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Strongman Competition Mental Toughness: Deadlift Records and Evolution · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So let's start with the first one. We'll just
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  Speaker 2: get right into it.
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  Speaker 1: Get right into it.
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  Speaker 2: As I try to get the Pearl Jam song out
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  Speaker 2: of my head. So anyway, dear Nick, Strongman puts you
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  Speaker 2: in situations where Everything can go wrong in seconds. Oh, boy,
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  Speaker 2: does it. Equipment changes, bad calls, injuries, or an event
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  Speaker 2: not going your way. What competition taught you the most
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  Speaker 2: about staying mentally composed when the original game plan completely
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  Speaker 2: fell apart? There's quite a few of them, actually, because
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  Speaker 2: I think probably at least 40% of the contests, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do something's not going to be what you planned.
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  Speaker 2: you have to be able to adjust on the fly.
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  Speaker 2: I remember getting in a argument with Adam Dirks over
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  Speaker 2: that when he was trying to tell somebody, just go
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  Speaker 2: out there and do it exactly the way you did
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  Speaker 2: it in training. And I'm like, yeah, but this isn't
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  Speaker 2: exactly the way you did it in training. If you
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  Speaker 2: can't over adapt and overcome in a contest and figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, get out of the sport because it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to go perfect for you. Very rarely. And even
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  Speaker 2: at world's strongest man, things change so many times. So, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: some of the times competing at world's strongest man that
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  Speaker 2: did it, um, to, to a certain degree, um, because
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of changes there. Like, oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: we got to do this. Uh, we had to do
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  Speaker 2: the load and then, uh, pull a, uh, like a cart,
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  Speaker 2: a mining cart backwards on skids and the ground just
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  Speaker 2: happened to be brick. And so it caught in every
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  Speaker 2: single lip of the brick and you had to figure
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  Speaker 2: out how to pop the thing and pull it. And
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  Speaker 2: something that should have been a fairly quick event and
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  Speaker 2: be done in probably 30 to 40 seconds took the
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  Speaker 2: whole 75 seconds. So, and I think two people finished it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think one was Terry Hollins, the other
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  Speaker 2: one was Thor. So both guys that weighed near 400 pounds. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Though I did get fairly close. but it was, it
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  Speaker 2: was good. And I mean, the fit expo taught me
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that too. Um, the fit expo, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff, uh, would change on the fly or
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  Speaker 2: things just weren't how you would get ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: And in some cases you just have to, you're there.
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  Speaker 2: So just figure it out and go after it and
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  Speaker 2: adapt on, on the fly. Um, you know, uh, there
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  Speaker 2: was a, axle deadlift, we had to figure out that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I thought it would be a little bit higher.
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  Speaker 2: It was a 13-inch hole off the tires, which the
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  Speaker 2: tires shrunk down. The tires weren't full of air, so
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  Speaker 2: it became an 11-inch deadlift on a 2-inch axle with
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  Speaker 2: no straps, by the way. Yeah. So, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: just gripping it, you know, over-under. And I watched a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys on the fly, and a couple of
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  Speaker 2: them were gripping under with their right hand with their–
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  Speaker 2: palm that was facing up and one of them tore
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  Speaker 2: his bicep and I was like okay can't can't grip
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  Speaker 2: it underneath there I figured out a way to monkey
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  Speaker 2: grip it which is kind of doing this yeah um
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  Speaker 2: and it held fine I ended up uh pulling 837
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  Speaker 2: that day which tied the world record or broke the
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  Speaker 2: world record because the record was 771 but three of
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  Speaker 2: us did it it was me Kevin Nee and Brian
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  Speaker 2: Shaw and then when we got to the 848, my
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  Speaker 2: grip was fine. I just couldn't pull it. And then
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Neig, who could pull it, tore his bicep off.
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  Speaker 2: And then Brian Shaw just went up there and made
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  Speaker 2: it look like nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's Brian Shaw.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was 2009. He won that year.
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  Speaker 2: And then I got second place that year. But it
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  Speaker 2: was pretty– you had to learn a lot in those contests.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things change on the fly. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: implements that you were going to start with didn't work
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  Speaker 2: out and they had to bring two extra implements in. So, and,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just different. You have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to adapt to the thought on the fly. You have
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  Speaker 2: to be able to think, how's this going to sit
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  Speaker 2: in my hand? What are my strengths going into this event?
