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Recap of Shaw Classic 2024: Insights from the Strongest Man on Earth · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 3: All right, this is the best experience that you guys
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  Speaker 3: were tuning in. Fresh back from the Shah Strongest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been back about a day and a half.
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  Speaker 3: long week?
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, but it was great. I mean, what more
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  Speaker 1: could you want? And to go, you know, hang out,
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  Speaker 1: do commentary, do a little bit of judging and just
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  Speaker 1: see an amazing event like the Shot Classic and the
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  Speaker 1: Strongest Man on Earth. I mean, it's always great when
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  Speaker 1: you get to hang out with all the guys and
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  Speaker 1: you get to see him four came back, Mitchell was
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  Speaker 1: on a terror. I mean, it's just it's just a
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  Speaker 1: great week. I was a little spent when I got
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  Speaker 1: back because between commentating, yelling and screaming for everybody and
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  Speaker 1: everything else, I was a little exhausted. But it was good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I can only imagine how Brian's feeling right
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  Speaker 1: now because that oh yeah stop for probably the last
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  Speaker 1: five months and.
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  Speaker 3: That he was yeah, oh yeah, and to think like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like he was competing and doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was, And I think the competing probably took
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  Speaker 1: just enough off when he was doing that to where
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  Speaker 1: he didn't completely like exhaust himself and stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: because he had training. Now this was his sole focus
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  Speaker 1: and then he literally put everything that he is and
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  Speaker 1: into this contest. He wants it to be perfect. He
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  Speaker 1: wants he wants to move the sport forward in such
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  Speaker 1: a way where he wants to make it better for
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  Speaker 1: every single athlete, male and female in the sport, and
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  Speaker 1: it's extremely important to him and the drive he has
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  Speaker 1: and the perfection that he wants and expects and helps
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  Speaker 1: with is it's it's pretty noticeable because it's heads above
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  Speaker 1: everything else going out there right now, and just from
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  Speaker 1: the way he treats the athletes when they come in,
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  Speaker 1: to the way the show goes off, to everything, the
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  Speaker 1: way you have what you need available to warm up with,
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  Speaker 1: there's ice pass back there, there's there's any kind of
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  Speaker 1: medical that you would need back there. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty impressive just all the way around how
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  Speaker 1: he runs the thing. And I mean you get there
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  Speaker 1: and you start seeing the performances. It's just like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, you know, from from the deadlift on. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was it was on for the strongest men
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  Speaker 1: on Earth. It was a great contest. It was good
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  Speaker 1: to see Thor back. It was good to see him
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  Speaker 1: pull like nine to ninety one on his second attempt
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  Speaker 1: and then just sit and watch. And there were a
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  Speaker 1: couple of guys that were capable of going over one
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  Speaker 1: thousand that day, but just they didn't have it and
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  Speaker 1: or had it and didn't need it. So he went
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  Speaker 1: out and was like, hey, you know, he missed over
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  Speaker 1: a thousand, so I'm good. I don't I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to have won the event. My goal is to win this,
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  Speaker 1: not just win the event. So that's Boor's looking good
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  Speaker 1: and he's looking really strong. I mean, his overhead comes
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  Speaker 1: back and he's going to be He's he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a handful for anyone out there. And Hooper's probably
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  Speaker 1: the most cerebral of all the strong men. He will
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  Speaker 1: look at every single event and figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to do it to the best of his possible ability.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll read through the rules. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you this right now. If you don't read through the
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  Speaker 1: rules as a competitor yourself, you're making a critical mistake
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  Speaker 1: in a critical error and read through and understand him.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not spending at least an hour going through
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  Speaker 1: the rules and going through intricately and asking questions at
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  Speaker 1: the rules meeting. Because these guys got the rules I
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  Speaker 1: think four weeks out. Yeah, so you know it's it
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  Speaker 1: should be. You should know what's going on. There were
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  Speaker 1: guys who made mistakes that were in the rules that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't need to make. So it's a big deal
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  Speaker 1: all the way around. And if your coach, if you
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  Speaker 1: have a coach with you and your coach hasn't intricately
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  Speaker 1: gone through the rules as well, that's a problem. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you see guys out there doing stuff and it's like, nope,
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  Speaker 1: those are the rules, and they're trying to argue like
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  Speaker 1: it's right here, it's written down. You know, I can't
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  Speaker 1: do that, so you know, And there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of big things like on the deadlift, you know, guys
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  Speaker 1: were warn hey, your hands are opening up the deadlift.
