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WSM 2023 Recap of the Week · The Best Experience

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Your respert, because the best experience. What did they con best? All
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right, this is the best experience. You are post and Nick Best and
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the angry Dad and we just got back, literally just got back. We
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had to recoup, we had to get our wits back, but we were
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at World's Strongest Man. And for everyone that was there, thank you for
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shaking hands, signing autographs and those who recognize me. I appreciate it.
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It was one hell of a week. Um, you know, Nick,
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it's crazy because like I didn't realize how tired we were, and I didn't
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realize like the minimal sleep meant like four hours a night, and it's just
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it flew that week flew by. Yeah, it was a fast week.
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I mean by the time we by the time we landed, and by the
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time we got done with everything. But if you hear some stuff, the
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gardeners here kind of doing things and my dog's going crazy. Apologize. I
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apologize now, um, but it just absolutely was in insane week. I
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mean from the time we land landed, just seeing everybody catching up at Thumb
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going to train. I mean Wayne's gym was the pump house was out of
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control. Oh yeah, it was superna I liked it. Yeah, and
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then I mean both the gyms we were into were just amazing. Oh yeah,
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we went to Next Level and we went to the pump House first in
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Myrtle Beach and then went to Next Level in Myrtle Beach, And you know,
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I was gonna I thought we were going to go back there a second
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day. So I was like, oh, I'm gonna grab because I wanted.
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I liked the shirts that he had, so I was like, I
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wanted to grab them. But you know, if if next time we go
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down there, I'm thinking, sure, I'm want to grab one. Well,
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hopefully the guys the world Strongest Man decided to do that again. I
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mean, the crowds were I mean probably the two days of the finals,
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they're probably between fifteen and twenty thousand people out there. It was never seen
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it like that before. And it was crazy too, and and you know,
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for everyone who's there and those who were actually watching, and you know,
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and for those who are going to see it when it does air,
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people started bringing ladders, you know what I'm saying, Like there were so
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many people there. No, they didn't expect I could you know, you
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can only imagine no one expected that large of a crowd to show up,
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so they weren't prepared for seeing but all of a sudden, you see steps
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tools. Next day you see seven foot ladders. I think we saw one
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person there with a twelve foot ladder, you know what, they can watch
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the competition. It was insane. Yeah, that was pretty crazy. And
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I mean the VIP section was full. They sold that out. I mean
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it was just this was probably the best crowd, hands down, I've ever
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seen in the world. Turnus man, I don't even think it's close,
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and especially the kind of the way it was set up, because in Sacramento,
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when you came in, you had to walk a very long way to
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get to the competition site. This the competition site was right there. The
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people that did have booths, that was all set up. I mean,
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it was all real easy to find see get to. And the crazy thing
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is is we got out there early a couple of times, like six,
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six fifteen. Yeah, every morning there was already people in line. There
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were people lined up against you know, the viewing areas that were blocked off,
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already waiting to watch. And the show was going to start. You
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know, the guys right outside my door, they're they're sitting there in line.
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It six seven o'clock in the morning and that area start until like ten
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or eleven. Yeah. Yeah, so they were picking cheessing because all three
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of the events each day were set up in the same locations and they would
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just go from one location to the next, and that was actually really kind
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of meat the way it was set up. So oh yeah, I definitely
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would. I think the second day of the prelims, they ordered in more
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grandstands and they were moving grandstands around. They were they weren't massive grandstands,
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but there were grandstands, which exactly and then the crowds started turning them around.
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That's the thing. He's right there, but my grands oh there goes
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so sorry everybody technical difficulties, you know, scheduling, no, but I
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mean so it was really neat and you know, you sit up and you
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see the people up, and I mean it just it looked unbelievable for the
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event. It just it was just really special. And then walking around I
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would go out and jump out in the crowd and just walk while everybody was
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waiting and meet people and take pictures and sign autographs and talk with people.
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And they're like we're just gonna you're gonna get to go do season two.
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And I'm like, hey, just keep peppering the heck out of the History
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Channel. Yeah, it's out there, and comment on their social media,
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you know, sending them emails because guess what, if you want a second
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season, you're gonna have to show that them because, like I said,
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guys want to make the second season. But unfortunately, you know what I'm
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saying, so people don't want to see great people do great things. I'm
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fairly sure if it gets back to Eli, the head of the network,
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enough of it, he'll just he'll tell the people underneath him, we're doing
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this really worried about what you think anymore. Yeah, but I mean we've
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all agreed to do it. They've called us a couple different times. You
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guys still interested, and we're like, yeah, but nothing's come of it.
