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SHOCKING Regrets + Biggest Strongman Mindsets: Shaw vs Hall Docs & Hip Replacements · The Best Experience

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Speaker 1: We'll get right into the questions. If you could relive
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Speaker 1: one single event from your entire world strong this main career,
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Speaker 1: with your current knowledge and experience, which event would it
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Speaker 1: be and what would you change. There's probably there's probably
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Speaker 1: like at least two, maybe even three that I can
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Speaker 1: think of right off the rip. First is that that
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Speaker 1: first year when I made the finals, uh uh, I
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Speaker 1: spent myself so much in the keg carry in the
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Speaker 1: qualifying event to win. I played it way too conservative
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Speaker 1: in the final on the the sand bag medley going
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Speaker 1: through the water and then loading it was rock rock
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Speaker 1: bag medley because it wasn't sand, it was rocks that
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Speaker 1: was in those that was in the that was in
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Speaker 1: those bags. I think I was way too conservative going
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Speaker 1: out after it, uh in that one event, and I
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Speaker 1: probably could have went out the way I usually go
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Speaker 1: out in the medley, and I'd learned that from that
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Speaker 1: point on and didn't ever do that again. But I
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Speaker 1: just didn't go out hard enough in that first medley.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really know what to expect, and I was
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Speaker 1: still kind of paying for the one I did, you know,
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Speaker 1: just a few days earlier, and uh, I was just
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Speaker 1: like afraid I didn't want to be wasted for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the event, which I should have just went
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Speaker 1: for it. I probably could have caught it. You know,
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Speaker 1: three or four places hired and what I did, and
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Speaker 1: you know, could have made it in the top probably
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Speaker 1: top three, So that would be kind of one mistake
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Speaker 1: I would probably do different. In twenty thirteen when we
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Speaker 1: were in China, I probably when we were getting measured
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Speaker 1: for the squats, I had like I was having trouble
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Speaker 1: getting down and getting loosened up, and I took some
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Speaker 1: of bad advice and hit the hole hard and fast,
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Speaker 1: which put my back out and kind of I had
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Speaker 1: to deal with it for the whole entire show. I
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Speaker 1: would probably, in hindsight on that one not do that
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Speaker 1: and just have it take longer for me to get
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Speaker 1: down into position with they were kind of rushing us
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Speaker 1: through the boneyard and stuff. And the night before we
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Speaker 1: had got I gotten stuck on a plane coming out
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Speaker 1: of China at the at the back end of a
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Speaker 1: typhoon and we had to sit on the run. They
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Speaker 1: pushed us off the gate and just let us sit
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Speaker 1: on the plane for like six hours before we flew
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Speaker 1: the rest of the way to Senya. So I was
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Speaker 1: like super tight, My back was super stiff the next
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Speaker 1: day and didn't get loosened up properly. So that would
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Speaker 1: probably be one thing I would have definitely changed. And
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Speaker 1: then I think the last one in seventeen, when I
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Speaker 1: was doing the elephant carry. Once I kind of knew
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Speaker 1: Sedrinus wasn't gonna be able to get as far as
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Speaker 1: I was, I tried to play a conservative and I
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Speaker 1: could have kept going. I could have went down and
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Speaker 1: made another turn and probably came back a good amount.
