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Nick Best’s Hip Recovery, My Son Wedding & What Elite Strongmen Do Differently · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 2: the questions that come in. You know what I'm saying, Nick,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get it all right, so it says, hey, Nick,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for sharing photos of America's congressman in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven. A great perk of being a Patreon subscriber
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  Speaker 1: that was in parentheses. I really started following strong Man
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  Speaker 1: in the mid two thousands and was instantly a fan
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  Speaker 1: of you guys like Kevinnie, Jesse, Mirunde. I apologize if
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  Speaker 1: this is sensitive subject, but I was curious if you
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  Speaker 1: had any stories about Jesse that you or CALLI would
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  Speaker 1: like to share with the fans. I wish you luck
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  Speaker 1: as you continue through your PT and thanks for answering
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  Speaker 1: fan questions. Well, no problem, I'll always do that as
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  Speaker 1: far as far as I can share things I had
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  Speaker 1: with Jesse, which was pretty limited but it was still
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  Speaker 1: really good. But Cally is on it's up to her
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  Speaker 1: as far as that goes. Callie and I are no
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  Speaker 1: longer married, so I can't really speak for her anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But which it's been. It's been over a year now,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't really announce a whole lot of it,
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  Speaker 1: where I just went on with life and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember meeting Jesse the first time in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six. I believe it was at Van Hatfield's
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  Speaker 1: contest where I went up to compete the first time
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  Speaker 1: as a pro. And I was pretty impressed with Jesse
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  Speaker 1: and his attitude and everything else. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: most the biggest thing I was most impressed with was
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  Speaker 1: is he was a good dad to Dawson. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he went and sat like well, when everybody was eating,
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  Speaker 1: he went set off alone with Dawson, just spent time
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  Speaker 1: with him. Almost had like a little picnic thing in
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  Speaker 1: the grass and Van's backyard, and that was that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool. It was it was neat. He was a
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  Speaker 1: family man. He he loved his family dearly. He loved
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  Speaker 1: Dawson dearly. You know. Yeah, so that was that was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty neat thing. And then I got to see
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  Speaker 1: him a couple other times when you know, at the Olympia,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to borrow some equipment for you know, the
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  Speaker 1: tool booth, and I let him use some of my
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  Speaker 1: stuff and things like that. So I got to hang
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  Speaker 1: out with him a lot and we did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talk and he was he was a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: He really was totally great guy, very loyal, very dedicated
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  Speaker 1: guy too. I mean the metrics girls were they were
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  Speaker 1: all about him.
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  Speaker 2: He was about the metrics. You you you understood back then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And he was like, no, thank you. I got
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful woman at home. So it was It's pretty
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  Speaker 1: neat to know that he's that good of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: Just there's a lot of guys are not that good.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you that right now, and he's one.
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  Speaker 1: So rest in peace, buddy. Yeah, And as far as
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  Speaker 1: thanks for wishing me luck with the PT the bandages
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  Speaker 1: come off. The right hip now the or excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: on the left hip now, yes, so right hip, the
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  Speaker 1: right hip. I have a bit of an infection. I've
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  Speaker 1: been taking in a box for the last eight days.
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  Speaker 1: I got twelve more to go. It's draining clear, which
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  Speaker 1: is great, but it is draining. The swelling's gone way down.
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  Speaker 1: I can walk around on it. A whole heck of
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  Speaker 1: a lot better now. Things are going actually very well.
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  Speaker 1: It's going in the right direction. I just have to
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  Speaker 1: be more patient and everything should be fine. I totally
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  Speaker 1: overcooked it last week. Yes, my son Dylan got married
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, which I'll get to the second question here is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get into the wedding and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff a little later too.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, but uh I kind of overdid it for
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  Speaker 1: three solid days and that didn't help matter as much.
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  Speaker 1: H But got home, got some rest, took the antibiotics,
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  Speaker 1: changed the dressing a lot. Thanks to help with my mom.
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  Speaker 1: Without her, I couldn't be doing this right now. She's
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  Speaker 1: staying with me for being with me for about a
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  Speaker 1: week now, and it's she puts up with my crabbiness
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  Speaker 1: and everything else when I'm in pain. So I've I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't say thank you enough to her. I really can't.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so let's get to question too, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the athletes you've trained, uh, competed against, or
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  Speaker 1: spend time around, who surprised you the most behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: and what did they do differently that made them stand
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  Speaker 1: out from everyone. Uh, there's so many guys that really
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  Speaker 1: are stand out guys that really do that. Eddie is
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  Speaker 1: one of them, you know. You know Brian though, I
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  Speaker 1: mean Brian's Brian throw and through. I mean, he loves Carrie,
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  Speaker 1: loves his family, very dedicated, very focused on tasks and
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  Speaker 1: goals and things he wants to accomplish in life and will.
