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Recovery Update + INSANE Strongman Results (North American, Bubba Wins Open!) | Nick Best · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 1: Hey, oh yeah, the best experience.
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  Speaker 2: things that we like to do is we like to
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  Speaker 2: welcome our new members.
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  Speaker 1: We do we do so today we got a new
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  Speaker 1: remember McCain Jennifer.
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  Speaker 1: We thought you guys, we don't do this, so thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much.
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  Speaker 2: And then, uh, we'd also like to go right into
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  Speaker 2: questions because we got a couple of preset questions that
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  Speaker 1: You didn't send those, Oh I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't send them. I swear it says I'll read it
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  Speaker 2: to you. It says, update on the on your recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, okay, update on my recovery. This is one I
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  Speaker 1: can do pretty easy. Yeah, So I got one more
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  Speaker 1: week at the interviewing santibiotics. The last day that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be August fourth, which is a week from yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. So I got six days left at
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  Speaker 1: that point. I have to go to the infectious disease
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  Speaker 1: doctor on the sixth and then they decide whether I'm
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  Speaker 1: good with the ivy stuff or whether I've got to
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  Speaker 1: do more. If if they're good with that, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: the lady. They'll send me home with the script to
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  Speaker 1: have the pickline taken out. And then the nurse that
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  Speaker 1: who's amazing, who's been doing the home healthcare for CISU,
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  Speaker 1: will come and take the pick line out and I'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to lift weights with my upper body, so
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  Speaker 1: that'll be kind of cool. I can get back to
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  Speaker 1: training my upper body and then I can I've already
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  Speaker 1: started doing stuff with my lower body, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: it's all it is completely all rehab stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they don't want me to. They're afraid I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 1: strong fast. Shocker, They're afraid I'm gonna get too strong,
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  Speaker 1: too fast, and I won't get the mobility back. My
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  Speaker 1: strength will increase, but the mobility won't increase. So they're
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  Speaker 1: more having me concentrate on mobility wherek and stretching and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, which is pretty challenging. Somehow, I ended
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  Speaker 1: up an inch taller, so I went from six to
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  Speaker 1: two to six y three, which kind of makes sense
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  Speaker 1: because the joints were pretty pretty eroded. And then I think,
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  Speaker 1: which I got to get a hold of my ortho
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  Speaker 1: to confirm this, but I think with the bones being
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  Speaker 1: shorter from the wearing and the cartilage being shorter and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, the tendons and ligaments shrunk and were
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  Speaker 1: used to that size, and then when you put the
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  Speaker 1: new full size stuff back in, everything stretched super tight.
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So plus, with the strength and power that's there, the
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  Speaker 1: tendons and connected tissue are pretty darn thick and pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn strong, so to get the mobility out of them
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of work. So to
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  Speaker 1: restretch everything and get it to loosen up. So but
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, I'm doing it. I do my stuff every
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  Speaker 1: day sometimes or a lot of times twice a day
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  Speaker 1: to work on that I do. I'm out of having
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  Speaker 1: to work about worry about dislocation from my bones. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's the biggest fear after hip replacements is
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  Speaker 1: they screwed into your hip bones, but they pound it
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  Speaker 1: into your your femurs, you know, and there's no screw
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  Speaker 1: holding it in there, so it's porous and the bone
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  Speaker 1: grows into there and it takes about six weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm past that on both the hips, even though the
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  Speaker 1: ones at ten weeks the other ones at four weeks.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the surgeries go, when they went into
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  Speaker 1: my hip, they opened it back up, cleaned it up, out,
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  Speaker 1: took the ball, took the plastic out because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want any any of the infection to be in the
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  Speaker 1: plastic or to be in the ball, so he took
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  Speaker 1: all that out, flushed it out, cleaned it out, put
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  Speaker 1: antibiotic beads in there, put a new ball and a
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  Speaker 1: new plastic piece of plastic in there, the super hard plastic.
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  Speaker 1: Put that in there, so basically a hip change, what
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  Speaker 1: I would go what I'd have to go through if
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  Speaker 1: they wore out, which I plan on doing everything I
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  Speaker 1: can to be active and stuff like that. So I
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  Speaker 1: now kind of know what that's going to be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and how to recover from that. So that's that's good,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, trying to pull a positive out of the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, I mean, like my left foot, I
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  Speaker 1: can completely stand on and balance on my right foot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just getting to where I can stand and balance
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  Speaker 1: on it, so my I'm starting to not wobble so
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  Speaker 1: much because I look like a newborn baby walking doing this.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm starting to be able to walk straight.