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  Speaker 2: What are my weaknesses going into the event? How do
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  Speaker 2: I hide the weaknesses and, you know, accentuate the strengths? Um,
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that makes a big difference. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: type of shoes you wear, the type of tacky you bring, um,
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  Speaker 2: make a really, really big difference. So there's lots of things. Iceland,
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  Speaker 2: not knowing how to do probably, oh, 40% of the
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  Speaker 2: events when I got up there, you know, to compete
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  Speaker 2: in 2006 at IFSA Worlds. I hadn't done a Codeman's Wheel.
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  Speaker 2: We had a car deadlift and walk. So they turned
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  Speaker 2: a car, a Toyota truck into a wheelbarrow. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: that was, you know, I had no idea how to
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  Speaker 2: lift it. And the trick was to push down on
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  Speaker 2: the thing and bounce the truck and then pull it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it made the pick a lot easier, which was,
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  Speaker 2: had to be over 900 pounds. Yeah. And then you
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  Speaker 2: had to walk with it as far as you could.
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  Speaker 2: And I did okay in that event. Not great. But
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  Speaker 2: I still made the finals there. And the first event
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  Speaker 2: I did was Farmer's Walk and broke the world record. So,
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  Speaker 2: which I still hold, which is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So how long would that world record be for now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: There we go. 20-year world record right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not too bad. Not too bad. Yeah, so you
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  Speaker 2: just got to be constantly learning and constantly thinking. It's
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  Speaker 2: not always just who's the strongest. It's who can keep
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  Speaker 2: their head together the most. Yeah. There was a couple
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  Speaker 2: guys that were really– You know, you could mention, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: that bar is like really slippery. You get it in
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  Speaker 2: their head and they go out and wouldn't be able
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  Speaker 2: to hold on to the bar. Yeah. You know, and
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  Speaker 2: so you got to be mentally tough. Somebody comes back
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  Speaker 2: and complains about something. You're like, oh, well, OK. Then
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  Speaker 2: I walked out and just destroyed it. And like, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have that problem with it. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what your problem is. Exactly. Exactly. But best of luck
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  Speaker 2: to you. You know, that type of stuff. But so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of the competitions that were you
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  Speaker 2: learn a lot from. Canada had stuff like that, Warwick.
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  Speaker 2: There's times where you get up there and it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the Atlas Stone platforms are only this big around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, oops. And they're really high. So you have
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  Speaker 2: to adjust on the fly in a hurry. Yeah. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you just keep your head about you and you go
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  Speaker 2: in and you get everything you got. That's all you
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  Speaker 2: can do. And you have to have a short memory
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  Speaker 2: as well. so you don't go into the next event and, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, um, Evan needs to learn that. I love,
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  Speaker 2: I love him to death. I really do. He's a
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  Speaker 2: good friend of mine, but he needs to start developing
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  Speaker 2: a short memory when you do bad in an event. Yeah. Um,
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  Speaker 2: if he does that, he's just going to be that
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  Speaker 2: much harder to beat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So next one, uh, Second question. You've had opportunities outside
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  Speaker 2: competing because of the reputation and relationships you've built through Strongman. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have. What's one opportunity, business, television, travel, or otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: that probably never would have happened without Strongman? And did
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  Speaker 2: it change the direction of your life in any way
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  Speaker 2: you ever expected? Yeah, there was a couple things, actually. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One is the World's Strongest Family video that we did
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  Speaker 2: for My Crazy Obsession. on TLC because of that we
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  Speaker 2: got like 20 or 30 more gigs like that you
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  Speaker 2: know that we all made more money than what we
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  Speaker 2: did for the TLC one and yeah TLC made like
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  Speaker 2: a bandit on that because the YouTube video got 120
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  Speaker 2: million views oh yeah they like at that time I
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  Speaker 2: think they were they were like oh we don't really
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  Speaker 2: pay anything for this and I'm like so they I
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  Speaker 2: think they paid us a thousand dollars for a rental
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  Speaker 2: fee to come and film that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There was some type of thing where they couldn't pay
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  Speaker 2: it this way and they paid us another way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, and even to back then YouTube wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really known for, you know, it was just a place
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  Speaker 1: to hold videos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, PewDiePie reposted it and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: There's been tons of people that have redone it and
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  Speaker 2: thank you to all, even the ones that had negative comments.
