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25W: Evan Singleton ‘The Strongest Man on Earth’ talks Pro Wrestling + A Near-Death Brain Hemorrhage + Becoming the Strongest Man on Earth + The Lift That is Pointless for Everyone · 25 Whistles with Bobby Bones (A Football Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: Whistles wine, everybody, thank you, blow the whistle. We got
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  Speaker 1: a really cool episode because we have the world's strongest man, wait,
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  Speaker 1: strongest man on Earth. You know, world and Earth are
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  Speaker 1: very similar. But he is his literal title, his strongest
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  Speaker 1: man on Earth, and he won that in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna go to him because we talk
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  Speaker 1: about a lot of this, but it is Evan t
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  Speaker 1: Rex Singleton and he is a unit. If I don't
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  Speaker 1: mind saying so myself, he'll tell you his size, but
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  Speaker 1: he's six six he's a monster. All right. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking now with the strongest man on Earth, Evan Singleton.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Singleton is here. I call him Evan Strongman. But
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  Speaker 1: we should say how we met? Can I say? I? Well, first, Hippa,
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  Speaker 1: although I'm not a doctor, can I say how we met?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Please? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I had ankle surgery and I go to physical
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  Speaker 1: therapy and Evan was in physical therapy. But there was
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  Speaker 1: a difference in us. Just sitting there, I could tell
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  Speaker 1: just physically at us that there was difference. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're just there and Evan looks like a friendly guy
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  Speaker 1: or he looks like he killed you. One of the two.
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  Speaker 1: I bet on friendly because he was. He was talking
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  Speaker 1: to Daniel, the same physical therapist, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, what do you It almost felt like prison
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  Speaker 1: in there, honestly, because you always want to know what
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  Speaker 1: people do.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I've.
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  Speaker 1: Met like major League baseball players, I've met goalies. I
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  Speaker 1: met someone who won the ND five hundred twice on
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  Speaker 1: the same table that I met you.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm always curious about people. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, what's your name? And he's like, I'm Evan,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like and he's like, you know, getting worked
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  Speaker 1: on in Daniel, who's our physical therapist, is like.
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  Speaker 3: EV's like going to brag on himself.
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  Speaker 1: So Daniel goes, you know, Evan is like world strongest man,
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  Speaker 1: like that track looking at him, just looking at him.
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  Speaker 3: He's huge man.
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  Speaker 1: So so that's how we met. We were in physical
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  Speaker 1: therapy together. I was getting my ankle worked on. What
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  Speaker 1: were you injured?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I I have recently had had surgery repairing my
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  Speaker 3: pectoral tendon to my shoulder. Did you tear that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the tenon came completely off the bone.
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  Speaker 1: Was that in the middle of an at Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was at competition, and there was a competition that
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  Speaker 3: was going on in Malta, and it was a competition
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  Speaker 3: put on by Eddie Hall that we're looking to get
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  Speaker 3: onto Netflix or Amazon, fingers crossed for that. But there
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  Speaker 3: was a portion of the competition that was suma wrestling,
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  Speaker 3: and when I engaged with somebody, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's got to get on something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact that you were suing. Do you know
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  Speaker 4: how to sumo?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to sumo, but I have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of experience. I don't I don't know how to
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  Speaker 3: sumo wrestle, but I do have a lot of experience
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  Speaker 3: with combat sports. So wow, how's it? How is it?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, how's the injury?
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's I'm back to one. I'm back to full training.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in my prep for World's Strongest Man. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to be in the middle of April, and I'm feeling really,
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  Speaker 3: really strong.
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  Speaker 1: So to backup half a step, are you currently the
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  Speaker 1: World's strongest Man?
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  Speaker 3: I am currently the strongest man on Earth? So different titles, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: they are different titles. So World's Strongest Man is the
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  Speaker 3: one that you would see reruns on with like ESPN,
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  Speaker 3: Strongest Man on Earth is a competition that was that
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  Speaker 3: was they're taking they're taking a break this year and
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  Speaker 3: they're bringing it back next year. To my understanding, strongest
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  Speaker 3: Man on Earth is essentially the world's strongest man. But
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  Speaker 3: the weights are the heaviest in the entire world.
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  Speaker 1: So what are the things you do in competition in
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  Speaker 1: World's Strongest Man?
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  Speaker 3: So world's Strongest Man is a very I would say
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  Speaker 3: it's a relatively solid mixture of strength and conditioning and speed.
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  Speaker 3: So you need to have muscular endurance, you need to
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  Speaker 3: have the strength, you need to have everything. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of events where we're doing multiple repetition. You're doing
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  Speaker 3: stuff for speed. I need to pick up three three
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  Speaker 3: hundred pounds sandbags. I need to pick them up, run
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  Speaker 3: fifty feet with them, put them on a table, and
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  Speaker 3: then run back and grab the next one, and then
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  Speaker 3: grab the next one, and then the fastest time who
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  Speaker 3: can get all three on the table wins. Stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: How big the sandbag about three hundred to three hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty pounds give or take, give her take.
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  Speaker 4: We wouldn't be able to move one of the like nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So then it to do that to train that? Does
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  Speaker 1: that mean you own one three hundred pounds sand bag
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  Speaker 1: that you would train with? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a I have a four hundred pound
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  Speaker 3: sandbag that I can shoulder and do all of that
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  Speaker 3: fun stuff with. I have at the I train over
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  Speaker 3: at a gym five and I have everything that I
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  Speaker 3: need to train there. I have got a big wooden
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  Speaker 3: log that says t Rex on it. I have Atlas
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  Speaker 3: stones that I can put on platforms and stuff. Does
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  Speaker 3: that means I have there's a giant like imagine a
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  Speaker 3: dodgeball made out of concrete that's twenty two inches wide.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's about what I have, and that weighs anywhere
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  Speaker 3: from two hundred and fifty two. My heaviest one is
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  Speaker 3: worse sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: And what's to go?