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  Speaker 1: They got me a cane so that I can walk
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  Speaker 1: with the cane because my right is still not as
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  Speaker 1: strong as my left, which straightens up my straightens up
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  Speaker 1: my stride, so I walk much smoother that way, which
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  Speaker 1: is what they want. So one day I walk with
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  Speaker 1: the cane, the next day I don't. One day I
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  Speaker 1: walk with the cane, the next day I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to strengthen one to uh work the work, work my stride,
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  Speaker 1: and work the flow of my steps so that it's
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  Speaker 1: all coming wrong. Pretty good, it's just going to take
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  Speaker 1: me a while. It's probably going to be at least
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  Speaker 1: another three months at least to get the mobility back.
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  Speaker 1: Once the mobility comes back, then I can start working
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  Speaker 1: on straight That might even take four months, but whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes, that's what I'm going to do. And then
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  Speaker 1: I can get back to lift because the physical therapist
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  Speaker 1: is coming in and they're helping me stretch and they're
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  Speaker 1: pushing on me and stuff like okay, push, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: like okay, boom, and I go to push and there's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of power in my hip, but there's
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  Speaker 1: tons of power on my leg.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, I pushed him pretty good. He
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  Speaker 1: went back a few feet. He's like, okay, I go.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, let's let's put some pressure, not just push.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, well, I'm gonna do what you
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  Speaker 1: tell me to do. He told me to push. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty hard. So I pushed pretty hard, which is pretty
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  Speaker 1: funny because he's not a small guy. He's probably one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety pounds. But it was it was still,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was good. So going through the process
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  Speaker 1: doing all the things, so it's it's getting better every day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to go up the stepstools to get
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  Speaker 1: into the shower anymore. So I had to walk up
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  Speaker 1: two steps to get in the shower, and I had
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  Speaker 1: to walk down two steps to get in the shower,
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  Speaker 1: which kind of drove the home health nurse and physical
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  Speaker 1: therapists crazy with worry. But that's over. And then getting
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  Speaker 1: into my truck, I discovered two days ago that I
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  Speaker 1: can kind of lift my leg up and catch it
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  Speaker 1: on the floorboard and then kind of push with my
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  Speaker 1: arms and pop off my leg and I can get
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  Speaker 1: right up into the truck now. So I don't need
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  Speaker 1: it to get into the truck anymore either. So very
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  Speaker 1: happy about that. Driving's a lot less painful, a lot
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  Speaker 1: less uncomfortable. So that's going well. I'll see how a
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  Speaker 1: plane flight goes this week when I'm heading not to
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky and out to Louisville for the home gym. So
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be fine. I just I can't wait. This
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  Speaker 1: is just gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Plus it's fine. I need to get out of the
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  Speaker 1: house a little more.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: It's something you built up to deserve to go to
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  Speaker 2: because that's it, yeah, said getting out of the house
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  Speaker 2: and being able to get stretch your legs and actually
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  Speaker 2: have some actual movement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm getting out a couple of days a
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  Speaker 1: week now just besides where I go out and walk around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: going back into the range seven o two.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm back to teaching. Actually I did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of one on ones this week.
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  Speaker 3: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Teach people how to shoot for the first time, which
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  Speaker 1: is which is great. That was that was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. I had a blast with that. I I
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  Speaker 1: really did. It was pretty neat. I taught like four
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  Speaker 1: people how to shoot, so that's pretty cool and surprisingly
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  Speaker 1: well all of them. So that was really good. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the things, a lot of little techniques.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, look the less the front of the gun
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  Speaker 1: moves when you move your finger with your trigger finger.
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  Speaker 1: The straight of the bullet's going to go once you
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  Speaker 1: figure out how to how to aim it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the bullets gonna go at the top is on the
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  Speaker 1: front side, use the back site to line it up,
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  Speaker 1: and the dot that's on there lines up the two
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  Speaker 1: dots in the back. The bullets going where the top is,
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  Speaker 1: not where the dot is.
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  Speaker 3: So exactly.
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  Speaker 1: They figured that out, and you know, patients learning how
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  Speaker 1: to trigger control, learning how to stabilize their upper body
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  Speaker 1: and their lower about it. At the same time, they
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  Speaker 1: all shot pretty darn good. I was very very happy
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  Speaker 1: with that and then getting recommendations on how to practice
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but also referred them to coming
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  Speaker 1: in about every three or four weeks to just quickly
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  Speaker 1: look at their technique and stuff like that and then
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  Speaker 1: get them back to shooting. But I also refer them
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  Speaker 1: to this company, which is us Last Shield.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and there a sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: They're a sponsor, and this is their QR code, so
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  Speaker 1: if you scan that, you'll get to leave it up
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  Speaker 1: there a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's also.