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Speaker 1: I probably, in hindsight would have done that because I
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Speaker 1: tore my calf in the first event in the final
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Speaker 1: and had to deal with that. So I'd much rather
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Speaker 1: gone out harder on that ship You'll carry and really
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Speaker 1: put that out there further. But yeah, other than that,
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Speaker 1: those are probably the three biggest things that would change
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Speaker 1: at World's Strongest Man. Yeah, those are probably the biggest
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Speaker 1: things I would change. Also back then, like towards the end,
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Speaker 1: right at the end of my career, guys were starting
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Speaker 1: to be able to have other people come in and
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Speaker 1: like their coaches come in and stuff like that. That
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Speaker 1: would have been nice to have brought somebody in that
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Speaker 1: way to help a little bit more that coaching, getting prepared,
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Speaker 1: coaching not necessarily. The funny thing is is I think
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Speaker 1: my generation really didn't need a coach because we all
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Speaker 1: kind of coached each other. Yeah, and you know, learn
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Speaker 1: from each other stuff like that. The kids now really
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Speaker 1: rely on those which is kind of interesting. But I'm
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Speaker 1: me personally, I'm just surprised how many people pay money
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Speaker 1: for coaches that don't know how to compete. They know
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Speaker 1: how to put them through the training cycle and do
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Speaker 1: all the other stuff that they do to them, but
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Speaker 1: they have no idea on gamegay what to do or
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Speaker 1: what's the best way to approach it, which I just
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Speaker 1: find hilarious. You know, it's it's criminal if you go
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Speaker 1: to if you go to like when we're testing the
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Speaker 1: events and stuff and you're not recording the whole thing
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Speaker 1: and not looking at the looking at everybody's everybody else's
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Speaker 1: stuff and recording all that and just just to just
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Speaker 1: see what's what. And you know, if your coach doesn't
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Speaker 1: go to the rules meeting, need new coach. Yeah, definitely
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Speaker 1: on that one. You know, you should know everything from
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Speaker 1: out if you're going to be there coaching somebody, you
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Speaker 1: should know what all the rules are and how to
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Speaker 1: deal with all that. So I think that's kind of
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Speaker 1: a cardinal sin when you're handling somebody. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that might be. The funny thing is is,
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Speaker 1: when you really think about it, these guys that are
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Speaker 1: there are the freaks of the freaks of the freaks.
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Speaker 1: They're just yeah. And the funny thing are.
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Speaker 2: Not of the top five of the one percent.
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Speaker 1: Not even the one percent you're talking about. You're really
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Speaker 1: talking about the five hundred million percentile, you know, or
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Speaker 1: or even four hundred million percentile. One of every four
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Speaker 1: hundred million people are gonna be as have the ability
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Speaker 1: that these guys have. No matter what they do, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna get better. They're gonna do well on
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Speaker 1: anyone's anyone's plan because they're that good of athletes. It's
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Speaker 1: just do they know how to compete when they get there?
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. And then as the guys develop and
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Speaker 1: get experience and stuff like that, you should know enough
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Speaker 1: how your body works not to have to look at
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Speaker 1: some guy and go, hey, what should I do for this?
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Speaker 1: So I maybe have a discussion with them, But at
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Speaker 1: some point you got to know what's what and how
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Speaker 1: to get your body ready for things, you know, one
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Speaker 1: of the years. But then again, I powerlifted for oh geez,
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Speaker 1: nearly twenty years before I even got to my first
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Speaker 1: World strongest Man. Yeah it was more than that actually,
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Speaker 1: So I knew how to like train myself and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. And back then nobody really had coaches. You know,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't a thing. You know, you'd walk up and
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Speaker 1: you talk to like Ed Cohen or Bull Stewart. Bull
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Speaker 1: Stewart sat down one year, God, I want to say
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Speaker 1: it was ninety four. It was the year like Mark
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Speaker 1: Henry came in and you know, deadlifted nine oh three
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Speaker 1: and signed his contract with doctor Todd and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And I remember sitting across on them at the table
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Speaker 1: and they were talking about that. But you know, guys, what.
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Speaker 2: Was Mark Henry eating? Because I always remember that story.
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Speaker 1: It was like a whole bunch of chickens at the table.
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Speaker 1: The table was loaded with food, which was hilarious. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, you go talk to some of the guy
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Speaker 1: lifters that were better than you are and they'd sit down.
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Speaker 1: I remember Bolster it went through my book and just
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Speaker 1: started scratching all this stuff out. He goes, you're over training.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to do this, you don't need to
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Speaker 1: do that, And I was like, I took it seriously.
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Speaker 1: Came back the next year I was one hundred pounds.
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Speaker 1: I put one hundred pounds on my total. Came back
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Speaker 1: the next year, I put a hundred pounds on my total.
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Speaker 1: It came back the next year I was national champion.
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Speaker 1: Came back the next year I was national champion. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like you should be able to do
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Speaker 1: a lot of these things on your own. You should.
