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SHOCKING Updates: Thor’s 511kg Deadlift Miss, McGregor Injury Talk & Las Vegas Strongman Contest Preview · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 2: Uh, Nick, you want to talk about a couple of
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  Speaker 2: topics or you want let you jump right into questions,
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  Speaker 2: because I was gonna say, let jump into topics.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not these.
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  Speaker 3: Questions out all right. Uh, we got a lot to
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  Speaker 3: talk about today. Just guys know, there's there's stuff about
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  Speaker 3: Thor's deadlift. There's stuff about McGregor, you know, on his
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  Speaker 3: knee and what happened with the fight. And then we
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  Speaker 3: got a guest coming on that's putting on some strong
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  Speaker 3: man contests ones this weekend here in Las Vegas. So
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  Speaker 3: if you're in town this weekend and I want to
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  Speaker 3: see a strong man contest, you'll get the stuff on
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  Speaker 3: that on where to go. I'll be judging a little
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  Speaker 3: bit as much as I can before I get tired,
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  Speaker 3: before my hip had enough or whatever. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how that goes. H So question number one,
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  Speaker 3: darn Nick. We're wishing you a speedy recovery, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: and we're hoping you be able to move around freely
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  Speaker 3: again soon. It's a little better every day, like a
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  Speaker 3: lot better. I got rid of the walker altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Ronnie's just joining us. I let him in.
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  Speaker 3: Now what's going on? Yeah, we're just reading questions right
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  Speaker 3: now and then and we'll get to introdution.
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  Speaker 6: You'r hony.
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  Speaker 3: So are there any ways to let's hear hope you
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  Speaker 3: for them? So are there any ways to prevent stroke? Well,
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  Speaker 3: blood pressure is a pretty good way to avoid stroke.
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  Speaker 3: But just good clean diet, stuff like that. Just being
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  Speaker 3: smart will help exercise, exercise. I'm not a doctor, yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're not medical professionals, but I will throw out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit for diet and exercises. The main thing about this,
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  Speaker 2: and also too, if you're predisposition, you can prevent it
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  Speaker 2: by asking the questions before it happens.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, true, with your doc and stuff like that. And
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  Speaker 3: then yeah, it's the answers are going to be very similar.
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  Speaker 3: Good solid diet and that means learning how to cook
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  Speaker 3: your food, your own food, quit buying processed food, that
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  Speaker 3: type of stuff. Yes, I noticed there's a big out
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  Speaker 3: like with Congress, and so a bunch of people were
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  Speaker 3: complaining that all the fast food industries or businesses are
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  Speaker 3: starting to suffer, and it's the economy is really bad,
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  Speaker 3: I go or people are learning how to cook and
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  Speaker 3: they're starting to eat, they're starting to not eat the
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  Speaker 3: ship food that the fast food restaurants serve.
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  Speaker 2: So process is bad as much as so.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be the diet, the exercise and things
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  Speaker 3: like that that will help with that. If you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're having one, get there immediately. They have clockbusters
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that that can almost limit your your
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  Speaker 3: side effects from that down to nothing. So the moment
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  Speaker 3: you feel something's off like that, get get to the hospital. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll carry that all right. Question two, Nick, You've
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  Speaker 3: always been known as one of the hardest workers in
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  Speaker 3: straw Man. Was there ever a period where you intentionally
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  Speaker 3: backed off your training and let your body recover?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there was. And did that actually make you a
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  Speaker 3: better athlete the wrong one? Yeah, Oh yeah it does.
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  Speaker 3: Overtraining will make you a horrible athlete. You can have
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  Speaker 3: the work ethic like in straw Man, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these guys, a lot of us have the ability to
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  Speaker 3: push our bodies beyond what is normal and push our
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  Speaker 3: bodies to the point of breaking. Now that's a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: You're able to push yourself that far, but it's not
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  Speaker 3: a smart thing to do that all the time. You
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  Speaker 3: do that when you need to, not not in your
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  Speaker 3: weekly training, not in your you know, every day stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You push hard, but you don't go over that line
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  Speaker 3: in training. And yeah, there's times where you start feeling
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  Speaker 3: run down, you start feeling beaten up. If you feel
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  Speaker 3: beat up before you go to work out, that's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty good, pretty good signal you should probably take a
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  Speaker 3: day off. You know, you can't do that competition week.
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  Speaker 3: And then sometimes when you're training for things like the
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  Speaker 3: World's Strongest Man or some of the other shows, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a three day, three day contest where you're going
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  Speaker 3: one to three and then you had a couple of
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  Speaker 3: days off and then two, one, two, you get used
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  Speaker 3: to training the one, two, three, and then the one too,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes on that second and third day you're feeling
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  Speaker 3: a little beat up. It's it's okay to back off
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  Speaker 3: the weights just a hair and still go put the
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  Speaker 3: work in. You know, it doesn't have to be world
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  Speaker 3: class every time you go out. You just have to
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  Speaker 3: go put the work in and then also get your
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  Speaker 3: numbers later when you're feeling better, you know, put the
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  Speaker 3: hammer down. When you're not feeling better take it easy,
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  Speaker 3: but never really go after everything that you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: do in a contest. In training, always hold a little
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  Speaker 3: bit back. Not you don't want to go to absolute
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  Speaker 3: failure in training for a straw man contest, but you
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  Speaker 3: want to get close.