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  Speaker 1: They got rid of the figure eights, yeah, I remember,
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  Speaker 1: which is awesome because a lot of the guys were
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  Speaker 1: putting the bar down on their fingertips. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: guys were putting the bar down on their finger tips
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  Speaker 1: and they were kind of learning how to kind of
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  Speaker 1: like abuse it. And he didn't want that with the
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  Speaker 1: wrist straps either, so he limited the link so that
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't wrap around the back side of your hand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and wrap it around, creating the same thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: you need to pull the straps in.
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  Speaker 3: You got straps.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't keep your hand all the way on
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  Speaker 1: the bar with straps on, that's you trying to get
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  Speaker 1: a little extra Yeah, yeah, save it half an inch,
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  Speaker 1: which in most cases is fine. But it was strictly
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  Speaker 1: against the rules and the shot classics, so you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. So if your hand opened up and you
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  Speaker 1: could see you know air, you know, light in there,
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  Speaker 1: or the thumb wasn't all the way around the bar,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't get the lift, even if you stood up
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  Speaker 1: with it. And that happened a couple of times, and
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  Speaker 1: it was tragic, But it's the rules, so obey the rules.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty neat. The squad apparatus was absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe guys didn't ask more questions of the
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  Speaker 1: people that tested it, because you can't set up on
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  Speaker 1: that thing. Your hips need to be underneath you at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom because if they're not underneath it, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: so if your butt is back like a regular squad,
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  Speaker 1: when you get to the bottom and you try to
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  Speaker 1: drive that forwards, the weight is going to go at
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  Speaker 1: an angle. It's going to go this way instead of
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  Speaker 1: this way. And that's what was happening to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys when they got down to the bottom. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to practice for that. So anybody
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  Speaker 1: who didn't go find a vertical smith machine to at
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  Speaker 1: least train that on kind of also made some critical
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  Speaker 1: mistakes in it. I they're round, you can find them
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  Speaker 1: in gyms. I mean, even it's a standard and you're
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  Speaker 1: competing for over one hundred grand, So go find the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Go find the implements for real, even if you got
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  Speaker 1: to drive an hour, you practice on it twice or
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  Speaker 1: three times during your training cycle. At least know it's
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  Speaker 1: going to feel like you're going to know, put your
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  Speaker 1: feet way more forward. Yeah, you know, and it turns
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  Speaker 1: it almost into a hat squat for all intensive.
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  Speaker 3: Purposes, which I agree, that's the truth, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And guys that asked me, I told them I leaned
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  Speaker 1: back with my shoulders back into it. Once I got
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  Speaker 1: it up, I pushed back and then have my feet
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  Speaker 1: forwards and when I hit the bottom, my my hips
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  Speaker 1: were directly underneath me. I just popped straight back up.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, for for depth wise, they really didn't
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  Speaker 1: try to bury the guys. You know, they just try
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  Speaker 1: to make sure they were real close to parallel. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see reps with eight hundred pounds. Well they
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  Speaker 1: ended up being eight hundred and eleven. So it was good,
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  Speaker 1: but guys made critical errors on where to set their
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  Speaker 1: feet on that and it costs a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this it's just part of what you do.
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  Speaker 1: I like the event. I think it's a great event.
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  Speaker 1: I think next year they're probably not only going to
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  Speaker 1: have the knee and they'll probably start with the hip
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  Speaker 1: this time instead of the knee angle. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that'll take take care of some of the other issues
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  Speaker 1: that people had with the event. And then yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: that's a great event. Though. I mean it looked good
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  Speaker 1: when it was going up and down those barrels up there.
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  Speaker 1: It looks badass. I love that event. So yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: the thing is is you're trying to evolve, you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to bring back the spectacle of the sport. So it
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  Speaker 1: looks cool, you know, and the car, the leg press
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  Speaker 1: for the car looks absolutely amazing. First year, the rough
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  Speaker 1: second year was freaking flawless. That's it, And I think
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  Speaker 1: you can see an improvement on the guys if he
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  Speaker 1: decides to put that in there next year. I think
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  Speaker 1: you'll see a big difference in what happens with that
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  Speaker 1: event next year, as far as guys getting reps and
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  Speaker 1: doing what they're supposed to do with it. So they
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  Speaker 1: learned it now they'll come back. The guys that listen
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  Speaker 1: to move their feet forwards and actually ask me questions
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  Speaker 1: about it all hit reps. So that was that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's it. That's it. On the expo side,
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  Speaker 3: how much larger, because I know they said they had
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  Speaker 3: opened up two wings of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so there's a front hall on a back hall.