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Speaker 1: You I've said it before, you're your own experiment and
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Speaker 1: you should be experimenting and stuff. You have coaches to
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Speaker 1: learn from their experience, but you shouldn't. The coaches should
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Speaker 1: be teaching them in a way that you shouldn't have
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Speaker 1: to relig on them, you know, to figure out how
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Speaker 1: to get ready for things unless it's an event that
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Speaker 1: you don't understand. But I mean that's just my personal opinion,
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Speaker 1: and I you know, learn what to do and adapt
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Speaker 1: from that. I mean, pretty soon we're going to be
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Speaker 1: selling some templates and stuff like that, and they'll be
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Speaker 1: off season strong man programs and then off season powerlating
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Speaker 1: programs and then like an off season training program and
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Speaker 1: you guys will be able to see that. But the
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Speaker 1: thing is is with that, you're supposed to learn your body.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're in your own body, you're going to
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Speaker 1: know it better than all of us. Well, we can
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Speaker 1: look at things and point out obvious things and even
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Speaker 1: little things that will help your technique, but at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, you should really, you should really
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Speaker 1: be paying attention to what you're doing and what works
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Speaker 1: best for you. And I think that's kind of something
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Speaker 1: that has been kind of lost in these in these
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Speaker 1: modern times. Yeah, m hmm, Sorry, I just went down a.
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Speaker 2: Whole Well that was a good answer though. That was
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Speaker 2: the whole point. You know, that's what the Patreon members paid.
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Speaker 1: For, all right. Question two, Nick, have you seen the
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Speaker 1: new Shaw on his Journey Brian Shaw documentary yet? How
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Speaker 1: would you compare the way Eddie Hall's documentary portrayed the
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Speaker 1: life and mindset of a strong man competitor. I kind
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Speaker 1: of lived a lot of that actually with him. Yeah, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's great. I mean it's Brian. He's got a
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Speaker 1: training mindset. It's like literally everything that he was doing
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Speaker 1: was built around you know, training and stuff like that
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Speaker 1: and building a business and being successful in business. Brian
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Speaker 1: will be successful at whatever Brian wants to. He's that
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Speaker 1: hyper competitive at everything he does. Eddie was willing to
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Speaker 1: die to win and to compete. Brian almost lost his leg,
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Speaker 1: you know, just you know, twelve weeks later he's doing
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Speaker 1: World Strongest Man, and Brian wanted to go out going
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Speaker 1: to World's Strongest Man and then winning his own, you know,
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Speaker 1: being winning strongest man on Earth, and that's what he did.
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Speaker 1: So they're both unbelievable champions. They truly are. They really are,
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Speaker 1: and they're good friends. And you know, I don't talk
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Speaker 1: to either one of them as much as I'd like to,
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Speaker 1: but I love those guys. I miss him. It's to
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Speaker 1: do things with them in my life. I'm so grateful
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Speaker 1: for and feel so blessed for and just happy neither
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Speaker 1: one of them killed me. So but yeah, and now
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Speaker 1: you can see that turning into arm wrestling for arm
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Speaker 1: wrestling for for Brian, you know, and even MMA and
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Speaker 1: some fighting for Eddie. I mean, it's he's about to
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Speaker 1: fight Fury, So that's gonna be fun to.
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Speaker 2: Watch exactly exactly.
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Speaker 1: But it's the mindset that they have that they won't fail,
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Speaker 1: you know, don't succeed, they'll learn, they'll readjust they'll do
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Speaker 1: what is necessary to at the end of the day
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Speaker 1: to come out on top exactly.
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Speaker 2: I remember watching Eddie's documentary Beast. Yeah. Man, it was
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Speaker 2: just such a different documentary back then. Yeah, and it
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Speaker 2: really you know, showed his not just his struggle, but
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Speaker 2: what he was doing and what he was willing to
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Speaker 2: do and all these aspects. And then Brian's documentary for me,
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Speaker 2: it went really in depth on the background of Brian
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Speaker 2: because you know, you know a lot of us, you know,
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Speaker 2: and when when I mean the background, I'm talking about
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Speaker 2: like from beginning to end. It showed the struggles, it
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Speaker 2: showed the winning and losing, and you know, and they
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Speaker 2: broke it down and I believe it was five episodes.
