with that is, is you find out
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, um, and what the doctors kind of
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  Speaker 1: think going into it and, um, what your, what they
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  Speaker 1: think the final recovery will be. And like, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of this recovery, but I know I
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  Speaker 1: will get back to well over 95% once I get
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  Speaker 1: my full range of motion back. So that is my goal,
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  Speaker 1: is to get the full range of motion back and
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  Speaker 1: to tie my shoes and stuff like that. Once I
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  Speaker 1: can do that, I'll be lifting heavy stuff again. That
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  Speaker 1: won't be an issue. But the thing that gets me
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  Speaker 1: through it all is slow methodical gains and then knowing
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  Speaker 1: and surrounding yourself with smart people that know a lot
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  Speaker 1: about the healing process and stuff like that that help
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  Speaker 1: guide you through some of the stuff and give you
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  Speaker 1: different exercises, different challenges, the things that you didn't come
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  Speaker 1: up with. And then at the same point, I've also
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  Speaker 1: brought a lot of stuff to their attention that they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we never thought about doing that. I'm like, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably a pretty good idea. It seems to be working.
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  Speaker 1: So right now my right leg I know is getting
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  Speaker 1: to the point to where I can stretch it pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn well. It's just going to be time. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: a month and a half, two months on my right
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  Speaker 1: leg before I'll be able to get all the way
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  Speaker 1: down my toes on that and stretch the hamstring and
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  Speaker 1: then still have full extension at the top and be
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  Speaker 1: able to lean back and stuff like that. The left
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  Speaker 1: leg still locks up, but I'm getting more and more
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  Speaker 1: out of it. I just got a weird feeling there's
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  Speaker 1: going to come a day where it just goes tink,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be able to, it'll be in the same
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  Speaker 1: position as the right one. So I just keep working
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  Speaker 1: it slowly and methodically. And it's just having patience. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that is the biggest thing. There is no super fast recovery.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some people make super fast recoveries, but from
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  Speaker 1: something like this, I mean, literally it should take 14
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  Speaker 1: months for me to come back from this. And I'm,
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  Speaker 1: you know, very happy with where I'm at, all things considering,
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  Speaker 1: but I still push forwards. I still expect more out
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  Speaker 1: of myself. I have to, uh, do the best that
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  Speaker 1: I can every day to get to, um, where I
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  Speaker 1: want to be. It has to be a focus. It
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  Speaker 1: has to be a life focus. It has to be
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  Speaker 1: an everyday, um, thing that you keep in the back
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  Speaker 1: of your head. I mean, I sit at work when
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  Speaker 1: I go to trap and make sure people are safe
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  Speaker 1: while shooting. I'm stretching, I'm doing exercises. I'm doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: when I'm sitting behind the counter. and nobody's up there.
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  Speaker 1: I sit there and, uh, I stretch and I do
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  Speaker 1: things and I use the bands and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I get home, I take a shot,
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  Speaker 1: hot shower, stretch in the hot shower, and then come
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  Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of different exercises on the massage table.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have at home. I let my leg hang off
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  Speaker 1: the side, um, stretch my it band with, with, with bands. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Work on trying to pull my knees to my chest,
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  Speaker 1: which the right one I can actually put my hands
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  Speaker 1: on without having to use a rubber band or I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you would call it, like a stretching
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  Speaker 1: rope to do that. My left, yeah, I got to
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  Speaker 1: use the band and I pull on it and it
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  Speaker 1: just pulls right to where it goes and then I
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  Speaker 1: just hold it. Try to do isometric stretches with it
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  Speaker 1: for long periods of time, which Travis texted me about
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  Speaker 1: today as well. So it's like, yeah, thanks, Travis. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get him on the show. You're coming
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  Speaker 2: up soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do, actually. We do. Um, which just confirmed
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  Speaker 1: the stuff I was doing. So it's, it's really kind
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  Speaker 1: of neat when you have friends that are super knowledgeable
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, Hey, you need to be doing this,
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  Speaker 1: this and this. I'm like, cool. Thanks. Cause I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it. So it just reaffirms that it's something I
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  Speaker 1: should be doing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, yeah. So it's, it's coming along. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: And the philosophy of a little bit every day, slow
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  Speaker 1: methodical gains, slow methodical process. You know, if I just
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit better, if I get a quarter
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  Speaker 1: of an inch or an eighth of an inch that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get the day before, that's a win. Because eventually,
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  Speaker 1: eventually I will get there. Even if it takes a year,
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  Speaker 1: eventually I will get there. Even in an eighth of
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  Speaker 1: an inch and I got to move five, six inches.