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  Speaker 2: In the show notes for those who are coming from YouTube, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll be in the show notes there. But it's
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  Speaker 1: it's basically insurance. So for self defense. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: whether it's guns, whether it's like somebody breaks in your
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  Speaker 1: house and you hit them with a bat, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that type of stuff, any type of self defense, it's
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  Speaker 1: insurance for that.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're the biggest cost they charge is fifty four
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  Speaker 1: to ninety and that gives you a million dollars worth
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  Speaker 1: of liability insurance on top of an attorney if there's
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  Speaker 1: a criminal case and an attorney for the civil case.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter how long the civil case is
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  Speaker 1: or the court case is, it's covered in that fifty
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  Speaker 1: four to ninety. So if you end up defending yourself
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  Speaker 1: and you hurt somebody and they come back to suit,
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  Speaker 1: which is their problem as far as I'm concerned, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't be robbing you or anyone else exactly. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hurt people, but you do have you
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  Speaker 1: should have the right to defend yourself and make sure
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  Speaker 1: you're safe. But in this day and age, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of criminals will try to sue for lost wages or
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  Speaker 1: lost whatever because they got injured breaking into your home
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  Speaker 1: or breaking the law, or breaking into your car while
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  Speaker 1: you're in your car. Because in the state of Nevada
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  Speaker 1: you have the castle doctor and even inside your car,
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  Speaker 1: so don't get out of your car in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Nevada if you're being attacked, stay in your car.
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  Speaker 1: You had the right to defend yourself with lethal force
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  Speaker 1: inside your car for people that are trying to get
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  Speaker 1: into your car. It but so it covers the criminal attorney,
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  Speaker 1: it covers the civil attorney. And like at the range,
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  Speaker 1: they had somebody come in and try to steal guns
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  Speaker 1: out of the CCW class and he was a homeless
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  Speaker 1: guy and it took about an hour to get him
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  Speaker 1: out the building, and then the police showed up. The
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  Speaker 1: guy pulled out a screwdriver and stabbed the female police
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  Speaker 1: officer in the face and in the neck, trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill her, and all three employees and the other officer
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  Speaker 1: opened fire. They got a letter accommodation for protecting the officer.
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  Speaker 1: They they did all these you know, good good stuff
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  Speaker 1: from the police and everything else. But the family of
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  Speaker 1: this person, who hadn't seen this person in two years,
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  Speaker 1: decided to sue, and that lawsuit has been going on
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  Speaker 1: for five years. That's where an insurance like this comes
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  Speaker 1: in because the attorney's fees paid as for the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of neat and it's per incident. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so if you have more, if you have one incident, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you have another one, if you have three, it's
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  Speaker 1: time to move starting to find a new place to.
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  Speaker 3: Live, exactly. But it's a good sense of mind, that's what.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it gives you a peace of mind when you're
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  Speaker 1: defending yourself.
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  Speaker 3: And then yeah, well, first of all, yeah, health insurance.
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  Speaker 3: You have life insurance, you have to have safety insurance.
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  Speaker 1: But at the fifty four to ninety a month, you
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  Speaker 1: have a million dollars of liability insurance. So when these
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  Speaker 1: people try to sue you and the attorneys agree out
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  Speaker 1: of court on a thing, and say they agreed on
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars, where are you going to come up
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars from. Well, this covers that for fifty
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  Speaker 1: four to ninety plus all the attorneys, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have reciprocity. In the States, they have a map for that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's any kind of self defense though, so if
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  Speaker 1: you ended up exactly using a knife or you had
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  Speaker 1: to pick up a rock to save yourself, it covers
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  Speaker 1: that as well.
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  Speaker 2: So and for those who are I think I remember
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  Speaker 2: for those who were in the law enforcement, you can
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  Speaker 2: actually get this too.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And if you're in law enforcement, you can use
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  Speaker 1: this and you're covered while on if you're a security guard,
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  Speaker 1: you're covered while on duty us CCA. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: you go on the clock, they don't cover you anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So this is like double coverage from the police department
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  Speaker 1: and the insurance company while you're while you're at work.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's much much better. Their sole concern
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  Speaker 1: is making sure people have the ability to defend themselves
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  Speaker 1: without worrying about it. They're not owned by a fund,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: they're not owned by an investment conglomerate. They're they're self owned.
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  Speaker 1: They're self funded. Yes, so it's kind of neat. They're
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  Speaker 1: not worried about, you know, the profit at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. They're not worried about going to the
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  Speaker 1: shot show and buying a six million dollar booth and
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to save money in other places. No, no, there.
