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How to Win Deep Strongman Contests: Consistency vs Event Wins (America’s Strongest Man) · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 1: We were running one day behind because of traveling mishaps
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  Speaker 1: for myself.
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  Speaker 2: Traveling and recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? We definitely needed
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  Speaker 1: a few days because we had the Olympia and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had the bright idea after Olympia that me
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  Speaker 1: and the lady went on a vacation and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: We went to Disneyland and God, you know, that's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of walking. I think we walked like a total
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  Speaker 1: of 25,000 steps or way more than that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it just, at least it felt like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then I thought it was a great idea
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  Speaker 2: to train really hard on Monday before I went to PT.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The good thing is, is like I was doing a
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  Speaker 2: safety bar squats, the safety box squats because I still
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  Speaker 2: need to work. like getting down and then having a
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  Speaker 2: goal to reach, to sit on and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So doing the box squats, I'm still about three, four
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  Speaker 2: inches high, which is fine, but I was able to,
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  Speaker 2: we need to put weight on for me to get down.
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  Speaker 1: Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I was doing, I was doing sets of five
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  Speaker 2: with like 300 pounds and having no problem coming up,
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  Speaker 2: coming up with it. So that felt great. Um, then
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  Speaker 2: I did some seated good, uh, good mornings, which, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't move very far, but it's a good stretch.
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  Speaker 2: And that helped. And then I did some stiff leg deadlifts.
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  Speaker 2: First with a kettlebell, it was like 80 pounds. And
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  Speaker 2: then two dumbbells with 55 each, so 110. And then
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  Speaker 2: 275s trying to get down. And I managed to get
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  Speaker 2: down to touch a nine-inch sandbag with the dumbbells. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm about a foot now from getting to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: So that's cool. That's coming along. Um, and I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was doing like long sets, like 10 seconds down,
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  Speaker 2: hold it down there for 10 seconds and then come
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  Speaker 2: back up in like four or five, just nice and easy. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and that was pretty, pretty good. And then I went
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  Speaker 2: to PT and they put me on the exercise bike
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  Speaker 2: and they lowered the seat from 15 to 13. Um,
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  Speaker 2: so that, that was great. good. That made it more
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  Speaker 2: difficult and pushed the range motion in my hips. And
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  Speaker 2: I did that for 10 minutes and then I got
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  Speaker 2: done and she lowered it down to eight from 13.
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  Speaker 1: They really wanted you to pick up them legs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then had me ride that for another five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And I was, I was feeling it at the end
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  Speaker 2: of that, which is good. I mean, it's all great.
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  Speaker 2: The process is awesome, but it's, uh, you just have
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  Speaker 2: to embrace the suck and do it. And I did.
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  Speaker 2: And then I went over and did my stretches with
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  Speaker 2: the bands and stuff. Um, uh, got all that done and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that felt pretty good. Uh, so that, that worked, that
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So I just, sorry about that, guys. I, Text
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, love that girl. Okay. So, question one. Mitchell Hooper, Hoptor,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Stoltman, Trey Mitchell, Randall Nowell, Martins Lexus are all
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  Speaker 2: headed to the Rogue. Yes. Well, one of them's not.
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  Speaker 2: Or one of them's going, but he's not competing. When
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  Speaker 2: the field is that deep, do you actually go into
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  Speaker 2: contests believing you need to win events? Yes. or avoid
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  Speaker 2: Nate ninth or 10th place finishes are more important than
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  Speaker 2: a collective winning of the events. Well, so basically, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell Hooper proved this already this year at world's strongest man.
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  Speaker 2: He did not win one event in the call in
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  Speaker 2: the finals. Um, he got second place in each event
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  Speaker 2: and he won. So the big catastrophe, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about America's strongest man as well, uh, later. Because this
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  Speaker 2: happens in America's Strongest Man as well. Evan Singleton won
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  Speaker 2: three of the six events and still finished second. So
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  Speaker 2: Martel only won two, but he didn't have any bad finishes.
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  Speaker 2: And Evan had two bad finishes. He got really bad
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  Speaker 2: in the deadlift. I want to say probably seventh or eighth.
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  Speaker 2: And then he got dead last in the shield carry
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  Speaker 2: in the spellstone carry. So that those two events basically
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  Speaker 2: cost him the title, but he was only, they were
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  Speaker 2: one point apart going into Atlas stones. So we're covering
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  Speaker 2: this early. They were one point ahead going into Atlas stones.