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  Speaker 1: They opened both halls. I would like to say I
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  Speaker 1: made it to the back hall, but I didn't. I
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  Speaker 1: got to the evolution booth and the Shield six one
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  Speaker 1: six booth, and then I ran over and said hi
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  Speaker 1: to Juju and then got out of there. It was neat.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to walk around more, but I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't get the opportunity. And then when I did
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  Speaker 1: get in there, I just couldn't get very far, which
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  Speaker 1: is great. I love it. I wouldn't trade that for
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'll sit there and you know, meet people
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  Speaker 1: and sign my graphs and take pictures with people and
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  Speaker 1: talk to people all day long. I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love it. And so, but only made to two
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  Speaker 1: boosts and then I had to go back in and
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  Speaker 1: head over to the head over the Strongest Man on
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  Speaker 1: Earth to see the start of that show and help
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  Speaker 1: where it needed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, we all saw you on that
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  Speaker 3: on that on your story, we all saw you driving
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  Speaker 3: to the sweeping scooter around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thats amazing. That was a lot of fun. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of neat. It's like driving a little go cart,
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  Speaker 1: but you're cleaning at the same time, so it was
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty fun. That was a good time. And then
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  Speaker 1: the best part though the story got up there with
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  Speaker 1: the sun and he got and drove it around right
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  Speaker 1: after that, driving him around, So it's pretty cool. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: it's neat.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, that that's one of those things too.
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  Speaker 3: That's always great because it's like I said, these shows,
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  Speaker 3: you know, unfortunately I wasn't I couldn't be there, But
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  Speaker 3: like I said, everything looked great from the side. I
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  Speaker 3: definitely had a lot of fun just watching reels, shorts.
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  Speaker 3: The pay per view, the you know, like just go
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  Speaker 3: and the access to it. You know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: is just a lot better and a lot easier than
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  Speaker 3: than previous years too.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, here's the other thing. Even to support the
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  Speaker 1: guys and keep supporting the guys, you can go buy it.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't buy the pay per view, you can
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  Speaker 1: still go buy it and then you can watch it
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  Speaker 1: free for the whole next year. So if you want
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  Speaker 1: to see what they're doing, learn techniques and watch and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's it's something you can go get
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  Speaker 1: and still watch free the whole rest of the year
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  Speaker 1: for free once you buy it. So it's it's worth
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  Speaker 1: and it just shows more support and almost all that
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  Speaker 1: money goes back to the athletes. That really does. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so Brian will never put a cap on the prize money,
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  Speaker 1: and that's.
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  Speaker 3: A big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So if you support the sport and you want to
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  Speaker 1: support these guys, Brian's not going to put a cap
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  Speaker 1: on the prize money. Brian will just the more they buy,
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  Speaker 1: the more he raises. The prize money gets him more
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  Speaker 1: money to do a better job for the.
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  Speaker 3: Sport exactly, and then the next year, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a beautiful thing. And I can't think Brian
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  Speaker 1: and Carey enough for having be and my friends and
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  Speaker 1: then still having me be a part of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely just cherish it.
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  Speaker 3: So doing strong Man is that's your life, That's that's
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  Speaker 3: what you are, that's who you are. And it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've you've given so much to the sport,
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  Speaker 3: but you also give back to the sport. And then
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  Speaker 3: that's the best part because like I said, your time
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  Speaker 3: is well spent when you're when when you're with the
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  Speaker 3: fans and people like saying, you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times I'm dragging you away where I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta go, you know what I'm saying. So like
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, but I just want the fans
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  Speaker 3: to know, Hey, that's my job, that's what I do.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, like Nick, he's got stuff to do,
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  Speaker 3: but man, he's sure. He's very, very very generous, which
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  Speaker 3: you're with his time, So just understand that I'm not
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  Speaker 3: trying to be mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay, yeah there, but there are so many other
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  Speaker 1: things that that show. Look, if you're a professional strong
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  Speaker 1: man and there's stones in your event, even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't need the other blends of tack he try to bring.