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  Speaker 1: Their sole concern is self defense and self insurance and
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  Speaker 1: you being able to defend yourself with peace of mind. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you for that. I believe in it. I'm a money
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  Speaker 1: so exactly. Yeah, I love the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, you own a firearm, why not have
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  Speaker 2: the safety or.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even need to own a firearm. Also, it
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  Speaker 1: covers your kids, by the way, So if your kids
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  Speaker 1: are going to school and somebody's picking on them and
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  Speaker 1: hitting them and they turn around and hit them back,
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  Speaker 1: if they have to get in trouble with law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: you can call them and the attorney will come represent
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  Speaker 1: them at school.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, it gets deeper.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So I mean it's it's self defense for you
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  Speaker 1: and your whole your whole entire family. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool, all right. So onto other things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we got question to question two because you did
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  Speaker 2: judge at the strong competition and you got to watch
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  Speaker 2: Bubble compete in the open.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and hey it looked like he won.
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  Speaker 1: He did, he did. He won the open. He did.
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  Speaker 1: He was that his first open, that's his first open.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he won his first open at fifteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: He deadlifted six hundred. I think he missed six twenty,
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  Speaker 1: but that's okay. I mean he pulled it raw. He
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  Speaker 1: just yeah, just pair of straps in the belt, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So he did a great job there and then he
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  Speaker 1: won the log. He won all the rest of the events. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so he'd stone over bar, the log, the deadlift hole
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  Speaker 1: or the farmer's walk hole, all that stuff. He won
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  Speaker 1: all those So it I mean, he's he's just a
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  Speaker 1: great Not only is he an unbelievable talent, he's just
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  Speaker 1: a good person too. He really is is a good kid,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: and if you talk shit to him, or if you
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: talk smack to him, expect to get it back. He's
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he's he's been in that environment. He knows how to
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: throw it right back at you. So that's it. But
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  Speaker 1: he's he's the kid's got nothing but the brightest future
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  Speaker 1: ahead of him. He really does.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, I believe in his goal of being
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  Speaker 2: the youngest world's strongest man.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in it too. I believe in it too.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt. He just did a three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen pound axle. Yeah, he's fifteen. He just cleaned and
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  Speaker 1: pressed a three hundred and fifteen pound axle. The log
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  Speaker 1: that he did there was two hundred and eighty five
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  Speaker 1: pounds and he did that for three second place got one. Yeah,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: so and then I think a couple of guys got one.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: But so he's doing well. He's going to be something
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to deal with for quite some time. Good luck you guys.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And having Jerry behind him, oh yeah, because because that's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: his biggest cheerleader here, oh yeah, and pushing him in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the right direction a mentor. It's your dad's been on
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the big stage many a times.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And It's funny because I was talking to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Jerry and he's like, yeah, I don't know if I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: can have two professional strawmen in my house, I'm going
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: broken food exactly. So that was when I tried to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: do my Jerry Pritchard in impression. But he also did
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: something pretty cool to me. Cool for me. He just
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: assumed I am coming back to competing, which I am.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And uh.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I have a pair of squat racks, you know, for
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: powerlifting in my in my garage their stands so I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: can bench or squat out of it. And he built
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: me inserts to put in so that I can do
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: log press out of it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: It was. It was really cool. It's really neat, it's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: pretty stable, it's it's bad ass. So thank you Jerry
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: for doing that. It's it's it's amazing. So if you
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: have squat racks in your gym and you want to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: get a rack to where you can press out of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the press the log out of that thing, Jerry knows
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: how to make him, so I would contact him for those.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of a neat attachment to put in there.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So now you got like three things you can train
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: out of your squad rack. There's a lot more than that,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: but yeah, three major things you can train out of
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: your squad.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's pretty cool.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, okay.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: All right, well let's get into do you want to
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: do the Dead of Champion because we haven't we want
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: to go into North American.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Well, let's do in North American because that's a that's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a pretty neat thing. I mean, oh yeah, it's it
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: was a great contest. I've done that contest three times.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It's up in Canada. It's in Warwick, and it is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: an amazing place to compete. It really is, because about
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: twenty thousand people show up, they fill the stands, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you're in a big square that's right in the middle
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of everything. So it's probably i'd say it's a good
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty feet wide by probably two hundred
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and fifty three hundred feet long. Yeah, and so it's
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a big there's a lot of area where he just
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: set up an event, set up an event, set up
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: an event. Yeah, and it's it's pretty neat to go
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: compete at. It really is. In the crowd and up
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: there in Canada is amazing. It is absolutely amazing. But
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the first event was the max log and Trey won
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the max log. I think he did four hundred and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: fifty five pounds, if I'm not mistaken.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I tried to find it with the weights, but I
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: couldn't find it with the weights.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I think Thomas Evans got second. Well