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  Speaker 2: Has there been any competitions that you pulled back a
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  Speaker 2: little bit just to make sure that you're recovered for it?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, yeah, Like like my first Worlds, I definitely
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  Speaker 3: pulled back a little bit to make sure because I
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  Speaker 3: was going crazy, is he getting ready for that thing?
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  Speaker 3: And then I was like, I noticed about four weeks out.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, ooh, I need to take it easy
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks. And I took it easy
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  Speaker 3: for about a week and a half and then I
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  Speaker 3: cranked it back up for a week and then I
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  Speaker 3: had basically two weeks to recover and travel and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that, and I hit on ahead. I made the
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  Speaker 3: finals and finished sixth that year, so it was it
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  Speaker 3: was a good year. So it's just stuff like that
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  Speaker 3: where it makes a difference. But yeah, and there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of power that the needs where I was pushing
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  Speaker 3: pretty darn hard and I was like, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 3: starting to get overtrained and I back off a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and I ended up exceeding what I thought I was
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  Speaker 3: going to do in the contest anyway. So the biggest
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  Speaker 3: thing is learn how to read your body. If you
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  Speaker 3: don't know how to read your body, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: problems with it whatever sport you compete in, because there's
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  Speaker 3: times where you can push and there's times when you
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  Speaker 3: need to back off. And it's just knowing and being
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  Speaker 3: honest with yourself. You're, oh, it's oh, doesn't quite feel right.
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  Speaker 3: Are you just being a wuss? Or is it really
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  Speaker 3: that bad? You know, if it's if you're just being
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  Speaker 3: a wuss, stuck it up and get it done. If
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  Speaker 3: it's really that bad, take your time off, let it rest.
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  Speaker 3: That way, you can come back and you don't get
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  Speaker 3: a serious injury, because that's what keeps serious injuries where
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  Speaker 3: we keep you from progressing the most over time. They
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  Speaker 3: really do. I mean, every time you get one, it's
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  Speaker 3: three to six months before you're back to normal. Lucas
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  Speaker 3: Hatton's going through that right now. He tore his bicep
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  Speaker 3: off and you can see him. He's doing really well
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  Speaker 3: training and stuff like that, but he's starting to train
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  Speaker 3: around it. It's smart training. But he's doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing it needs to get done. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: but he pushed pretty hard for the last few years,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, things happen. It's part of the sport.
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  Speaker 3: And then it's the other part of the sport is healing,
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  Speaker 3: getting over it, coming back and going right back at it.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's just how it is, all right,
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  Speaker 3: So we got through that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, all right, let's introduce our guest. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: all right, big Ronnie, Thank you, big Nie. This is
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas is strong, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Right Now, I've seen you around town and you know
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  Speaker 2: we've met in passing, but I've never actually had an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to like really introduce myself to you.
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  Speaker 1: But thank you for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thank you for having me. Oh absolutely, Roan.
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  Speaker 3: So now you got two contests coming up this year
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  Speaker 3: still to go, right, Yes, two contests, that's right. So
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  Speaker 3: when is this Saturday? Where's that at? And what time
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  Speaker 3: is Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: We have last week's Strength Olympics happening this coming Saturday
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  Speaker 7: at the UFCI Centennial.
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  Speaker 6: Jim.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we have around twenty to twenty five athletes
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  Speaker 7: competing in this show for the second year in Rome, so.
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  Speaker 3: In Las Vegas. That's near ann and Centennial. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: if you're in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, go ahead out in November seventh, mm hmm yeah,
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  Speaker 7: last biggest string of the games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, and then where's that gonna be at?
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  Speaker 6: Same thing, it's gonna be Uh, it's to be determined.
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  Speaker 8: But uh yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You might be at UFC as well, just because of Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it's a big location and we have more strowm.
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  Speaker 4: And equipment there.
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  Speaker 9: It's easy for us to move which wrong and stuff
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  Speaker 9: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Physically it's a lot less challenge. It's easier on the promoters.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, exactly, exactly, which is always a good expo. You
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  Speaker 7: know you've got to bring all the equomen and bring them
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  Speaker 7: back and syrup and break down.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah yeah, and by the end of the day
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  Speaker 3: you're just absolutely wrecked. Whereas when you have just load
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  Speaker 3: the stuff back in the gym, a couple of the
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  Speaker 3: guys come with the trucks and pick up a couple
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  Speaker 3: of pieces of equipment that you needed help with here
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  Speaker 3: and there. I think you're all dying.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 6: As soon the competition is done, we have one well
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  Speaker 6: one our.
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  Speaker 4: Work and we're done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah time, that's that's better than five six hours of
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  Speaker 3: work still to go and your body's because you've been
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  Speaker 3: moving the equipment for a day and a half, two
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  Speaker 3: days already.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, So what.
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  Speaker 3: Are the events this Saturday coming up?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so this Saturday, we got to start with a
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  Speaker 7: Max dentist you know, I love Max Denit.
