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with that being said, you know Nick is finally back and uh, you
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know, back into the swing of things because you know, jet lags,
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a real thing, recovers the real thing, you know what I'm saying,
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Hey, a plane. Things happen with planes, you know. And so
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he is back after a little bit of a break. Yeah. I think
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flying on a global scale now is just destroyed as what we knew, what
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was acceptable and what is going on now. I think it's just destroyed.
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I mean there's no there's no room for missing planes and doing stuff that they'll
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make you late, and I mean, yeah, they'll put you up and
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they'll take care of you, but there is no stress or worry by them
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about inconveniencing your time on their issues, which is kind of crazy. But
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yeah, no, No, got stuck five hours going in because they were
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late leaving, and then got stuck on the way out for a whole extra
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day in London because they left forty five minutes late and I had fifteen minutes
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to get from one terminal to another terminal and through customs hit London. That
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did not happen, so I had an extra day on the way home.
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But I mean, FIFA was unreal, I mean absolutely unreal that that hotel
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is the absolute, I don't know, the best place on earth for a
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strongmand period. I mean, the stuff's built into the hotel. Um.
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Oh, so so that's that's okay, because I thought it was just an
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event, and I kept seeing people post a hotel, so it's an event,
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and well, so the stuff's kind of built into the hotel. If
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you stay there and you want to go use it, I'm sure that's not
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an issue, um, which is really freaking cool because I mean, it's
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all all the equipments just left right where it is all the time, so
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that Hercules hole sitting right there in that view of the lake and everything else
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as you're up on top of it, which I mean, it's it's just
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breathtaking, even the view from up there much less what it looks like um
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on footage behind you, and it's it's amazing. And then you know the
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the truckful area with the the arm straws and logs out there, which I
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might do next year. It's I'm gonna start doing heavier yokes. If I
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can get up to fifteen hundred on a yoke between now and next year,
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which is very possible, I'm probably gonna take a run at that. UM,
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that's gonna be really cool. I'm super excited about that. Now I
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know what a Hercules hold is. Finally I got to do an official one
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in Well, I wasn't in competition, but apparently I beat everybody. You
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know what I'm saying, He all of a sudden set the record. Well
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I didn't set the record officially, Felix has the record, but I will
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go after that next year. Now, that I know. I mean,
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the balance wasn't that big of an issue. I just kind of grabbed it,
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held it and just waited till I heard the number where it was further
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and like let it go. So that I'm really excited for. You know,
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James Rude went out there, one of my training partners. He won
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the stone lifting competition. He actually lifted the two hundred and three pound granite
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stone um and loaded it, which nobody's done before, world record, world
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record. It's it's crazy because that thing is it's carved, got a grant,
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so it's really rough. It'll tear you up, and then it's hard
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to get a grip on even with Tachi, but Techie doesn't grip like it
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would on a smooth stone running close. So it's it's a really interesting,
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challenging set of stones. And um uh there's another James uh lifted that one
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hundred and eighty two kilo stone for a disabled guy, you know, with
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the with the with his strap. That was pretty amazing to watch. And
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he tried the big one and I think he'll get the big one if it
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makes some adjustments with the strap, so that that'll be interesting next year.
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Um watching the disabled guys go after the power stairs. The way they did
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was simply amazing. Every event they went after it was just amazing because there's
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no their will. Their their indomitable will to enjoy to do what they love
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to do and keep doing it anyway, regardless of what life's thrown at them
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is absolutely amazing. It says a lot about the human spirit. So,
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I mean that was fun. And then the Highland game stuff was really cool.