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I know he got second, but I think he might
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: have been the next weight increment over that below that,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and then Bryce and Evan Singleton I think both did
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: four twenty would I remind remember seeing and then Nick
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Gordion and Josh Spurgeon. Nick Gordion with the big log
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: at Worlds and then now here does a four hundred
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: pound log. He's getting consistent with it, which that Nick
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: keeps moving up, he keeps moving forwards, he keeps getting better.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you watch out for Nick in about four
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: but three four more years of just this type of improvement.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be hard to deal with exactly. And then
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Lars also did four hundred. So after that, I'm not
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: sure what the weights were, but you had Andrew, Nick, Worthman,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Gabriel Remote sorry for bitching your name. James Jeffers, Colton
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Sloan and Matthew Poyer all get four point five points,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: so they all tied with the same weight. And then
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Wesley Dorinsky, I guess zero the log he might I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: think unfortunately. I think he's hurt.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: It could be and you know, just a quick shout,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Nick and Wesley, Wesley. We actually stayed with them and yeah,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: boy and big.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: House during the World Worlds.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the same there are a bunch of young kids,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: good dudes, they're they're fun to talk to. And then
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: we get to uh, we get to the second event,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: which is the Conan's Wheel, and after the Conan's Wheel,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: leading the whole entire contest was Thomas Evans doing great.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: He had twenty six points at that point, and then
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Nick Gordion also did very good at the Conan's Will.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: He was at twenty three total points. And then Bryce
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Johnson didn't did pretty solid at it too. He's at
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: twenty two zero point five, So this doesn't give you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: kind of where they placed him at. But yeah, Trey
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: did good at it, not great, but he did good
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: because it dropped him down to fourth from first, but
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: at twenty one points, so he did good. Nick did great.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Nick warmonth Warthram sorry guy, sorry. Bud was at sixteen
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: point five, Lars Colton and then Andrew and then Evan
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: for some reason didn't do very good at the Conan's wheel.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: He did great at the log, but he something must
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: have not been right on the Conan's wheel and he
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: ended up with like twelve points, which put him down
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in tenth place. So Jeffers and Wesley were the bottom
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: two on that So, like I said, I think they're
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: both kind of not healthy at the time at the moment.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So the next event was the tractor poll. Now, the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: tractor poll is gonna help. The bigger you are and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the more in shape you are, the better, and the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: biggest dude in the contest did very well. He ended
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: up finishing that event. On the third event, he ended
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: up in first place with thirty six points. Thirty six
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: point five points, which is pretty solid. That's the total
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: all three running. Because we don't have the list of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the events as they.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Were through, I tried to find them.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: But Nick Gordion did great. He ended up in tied
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: for second with Thomas Evans. They both had thirty five points,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: so he picked it up on this event as well.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Trey Mitchell moved to fourth stayed consistent right there at
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: thirty one points. Nick wortham ended up at twenty nine
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: point five, so doing well, and then Josh Spurgeon at
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: twenty six and do Langler lang R at twenty three
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: point five. Larson was at twenty, Colton at eighteen point five,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and then Evan was down in tents. So Evan's usually
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: pretty good at pulling stuff. So I think Evan was
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: just off or just having a bad day, or maybe
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: got some bad food. I don't know, so hopefully no,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I don't. All right, So the fourth event was the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Atlas Stones. Okay, now the Atlas stones in that place
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: are absolutely nuts because they're tall like the old World's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Strongest Man was, and they work down to where they
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: get a little lower. Yeah. But the rings they're by themselves. Yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and they stand on a stand by itself the platform,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and it's it's literally the stands this big around like
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you're putting the stone into a circle at the top
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and there's just a thing up underneath it, coming straight
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: right up from the ground. So there you don't miss
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: if you do your move your feet really fast. Yeah.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: So it's one of the most difficult technique wise at
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: listone platforms that you could ever use. Like I said,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you have to be very careful loading those in.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So Bryce Johnson, of course I think dominated that one
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: because he ended up with fifty point five points at
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the end of that one. Nick Gordion did very good
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: as well. He ends up clean in the second place
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: by himself with forty eight points. Trey Mitchell did well.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He's now by himself in third place at forty two points.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Nick Wortham is in h forty one point five, so
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: he's to half a point behind Trey. Thomas Evans is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: in fifth at forty one, so he's still did pretty good.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Josh Spurgeon was sixth and was seventh. Evan Singleton, you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: is now moved up to eighth from tenth, so he
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: he did a little better. And then again Wesley, Wesley
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and Jeffers are struggling a little bit, yeah, so but
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: not too bad. Yeah, all right, So we go to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: day two and we go to the Viking Press. Now
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Bryce Johnson has been working on this and is still
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: in first place.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Let's hear sixty one.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's fourteen guys in it, so for him
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: to be pick up eleven points, I think he was
