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Strongman Points Strategy: How Tristan Hoath Won Canada’s Strongest Man by 2 Points · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 3: Okay. Yes, we will. It says, Dear Nick, you're finally
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  Speaker 3: getting To the point where you're rebuilding instead of just recovering. Still, well,
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  Speaker 3: the recovery. Yeah, that's very true, actually. What's one physical
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  Speaker 3: improvement you've noticed over the last week that might seem
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  Speaker 3: small to everybody else but feels huge to you? And
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  Speaker 3: what's the next milestone you're chasing? The huge thing to
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  Speaker 3: me is I can now walk forward out of my shower,
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  Speaker 3: which means I have to lift my foot up in
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  Speaker 3: the air one foot. to get it over the, uh, the,
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  Speaker 3: the side of my shower door. So, cause there's my
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  Speaker 3: shower door is only like two feet wide. So there's
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  Speaker 3: no way to cut. You have to go over or
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  Speaker 3: you have to go backwards through, um, to get through
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  Speaker 3: the thing. It's really hard to step around. And I
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  Speaker 3: was able to, instead of going backwards through it, um,
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  Speaker 3: I was able to step right across the front of
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  Speaker 3: the front of the thing. So I was very happy
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  Speaker 3: about that. So, next milestone like at some point tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get an exercise bike delivered here to
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  Speaker 3: the house and the next milestone because I've gone from
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  Speaker 3: home physical therapy because I had wound care and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that and with wound care you have to go
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  Speaker 3: to their physical therapist you can't go to the outside
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  Speaker 3: one until you're done with the wound care well I've
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  Speaker 3: been done with the wound care but So anyway, to
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  Speaker 3: make a long story short, I'm moving over to another
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  Speaker 3: physical therapy place. And this guy, Joel, he's just like,
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  Speaker 3: I saw him once before I had started the home
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  Speaker 3: health care. And he was just like, okay, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: can work with this. And he's like, you're really going
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  Speaker 3: to work and stuff like that. But all my stitches
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  Speaker 3: were still fresh. I still had the open wound and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And So then with the home health, I needed to
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  Speaker 3: take care of the wound because I just started to
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  Speaker 3: recover from the infection and had to have the PICC
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  Speaker 3: line and the wound care here. So I couldn't go
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  Speaker 3: see him until they released me to go to the
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  Speaker 3: outpatient therapy. So they finally released me to the outpatient therapy. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and he was just like, all right, we got to
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  Speaker 3: start to be more aggressive because we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: keep it like this. And I'm like, I go, Oh no, I,
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  Speaker 3: I know it's kind of behind actually where I want
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  Speaker 3: to be. I go, but yeah, we're going to, he's like,
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  Speaker 3: cause I don't want any of this to be permanent.
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  Speaker 3: I go, it won't be permanent. It's just going to
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  Speaker 3: hurt more. We'll get there. It's just not going to
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  Speaker 3: feel good. And he's like, yeah, you're right. As long
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  Speaker 3: as you know that going in, we're going to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: I go, yeah. Cause I'll, take whatever pain we got
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  Speaker 3: to go through to get the full range of motion back.
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  Speaker 3: Cause once I got it back, it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: hurt anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And the good thing is I'm getting a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the motion. I'm starting to get a lot of range
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  Speaker 3: of motion back. He started, he was crossing my legs,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like this over the top to like stretch
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  Speaker 3: my tibia bands and to stretch my glutes a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And so I was like, okay, well I can do
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  Speaker 3: that at home too. Um, so I started doing like
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  Speaker 3: karaoke walks, not running, but the walks, um, There you go.
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  Speaker 3: So that's pretty good because it stretches it actually really well.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll get like a hip band and probably do
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  Speaker 3: those as well to develop strength through that area as
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  Speaker 3: well as the movements. But the next phase is now
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  Speaker 3: just working on range of motion. So my goal is
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  Speaker 3: to be able to get an inch closer to my
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  Speaker 3: toes next week. which could be painful, but that's my goal.
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  Speaker 3: And my goal is to lift my feet up to
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  Speaker 3: 11 inches when walk both my feet up to 11
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  Speaker 3: inches when stepping on the, on the step to do
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  Speaker 3: step ups. So that's kind of my goal for next week.