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  Speaker 1: Like for me personally, I use Cerberuss because they have
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  Speaker 1: like four different grades I think five, but four different grades. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I get one through four on those, and then
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  Speaker 1: I also get the elite tacking from Dave Ouslin. And
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  Speaker 1: Dave will actually make stuff. He'll make a blend and
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  Speaker 1: he'll make a cooler one and a hotter one for
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  Speaker 1: you to take with you to kind of match the
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  Speaker 1: weather in the humidity humidity of the area that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to. Yeah, so I always bring a combination. I
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  Speaker 1: used to bring like six or seven. Brian would bring
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  Speaker 1: six or seven of them.
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  Speaker 3: Well one year a heatical. Grab the bag and it's
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  Speaker 3: like a gallon zip bag filled to the brim.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of a whole bunch of different taxis. That way,
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  Speaker 1: as you're warming up, if you try something it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: feel very good, you know, grab something else and then
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  Speaker 1: you go put your hands on the stones, especially when
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  Speaker 1: they're new, before you go do them. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 1: while they're setting them up out on the floor. I
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  Speaker 1: would always go out and mess with them and check
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  Speaker 1: it out and see, you know, and you know, get
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  Speaker 1: a little fresh tacky on them. Yeah, you know that way,
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  Speaker 1: and then where you put your hands. And if you
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  Speaker 1: walk up and some guy before you just went and
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  Speaker 1: he was coated in it when he walked out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all that tack he's going to be on
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  Speaker 1: the stones, So go up, rotate the thing, put your
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  Speaker 1: hands where they're going to go, roll it up again,
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  Speaker 1: and put your hands ready to go over the top
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  Speaker 1: and then push it back into place. That way you
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  Speaker 1: get your thin layer of fresh TACKI that's on it.
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  Speaker 1: And you might not necessarily need to tack your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you're in a race and you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to have time to tack him, it's already there. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You can tack him a little bit more if you
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  Speaker 1: need to and you got time, but or your backs
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  Speaker 1: you need to take a second for your back. You
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  Speaker 1: can retacky. But you see a lot of critical errors
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  Speaker 1: I mean by some very elite people at this when
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  Speaker 1: it came to tacky and walking out and preparing the
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  Speaker 1: stones before you go and stuff like that, and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was it was interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, if your coach doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would say, if your coach doesn't doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sure you do this, get another coach. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, if your coach doesn't have you donating
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  Speaker 1: blood about six weeks before the contest, get another coach.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. You know that that
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  Speaker 1: helps with Sometimes some of the guys get nosebleeds, or
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  Speaker 1: the air will be real thin and it'll prevent all that,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. Yeah, you're you're up at elevation, and
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  Speaker 1: depending on the time, because it can be dry in Colorado,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: it could be very humity Colorados. It goes back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: So but it helps prepare you to go when you're
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. I mean, there's a lot of little
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  Speaker 1: things that I see some coaches that are making a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: lot of money that they're not. They might know how
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: some of it works, but they have no idea how
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to compete, and then they try to argue with you,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: which I thought was quite funny. I've done the Arnold,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: so I've done these stones out there ye when it
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: was in contests, you know, so I got a pretty
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: good idea of what I'm doing is that I've also
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: done it World Strongest Man like ten times, and I
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: competed in the Arnold twice and it was an alternate once, so.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, little experience behind you.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's it's it's good to see people
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: working hard. It's better to see them prepared and ready
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to go and the experience will pay off.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which that's you know, it's all comes with time,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you know, Like I say, the Shaw Strongest Man on
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Earth and it like you even got a for the
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: amateurs and for the open they had a YouTube stream too,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: you know what.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, which was free on the Strongest Man on
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Earth's YouTube page. Yeah, so I know, the first day
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: got like ninety four thousand the last time I checked views,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and then it was like over each day they got
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: over fifty thousand views, which is phenomenal for them, which
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is which is awesome. It was neat that he did
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that because last year he charged for it. This year
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: was free.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: So and then The Strongest Man on Earth you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: had the pay per views, So yeah, he's really doing
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: everything he can to push this forwards and get it
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: out to as many people as they can. So it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it's going to be good for the sport long term.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: It really is. And thank you Brian for the sacrifice
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and the hard work that you and carry put into this.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: It's it really, it really is helping the sport just overall.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and hopefully next year I can definitely come
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: because like this is, you know, and something for me
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: always seems to pop up and I can't show up
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: to anybody, you know, and just get the people into
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: an expense. I had a heart attack, but I'm ok,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So you know, we've got
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: but I'm standing back.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Yeh yeh, that's it you Yeah, the blood clots and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: stuff that you get, it's just bullshit.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, you know, we don't want to go