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Speaker 2: I watched all five. I binged it literally on the
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Speaker 2: plane back from World Strongest Man, and and uh, it
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Speaker 2: was just it was crazy to see, you know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. It was just like, oh, okay, you just
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Speaker 2: have a different level of respect just on the understanding
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Speaker 2: of what Brian achieved and how we achieved it against
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Speaker 2: all lots.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And there's the thing you notice is is
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Speaker 1: there's no quitting. Yeah, there's no other option. There's yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is yeah what we're gonna do, and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: make it work exactly you know, and it's being positive,
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Speaker 1: it's having a positive mindset, it's going through it, it's
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Speaker 1: having everything in your life, you know, set up towards that.
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Speaker 1: And you know, at that upper elite level, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of what it takes, you know. So it's pretty neat.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty special that both those guys got that out
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Speaker 1: so exactly.
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Speaker 2: You know, you know what I'm saying. It shines light
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Speaker 2: on the world, on not just strong Man, but on
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Speaker 2: the community because you know, a lot of us just
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Speaker 2: have an understanding of strong men on a surface level,
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Speaker 2: and when you can go a little further into like
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Speaker 2: some of the not pioneers, but some of the greats
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Speaker 2: that have competed in strong Man, like like Eddie and
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Speaker 2: and Brian, and you know what I'm saying, see and
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Speaker 2: being able to see these things because you know, when
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Speaker 2: people fall in love with the sport, they just don't
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Speaker 2: fall in love with you know, the of course, with
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Speaker 2: the one person that that brings them in. But then
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Speaker 2: they're like, oh, there's so much more to this community
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Speaker 2: and it opens them up to giving everyone an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to actually peer in.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, there's so much of that. And
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Speaker 1: I'm just very happy and very grateful and very fortunate
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Speaker 1: to have been you know, call them my friends and
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Speaker 1: done things with them that.
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Speaker 2: And be a part of history and be a part
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Speaker 2: of literally, yeah, you're literally a part of history on
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Speaker 2: the History Channel, on a TV show about history. So
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Speaker 2: it's just you know, your name is etchton Stone, right
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Speaker 2: up there with them, because.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then being at the competitions with.
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Speaker 2: Them, and exactly exactly you know what I'm saying. You
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Speaker 2: you make to watch them grow up with them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, it's it's pretty neat. So it's it's
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Speaker 1: fun because I mean, like I turned uh pro at
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Speaker 1: a contest in two thousand and five, and Van Hatfield's
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Speaker 1: contest in two thousand and five, and Brian went the
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Speaker 1: next year in turn pro at the same contest in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, So it's like, and then Eddie,
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Speaker 1: I think I've I think it was either I think
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Speaker 1: it was twelve when I first met Eddie, and I
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Speaker 1: think it might have been in Australia, and then thirteen
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Speaker 1: of course, and then World's Strongest Man in thirteen and fourteen,
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Speaker 1: and then he turned to gear in fourteen he found
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Speaker 1: a whole nother gear and for the next few years, man,
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Speaker 1: he was just on point. He was especially sixteen and seventeen. Man,
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Speaker 1: he just was out in the stratosphere. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: to this date he's still so everybody calls the eleven
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Speaker 1: hundred pound deadlift that he had the most amazing deadlift
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Speaker 1: of all time. I don't call that the most amazing
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Speaker 1: deadlift of all time. It was really amazing because he
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Speaker 1: was the first person to do it, but the bar
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Speaker 1: was still like a deadlift bar. I can't stand deadlift
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Speaker 1: bars anymore. It has ruined the integrity of that lift.
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Speaker 1: People don't realize at World's Strongest Man in the finals,
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Speaker 1: the fifth event, in the finals, he did a it's
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Speaker 1: what's called an axle deadlift, so it wasn't a full
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Speaker 1: two and a half inch axle, but it was our
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Speaker 1: two inch axle. But I think it was like one
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Speaker 1: in three quarters and the bar was like super super strong.