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  Speaker 6: I think is a good test of string.
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  Speaker 7: And then we have a low lift, clean and press,
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  Speaker 7: and then we have a farmer's hold for a time,
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  Speaker 7: and then we have yor carry had to have your
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  Speaker 7: carry fifty feet and then we're going to finish with
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  Speaker 7: last man standing Atlas stones overball.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, story a bar. That's that's a good one because
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  Speaker 3: that one, Yeah, that one can make you tired.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it's a good guy.
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  Speaker 3: He did another one. I gotta do another one. He
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  Speaker 3: did another one. I gotta do another one. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's cool. So what are the what are the weights?
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  Speaker 3: Max loved as obvious. So how many different weight classes
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  Speaker 3: do you have?
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  Speaker 4: I think I have.
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  Speaker 6: I believe I have seven.
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  Speaker 10: I think yeah, I believe we have like a little
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  Speaker 10: bit of we have heavyweight men's division, and we have
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  Speaker 10: a heavyweight women's division, and we have middle weights, lightweights,
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  Speaker 10: and we have fifty master's work plus fifty plus and
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  Speaker 10: sixty plus sixty plus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I have a guy actually his veterans, he's sixty nine
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  Speaker 7: competing in the first time ever.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's actually that's awesome. That'll be really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, now, what are the weights going to be for
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  Speaker 3: the heavyweights, because that's that's gonna betty cool.
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  Speaker 7: For the loglift, you know, for they have actually you
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  Speaker 7: say the chalce the loglift for the heavy women's division.
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  Speaker 6: I think that we have six or seven office in
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  Speaker 6: heavy women's division, you know.
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  Speaker 4: The log lift.
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  Speaker 7: It's too eighty five for reps, okay, and yeah, and
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  Speaker 7: then uh, the farmers hold two ninety each had okay
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  Speaker 7: for max time. And then for your carriers, they have
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  Speaker 7: eight hundred pounds fifty feet twenty five down and twenty
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  Speaker 7: five back.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Then stones they have three thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Okay for reps for reps, right, that'll be cool. And
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  Speaker 3: then the other weight classes will have weights that are
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  Speaker 3: adjusted to them as well.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, to watch, yeah, be fine to watch.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I tried to put put you know, fun events
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  Speaker 7: to watch, you know, Yeah, I believe in I love
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  Speaker 7: you know, strong man, you know, yeah, classic strong man events.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I really love that.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, how did you get started in strong Man?
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  Speaker 2: And what got you started in Las Vegas doing all
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  Speaker 2: this the promotion?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I started in France. I leave there,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I born you know, and raised in North Africa.
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  Speaker 7: I'm actually from Algeria, you know. And then I moved
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  Speaker 7: in France. Yeah, and then I moved I moved in France,
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  Speaker 7: and then I started doing a power lifting and strong man,
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  Speaker 7: but doing strong and I trained in the commercial gyms.
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  Speaker 7: I competed in France many times, they went, you know,
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  Speaker 7: shows in France, and and then I, you know, I
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  Speaker 7: moved in the you know, I was you know, I
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  Speaker 7: come to United States to compete sometimes, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I remember in twenty fifteen, you know, in a power
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  Speaker 7: lifting show here in my Investigate casino, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I feel in love with Vegas, and you know, I
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  Speaker 7: moved here. I moved here in twenty nineteen and then yeah,
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  Speaker 7: and then here there's more opportunities, you know, more equipment
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  Speaker 7: in Europe really, especially in France.
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  Speaker 6: In Paris there's absolutely no strongman gym.
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  Speaker 11: So I trained just in commercial gyms and I never
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  Speaker 11: lifted stones and they never just trained like a powerlifter,
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  Speaker 11: where I compete as a strong man, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 11: And since I would here, that's where like I really
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  Speaker 11: focused more on strong man, like a full time I
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  Speaker 11: would say, astroy man.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah. I love the sport.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I you know, I loved this before and
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  Speaker 7: I've been doing it now almost almost twenty years, been
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  Speaker 7: doing the sport, you know, since I joined the sport
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  Speaker 7: strength community, uh, you know, and I feel in love
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  Speaker 7: on you know, in strong man, and I always want
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  Speaker 7: to be a promoter. Last week last year actually was
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  Speaker 7: one of my best actually in my career. I want
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  Speaker 7: to America's strongest Master. Actually I'm still the current America's
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  Speaker 7: strongest Master.
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  Speaker 6: I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want.
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  Speaker 4: Artmold Columbus Sohio.