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So yeah, um yeah, we all want to do it really bad.
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So we're just gonna have to see, you know, what happens,
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you know, as far as that goes. But World, that was just
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it was just it was an amazing week. We got really good coverage.
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Um, you know, if it wasn't for the for the guest badges that
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we had, it would have been pretty difficult. It's a really good thing
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because there was so many people there, like I said, and way more
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booths this time. They actually had a couple of food trucks, they had
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a couple of indor selling stuff. Rain was there, you know what I'm
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saying, Rain, you know, And every single day everybody ran out of
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products still, so like everything was selling SPD on the first day, ran
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out of shirts. Yeah, they just sold them all. Yeah. And
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then I want to say so then they were selling the stuff for the staff.
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Yeah, they started selling staff shirts. It's like because they just weren't
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prepared. And the thing too, is like I don't even think on Sunday's
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Qualify, Sunday's Finals, they didn't even open their booth. They were just
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like, we're done. Yeah, they were crazy. They still got an
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extra delivery in and they sold out that fast. So it was pretty neat.
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Um, that was pretty neat to watch. So I have to take
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back into it with Nick here, Okay, now we're back. That's it.
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That's it, and you know it with with the way worlds worked out,
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I just wasn't expecting, like, you know, first of all,
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like a lot of these guys here were just like the effort was to the
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max, because you know, when you when you're a world strong spend get
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you're getting that top ten at the end of the day. But it's just
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like the max effort everybody put in was tremendous to show that they put on
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the athletes were you could see everyone firing on all four cylinders. We're off,
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you know what I'm saying. It's like it was. It was really
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fucking bumping. Well, it's the super Bowl of the sport. It still
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is right now. So I mean, people, that's that's you're there for
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a reason. You're there to try to win the title. I mean,
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I don't think there's a guy that goes that. I don't think they have
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a shot at winning um or they have goals and making the top five or
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whatever. I mean, the guys as your rookies coming in, you know,
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you're you're trying to make the finals, and after you make the finals,
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you're trying to make the top five, and then after that you're trying
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to win the whole thing. I mean, it's kind of the natural progression
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to it. But I mean some of the some of the things there.
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It was Brian Shaw's last show, which is one of the main reasons why
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I went, because I've known Brian since what two thousand and six, and
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you know, he's a good dear friend of mine. We're on the show
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together. Spent just a ton of time with him, Love him to death.
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He's one of the few people in the world I actually still have a
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lot of respect for because most of the heroes and stuff like that are people
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you look up to, which you gotta look up to Brian because he's six
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eight. But I mean, I mean, just people that I have respect
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for have found ways to lose that respect and he hasn't. And that's that's
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pretty neat. I mean, so people like him are really uncommon. Him,
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Mark Felix, and it was Mark's last show too. It was it
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was neat to watch Mark go out, you know, and get to say
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goodbye and everything else like that. So it was a pretty special one.
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It's definitely an end of an era, that's for sure. So I'm just
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kind of it's neat to see the intergeneration come in and actually start dominating.
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I mean, it could Brian keep going on and keep making the finals and
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keep going yeah, but I mean he almost lost his leg getting ready for
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this, and that's what those are some things that people don't take into account,
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you know, thirteen weeks ago they were deciding whether or not they're going
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to take his leg. That's that's kind of a scary thing when you have
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that batter them infection. So m for him to come out there and just
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do what he did was amazing. But I mean a couple of little mistakes
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to slip on the fingle finger, which he would have won that event.
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He was, he was ahead of time, he would have won that event.
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That bumps him way up the shield. His legs kind of knotted up,
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and he dropped it a little earlier, and he should have. Um
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he gets another linked out of that, which I know he can. He'll
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that changes the points again and changes the whole outlook on things. UM me
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personally, the stone offf I would ever to see a five stone stone off
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with the third place guy going first. He does five stones over those bars
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that are like that as fast as he can, and then the other guy
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goes and goes as fast as he can. I'm fairly sure they think it's
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more exciting on TV to watch two guys battle to the death. But the
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problem is you give such an unnatural, unfair advantage to the top five that
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make it through winning the heat in the previous event that it's just it's not
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right. It's really not right. And none of the guys that were in
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the stone offloaded all five stones, well except for Tom, but I mean
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that doesn't count. Tom's a stone freak, and I mean he's the guy's
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loaded a six sixty stone. I mean, come on, but everyone else.