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Speaker 1: It didn't give no gain at all, there was zero
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Speaker 1: bend in it. And he did one thousand and forty
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Speaker 1: one that way. Yeah. I challenge every single sumo puller
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Speaker 1: and I challenged well and Thor pulled over a thousand
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Speaker 1: on that too, mind you. Yeah, and so did Brian
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Speaker 1: so but I challenge all these sumo deadlifters that are
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Speaker 1: pulling these amazing amounts of weight to do that on
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Speaker 1: a inch and a half stiff bar. Oh yeah, you
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Speaker 1: can use straps, Yeah, but I want to see you
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Speaker 1: do it, because until you pull it on that bar,
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Speaker 1: the bar shouldn't be given four or five inches before
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Speaker 1: it comes off the ground. I mean not in a
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Speaker 1: power that they need. No. No, And you know, if
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Speaker 1: you want to be the goat, then you got to
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Speaker 1: beat the goat the way the goat did it not
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Speaker 1: Because you're using a bar that gives five inches. The
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Speaker 1: bar should give about a quarter of an inch before
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Speaker 1: the weight comes off the ground. You get it all
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Speaker 1: at once, you know, don't think you're doing something that's
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Speaker 1: totally crazy, and you know it turns out, Oh it's
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Speaker 1: did These Are the guys really getting that much stronger?
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Speaker 1: Is the bench press that much higher? Is the spot
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Speaker 1: that much higher than those guys at the time. No,
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Speaker 1: the only thing that's different is they have a bar
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Speaker 1: that gives five inches before it comes off the ground
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Speaker 1: and they learn how to pull on it. That's it.
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Speaker 1: So go pull on a stiff bar, Go, go go
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Speaker 1: grabbing IPF aleko bar and doing all that or pull
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Speaker 1: on the axle that Eddie Hall did one thousand and
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Speaker 1: forty one on on the fifth event, which means that's
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Speaker 1: his eleventh event at World's Strongest Man inside of ten
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Speaker 1: days and side of probably nine days at that point
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Speaker 1: because I think I think our resting time. Actually, no,
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Speaker 1: that'd be we had one day off, so that was
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Speaker 1: two on one off, so it's five days. So on
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Speaker 1: the fifth day it being the eleventh event, in fifth days,
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Speaker 1: pully forty one and he had more in there. He
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Speaker 1: just didn't need to do anymore. So yep, anyway, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm off my horse on that one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well we could pivot here. Okay, we'll just
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Speaker 2: covered as quickly because I know we're going to keep
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Speaker 2: this one short today. Let's talk about what's happening next week.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, we're not We're
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Speaker 2: it's going. It's significant, it's something you've talked about for
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Speaker 2: a long time and it's finally here. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying, And uh, you know I'll be right there
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Speaker 2: with you as it's happen.
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Speaker 1: I know, thank you, you know, I know you're welcome.
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Speaker 2: My brother, you know. And uh, like I said, you're
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Speaker 2: not just getting one, but you're getting two.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know, all right. Well, you know I've
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Speaker 1: been lifting hard and going crazy for and just enjoying
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Speaker 1: every moment of it, uh for a long time. And uh,
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Speaker 1: well I did something just a couple of days ago
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Speaker 1: that I put on suit bottoms just because it helps.
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Speaker 1: Because my hips have been killing me for I don't know,
21:31
Speaker 1: probably since eighteen. Yeah, and then it's just gotten steadily
21:39
Speaker 1: rougher and worse. And I've done everything to mediate as
21:42
Speaker 1: much as I could.
21:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the recovery you can, all.
21:45
Speaker 1: The recovery I can. And I went in and I
21:50
Speaker 1: was really having problems with mobility and getting it done,
21:53
Speaker 1: and you can't really do much about the bones furs
21:58
Speaker 1: that are in there. And then so when got it
22:00
Speaker 1: looked at, there's bone spurs on both sides pretty bad.