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  Speaker 3: So at the stones essentially would be there'd be five
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  Speaker 3: stones lined up in front of a platform, and you
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  Speaker 3: need to pick every stone up and load it onto
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  Speaker 3: the platform. And once you load the last stone onto
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  Speaker 3: the platform, you take your hands off. That's when time stops.
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  Speaker 3: The fast time wins.
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  Speaker 1: In my world, I'd be cup stacking. I'd cup stack
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  Speaker 1: and lift my hands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of like cupstacking, just heavy.
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  Speaker 4: With heavy rocks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just with heavy rocks, just with heavy rocks. This
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  Speaker 3: is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So do you ever do like stuff like that just
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  Speaker 4: for like, do build a house like and just put.
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  Speaker 1: Is it training when you build a house?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Like like I understand in a gym
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  Speaker 4: and all that training, but like I feel like you
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  Speaker 4: could do that with like a stone house and well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of a lot of daily activities for
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  Speaker 3: the most part, are a lot easier because I'm so strong.
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  Speaker 1: Like how big are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am six foot six and three hundred and sixty pounds.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the perfect weight for you at competition?
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  Speaker 3: I would say it's between three sixty and three because
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  Speaker 3: if I go over three seventy, I start to slow
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  Speaker 3: down and that's kind of cost me time on the
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  Speaker 3: moving events. What's your natural weight? You think if I
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  Speaker 3: stopped force feeding? Because I force feed every single day.
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  Speaker 3: If I stopped force feeding, I'd probably be somewhere around
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  Speaker 3: three fifteen. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: Force feed?
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  Speaker 3: In order to do the heavy exercises and just the
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  Speaker 3: exertion that I go through training every single day, I
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  Speaker 3: need to eat a lot of calories I eat about
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  Speaker 3: eight to nine thousand calories every day.
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  Speaker 4: So even if you're not hungry, you just like, I've
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  Speaker 4: got to keep eating.
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  Speaker 3: I have to get the protein and the carbs in
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  Speaker 3: force it. What what's that schedule? Then it's gotta be regimented.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's My first meal is six am and
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  Speaker 3: that's five eggs, half a pound of bacon, and then
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  Speaker 3: cherry danish and then a protein drink.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to me to eating.
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  Speaker 3: Would it be fun?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, eating is terrible. I hate it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: enjoy anything about eating at all.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: That takes a joy away, it really does.
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  Speaker 4: And it's expensive. Oh gotcha, right right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great that's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, grocery bills every week. It's probably somewhere in
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  Speaker 3: the five hundreds. Oh for you, Just no, it's just
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  Speaker 3: for me. It doesn't even count my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild. Okay, So where did this start? What
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  Speaker 1: kind of athlete were you as a child?
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  Speaker 3: So growing up, I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and
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  Speaker 3: it's big farm area, so that's pretty much all you
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  Speaker 3: have to do is either be on a farm or
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  Speaker 3: go out and play sports. So I played sports I
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  Speaker 3: did everything at least once, and I really liked amateur wrestling,
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  Speaker 3: so I decided to pursue amateur wrestling and I ended
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  Speaker 3: up being nationally ranked my senior year, so I was
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  Speaker 3: very happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: What sides were you wrestling at?
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  Speaker 3: I was heavyweight, so I wrestled at two forty five
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  Speaker 3: and I was like six six three sixty four. Were
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  Speaker 3: you dominant? Kind of? Yeah, that's awes well. I was
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  Speaker 3: dominant because, and I attribute this to my wrestling coach,
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  Speaker 3: and his style of coaching is when that whistle blows,
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  Speaker 3: you just attack you. You you pushed the pace of
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  Speaker 3: the match, and you are constantly moving forward. You'd never
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  Speaker 3: give up an inch. So I brought that mentality into
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  Speaker 3: my wrestling. So as soon as the whistle blew, I
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  Speaker 3: tried to rip your head off.
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  Speaker 1: Question, if you are that size, isn't that mentality a
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  Speaker 1: little easier?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Because I say it, I'll be a little more scared
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  Speaker 1: by someone with that mentality if they were six four
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  Speaker 1: two thirty. Then if I wrestling Eddie and that was his.
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  Speaker 3: Mentality, a little diverent, I'd be like real quick.
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  Speaker 1: And so, did you like wrestling or were you good
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  Speaker 1: at wrestling both.
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  Speaker 3: I loved wrestling, and wrestling still has a very very
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  Speaker 3: very very important spot in my heart. It's the reason
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  Speaker 3: why I have the mentality that I do as an athlete.
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  Speaker 3: It's the reason why I have the determination and the
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  Speaker 3: aggression that I do now when I train for strong
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  Speaker 3: Man and all of that. I love wrestling. I love
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  Speaker 3: everything about wrestling. And there's one sport that I would
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  Speaker 3: wish I could go back and keep doing. It would
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  Speaker 3: be wrestling.
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  Speaker 1: So after high school, did you continue wrestling?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: After high school I got signed to the WWE, where
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  Speaker 3: I became a professional wrestler.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know this. Yes, out of high school.
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  Speaker 3: Out of high school, I had it when I was eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: How did they approach you? How do they know about you?
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  Speaker 3: Just from so? I was a big fan of pro
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  Speaker 3: wrestling all my childhood. Me too, So I loved pro
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  Speaker 3: wrestling and Kane. Oh that's a good one. Kane.
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  Speaker 1: He was also a giant and he can move. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that. That's an odd mix. Somebody that big
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  Speaker 1: that could also was agile yep. Oh cool, okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: So after I graduated high school, I knew I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to pursue professional wrestling, and my dad gave me like
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  Speaker 3: a year before It's like, okay, i'll let you. You
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  Speaker 3: can pursue this for a year and I'll help you
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  Speaker 3: out when I can where I can. But if it's
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  Speaker 3: not within a year, you got to tick up, like
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  Speaker 3: you got to go to college and get further education.
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  Speaker 3: And I had I for wrestling. I had rides to
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  Speaker 3: Penn State. I had rides to Rutgers University, like full
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  Speaker 3: rides and everything like that to be the wrestler, but
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  Speaker 3: I turned them down because I wanted to pursue professional wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: Did you go to Florida and train?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where I was school developmental. Yeah, I was
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  Speaker 3: actually there when they try they transformed it from FDW
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: Florida Championship Wrestling to NXT, which is what it is now.