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I mean, Evan got in a stone off, he wanted a stone
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off, he didn't loved the last stone. Brian was in the stone Off,
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he didn't load the last stone. I mean for Evan, it costs
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him third place. So I mean it's it's a big deal, and it's
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it really just takes everything out of the guys when they do that. And
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if he does, if Brian doesn't do eleven Atlas stones in the stone Off
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and only does five, does he pull an extra up on the deadlift,
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Yeah, I think he would, But it was still amazing he pulled seven.
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I mean, so I don't think he underperformed. I think it's just
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amazing that he was there in the first place, and it was a really
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neat place for him to finish off his career. It's not the results any
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of us wanted. I wanted to see his win his fifth one. I'm
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sure everybody else did, but what Hooper did watching him, I mean,
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it's just amazing. He's he is the next generation coming in. That's just
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a once in a lifetime athlete. I mean, I can't seem to find
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a weakness on the guy. I mean, I don't think there's anything he's
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not in the top three at. And he might not necessarily win every single
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event, but you don't need to. You just need to place the highest
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and have the biggest point total at the end to win, and he is
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consistently doing that. I think he was the fourth or maybe the fifth,
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but I think he's the fourth guy to win World Strongest Man and the Arnold
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in the same year. You know, Brian was the first guy to do
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it, so Jern this was a second. I know Hopdor did it as
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well. I'm not sure about Martins, but I know Hopdor did it,
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so he's either the fourth or the fifth. Martin's might have done it as
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well. Mike, I'm not braining well today. Yeah, but Hooper,
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like um, like say, seeing him from last year and then seeing the
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progression, because like one of the things that you guys always tell me is
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like it's the overtraining and the overdoing year rookie season, and you know it,
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Hooper has been hitting every pretty much every every event, Giants Lives,
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all these strong Man events and placing pretty freaking high and almost every single one,
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just winning the Arnold and then coming right into strong Man World's Strongest Man
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with that momentum, It's it's crazy to see because like last year he you
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know, he hurt himself during the stone off because he's never touched a stone
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in his life, and then to him loading all five stones this year,
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and yeah, and making it look like it's nothing. You know what I'm
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saying, Because like Mitchell Hooper has a different body structure than what the majority
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of strong men look like. So it's it's sometimes it's like it's a it's
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a little crazy just to watch it happen. And I think he knows how
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to suffer and do things that are uncomfortable that other people just don't want to,
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don't want to deal with. I mean, the guy was a marathon
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runner but three four years ago. So when you're a marathon runner, you
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really have to not like yourself to keep running twenty six miles and to be
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especially to be good at it, and then I mean, and then technically
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learning things and angles and stuff like that guy was a really good golfer too,
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So I mean I used to think Magnus, for Magnus was probably the
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smartest of all the strong men on how to figure out events and how to
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do well at him. And I think Hooper's right there on figuring stuff out
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because the learning curve that he's shown this year is just extremely amazing. I
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mean, I just he learns how to do something and he becomes you know,
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top three, top four in the world at it immediately. This is
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the first time he did fingers and everybody watched. He was using a wood
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log wod log concoction thing that he made and broke it um to figure out
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how to try to do fingo fingers and he finished all the fingers, you
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know. So it's just amazing the package that he brings. It's gonna be
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tough for guys to you know, get in on that. He's always going
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to be up there in the top three, top four all the time on
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every single event. There's not going to be a weak event, you know.
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And that's the thing too, that doesn't matter what show he goes to
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either. Yeah, you know, it's not like he went to the Arnold,
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did the Arnold and then had great events of the Arnold and turn around
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at Worlds. I mean the events weren't similar. Yeah, they weren't at
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all. It was all completely separate events. And that's the thing too,
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is like, um, you know, there was a big talk on the
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last qualifier because Mitchell won every single heat he was in. And here's the
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thing, Like when it came down to the kettle bell toss, he didn't
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finish that last one, but you know, he didn't have to even throw
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one because he was already in the finals. But the thing is is it
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was like there was talk all week or like Willie tried to do this because
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if he does it, he'll be the first ever to win every single heat
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that he was in, you know, because it's every single event in the
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heat. Yeah, to win the heat. Yeah, so nobody's nobody's done
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that. Yeah you've had You've got guys win every heat they've been in.