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  Speaker 3: And that'll be the immediate one. And then just keep
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  Speaker 3: working on it. That's it. So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, also too, it's like, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: leaps and bounds. even though you don't feel you're as
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  Speaker 2: far as you're you need to be, guess what?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You still have hip surgery a few months ago.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, I know. And I'm, I know I'm doing well,
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  Speaker 3: like walking and stuff like that. I'm getting to where
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  Speaker 3: I don't waddle side to side so much and I
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  Speaker 3: can take longer strides, but like I'm sore from the
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  Speaker 3: physical therapy. And then I went and did more this
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  Speaker 3: morning cause I trained shoulders and Yeah. Uh, like all
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  Speaker 3: of my shoulders this morning. And then I did a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of step ups and karaoke stuff. And, uh, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a little sore from that this morning. So it's, it's good.
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  Speaker 3: It's a, it's a good sore, but yeah. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 3: now I just need to get onto the healing and
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  Speaker 3: do it again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the thing. You're right on track.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Question two, Tristan Hoth won Canada's strongest man just by
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  Speaker 3: two points over Maximum Boudreaux. Uh, When a contest that
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  Speaker 3: is that close, how much are you thinking about points
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  Speaker 3: and what the other guys are doing versus just trying
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  Speaker 3: to win every event? In all honesty, in a situation
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  Speaker 3: like that, that contest was, let's see here. Hold on,
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting to it here. There was a car deadlift event.
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  Speaker 3: For reps, Atlas stones up to 421 pounds from 311
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  Speaker 3: to 421 on the little teeny tiny platforms. Farmer's walk,
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  Speaker 3: which was 350 per hand for 46 meters, which is
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  Speaker 3: probably 23 down and 23 back. Log lift with 350
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  Speaker 3: for as many reps as you can in a minute
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  Speaker 3: and a sandbag toss. with from 20 to 32 kilos.
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  Speaker 3: So from 44 to 71 pounds and then a truck
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  Speaker 3: pull for 18 meters with a 75 second time limit.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote those in backwards. So the truck pull was first.
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  Speaker 3: No, no. Yeah. Well, cause the stones would be last anyway.
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  Speaker 3: So no worries. I'll say this. That's what's here. One, two, three, four, five,
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  Speaker 3: That's six events in a day. So that's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And when you're going through that, you do start thinking
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  Speaker 3: strategy a little bit as you're going. But at some point,
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  Speaker 3: you're also thinking, I just need to get through this. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Tristan won by two points against Max, but almost all
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  Speaker 3: of that came out of one event.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So let me explain. I'm going to come back up here. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So in the truck pool, Maxime won and Tristan got second. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That's the truck pool. In the Atlas stones, Maxime won
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  Speaker 3: because Maxime's freaking great at that. And Tristan got second.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Event three, the log lift. Maxime won with five reps.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And Tristan tied for third with four reps. Okay. So, still,
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  Speaker 3: right now you're looking at like four points. Yep. That
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  Speaker 3: Maxime's ahead. Sandbag toss, which Maxime's like just unbelievable at.
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  Speaker 3: He's really good. Maxime won. Tristan got second. Does this
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  Speaker 3: sound like World's Strongest Man to you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey.
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  Speaker 3: And what happened there? Exactly. All right. So we got
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  Speaker 3: car deadlift.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So Tristan gets three reps, which puts him by
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  Speaker 3: himself in fifth place. Yeah. Okay. Maxime got a zero,
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  Speaker 3: which gives him zero points. And it was an 800-pound car.
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  Speaker 3: It's like my overhead press was my Achilles heel. For Maxime,
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  Speaker 3: it's the deadlift. And, you know, he got zero reps
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  Speaker 3: for it, so he got zero points. So Tristan, out of, what,
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  Speaker 3: there's 12 competitors?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 12 competitors.
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  Speaker 3: So he got seven points where Maxime got none. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that right there was the difference in the contest
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  Speaker 3: because they get to the farmer's walk and Maxime got
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  Speaker 3: second and Tristan got third. So on all these events,
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  Speaker 3: Maxine basically beat Tristan by a point. And there was
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  Speaker 3: one that was two points. But that's it with six events. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: then Maxime won the deadlift by seven points that's how
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  Speaker 3: it happens so it's just and where other guys fall
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  Speaker 3: in between and get in between to cause bigger point
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  Speaker 3: spreads but that's how he did it so I mean
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  Speaker 3: he when you're doing that, you just have to do
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  Speaker 3: the best you can in every event. And then Maxime
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  Speaker 3: went out and, you know, zeroed the deadlift, which if
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  Speaker 3: he got one, he would have won. Yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he would have picked up probably, let's see here. Where'd
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  Speaker 3: it go? Car deadlift. If he got one, he'd picked
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  Speaker 3: up one, two, three, four, five. He would have picked
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  Speaker 3: up Probably five points at least. That's the difference. One
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  Speaker 3: messed up event when the competition's that good. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was just a little bit better than him all
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  Speaker 3: day long, but he had the one bad event, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what did it. Tristan's worst lift was the deadlift,
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  Speaker 3: and he got fifth. Because Carmen Emond won the car
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  Speaker 3: deadlift with nine reps with 800 pounds, which is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, which is really strong. But, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: you just can't you can't zero events. And it's whoever
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  Speaker 3: is the most consistent through the contest. So basically, Maxine
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  Speaker 3: dominated the contest, but had one bad event. And Tristan
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  Speaker 3: was right up his tail the whole time. But just
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  Speaker 3: this much short. And then he got to the deadlift
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  Speaker 3: and Maxine just couldn't get one. And salvaged the whole thing. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And Tristan was that world's strongest man this year.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, he's starting to pop up everywhere
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's doing good. But, you know, congratulations to Tristan.