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: too far into that weeds because that's the stuff that
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: gets just taken down.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: We're just going to thank the laboratory in China for that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So let's let's switch gears to Mitchell Hooper. Man,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: what a video drop yesterday.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was pretty awesome. It's neat seeing how
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: motivated he is and how much. He does love the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: sport and then love the influence and the way he
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: can reach people through the sport.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean he's.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Generally Yeah, he's generally a good guy and he really is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: What you get is what you get. Now. He's hyper intelligent,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: so you have to understand that. But I mean, it's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's so he he comes from He's not coming from
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a place to trying to be cocky. He's coming from
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a place where he's pretty smart. And he he says
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: things you know that a lot of times like get misunderstood.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which he hung out dinner, you know, talking with them.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: It's just so like there's mentioned Yeah, I mentioned things
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: to him and he's like really, and I'm like that
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: He's mentally probably the strongest in the game, right hands down.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: What he can push himself through, how he can attack things,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: how he analyzes every event and finds any way possible.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Because like Brian and Magnus ver were probably two of
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the best that would pick up part events I mean
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: watching you know, I know Magnus was you know, known
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: for that, but I didn't get to be there while
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: he was pulling it apart in person. Yeah, but getting
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to sit there and be there in person when Brian's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: pulling it apart and asking every question under the sun,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Which is why it's so good at setting up events
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: because usually there's not a whole lot of holes you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: can slip through when Brian comes up rules for a contest.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But he's probably the best right now at pulling events
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: apart and figuring out how to get every single ounce
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: out of it and get every point out of every
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: single event. Very rarely does he do bad in an event,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and he almost never does bad at an event two years.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: In a row, ever, Yeah, exactly.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: So he learns, comes back, fixes, adjusts, and conquers and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that's why he's winning. How he's winning, I mean one
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: of the many reasons, you know, between talent, desire, intelligence,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: just all the way through. He's and i mean, yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he's probably one of the most physical gifted athletes I've
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: ever seen.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, you know, And like said, he's won
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: all four titles, he set a world record, you know
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, He's accomplishing the things that he set
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: out to be because you know, he's went from sport
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: to sport sport, and like, how good can I be?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Can I eat the best at what I am doing here?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: And like he in that video, you know, chronologically lead
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: it out like this is what I did. And then
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden I was there and you know
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: that that First Worlds he did. We were sitting right
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: next to him as he was eating dinner and he like,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: and I just remember too listening to him talking about
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: his training numbers, and I was like, who the fuck
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: is this guy? You know what I'm saying, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: And it was just like like and he was just
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: casually saying these things, and I'm like, man, and like
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I said, just eating his dinner, having a good time,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: joking around, playing, and I just was like, this kid's
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: got something, you know what I'm saying. That first year,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I could feel it off of them.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's gonna be some other guys. There's some
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: guys coming up now, Like Lucas Houghton got third. Oh yeah,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: he had amazing, Yeah, and he had an amazing performance,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing and pulled it out the end. There was
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like nearly a three way tie for third place. Yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: going into that last event, that's it, you know, And
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: he gutted it out going up those power stairs. I'm
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: sitting there yelling at him. I'm like, go one more stair,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: go get it all the way on, you know, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: he comes up. He gets it up there. He thought
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: he was really close on time, and it's like, no,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you had a good time.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I think he finished in like one on two or
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: something nice. So he joke.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well six hundred pounds kind of power stairs, it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: pretty heavy.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So but he gutted it out, he got it up there.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: He did those things, which super impressive, and he secured
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: third place, you know, and that's no joke. When you
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: got Metchell Hooper and popped their abdorance and.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yeah, you following two of the greats
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: right there, former strongest man, you know he and he
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: just got his strongest America's strongest man. And like I
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: said that, and I think Lucas he was. He had
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: mentioned on Instagram that like he could have done worlds
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: or he was like in line to it, but he
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: was like, I'm not ready yet. I'm not going into
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: a competition that I'm not prepared for. And he's a
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: young man. So guess what, you know that that's a
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: thought process too, because like even talking with Lucas, that's
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: just another one of those guys that like cerebral smart
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: talking about it, you know, very very thorough on what
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: his plans are to do. So I definitely tip my
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: hat to Lucas on that third because that was tremendous
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: to be standing up there with the greats like that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It's Yea and Austin had a good contest, yep. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: think Tom had a couple critical errors. One on the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: squad and the Stones. I mean, you could have laid