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Yeah, you haven't had guys win every of the event. That's and that's
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what I was talking about, Like, yeah, he almost did that,
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m which I'm like, dude, you only got to throw one. He's
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like oh, and you're like, okay, like yourself out. But he
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also claimed the three forty two and got it to his shoulder in familiarization.
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Um, when he's going to the finals. I mean, that's just amazing
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and still and still was still brought. It still was fresh. And I
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think probably the most interesting and fun thing I saw him do was that shield
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carry. I mean he came around that Tom made that last turn and was
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looking at him thinking there's no way he's going to carry it any further.
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Yeah, exactly, and it was already coming down and he was just like,
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I got it locked in. It's not I can hold it like this
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a long time. And he was grab walking that thing. He just kept
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moving and Tom's like, oh, this should be good, and he drops
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the traps the shield Yeah, and it has to sit there and watch him
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keep going and touch the line to come back, and then he's almost going
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sideways at the end, so he makes sure he's past Tom's spot and then
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just drops it and you're just like, yeah, that's that's a guy who's
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just willing to go that extra, that extra bit to to win. Um
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and Schoolwinkle did fall with School. I want to say it's school, but
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his name's Jocko. I just want to make sure that you know if I'm
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pronouncing it wrong. Scowinkle scoolwinkle. You know, I'm very apologetic, but
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man, that the head of a talent too. I can't wait to see
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him next year because god damn might be that was like another one of those
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dark horses where it's like, who the hell is this guy? First time
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here? And he was killing it. Yeah, he won the heat.
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He won Bryan's heats, so yeah, that's pretty serious. You beat Brandon
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anything much less win the heat, You're you're doing pretty good. In the
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last two years he had, you know, two rickies come in out of
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nowhere and turned out to be pretty darn good. So exactly. And I
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actually happened my first leg of flight with him too. You know, I
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didn't get a chance of would get a full conversation with with Jocko it.
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I did see him on there and I congratulated him on his first worlds were
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doing as well as he did. Yeah, and now he's a World Strongest
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Man finalist no matter what. And that's the thing kind of people don't get
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because you could get banged up in the qualifying heats. You got to be
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out of your mind if you qualify for the finals and you get hurt not
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to go out and do the first event, whether you're able to lift it,
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whether or not, because history records, you're a World's Strongest Man finalist
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and you get tenth place. Yeah, if you don't go do that,
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you're not a finalist. So just kind of like if you show up at
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World's Strongest Man and you're a little bit injured, but you're in, you
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do it because if you do the first event and you do the best you
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can and get through it, because you're a World's Strongest Man competitor at that
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point whatever, nobody could ever take that away from you. There is now
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a guy who's still not a World's Strongest Man competitor because he got hurt.
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He got hurt and didn't want to keep going in or he was complaining he
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was hurt. So um, I was just like dude, So now this
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was his second time trying to get in, and it's it's at some point
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you you got to get into that show to be a World Strongest Man competitor.
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If not, you're just a strong man. Exactly exactly. Big difference,
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big difference, you know, and you know, and the one thing
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to us I wanted to talk about the crowd response and also too is like,
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you know, you know, being with Nick and watching Nick and helping
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Nick and just being there, you see the appreciation that every these fans have
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because and Nick takes the time to everybody. You have to take pictures,
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sign off graphs, shake hands, and even crushed a couple of hands.
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You know what I'm saying. I think they were trying to crush mine.
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Now. I was like, but the twentieth thirtieth one, You're like,
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come on, man, it's hitting great concept. I got some very firm
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hand takes. Let's just say that that's it. And then I had one
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kid like really try to squeeze it. And then I just kind of tightened
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up my grip and I'm like, okay, go go get it to me.
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He's like he gave me all he had. I'm like, okay,
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we're good now, and he's like no, you go like no, So
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but that was good. Yeah, it was good. And thanks to Peaches
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uh famous Peaches Diner, because man, they saved us every single day.