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  Speaker 2: And just so everybody knows, they had me out doing
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  Speaker 2: events all day that day before that interview in the garage.
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  Speaker 2: And it was August and it was 110 degrees outside.
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  Speaker 2: So when I look red, it's because I'm sunburned. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So I was burnt to a crisp. at the end
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  Speaker 2: of that day.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's that Vegas heat for.
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  Speaker 2: You yeah it's it's pretty but that that led to
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  Speaker 2: um a pilot that we did me Robbie Travis was
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  Speaker 2: in on it but that's when Travis was in the
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  Speaker 2: lowest of his lows yeah um it was gonna be
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  Speaker 2: called Texas straw man it was going to be about
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  Speaker 2: me and Callie and the kids and, uh, and then
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  Speaker 2: Robbie kind of being in both camps, going over to
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  Speaker 2: see Travis and stuff like that. And about doing strong
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  Speaker 2: man in Texas. And I'm like, yeah, but everybody who
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  Speaker 2: watched worlds already knows I live in Las Vegas. So
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really sure how that was going to work out,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah. Um, the guy who, uh, Chris Dukes, I
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  Speaker 2: think is his name. He, uh, he, he got the
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  Speaker 2: pilot thing and then Gary Becker funded it all. Um,
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  Speaker 2: the pilot did great. It came time to sign contracts
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  Speaker 2: and everybody was like, nobody had signed the things and
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  Speaker 2: then it just fell apart. But Chris, um, came, came
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years later. Yeah. Um, and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I got an idea for a show. We go to
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  Speaker 2: an old, you know, straw man, uh, from history, uh,
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  Speaker 2: And then kind of reenact his events that he was
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  Speaker 2: famous for and kind of almost myth buster him to
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  Speaker 2: see if it's real, not real, whatever. Yeah. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you and a few other guys try it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, that sounds great. And that ended
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  Speaker 2: up being the strongest man in history. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: remember him calling like, who do you think would be
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  Speaker 2: good for this? And he called a few people, people's name.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, eh, he goes, Eddie Hall. I go, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the goods and he's hilarious. That's it. And
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  Speaker 2: he was like, I already know how you and Robbie
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  Speaker 2: are on camera because we're pretty good on camera. And
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  Speaker 2: he goes, what about Brian? I was like, Brian's great.
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  Speaker 2: Brian's the real deal. So, I mean, they managed to
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  Speaker 2: get everybody to sign the contracts and everything. So that
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  Speaker 2: was really cool. But for the most part, that's how
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  Speaker 2: it came to borrow. And then Eddie and Brian managed
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  Speaker 2: to negotiate a better deal for all four of us.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't just do it for themselves, which is really cool.
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  Speaker 2: And I still can't say thank you enough to those
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  Speaker 2: guys for what they did, but those guys really put the,
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  Speaker 2: they're like the screws to them and it was good.
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  Speaker 2: It turned out great. So those are opportunities that because
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  Speaker 2: of the things I've done, I've gotten from. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think I did an episode of next
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  Speaker 2: on MTV where I pulled the next bus and Oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I remember that. And then the kid had to do
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of strongman events to try to win the
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  Speaker 2: girls' affection. And then I did a thing for MTV
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  Speaker 2: Road Rules. I think it was India season nine or
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  Speaker 2: something like that where they came to Vegas and did
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff. So, yeah, there's been a decent
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  Speaker 2: amount of stuff I've done, and it's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun. I had a great time. The guy from
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  Speaker 2: Bollywood would come out to– And he was watching the
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  Speaker 2: filming and stuff. So it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: That is cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, and yeah, the strongest man in history absolutely
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  Speaker 2: changed my life completely. Yeah. It made it to where
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  Speaker 2: if I want to work, I can work. If I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to work, you know, I can do what
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  Speaker 2: I love to do. And that's the great part. That is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great. And can't really, you know, I've been
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  Speaker 2: very blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got to see if we can find that
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  Speaker 1: Texas Strongman pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, because that thing's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is hilarious. I mean, the stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: you can tell some of the stuff is staged. They
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  Speaker 2: waxed my nose. My nose hairs. Yeah, that was kind
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  Speaker 2: of crazy. And then, I mean, Robbie and I have
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  Speaker 2: to go to a florist to make a thing of
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  Speaker 2: flowers for Kelly for her birthday because, like, we went
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  Speaker 2: to worlds. I couldn't really afford to buy her anything
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  Speaker 2: or take the trip that she wanted to take. Yeah. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 2: and we're in the flower shop and, but it's a,
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  Speaker 2: it's a, a shop that the flower shops would go
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  Speaker 2: shop at. It wasn't like a regular flower. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You went to the, you went to the wholesaler.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So trying to put a bouquet together and cut
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  Speaker 2: all the flowers and do all that stuff. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a time when Robbie's giving, giving me some
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  Speaker 2: flack and I go, you don't bring me flowers. You
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  Speaker 2: don't see me love songs. And the producer spit all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. Oh my God. He's like, where the
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  Speaker 2: hell did that come from? I go, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But it was funny. If you find it, it's really funny.