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You know, Francis Bredner was out there and just watching these guys get
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after it rain and that's the crazy thing. We had a couple of days
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where it rained and it got a little cool, and we had a couple
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of days where it was bright sunny and got a little warm. So you
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went from like down into the low low fifties, maybe even forties, all
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the way up into like the mid seventies, which I will say is kind
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of like culture shock when I got back here one hundred and fifty. Yeah,
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just a little bit of a shock, yeah, but I mean it
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was absolutely amazing. And going down to the lake and going swim at the
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lake, and then I got to spend the whole week with with Ed Cohen
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and Hagar was just what more could you want? I mean, Eddie's down
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there. We're working on my technique. He's working on my mobility, and
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it's just like even I need a coach, and it's it's really cool when
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the goat comes up and he's just like, hey, send me this stuff
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and do this, and then yes, sir, that's it. We could
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say no, so yeah, and it's pretty neat. And he adjusted a
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couple of things in my squat, and he adjusted a couple of things on
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my dead left, so that'll be pretty cool, and then gave me a
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lot of stuff for mobility work. And it is not fun and it is
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not comfortable and it does not feel good and I'll put up a collage of
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that later, but it works and that's all that matters. And I'd rather
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be uncomfortable for a little while and then be able to move better and get
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down into my squat easier and get up out of my squat easier than to
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than than just not be his mobile. So that's cool. But it's not
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like pushing hypermobility. It's pushing the mobility to get to the movement, and
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that's it. So it's pretty pretty pretty neat when he's sitting up and they're
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calling your depth and telling you to do stuff. It's pretty amazing experience.
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And I know already we're both going back next year. We did three seminars.
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We talked, um, we answered questions that will and you know,
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anybody's question about anything, we we answered it. Some of them we might
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have shot off a camera or two, but um, but it was it
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was still really neat. It was an unbelievable experience. Um. You know,
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just so many knowledgeable people that were there. It's just it's just utterly
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amazing. Kicking an eagle do a phenomenal job putting that thing on. I
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can't thank them enough. I cannot wait till next year. So if you
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want to see this thing, book it now because it's not. Yeah.
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They literally just today, Yeah they literally I was just check scrolling through Instagram
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this morning. They just posted the infull for it today and man literally a
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year in advance to get in that. That's uh that let you know how
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popular is place is well. And then they have a guy there that does
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tattoos but he doesn't buy hand nice the little the needle and yeah, yeah
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he doesn't buy hand and he doesn't old Nordic style, so he does.
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If I go with you next year, I'm definitely gonna get me one of
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those. Uh yeah, that could be happening. So it's pretty cool.
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I mean just all the way around. It's it's a very special special place.
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And if you like the Highland Games or stone lifting or strong man,
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you gotta go to the fee for power Week. I mean, it's it
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is the The whole hotel is Meadheads all of us. It's everybody who lifts
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and trains and does stuff. They all get together. They had the Viking
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Games. There's a dance hall there as well, and they do Viking games.
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So they wrap ropes around your neck and get you leaning in different directions
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and tell you to pull um. There are four guys that grab the ropes
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and try to head the corners grabbing the sticks. Then there's the I forgot
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what they call it, but it's basically a pillow fight on a treasure chest
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that happens to be an ottoman. You have to keep your hand on the
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ottoman and you get to have a pillow in your hand like a pillow,
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and you got to ask somebody pole like, then do you want to get
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a slapped and you're like and you have to answer yes, and then you're
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like, are you sure. As soon as you say yes, we can
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swing and people like say yes and they duck down, but they can't see
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you're wearing a blindfold. So it is funnier and had to watch. I
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mean, it really is, and it's it's fun to do, and it
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was kind of neat. Then Odhagan was there and they had grip contest and
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arm arm lifting stuff like that, which somehow I ended up in after I'm
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not really sure about that, but it was fun. I mean still,
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it's the first time I ever did the other the other events in those and
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I've dead in the role we found it before, but I haven't done it
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probably twenty years, almost nineteen years since probably three. So yeah, but
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it was it was just a lot of fun. It truly was a lot
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of fun and you got to experience it. And the food up there,
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I don't even want to I don't even know where to begin with the food
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because Norway is not like the United States. We don't put additives in our
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food there they don't. I mean, what you get for food is the
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food. And man, about day two, you feel completely different than the
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way you do here. I mean, it's that's crazy. Yeah, it's
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it's it's it says a lot about our FDA and how it definitely does.