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We were able to were able to go there. The waitress got to know
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us really well and serving as burgers and fries and you know, and a
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hot dog and a hot dog, and you know, I will say they
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exploited in the quarter. Yeah, went on the plan, but yeah they
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expedited. They expedited our food a little faster than everybody else. So I
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can that was very appreciate, very appreciated that. Yeah, that place was
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pretty special. M Yes it was. And Myrtle Beach is beautiful. I
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had the sand is beautiful, the weather is beautiful. We had one day
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at rain, but it was just off and on. So we definitely did
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enjoy our time, which was fun because then you know, it's you have
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a little bit of different weather, that's it. And even as a competitor,
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though it's not blazing hot. That was another one of the amazing things
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about being at Myrtle Beach. Even when the sun was out and it was
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bright sunny at this time of the year, it's perfect, I mean literally
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the perfect weather to compete in because even when it's hot, it's not hot.
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You know, it's you know, maybe eighty degrees maybe you know,
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eighty five degrees at most, so it's not bad. It's not like it's
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one hundred and ten and you know you're you're getting crispy quite right. Yeah,
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it wasn't sacramental last year, you know, Yeah, but that was
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blazing. Yeah, so it was. It was an unbelievable experience. And
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then like the tent that the athletes got to be in, far and away
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the best tent I've ever seen out of all of them. When they turned
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the coolers on, it was cool. When they turn them off, it
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got you know, comfortable. There was plenty of room. All the couches
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were great. There's I mean, there was tons of room for the athletes
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and their families are people that they brought in, you know, and then
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other guys that came in that just need to get get out and get away.
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It was it was pretty neat. Jijimufu and uh Flex Lewis as well,
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they were both of those guys were just so much fun to hang out
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with and talk to and you know, just kind of see what's going on
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and catch up at them. And that's it. And you actually did a
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Q and A with Big Z, which you know, it did. It
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did extremely well. Everyone everyone loved. Everyone had a good solid question ask
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you guys. You know, it makes a very a very emotional man,
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and you know he likes to wear that hard on his sleeve and you know
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what I'm saying, people appreciate. Yeah, So it was pretty neat The
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Q and a Z was was a lot of fun. I mean, we
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get up there and just talk and I made a reference to the one we
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did the year before about star berry milkshakes because there was a question I had
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when I competed with with him in a Team World competition where it was USA
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versus the World, and we never saw any of the guys the seal him
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or andres out like eating, and then we'd see Ze come in and order
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three strawberry milkshakes and some food and then go back to his room and we're
25:22
like, I'm like, what are the strawberry milkshakes for? And he's like
25:25
they taste quid. You know, He's just like okay. So I just
25:30
had to ask him that question. And so this year he was talking about
25:33
things eating. I go and strawberry milkshake. Strawberry milkshake, that's it.
25:38
So it was it was pretty cool. It's fun. I really liked doing
25:44
stuff like that. Was he Oh, yeah, and and you know,
25:47
like I said, this is my second year which you go into world and
25:49
man it it's both times have been a great experience, really eye opening for
25:53
me. And it's like, you know, we we need to make sure
25:56
that next year when when when they announced where strong world Strongest Man is gonna
26:02
be next year, we need to make sure that World Strongest Man out there
26:04
knows that they need to get Nick out there and to make sure that they
26:08
you know, like like I said, you're you're you're doing a lot of
26:11
crowd work. You're doing you know, you're you're you're shaking hands, sign
26:14
an autographs and you're doing the things that you know a lot of the athletes
26:18
right now can't do because they have to focus in on the competition. Athletes
26:22
there as they're crossing and getting to their tent and going, every one of
26:26
them will take that picture. Every one of them will sign your autograph.
26:29
Everybody they they they all do take the time. But the thing is is
26:32
they have to be one hundred percent focus on what they're doing and having you
26:36
there to to like smoothe the class the crowd where it's like Nix out there
26:41
signing an autographs, Nix. You know, if they can get competitors like
26:42
yourself to just do there and to do that, it would take a lot
26:47
of pressure off a lot of the athletes there because they're like, okay,
26:51
you know exactly, you know, former competitors, those who aren't competing to
26:57
be in there and to do this, and because like I said, you
27:00
can see the value in what you were doing there, and the crowd appreciated,
27:03
Like we had so many comments, We had so many people. You
27:06
took so many pictures as I was as we were recording them and doing this
27:11
work. Like you know, I told people, it's like, mentioned this
27:15
in your comments. You see if you have the picture or you're in this
27:18
video, mentioned yourself because guess what we want to know that you were there
27:22
and that and then everyone great expert. Thanks Nick, genuine Nick. Nick's
27:26
the best. You know what I'm saying, like, thank you for taking
27:29
the time, because that's what you did. You really gave you know,
27:32
you give that personal touch in and it's because you have an appreciation for what
27:36
the sport is and what the sport is giving has given to you. Oh
27:38
yeah, I love the sport. I'll love it till the day I die.