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  Speaker 2: Martel was, and he gutted it out and ended up
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  Speaker 2: winning that event. And Evan, I think got fourth from
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  Speaker 2: that event and, That's what sealed the deal. Martel won
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  Speaker 2: by five points, and that was the end of it.
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  Speaker 2: He is now America's Strongest Man. Congratulations. This kid is
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  Speaker 2: going to be rough for people to deal with because
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  Speaker 2: he's fast. He's got endurance. He doesn't finish below fifth
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  Speaker 2: in events, fourth or fifth, and that's what he did
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  Speaker 2: in this contest. He had a couple events where he
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  Speaker 2: didn't do great, but he didn't do bad. The sandbag toss,
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  Speaker 2: I think he got fourth or fifth. um, and the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the events, he was in the top three
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  Speaker 2: and that consistency paid off for him. And he won
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  Speaker 2: America's strongest man and he's going to be good. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to be really, really good.
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  Speaker 1: So he's very up and comer that that's yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: you've seen him twice now.
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  Speaker 2: This is the second time I've seen him. And I was,
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  Speaker 2: the funny thing is, is, um, I went over and
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  Speaker 2: saw Thor at the, uh, at the expo. I went
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  Speaker 2: over and saw it and said hi to Thor, um,
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  Speaker 2: at the booth. And, uh, was like BS and with him,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, yeah, I'm going to go to the
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  Speaker 2: star man contest. I was like, okay. So he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of snuck over there when he was over there. I
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  Speaker 2: went and sat down next to him and just kind
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  Speaker 2: of hanging out with him and stuff. And he's like,
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  Speaker 2: who do you think? I'm like, well, it should be Evan,
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  Speaker 2: but this Martel kid, he's, there's some other guys in
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  Speaker 2: here that are pretty good, but this Martel kid is, um,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be hard to beat. He's pretty solid
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  Speaker 2: all the way around and high, whoever showed up on
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  Speaker 2: that screen. Um, so, um, He's going to be really,
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  Speaker 2: really good. He's going to be hard to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: And then Evan went out, and he had a really
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  Speaker 2: bad back and just struggled with the two events that
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  Speaker 2: affected his back the most, the deadlift and the Hussevel carry.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to have a good back when you
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  Speaker 2: do both those events. You have to. It cost him
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  Speaker 2: the title. He got second place. But it was fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was telling Thor, I was like, I'd
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  Speaker 2: watch out for Mattel. He's the dark horse. He's my
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  Speaker 2: dark horse for winning this thing. And sure enough, he did.
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  Speaker 2: So it was kind of neat to see one of
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  Speaker 2: our predictions come true.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But I think Evan comes into that healthy. Evan should
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  Speaker 2: have won. Like I said, he won three of the
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  Speaker 2: six events and he did bad in two. The other
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  Speaker 2: one he didn't do bad in. He was in the
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  Speaker 2: top three, I think, or four. And the, and the
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  Speaker 2: other one, but it's just the, the two where he
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  Speaker 2: got like next two from last and last that just
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  Speaker 2: hurt him too much. It just sent him back too far. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So he started off strong with that max log and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, say, but that's the thing though, too. He
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  Speaker 1: came in injured.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah. So as far as this first question goes,
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  Speaker 2: the philosophy is coming in is lose as little points
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  Speaker 2: as possible on events that you're not going to do
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  Speaker 2: good in and get it. every point that you can
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  Speaker 2: in the contest with that many good guys going in.
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  Speaker 2: Because every point is going to make a difference. So
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  Speaker 2: your goal is to do the absolute best you can
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  Speaker 2: on each event and try not to mess it up.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's really all you can do. And the
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  Speaker 2: only way you're going to do that is not worry
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  Speaker 2: about it. It's just go in, take each event one
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  Speaker 2: at a time, and score as many points as you
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  Speaker 2: can and know where you can push and know where
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  Speaker 2: to back off. like it's not going to do any
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  Speaker 2: good to do four more reps on something. If four
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  Speaker 2: more reps is going to get you, uh, no points
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  Speaker 2: or one point.