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  Speaker 3: That's an amazing job. And that's being consistent and keeping
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  Speaker 3: your head on straight. Even when you have a bad event,
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  Speaker 3: you got to keep your head on straight. Because points count.
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  Speaker 3: And if you have one bad event, but you still
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  Speaker 3: got good ones behind you coming up, I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: just got to have a short memory. You got to
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  Speaker 3: let it go no matter who messed up the call
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  Speaker 3: or whether you screwed up or somebody else or your
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  Speaker 3: coach didn't catch something and it just threw the whole
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  Speaker 3: thing off. You got to let it go because everything
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  Speaker 3: costs points. Yeah. So, I mean, at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, it's the biggest point total that wins, not
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  Speaker 3: who did the best on each and every single event.
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  Speaker 3: You can have, I mean, you know, we got to
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  Speaker 3: win the first, three events in the finals and then
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  Speaker 3: get a second and a, and a, and a fourth
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  Speaker 3: or fifth and lost by a point. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: what you got to do. Exactly. Keep your head. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what it is, but yeah, you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: thinking about strategy all day, but, You're just going to
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  Speaker 3: be thinking, okay, you're going one point behind him. I'm
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  Speaker 3: one point behind him. I'm one point behind him. I'm
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  Speaker 3: right there. He's got, if you know, he's got about
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  Speaker 3: an event, you got to get every point you can
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  Speaker 3: over him out of that event to make up the difference.
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  Speaker 3: And he did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. And that's one of those things too,
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  Speaker 2: is like, you know, Canada is known for heavy and
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  Speaker 2: hard contest you know what i'm saying their circuit is
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  Speaker 2: rough is rug is rugged.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah this one was actually fairly it's six events in
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  Speaker 3: one day which is a lot for a day yeah
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  Speaker 3: but uh you know it's it's not you know then
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  Speaker 3: larson hair got third gabriel rumei yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think so it's a french name you know what
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  Speaker 2: i'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: And Cameron sent Amand, the guy that won the deadlift. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's your top five. Yeah. So, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And even third and fourth were tied. But, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? And it goes by who went first
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  Speaker 2: and gets to that place.
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  Speaker 3: 49.5 points. Yeah. Yeah. But an 800-pound car deadlift, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not overly heavy for a car deadlift. Yeah. That's
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  Speaker 3: about spec on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it's for reps so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and then the yeah we had one in africa
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  Speaker 3: and i think in our heat eddie won the event
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  Speaker 3: and me with 13 reps and just cussed me and
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  Speaker 3: adam out because we both pulled 12 yeah but uh
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  Speaker 3: yeah that was yeah that was rough um the farmer's
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  Speaker 3: walks 350 that's pretty heavy but it's not like Well,
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  Speaker 3: 46 meters. It's 20 meters down, 20 meters back. That's
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  Speaker 3: not that bad. Oh, yeah. That's very doable. The log
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  Speaker 3: lift to be in 350, that's still... It's heavy for reps,
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  Speaker 3: but it's still... You can get a few out of there.
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  Speaker 3: That's an event Maxine was just going to light everybody up.
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  Speaker 3: And the same back toss, same thing. And the truck
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  Speaker 3: pull was probably... fairly, fairly rough, but I'm, I'm, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's a truck full. So it was, it was a
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  Speaker 3: solid contest. It wasn't like ungodly heavy, but it was,
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  Speaker 3: it's a solid contest all the way through. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 3: hopefully that answers your question a little bit. Cause I
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  Speaker 3: just answered that all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Well, in all honesty, like I said, Tristan
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  Speaker 2: winning this being Canada's strongest man, you know, um, You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with the Cal Canada setup, but, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it almost, to me, seems like, you know, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to have his ticket to World's Strongest Man next year.