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  Speaker 7: Last year or two masters, you know, and then I
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  Speaker 7: was actually obviously you were there, Nick, your made judge.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Actually there.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I think I.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: Finished the fifth place at the World Strongest Man Masters,
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: behind obviously you know, the legions himself, JF.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Karen and dimm To seventeen. Oh, so you know it
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: wasn't bad. It was a good year last year.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah that's awesome. Yes, yeah, that was a good year.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: That was a fun contest.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: It really was.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: To judge. I had a good time. I felt bad.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: I felt bad sometimes because but I was consistent with
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: with everybody. I think I made two mistakes the whole
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: out of four hundred and something athletes. I think I
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: probably watched two calls and the rest of it, though,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: was the rest of it. I'm strict but fair.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Yes, no, I think it's very very good.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: You know, I think you did a good job. I
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: mean I have the.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Friends around, you know. Yeah.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: I mean it's not easy to judge four hundred people,
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: you know, No, it's easy to make a mistake.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah it is. But I get to do a little
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: bit this Saturday too, right, Yes, yes.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, you know, yeah, I'm very very happy.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: You know, you know you're the judge decided, because I
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: don't need to have somebody who has experienced this time
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: to do that judge for me.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm glad you're doing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: We'll make we'll make sure everybody knows what the rules
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: are before we're going. It's like, hey, these are the rules,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: and I'm telling you if you don't do these, you
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: getta get it. If your knees aren't locked and your
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: shoulders aren't back, you're not getting it. This this, this
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: is not gonna get a deadlift. This is a deadlift. This.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: So because this, your hips aren't through, so your hips
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: aren't through. And half the time your knees are bent
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: when your hips aren't through, so it's not locked out.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I love that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I'm excited for this Saturday.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. I can't wait. Got a chauffeur. Yes,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you're here.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Jared Pitch is gonna be here as well, you.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Know, I know so, so Jerry will be there too.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: So that's gonna be good. Because so it is. Bubba
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: is coming to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Bobba is coming is computing.
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: I think he's one of the its.
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: It's crazy to say he's fifteen years old, but I
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: think I was watching his training.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I think he is the one to watch the win
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: this show.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's for the teenage division. Yeah, look out,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: you can be nineteen. You ain't going to touch that
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: six fifteen year old. Good luck.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: This time he's competing with Anyway division he's not a teenager.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: He's competing with these guys, this big boy.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Oh jeez, yeah, wow.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Teenage during this competing with open Hivy Witness Division.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, and he might win.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Came on.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: You know, I was looking to his list the other
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: day and then I compare him to the other hassets
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: that I have signed up.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he is definitely, you know, the one
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: to watch this show for sure. There's one another one
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: or two two. Alf Jordan is restrong and there's restronging.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I tell you what, if you get
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: a chance to come out and watch this kid compete
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and do stuff, come do it now. That way, you
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: can walk up to him, get his autograph now, because
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: five years from now, ten years from now, good luck,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: good luck.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And he's a good kid too. Though he can take it,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: he can give it. He's been around it, so he's
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: not an egotistical kid. But when he gets to be
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: where he's gonna end up going, I mean it's gonna
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: be it would be like Eddie walking around or Brian
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Will walking around. You're not gonna be able to go
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: anywhere or do anything. So you do go out a
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: little bit, but you have a tendency to stay a
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: little more.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to be a little more reserved.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Reserve at a little out of the line of sight
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: exactly when you're walking around, if that makes any sense.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But you know, he still has the goal of being
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the youngest world.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's his goal. So I think he can do it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: It looks him, I think exactly.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just getting better better every time.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, it's fifteen years.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Five.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, at fifteen.
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: Over that the present, yeah, fifteen Yeah, it's nuts, it's nuts.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I remember there was a kid here that used to
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: train with me. He's an electrician in the town now.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: His name is Foster Parnell. And at nineteen he was
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: deadlifting seven hundred and a little over seven that's seven
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: twenty five and he did a four hundred pounds log.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: He was two time teenage national strawman champion. So he was.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: He was pretty, he was.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: He was a hell of a town.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Huh from here? Yeah, yeah, he's from here. Yeah, he's
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: from Las Vegas. He just he doesn't compete anymore. He
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: so at nineteen he was having issues with his dad,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and his dad owned electrician company and stuff like that,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and he just his dad would kind of mess with
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: him a little bit and make life kind of hard
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: on him when he didn't need to. And he's just like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I'm tired of it. And he went in the military.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: So he served in the military. He got out. He hope.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: He got his general contracting license for Electrician in his
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: early twenties, and now he has his own general contracting
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: for Electrician. He's he's his own general contractor. So he's
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: doing good. He's doing really really good. Smart kid, smart kid.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: The just kid was strong as a bully.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: But you know, you see people with the talent, and
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: you can have all these people with this unbelievable amounts
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: of talent and they have the ability to reach the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: highest levels with it, but life comes up. They make
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: other decisions. Things are important that you're not as important.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So I mean, it's it's and there's no right, there's
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: no wrong with that either. I mean, it's their life
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: you want to pick.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: But I think, you know, sometimes it's like how bad
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: do you want it?