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You know. It was the one thing I did notice is um everyone,
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you know, because a lot of I was following you as closely as I
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could through uh you know, stories and posts and stuff like that, and
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you know, you were there judging, you were there calling yea, and
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everybody just was talking about you just being at the event. How great it
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was to just have one of the best sit there and judge, call and
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be fair and also to make pointers because that's a lot of the times that
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you're a lot of times like when a lot of people were saying it's like
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when Nick Best tells you how to adjust you listen. Thanks, No,
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it was it was really cool because I mean, we're doing it. I
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want to see the guy sit the lifts and you know, if you're lifting
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up, I'm not going to just sit there and make your hold and put
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your head through without telling you to put your head through. And we were
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like, put your head through, Okay, that's a warning. Put your
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head through. It's another warning. Next one, head's not through no left
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you know, it's stuff like that. But I'll tell you to put your
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head through or lock your knees, or you know, your elbows aren't quite
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right that, you know, stuff like that. I'll tell them more they're
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doing it. I want to assue him be successful. Yeah. That's the
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thing that annoys me about just judges in strongman and in powerlifting for that matter,
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is nobody can give you any feedback as you're going. You just got
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to do the lift, and they don't say anything. It's just like,
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how hard is it to tell somebody needs knees knees in the deadlift that they
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got some you don't know it, and somebody says knees, you got to
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lock your knees and then you get the lift. Yeah, it's what's wrong
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with that? You know what I'm saying. You just work twelve weeks or
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longer or all year to do that, and because you can't see the feedback,
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you know, it's I just you know, and if he still can't
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lock a knees, then well you can't. You didn't get exactly exactly well,
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I mean other than that. Yeah, So it's it was absolutely an
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amazing experience. I can't wait to go back. And then I mean it's
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an old it was built in like eighteen sixty by the for the King of
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Norway, and I was I guess I stayed in the Prince's room, which
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is pretty freaking cool day. The view from my room was pretty cool,
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little balcony and stuff. But I mean it's at the ski resort, so
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they're skiing there during the winter and then they do a strong man contest or
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in the winter too. They do the World's Strongest Viking there in January.
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February is you know every year as well, where they'll pull a boat and
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still do you know the Hercules hole and some of the other stuff that's out
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there and the stones and the power stairs, but they'll also pull a boat
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instead of pulling a vehicle, which is pretty neat. Um. Yeah,
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but you can climb up a mountain as well, so you get up to
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the top of the ski lift, and then you got a whole nother half
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a half a mountain to climb to get to the top. But that one's
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climb. It's a lot more climbing. You're you're in through the rocky areas
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and you're going up. But man, you get up there and you can
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see three sixty all the way around you, damn. And the two highest
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mountain peaks in Norway you can see from there. Yeah, and you still
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see the snow on the mountains and just everything else. And it's just it's
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just breathtaking. It's beautiful. Uh. Alex had a drone and he was
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flying out around up there, and the video from that drone was like unreal.
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So it's just, man, if you're gonna go to Norway, that's
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the place to go. That's it, truly is it's And then then there's
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the Feaea. They call it the FIFA fifteen, but I don't know.
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I'll call it the FEFA five because I gained five because the food is so
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clean and you just but I came back I feeling pretty darn good. That's
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good. Yeah, all right, let's uh, let's shift things here.
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Uh. You know, while you were gone, there was actually quite a
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bit of events happening. Chad's Um Chad Chadky had his show going on the
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same time as Fever. Yeah, yeah, exactly, you know what I'm
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saying, So like, um, just the pictures and videos looked real good.
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So I was like, oh, man Chad's went off without a hitch
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and I'm glad it went. It was as successful as it was. Yeah,
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George Minky and uh, I'll be yeah, that's it. And h
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and with the winners of those, uh, I believe they got their membership
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paid for Pro Strongman League. Oh cool, So I believe that's correct.
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And then uh and then also to um we had a big win or there
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and um, what was the name of the hall? It was the most
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there we go. You know what I'm saying, even pulled it out man.
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He yeah, he won and Evans Evan's gonna be tough to do with
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him. The next year he got fifth at World Strongest Man yea, and
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took to me he got he should have got some my personal opinion, I
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love Evan. I think he should have got probably third. Um, but
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I think there was a glitch on Attackie and I think it costs him.