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  Speaker 1: you know, eventually I will get there. So it's just
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  Speaker 1: taking the small gains and being patient and going through
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  Speaker 1: it and attacking it with the same enthusiasm as you
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  Speaker 1: did when you first started doing it, trying to get
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  Speaker 1: ready and get back to being healthy again.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, I feel great. That's good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and something I believe from when I was younger that
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  Speaker 1: I see completely differently today. Oof. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we get into that too much. Politics.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, that's everybody. Your politics start off one
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  Speaker 2: way because you're young and dumb. And then when you
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  Speaker 2: actually have to start paying.
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  Speaker 1: You think you know something, but you don't. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? So that's a given right there.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. Little piece of chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Nick hasn't eaten yet. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: For those who don't know, he rushes in. And jumps
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  Speaker 2: in to do this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. I ended up working a little bit late
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  Speaker 1: today and got out there a little later than I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a wreck on the freeway. So where
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  Speaker 1: I normally have a chance to get something in my
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  Speaker 1: stomach before this, I didn't. So I need some sugar
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  Speaker 1: to just get me through. So it's, it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: He's a clean sugar energy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So there's things like training wise, things I
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  Speaker 1: see differently today. Um, more is not better. definitely more
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  Speaker 1: is not better. Once something's trained, don't keep beating it up.
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  Speaker 1: Once you've gotten to the point where you've reached or
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  Speaker 1: you've gotten pretty darn close to muscle failure and you've
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  Speaker 1: pushed it into the 90 percentile on something, that's a win.
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  Speaker 1: That's a win. It's easier to keep building on something
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  Speaker 1: than push it over the edge, break it, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to come back from it. So more is not better.
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  Speaker 1: And that comes with supplements and anything else that you do.
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  Speaker 1: More is not necessarily better. the mounts that are giving
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  Speaker 1: you in supplements and everything else, the mounts that give
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  Speaker 1: you slow methodical process are going to win and allow
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  Speaker 1: you to do something far longer and far higher than
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  Speaker 1: you've ever reached before. Instead of trying to get somewhere fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: They really will. Um, can't say enough about that. More
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  Speaker 1: is not better, but more intense training, uh, your intensity,
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  Speaker 1: your focus, uh, having your goals before you go in
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  Speaker 1: for the day and your dedication and discipline and staying
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  Speaker 1: consistent are probably like the biggest things that I see
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  Speaker 1: that's different today than when I was young. And I
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  Speaker 1: was still pretty consistent when I was young, but more
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  Speaker 1: is not better is definitely a thing that I see
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  Speaker 1: completely differently as I've gotten older. Which I agree with that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, it's an eight-day training cycle, which
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  Speaker 1: I can feasibly see to even moving to a nine-day
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  Speaker 1: training cycle with four workouts in nine days. It's like
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  Speaker 1: every other day and then one day where you have
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  Speaker 1: two days off in a row. It allows me to heal.