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: Some people don't want it to really bad, Like it
• 23:34
  Speaker 13: doesn't really matter what you got if you want to want,
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: if you want to win.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Jenny bridget In above a bridging.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this nobody canna stop.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Oh no, you know you love.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know he loves it and he wants it
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: that bad.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Ye they have.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and some people but you know they don't
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: have the strength.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: You know, what's the strength of the strength of mind. Yes,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: it's the strength of mind. And you can see that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: There's there's some very elite athletes that you know, they
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: get up, they get up there, they're world strongest man.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: They'll have one bad event and they're in the take,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Yes they're they're in the take, and there's there's no
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: fight in coming back. There's no focus, having a short
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: term memory and forgetting about having a bad event and
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: then going back after the next one full bore, you know, focus,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: concentrate everything, not just I have to win this one,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: but I have to I have to execute this one.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: And it's you could still see it at the elite level,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: and you see guys do that. You see guys just
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: have a bad contest, fall apart and you're just like,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: what the hell you doing? And then you see him
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: keep it together and they win the whole damn thing.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of neat to need to see that,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, I can do it. It's like, yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: we've been telling you this for a while now, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: goes right back into those habits. So it's kind of
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: like it's just one of those things with the mental
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: toughness and the mental discipline is every bit as much
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: as important as the talent level. And I mean, you
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: get somebody with with a strong mental will and a
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: strong mental discipline, they will and they're really that focused
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: on it, they'll outperform their talent. They'll they'll more than
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: outperform their talent. I've seen quite a few guys that
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: have come up that are just mentally some of the
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: toughest dudes. You Jason Bergman comes to mind just one
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: of the mentally toughest, or Scott Cummings that that that
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: that guy, that that guy. The mental toughness on both
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: of those guys, if if they if they were if
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: those guys were six five and three eighty, no one
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: would have ever beaten them. It would just be impossible.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: With with with the way they attack things, the way
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: they went after things and their mental drive and focus. Yeah, so.
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: People, you know, it's quite easy. You know, like you're
• 26:29
  Speaker 13: giving them all you know, they have a half time
• 26:32
  Speaker 13: with the people. You know, it's like an experience with
• 26:34
  Speaker 13: a train, you know, like sometimes you know, they.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Get tired, they don't show up. You know.
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: That's where discipline kicks in, you know, especially if you
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: have a competition.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well exactly. And the thing is is motivations.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Like a rock that you skip on the pond. Mhm,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you skip it, It'll skip two or three times and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: then it drops and sinks to the bottom. That's allly
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: gonna carry you so far. It's the discipline. It's the
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: mental discipline to go in and get the working. You
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: can have a bad day where you're tired and you're
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: beat up from work and everything else. Go do your training,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: just don't go as heavy, get work in, get things done.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Then by the end of that you're gonna feel good
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: about everything. Your mental state will be even better. And
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: even if you were close in the weights, you're twenty
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: percent off. So what you got the working probably probably,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I would say probably half my career was spent like that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: You know, I'd come into the get off work. I'd
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: worked like eleven hours for the beer company. I move
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: like ten pallets of beer and built like eight ten
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: different displays, and I was just wrecked. When I got
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: to the gym. I would just go in and go, Okay,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: this is what I have today. I'm going to do
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the best I can on my first event. I'm going
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to do the best I can second event, and then
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: each event I'm going to do the best I can
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: at it. But what I have is what I have.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: And then the training in and I ended up being
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: fine anyway, So it all works out.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: But it's the discipline to go in and get it
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: done when you really.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Don't feel like it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna have a question, Nick, what do you think
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: about this? Like I always tell athletes in the gym,
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: like if you train, if you want to be a
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: destroy man, go compete. Have a competition as a goal,
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: you know, to monivate you to get better. What do
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: you think about that?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, you get experience when you compete. You also
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: get to watch what other people do when you compete.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: So the biggest thing you can do, the best thing
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: you can do. If you want to compete in parting,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: straw man anything, and you're at an amateur level in that,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: go compete. But when you're there, be there to have fun,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: be there to learn. Watch what all the other athletes
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: are doing, especially the good one, the ones that you
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: see that just nail an event and you're just like, wow,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: holy cow. Watch them warm up, watch the watch what
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: they do, Watch their feet placements, Watch watch how they
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: set their hands, watch it where they put the bar
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: on their shoulders. Why watch every every inticadita, how they
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: adjust their belt, Watch every little thing that they're doing
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: before they go, so that you can learn and be like, Okay,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: I'm going to try this and if it works, cool.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: You just got to see something just by observing. If
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: it doesn't work, you can probably figure out why it
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: didn't work for you and be like, Okay, well that's
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: not going to work for me, But I can adjust
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: this part of the technique to work for me. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: that's a big deal. That makes you learn from other
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: people's experience. It's a good thing. So and you you
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: go to contest, you watch, you learn, You go to
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: other ones, you watch, you learn, and then you start
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: developing your own stuff, and then you know you'll you'll
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: see stuff. You'll still learn things you get you get
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: to a contest, you have an event that you've never
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: seen four that nobody's ever seen before. And then everybody's
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: got to figure out how to lift it on the fly.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: The best thing to do is to start first lifting it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: It's to wait for five or six or seven other guys.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Try to lift it first and see how they did it,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: see what successful, see what wasn't, and then go over
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and try to play with it a little bit and
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: figure it out, and then go, Okay, I got it,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: and then go to the event when you come. I
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: did that in Africa, the first world's strongest man than
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I did. We had that Africa stone that's made out
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: of steel. Why it's called that Africa stone, I have
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: no idea, but it's a piece of steel. It's shaped
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: like Africa. It was three to five. We had to
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: pick it up off the ground. Nobody could figure out
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: how to pick it up off the ground. And I'm
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: like sitting there and I watched louisgo, and I watched
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Laws Goo, and I watched the Dreamist go, and I'm
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: like sitting there looking at it, and then it just