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  Speaker 3: So I was in Florida. It's their like developmental program.
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  Speaker 3: It's called NXT. It's where they'll bring people in to
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  Speaker 3: try out. They'll bring them in who have no like
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  Speaker 3: wrestling experience, and they'll kind of mold them into an
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  Speaker 3: active wrestler and then that's when they'll start getting opportunities
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  Speaker 3: to perform on shows. And then they can work their
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  Speaker 3: way up into uh like Raw SmackDown, the main main shows.
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  Speaker 1: So how was your experience there doing that?
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  Speaker 3: It was mixed. It was mixed. I was very young,
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  Speaker 3: and looking back at it, I didn't have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of life experience to prepare me for everything that kind
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  Speaker 3: of happened. A lot of stuff came at me at once,
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  Speaker 3: and I wasn't really prepared mentally or emotionally for it,
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  Speaker 3: and then unfortunately I ended up getting hurt. I got
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  Speaker 3: a brain hemorrhage during a wrestling match, and.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of the match. Yeah, so I would
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  Speaker 1: have thought you were like wrestling and had been like,
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  Speaker 1: I got him now, Yeah, he's doing the brain kill.
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  Speaker 3: Watch out with the brain kill.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm sorry that happened to you. You remember it?
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  Speaker 3: No, I remember wrestling in the match up until the
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  Speaker 3: point where I got slammed. What I got choke slammed
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  Speaker 3: and I landed on the back of my head instead
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  Speaker 3: on my back, so my head bounced against Matt rattled,
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  Speaker 3: my brain broke, the inside of the left hemisphere of
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  Speaker 3: my brain open, and I was bleeding in my skull
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  Speaker 3: almost die. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What do they tell you about that?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Well, after about six months of no wrestling, no contact,
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: no physical strain at all. My neurologist essentially told me, like,
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: if you take another hit like that, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: kill you, Like it'll reopen and then you'll bleed into
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  Speaker 3: your skull until the pressure will condense your brain and
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: you'll die. How long were you in the hospital. I
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  Speaker 3: was only in the hospital for Well. It's funny because
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: the on site medic actually sent me home and just
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: told me he thought it was a concussion. So he
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: sent me home and told me not to fall asleep
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  Speaker 3: right away. So that was awesome. Keeping in mind, all
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  Speaker 3: of this is just bringing it. All of this was
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  Speaker 3: told to me by my roommate and other people that
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: I was interacting with. I still don't remember like two
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  Speaker 3: to three months, Like from the moment of injury up
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  Speaker 3: until two to three months, I have no recollection of
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  Speaker 3: that at all. What's the first thing you remember after that? Then? Oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 3: I would say probably going in to the training facility
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  Speaker 3: and talking to the on site medic and talking about
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  Speaker 3: my symptoms and everything that I had, because I had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of symptoms going on at the time. I'm
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  Speaker 3: really thankful that I don't have these issues anymore. For
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  Speaker 3: the most part, I still have some stuff that I
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  Speaker 3: deal with. But I had uncontrollable muscle tremors, like for
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  Speaker 3: like maybe a fraction of a second, I would like
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: my body would tense up, like it was almost like
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: I was getting tasered for half.
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  Speaker 1: A second and you didn't know when they were coming.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was completely random. It would just happen randomly.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: I couldn't drive.
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  Speaker 1: Have they diagnosed that now?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Does it still happen at all?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thankfully, that's that's like one of the few symptoms
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  Speaker 3: that actually went away. My short term memory is still terrible.
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  Speaker 3: I still obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Anything my wife tells her.
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  Speaker 3: That's just part of it.
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  Speaker 1: How old were you? How long ago is this?
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  Speaker 3: This was I'm thirty three now and it happened when
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  Speaker 3: I was nineteen, So thirteen fourteen, thirteen fourteen? Did I did?
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  Speaker 3: I did end up moving back home for a little while. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then are you lost as to well this was
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  Speaker 1: my plan?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for the longest time, that was my dream.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I wanted to do with my entire life,
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  Speaker 3: was headline WrestleMania and b WW Champion and all that
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  Speaker 3: and it's just gone.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: So one last damn wrestling question. No, what was your name?
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Adam Mercer? You could have done better? Yeah, yeah, is
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: this something you came up with? Yeah, we'll see how
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: it works with ww How it works with WWE is
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: when you first get to developmental, you come up with
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: a list of like fifteen to twenty names, and then
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  Speaker 3: you send that up the ranks, and then they send
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  Speaker 3: you that same list back with like three names that
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  Speaker 3: they approve of, and then you pick from those three,
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: which one's your name?
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: And that was your first one, Adam Mercer, that was
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: the first one that just came back.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Why that name? I actually stole that from a video
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: game that I used to play. There was a video
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: game character from the game prototype. The main character's name
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: was Alex Mercer, and I just thought that that sounded cool.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: So I'd like to protract my statement saying you could
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: have done better because you're bigger than I am. So
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I would just like to say, hey, maybe if we
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: did it again, we'd picked ups on a more timidating.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: You're pretty timating a gay.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: So you go home.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're like a bit lost, Like what what
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: do you start?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: What do you think is next at that time of
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: your life?
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Honestly, Like I wasn't even clear to exercise in the
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: gym or anything like that. So I got really unhealthy
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: and really out of shape. Like I started downing like
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: two leaders of Mountain dew every day in a whole
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and like, I just
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: had no motivation. Diet was nonexistent, size was non existent.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Everything was just awful. It felt like I was in purgatory.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: And then I finally got the green light from my
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: neurologist to start exercising again. So I looked at myself
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: in the mirror. I'm like almost three I'm almost four
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: hundred pounds of just chewed bubble gum. And I hated
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: what I looked like in the mirror. So I was like,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: I want to like what I see in the mirror again.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna what's what's the most like esthetically pleasing thing
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: that comes to mind? Bodybuilding? You're shredded, you have giant muscles,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: you you look awesome. So I'm going to pursue that.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: So I ended up pursuing that, and I ended up
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: dropping like one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: pounds and jumping on a professional bodybuilding stage in New York.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: So you were a professional bodybuilder as well.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Once I did one show, so that no, that counts.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Did you win it?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I did not. I got top three, though, so that
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: was cool.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I would say, if you murder one person, you're a murderer.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: So if you did, if you did, if you did
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: fair enough one professional bodybuilding competition, you're a professional bodybuilder
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: at least were you had a career?