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  Speaker 2: We took the kids to an amusement park in Houston
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  Speaker 2: and it just started downpouring on me and Robbie when
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  Speaker 2: we got in the train and we just got just
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  Speaker 2: dumped on. And yeah, it was funny. It really was.
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  Speaker 2: So question three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Question three. Okay, when I go to the gym, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I'm short on time, so I only have to work
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  Speaker 2: out for about 20 minutes, okay? But I see people
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  Speaker 2: around me staying for an hour or more, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure if my workouts are too short. Can this
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  Speaker 2: still help with fitness and building strength? Yeah, it sure can.
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  Speaker 2: How long should a proper workout last? Thanks for your answer.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not trying to compete at a high level
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  Speaker 2: of anything and you're just doing it for physical health.
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  Speaker 2: If you only got 20 minutes that day, it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be better than doing zero. Straight out of the gate.
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  Speaker 2: If you got 20 minutes that day and it's a
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  Speaker 2: good 20 minutes that you get in, got your stuff
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  Speaker 2: done and got out of there, totally fine. If you
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  Speaker 2: do that like five days a week, you'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: If you can get between 45 minutes and an hour,
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  Speaker 2: that's perfect because you can do your stretching first, go
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  Speaker 2: do your lifting. And then come back and do like
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  Speaker 2: 10 minutes of cardio and a little bit more stretching.
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  Speaker 2: And you're good. If you're not training to be a competitor,
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  Speaker 2: you can get in three, four days a week, between
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  Speaker 2: 20 minutes and an hour. Yeah, it's going to help
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  Speaker 2: you an awful lot.
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  Speaker 1: Intention. When you go into the gym with intent and focus.
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  Speaker 1: And focus. And you're like, I'm doing this. And you
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  Speaker 1: put 100% max effort. And I'm not saying you lift everything.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, this is what I'm doing. I'm fully locked in.
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  Speaker 1: That is more valuable than just being there for an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And a lot of that workout is going to
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  Speaker 2: come to either dumbbells or machines.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're not going to have the time to set
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  Speaker 2: up the barbell and do bench and do all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But you can grab a pair of dumbbells pretty fast.
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  Speaker 2: lay down and do flats, inclines, shoulder presses with dumbbells.