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  Speaker 3: Quite possibly. I think it's invited to a Giants live show. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he'll more than likely get in. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 3: it just could be a matter of that if he's
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  Speaker 3: not already qualified. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he'll be there. Let's
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  Speaker 3: just keep putting in the work.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. As another one of those contests that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of these days we're just going to have to
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  Speaker 2: make it down there and have our presence and.
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  Speaker 3: Check it out. What, the one in Canada? Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: We'll just put it on the list. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? We'll see what we can do.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fun show. Oh, yeah. That and the one
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  Speaker 3: in Warwick is just so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, those are two shows that we should
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  Speaker 2: definitely put on our calendar for maybe next year to
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  Speaker 2: see about us being there and being there for the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So we're going to have a couple of guests
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  Speaker 3: coming up over the next few weeks. Oh, yes. During
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  Speaker 3: the Olympia, going to be talking to Evan Singleton. So
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  Speaker 3: that'll be kind of cool. Yeah. And then probably after
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  Speaker 3: the Rogue or leading into the Rogue, one of the two,
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  Speaker 3: be talking to Austin Andrade. So that'd be kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be great. And, uh, Nick, if you're out there
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  Speaker 3: and you want to get on, you can come on too. Uh, so, uh,
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  Speaker 3: all right, next topics. Um, the biggest story, let's see
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  Speaker 3: your Hawthorne, uh, Hawthorne, Julius Bjornsson. So Thor, uh, versus
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  Speaker 3: Raul Flores.
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  Speaker 2: And Raul Flores put a pretty big statement out there
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram. Um, Saying he's coming.
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  Speaker 3: He did. So it's going to be kind of interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see what happens because they usually, that usually last
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  Speaker 3: pull before they go for the big ones is usually
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  Speaker 3: like 470. And then they'll jump up to the five, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Which is, if you think about it, 470 to five,
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  Speaker 3: if they go for the world record, which would be 512,
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  Speaker 3: which would break 510. Yeah. Yeah. That's a pretty big jump.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're looking at, what, 40 kilos? Yeah. In there,
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  Speaker 3: 42 kilos. So, I mean, that's– Big jump. That's 98,
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  Speaker 3: 90 pounds. That's a 90-pound jump, guys. So that's not
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  Speaker 3: a joke as far as the jump goes. So maybe
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  Speaker 3: they'll– maybe that pull before will go up to 480–
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  Speaker 3: So it won't be such quite a leap. It'll be
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  Speaker 3: a 22-pound-less jump in there and be maybe a little
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  Speaker 3: easier to attain. Or maybe they're going to pull like
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  Speaker 3: 500 and then go from there, which if you're going
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  Speaker 3: for the record, it doesn't make sense to pull 500.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Or 505. Go 512 or 515 after a heavy 470, 480,
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  Speaker 3: probably 480, maybe even 485. You know, that way that
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  Speaker 3: jump isn't so massive. They get a good last solid
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  Speaker 3: pull in and then just let it rip. Yeah. Should
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  Speaker 3: be pretty good. It's going to be fun to watch. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I know you're– Nick, you're considered one
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  Speaker 2: of the best in your form for deadlifting.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like– My weird form.
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  Speaker 2: Do these guys– Yeah. With with uh these guys going
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  Speaker 2: in here wouldn't they mimic their training sessions of like
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  Speaker 2: all right i'm gonna this is what i'm gonna pull
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  Speaker 2: first this is what i'm gonna pull second and then
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  Speaker 2: mimic that into the contest or is it almost a
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  Speaker 2: thing where like i'm but i i just have to
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  Speaker 2: make this bigger jump so.