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Is that?
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Did you enjoy that or no?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I liked having a six pack and being shredded and
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: all that. That was awesome. I've never been that lean
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: before in my life, so that was cool to experience.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: But it was absolutely miserable and I hated it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: No which part of it?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Diet? I'm a fat kid at heart. So when all
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I have to eat is boiled chicken, broccoli and white
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: rice six times a day, that's not it. And then
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I have to do two hours of cardio, that's terrible.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: It's not living.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: That's not living.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I feel like you take two terrible eating lanes though.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: It's what it's like. You're only eating, like, you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: a piece of chicken and a plant, a leaf, or
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you're eating eighteen pounds of bacon in the morning.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but at least eating eighteen pounds of bacon in
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: the morning, at least I get to have like dessert
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: and candy. And that's true.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: When you said Danish, I was like, yes, yeah, cherry Danish.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Terry Danish, like all the other stuff sounds too much terry.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Danish as you get from Costco when they're fresh off. Wow,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: they're so good. They're so good.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: The hemorrhage I don't understand, because I would think that
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: if you had a brain bleed and now you're just
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: carrying hair, heavy, heavy things, putting a lot of strength,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: like is does the doctor like, hey, you can't keep
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: doing that.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I was advised this wasn't recently though, Like when it
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: was around the time that I started exercising again and
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: starting started trying to get back in shape, they were
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: pretty out of it, like take this slow and slowly
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: introduce your body back to it. Yeah. The doctors were
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: kind of, I don't want to say baffled, but like
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: they they weren't necessarily prepared for me to be like, yeah,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I've been going to the gym like five times a
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: week and the strain is not bothering me at all.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I think that that answer kind of like made them
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: scratch their head a little bit. But to this day,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: like like, obviously I do the whole pass out thing
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: every once in a while, but that just what do
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: you mean? In heavy lifting with like powerlifting, strong man
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: and all of that, sometimes the pressure builds too much
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: in your head when you're lifting and guys pass out.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: What That's what I'm talking abouts.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Not a super super frequent thing, but it does happen.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I mean you can type in onto YouTube. I won't,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: but I'm a powerlifter passes out and they'll they'll pick
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: up a heavy deadlift and then they'll drop it and
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: then just the blood rush to their head and it
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: will make them pass out and then just fall over.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: But then they get back up on the deal.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: That's normal in that culture.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, it has nothing to do with past hemorrhage.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Has you ever going to do it? Do you ever
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: see the Anatoley videos? Yes?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Comment I watch those twenty at a time. And for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: those that don't know he does this bit and I don't,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't know one other than the bit at first
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: where he's dressed like a janitor, and he's like, oh,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the he looks heavy and these guys are massive and
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: they're they're doing all this deadlift and he's like, I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: need to move it because I need to sweep under this,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and they're like, man, we're Nimila doing deadlift. He's like it,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: don't just take one second and then he lifts it
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: up himself like walks heavy. Yes, it's so funny to me.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You ever met that guy?
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I have never met that guy, but he gets tagged
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: in my videos all the time. He's never like, done
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: that trick to you though, where you like, I remember
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: once at Strongest Man on Earth. Actually, last year I
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: deadlifted eleven hundred and thirty four pounds. How does a
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: bar even hold that? That's a different question. But anyway,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: they were covered in like Hummer tires and stuff, so
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: it was really cool looking. But I posted that online
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: and then like half the comments are yeah, but I
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: totally or whatever his name is, like he just call
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: him in and he'll make that look super effortless, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: it's just like, guys, come on, I was proud of
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: this lifting. Now you're making it into a joke. What
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: was a weight again? On eleven hundred and thirty four pounds.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: What's what's your pr for deadlift?
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: On a straight bar, It's one thousand and ten pounds,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: and then on a trap bar it's eleven thirty four.
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• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I have a trap bar. I like the trap bar.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: That makes sense, it'd be a little more. Why is
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: DAK The base is.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: It's it's a couple of things. The neutral grip, like
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you have a trap bar, like you, we're the same.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: We're saying, yeah, go ahead, tell them because I know obviously,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: but tell them so.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: With the trap bar, it's a neutral grip, and that
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: just aligns with your body's natural anatomy a little bit better.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: It's easier to like, essentially like press it. It's why
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: people with a strong leg press and a squat are
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: typically better at trap bar than regular deadlift.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: When I regular deadlift, I prefer I don't know what
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: mixed grip.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's one up, one down like money.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Is that allowed? Yeah, you're allowed to do that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: It's not recommended because in strong Man we're to use
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: straps to strap onto the bar. And if your one
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: arm is underhand grip and you strap in like that
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: and you have an excess amount of weight when you're deadlifting,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: that could put your bicep in serious wrists.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: That's why, Oh you have scar, you have like things
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in your arms, Yeah, I have.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: That's from when I tore my distal ten in at
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: World's Strongest Man trying to clean and press a two
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty pounds dumbbell, a single dumbell. Yeah. So
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I clean it with both arms from the ground. Yeah,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: and I take one away and then I press with
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: one arm.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: What did that feel when it's snapped?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: What are you bell crow tearing? Like pulling belcrow apart?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Do you hear that?