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  Speaker 1: He's just different from everyone else. I mean, he takes
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  Speaker 1: the rehab seriously, he takes the eating seriously. He takes
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  Speaker 1: every single part for that seriously. And so did Eddie.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie had a hyperbolic chamber at his house, you know
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  Speaker 1: that he would use for recovery. He plus the cold
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  Speaker 1: plunge and the jacuzzi and all the other recovery stuff
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  Speaker 1: that he did. So these guys, these guys, both of
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  Speaker 1: these guys took things extremely seriously and you know, had
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  Speaker 1: goals that they wanted to accomplish and did so. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty neat seeing that kind of dedication front the back,
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom, you know, just all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: There's this guys I've met that you know, you sit
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  Speaker 1: there and you watch them and you look at all
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  Speaker 1: the ability that they have, but they just don't have
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  Speaker 1: those things that those two guys did. They don't. The
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  Speaker 1: dedication doesn't follow through off off the training, off the
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  Speaker 1: competitive cycle. It doesn't follow through. Some of the guys
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  Speaker 1: will do self destructive behaviors and stuff and go out
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  Speaker 1: and do things. I mean when I was I know,
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  Speaker 1: when I was training getting ready for things, if it
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with strong Man, I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do it. I mean I really didn't. There was
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  Speaker 1: is like if I was getting ready for a contest.
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  Speaker 1: It was the eating, it was the rehab and all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff the same way that those guys did it.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't have the financial things for some of
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  Speaker 1: the extra equipment that they had to do that with.
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  Speaker 1: But I still did the best I could, and I
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  Speaker 1: still did pretty good with it. So exactly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know those guys. There's only so many of
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  Speaker 1: those types of people around. I'm extremely repressed impressed with Reno, No,
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  Speaker 1: I really am. I mean, he's a great kid, he works,
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  Speaker 1: he keeps improving at a great level. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Reno and and and Hooper could be fighting for a
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  Speaker 1: while because he was the only one that was in
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  Speaker 1: Hooper's in Hooper's realm. This year.
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  Speaker 2: Saw rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it'll be something similar to that for
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  Speaker 1: the next four or five years. It'll be pretty strong.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be hard to see other people catch
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  Speaker 1: up to that, Yeah, to where they're at, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: be battling quite a bit. So Reno's got some very
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  Speaker 1: smart people around him that are helping him and and
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  Speaker 1: focusing with him. And you know, Mitchell's just so intelligent
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  Speaker 1: and so smart, and he's on a whole other level
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  Speaker 1: as far as figuring things out, knowing what he can
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  Speaker 1: get and you know, strategized in strategy. He's probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the best at strategy. Okay, well, okay, I don't
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  Speaker 1: need to do these, but I just need to do this.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point, if I stay here doing this, this,
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  Speaker 1: and this, we're going to get to these events where
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  Speaker 1: this where he's not as good, and I'm gonna I
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  Speaker 1: need to be. This is where I need to be
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  Speaker 1: on this event, and this is where I need to
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  Speaker 1: be on that event. And that's why I won this year.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty impressive actually to watch him do that,
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  Speaker 1: get second in literally every single event so or tied
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  Speaker 1: for a second. So there's things like that that really
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  Speaker 1: really and another one's you know, Hooper. I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: makes mistakes and they all have, but he's also that smart.
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  Speaker 1: He's also that good. He fixed his mistake and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're happy and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that matters, and you know, they saved it
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's a beautiful thing. It truly is. They
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for that. So there's just
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  Speaker 1: so many guys out there that that are truly good dudes.
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  Speaker 1: You know that most of the bad guys that come
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  Speaker 1: up that are kind of jerks and you know, really
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  Speaker 1: aren't that great of people. They don't last that long.
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  Speaker 1: They really don't. Even if they've got a really high
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  Speaker 1: talent level, they still just don't last that long. Guys
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  Speaker 1: won't tell them as much they you know, they they'll
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  Speaker 1: piss off the crew that's around them, and they'll end
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  Speaker 1: up losing the crew. They'll lose their support system and
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  Speaker 1: then they just they can't make it without Nobody at
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  Speaker 1: the level is going to make it out of the
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  Speaker 1: good support system. Nobody exactly. I mean, it's very rare
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  Speaker 1: to find somebody who does literally everything by themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the strong community is very tight knit, so
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  Speaker 2: It's like it takes quite a bit to be that
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  Speaker 2: kind of person where everyone's gonna not deal with you, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So that usually gets sorted out at the high
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  Speaker 1: admisser level as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there.