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  Speaker 1: The muscle doesn't break down until day 10, but I
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  Speaker 1: can come in, I can hit it really hard with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of intensity and go pretty darn heavy. And
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  Speaker 1: still recover from it and still walk around and move
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  Speaker 1: and have, you know, enjoy life.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Those are things that are, you know, as you age,
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  Speaker 1: things that you figure out. And I think that's probably
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  Speaker 1: about the biggest mistake a lot of people make is, well,
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  Speaker 1: I just, I want to train more. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get through more of these in the days and I
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  Speaker 1: want to do this. And, you know, it's like, just
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  Speaker 1: be patient. Take the time to grow there. There's, I
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  Speaker 1: see kids all the time. That go in there and
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  Speaker 1: they're in such a rush to get somewhere that they
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  Speaker 1: destroy themselves in the process of getting there. And half
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  Speaker 1: of them never even make it there. And that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a big deal. So, you got to be smart
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  Speaker 1: with it. You really do. And you need to take
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  Speaker 1: the time. I mean, when I won the state championships
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  Speaker 1: in 86, 96 is when I won the national championship. So,
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  Speaker 1: it took me 10 years to get it to a
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  Speaker 1: national and world level. I won worlds that year too. So...
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  Speaker 1: But it was worth it. I mean, it was so
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  Speaker 1: worth it because once I got my strength at that level,
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  Speaker 1: look how long it stayed from 96 to my last
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  Speaker 1: competition was in 22. Yeah, exactly. That's a good long time.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good long time. Yeah, my first competition was
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  Speaker 1: in 1985. So, I mean, it's just putting the work in.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. And I'm going to come back from this.
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  Speaker 1: I will eventually as long as I get the, once
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  Speaker 1: I get the ability to tie my shoes, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to do a strongman contest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll come back and do a strongman contest. I'll
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  Speaker 1: do a powerlifting meet and then we'll, we'll go from
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  Speaker 1: there and see what I want to do. Or if
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  Speaker 1: I just want to like start bringing my body weight
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit, like to 275 and being a
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  Speaker 1: little bit leaner and, you know, slowly, you know, hold
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  Speaker 1: that for like five years and then bring it down to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: two 42. And yes, these are all weight classes for powerlifting.
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  Speaker 1: If you're wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. You know, but also too, that's longevity. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's, it's longevity. Um, and then probably as I
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  Speaker 1: get much older, like in my late seventies, I'll probably
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  Speaker 1: drop down to 220.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and, uh, I got no.
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  Speaker 1: Problem with that. Yeah. That's another weight class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hundred kilo weight class. Exactly. So that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the way I look at that. So, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's very possible. You just hold on to, now it's
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  Speaker 1: a matter of doing make, finding your new normal, finding
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  Speaker 1: your new normal and making the best of it and
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  Speaker 1: reassessing that about every three to five years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as I age, trying to hold on to the size
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  Speaker 1: and the strength and the muscle as long as possible.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you do that, the quality of your
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  Speaker 1: life is going to be way better. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: So it's, And it's never too late to improve. It's
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  Speaker 1: never too late to progress. It's never too late. You
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  Speaker 1: just got to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Never too late just to start.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Ever. I mean, you're the world's strongest man the
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  Speaker 1: first time at 41. I did 10 of them.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's never too late. You can just go there, put
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  Speaker 1: the work in, and you'll get there.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So... Let's see here.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: What is it? The Las Vegas Strongman show that's getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to come up this weekend. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was Nick's birthday. Everybody, hey, we're going to acknowledge it.