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  Speaker 1: So even too, that was Evan with that four 30.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. With the, with the log, Evan did that. He
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  Speaker 2: was smart. He played it smart. He, on a second attempt,
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  Speaker 2: he did a four 20 log and came out and
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  Speaker 2: said four 30 on his third. Cause none of the
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  Speaker 2: guys had even hit four 10 in the last part
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  Speaker 2: of it. Uh, Martel got a 400. Two guys got
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  Speaker 2: a 410. 410, and then Evans 420 stood. So he
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  Speaker 2: just came out and touched the thing and went to
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  Speaker 2: the back, which was smart. That was really, really smart.
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of how you have to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you didn't have the back injury, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure the deadlift would have been no problem for him whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: It was about a 14-inch pull. Absolutely. So you had
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good, you know, like decent range to pull
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  Speaker 2: in and the bars were very bendy with Hummer tires
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  Speaker 2: on them. So it was, they weren't that bad for
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  Speaker 2: deadlift pulls. I mean, if you know how to pull
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  Speaker 2: into a whippy bar, you'd be fine. And then basically
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  Speaker 2: it's just pull smooth off the floor. You just keep
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  Speaker 2: accelerating until it comes off the floor, right when it
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  Speaker 2: comes off the floor, that'll be the hardest point of
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  Speaker 2: the lift. And then after that, the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: lift will be pretty easy. It's just, keeping pressure till
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  Speaker 2: it moves. So yeah. So there's that. Um, so hopefully
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  Speaker 2: that covers question one. All right. Question two, after spending
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  Speaker 2: Olympia weekend meeting so many fans, um, there was a
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  Speaker 2: moment when somebody, was there a moment when somebody came
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  Speaker 2: up to you and reminded you of a competition, a
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  Speaker 2: TV episode or lift you'd almost forgotten about? Um, What's
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  Speaker 2: one of the comments in your career that fans bring
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  Speaker 2: up to you that still surprises you? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of an interesting question. Because I remember a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the crazy stuff because a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: stands out. I'm just really excited when other people realize that.
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  Speaker 2: I did get pulled up on the stage. um, at
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  Speaker 2: the till till death, uh, booth, you know, from the,
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  Speaker 2: from the diamond gym guys. And that was really neat.
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  Speaker 2: The guy completely called.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, he started my career.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that, that was pretty, cause I was just
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  Speaker 2: walking and he saw me kind of from the side
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  Speaker 2: and from the back and he's up on a stage
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  Speaker 2: and their stage is probably their, their whole booth was
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the biggest ones. Yeah. And he's like,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a whole bunch of, uh, influences and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: other blocky heads up there. Yeah. sorry, um, up there.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, Hey, everybody get off. This is for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was pretty neat thing. He goes, this
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  Speaker 2: is all those crazy squat workouts. People don't have any
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  Speaker 2: idea how much this guy squatted for how long and
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  Speaker 2: this and that. And he goes, all those crazy workouts
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  Speaker 2: we do. This is the guy that I followed from,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and stuff like that. So that was pretty
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  Speaker 2: neat that to answer that question, that was, that was
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  Speaker 2: probably the, the neatest thing. And then the, the OG
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  Speaker 2: UFC guy that we met, you know, Mark, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kerr.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Kerr.
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  Speaker 1: The Smashing Machine.
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  Speaker 2: The Smashing Machine, the guy that The Rock played. That
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  Speaker 2: was kind of neat to get to meet Mark Kerr.
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  Speaker 2: It really was because we just got to meet him.
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  Speaker 1: Highlight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just sat there and talked to him for four
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  Speaker 2: or five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: He's very generous with his time.
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  Speaker 2: He is. He is. Everybody's sitting there waiting for him,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel bad. And we're just gabbing away. So
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  Speaker 2: it was pretty neat. It was a neat experience. It
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  Speaker 2: truly was. Oh, yeah. And then the, the bare steel
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  Speaker 2: booth was, and strain flex boost was awesome. Um, we
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  Speaker 2: had a great time, uh, running the contest and stuff
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  Speaker 2: and watching the people try. And we had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people try. So that was a lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: the winning times. Uh, I think we're one Oh five
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  Speaker 2: for the women and one 14 for the men. Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The women had to hold a 20 pound, uh, kettlebell sandbag.
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  Speaker 2: And the men had to hold a 40 pound kettlebell sandbag.
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  Speaker 1: So, and everyone thought it was going to be easy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of interesting because it's like, it gets
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  Speaker 2: that kind of weight for both sexes gets real really fast. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no way to get around it. There's no
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  Speaker 2: place to hide from it. There's no way to, it's just,
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  Speaker 2: you have it. And it's just at that point it's
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  Speaker 2: muscle control and how much you can suffer. Um, And
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  Speaker 2: then hold it as long as you can. So congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to both the people who won. That was pretty neat.