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: occurred to me. Over under pick it up like a deadlift,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: try to get it up to chest hythe and then
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: push my knees together and drop the Africa part between
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: my legs, wrap my arms around, wrap my arms around,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: lock my fingers and stand up with it and it
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: was locked. I took three steps with it and it
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: just dropped it. And then the second closest person to
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: me in the whole competition was seventeen meters behind. And
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: that's out of all the heats that did it. I
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: beat the best, second best person in the whole show
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: with that one by seventeen meters that day.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: I watch it sometimes, you know, yeah, it's very impressive.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. But that's just by figuring it out
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: on the spot. And you have to have the ability
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: to do that. And you'll see a lot of guys
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: talking about, well, your training should be exactly the same
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: as the contest and it should be this and you
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: should be that. Look, you have to adapt on competition day.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Sometimes the equipment breaks and the guy's got to bring
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: a different piece of equipment. You got to figure that out.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: If you don't have the ability to figure things out
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: on the fly to be really strong because you're training
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: really good, and then to figure it out on the
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: fly and do the best you can on that event,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: you're probably in the wrong sport. You have to have
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: that ability to do that. And it's just the ability
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: to sit and think, how's this going to work for me?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: How can I lift this and do the best I
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: can with it most effectively and efficiently without doing the
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: least amount of damage on my body, you know, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: still having stuff for the events that are after it.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: And that that's what it's got to come down. That's
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: what you have to be able to do on the fly.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: And I've done that, and I've done that in multiple shows.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Or I just look at it. I'm like, how we're
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: going to do this? Okay? You look at it and
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: you figure it out and you're like, all right, I'm
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: going here. We goo like the there's a power stairs
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: in Canada and they're nineteen inches in Warwick. The it's
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the North American now, but back then it was called
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Warwick and it became Arnold and a bunch of other
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: stuff up there. It's it's an amazing show. If you
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: ever get the opportunity to do that show, you got
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: to do that show. It's the great the shows, but
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: it's a brutal show. It's I think it's like ten
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: events in two days.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: If jeff On invites me would do it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, listen, we're throwing it out there.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff your own and those guys that are up there.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: It's not because he's got a great crew up there.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: That's just amazing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: And this year the lineup I think he had they
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: have one of the best lineupper.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: It's not the best line.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah there there's Prince pretty good ones over the years
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: that have been up there. I mean there really has.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: So he's got a great lineup this year. It's gonna
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: be that's gonna be a fun show to watch. I
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: hope they like. But yeah, you go up there and
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: you got stuff that you've never seen before and you're like,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: oh hmm, how am I going to put an Atlas
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: stone on a ring this big? It's six feet tall,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: you know, But you figure it out. The truck pull,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: there's a lot like they do two different versions of
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: it and one one is rope and harnessed and you
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: kind of go uphill. The other one arm over arm
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: and it kind of goes downhill. So you get you
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: know which whichever one you get, and it's it's rough.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: The yolks like super wide. You cannot touch the uprights,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: so you're basically running with the squat bar on your shoulders,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: but for it squat bar on your shoulders. So you
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: gotta figure that one out. And I figured I figured
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: that one out on the fly, and I was like, gone,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I think the next closest person to me was like
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: four or five seconds away. So it but it's it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: it's having the ability to figure it out and play
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: with it a little bit and go, Okay, this is
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: what's gonna work best for me, and then go out
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to execute. And you have to have that ability to Yeah.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: So because we just got down the rabbit hole, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I completely Forgott but.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You know, hey, that's how these go. That's how these go.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: But you know, if if we want to pivot, we
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: actually have a couple of topics that I wanted to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: cover because oh yeah, you know, we just we just
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: had two big events happen. They did the enhanced games
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Breakers and uh Thor did attempt to do uh I
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: think it was five uh five under eleven kg.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and unfortunately, you know he wasn't able to pull
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Well, he was pretty close. I think I think Thor's
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: first two attempts, I don't know, did you see what
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I saw, Ronnie, because his first two, his first two attempts,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: it looked like the bar was in on his shins
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: a little bit more and he pulled straight up. Yeah,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: last that last, the tenth. I think he got just
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: a little hyped and when he pulled it off, the
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: bar wasn't quite at his shin when he went to
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: pull it off the ground and it was out in
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: front of a little bit, and he worked really hard
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: to get that past his knee. It was just out
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: in front a little bit. And with that kind of weight,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: you get stuck in no man's land.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: And that's that's what it didn't perfect.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Yep. I think I think he's gonna get the five eleven,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: five point fifteen. I think that's not a problem. I
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: think he needs to take a little break from it
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: though for a little while.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Kid. That was my point.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: That's what they're gonna say, because so many times this year.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah oh yeah, and then he's talking I've never done
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: so many deadlifts in my life and stuff like that
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: when he's talking about the show, and guys, that takes
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: a toll on you. You hit that, you hit that
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: type of a maximum lift, you need to probably not
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: do a max deadlift from the floor. That's probably more
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: than ninety percent of what you can pull for at
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: least three months, at least three to four months. Yeah,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: and then start working your way back up into you know,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: hitting your max if you have a contest.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's not getting young anymore, so definitely he needs
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: more recovery, especially getting this.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Big weights, and he's not he's not that old. Yeah,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: he's older. You're master's.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, thirty eight, Hi didn't there was five hundre QoS.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: You know, the recovery is completely different than when he was,
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: like he's thirty or you know, you.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I think I to be honest, I think
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: if he moves his training cycle just one more day,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: so if he's whatever rotation that he's on, if he
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: moves it just one more day, arrest in there. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: think it'll be a game changer for him till he's
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: about forty five, and then forty five with his size
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: and his height, you really got to start looking at things,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: whether you know how much longer you want to run this.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: There's not a whole lot of guys that are in
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: their sixties that are six.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Eight and yeah, you transformation now, yeah, how lean is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he right now?