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  Speaker 1: Are a few guys that sneak in at the pro level,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they usually don't get a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of advice from the other guys. So yeah, so there's that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so that's all I got to say about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, those are some good fan questions. Thank you guys
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  Speaker 2: for you know, and if you'd like to ask your questions,
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: you know you joined the Patreon for those who already
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  Speaker 2: just throw it in there. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: We go through them, we read them, we respond to them.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should go to three or four or
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  Speaker 1: these two by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, we can start you know, like like
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  Speaker 2: I said, we start getting more questions coming in, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll start answering more questions for these fans. And you know,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: and what a thing too, is like we'll throw out
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  Speaker 2: a little reminder because that's something that you know, we
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  Speaker 2: don't do too often, but I will start throwing out
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: a little reminder like, hey, make sure you guys answer
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  Speaker 2: ask a question. The podcast is coming up, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye out for that. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about the wedding. Dylan was married and
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  Speaker 2: I got to go down, I got to waitness that,
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  Speaker 2: I got to be there with Nick and it was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It was the food was great, the venue was great.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. It was great weather, It.
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  Speaker 1: Was just a beautiful wedding all the way around. It
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  Speaker 1: truly was. I mean, you couldn't I couldn't ask more.
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  Speaker 1: And such great kids. I mean, those two have been
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  Speaker 1: together for seven and a half years and they've been
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  Speaker 1: like joined at the hip the whole entire time. They
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  Speaker 1: complete each other. They play off each other's strengths and weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: She is strong at certain things, he's strong at certain things.
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  Speaker 1: And they both compliment each other and they don't hold
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  Speaker 1: each other, you know, you know, they don't put each
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  Speaker 1: other down for the weaknesses. They just pick it up
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  Speaker 1: and go and make sure they take care of that weakness.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's neat. They're they're a perfect match. They
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  Speaker 1: truly are. We are doing well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're doing extremely well. Well, you know, they've
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  Speaker 2: had a good example to to follow and be inspired by.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what I'm saying, Dylan, Well, he's an
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  Speaker 2: exact copy of your mindset, because it's so bunny. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Dylan is his own person, but you see so much
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  Speaker 2: of him in you are the other way around for
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  Speaker 2: those who are listening.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he uh, he really uh, he really knows. He
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  Speaker 1: really watched and learned that if you work hard and
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  Speaker 1: you bust your tail, good things happen. I mean he
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  Speaker 1: saw it firsthand. I didn't shove it down his throat.
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  Speaker 1: He just sat there and watched and documented some of it.
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  Speaker 1: He did a lot of filming for me, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he he wanted to make his own his own way,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: and he played lacrosse instead of you know, instead of
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: powerlifting or straw man stuff like that, which is which
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  Speaker 1: is awesome. He does CrossFit, which is awesome, but he
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  Speaker 1: did he wants to do it on his own mud
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  Speaker 1: and I got nothing but respect for that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And the kid does nothing but work his tail off.
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  Speaker 1: He really does, so, you know, so pretty impressive, both
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: of them, in turns the same way she worked. They
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  Speaker 1: went all through college together. They took all the same
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  Speaker 1: classes together.
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  Speaker 2: Yepy, and now I want a business together.
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  Speaker 1: They business together, so you know, they're they're doing very,
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  Speaker 1: very well, and I'm so proud of both of them.
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  Speaker 1: And exactly, you know, turns the best now too, so
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  Speaker 1: that's kind exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's one thing too. It was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I started coming around and I started being me
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  Speaker 2: and Nick started working together, and you know, our friendships developed,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, Dylan was one of the one of
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the family members that really took me in and was like, yeah, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: I like having you around. Ben, you and my dad
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  Speaker 2: get along so well. I don't understand, but you guys
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  Speaker 2: are keeping each other busy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, we definitely do that. So it's it's good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So uh yeah. It was an amazing wedding, It really was.