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  Speaker 1: Well-deserved. Well-deserved.
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  Speaker 2: Well-deserved. So they got a full set of kettlebell sandbags,
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  Speaker 2: 10 through 70. So 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70.
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  Speaker 2: They got a bare steel gym pin. So that's to
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  Speaker 2: put into the weight stacks to make it heavier. You
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  Speaker 2: can slide 45s onto them. They have a magnet, so
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  Speaker 2: it can't pull out.
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  Speaker 1: Pull off.
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  Speaker 2: It won't fall off when you're doing them. And then
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  Speaker 2: they got two custom engraved 25-pound plates. So that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: So getting some plates with your name on it and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that's kind of a neat thing as well,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever you want to put on it for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: It's a neat thing. So congratulations to everybody who won
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  Speaker 2: because that was pretty spectacular. Unfortunately, James took the list
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  Speaker 2: of the names of the people who won with him.
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  Speaker 2: So he'd get a chance to write them down. So
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  Speaker 2: my bad. I will get that from James and either
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  Speaker 2: next week or the week after we'll announce that on
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  Speaker 2: here as well. So my apologies to you. We will
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  Speaker 2: get that for you. But the weekend was just, it
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  Speaker 2: was amazing. It truly was. And then just every year
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  Speaker 2: stopping and talking to the people and hanging out and
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  Speaker 2: talking about training and stuff like that. And when you
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  Speaker 2: get people that are coming up to you and they've
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  Speaker 2: been training for like 20 years and you're talking to
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  Speaker 2: them and they have a problem and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I would kind of try it this way instead. And
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  Speaker 2: they're like light bulb clicks off and they change things
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  Speaker 2: and things are gonna get better for them. So it's
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  Speaker 2: always a good feeling. It's, it's pretty neat. Oh yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. We stopped at quite a few booths. We got
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rashid, Big Chugs, Badlands Chugs was there. He's a
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  Speaker 1: world champion eater. You know what I'm saying? He holds
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  Speaker 1: the record for the fastest lemonade drink. There were so
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  Speaker 1: many things going on. The amateur bodybuilding show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just every booth, everything.
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  Speaker 2: The power lifting, the strongman.
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  Speaker 1: The power lifting, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I did some emceeing at the Power of the Meat.
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  Speaker 2: Went back at the strongman contest and was talking to
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  Speaker 2: people and stuff like that. So that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: And then be out there in the crowd with Thor
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  Speaker 2: and hanging out watching. Lucas Hatton was on the mic.
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  Speaker 2: So that was cool. So all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: Big Ronnie.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, big Ronnie. So all in all, it was just fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: It truly was. It was just so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel so grateful. I really do. And then big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big Leroy gave me a bottle of this eucalyptus spray
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  Speaker 2: stuff that kind of heats and, and, uh, does the
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  Speaker 2: smell stuff and send the truck. I'll, I'll bring it
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  Speaker 2: on the show next week to show you what it is,
• 17:02
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• 17:08
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• 17:14
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• 17:16
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• 17:20
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• 17:22
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• 17:24
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• 17:27
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• 17:31
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• 17:34
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• 17:36
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• 17:38
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• 17:43
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• 17:46
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• 17:48
  Speaker 1: It really is. And for us at the Olympia, for
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a handful of our Patreon members that showed up and
• 17:55
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• 17:58
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• 18:02
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• 18:06
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• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: We have the new Nick best logo and train hard,
• 18:16
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• 18:21
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• 18:23
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• 18:26
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• 18:29
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• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? It's like we wanted to
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• 18:55
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• 18:58
  Speaker 1: for everyone who came and saw us at the booth.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and now how many we got left?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Well, we still got quite a bit left. You know
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? We got quite a bit packs left.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: We think we have about 100 packs left of stickers.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: No, how many of the samples do we got left?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got three or four left of the samples.