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Yeah. Um, but now it's neither here nor there, because you know
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he just won that and he'll be back next year, so that'll be good
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to watch. Um. Yeah, Tom came on strong as well, and
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then uh Mitchell Mitchell also did very well. Mitchell is in a good spot
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and then yeah, kind of lost it on the stones a little bit,
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but you know, stuff like that happens. It's a long experience. Yeah,
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it's yeah, you know, like this is literally his second year round.
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You know what I'm saying, even though he won the World's Strongest Man.
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You know what I'm saying, second year round, there's gonna be there's
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gonna be things that happen. Well, he'll he'll learn to come with like
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five or six different jars attackie. Yeah. You know, even even if
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it's not hot, you still bring the hot You bring all your all your
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brand, all your blends. You go from where you can do here when
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it's one hundred and fifteen and stuff you can do when it's one hundred.
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It's a stuff you can do. And it's you know, ninety eighty seventy,
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you know, and below seventy you probably only need one. And it's
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yeah, it's either going to be the low grade of the number one or
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two on service or the regular of the spider tacky. Yeah, and then
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elite tackie is going to be the stuff you use in the hotter weather.
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It's hands down, there's nothing that comes close to elite in hot weather,
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not exactly exactly. And that's the thing too, is like when you come
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to stay with me and then well we've gone places, your pack is huge,
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you know what I'm saying. You bring everything and everything but the kitchen
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sink. Well, you got to be ready for everything. I bring cleats
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with me because I mean with you know, you never know when you're gonna
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be on grass. And two three, a half a second advantage on grass
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is a half a second advantage that you didn't have. You have to maximize
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every event for everything, especially when you're in a professional level. And the
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girls will start figuring this out pretty soon too, because I'll watch a lot
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of the women's competitions and you have the ones that want to be the dominant
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women and they do stuff and they come in and when they have the event
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one and you used to have got more events to go shut it down.
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There there's no one unless you're getting paid extra to break a world record,
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which the last time I check, they're not break the world record again.
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Later, keep keep rebreaking that record, don't keep pushing it out in the
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middle of nowhere. That's what so Drunas was unbelieved was the master at He
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just kept breaking a record, breaking, a record breaking, breaking the record,
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breaking the record. He broke the log record probably like twenty times,
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you know, And it's smart because every time he breaks the record, he
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gets paid too, so exactly, you know, stuff like that, so
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women will stop, will eventually get to the point where they'll stop trying to
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just destroy and just go. All you have to do is win in your
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number one. Yeah, just's win the whole thing. You don't have to
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win dominating every event. You just have to. If you win the event,
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you don't need to go again to reassert your domination. If you've wanted
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on the first throw, you can pass the next though. If you've thrown
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it out there and nobody's even close to your first throw, just walk up,
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touch the stone, walk to the back and chill last and if nope,
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because you're last, now you are. Your stone's the farthest, so
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you're got just the thurn weight. Wait wait, if nobody beats it,
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go out and touch it again. You want walk off, save the energy
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for the next event, because when there's paychecks that get attached to these things,
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going on and wasting your energy when you don't need to isn't smart.
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The goal is to take them is to win and take home the check to
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show your dominant and then oops strategy. Yeah, they gotta, they gotta
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start thinking like that. So it's just stuff like that. This is just
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something I'm off on a tangent on it that I noticed while people were competing.
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But yeah, but Royal Robert Hall was really freaking cool. That was
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pretty neat, and trade did really well. Terry broke the world record in
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the Viking lot. Yeah. So, and happy belated birthday by the way,
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Terry, Yeah, happy birthday. I love you too. Yeah,
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big, that's it. Uh, even if you do eat burritos slower,
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you know what I'm saying, I'll probably get away with that one time.
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One time. Next time I'll be sitting there. Yeah. But that thing,
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he didn't seem wrecked after eating that. I was wrecked. Oh yeah,
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I was ready for like the next two days after that. Yeah.
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Yeah, that was a lot of food to put in your body. Oh
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it was nuts. Sorry, I'll put the video in the link for those
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who want to watch it. There you go. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
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Hell yeah. And then also to speak in a tray tray was just
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in an event and took first. Yeah, he uh, he was in
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the It's it's Warwick is what I call it, but I can't pronounce it.