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  Speaker 3: Here's going to be the experience that pays off for
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  Speaker 3: thor and some of the other competitors that raul probably
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: didn't think about in training. Yeah. Unless they told him,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: which I'd be surprised, but there's, there's weights that they
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: start with. Yeah. And the weight increments and to know
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: what those are, Thor knows what those are. That's why
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I'm saying they usually do like a four, 10 or
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: four 20. Yeah. So they're pre 400, four 20.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Um, and then somewhere like, 440, 450, and then 470,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: and then up from there, which is still a good
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: amount of attempts.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: When they get into the first probably one or two
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: of those, they're still warming up. It's going to be
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: interesting to watch and see what's going on. It's also
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: going to be.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: To.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Me, the pressure is not going to be solidly on
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Hopford right now. I mean, in all honesty, when the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: guys tried to pull 1,100 pounds, what, this is going
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: to be the third or fourth time this year?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Fourth time.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, I mean, the pressure on him is just
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to go and have fun and do well.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: The pressure is going to be on Raul. Yeah. Because Raul,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: you know, he pulled 504. At least that's what it says.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: what looked like pretty smooth and pretty easy. Yeah. The
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: interesting thing will be is does he do it there
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: on game day?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Because he's been pulling a lot of heavy, heavy, heavy
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: deadlifts like in the last, I don't know, four or
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: five weeks leading into this. So he's been up.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: This is happening this weekend.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: He's been way up to the top several times in
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that time frame. So his knees are also kind of
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: soft and he's got to get his hips through a
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: little bit for my taste in that lift. Yes. But
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: if he gets pinned to the ground, if it gets
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: up over, say he pulls 470 and then the 5
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: plus gets pinned to the ground. Yeah. There's going to
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: be questions about training videos.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: So the pressure is going to kind of be on
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: him to go do it. The kid's strong, though. He's
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: fun to watch. So I'm sure it's legit. I'm sure
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: it's going to be fun to watch. It will be
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: fun to watch. But pressure is going to kind of
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: be on him to go out there and hit what
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: he's been talking about hitting. Because 515 is no joke.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: For those who are doing American math, Nick, let them know.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Well, you got to figure it's 11.02 at 500. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: then 15 is 33 kilos. So that would be 11.35. Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: So it's getting up there. Yeah. You're coming up on 11.50 now.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: So that's going to be no joke. Yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: No joke.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And with the rest of the competition with a lot
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of these guys getting ready to perform here and yet
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: perform at the rogue, which is just, you know, a hop,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: skip and a jump away. Like what is the mindset?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Some of these guys need to have going into this
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: as in like, Hey, I need to take this competition
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: full throttle or a, I'm coming in here and I'm
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: using this as a tune-up.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Well, for the guys that are doing the rogue that
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: are going to, use this as a tune-up or whatever.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: It's basically going to be a training contest. Yeah. You
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: can't use it for anything other than that. Yeah. I mean,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: the Rogue prize money is like ungodly in comparison. So,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the prize money is even better
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: than it is at World's Strongest Man. Yeah. So, that's...
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: You got an invite to that. That's... that's where your
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: eggs are. You know, that's where the basket, you're gonna
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: put your eggs in. Um, if, if you haven't qualified
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: for world's strongest man, though, you're going to have to
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: do well enough to get that invite as well. So
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: you're going to have to push it, but not too hard.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: You're going to use it as a training day. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: know one of the other competitors, um, after talking to him,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: he's going to use it as a training day, go
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: out and get some good lifts and get some good
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: work in and knock the rest off of things. Um,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Because the events for the Rogue, for that competitor, are
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: actually very favorable for them. Yeah. And should be fun
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: to watch when he gets there. There we go. There
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: we go. So that'll be kind of cool. Yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And speaking of the deadlifting championships, the Rogue, last week,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: right after we did our podcast, the announcement happened for
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: a big event coming back.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: We didn't get it this year, but we're getting.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: It next year. Yes, yes. Yay! Schmo's back. The Strongest
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Man on Earth is back. The Shaw Classic is back.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: So that's going to be awesome. The Expo's back, everything else.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: That makes me very happy for Brian, stuff like that. Yes.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: The seminar that he had was very successful. They had
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: a great time doing that. We got contacted to do
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: a little video forum. I did that. Brian actually sent
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: me a message thanking me for that. So that was
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: really cool. Um, you know, they're Brian and Carrie and
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: their whole family is just amazing. And I'm, I'm just
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: so glad to see that they're able to bring that back.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: So plus I think it's just, they work. So people
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: really still have no concept.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, some people need a break of how hard.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: They work and stuff like that, which is, I mean,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: somebody really needs to sit down and pick Brian's brain
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: about how he manages to get all the stuff done
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: and still train and still be a great dad and
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: still do all those things. Because, I don't know, maybe
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: he's got the little watch thing with the loop that
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: goes around that Hermione had.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: To just turn time back or something. But that... I've
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: never seen somebody get so much done in days. And
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, Kerry, Kerry carries a lot of that weight too.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: And they both, it takes team effort, right?