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: fourth or fifth and or fourth in that one, yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: which is not too bad. Trey moved up to fifty
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: six points in second place. I'm thinking Trey won that event.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just just gonna go out on the limb and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: say I think Tray won that event.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Trey is a straight pressor.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yes. The big surprise is Nick Gordione at fifty four
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: point five points.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So he's a point and a half behind Trey with
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the both the overhead presses events done. So that's great, man,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that's just kick and tail for him. Nick was Nick
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: nick Wortham was at fifty four points, and then uh,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Thomas Evans was at fifty three point five. It kind
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of surprises me there because Tom's a pretty good presser,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: but I don't know, maybe they had something crazy going on.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, Josh Spurgeon and then uh we go
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to Evan Singleton, which.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: And I'd like to mention that the top seven here
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: are all United States Americans.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, and then all the Canadians are down
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: below that. But it was kind of like USA versus
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Canada as well. Yeah, so I know the USA one,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: congratulations guys, but you know, I still really appreciate Canada
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: they put on.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: A great show up there. Oh yeah, they put on
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: a hell of a show.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: They're awesome. Yeah, but all the all the Canadians didn't
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: do as well as the Americans did on the overhead
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: on the Viking Press. Yeah, so not too bad. Andrew
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: was an eighth with thirty three point five. Larson was
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: thirty one point five, Colton was at twenty seven, Gabriel
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: was at twenty five, James Jeffers at twenty four. Like
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I said, I don't think he's healthy. And then Wesley's
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: down at the bottom. I don't think like I said,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's he's healthy because Wesley, Wesley's a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: really great athlete exactly, but he's continuing on with the contest,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: which is kind of cool, like he didn't just drop
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: out and walk off, all right. The next one is
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the earthlift, which I'm assuming is the deadlift, which Bryce
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Bryce again is still in the lead, but this time
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the lead's a little smaller, so seventy two points point six,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and then Trey was at seventy points, so I think
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Trey did some deadlifting. Thomas Evans was at sixty five,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: so he's five points behind in third place, which is
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: pretty good. Nick Gordion's in fourth at fifty nine. Nick
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Wortham is at fifty eight point five, just right behind Gordion.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Josh Spurgeon is in sixth at forty seven point five,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Andrew is in seventh at forty two point five, and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Ambless Evans Singleton is in eighth at forty two. So
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I think Evan's got a hamstring problem or a back
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: problem something like that going on. Yeah, he had a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: problem with the deadlift when he was at the Giants
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Live show in England, so maybe that's still still there.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: It's not kind of gone, and so hopefully he gets
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: healthy and gets back to full strength because when he's
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: firing all cylinders a lookout. And then Gabriel James, Jeffers
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Larson Colton in twelve, Wesley thirteen, yeah, and then Matthew
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: at fourteen. So all right. Next event was the Hercules Hold,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: So this is usually one of Tray's rough events. It's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a grip event. But so still in first place with
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: a nine point lead at this point is Bryce Johnson.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I think he did pretty good at the Hercules Hold.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Thomas Evans is now in second place with seventy six points.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Nick Gordion's in third place at seventy three points. Trey
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Trey Mitchell is in fourth place with seventy two points,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and what did he have going into that event? Seventy
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: So he got two points in that event, so that
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: tells you he got like thirteen or twelve yea, So
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: still still kind of an issue, but it didn't set
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: him back too far because he was up there pretty good.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: It just dropped him, dropped him down to fourth. Nick
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Werthaum was at sixty two point five, Josh Spurgeon at
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: fifty two point five, and Evan was at fifty point five.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Evan's usually got a really good grip too, so you know,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where he's just got
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a limp through the competition. Finish it up, show face,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: be a professional and get it done, which is fine.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Yep, uh my phone, Oh yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Oh so this is the last one hold on go
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: back we had? Okay, yeah, So the Hercules sold and
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the eighth event was the Milo Meliam Milo. Not sure
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: what that was.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have no idea.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: But.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Bryce did very well at it. He finished the day
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: with ninety five points, most consistent throughout. He won by
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: nine points over Trey Mitchell, so Trey Trey moved up
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of spots in that one, so he did
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: very well. Thomas Evans got eighty three points and finished
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: in third. Right behind him is Nick Gordione at eighty
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: two points. So these guys are getting that are that
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: are up there that are going to the world's strongest
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: man present in the US are getting pretty solid, you know,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: at being and being consistent and stuff like that and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: working through their weaknesses.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I just looked it up.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: It says it's a melody, so it's it's gotta bed
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Medley Medley.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think they were loading stuff. Nick Wortham got
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: seventy three point five points for fifth, Josh Spurgeon sixty
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: four point five, and then Evan Singleton finished seventh at
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: fifty eight point five, so he did he had a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: little bit of comeback there. And then all the Americans
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: were first through seventh. Yeah, and then all the Canadians