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  Speaker 2: You can go get on the machines and rotate around
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  Speaker 2: the machines pretty quick. So there's efficient ways that you
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  Speaker 2: can get it done. So, but anything is better than zero. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And even if it's only 20 minutes, if you do
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  Speaker 2: it five days a week, that's 100 minutes, that's going
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  Speaker 2: to make you healthier. So, you know, just take what
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  Speaker 2: you can get and you're going to be better off
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  Speaker 2: for it. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And don't feel bad because someone else is doing more time. No,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean any better.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people spend an hour in the gym
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  Speaker 2: and they do a lot of this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Or they're on their phone sitting on the machine scrolling
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  Speaker 2: instead of lifting or doing stuff. So don't necessarily think
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  Speaker 2: your 20 minutes is nothing because the guy could be
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: there an hour and a half or two hours and
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: get less done than you did in 20. Exactly. Have
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: a plan, go in and execute your plan and then
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: get out. That's what you got time for. So do it. Exactly.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Uh, okay. Question four, uh, with Ro Flores just became
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the first man to officially pull 511 kgs. I'll talk
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: about that in a sec. Uh, you've watched the deadlift
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: evolve through multiple generations. Yes, I have. Uh, what did
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: today's guys, uh, about the deadlift training equipment and recovery
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: that wasn't available when you were coming up. How much
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: further do you realistically think the human body can take
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: this record? There's a whole bunch of stuff. First, 511,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: it should have been 512.5. Go up two and a
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: half kilos.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It's not Olympic weightlifting where you want to chip it.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, go up two and a half kilos. So
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: it should have been 512. I mean, because Thor tried 515. Cool.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: It should be 512.5. Just one kilo is... But Raul
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: did great. He pulled it. His knees... His knees weren't
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: soft and his lockout, his shoulders were straight. His back
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: was straight. So... more power to him that was a
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: great lift um i think in raul's sense when there's
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a there's stuff we're going to talk about in another
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: part of the show today but um rolls five nine
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and he's 300 160 kilos which is 352 pounds yeah
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: so that kind of equates to eddie being 63 and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: 440 pounds yeah if you really think about that yeah
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: math um yeah he's a big kid and he's only
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: been deadlift in like five years so it's something he's
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: just unbelievably gifted at right out of the box yeah
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and he's got pretty decent technique as well Um, how
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: much farther do I think he can take it? He's
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: probably got another, Oh, I'd say at least another 10,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: maybe 15. If he's pushing it, um, available to him,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you're only going to get so many of those out. Yeah.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: And he's already pulled a whole bunch of times, um,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: this year, just steadily working that weight and a lot
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: of training videos and stuff like that. But he'll figure
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that out. Cause now he's famous. Yeah. And so he's
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: going to get called to go to things and do
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. And it'll be him, Thor, and
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: probably Mitchell, and maybe a couple of the other guys
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: that are getting invited as well. And it'll be good
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: battles between them, but those two are going to be
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: able to go at it for a while. I think
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Thor's got, definitely got 515 in him. And if he
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: does it right and he's got time and he doesn't really,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: doesn't really do so many of these attempts in a
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: six month time, Yes. I do believe Thor could probably
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: pull 520. Yeah. You know, it's just, you know, what
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: happens on that day. And they're vastly different as far
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: as size. I mean, you got six foot nine versus
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: five foot nine. There's a foot difference in the height between.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. There's a lot more travel.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: But in these days, the biggest difference I think that
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I've seen is the bars.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, even in conventional deadlifts, the bars are so
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: spongy now. They're given probably a couple, at least two inches,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: maybe even three.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Especially because the guys don't have.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Their hands that wide. Yeah, they don't have their hands
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: that wide, so it's narrow. So they're trying to get
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: more bend out of the bar. I think that's making
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: a really big difference. And then they're learning how to
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: pull that way and when to stay tight and how
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: to adapt the training to that. Um, the dead list
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: where they stop and then pull through. Um, I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: that's probably helping some of the guys and there's just
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: a lot more attention to different techniques and finding the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: best technique for those guys. There's still, you know, a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: handful of guys. I mean, really, literally, there's still a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: handful of guys that pull over a thousand handful on
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the face of the planet.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So it's, it's evolving and the freaks of the freaks
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: are still pushing the limit. But I mean, if we
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: really look at it, it's 511 kilos. So it's moved
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: up 11 kilos since 2016 when Eddie first did it. Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Eddie had the record for a couple of years and
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: then Thor got it. So, and then that's, that sparked
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: all the inner fighting and stuff like that. So it
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: was entertaining. I mean, it's not great, but it's entertaining. But, uh,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Love both those guys and just don't like to see
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: them mad at each other. But they're both prideful and
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: they both deservedly should have the respect that they deserve
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: because they're big, strong men. Exactly. But yeah, I think