27:44
Nothing's going to change about that. Is it perfect? No? Could
27:47
it be better? But it's still the sport I love, and I mean
27:52
there's not much in this world that's absolutely perfect anyway. So all you can
27:56
do is try to keep getting better at what you do, and worlds keeps
28:00
getting a little better every year. And does everything go right all the time.
28:04
No, But it's it's still a human event. I mean, you
28:10
know, could they start using laser timers on some of the some of the
28:15
moving events, Yeah, especially when you have six to eight guys finish within
28:22
one second of each other on a six of a second. Yeah, well,
28:26
um so, because it's really hard to determine this. Ye. So,
28:33
but it's okay. I mean the people that shine through still shine through
28:38
and and got what they got. It's just it's it would be neat to
28:45
take that little factor out of it, you know. And then uh yeah,
28:52
the facility was great though, um didn't have a whole lot of problems
28:56
with the things with the events and stuff like that. So it was it
29:03
was fun. I mean, it was it was good to watch. I
29:06
wish I was out there doing it. So it didn't do anything to stop
29:14
the bringing desire didn't work. Actually, yeah, right now you can't mention
29:18
it's like, oh, I'd need to be out there. And I was
29:22
like, well, I was like, I'm just like, well, let's
29:25
get through this power they met and see where my body's at and then we'll
29:27
go down and see how you feel. So how you're not going to say
29:30
never again. But I technically kind of retired last year. So but that's
29:37
when I had the kidney issue and know what, well, things were a
29:41
little unseen uncleared, you know, honestly at that moment in time. But
29:45
now things are starting to clear up a little bit and they're heading in a
29:48
positive direction. So yeah, I'm learning how my body's reacting to this and
29:53
adjusting the training. Yeah, adjusting the training and how how are things functioning?
29:59
So and you did get an opportunity to talk about one of the best
30:03
nutritionists in there. Nathan Peyton's just absolutely amazing. I mean, it's funny
30:11
how you do things that are instinctionally you're right, like I find it out,
30:15
you know, my James, my training partners like, dude, you're
30:18
conjugate and I'm like, I don't even know what that is. You know,
30:22
in the training, in the way I rotate things around. I came
30:23
to it all on my own and now, like a lot of the way
30:29
I eat and the things that I do before I go out and train or
30:32
compete and stuff like that were things that Nathan Peyton does with his guys,
30:37
and I was like, oh, well, but he he had the clinical
30:42
explanation of how it works and why it works, and it's it's always good
30:47
to keep learning and learning new things and adjustments to it. That's the big
30:52
one. It's like learning from him. I learned how to tweak a couple
30:56
of things, and it's gonna it's already like before I go to bed,
31:02
you know, no sweets after dinner. I mean, it's just dinner.
31:04
That's it. There's no sweets after dinner, no desserts, and that's I
31:10
know. But I'm already sitting better. I'm already sleeping better. That's it.
31:15
And it's like okay, And then when to drive your glucose level up
31:19
before you go compete, before you go do an event, stuff like that
31:22
is just and the timing on that, because I would watch him tell the
31:27
other coaches or the athletes that he was helping when to you know, load
31:33
the extra just glucose in and then go out and do that. And I'm
31:37
like, oh cool that. You know, you notice the time frame,
31:40
you watch what he's doing, and you learn from what they're doing. And
31:44
people don't do that anymore. They don't just sit there and watch and learn
31:48
and see what the top at the top at the top are actually doing in
31:52
practice, not what they say, what they actually do. And that's where
31:56
you're going to learn a lot of stuff. That's why it's so important to
32:00
go to competitions, and you know, each level you go up, go
32:05
there, compete, but watch what's going around around you your first year or
32:08
two years in so that you can pick up a little bits and pieces from
32:13
everybody and then mesh that into yours and then go perform. You know,
32:16
it makes a big difference to three years down the line. And it definitely
32:22
you know, like I said, and I can see that bug echinia where
32:24
it's like I need to get back out there. But the thing is is
32:28
you got this power lifting meat, and let let's let's actually talk about like
32:30
a little bit of the strategy of what you're doing to get into this meat
32:35
coming up. Okay, Well, you know the sensitive subject is the deadlift
32:44
because like I said, we all know you've got a squat like ain't oh
32:46
tomorrow. But it's uh, it's it's the work you're giving yourself because like
32:51
I said, you're you're literally rehabbing yourself to get that the lift back up.