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  Speaker 2: Nick's happy birthday. Hey, thank you for everyone who reached out.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for everyone who called. Thanks for all the messages.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? This is just going to be my
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  Speaker 2: quick story on this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Me and Nick got together and met each other, what,
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  Speaker 2: 2020 or 2021? I think it was 2021. Mm-hmm. And,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: you know, we just worked on a project together, Legends
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: of Iron. Everybody who's listened to it, thank you for
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: listening to that show as long as it lasted.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: And me and Nick just, you know, I never, you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: working with everybody in podcasting, you know, people usually message
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: me for, hey, What time's the show? What's the information?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: What do I need to be ready for? Nick would
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: just call me just to call me. Hey, what's going on?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: How you doing? You know what I'm saying? Like, like
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: he was just checking in on me and I'm just
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a regular producer. You know what I'm saying? So it's like,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: you know, that was a first for me, you know
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? As, as a person who produces podcasts,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just usually like, what do we need? What,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: what do I need? You know, or what, what do
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I need to do? And, but you know, Nick on
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that personal level and Nick was like, Hey, I'm coming
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to Sacramento for world's strongest man. I'm just looking for
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: a place to stay. And I, you know, I had
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: an extra room. I literally like, come stay with me,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: my brother. You know what I'm saying? Don't even trip.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I got you. I took care of you the whole
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: time up there and back stayed with me. And then
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden it turned into like, Hey, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: need some help. Hey, I, I, do you think you
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: could help me with this? You can end it. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: then it just evolved into a great brother, brotherhood, you know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: best friends, you know, say me and Nick hang out
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: all the freaking time where we spitball everything back and forth.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Obviously we're doing a podcast, so we're, we're talking a
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: regular basis, but you know what I'm saying? It's just,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: you know, Nick's helped me in so many ways. And,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: you know, I do as much as, I can to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: help Nick in any way I can. But like I said, it's,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: you know, it's your birthday, my brother, and I love you.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And like I said, it's been a crazy adventure. You
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We were actually talking today. Cause I'm like, yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I liked this birthday cause it was, it was great,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: but it was pretty mellow. And I got to see
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the people that were close to me and stuff like that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. But in two years, when I hit
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the big 6-0, I want to have a big blowout
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: for that. So we're going to start planning that now.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yes. So I'll be messaging people. There's going to be
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: some kind of a head count. So we're going to
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: have a nice– there's going to be quite a bit
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: of people called. And we're definitely going to do the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: best we can to make it a big event.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun, I think.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I'll be cooking a lot of food.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: No, I'll be cooking a lot of food. You just
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: need to host. Have a good time. Enjoy yourself.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But I like cooking.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know you do, brother, but everyone's going to
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: want your time. And I can already see it. You
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? And I don't mind you putting
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: in a little work. All right.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: All right, that's fine.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. All right. Let's get into the show. This
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: weekend is the Las Vegas Strongman.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Strength Games is what it's called, actually.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Strength Games. It's going to be off of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Centennial and Ann. There's a UFC Fit Gym. It's going
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to be inside that gym. I will be there on
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the 7th. I'll also be there a little bit on Friday,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: but that's just to do the rules briefing. Ronnie's putting
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: that thing on, and he did a great job with
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: all the ones he's put on, so it's kind of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: neat to help him out and be a part of this,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: do some judging for him and then just help him
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: like spitball ideas and how to make things run a
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: little better. Or sometimes like last minute rule changes when
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: there's a problem with a piece of equipment or whatever,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: he's like, what do we do now? I'm like, just relax,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: do this, this, this, it's the same for everybody. So
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: everybody gets to figure out how to do it right
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: then and there. So yeah, I'm really excited though. This
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: is going to be a good show. I mean, My
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: training partner is doing it, James Rude, and there's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: whole slew of really strong kids coming up to do this.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be pretty exciting. If you're in
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the area, please stop by and say hi and come
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: watch the show. It's going to be one to see.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a lot of fun. It really is.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: There you go. Hey, you might be able to sneak