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the deadlift bar changes, though, have made a massive, massive difference.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I'll say this now and I mean it. The best
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: deadlift I still have ever seen This is the deadlift
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Eddie Hall did in 2017 at the World's Strongest Man Final.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: He pulled 1,041 on a two-inch axle. Yeah. And the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: bar didn't bend.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no give. At all.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. At all. There's no give. He got the whole
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: weight from the ground. These guys now, they're getting the weight,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: you know, when the bar's at maybe 12, 13 inches.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: 13-inch deadlifts is a lot different than– Than a regular
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: deadlift from the ground. Yeah, standard. Case in point, look
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: at the Arnold. Look at the Arnold, because that was
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: what they used to do with the Hummer Tire Deadlift. Yep.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Because where that bar is coming off the ground for
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: these guys now, off the floor, that's where the bar
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: would be coming off the ground for the guys at
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the Arnold.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And you had, what, Cedrunas, Mark Felix, and Brian, all
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: doing pretty darn close to 1,100. A few of them
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: went over 1,100. So, I mean, a lot of it's
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the training is getting a little bit better. Nutrition is
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: getting a little bit better. Learning training frequencies and stuff
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: like that, that has changed quite a bit. A lot
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of the guys don't overtrain it as much, and there's
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: a lot more involved with that. The spacing of training
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: days and stuff like that, that's drastically changed. But at
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, the bar is making– the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: deadlift bar is making a lot of difference too. So
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: it's two things that are doing it. But I think
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: it can go probably 525. 550 is going to be–
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: that's just going to have to be somebody going out
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: of their mind, just like the 500 when they first
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: did that. That's going to be like a whole other
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: realm for somebody to get to and– You know, can
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: they get to it? It'd be interesting to see. It'd
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: be fun to watch. Will they? Don't know. The human
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: body is going to handle a lot of stuff, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: you can put a lot of weight on it. I mean,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: it's just going through that full range of motion or the,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you know, the range of motion with that kind of weight.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: But is it possible? Sure. But just when? How long
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: is it going to be? I mean, is it going
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: to be a whole other generation of guys before you
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: get to that? Because, I mean, Benny... Benny and Bolton
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: both pulled over 1,000, and it was a long time
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: before anybody else did that between the two of those guys.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Doyle had pulled 900 back in the day, and it
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: was a long time before people caught that. We'll see.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to watching, though. It should be interesting
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to To see. Okay. So, lead story today is we
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: have a new deadlift world record. On September 5th in Birmingham, England,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Raul pulled 511 kilos. I already said my bit about
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that being 512.5, but whatever. He broke Thor's record of 510.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: That was pretty cool. He won the deadlift world championship.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And congratulations. That's pretty cool. Thor stopped at 480, which
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: was smart. That was smart because he was there to
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: win the contest. Yeah. You know, he was there to,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: you know, because now he's qualified for World's Strongest Man again,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: which I think because he's won World's Strongest Man, if
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: you're in shape. No, but I think there's a thing
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: on the books to where if you're in shape and
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: you're a former winner, you have an invite always waiting
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's what I thought it was too. I swear.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I thought that's what it was.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But now not, not only that, but he's also qualified. Yeah.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Cause he won the whole contest. Yep. And Adam Bishop, congratulations.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: It was neat to see you come in and watch
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: your whole career. It was pretty cool. I was, I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: was there for the whole thing. So it was congratulations.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Great pull, pull 470 kilos. That's, A lot of weight
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: and best of luck to whatever you got next, man.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: That was pretty neat. Let's see here. So in the contest,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: now there's a question in here about what I think,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: how good I think Raul can be as a strongman.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I think there's going to be some learning factors for
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Raul in strongman. He'll be a deadlift guy. you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: till the end of his day is now. It's just
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: what he's going to be. He'll get invited to all
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: these things where he'll build a deadlift. But he got
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: 12 points for that. He finished the contest with 20 points.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: That means out of 12 guys in each one, he
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: averaged 11th place in the last four events out of
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: 12 guys. Yeah. So with the dumbbell, because there was
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the dumbbell. Let me see here. Oh, where did I
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: put it? There's the dumbbell. There's Atlas Stones. There was the, whatchamacallit, toss.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It's a bad toss. The load and push.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Titans toss.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And the load and push. So those events, he basically
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: got 11th through. He averaged 11th place through the rest
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: of that contest.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Which isn't, it's not bad, but it's going to be
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: difficult for the rest of the stuff for him because
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: i mean he's like i said he's 5'9 and 352
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: pounds you're only going to move so fast that way
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: yeah um and the toss he's not probably never going
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: to be great at the toss there'll be things his
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: height's challenging to now Do I think he can get
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: called in for special events for the deadlift events and
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: stuff like that? Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Do I think he should probably maybe even look at powerlifting?