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Team effort. Yeah. And James and everybody else on the team.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And so it's, it's, it's a pretty effective team.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: There's exactly, you know, we barely keep up with what
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: we're doing.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: You're telling me. So, but I'm a little older. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: need to sleep a little more.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Well, we're both getting, you know, I'm not as up there,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: but I'm getting pretty close to it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Nah, you just, your beard's grayer, that's all. No, I'm kidding. But, yeah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: so I'm really excited that's back. I think he's already
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: invited quite a few of the athletes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the, you know, everyone who's already qualified from
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: that year before, guess what? Coming back.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now Evan's got a, got a, got a title
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: to go defend now. Yep. So that's going to be
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: fun to watch and seeing who else is going to
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: make it there. It's going to be, and get that invite.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: It's going to be, that's going to be a show
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: because it's just four events one day, four events the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: next day. Yep.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And then plus you have the Shaw Classic itself for
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the amateurs.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: And then hopefully it should be the same where you
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: win that, you get an invite.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yep. Which it is. That'll be the same. Yeah, that's it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: So the winner from that last year now got an
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: invite to this one. So all that stuff holds true.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be pretty cool. It's going to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: be fun to watch and see and go through all
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: that stuff. But those are fun days. Long days, but
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: fun days. Yes, yes, absolutely.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: So, you know, we'll be there and, you know, and.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: you guys, you know, like.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I said, well, you know what, these days for those
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: in the Patreon, I know I haven't put it up yet,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to put up a meet and greet
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: schedule as in like, Hey, we'll be here. Hey, we'll
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: be here. Come see Nick. You know what I'm saying?
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I know we'll be at the Olympia expo.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I'll be walking around on Friday.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: So Saturday we'll be shaking, shaking hands and taking pictures.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. At the string flex and a bare steel booth. Exactly.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: So that'll be, that'll be kind of cool. absolutely that'll
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: be really cool actually it'll be a lot of fun
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: hell yeah so but yeah so i'm just it's it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: been a good it's been a good week it's been
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: just all the way around it's pretty good you got
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: some good training in a good week exactly which you
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: know which is it's weird getting back to it from
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: not really being able to do like a whole lot
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: of anything. And then getting back to it, I'm like, no,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: don't just cause you can doesn't mean you should.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Put the brakes on. Yeah. I was doing bent
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: over roads with like two 65 and I'm like, this
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: is nothing.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: And you might say it's nothing, but the average gym
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: person is not even touching that.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: I know. So, but I was just like, no, Nick,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: go up next week. Yeah. Just, you're just getting back
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: to this stuff. Just work into it. Easy. The goal
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: is the goal. Isn't to start way up here. The
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: goal is to start down here and to finish way
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: up here. So exactly, exactly.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And that's a good goal to keep. And we'll try
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: to keep Nick reined in on that because, uh, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: we need that slow methodical, uh, progression.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Correct. Correct. I wonder where I've heard that before. You
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying? It'll be, it'll be pretty cool,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: but it's, it's good stuff. I'm been very happy with
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: how things are progressing. Like I said, I get the
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: bike tomorrow, got to put that together. And then I'll
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: probably go out and do some hills and some steps walking.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: We're not talking about hill sprints either.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: No, no. Kind of walking fast on the way down
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: to try to lengthen my stride. And then, yeah, Walking
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: up creates the power and the drive. And then it
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: also makes me lift my feet up higher to take
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the steps up the hill, which is also good. So
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: it does a lot of very positive things. And then
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I sidestep up the steps. I turn, you know, go
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: all the way up. It's five rows of 10 steps
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: with like 20 feet in between each one of them. Yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: So I kind of go to that at the park
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And then I'm going to tomorrow
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: add in like karaoke walking. Yeah. Through that as well.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: So there you go. That'll be.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know what? I actually went to the movies
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: and I went to go see the Odyssey. I know
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I'm way late on to go watch it. I heard
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of negative things online about it. But
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: all the negativity that I heard about it didn't exist
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: in the movie. The movie was so well put together,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: so well orchestrated, and was so lined up in a
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: way where for three hours, it didn't feel like three hours.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Right, right. Well, I think the production was probably pretty
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: good and the story and all the other stuff.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: They nailed it to the T.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I think the problem was.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: The way they just threw people into some of the
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: characters that historically won't match.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Well, and even with that, the movie was so well done,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: it doesn't hurt it in any facet. You know what
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Because they're like, oh, this person played this person,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: this person, this person, this person is this, and they
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be in this movie. But a lot of them
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: didn't have main roles and were maybe 10, five minutes
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: on screen.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? So, It was just such,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: it's a movie that I said, I tell people, like
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I said, I heard a whole bunch of negative stuff
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: that just really put me off to go see it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: But my buddy was like, I want to go watch this.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Come with me. And I watched it and I was like,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I didn't miss it because seeing it in
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: theater and we went to the IMAX was so worth it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: So worth it. And John Barenthal has now become John
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Barenthal in any movie he plays.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: That's funny. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: He was the Punisher in this movie.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: That was the character. Boston accent, everything. I'm like, all right,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: guess what?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: He had a Boston accent in a Greek movie. Yes.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Denzel Washington had a New