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah? So it sounds like a pop.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's just a Tuesday for you and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: things are ripping like you're lifting such such heavy weights
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I'm just used to it another Thursday noon.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: It's my Thursday at noon.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: It's I guess to fill out.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've torn my biceps three times, I've torn
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: my peck ten in and I've shattered both my feet.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I've thrown my back out, i had nerve damage in
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: my neck. I've done a whole bunch of stuff to myself.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: When did you start knowing the strongest man on Earth
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was a.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Thing like strong man in general?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty five. It was after my bodybuilding show. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: wanted to age twenty five.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, going to say, cause last year, man, you've come
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a long way. If it's just this last year, I.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Wish, I wish. But I've known about straw Man for
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a little while now, about eight eight nine years now,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and I started competing at twenty five, and before that
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know what straw Man was.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: How was your first experience in competition?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I won, and it qualified me for the pro show.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: So it's not a system that we use anymore. But
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: when I started competing, they did something called platinum plus shows,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: and a platinum plus show is like an amateur show.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: And the winner of the Open Heavyweight, which is what
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I competed in. If you won that, you would get
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: an invite to a show so you can go compete
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: with the pro guys. And I competed in a Platinum
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Plus show my first show. I want it and I
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: want to go compete with the pros. That was the
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: World's Strongest Man qualifying tour.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Did you know Platin Plus was also a strip club
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: in Memphis?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I did not know that.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because in college some of my friends would drive
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: over and they'd be like, I met the stripper. She's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: in love with me, and I'd be like like, no,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: she's not. They're like no, no, We drove through and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: they go to Plantem Plus like once a month from
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: in the middle of Arkansas. I don't think that's open anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So when you when you win that and when you
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: walk in the very first time you're performing, do you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: look around and go I think I can compete or
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it is visually? Does that not really always matter? What's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the side what someone looks like?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Oh no, what somebody looks like is completely irrelevant. We've
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: got guys that are morbidly obese. We've got guys that
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: are really small and under three hundred pounds. We've got
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: everywhere in between. I compete with guys that are six nine, but.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: They can Some guys that you don't think and go
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: can go yeah like they maybe smaller, or they maybe
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: but they.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Still absolutely or the opposite, somebody that looks like, oh man,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: they're so strong.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I run into that a couple of times. There's guys
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: bigger than me that I beat on a regular basis.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So you when, for the sake of my knowledge, the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: prelam to get into a pro it's that insulting. No, okay, no,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you go into the pro event. How did you do there?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I ended up coming in like eighth place.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: How many people are there?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Twelve?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And do you feel like that's a victory since that's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: your first ever professional show?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: No?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, y oh, you were disappointed with it. I was
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: disappointed with that because my strength was there.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I know that I could have done better because my
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: strength was there to win the show. But it was
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: my second competition ever. I made a lot of rookie mistakes,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: like what's a mistake that you make? Then my hand
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: placement on stuff like like a frame carry like a
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: big wooden frame with handles on the inside of it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Instead of staggering my grip a little bit to keep
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the thing leveled, I didn't do that, and I just
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: picked it straight up like normal, and then it would
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the frame would like tip forward, scrape across ground, slow
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: me down, make it harder to move. Did you ever
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: do that thing where you take the ball and you
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: thought over the top of that thing?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: You ever see that?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I do a variation of that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Like I just remember watching that show that you were
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: talking about. Used to come on ESPN. They would take
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: they'd be in the sand, they would take something a heavy,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: heavy medicine, maybe a medicine ball.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, you might be thinking of a kettlebelly.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: It's a kettlebell.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: We've done kettlebells, kegs and sandbags.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Oh I've seen the kegs.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we throw them over. Do you do
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: that thing? Yep? How do you train for that?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I have?
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: So what I have is at my gym as a yoke.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: That's when I get underneath it, I stand up and
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: then I run with it. That has giant pillars on it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I put PVC pipes in the pillars and then I
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: connect a rubber band at like twelve to fifteen feet
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: and that gives me the height that I need and
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: then I just have the sandbags that I just practice with.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Do you hate training? It feels miserable. I love training.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: You love going to work.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: That man that is.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: That's why he does it. Have you pulled the eighteen wheeler?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I pulled a seven forty seven? Actually, are you airplane? Okay?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I was thinking like that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: It's a massive, a big commercial airplane. How'd that happen?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Where was that? That was actually in Florida. I had
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: a good time doing that. And one of my buddies
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: worked on an air on an air base like a
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: like a private runway essentially, and he was like, I know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: you do the strong man thing. You want to get
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: a couple of guys together.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: An It wasn't a competition, No, this was just let's
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: just go pull seven. That's crazy.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Well, are you familiar with monster trucks at all?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: So in World Strongest Man twenty nineteen, they tethered Monster
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: jam and Gravedigger together and then I pulled them both
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: at the same time.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's why Digger was the grave Digger when I
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: was a kid. Grave Digger yeah, because I had Bigfoot
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and Grave Digger too, like two toy trucks. So now
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: do you ever just like want to show people how
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: strong you are and be like, yeah I can. Oh,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: like of a car, like a small car and it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: parallel parts and it's like it needs to be moved.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Could you just lift it out?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah? Oh yeah?
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Or like you go to the parking lot and like
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: there's somebody double parked there in the line, Ah, we
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: can move back far.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I've been waiting for the opportunity. I've been waiting for
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: the opportunity. I really really just once in my life
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: want to see a smart car double park so I
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: can literally just flip it into one space.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Please call us, Please call us when you do that.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: That's a TikTok video for sure. So you won the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Last Strongest Man on Earth? Yes? Going into that, did
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you feel like like you were a favorite to win it?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I did? I really did. The events were very good
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: for me. I was going into it super confident, mentally healthy,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: physically healthy, and like all of my training leading up
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: to it was just going great. I went into it
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: very confident.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Do you ever lift more than you do? You ever
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: said prs at these events because your adrenalines.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Also. Oh yeah, absolutely so when I'm when I'm performing,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I usually perform anywhere between. There's usually a crowd of
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: anywhere between four to eight thousand people, depending on where
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: it is at the event. Yeah, at the event. Yeah so,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: and I'm like WWE and just my personality, I'm a showman.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I like to put on a good show. So when
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I get the crowd like behind me and they start
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: cheering for me and everything like that, that's that's like
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: adrenaline that I can't recreate. Like that's that fuels me
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: to go much harder and faster than I ever could
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: in training.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been surprised, as you said, a personal
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: record because you're like, holy crap.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: I just did it. I've never done it before. Oh yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Do you show it on your face or are you just
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like yeah, Oh.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I usually am pretty I'm usually pretty animated when I
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: had a really heavy lift, especially when I know it's
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: good points for the competition.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: What do the other competitors know you as uh annoying?