32:54
Yeah, and it takes a lot of discipline and it takes a lot
32:59
of self restraint. Do I feel like I can go in and start pulling
33:02
heavy? Yes? Is that the smartest thing to do right now? No,
33:07
I don't have till September, So I got a pretty good long way
33:10
away right now. So basically, squat wise, I did seven fifty five
33:17
at the Pump House. At the Pump House, thanks Wayne for spotting on
33:21
the other sides, I appreciate you. Welcome asking who he was, and
33:27
it was really helpful and it made me feel very safe and I came right
33:30
up with it. I mean it was not that hard. Yeah, ridiculously
33:34
solid. So I know I'm going to squat back into the eights in September.
33:38
It's not going to be an issue. I'll probably cycle my training up
33:42
two times. I'll probably I don't know if I want to go to seven
33:46
seventy five next week or the following week and then probably come back down a
33:52
little bit and then start coming up to where I hit eight hundred and then
33:53
come back down and then the last peaking cycle win come in and try to
33:59
hit around eight forty, with my final attempt being somewhere between eight forty three
34:05
and eight fifty nine in September on the squad. That's kind of where I'm
34:10
thinking. And you always give and take a little bit. I mean,
34:14
you've got to change your expectations and your goals as your training and take what
34:16
your body gives you. And sometimes it's going to give it to you,
34:20
and sometimes it's not as it does. You readjust that and bring it down
34:23
and you just get the most you can get on that given day bench.
34:30
I want to come in, I'd like to do five or seven on a
34:32
second and then go somewhere between five eighteen and five thirty four. I'd really
34:37
like to get to the five thirty four. I think I can do it.
34:40
My triceps are both starting to fire pretty good now and it's actually feeling
34:46
good. I'm getting in a rhythm, I can brace. I'm starting to
34:50
be able to brace without fear of my abdomen, which if you're watching the
34:54
videos over the previous weeks. You know, I've always had my training partners
35:00
like right on the bar when I get to my top set, because if
35:04
I'm pushing and something doesn't feel right, I'm just gonna have him grab it
35:07
immediately. I don't even want the bar to go down, It's just take
35:10
it off and right away, you know. So that's kind of why that's
35:15
been going on. But this week it it went real smooth, really real,
35:19
real, real solid, and it's starting to not hurt when I when
35:24
I brace yea Deadliftwise, my goal is to pull five hundred for twenty before
35:32
I go and start pulling heavy singles. At that point, I know,
35:37
if I can pull five hundred for twenty with probably a six week peeking cycle,
35:42
I should be able to pull into the low eights without too much of
35:45
a problem. So this week I did four fifty five for twenty. You
35:51
know, I want to hit four seventy five for twenty on Friday, and
35:53
this is Tuesday morning, which this will probably up Tuesday night. Sorry,
35:58
then that's all right, I get into I know, but poor pull four
36:05
seventy five for twenty this week and then two weeks after that pull five hundred
36:09
for twenty and if I do that, then I'll start, you know,
36:13
starting at six hundred. I'll jump up the six hundred and pull one maybe
36:20
two three, just see what I'm comfortable with, and just slowly start ratcheting
36:23
that up to where I get to the sevens and low sevens and mid sevens
36:29
and then high sevens and then eights and then back it down. I'd like
36:32
to try to do that a couple times before September, but the goal is
36:38
is to kind of pull eight ten in September on my second attempt, leaving
36:45
me with room to pull wherever I kind of want to pull on my third.
36:50
But if I squat what I want to squat and I bench what I
36:52
want to want to bench, eight ten will give me the number that I
36:57
want as far as a total, and then over that it will be kind
37:00
of going after the world record and the dead lift again, because the record
37:04
right now is eight fifteen. So but Andy Bolton's getting ready to go and
37:09
I think may um, and he's going to try to break it. I
37:14
mean he's using a suit and he's doing a single lift meat, which is
37:19
okay, yeah, perfectly, perfectly fine. Um, but I'm gonna do
37:24
it raw, do it old school, and then shortly after that we'll see
37:30
what happens. I might throw a suit on after that and you know,
37:34
do a single lift meat too, so we'll see. Yeah, and well,
37:37
you know, and like I said, that's how goos. But with
37:42
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