• 19:17
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• 19:25
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• 19:30
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• 19:32
  Speaker 2: as a little four pack just as a gift for
• 19:34
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• 19:39
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• 19:44
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• 19:48
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Okay. Back to your regular programming. Oh yes.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Oh yes. So, uh, we covered, um, we covered, uh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: America's strongest man and, uh, road.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: It's just a.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Few weeks away.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: October 23rd to the 25th.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's going to be, that's going to be pretty amazing.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Some of the guys have to travel over to Scotland
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: for that. So that's, that's going to be a long
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: trip for some of the Americans, but some of the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: guys from Europe, it won't be so bad. Rayno Null,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: that's still going to be a long trip for her
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: because he's down in the Southern Hemisphere. So Mitchell Hooper's going,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: he lives here in Vegas now. So that'll be quite
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: the journey. Tom Stoltman, that's his home turf. Trey Mitchell's
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: coming from Texas. So is Austin Andrade. Hathor Julius Bjornsson,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: he is not competing. Somebody went in his spot because
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: he withdrew. Just not feeling good right now. Yeah. Martins Lisics,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: who is looking pretty good and is in shape. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about him in a minute. Andre Fujito. Um,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: hopefully I didn't blitz you out too bad. I always
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: mess up Andre's last name. Uh, Thomas Evans, which is,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: that's going to be kind of interesting to see what
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Tom does. Cause, uh, Tom doesn't, because Tom's a strength
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: coach for a college, he doesn't really get that many opportunities, um,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: to go compete at like giants live and some of
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: the other stuff. He's a great strong man and definitely
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: deserves to be everywhere.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He's looking primed.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's looking primed. Um, It's going to be interesting
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to see him come out and get after this. It's
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: going to be funny. I'd be surprised if he's not
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: in the top three by the time the whole thing's
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: said and done. And then Patty Hayes. Patty's a great competitor,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: so that should be fun to– Great athlete. Great athlete.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: That should be fun to watch. Hooper's won this a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: few times, so odds on favorite will be Hooper. I
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: agree completely. he's, he's still, his back's still coming along. So, um,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: it should be interesting, but he's so fast on the
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: yoke and they're doing the yoke and the log and, um, they're,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: they're doing a Conan's wheel. He can suffer a very
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: long time. So it's, it's, it's going to be a
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: good contest for, for Hooper. So it's, he's the guy
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: everybody's got to catch plain and simple. Um, You know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: can the guys catch him? Tom can catch him. I
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: think Austin Andrade, I think this is going to be
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: a really good contest for him. He's got some events
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that are actually very, very good for him in here.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: So that's going to be fun to watch. And then
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Martins is Martins is Martins. So he's not the kid anymore.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: He's an experienced vet. He's on this. He's a very
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: good competitor. And when he cuts it all loose, He
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: can go past that point where most people can. He's
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: always had that ability to just supersede his potential just mentally.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: He's got that mental switch that won't shut off. So
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: if he's healthy and in good shape, he's going to
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: cause some damage. He really is. But it's going to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: be a great contest. I cannot wait to see this
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: thing and see the results from it because anybody can win.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Anybody can win it. There's a big list of people here.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And all these guys are great competitors. So it's
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: just going to be who comes in the least banged
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: up and the most prepared and gets the most out
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: of each event. And the guy who probably finishes at
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the top of this the most consistently and doesn't have
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a bad event is probably the guy that's going to win,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: which it's going to be interesting to see Rayno and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Hooper go at it again. It really is because they
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: battled at Worlds.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, World's Strongest Man. It was neck to neck.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: It was so close on the stones, even though Reino
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: didn't get that last stone.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, I know. It was close. But Martins has that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, I remember learning how to pick up the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: IFSA shield with Martins when Martins was like 19. You know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: and I'm working on that and trying to pick it
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: up and what to do with it and stuff like that. And,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, the kid would just go. So he's still
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: got that ability. He's a little older now, a little
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: bit more beat up, a lot more wise. But he
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: could do some damage in this show. He really can.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: His log press is looking pretty good. And he'll be
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: smooth with the yoke.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. His yoke training that he's been posting is looking really,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be smooth with that. So if he gets
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a decent time in the yoke, he can one motion
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: those logs. So it's going to be fun to watch.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a good show all the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: way around.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely going to be a good show. You
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? We'll be watching through the live stream,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: taking notes, and reporting back after it happens just for that. Oh, absolutely.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. So it's, it, it's, I, I, me personally, I
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: would really like to see Martins get one, but I know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I know if Hooper comes in firing all cylinders, he's
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the guy to be just playing in some way.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, no. If he's, if he's dialed in, he's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: already proved his point.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: But now Reno being there this year is going to