22:05
Speaker 1: And then the doc's like, hey, just you do realize
22:08
Speaker 1: you're bone on bone, right, I'm like oh really, He's
22:12
Speaker 1: like yeah, I'm like okay. So Travis Ortmeyer has had
22:18
Speaker 1: a hip replacement, so has Jerry Pritchett, and then Ed
22:25
Speaker 1: Cohen as well, and then Gary and a couple other
22:30
Speaker 1: people I've known that have gotten him now, and especially
22:33
Speaker 1: with Travis, because Travis went this year and did a
22:36
Speaker 1: nine and fifty pound yoke for twenty meters and I
22:40
Speaker 1: think he had the second or third fastest time, And
22:44
Speaker 1: it's like watching Travis just start all a new again,
22:48
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, all right, Well, so I went
22:51
Speaker 1: to the dock and took a look at it, and
22:57
Speaker 1: he said, my left left hip is not much better
22:59
Speaker 1: than my rio hip as well. So we're going to
23:03
Speaker 1: go in and we're gonna get those taken care of.
23:06
Speaker 1: We're gonna get replacements put in. The doc says, I
23:12
Speaker 1: will after the surgery. They're gonna wake me up. I
23:15
Speaker 1: will walk out of the out of the operating room
23:19
Speaker 1: and go about my business. I have to be careful
23:24
Speaker 1: for six weeks, and it heals kind of like a fracture,
23:29
Speaker 1: is what I was told. And then that's pretty much
23:33
Speaker 1: what both Jerry and Travis said, and as well as
23:37
Speaker 1: Ed Cohen. Yeah, and it heals pretty much like a fracture.
23:42
Speaker 1: So in six weeks you can start lifting things. Besides
23:45
Speaker 1: what you do with the physical therapy, which I've already
23:48
Speaker 1: really looked into a lot of that as well. And
23:54
Speaker 1: to be able to do this and then in less
23:56
Speaker 1: than a year come back.
23:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know it's gonna be kind of cool.
24:00
Speaker 2: That's one of those things. You know, everyone send out
24:03
Speaker 2: your positive vibes. You're in for a quick and fast
24:07
Speaker 2: recovery because guess what Nick is going in this, and
24:10
Speaker 2: we're hoping for a brand new Nick after this. You
24:12
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Redlifting, squatting, moving, possibly the splits.
24:19
Speaker 1: Well, let's not get carried away, but it'll be better.
24:23
Speaker 1: I just I'm looking forward to doing some pretty cool
24:26
Speaker 1: things like reaching out and being able to easily tie
24:29
Speaker 1: my shoes again. So that's gonna be nice. But I'm
24:32
Speaker 1: still strong, still pull still squat, put in the suit
24:35
Speaker 1: bottoms from my last squat session in these hips and
24:42
Speaker 1: came right up with seven seventy five and then eight
24:46
Speaker 1: o five. I got it down. I came up with it,
24:49
Speaker 1: but it probably wasn't down as far as I would like.
24:52
Speaker 1: But I was just like, well, yeah, well you know,
24:57
Speaker 1: but the video for that'll be out soon. So it
25:03
Speaker 1: was just kind of like one of those things where
25:05
Speaker 1: I first squad at eight hundred and nineteen ninety six
25:09
Speaker 1: and this is twenty twenty six and I did it again,
25:14
Speaker 1: so might not be as deep as I wanted. The
25:17
Speaker 1: seven seventy five I think was right there. But yeah,
25:20
Speaker 1: the day oh five, I feel it was a little high.
25:24
Speaker 1: But that's okay. I mean I came up with it,
25:26
Speaker 1: I got it up, I got it in. It was
25:30
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It was kind of neat to I felt
25:33
Speaker 1: pretty good about it. So now I'm looking forward to
25:38
Speaker 1: getting this done next Tuesday and then starting on the
25:43
Speaker 1: rehab and get it moving and looking forward to coming back,
25:49
Speaker 1: looking forward to lifting some heavy things. I will go
25:53
Speaker 1: after everything that I've been going after again. Yeah, it's
25:59
Speaker 1: going to be neat to do this without pain, so.
26:01
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, you know, a level of comfort that you know,
26:05
Speaker 2: you see a lot of people go through who you know,
26:07
Speaker 2: and everyone said the exact same thing that we've had
26:10
Speaker 2: this conversation with and when it did it sooner, Yes, Well,
26:13
Speaker 2: you know what, Nick, You're doing it at the right
26:16
Speaker 2: time because you know it was hurting you, it was
26:17
Speaker 2: bothering you, but you were just waiting on technical stuff
26:20
Speaker 2: to happen for it to come through. So it's like,
26:23
Speaker 2: all right, you know what I'm saying. You get to
26:25
Speaker 2: get this back, and you know, and luckily for you
26:28
Speaker 2: when you were explaining the surgery to me, you know,
26:30
Speaker 2: they're not cutting into the muscle. They're just cutting through
26:32
Speaker 2: the fashion and then they push stuff aside, so it's like.