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Why guys? Oh no, I'm just joking. I'm straw Man
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: has had straw Man has had a very very consistent
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: flow of athletes where it's walk onto the platform, lift wave,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: walk off like and when I'm doing it, I have
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: smelling salts, my ammonia salts that I smell. I'll give like,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I'll I'll head butt like a squat racker something like that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I'll have my coach.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Get you had brain injury, remember that, Just making sure
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm fully aware of it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm fully aware that the doctors watching right, I'm
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: fully aware that it's it's terrible for me and I
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: should stop doing it, but I'm not going to because
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: it works.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: But how hard do you head butt? Like just oh yeah, yeah, no,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: is it cartilage?
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we quit that.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: You know, maybe I'll stop doing it when it stops working. Okay,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: fair enough, Hey, man, just let them do No. I
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: know I'm not telling them again.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I got messed up earlier being like, man, we could
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: do better with a name.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, you're doing him.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So when you win last year, was that the first
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: year that you actually finished first?
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, that was my first world title win. How awesome
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: is that?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: It was like seven eight years in the making, Like
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: because at World's Strongest Man, I've had a history of
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: like something bad happening that's costing me the title, tearing
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: a bicep or a PEC ten and or like getting
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: sick before the show even starts, like just over and
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: over and over again, just these random acts of just
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: bullshit that it's essentially taken away my ability to perform
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: and to be able to go out and win a
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: world level title. Like like there was a part where
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I just broke down and cried in the hotel room
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: after you won, after I won, Yeah, I took the
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: trophy back to the hotel room, showered, and I was
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: just like, finally did it. Because you always get to
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: be that now. Yeah, I'm I am the strongest man
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: on Earth until the day I die. And I love that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: See That's why I like chasing titles over world records,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: because everybody's always like, oh, the world record deadlift, this
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: a world record deadlift that. It's just like, yeah, but
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: eventually someone's gonna come along and beat your record. You're
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: not the deadlift world record holder anymore. But if I
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: win World Strongest Man, I'm world strongest Man.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Forever, and I'm dancing Win Stars Champion forever.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Kyle, look at you too.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, there'll be other dnswers that wins, but for
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that season, I won. But I'll always be that.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: What's the point though of And I'm not arguing with you,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: but what's the point.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: We're all scared?
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Hey, what question you wanted to ask you?
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: What's the point of being the strongest dude and not telling?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Like you saw Bobby in this Yeah, he can tell me.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: He would never tell me. He wouldn't have told me
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: tell him.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I'm just like like I I I deal with a
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: lot of personalities on a regular basis because of what
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I do for a quote unquote real job, and then
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: like my history doing strong Man and just Jim culture
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: in general, I run into a lot of people who
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: just are arrogant, who just undeserved entitlement and think that
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: there's somebody when they're not. And it's just I try
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: not to be I try not to be over over
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: sharing with with my accomplishments because I don't want to
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: come off like that, you know what I mean?
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: But you are that though, you know what I mean.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I looked at him and I thought I was a golfer.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: This guy looks like he plays on the tour on
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the PGA tour. Yeah, no, that he wouldn't have told me.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I mean he had Daniel Lot told me. I would
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: have never known. And I was so interested. I messaged
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I literally as soon as you left, I've followed him
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and I was like, dude, you got to come up
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: because I just have so many questions about it. So cool.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Then the holiday's hitting and so for me, this has
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: been like a thrill to just get to know your
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: story and like your world's strongest man. What I worry about.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: What I wonder about is you tore your peg, but
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: now you've got to compete in a month. Have you
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: been able to train at the level that you usually
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: train because you've been injured?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I have. Yeah. See, It's it's funny because I've been
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: injured a lot in my career, but the strong man
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: community has kind of gifted me with the nickname Wolverine
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: because I just have a history of just bouncing back
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: from injury so fast and healing, and I like to
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: take credit for that because I go above and beyond
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: when it comes to my recovery, because I hate sitting
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: on the sideline and I don't like not doing what
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I do, So like when guys will do their rehab
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: like twice a week. They'll go see Daniel twice a week,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: and then the rest of the week they're just kind
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: of relaxing and letting their body recover. Like I'm hitting,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I'm doing rehab stuff at home or at the gym,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: and at the rehab center three times a day.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I why I wanted to hire you to train me. Would
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you let somebody pay you to train?
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so they want to impress you, because that's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: what I would. I ended up having a brain imager
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: doing min press. Trust me, I promise you I watched this.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: You'll train people. Yeah, but for strong man or for
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: like No, No, I do general fitness as well. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: have one guy who I actually trained before I came
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: in here. Nice kid, never been in the gym a
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: day in his life, so I've just been getting giving
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: in the basics and building his strength and he's put
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: on like fifteen pounds of muscle.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Do you get impatient with people like that though, just
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: because you've been doing your whole life and they haven't.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: No, No, I understand the level that I'm at doesn't
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: give me any right to treat anybody any differently. Like
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: we're all people we're all on our journey, whether it's fitness,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: whether it's business, whether it's anything. We're all at different levels,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but we're all. We're all people.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: What do you What do I get wrong? General public
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: get wrong about when we work out, because like I'll
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: be like, should I be maxing on bach press zero percent? No, Corey, Yeah, yeah,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: of course I don't do that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Well. The thing, the thing that I see with a
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: lot of guys, this is mostly guys, and I hear
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I see it so much. It's it's they constantly push
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: their body to the absolute max with certain lifts, deadlift,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: bench press, anything like that on a regular basis. And
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: that's not how you build strength. If you're testing your
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: your one rep max every week, your one rep max
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: is going to stay the same every single week. So
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: how do I How do I get stronger? You need volume,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: so lighter, lighter, but more Yes, So, like let's say
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: instead of going for a one rep max on bench press,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks, I have you doing four
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: sets of ten to fifteen, and then I'll have you
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: do one week, I would have you do a sets
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: of eight, but the weight's a little bit heavier, and
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: then we would just progressively up and up and up,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: and I would have you do that rotation for maybe
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: eight to ten weeks and then we can retest your
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: one rep max again.