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: money probably in Vegas at ninety to one hundred to one,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: maybe even a thousand to one that he wouldn't zero
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the stones, and he zeroed the stone. But some of
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: that tacky, trying too long, not going out with tacky
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: all over your arms. Yeah, but that's okay, I mean
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it's he'll learn from that. That will never happen again.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So uh but nobody would expect that, you know. And
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the squad, his butt was way back when he hit
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the bottom, and if you can't get that leverage underneath it,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: yeah it's not gonna matter. His feet were too far back.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: So those things will get fixed, and you know, he'll
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: be fine, but it was. It was. It was a
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: tough contest. So Evan had a good show. Trey did unbelievable.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Trey got fourth. He's one of the and that's what
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that's what nobody seemed to got. He tore his achilles
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: less than a year ago. Less than a year ago.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's looking leaner and meaner every time I
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: see him.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And so again with Trey, it's a grip
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: thing that that arm over arm and Wilburrow cost him
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: some points, you know, and if he can ever get
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that grip figured out, it's on because they'll be him.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: He won't there's nothing he's gonna lose points in. Yeah,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: so that'll be significant. That'll cut make it harder for
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: him to to win the whole thing.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: When there's sometimes when there's contests that are this rough,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: in this well rounded, they will have one bad event.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: The problem is is there's about three or four guys
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: now that don't have bad events. They might not win
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the event, but they'll be in the top five in
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that event, and that's kind of hard to come back from.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: When you get one where you're like fifteenth or sixteenth,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: then so uh, Trey ever gets his grip figured out.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: It's it's he's already a time to deal with.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I mean overhead pressing.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the big thicket and I love it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: We got to get a whole evolution. We need to
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: make some more of his shirts or barbar yeah, Barbell
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: we need we need some more shirts who he sold out?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, all in all amazing context and it's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: always fun. I got to spend a lot of time
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: with that Cohen again, So that's that's always.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: That's always.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It's always fun.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: My friend's so fun. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: It's hilarious because she's probably the only person I've seen
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: hard time. Yeah, like, and Hega is just like an
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: amazing shape too, I mean climbing up the mountains and
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: stuff and with her stuff like that. It's just there's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: so much fun to be with. Just good people, that's it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Love them to death.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Well that's the one thing about strong Man. It's a
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: very it's a very tight knit community and they're very
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: accepting of everyone who joins in because, like I said,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: if you're there to have a good time, you're there
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: to have fun and you're not there to bullshit, you
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: know what. I'm saying everybody accepts you and that's the
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: best part.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it's it's really neat to see like
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the judges that were there, like Mark Phillippi. Mark Phillippy
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: put on the first strung Man contest I went to that.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Dylan was like, Dad, you're strong. You should do this.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: It's really cool, you know. Back in two thousand and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: four he put that on and I was like, yeah,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: this is a good idea. That kind of sparked me
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: getting into it. And then Chad Coy that was the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: third contest I went to in Indiana.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I love you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, two days older.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Than me, that's it. But he gives you the hardest time.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Oh he does, which is great, and I give it
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: right back though, Oh yeah, that you do. But you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I went to Chad's contest and I got second place
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: by a point, and he's just like, you need to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: go do vance contest in a month and just go
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: get more experiences because you're gonna be good at this.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And a month later, I to Van's contest and I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: win and get my pro card. So and then so
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Van's a judge, Chad's judge, Mark's a judge. So all
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the guys that were there at the start of my
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: career and helped me through things. I got equipment from then.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I still got the Williams Strength log and the Red
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Atlas stone that Van gave me because I didn't have
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a log or stone to train with it first. So
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a and a frame and a pretty
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: neat community and it's it's great when you develop lifelong
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: friends like this.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Helly, it really is. Hell yeah yeah, Well, you know,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: it was a great weekend. It was a great time.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Still recovering, you know, it's a lot of standing, a
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: lot of walking. But before we get out of here, Nick,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: let the people know what you always say.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll get into that in one second. Okay, I'm
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: fired up. I totally fired up. I cannot wait till
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: December sixth through the eighth because I'm gonna go do
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Official Starman Games and I it just just feel reinvigorated.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to get back out there. So I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see you guys in December, you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: at the Official Strawman Games. But with that being said,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: as always, train hard, train smart, and be the best
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you can be. And thank you for watching a.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Preciate you're the best experience. What you make the best