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: add another wrinkle because these events will also be right
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: up Reno's.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Wheelhouse. Um, and their logs are getting their logs and
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: overhead press are getting uh similar to the point where
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: they're not that far apart so it's every point is
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: going to matter for these guys so it's gonna be
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: fun to watch i'm excited really yeah exactly let's see
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: here and.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Then uh we can actually get into uh Even with that,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: everything happening, you know, it was the Olympia weekend.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And the Olympia was live streamed for free.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And, you know, and after each show, because, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: with the Olympia Expo, it's over at five.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: We get home with just enough time.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: To watch the show. Sit down and cook food and
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: fill our bellies and watch the show, which is. Exactly.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Cause I don't mind going to the night show. I've
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: been to several of the night shows, but I would
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: like watching it from home a lot better. Oh yeah.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Plus we're comfortable. We're, you know, we're showered up for
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the day. It's, you know, it's nothing but feet up relaxing,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: which that's exactly what it was. So we got to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: really enjoy ourselves.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Then we could talk more and hear each other more. Yeah.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: It's not so loud in there. So that was great.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I, me, I thought Samson had it. I did.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Well, and, uh, you know, I, I, cause I, I've
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: nerded out the entire way, but what ended up happening is, uh,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you know, the, it's judged on pre, uh, you get
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: points from, uh, prejudging and then you get points on judging.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So on the first night, Samson was a little watery.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: He wasn't taught. It wasn't as tight. It wasn't as
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: dry as he needed, but that second night, uh, the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: actual judging day, he crushed it. He crushed it. The
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: judges said he basically won, but unfortunately, that's not how
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: it's judged.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: No, I know.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It goes by a collective of points, and Nick Walker
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: came in tight and dry both days, and yeah. Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: My problem, and probably most of the other people's problem
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: who watch this, is that You're watching someone who came
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: out on the finals that's getting live broadcasted. So you
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: didn't see all.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: The other stuff.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: The one show you see, and they should fix this.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: You either have to do a two-day... Live stream with
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: comparison shots. Oh, no.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: It was a two-day live stream. We just didn't see
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the first day because we were so busy with everything
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that we had to do. By the time we got back,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: all we got to do was watch the highlights on
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: social media. You know what I'm saying? Unfortunately.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Really, the guy that looks the best on the night
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: of the finals, since it's the finals. Agreed. It's not
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: who makes the most points in the qualifying heats at
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: World's Strongest Man.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: It's who has the most points in the finals. Everybody
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: competes to get to the finals. And then when you're
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: in the finals, the top 10 guys, whoever looks, whoever
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: lifts the most and does the best, they win. Well,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Nick Walker did the best in the qualifying heats, but
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: he did not do the best in the finals. I
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: like Nick Walker. He's a good dude. I really do.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: And I do think he should win one. And he did, but.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. And he tightened it up too.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Samson looks so much.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Better in that second night. He was absolutely dialed in.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Absolutely dialed in. The finals is when it counts. That
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: should actually mean something. The qualifying should get you in there.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And then at the very least, 10 through 6 should
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: be able to change all over the place. And first
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: through 5 should be able to change all over the place.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: that last night nothing should be etched in stone going
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: into the finals like that especially with a live broadcast
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: because it looks bad it really does the guy that
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: won on that night should be the guy who wins
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the title it's just they gotta fix.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: The way they do it Oh, yeah. It's been judged
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the same way for so long.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: If you want to build the popularity of the sport
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and you.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Want to make the finals mean something, because what do
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the finals really mean? You come in a bit off
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: on the night of the finals, but you won the prelims,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: so you win the whole thing. It's not a good look.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: That's it. Well, that's one of those things, too, is
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: like even with Samson Douda coming in as dialed in
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: as he did.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Not to mention.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Nick Walker.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: He's way bigger.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The size difference is completely noticeable.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: The guy's a house. He's a house. Yes, he is.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: He's a house.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: When he's standing next to Nick and Nick all of
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: a sudden looks small.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: It's like me standing next to Brian Shaw.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's absolutely it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Anyway, that's my rant. But I will say congratulations to Nick.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: He did look phenomenal. Both days was his best condition.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Belly control.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That was the first time we met. That was one
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: of the things that everyone's always brought. He doesn't control
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: his midsection and that midsection stayed glued to his spine
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the entire time. He didn't breathe heavy. That's something that