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• 38:28
  Speaker 3: What is.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: A left that people do that probably is so old
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: school they probably shouldn't do it anymore.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I this is just I'm probably gonna get heat for this,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: But I I never understood calf raises. I think calfraises
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: are pointless. Same get you can get big calves in
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: other ways. I can't. I've tried to do it.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I've done everything we've talked about this calf raises until
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the sun comes home. Those things still look like freaking toothpicks.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Like what could I do? Then? Do you squat?
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: How have you? Uh? Pretty give me a percentage of
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: like one hundred percent being maximum effort?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean I could probably just tell you. Wait,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: so I weigh about one seventy If I'm going to
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: do like a set of four, okay, two sixty five
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: or so, it's not bad. Yeah, I mean for a
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: thinnish guy, I'm pretty strong.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: That's not about at all.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Say yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, day all right,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: for sure, dey, all right, but my caps again smaller.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Actually I don't even have cats anymore. It goes try
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: angle to knee, so like my so, but do you
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: say squats are a big part of that.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: That's one part of it, because you're you're working your
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: cats when you're doing any kind of full body movement
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: like squat, deadlift, stuff like that. So I would recommend
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: just doing volume with other exercises, including that targeting the
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: calves with seated or standing calf raises. Just I don't know,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: never did anything for me, and like plianame metrics stuff,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I like biometric stuff. Do you do them?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I do? I do.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: My coach has me doing jump the jumps where I'll
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: literally just maximum max max distance jump three times in
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: a row without resetting. So just jump jump jump. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: do box jumps. I do all kinds of shit, all
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: kinds of ship like that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: What do you do anything physical as far as exercise
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that's not lifting.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: I do jiu jitsu? Oh my god, can you imagine
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: on the ground with him?
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, your first day in class?
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: All right, guy, Yeah, I do jiu jitsu and I
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: shoot guns jiu jitsu.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Man, that's tough.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Have you done m m A, because you you were
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: talking about combat sports like.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Wrestling, Brazilian jiu jitsu. I've done a little bit of kickboxing,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: but nothing notable, just honestly just kind of a fitness class.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Kind of Have you seen the slapping competition?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Fun fact about that. Don't do it. You had a
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: brain hemorrhage. Ude, No, I'm not. I'm not doing that
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: as an athlete. Hell no, I'm never doing that. But
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: I actually got invited, Me and another guy from World
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Strongest Man got invited to be the uh the guest
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: catchers for when guys get slapped and they go unconscious,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: there's guys there to catch them just really hit the ground.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: That's me and another guy from World Strongest Man were
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: invited to be special guest catchers for their first super
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: heavyweight out, So we.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Need strong guys.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Did you know they had guest just touchers at all.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because they fall backwards and they get caught.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: It's to stop them from I don't know they had
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: guest ones.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I thought I catch like that was a legitimate like
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a job. Do people see you and go what are you?
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Because you're something.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: If it's like if you were to see a six
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: ten guy who looks kind of athletic, you would go,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: what are you a volleyball player? Basketball player?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: I get that a lot. In America, I get football
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: player a lot, and then and then over in Europe,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I usually am recognized. Oh so in Europe, strong man's
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: a lot more popular in Europe than it is here.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: That's like in Sync in the early days, what do
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: you mean? Yeah?
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: In Sync went the year they got big in Europe first,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: really Yeah, in Sync and Battery Boys both I did
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: not know Sync. Yeah, you're you're in sinking about your voice?
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Me too, and they were. They were massive, and they
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: came to America and they really weren't yet. They were
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: kind of known, but they blew up over there first.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: They're basically Evan O. You feel good though, now? Yeah?
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I feel much better now. Man, that's so cool.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: It's like if I saw i'd just been like, I
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: would be intimidated to ask what you are, but I
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: would know you were something because you're You're too physically
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: dominating to not be even It's just like a muscular
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: guy You're just not that, like there's something elite about
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: what you're doing. Even I saw you, I knew you
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: were doing something, but I was like, I wonder what
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: that guy even is. Like sometimes I think they're like
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: lizard people aliens. I thought possibly, possibly he was that.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: And you still have fun doing it?
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, I have a blast doing it. I love what
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I do, to be honest. I love competing. I love
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: pushing myself to the absolute limit physically and mentally. I
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: love doing the per simal training thing where I'm helping people.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I love doing my security jobs because I like to
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: keep people safe.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Like I love you security I do.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: I'm an armed security guarden, an exact executive protection. You
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: don't need arm you don't need.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: No, you don't need. You don't.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Off well. I like to well, I'm I'm okay with
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: using guns because if somebody's gonna run away, I'll chase
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: you for ten seconds and be like, all right, Na,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: you're tired. Oh I'm joking. I'm joking. I am joking.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: I am joking. That was a job.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Imagine him bodyguarding.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: I would feel so good, I feel so safe, like
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: i'd probably cause trouble yeah, just.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Because I would.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't go and do bad stuff just because I
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: have him, and I'm not somebody who wants to do
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: bad stuff.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: You are not the first person to tell me that.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say who else told you that? Because thereby
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: telling the truth. Yeah, so if do you do you
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: do virtual training at all?
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I do online stuff.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: So if people because this is a big podcast, but
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: if people somewhere were listening and they were like, man,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I'd love to like virtually hit up evenue like train
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: and like, how do they get a hold of you?
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Instagram? Actually it's most most popular and.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Easy way to get a hold of me is that
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: like Evan Strongman. What is it?
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: It's Evan Underscore t Rex Underscore strong Man.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: It's a long one.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, why t Rex because that's actually I got
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: the nickname from my tattoos. Good are those t rex?