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I think he can do a lot of damage in powerlifting,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: but it's all going to depend on his hands because
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: he was in figure eights at the deadlift world championships.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: What can his hands hold on to on a bar?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: So squat, I think he could probably squat pretty darn
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: good and bench. He's, And also those I think he
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: can improve very, very, very, very fast. So I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: no matter what he does in lifting, he's got a
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: bright future. But do I think he's got a possibility
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: of being world's strongest man? I'd say that's probably not
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: super high, just unless he figures out a way to
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: grow another, I don't know, half a foot. It's going
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to be a limiting, it will be a limiting factor
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: for him. Because, like I said, there's just going to
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: be stuff that's going to be very difficult for him
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: to do based on his height. But the guy is
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: strong as heck. He really is. Let's see here. Now,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: for the placings in this, the four finished first at 50.5 points.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: The second place finisher was Evans Nana. Now, if you've
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: been following Evans for a while, Evans has been around
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: for a hot minute. He's been around for five or
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: six years now. Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: We first met him at a OSG a couple of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: years ago.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Great kid. High energy and one of the most
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: positive attitudes you're going to run into. He's just a
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: pleasure being around. He really is. And he's always asking advice.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: He's always asking for direction. He's always asking people to
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: teach him and stuff like that. Well, he lives in
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: England now and so does Terry Hollins. And he talked
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to Terry and Terry took him on. And where you
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: could see the kid was extremely talented. It is now
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: night and day difference. I mean, he is a kid.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: He's be quickly becoming a major contender. Um, just all
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the way around.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, he just being able to step on stage
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: at world's strongest man. Come on.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. When he pulled a, huge deadlift as well yeah
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: so i mean he's he's got a bright future ahead
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: of him and now terry's handling him and teaching him
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: terry's very knowledgeable he.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Really is exactly he's one of those guys front row
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you know uh commentating on a lot of these shows.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Well he's competed for so long yeah but that's what
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: i'm saying he made the final he made the finals
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: over 10 times yeah So, I mean, to do that,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: you know, Slouch, he's pretty smart. And I've competed head-to-head
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: with him for a while. And, man, he's a smart kid. Exactly.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I'm calling him a kid. He's in his mid-40s. Yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: he's a smart man. So, Evans being under him, Evans
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: is really coming into his own. And he's got a long,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: he's got a bright future ahead of him. And he's
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: got a long way to go still. I mean, he's
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: going to be able to hold this for five, six
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: years and continue to get better. So it's going to
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: be fun to watch. I messed up this guy's name.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: He's 20 years old, and he found out a couple
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: days before the contest he was going to be doing it. Fanoik? No.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Yes. Mateas? Mateas.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Fanoik?
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Fanoik. Fanoik.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to say it is. Because he
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: competed at World's Strongest Man, too. Yes, we are. We
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: are not great with the names.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: He got 44 points, so he was a point and
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a half behind Evans. Yeah. So this kid's only 20.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: He's going to be something to deal with for a while. Yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: He's going to be pretty good. And then Ben Glassclock
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: got 35.5. Yep. And then Trey Mitchell came in. He
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: got 34 points. So Trey came in, did what he
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: needed to do. Yep. I know Austin– Austin went in
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: using it as a, um, a good training day. He
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: wanted to go in and do well and pull a
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: decent deadlift, which he pulled over a thousand again. Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: You know, one of his posts was like a thousand.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: He can deadlift a thousand pounds now at any place,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: any time, which yeah, I 100% believe that strong kid. Um,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: but he, he's getting ready for the rogue and just
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: want to make sure he went and did well, had
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: a good showing, got a good deadlift in, but, Want
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: to make sure he got out of there injury-free so
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: when he gets to the road, he can put the
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: screws to it. Exactly. So, yeah, it was pretty cool.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: And then Trey getting in there and getting fifth place.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: All the things are going to be good. I mean,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: these guys coming in, this is the time of the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: year where you're going to have a couple guys that
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: are in unbelievable shape because that's everything that they're training
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: for and they're trying to get to world's strongest man.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: You got a couple guys that pretty much know they're going.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: They're just showing up to– make sure they get a
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: placing and stuff like that. And then, you know, get ready,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: get ready for the bigger contests and then get ready
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: for world's strongest man next year. So it's, uh, yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty fun. And I think Mateus
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: won the stone loading too. Yeah. He finished the stones
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: there in 22.87 seconds. He beat Thor, which was 2313.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: So Thor's so good at that. Yeah. Thor's really good
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: at it. So I think the kid's got a bright future.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: It's going to be fun to watch. He attacks the stones,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: so it's going to be fun to watch. Exactly. A
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: lot of the stuff that's going on.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Same thing with Bryce. Bryce got that third place for
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the stones too, man. It's that size, you know what
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I'm saying?