26:35
Speaker 1: They pull everything aside. They cut out the area, they
26:38
Speaker 1: put it in, They put a screw in to hold
26:43
Speaker 1: the socket in, and then they drill out. They cut
26:47
Speaker 1: the head of your femur off and then they drill
26:50
Speaker 1: it out and then they put the the titanium rod
26:54
Speaker 1: in there, which is very porous and stuff like that
26:58
Speaker 1: so the bone can grow into it. And like I said,
27:01
Speaker 1: the bone grows into it fully in about six weeks,
27:03
Speaker 1: and then it's just working on moving and what I'm
27:08
Speaker 1: comfortable with. And so I just got to basically, like
27:11
Speaker 1: the first two weeks, I got to be pretty careful
27:14
Speaker 1: with it, and then after that, each week after that,
27:18
Speaker 1: I can still do a little bit more and a
27:20
Speaker 1: little bit more. I just got to be careful not
27:22
Speaker 1: to dislocate it over like six weeks, and then once
27:27
Speaker 1: we get to six weeks, I should be pretty well good.
27:30
Speaker 1: I'll start my training back slowly and methodically with things
27:36
Speaker 1: that are comfortable, just kind of moving back in and
27:40
Speaker 1: just continue to work on the bone density and stuff
27:43
Speaker 1: like that, because the good thing is my bone density
27:46
Speaker 1: is like way higher than normal.
27:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know, yeah, you're a little big boned.
27:52
Speaker 2: If we like to say, well.
27:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, so some of the issues with that I won't
27:58
Speaker 1: have and then yeah, getting back to training and keeping
28:03
Speaker 1: weight bearing stuff on them and things like that, it'll
28:06
Speaker 1: it'll be good. I know a lot of people that
28:09
Speaker 1: manage to they slowly work down to squad into a
28:13
Speaker 1: box supported with their hands, and then they you know,
28:16
Speaker 1: which is right at parallel, and then they start just
28:19
Speaker 1: doing it all on their own. And it's pretty much
28:22
Speaker 1: going to be the slow, methodical rehab that I do
28:24
Speaker 1: with everything every time I have an issue like this,
28:27
Speaker 1: and then just come back.
28:28
Speaker 2: It's not your first injury.
28:30
Speaker 1: No, it won't be last either, So it's okay.
28:33
Speaker 2: Yep, that is it.
28:35
Speaker 1: I mean it's correct. Look, if if you're living life
28:39
Speaker 1: and you're never experiencing injury, are you really pushing that hard?
28:45
Speaker 1: Are you really going through things? Are you really trying
28:51
Speaker 1: how to experience some of the best things in life?
28:53
Speaker 1: If all as you do is going around and be
28:55
Speaker 1: completely safe on everything that you do, I'm not saying
28:57
Speaker 1: doing crazy things like bungee jump or jumping on an
29:00
Speaker 1: airplane or jumping off a building, but I mean, you
29:05
Speaker 1: do need to go out and experience life. You need
29:09
Speaker 1: you need to go out and fall down a couple
29:10
Speaker 1: of times that you do that, which is okay.
29:14
Speaker 2: So yeah, any ball you get back up.
29:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm super excited. I'm really looking forward to this.
29:20
Speaker 2: And yeah, and I'm looking forward to to you know,
29:23
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of feelings and a lot
29:24
Speaker 2: of motions and a lot of things that are going
29:26
Speaker 2: to happen as the time comes, but right now the
29:29
Speaker 2: goal is in sight.
29:30
Speaker 1: Yeah. But like I said, with Travis being able to
29:33
Speaker 1: run with a nine hundred and fifty pounds yoke on
29:35
Speaker 1: his back and not have any issues, pretty pretty excited
29:41
Speaker 1: about that. They're exactly And then so now with the
29:45
Speaker 1: technology and stuff, the ceramic ones are great, but if
29:49
Speaker 1: you wear them out, they got to replace the whole thing.