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that. I have t Rex call in
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: my hands.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I uh, why did you do that?
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of dinosaurs and Jurassic Park is
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: my favorite movie. T Rex has always been my favorite
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: dinosaur and still I keep up with paleontological discoveries and
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: updates and all of that in the scientific community. It's
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: just a hobby of mine. And t Rex was always
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: my favorite dinosaur and I always wanted to start getting tattoos,
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: but I didn't know what to get. I came up
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: with this idea when I was like fifteen sixteen, And
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: you know how when you come up with an idea
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: for a tattoo, be like, Oh, this looks cool, and
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  Speaker 3: then like a month later, you're like, Ah, that's stupid.
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  Speaker 3: I'll think of something else. This stayed consistent like up
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  Speaker 3: until I was like twenty four to twenty five, and
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  Speaker 3: I ended up getting this two months before my first
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  Speaker 3: draw Man competition. I just pulled the trigger. I said,
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  Speaker 3: screw it, why not? So I went out and got it.
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  Speaker 3: Two months later, I competed in my first competition, and
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  Speaker 3: halfway through, when I started dominating everybody, people started calling
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  Speaker 3: me t Rex, and then I just kind of ran
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  Speaker 3: with it.
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  Speaker 1: You got a good nickname, that's cool. My name was
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  Speaker 1: t Bone because they said ID a boner in seventh grade.
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  Speaker 1: T Rex is true. No, it's a true story story.
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  Speaker 1: T Rex is so much better off a nickname? Did
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  Speaker 1: you given to you? T Bone?
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  Speaker 3: That one sucks. That's a good porn star name I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was in I was twelve, and there was nothing
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  Speaker 3: porn star about it.
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  Speaker 4: It was like something I wanted to highlight.
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  Speaker 1: It was not highlight.
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  Speaker 4: It was in the gym right well, I was wrestling.
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  Speaker 4: Gets some worse.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, yeah, no, it's all.
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  Speaker 3: It's like peak as bad as it could get t bone.
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  Speaker 3: It came out.
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  Speaker 1: I still say it was not a boner, but it
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  Speaker 1: did come out of my short. My shorts ripped, it
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  Speaker 1: came out. The legend is what it is. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: to call me t Rex, but and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: soon there'll be a real t Rex and his name
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  Speaker 1: is Evan Singleton.
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  Speaker 3: I'm rooting for you, man, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That's super cool. When you speak, I'm assuming you speak.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just assuming, PIZZI, I have you speaking stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Do they whenever the opportunity comes up, Well they should
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  Speaker 3: because you have a great story.
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  Speaker 1: They should.
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  Speaker 3: I like to share my story if my short. I
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  Speaker 3: like to think that all of the hell that I've
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  Speaker 3: been through in my life is worth it if I
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  Speaker 3: can help one person. Oh yeah, you got to get it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to speak to some folks like do speaking
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  Speaker 1: towards and stuff you have a really great story. I
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  Speaker 1: got nothing else because that's all. That's what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, was all that you just said. I'm
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  Speaker 1: rooting for you. Edie got one, I.
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  Speaker 4: Got one more questions. So I would think that being
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  Speaker 4: strong and being able to lift whatever you want, you
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  Speaker 4: probably feel like you can do anything. What's one thing
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  Speaker 4: that you're just like, Man, I just can't do it?
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm so bad at it.
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  Speaker 3: Baking. I am terrible at baking. I've tried numerous times.
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  Speaker 4: Are you good at cooking?
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  Speaker 3: Though? I am good at cooking. I used to work
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  Speaker 3: in an Italian steak restaurant and I was the head.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't the head chef, but I was the head
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  Speaker 4: steak chef. So what's so tricky about bacon for you?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: You burn everything.
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  Speaker 3: I burn everything, all of my fucking shit falls. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not using a beast or I use too much. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know. I just can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: I can cook a five out of five steak like
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  Speaker 3: I'll make up I'll make a steak dinner that will
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  Speaker 3: knock you off your ass. But I can't figure out
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  Speaker 3: if you want me to make cupcakes. You got to
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: you gotta recruit somebody else we'll do.
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  Speaker 1: Not gonna call you for cupcake, gud Go follow Evan
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram. Do you ever post clips of you lifting stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? All the time? Yep? I post clips of meh lifting, shooting,
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  Speaker 3: competing or some stuff on there with me and my wife.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: We do some funny reels every now and then, funny
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  Speaker 3: lifting reels. But your wife left, yep, she is actually
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: getting ready for her first bikini show, or not her
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: first bikini show, but her next bikini show.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: So is that like a female bodybuilding type thing kind
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  Speaker 1: of yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But she's not like super muscular, she's super super thin
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  Speaker 3: and lean and uh yeah, she's just getting ready for that.
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  Speaker 1: Are you the favorite going into the next year next competition?
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  Speaker 3: I'm one of them. Can we bet on you can
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  Speaker 3: bet on anything?
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  Speaker 4: Love it, love it. I'll look for it. I'll look
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  Speaker 4: for it, I'll find it. I'll bet on you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Go follow Evan. Dude.
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  Speaker 1: This has been awesome. I hope you have fun doing this.
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  Speaker 1: This has been super surprise. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: and man, So I have a full time security guy
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  Speaker 1: that works for me generally, but if for some reason
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  Speaker 1: you happen to kill him, you.
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  Speaker 3: Can have the job.
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  Speaker 1: Pure Yeah, guys. And also Evan's his name is in
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  Speaker 1: the notes if you guys want to go follow him.
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  Speaker 1: That was That was great and good luck man. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much. All right, thank you guys for listening.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you can watch the YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be up on Bobby Bones channel if you want
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  Speaker 1: to see what this guy looks like. Uh, super awesome,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: super nice. Thank you guys for being here, and we
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  Speaker 1: will you guys later this week. That is it for
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  Speaker 1: at producer Eddie, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, and executive
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  Speaker 1: producer at Mike Gestro. But most importantly, thank you for listening.
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