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: You know, I think I think for he knows how
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: to pick really good when it comes to the Denst's
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: absolutely like, you know, he knows really good, how to
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: pick very good.
• 38:31
  Speaker 14: I just think he had a lot of tempts this year.
• 38:33
  Speaker 14: You know, he did like, yeah, this is a but
• 38:35
  Speaker 14: this is the the fourth one, Nick, You know, I
• 38:38
  Speaker 14: think we're not the you know, the the gym just correct.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: So and you gotta, you gotta it should have been
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: six months, you know. They did the last one in May.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: He probably should have came back and did that November.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: You know, I think he probably would have got some
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: good downtime, got some good rest, jumped into a couple
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: of contests here and there, and then peaked for it
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: and probably would have just smoked it.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: He's doing generous life too, I know.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Next month, I know, I know, I know.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then other big event we had, uh you know,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: and you know, you know you guys being at the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: UFC event event center for for the gym. You know,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Connor McGregor at International Fight Week blew his knee out.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I'm saying. And everyone's talking about conspiracies.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone conspiracies everyone.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: You know, Like I've seen clips, videos, trims because I said,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I'm a huge big UFC fan, I followed.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: Day and night.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I am all in.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah and yeah, I'm listening to podcasts all day about
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: you of every event and every conspiracy theory. But I
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: honestly think he walked in there with a pre pre
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: existing injury. Maybe it was that damage. Maybe he wasn't
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: fully hurt, but it might have been a spray and
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: a tweak because he was walking a little gingerly. And
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: also to that look on his face was not the
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: intensity that we've seen from him. He almost had a
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: little worry.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some of that. But I'm gonna say this,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: and I mean this with all my heart. Yeah, this
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: is why we have to ban Ai blain and simple,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: because you can doctor, alter and do so much that
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: you never know what to believe anymore. There is no
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: common truth that's there anymore because well, I saw I
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: saw this, I saw that. So unless you're sitting there
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: looking at it with your eyes in person yourself, you
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: cannot trust anything completely anymore. Yeah, and that's that's kind
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: of like why we should really start thinking about taking
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: a look at not not doing some of this stuff
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: with AI as much because it's it's just ruining the
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: truth on everything everywhere.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it really is.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: So because there's some video of him like being ginger
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: on that leg when he was putting his mouthpiece in
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: before the fight, and but he's but he's in the
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: back warming up books.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Fine, so yeah, and you know, and even with we're
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: just talking injury, he could have had something that was
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: so minor that it just and also to the way
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: he jumped and the way he slipped, and for those
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: who watched the fight, we've had multiple slips during that
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: uh that whole time that something was up with the man,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: even onto like.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: No, I can still see him, but waker right, let's
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: see hello, can you okay? Well, we'll keep going till
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Nick comes back in.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: But Robert Whitaker was rubbing the back of his foot
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: trying to make it moist, so he wasn't slipping during
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: his fight. So I definitely think there was something up
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: with the matt. You know what I'm saying there, There
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: could have definitely been you know, some kind of because
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I said that we had a lot of slippage, a.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Lot of people trip. It was the slip off when
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: he was injured. Yeah, No, the slippage was after his injury.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: But once he had landed, yes, planted in a way
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: where he typically there's a little bit of a.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Slide, and that slide didn't happen.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because like he planted and then it just maybe
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: it was the momentum because he did take a running leap,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: which is typical his typical go to whereas he'll he'll
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: he you know, like we've seen that technique before.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And you know, I definitely think, you know, like he
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: blew his a cl We all know that for sure.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, it's just hopefully he comes
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: back in and hopefully he comes back in and you know, uh,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll find out what's going on.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna have a career after this.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I definitely think you will let him go because after
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: this point he lost, there's no there's no direction for
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: him in that way.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Well, he just put a video that is gonna be back.
• 43:09
  Speaker 13: But you know me, what I think, Ben is uh,
• 43:12
  Speaker 13: I think you know, sometimes when you.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: Get older, I mean it's almost his birthday.