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  Speaker 1: It was beautiful. They walked down the stairs, Dylan came
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  Speaker 1: down with you know, Callie and and Ryan, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he hugged both of them and they went to the
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  Speaker 1: side and then he went up there and had to wait,
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  Speaker 1: and then Rhett walked down arn you know, her dad,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave her to Dylan and it was a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful ceremony. It truly was.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was we have a little clip that
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  Speaker 2: we're actually going to be putting up to night, so
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  Speaker 2: for those that are in the Patreon, you guys will
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  Speaker 2: see the first hand look before it's published on social media.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just it's just one of those things, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, It's great to see your kids
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  Speaker 2: getting married off. You know, all my kids are younger.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, they're they're not quite at that marrying
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  Speaker 2: age yet. But you know what I'm saying. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you know I look forward to this to be able
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  Speaker 2: to be in witness for those for mine. So it's just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Nick, congratulations on raising such a beautiful child
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  Speaker 2: and a great man than you know, and you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: getting in to that, you know, we were talking a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about your leg. We're talking a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about what's going on, and you know, like as of
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  Speaker 2: right now, like I said, you're changing your bandages. Only
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: one side is still trying to catch up your movie.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Your mobility is coming. You know what I'm saying, Let's
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: let's just talk a little bit about the pain levels
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and just having because you know, when it comes to
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: pet you know, and we've had this conversation numerous times
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: because Nick does not like to take pain pills. Like
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you know, hey, when you got to take him, you
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: got to take them when they need when they're needed. There.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: They're a tool in the tool box, but it's something
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: you know, it depends on.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pain pills are good when you need them, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: as far as everything else goes, it's they're also good
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: for feeling better than what you really are. Yeah, And
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: so like, I'll take them to go to sleep if
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I need to, Like if I'm in pain when I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: lay down, which is not very common. I mean, it
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: still hurts, but I can usually focus my mind and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: center things and fall asleep without it. But there's been
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a few times where it's it's like, oh my gosh, Okay,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I've I've fought the good fight. I'm doing this today
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: so I can get some rest. Yes, but it's not
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: good when you go up and you need to go
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: out and move around and do things, because you'll take
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a step you shouldn't. You'll do things you shouldn't be
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: doing because it doesn't hurt right now, and that's never
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a good idea. So use them for what they're for,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: but don't use them to do things you shouldn't be
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: doing it. It'll The pain is to keep you in line,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you know, to keep you from doing. And as the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: pain goes away, you heal, you're able to do more
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and more. You just have to be patient to get
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: through that stuff. And yeah, so and like I said,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the right hip or the left hip is doing great.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They took the bandage off that completely today. They took
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the stables out last week, and then the bandages they
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: took completely off. She's like, I don't need anything there anymore.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I thank you. But the right one is still it's
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: still you know, it's still draining. There's still the swelling
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: is going down. It looks a lot better, it functions
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a lot better, but it's still putting out a substantial
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: amount of fluid. So I got to change the dressing
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: about every two or three hours and then put like
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a super thick on one on when we go to sleep.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: But you don't want the wound to sit in the yeah,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and be wet with the bio with the fluid for
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: very long. It's not coming out, pussy, it's not coming out.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: It's not kind of out smelling bad, but it's it's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: still draining. So but they also did so much work
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on that hip. I mean they hammered for two hours
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to get all the bone gross and stuff like that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: off of it because my bone density is like obnoxious.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: In the doctor had to reshape the hip because the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: hip tried to build around the Oh it's around the lake.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The spurs and all the bunk growth that was around
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it to protect it was pretty substantial. And the docs like,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, you warm me out, so they chisel
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and so it's okay. I mean, the thing is, though
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it's getting better. I can move on it better. It
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't hurt nearly as much. So like driving the truck
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is not real comfortable for me yet. Yeah, it's I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: can still get comfortable while doing it, but I like
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to use cruise control right now because step in the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: brake and step on the gas is less than fun. Yep.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: But you do what you do. You get things done,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and you just.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Go with it so exactly.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: But for the most part, it's getting better. I just
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: got to stay patient and then I got I got
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: two more days on the prescription, and then after I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: saw the doctor today, they're like, yeah, we want to run.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: We want you to run another ten days on the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: same thing, which I was like, okay, cool, and so
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: we're going to do that, and it was by then
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it should be sealed. They wanted to get air. Yeah,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you know, now for an hour or two a day.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So that's fine. I usually do that when I wake
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: up in the morning. Yeah, clean it out and take
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a shower, let the water run on it a little bit,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and then re clean it out afterwards, and then put
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: on some like sweat shorts that will absorb it as
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I'm as I'm sitting and let Eric get to it
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: or as I'm walking around doing stuff, which which is helping, you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Know, And and you know, uh, we do have a