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It's in French. But it was what the Arnold was. And now
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it's back to Warwick and Jeff Corone's running it and it is an amazing stroman
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contest. It's a two day show and it is brutal and he just won
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that. So congratulations again. Yeah, that is not an easy feat.
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Yeah, it was crazy, you know what I'm saying. It's just funny
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because like he Trey was just in the Giants Live, went straight down there.
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Yeah, back to Canada and then put in another event and got and
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got the W. So it's it's always good to have those things because you
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know, like a lot of these guys, you know, you got to
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put yourself in a position for World Strong's Man coming up again. Yeah yeah,
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I think, well, yeah, I think Trade's gonna be fine with
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that. I think a lot of the guys are, you know, in
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that top ten, are pretty well already qualified and a lot of stuff already
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from what I seen, So smart wise, not work on weaknesses, get
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strong, work on your offseason stuff. I mean, go to a few
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things here and there, if you need the money. But other than that,
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it's it's get some work in and get some good training in and get
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some growth in and uh that we can come back and lay the wood.
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That's it and then uh, you know, and seeing where the land is
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starting to lay, like the Shaw Classic coming up that like said, I
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would put this almost on par with the World's Strongest Man into the fact that
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No, he just announced he bought. He he got with Paul Ole,
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and Paul Ole and him worked out a thing where they're going to use the
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strongest man on planet or strongest man on Earth. Yeah, so when you
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win this, you will be titled the strongest man on Earth. There it
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is. So that's that's pretty cool because sport Tismus had that copyrighted and stuff,
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and yes, I remember them seeing something like that. Yeah, in
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that tradition. He talked to Paul Ole stuff like that. It's so he's
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got that and now you will be titled the strongest man on Earth after winning
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the Shot Classic. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, what
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more do you need to say after that? Exactly exactly. Yeah, it's
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in the sane. Yeah, So it's like said it just you know,
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seeing Brian, you know, set this, set this event, have the
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shot classic ready to go, and then just pushing it even harder. You
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know what I'm saying. It's like. And then he's having an expo this
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year, so that's gonna be pretty cool. He's having a bunch of us
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talk so that's gonna be really cool. A lot of seminars. Yeah,
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Ed Cohen's having a seminar. I'm talking for an hour. So it's if
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you guys can deal with that exactly. So it's gonna be pretty cool.
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I mean, it really is. Um, and it's coming up quick.
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Mm hm, it's coming up very quick. August is coming up fast.
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So but yeah, that's uh, it's I'm excited for this, I really
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plus this brand's last show, his last competition. Um, it's just gonna
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be it's gonna be an emotional day. It's gonna be emotional time. Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm just excited to be there for him and watch him go
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out the way he wants to go out and do his last show. Yeah,
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I'm gonna be a little sad that day. In my opinion, it's
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the greatest ever. So um, it's it's just it's gonna be hard watching
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him hanging up. Well, you know, like I said, it's just
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one of those things. You know, he he's maximized this this sport as
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much as possible. And with that that what he's done for the sport and
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what he's been doing for the sport, and when he continues to do sport,
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it will live on forever. So that's one of the things that I
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mean, his drive to be great, his drive for excellence, his drive.
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You know, it's you can already see. This is his fourth year
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in and putting on his own contest and he's gotta he's filling an arena.
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He's which you know, World's is doing an arena this year too, so
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m hmmm, uh. You know, he's pushing the bar, he's making
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the stand or better all the way across the board. So this is gonna
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You're coming in probably to the best time to be a competitive strongman probably in
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history, because there's gonna be more opportunity and more things there for everybody competing
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than there ever was before. I mean, I just hope the guy's coming
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up learn understand that and respect it, and understand that it's not that hard
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to go back down to the parking lots and all the other stuff. So
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definitely take care of it, protect it, Be good to the fans,
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be good to people. Don't get an attitude, don't become a diva stuff
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like that. Always be as you know you want to. You're gonna win,
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You're gonna win, you're gonna do stuff. You want to. Be
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humble till it's time not to be humble, you know, and that's when
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you're competing. And you know, I hope everybody appreciates, you know,
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all the work of the guys that went before him. That's it and those
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wise words from a wise man. Yeah, so Nick, let him know
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how this goes, and then we'll get on out of here. All right.
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