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: were eight through fourteenth, which the Canadian guys are strong
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and if I know Coroneah, they're going to be there's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be some talking tos and the guy's gonna be nerds.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: To time to get stronger.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, to get stronger, but still an amazing group of guys,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: an amazing uh contest and they did a great lineup.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Congratuations to the US guys for doing so well. I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see uh Evan getting one piece and
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: you know, get get back to get back to being
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: heavy because healthy, because I mean, if you hurt your hamstring,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you know a few weeks back. Hamstrings take you know,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: six to ten weeks to heal all the way, so
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: we can really not worry about him. So it's it's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: he's just got to understand that he'll he'll be fine,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and he's going through the other stuff and he had
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a great log press all the way through. But congratulations Bryce, Trey,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Tom Nick, Nick Josh. I mean, you guys, you guys
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: did awesome. You really did. Proud of you guys. I'm
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: very happy for all of you. So that that covers
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: that one. Oh yeah yeah. And I think it's poutine
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: going up there eating that. It's like cheese with gravy on.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I love cheese curves.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: It's cheese curved with gravy and French fries. That's amazing.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And then they also have soft served ice cream at
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that place. Yeah, which was probably the best soft served
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: ice cream I'd ever had in my life. It's just
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it's a neat place to go and hang out and stuff.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I really like that place.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: We have the Giants Live that's coming up in September
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: on September fifth in Birmingham.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: That's the straw Man Open World and World Deadlifting Championship
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: for twenty six yep. So the events are going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: have is Dumbell Press Press, the Deadlifting champ Championship.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: World Deadlifting Championship first.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the story is going right exactly.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna have another attempt.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying at five hundred plus exactly.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: The load and press, load and push, load and load
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: and push. Yes, load and push and push. I can't
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: read today.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: It's okay, Titans toss. That's pretty pretty self explanatory. And
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: that that. So you got an event that's gonna kill you,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: which is the deadlift is gonna beat you up pretty good.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Dumbell press for reps. Yeah, it's it's gonna do make
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: your work, but you're gonna breathe. It's not gonna kill you. Yeah.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: The load and push that's gonna that's gonna be another
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: one that's gonna be a lung burner for the most part,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: So that's good Titan toss that'll be pretty pretty easy
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: on the guys. But that's a technique event and tall event.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: So I wish there was a way to even out
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the the the advantage that you have for being super
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: tall in that event.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, they got they got a good amount
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: of tall people in this show. It's just it's it's
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: just there's a handful of guys that aren't at that
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: height right.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Right, and when you're releasing it and you're a foot
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: higher releasing it than someone else's. But it's okay. I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: don't like to tosses that much. Yeah, I'd rather see
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the farmer's walk or a yoke in there personally, but
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you know whatever, it's it's straw Man, not Highland Games.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: That I'm not the guy making the contest. And this
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: also doesn't beat the guys up that much. Yeah, which
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: is good. So you got a killer event, a lung burner,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: a lung burner, and then you finish with the killer event.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So if they if the last stone is four sixty
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: or four forty, that's the killer event, especially you're you're
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: trying to do this in three hours exactly. So the
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Giants live shows go fast. You know, they have live
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: audience and everything else. They don't mess around. So when
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you get done with one event, you got to go
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: back and get ready, get changed, and get ready for
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the next event. So the thing that's kind of rough
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: is when you win an event there they ask you
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to talk. Yeah, and so you're out there talking everybody's
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: back changing and you get penalized because they don't give
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: you any extra time other than you go. You go
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: last or next to last and in the next event,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: so you have a little bit of time, but it's
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like they hold you out there and
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: try to talk to you when you when you finish it,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: so exactly, it takes a little time away from you.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: But confirmed athletes or Hopdor Hopdor, Trey Mitchell, Tom Stultman,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Evan Singleton, Rain O'Nell, Adam Bishop, Bryce Johnson. This should
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: be a good contest for Bryce by the way, Yeah,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: this will be a really good contest for him because
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: he'll hold his own on the deadlift and he'll make
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: decent points on that. Austin Andrade, He'll he'll do well
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: at this show. Who's the World Strong Eddy Hayes which
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the load medley and all the moving stuff just yeah,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and he can deadlift, so that's gonna be pretty good
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: all the way around. Evan's Nana, he keeps getting better
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: every time you see him. He's under Terry. Terry's coaching
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: him really really well. He Terry's Hollins is doing a
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: great job with him. He gets better, like every time
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you see him. And then you have Thomas Evans who's
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: gonna go out there, which I'm really excited for Tom
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: to be able to go do this, so I hope.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: You know, him being a strength coach for a University
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: of Delaware, you know they have a tendency not to
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: let strength coaches leave very often to go compete. But
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: so I'm I'm pretty excited he gets to go to this.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: James Jeffers is gonna go, so hopefully he's he's feeling