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: We haven't seen before because once you start getting that
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: distension and it just sticks out, everybody sees it. They're
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: not judged from the sides, but when it's noticeable, it's noticeable.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So that was the biggest improvement that I've seen. He
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: was really cut and dry. The only thing is, like
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I said, his legs were looking good. It's just in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: his V-taper, he's still got that blocky look. But for me,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the biggest surprise was Derek Lunsford from first to third.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: But we've had this conversation before, too. He can't get
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: any bigger. All he can do. The conditioning. The conditioning.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: You can't stress that enough.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: We're talking about conditioning. The guys are shredded.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: It's just the other guys were just tighter. it's yeah
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: just yeah that's exactly just tighter yeah their peaking was
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: perfect yeah everything and bodybuilders will be subjective anyway it's
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: not like okay well he lifted the most so he
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: won it's it's not like that so it's what the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: judges have in their eyes for that day but i
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: mean it it was pretty clear he was not quite
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: the same condition as the other guys and it cost.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah And that's one of those things that he has
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to learn that lesson. He's already played the size game
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and one off the size game. Now it's, all right,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: let me be more diced than the rest of these guys.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Keep that size. Just come in, you know, five pounds
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: lighter with shreddedness.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's it. That's all you're going to do.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, and I know he would look insane,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: completely conditioned down.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: But there's things I would like to see the IFBB do.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I would like to have to see them all wear
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: the same trunks.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Trunks. Yeah, no, I would agree. If it was a
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: universal size and cut, because that could definitely change.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Because the cuts, I noticed some things about the cuts
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: of those suits. And some of them were coming down
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: to an extent where if the guy moved wrong. going
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: to get too much of a show. And it, it, it, it,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: it made some physiques maybe look a little.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Better than they did.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: A little more V taper than it should have had.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Correct. Correct. So I think that's one thing that could
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: make the judging a little more consistent and easier. Cause
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: it shouldn't come down to a cut on a suit.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: It should come down to who's the best on that day.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Bodybuilding is all about appearance. That's why they get tanned up.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: That's why they get all this stuff done. So everything pops,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: everything lines up. Even too, how many times do they
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: have to be told, step back? They step forward so
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: they look bigger than the person next to them. You
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? The tricks of the game. The
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: tricks of the game.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody who takes pictures with people, they always turn
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: and step forwards.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: So it's the same thing. But I like the pose down.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I like that Samson just went out there and went
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: after him. Yeah. He was just like, no, no, I'm
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: not going to sit here by myself. I'm going to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: go get next to him. And that probably did a
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: lot to the controversy and a lot to the damage
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: of people being upset. Yeah. I mean, at the end
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: of the day, don't be upset. Both these guys worked
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: really hard. Both of them got huge checks. And both
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: of them are fantastic and great competitors and great guys. So,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, congratulations, Nick. You did earn it. You busted
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: your tail.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? He only
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: did one other show this year. He got his qualification. And,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you know, he was– so like locked in and you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: know that's one of those things too is some of
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: these guys like look how much dory needs never did
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: any other show but the olympia yeah and even before
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: that yeah it was like whatever it took to get
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: me to the olympia then after that that's why they
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: call him the shadow he only popped out when it
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: was time to play.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: And he's always walking around covered up and yep you
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: don't know what's going on underneath there other than Well,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: you knew what's going on because that dude went.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: To the gym as an animal. But he wasn't showing off.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Like one of the things he would say too is
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't post photos. I didn't show updates. I didn't
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: want no one to know what I was doing or
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: what I was going to present.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty obvious what he was doing. He was
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: in the gym working his tail off. All he's got
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to do is watch some of the videos that they
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: released from.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Back in those days. Oh, yeah, blood and guts, all
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Oh, yeah. but that's it. You know, it was,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to just lift off the prize. So, uh,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Nick won $ 600, 000 for first place. Samson Dowda received 200,000
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: for second place. Derek Lunsford got a hundred thousand for
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: third place. Um, I think, uh, Andrew Jack got 50,000
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: for fourth. I believe, or I believe, and I'm not
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a hundred percent sure on that, but that's what I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: believe it was. And, um, You know, a lot of
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: these guys look great. You know, also, too, I'd like
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to mention that Nick Walker did win the People's Champ
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: belt and then won first place. So he got double
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: rewarded that night.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he got the belt and the title.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's it. That is it. You know what I'm saying?