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: couple of events coming up fevers in July. In July,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you know, fingers crossed for you know, being recovered, recovered
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to go. Yeah, and then after that we do have
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the Olympia coming up.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And the Olympia, and then there's also the the Home
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Home Gym Conference.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, the Home Gym Conference.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So we'll be going to the Home Gym and that's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: at the end of July. So yeah, that'd be really
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: freaking neat to go to. And I guess Brian's in
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the booth right across from me, so that'd be fun.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: That'd be nice, that'd be good.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: It'd be good to see him exactly. So you know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: it's it's just about getting recovered, getting to these points
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: and being able to go. You know, say we wanted
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to jump on here, make sure that we can greet
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: our new members, talk about what's going on, answer some questions,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and just give a quick update. You know what I'm saying.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: In Nick's moving a little at a time. He's making
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: those slow and steady gains and making that perpression.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I look like Fred Sandford when I'm walking,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: but I mean I can walk. You know, I can
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: walk without the walker, but I like walking with the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: walker because it makes my gate more normal. Right now,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I need to get back to the normal gate. Yes,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I think once the swelling clears out of my right hip,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that won't be an issue. Once I get to where
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I can keep my balance on each foot individually for
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: probably ten to twenty seconds, you know, get that up,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: my walking will probably be completely back to normal at
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: that point. So that's kind of one of the things
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to work on even while this is going on.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of cool.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Now I get to itch on my other ankle, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I can't. You're not supposed to You're not supposed to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: cross your legs.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: No, you're not supposed to cross your legs. I don't
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: your other leg Yeah, I can't. I don't know when
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: you can see it. But Nick's got a magic reaching stick,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure there's nowhere near him.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: No, it's nowhere near me right now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: We'll have to demonstrate it on the next time. But Nick,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to keep you. Nick likes to record
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the standing up, so I just wanted to let you
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: guys know. You know I'm saying. I wanted to keep
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a little short because I didn't want him standing too
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: long on his legs.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So Nick, Yeah, we're doing pretty good. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'll take us home in a second. Just another thing,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: My weight went from about two hundred pounds down to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I'm down now down in the two seventy four, which
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: is good because it's my white has stabilized. The hospital
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: food it was a little rough, little okay, it's I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: don't understand if you're at a rehab hospital, why you're
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: getting like cafeteria type food. It makes no sense to me.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Well, you're getting processed food. That's what they're that's the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: level of standard.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: You're you're you're there, you're trying to heal from surgeries,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you're trying to do things, and you're getting processed foods.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You're not getting whole foods and stuff like that. And
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it just doesn't make any sense that people should be
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: eating protein. Yeah, because that's what your body puts itself
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: back together with and large, good amounts, not just not
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: just a chicken half a chicken breast.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: That's four ounces. That's almost what they're only getting per meal.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And you know, and then they give you butter and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: mashed potatoes.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It's not even real butter. That's crazy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, true. So it's just it's just some of this
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense if you're in that industry, if
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: you're in the health industry. It makes no sense why
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: hospital food is so unhealthy, or even at the rehab facilities,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: why the food is so unhealthy. I mean, you have
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a chef that's hired to cook for massive amounts of people. Yeah, okay,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you could still cook healthy food. I mean still cook rice,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you can still cook, you can grill the chicken.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, potato does not take a lot.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: No, and then I mean there's just so many things
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: they could do that they just don't do. And it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't cost anymore. It's not more expensive to do that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Especially in that they buy because they're buying bulk, they're
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: not buying per day, right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: So a lot of the things in that industry need
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of improvements from from what I saw. Yeah,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: so it's it's I just find it frustrating. I mean,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the best thing, the best thing you could be doing
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: for people is giving them great nutrition when they're in
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the hospital, like solid, really good nutrition, like something like
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the Trifecta.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I mean if everybody would serve Trifecta that was in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a hospital, they would get better faster. Yep, you know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I really And they're easy meals. You just microwave and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: pull them apart and they taste great exactly.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And for those Trifecta is a food service company. Yeah,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: it's high quality, frozen delivered to you fresh food. Yeah,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: you get real meat, real they have.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Buffalo yeah, yeah, you know, stay different meals. It's amazing.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: If they fed people stuff like that instead of the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: stuff that they're making in these kitchens, the people would
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: just be better.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, they would heal better. They would heal faster, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: their protein intake would be better. Okay, that's that's my
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: soapbox one for today. So I hope you guys enjoyed
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: this episode. Go out there and be the best you
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: can be. And as always, train hard, train smart, and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: be the best you can be. I will be back.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Your best experience would make the best