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: in a picture with Nick if you show up.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. We'll get a picture. We'll talk a bit
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I don't mind that. I love that. Oh, yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That's it. And then, uh, uh, so that is this weekend.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: That will be, I think I'd have my calendar out. Yeah.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday, November 7th, November 7th. And you'll be
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: there on the six for the, uh, rule reading.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: For the rules meeting. Yeah. I think it's like five
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: o'clock or something. So yeah. Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Which is pretty neat.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You have to go in there and, hey guys, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: then just go through the events. So it should be
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. Exactly. So, okay.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: And then there was a Strongman Championships League in Turkey.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. There was.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Tristan Holt from Canada won that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yes. And isn't he's a Canadian Strongest Man too, right?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: He just won that. He is. Yep, he is.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And then Austin Hamm got second with 63 points. Luke
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Richardson looks like he got third with 48 points. Yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Hoth caught Ham right at the end by a point.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one point.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Which is pretty impressive. I mean, that's a close contest.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It really is. First event was the block press, which
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Austin Ham won. He did five blocks in 47.26 seconds. Now,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: blocks are different, guys. Rocks are no joke because you've
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: got to pick that thing up from the ground and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: it's just a long rectangle. And it's usually about six
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: inches thick. And depending on which ones you get, like
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: if you get the Alcon aluminum ones, they're pretty awkward
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and they're not slick, but you don't stick to them
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: real good either. So depending on which set of these
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that they had, it's pretty challenging. So that's pretty impressive because,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're putting.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: The square here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Right here on your chest. And a lot of guys can't,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys don't know how to clean it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I figured out after doing it so many times, like
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: if the worlds and then old hog and had them,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I learned how to clean it, pop it in the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: air and catch it. And you have to do things
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: very specific with your hands when you do that. And
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: if you do that, you can catch it here and
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: then just press straight up over your head. You don't
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: end up setting it on your chest. So it's not
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: as bad. You don't have to lean back as bad.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You end up catching it just above your chin.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: But, But yeah, it's a neat event. It really is.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: It was actually one of my favorite overhead events because
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it was so difficult. Once you got it down, it
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: was good for points for me in an overhead, which
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I was not the greatest overhead lifter. But that was
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: usually a good event that I, after like 2010, really
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: figured out.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: The front hold was Fatai.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fate.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Fate?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I– the I is after the T,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: so I would say that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He won the front hold at 48.29 seconds. That's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: pretty difficult. Front holds are not fun. They really are,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: especially when they make you keep your hands straight and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you can only raise your– the higher the angle your
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: hands go, the easier it gets.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Well, they're not an area, but they hope to see
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: one in the future for the show for the strongman show.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's awesome. Well, hopefully we'll see there. Looking forward
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to it. Yeah. So you can't, if you raise it
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: up real high, it makes it easier. So they make
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you keep it about chest level, chin level, and you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: got to hold it there. And if the guys will
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: start bending their elbows or they'll start bringing it down
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: too far, they'll give them a couple of warnings and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: then you're done. Yeah. Uh, Hussfeld sandbag carry Tristan Hoth
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: won that one, won that one with 55.9 meters. Yeah.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That's a long, that's a, that's a pretty good, pretty
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: good run with that. And it's a sandbag, but it's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the Hussfeld stone. So where stone doesn't give the bags do.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: So when you go to pick it up, it squishes
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah. Um, which makes it a little
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: bit more challenging to pick up slightly easier to hold onto,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: but that's still a pretty good distance with that. Four
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: was the sandbag toss. Tristan won that one as well.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: He did five in 17.98 seconds. He's a great sandbag
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: over bar, weight over bar. He's great at that. He
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: really is.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: He's a very explosive athlete. He's a big guy, but
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: he's got athleticism.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he does.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I believe he's a Canadian police officer too.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. um let's see here austin ham won the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: stones he did three stones and the natural stones yeah 32.92
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: seconds so that's you know whatever however the other guys
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: finished in that tristan ended up squeezing it out by