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I'm making sure we got everything covered, guys. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: The next Strider Life event is the World Tour Finals
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and the World Log Lift Challenge, which is October 17th.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: OVO Hydro in Glasgow. So that'll be in Scotland. Yeah. Currently,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the athletes included are Tom Stoltman, Evan Singleton, Andre Fidjip.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I always mess up with Fidjip. Mateus. Benuk. Benuk. Finuc
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and then Luke Stoltman and others. So it should be
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: pretty good. Hopefully Evan gets ready and gets his head
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: right and goes out there and just, you know, just
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: goes out there and does what he needs to do.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: He needs to quit worrying about winning the Giants live
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: and just get a good placement in the Giants live.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about winning the big contest.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Just get what he needs to as far as being
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: able to get an invite and making sure that's guaranteed.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: And then just getting through it. He's won so many
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: There's only one that matters at the end of the day. Yeah.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: It's about going there, putting on a good show, doing
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: the stuff, doing what you need to do to get qualified,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: and then going after the big one. Exactly. So it's
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: going to be a lot of fun to watch. It's
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: going to be a good year still. There's a lot
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of really cool stuff going on. Definitely. Looking forward to
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: watching the Rogue. Cause that's coming up. Seeing what Hooper's doing.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Been watching his training. Yep. Austin's training has been going
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: pretty good. So has Nick. So it's, it's going to be,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a fun, fun time.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yes. Oh yes. And September's right around the corner.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: We will be at.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: The Olympia. Yes.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: We'll be at the Expo. Yes. We'll be at the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Bear Steel booth. And what was the other booth?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Strengthlex.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: String flex. So be there. Take pictures. Come see Nick.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: And America's Strongest Man.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, and America's Strongest Man. Evan will be there. And
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: there will be plenty of hijinks happening because Evan will
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: be staying with Nick.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: He will?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. He's got to come over for
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the live stream.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll come over for the live stream and stuff
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: like that. Exactly. Yeah, there's already like four people staying here.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. Trust me. Every time I hear it,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I forget how many people are coming.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Go get some more inflatable beds. Exactly.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: But I do want to announce, I just learned it today.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: This is the first year that the Olympia will be
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: live streamed for free. So typically you have to pay
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: about $ 100. You get to watch the live stream. It's
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the entire weekend. You get to see all categories on it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: but they will be doing it this year for free.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: All you have to do is go to the olympia.com
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: in the center. It'll be like live stream for free,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: fill in your name, email information, and they will send
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you the link and remind you when the, you know,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: they'll send the email right when it starts. So then
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: you can watch it. So I'm absolutely happy because I'm
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: going to be able to go back and re-watch it
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: typically i always try to kind of watch it through
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: here and here and here just to kind of uh
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: but this will be the first year i actually get
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to watch it watch.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: It oh that's awesome that means we both get to
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: watch it hey that's what i'm saying because by that
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: time we'll probably be here.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Exactly and i will be on my like i'll be
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: watching my phone because like i said i i like
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: to watch the classic I also like to watch, uh,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you know, the, uh, men's physique. I like to watch,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: you know, the open, open is going to be my favorite,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: but you know, exactly.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Oops. Sorry guys. Just make a joke, you know.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: But, uh, so, you know, that's coming up. We're just
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: So we covered quite a bit today.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We covered quite a bit. It was good stuff. Um,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I hope you guys enjoyed this. Please like, share, and subscribe.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: And as always, train hard, train smart, and be the
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: best you can be. Until next week, we'll see you then.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: And thank you. You're listening to The Best Experience with
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Nick Best.