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: pretty good by the time he gets there. While Flores,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: which is you know, pretty darn strong guy, so it's
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch. He's gonna I think he's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: going to do the deadlift world record.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well he's a Latino deadlift world record.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah at four and a kilos, Yes, so that's gonna
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: be pretty interesting. I think he's the shorter guy, right, Yeah.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: It looks like a wedge when he's pulling in and
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: you're just like whoa, You're like, what's sky gonna And
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you're like dude, and you're like, oh, never mind, I'm
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: just gonna be quiet now and go over here. I
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: kind of like to see him change the rules on
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: this event just a little bit, though. Yeah, I'd like
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: to see him allowed to sum him There you go.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: But and this is a big butt. I'd like to
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: see it on an a Eleco bar.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: There you go, get that stiff bar.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: All the advantage from being sumo and pulling on it
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and having the bar give like four to five inches.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: It's a level playing field conventional and sumo. It's even
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: across the board. There's no bitching, there's no complaining, there's
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: no this, there's no that the bar comes off the ground.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: When the bar comes off the ground, there's not a
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: massive advantage. You can go back and watch like old
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Ed Cohen deadlift videos with a bar gives like this
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: much before it comes off the ground.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: So it's a very level playing field. I would have
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: no problems with them allowing in the sumo in that
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: contest if they used an an Alleco bar. Yeah it's
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: not a deadlift bar. It's an Aleco bar. Oh yeah,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: it's the powerlifting bar. Because remember there's one there's one
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: federation which I won't mention, that still has everybody squat
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: bench and deadlift on one bar.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Yep, the exact same.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: That's how Ed Cohen did it. That's how the greats
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: did it. They didn't have these longer, thicker squat bars
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: than the regular bar for a bench and then the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: super long, super skinny, easy to thumblock around thinner bars
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: to give the advantages. So I would really like to
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: see things get back to let's see who's really the strongest,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: not how much the equipment can give and give someone
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: else an advantage, and they figure out how to do
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: that when they had the right body leverages. The guys
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: that are that good at it are still gonna pull
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: pretty darn good. But I would like to see that.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And I think Thor could probably pull five hundred plus
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: kilos on a on a leco. I think he can
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: do that. I've seen him pull over a thousand on
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: a stiff axle bar in Africa. Yeah, so I know
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he can do it, so it would just be fun
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: to see. I would like to see the integrity of
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the deadlift restored instead of the bs that's going on
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: with the deadlift now, Yeah, I really would because it's
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the bars have changed so much versus conventional and sumo.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: You the conventional guys might get an inch to to
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: give out of the bar. That's why all the guys
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: bring their hands in so close, which stops them from
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: being able to lock out all the way at the top.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: You know, you should be able to widen your hands
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit so you can get your shoulders back. Yeah,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you know these deadlifts that are like this with the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: shoulders forwards where it's not locked out all the way that, Yeah,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: you're never gonna get a down thing though. For me,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: if that, I'm gonna tell you shoulders, shoulder shoulders to
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: get your shoulders back. It'd just be nice to see
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the integrity of that lift come back to where it
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: actually means something again. Not you pull on the bar
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: and you for whatever reason made a mistake and wore
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Adidas socks and the bars below the three lines for Adidas,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and when the bar finally leads, the ground is above
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the three lines for the Adidas. That's yeah, that's not
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: really deadlifting exactly. That's you're doing a elephant bar deadlift,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: which is not something completely different for all intensive purposes.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: But that's my soapbox for today. That'll be controversial and
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: it will probably get me a lot of hate mail.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: But that's just how I feel about it because I
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: want to see I don't want to see guys. I
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: want to see guys get records, I really do, but
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see them because of a piece
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: of equipment that has changed. Just like I don't like
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the monolift for squats. If you can't walk it back,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, you can't squat it. Cohen walked all
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: his back, Kurkazwalski walked all his back. I walked all
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: mine back. Even when I was in a monolitht I
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: would still pick it up and take a step backwards. Yeah,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I always walk my back. You know. It's it.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: That's how you squat. It's what you're supposed to do.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's not the same thing. I mean, if
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: if if you're not stable enough to walk back with it.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Go do the yoke, yep, go out and train yoke
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: for a while. You'll be stable enough. Desercher squats, You'll
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: be stable enough, you know, to walk the weight back.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It's just something I believe in. But my two cents anyway, Uh,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: We've rambled on a little bit today, which I hope
• 47:36
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• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not wincing in pain yet. I'm not sitting here
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: going back and forth, going to be good finish. So
• 47:47
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• 47:49
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• 47:54
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• 47:57
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• 48:03
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• 48:18
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• 48:24
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