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a point which is that's pretty impressive so congratulations to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: all the guys that were in there um yes yeah
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they both won two events which is pretty funny. But,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like that. Sometimes it comes down to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: one point. So you go into an event that you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: don't do great at, but you get every point that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you can. And, you know, at the end of that,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: if you pick up one point that you didn't think
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you were going to pick up, it can make the difference.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And in this one, clearly it did. That's it. Yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: so pretty excited about that. We got the Magnusford Magnuson
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Classic coming up the 5th and 6th. Just this weekend?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Just this weekend. So those guys will go up to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Iceland where it is starting to get cold. Okay, it's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: already getting cold.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Probably snowing a little bit at this point too because
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: we're in November. I remember IFSA Worlds was up there
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and it was in November, but it was closer to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving for our time than the beginning of November. But yeah,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: there was snow all over the place and it was
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: very cold. where you weren't near like volcanic heated areas.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Cause there were some areas where the volcano has hotspots
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and the ground never gets snow, even though it's like
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: it's freezing cold outside.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But the ground's kind of warm, but it's a neat
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: place to visit. If you ever get to visit Iceland, it's,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: it's something you got to see. You really do. It's
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. But he'll be bringing all the guys in
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: there and they'll, They'll do the contest. He'll be the judge.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: He puts on a great show. He really does. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: he takes really good care of the guys, too. That's
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the other thing that's pretty cool about it. so but
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the thing they're gonna have to realize is the days
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: are short when we were there near thanksgiving the sun
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: didn't come up till like 10 10 30 and it
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: went down at like three so unless they plan on
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: doing stuff in the dark you gotta get moving you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: gotta get to the events for that day in a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: pretty good place that's it yeah um the straw man
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: uh Champions League World Finals is coming up November 14th
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and the 15th in South Africa. That's going to be
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: pretty interesting because Tristan just won. He's coming on a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: good roll going into that. So it should be pretty interesting.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And we'll see if Reino Nall shows up to that,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: especially that's in his home country.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: If Reino shows up and is– even remotely healthy, he
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: should win that pretty handedly. It's kind of neat because
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Strongman Champions League keeps doing their thing. They've been doing
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it a long time now. They started, I think, in
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: 8 or 9 when Issa broke up or when Issa folded.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: It's been going ever since. It's two of the four
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: guys that were doing that. I know Ilka is a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: great guy. Marcel is also Marcel's is Marcel's. He's a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: good dude, but he's a, he's very opinionated.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: You know, and, uh, God help me. If you go
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: drinking with him afterwards, just be careful. He can, he
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: can put them down. So, but we're back then.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Um, yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. In Korea, when we were in Korea with
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: IFSA worlds in 2007, uh, the after party was on
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the top of the hotel that we were in on
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the top floor of it. And there was a kitchen
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: in there and they ran out of beer and they
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: told us we could go get more in the kitchen.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: So we, everybody kind of ran into the kitchen and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: went and did that. I'm like looking and going, Nope,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bed. I'll see you guys later. Travis
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: stayed out with Marcel until a half an hour before
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the bus had to leave. And they, we were all
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: sitting on the bus waiting for Travis. Oh my God.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: There's somebody, they went up there, they got him, they
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: got all his stuff. They brought him down. They got
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: him on the bus. And it was a three hour
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: bus ride to, to Seoul from where we were. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: he was just starting to kind of like come out
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: of it and come to, when we got into, when
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: we got into Seoul and, It was just everybody, we
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: were all happy he was okay, but we were like
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: slightly annoyed that we're all trying to go home and
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: he might make us late. Yeah. Because we didn't want
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to miss the planes and get stuck. Yep.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So we pulled a prank on Travis.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: And it's really humid in Korea. And we, you couldn't,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: there was no reflections on any of the glass on
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the bus because a bunch of.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Big heavy straw man on a bus, all kind of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: sweaty in a humid environment already. So everything was kind
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of like fogged up and there was no mirrors or
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: anything so that you could see anything. So I had
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a Sharpie and I took the lid off so you
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: could smell it and turn it upside down. I started