• 43:16
  Speaker 13: Oh yeah, so when he fought the first time, you
• 43:21
  Speaker 13: know Max Halloway, you know, it's exactly the same, you know,
• 43:25
  Speaker 13: when he fought him thirteen years ago.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: But sometimes our mind, you know, stays. You know, you
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: think that you can't do the same.
• 43:32
  Speaker 13: Things that you've been doing twenty years ago, you know, yeah,
• 43:37
  Speaker 13: you know, and then it's started. I don't know why
• 43:40
  Speaker 13: he's I mean, I'm not a fighter and not just
• 43:42
  Speaker 13: like a personal opinion.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: I think you know that because it was so yeah,
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: it was hyping so much.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: And him when he go for it, you know, I
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: many think he has the same movie, the same you know,
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: techniques and stuff.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, sometimes the body just like straw Man by.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: The way you want it, you know, Okay, which is true?
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Which is true? You know what I'm saying. That happens
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: all the time. You know what I'm saying, You just
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: can't recover, You're not growing and you know, and what
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: ends up happening is, you know, your body just doesn't
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: recover the way you said also to you know conorra
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Brigor's had a huge layoff, but was it six years
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: and party doing drugs, everything documented stress, you know what
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, And unfortunately sometimes that's just what happens.
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's it's a big disappointment for the
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: spectators who actually, you know, come all over the world
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: to watch him, to watch his come.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Back, spend a lot of money, you know, to go
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: watch him and have some like that.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: So yeah, all right, you guys.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: There, Oh, we're here, We're here.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Can you hear us? Now?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened, but everything, Uh, I have
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: no idea.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: What Sometimes that happens, Nick, you know, and luckily for us,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: it's at the end of the show, so it's not
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: too bad that that's that's live streaming for you, you
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. We were just talking about the
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: recovery econor McGregor and what's going.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: On with them.
• 45:19
  Speaker 15: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: You know what was the most craziest thing is, and
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I'll just talk about the ending of it is by
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: the time they announced it, that arena was empty.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: It was to the ceiling. And I've never seen that
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: that arena emptied out so fast.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: It was quick.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never ever seen it emptied out that fast,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and it was the most amazing.
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: I was like, where did everybody go?
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, I was watching, I was so because I
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: was so excited to watch.
• 46:20
  Speaker 12: It, you know, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: So I was okay, I was hoping, yep, yep.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Like I said, it was a great card until the
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: main event, and I was like, oh, but I'm a
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: huge Max Holloway fan, and to see him win without
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: taking any damage, I'm like, guess what that that gives
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: an opportunity for him to fight again, because I would
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: like him to get the b MF belt back again.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Max always had a lot of ups and downs and
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: and he's actually lost many positions where he would never
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: get a title fight again.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: But then to see him back in the mix the
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: way he is right now. God, just I love it.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I love it Max allway, just like just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that's it.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, same here, same here.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I sit down and you know it's when he yeah exactly.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: I'm an early pre lim guy too. I'm watching from
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: usually one o'clock to ten o'clock at night.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Oh yeah, No. There's a couple of good cards.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: They're good.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: The Sacramento card because I'm in the Bay area, and uh,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Sacramento is getting ready to have it. I wanted to
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: go to the card to see the RoboCop fight, but
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: uh I look at the tickets and three bucks for
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: touching the ceiling.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that's just a little bit
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: out of my range.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: No, this busman Camadol with.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: My son wanted me to go take him to that
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: when I told him we're not traveling because like, uh,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: in the Sacramento in California, that's when the RoboCop.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Card was happening, and that's what I wanted to go see.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: But like I said, at three hundred feet dollars a ticket,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: I was like, and to touch the seale.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Good, I'm good?
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, oh yeah, Ronnie, Well hey, I
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: wanted to say thank you for joining us and had
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: this great conversation and uh, let people know where to
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: find you and where to.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Where to get in contact with you for straw Man
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: and events.
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my Instagram is a strong bro, big Grannie.
• 49:03
  Speaker 16: You know you can text me any times and always
• 49:05
  Speaker 16: you know people and they yeah, I'm very expensive, you know, competition.
• 49:10
  Speaker 16: I have so many shows you in Vegas, you know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 16: actually last Vegas.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: Strength Olympics Instagram. You yeah, check us out. We have
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: Last Week Strength Games giving up in November seven.
• 49:21
  Speaker 16: You know, and then we have last Wegg's Strength Classic
• 49:24
  Speaker 16: January thirty, and then the program when is.
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: Coming up in May May, so that one, yeah, that'll
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you guys for having me.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: It's fun, you know. I love talking about I love shudding,
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: you know. Yeah, oh yeah, it's it's fun, you know.
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: And I would say any time games, any time. I
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: love this guy.
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean I love strong Man, I love UFC.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: So yeah, thank you so much.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: You're all right, everybody, Well that was that was a
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: great show. Sorry I had technical difficulties for a little bit,
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: but thank you so much Ronnie for everything. And I'll
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: be looking forward to judging the contest on Saturday and
• 50:12
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• 50:16
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• 50:41
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