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: York accent in a Greek movie. You know what I'm saying? Remember,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: he played in Gladiator, too. Mm-hmm. But it still played well,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: and Tom Hollins was great in it. Freaking Matt Damon
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: completely killed it. Like I said, and I'm going to
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: be doing a review on this just on my movie podcast,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: but I was just so happy I didn't miss it because,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: like I said, seeing it on the big screen, watching
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: it for three hours, I was kind of like, I
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: had my thoughts about it, but after I watched it,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, all right, this is great.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Cool. I'm glad you liked it. I have not seen it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's worth it to watch it on, even if
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: you watch it at home. You know what I'm saying?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Because you've got a big enough TV and a surround.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, true. Not going to have time to do that
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: anytime soon.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Three hours is hard to craft out of
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a day.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But now, just waiting. I got one more CT scan.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: And then after that, after that, like the medicine and
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: some of the other stuff that I have to take
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: on top of everything else will be done. So that'll
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: be cool. Nice.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Going through the protocol. And
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: here's the thing.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Like I said, we're not doctors, but when the doctors
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: prescribe you, especially antibiotics, you know, I can't stress it
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: enough because I know so many people. I feel better.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not taking these. And guess what happens?
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And with this, with the severity of where
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: the infection was for me.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I'm not playing around with that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, cannot play around with that.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Not playing around with that.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Not one bit. Not one bit. You know what I'm saying?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Because just like you said, this is a serious thing,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: and we have to take the advice of these doctors
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: who are the professionals that did this. You know what
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I'm saying?
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, the severity of what Brian went through
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: and then Steve Passanella. Travis. Travis. Yeah, Travis. Travis is
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: another one. Yep. Um, you know, just not playing around
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: with it. It's yeah. Take the antibiotics until they say
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you're fine. And then I'll be good. So, um, the,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: the IV stuff was, was, was good. Now taking the
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: pill or antibiotics, um, until they tell me I'm good.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: So I just keep going in, doing more tests, doing
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: more stuff. And the moment, the moment they're going, Hey,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: you're all clear. I'm, I'm definitely done with it. Exactly.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? For anybody who's taking antibiotics,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: you feel like shit. You're tired. You're exhausted. Your stomach hurts.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, that's probably the most problematic thing of all
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: of it is your stomach. So between trying to eat
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: some Greek yogurt for the probiotics and the bacteria in
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: my stomach and then trying to make sure all my
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: food has bone broth in it. like with the rice
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: and whatever I eat it with that way, it's easier
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: to digest and it's easier for my body to get
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: the nutrients out of it is kind of one of
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: the things I've been focusing on the most while on
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the antibiotics. So if you ever got to take antibiotics,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: make sure you eat yogurt and do a lot of
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: bone broth because it'll help you digest your food. Yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: You know, for a lot of people who are listening,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: When Nick says he puts bone broth in his food,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Nick has his own special recipe of food that he eats,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: all right? And my wife doesn't like it when I
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: eat it, because when I make it, she's like, I
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: don't know how or why you eat this, but I'm like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: it tastes great, period, point blank. And would you give
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: a quick breakdown of what that recipe is? Ground beef, rice,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Parmesan cheese.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Uh, some kind of nuts. Usually I like cashews cause that's,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: that's my favorite. It's a lot, a lot more, a
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: lot of fats and then, uh, bone broth, you know
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Salt, pepper, and, uh, every so often
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: a little cottage cheese in there.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Yep. Exactly. Um, yeah. So it's 1.3 pounds, 1.33 pounds of, uh,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: ground beef. Cause that's the package that it comes in
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: and Costco, the organic one. Um, so it's organic beef
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: and then it's rice, uh, And it's probably a cup
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: and a half of cooked rice. Yeah. So it's a
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: lot of rice.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of rice.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then I'm also throwing in an Ajou flavor
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: packet as well to give it even more of a
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: beef flavor. So the stuff tastes great. It's just, you
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: look at it, and it's not much to look at,
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  Speaker 3: but boy.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Does it taste good. Yeah, that's what my wife always says.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: She's like, I look at this, I understand it, but
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I don't get it.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Right. Right.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: But it's everything you need in one spot.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: But it's effective. And I'll throw some carrots in there
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: every once in a while and some, some bell peppers
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that in as well. And then I
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: switched between walnuts and cashews. I go back and forth
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: between the two because walnuts are really, really good for
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: you as well. Brain food. Yeah. So I go through
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: both of those back and forth and then I'll switch
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: out the the beef with, you know, chopped up chicken. Yeah.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: So I'll chop up chicken. I won't, I won't ground it,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: but I'll chop up the chicken into pretty small bites
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: and cook that in there and fry it. I'll fry
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: it in olive oil a little bit first to make
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: it a little bit crispy. Yeah. um and then still
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: cook it all the same way plus the olive oil
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: is good for you too yeah so uh kind of
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: kind of just replace it and then i'll also do
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: salmon um but the salmon's a little different because i
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: just pour a little bit of the bone broth on
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: the rice, not too much, but a little bit, and
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: then break up the salmon and toss the salmon in
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: there and just stir it all together. You don't really
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: need to cook that in a frying pan.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: It's called monster mash. Nick didn't even know he was...