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: acting like I was writing on Travis's face and drawing
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: a picture and stuff like that. And he starts coming
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to me. He's like, what are you doing? I go, Oh, nothing.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Just drawing a mustache and doing some other stuff on it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And he could smell the Sharpie. And he like freaked
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: out and started like, he like came out of it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Now he's awake.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, woke up.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't have to wake him up anymore. And
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: he's like trying to find something that would reflect and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: so he could see what we wrote on his face.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. And everybody was laughing. It was good stuff.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: And somebody pulled out I don't know, somebody got something,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: like a mirror or something from somewhere, and they wipe
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: off the mirror, and they're like, Travis, look. And he's like, oh, man.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I go, yeah, we're just messing with you. I've never
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: run in your face with a freaking Sharpie. Come on, bud.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: We're bad, but we're not that bad.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: But it got him up, and he was able to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: be coherent enough to navigate the airport and get his
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: ticket and get on the plane and everything else. So
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that was good. But yeah, so Marcel's, I think, drank
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: him under the table that day. Oh, yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I believe it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: But good stuff. Official Strawman Games, November 20th through the 22nd.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: We will be there.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: We will be there. Oh, you hit it on mute.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Okay. Can you hear me?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I can hear you, but you're a little echoey now.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I think your mic went off.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. I'll go into settings. Hold. Hold, please. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Sure did. No, no, it's not. It's back. It's where
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry about that, guys. What is this?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: We've got the official Strongman Games. No, no, no. There
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Okay. Can you hear me?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Yes. Now you're back.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, yeah, it tries to go through my phone,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: which is weird. It's like, come on, guys. Relax. All right. So, yeah,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the official Strongman Games World Finals, which is the world's
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: strongest man title for everybody but the men's Open.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So it's all the women's classes and the heavyweight women.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: It's all the masters, uh, 40, 50. Um, I don't
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: think they're doing 60 yet, but that should be coming
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: up pretty quick. Um, and there's like two different weight
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: classes and all the masters divisions. Now there's teenagers, but it's,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: so it's all those, uh, teenagers and juniors. Uh, it's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: all the world's strongest man titles for all the other
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: weight classes, which is kind of cool. And there's, going
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to be over 400 athletes competing in it, over 50
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  Speaker 1: countries represented, and there's even an adaptive class. So that's really,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: really amazing and special.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to be able to go there and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: see the next stars coming up because in the men's heavyweights,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I think at least the top first place, earns a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: spot at world's strongest man. And then the other ones
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I think do giants, but it might even be the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: top three. Um, it's used as a qualifier. So it's, it's, uh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. And to watch people just go all out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there, it was fun to compete in. It
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: really was. I had a blast doing it. I really did.
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  Speaker 1: And that'll be kind of my goal when I get
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: over this, um, to do an OSG again and then to,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: do a powerlifting meet after that but yeah yeah I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: can't wait to go we're going to be there all
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  Speaker 1: three days yes I'll be judging and walking around and
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  Speaker 1: I'll coach if guys need help stuff like that and
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: get to see a bunch of old friends and hang
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: out with great you know just good people so it's
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's it you know like I said we'll be there
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  Speaker 2: mm-hmm Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be there. Um, like to follow, just, just to
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: follow up on the recovery stuff. Um, I already covered
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: almost all that. Cause that was what was next in
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right off top.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I kind of went too early, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, but that's the thing though, too, is like everything
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: we've talked about covered everything we need to do for
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the week. There wasn't really too much going on this
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: week in anything that we were doing. Your recovery is
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: doing extremely well. So, you know, uh, I think we
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: covered all our bases, and it's a big happy birthday
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: to you, Nick, and I think you just got to
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: take us on out.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, if you like the show, please like, share,
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  Speaker 1: and subscribe. And as always, train hard, train smart, and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: be the best you can be. I tell you what,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: we both appreciate you so much. I really do. And,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you know, thank you. And just keep asking questions. Just
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: keep asking questions. If you want to know about something,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: just ask the questions. So, anyway, have a great day,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and we'll see you next time.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to The Best Experience with Nick Best.