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: The first person to win that belt was Roley Winkler.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? That was when they first
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: introduced that belt. So he was the first person to
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: ever win that People's Champ belt. So, you know what
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? That's how throwback it is.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's it so you know.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: So like i said it was a great weekend we
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: had a blast we had a lot of fun you
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: know i love bodybuilding i love the shows um you
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: know just in the olympia itself the amount of influencers
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that were there and the people that you have to
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: see because it's just such a congregation of people that
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you run into i ran i ran into three uh
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Food champions. I ran into a food vlogger, a guy
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: named Joel Haseen. He travels the world and just goes
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to all-you-can-eat places and just goes until they kick him out.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: And... Yeah.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: And I got, you know, like I said, I got
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: to meet a lot of people that, you know, just
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: content that I consume. And that's one of the best things, too,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: is because you can go there and everybody is cool
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: as hell. You know what I'm saying? We met Ziggler Monster.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: He was a cool guy. Super strength and fitness. You know,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: just like I said, it's a blast. Everybody's walking around
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: and everybody will have to take the time with you
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and take the pictures, you know what I'm saying? The
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: one thing I will say that I didn't really care for,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and there was a peptide booth. I can't remember the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: name of it, but Josh Hokit was there. And I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: know he's playing a character. I know he's doing his thing.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: But he ended up choking somebody out at the booth
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: because he wanted to get choked out. And I'm like,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: that's the biggest mistake you could ever make. Why would
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: you do that? Why? Everybody's recording. Everybody's there. And I
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: saw the guy, he legitimately got choked out. He passed
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: out and then he kind of woke up in a,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: in a, but that's what happens when you get knocked
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: out or choked out. You wake up in that little
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: bit of panic, especially.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: You don't know where you're at.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And I just thought that was the only thing
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: during this Olympia that I was just like, that's a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: bad taste, brother. That's a bad taste. I understand you're
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: playing the heel. I understand that you're WWE in the UFC, but.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Gotta be smarter than that.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%, because how many people have gotten sued over that?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: It's just a bad rule.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Remember Hulk Hogan? Yeah. Hulk Hogan was one of the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: first people to ever get really in trouble on the TV,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: because remember when he choked out that guy, it was Mr. T,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan, and that... TV, like, you know.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Her other.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And her other student.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It's like, yeah, it's just one
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of those things, you know. So I know there's no
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: such clickbait. I know all that stuff. I just was like,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I just, there's something I just wish I didn't see,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: but it is what it is. You know what I'm saying?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's not smart, man.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not smart.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it just– it was kind of foolish,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: very reckless, and it could put himself in a bad spot.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: So you never really want to do stuff like that. But,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: you know, hey, he made the choice.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Now he gets to live with the ramifications.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know you know cross fingers there's no ramifications
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: but at the same time it it's like come on
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: you know and then uh we did i did run
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: into one of my good buddies uh roger lockridge i
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: met him through nick best himself and uh roger got
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: inducted into or he got a plaque for uh the
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: sports hall of fame uh we got to go when
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: brian was inducted and we also got to see um.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: They invited us over there. We just couldn't get over there.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man. I wish we could have went. Cause I
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: wanted to go see Roger get accepted as an award.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: So Roger, I'm sorry. I didn't get a chance to
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: talk to you. You know?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: So we might have to, I might just reach out
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and see if we get them on the podcast.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Great guy. Great articles. Constantly putting out work. So it's like,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and for those who know, he writes for all the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: major publications that cover strength and fitness. And he does
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: great interviews and, Real great guy.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Awesome guy. So any powerless?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, he does.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: There's that too. So, Oh yeah.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we covered quite a bit, Nick and everything, uh,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: strength for ourselves. Yeah.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, uh, go check out all the new stuff on, uh, the, uh,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: not the Shopify. Um, thank you for participating in Patreon
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: and helping us do this. Uh, we, We couldn't do
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: this without you and we're very grateful. So thank you.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Keep asking the questions and go more in depth with questions.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Don't be afraid to ask. If I don't know the answer,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: we'll tell you the answer. We'll find out what that
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: answer is. But from my experience, I'll tell you what
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I know of things. And yeah, we just appreciate you
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: so much. So go out there, train hard, train smart,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: and be the best that you can be. Go out
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: there and be great, everybody. Have a great day.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You're listening to The Best Experience with Nick Best.