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Nick's always intuitively doing things and not understanding that he's
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: a mad scientist genius when he does these things.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: People paid money for a good book that our friend
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Stan Everdeen made.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no doubt. Uh, which was pretty funny cause
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I just somehow turned up the volume on this really loud. Um,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I just instinctively, uh, cooked very similar to
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: the way Stan's vertical diet is. There's a few things
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: that I had to add in, like some of the
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: butter and, um, the cranberry juice and the orange juice
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: and a few of the other things. But I threw
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: those in and been eating very similarly for decades. So
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: it's pretty cool to see that and have everything be reconfirmed.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: And then the salt part of it, the salt keeps
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: you from tearing muscles and stuff like that. So it's
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: that first week you're going to put on a lot
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: of weight, water weight because of it. And then, As
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: long as you keep eating the same normal amount, the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: water weight will go away the second week and you'll
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: be fine.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and readjust.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: You got to understand that when you go to the hospital,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: what's the first thing they do to you when they
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: bring you in the hospital?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, so many fluids.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: They give you fluids, but they give you salt fluids.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: They give you saline, which is salt and water. So
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: the salt's not bad for you. That's the first thing.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: You got a heart problem, they go in and give
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: you a bag of water and salt. Yes.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people, you know, they misconstrue.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: There's a thing as too much salt, and there's a
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: thing as the right amount of salt. Correct.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: When you're eating processed foods, you're going to exceed.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Get way too much salt.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Exceed, yes.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Exceed. And when we talk about processed food, we're talking
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: about fast food, box food, pre-made food, that stuff. has
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: so much sodium in it because it helps preserve it
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: yeah when you eat you know whole foods you know
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: salt is so mandatory because like i said nothing comes
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: with salt in it.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Right so like the hamburger that you're cooking yeah you
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: know especially if you get the organic stuff um the
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: rice doesn't have any salt in it that's it um
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: nothing that you're really putting in there the cashews got
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: a little bit of salt on them yeah sometimes um
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: the walnuts do not have any salt on them yeah
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: the bell peppers, the carrots, all the other stuff that
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: you're throwing in there, doesn't it? So if you don't
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: salt it, you're not going to get any salt in. Exactly.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: You salt it to taste to make sure that you
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: get a pretty, not a super strong, but a decently
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: strong flavor of salt when you do it. Exactly.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: And one of the other things too is when you
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: take salt in, it helps you absorb water. That's why
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: like some of us are allowed, are able to drink
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: so much water because our body's literally absorbing the water
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: because of the salt.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Correct. And then, but the thing is your body gets
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: used to the salt and that first week you'll put
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: on like 10 pounds of water weight. You just will.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: But the second week you'll pee it all out as
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: long as you keep everything else the same. If you
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: keep eating that same amount of salt and everything else,
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: the body will regulate it and you'll be fine. But
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: You have all the benefits from the salt, which when
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: you're training, it leads to a lot less muscle injuries
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: and a lot less muscle tears and stuff like that.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: So it's a good thing. It's a good thing to
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: have in there.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: It really is.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Nick, I think we've covered quite a bit today.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: We've been all over the place today, which is good.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: All over the place. Yes, it is always good.
• 43:42
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• 43:45
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• 43:50
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• 43:54
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• 43:57
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• 44:01
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• 44:07
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• 44:29
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• 44:42
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