29:52
Speaker 1: That's not cool. The the ones with the with the
29:57
Speaker 1: I always mess up the it's poly something with the plot.
30:00
Speaker 1: It's not part of your thing.
30:01
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's probably super.
30:03
Speaker 1: Super hard plastic and and uh, if you do manage
30:10
Speaker 1: to wear that out, they just cut you open, pull
30:13
Speaker 1: it apart, put a new one, take the old one out,
30:16
Speaker 1: put a new one in, put it back together, sew
30:18
Speaker 1: you up, and within two weeks of the wound healing,
30:22
Speaker 1: you're back to where you were. So I kind of like,
30:25
Speaker 1: I kind of liked that idea to where so if
30:27
Speaker 1: you have a problem, it's a pretty easy fix. Uh
30:30
Speaker 1: you know, so I'm pretty excited about that as well.
30:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, now there's a lot of things that are that
30:36
Speaker 2: are floating around for it and also to you. You've
30:39
Speaker 2: talked it through with the doctors, talked about the concerns,
30:42
Speaker 2: talked about what can happen. Because one of the things,
30:44
Speaker 2: even too, you did with the doctors like this is
30:46
Speaker 2: what I do. You know, I'm laid it out.
30:49
Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, I sat down with doctor Bradford and I
30:55
Speaker 1: was like, uh, Doc, this is what I like to do.
31:00
Speaker 1: And he's like, look and he goes, oh, yeah, yeah,
31:03
Speaker 1: that's pretty crazy. He goes. Well, he goes, I wouldn't
31:07
Speaker 1: recommend to run marathons. He goes, but most of this
31:10
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay. I'm like, Doc, I want to
31:12
Speaker 1: squat like eight nine or a hare pounds. Again, He's
31:14
Speaker 1: just like yeah. Yeah, the worst thing for it's running.
31:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes.
31:21
Speaker 1: But I got guys that run marathons, and one of
31:23
Speaker 1: them that's been running marathons for over thirteen years, and
31:27
Speaker 1: they'll they'll bring you in and X ray the thing
31:29
Speaker 1: and see what the wear has been on it. And
31:32
Speaker 1: he goes. The war that we can see on it
31:35
Speaker 1: is less than a human hair, he goes. So they
31:39
Speaker 1: have the new designs are really good. There's only like
31:42
Speaker 1: a point one percent dislocation rate, which is pretty darn good.
31:48
Speaker 1: So just gotta go out and be smart and then
31:52
Speaker 1: come back at a good pace and be back to
31:55
Speaker 1: regular life. That's it. That is back to lift and stuff.
32:02
Speaker 2: Well its yeah, yeah, he laughed.
32:06
Speaker 1: He laughed because he was just circling around my hip
32:10
Speaker 1: all the bone sks that were on it.
32:11
Speaker 2: Oh I was.
32:13
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, he goes, and these are not
32:15
Speaker 1: small ones. I'm like, oh, okay, he goes. Well that's
32:17
Speaker 1: probably why you get stuck right here with that side.
32:22
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, sir, exactly. So I'm looking forward
32:25
Speaker 1: to that. Can't wait to get it over with. So
32:28
Speaker 1: that's it.
32:29
Speaker 2: Well, Nick, I'll tell you right now. You know once again,
32:31
Speaker 2: you know thoughts and prayers, positive energy, good vibes because
32:35
Speaker 2: you know, we want this to go smoothly. And that
32:39
Speaker 2: said Nick, oh go ahead.
32:41
Speaker 1: Well yeah, it's just kind of neat in this day
32:43
Speaker 1: and age that we're in because like, could you imagine
32:46
Speaker 1: if they had this back when like Paul Anderson's hips
32:48
Speaker 1: went out on him. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean
32:52
Speaker 1: he probably would have lived probably another twenty thirty years exactly.
32:56
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. The technology gets better and better,
33:00
Speaker 2: but the thing too is like you know, unfortunately people
33:02
Speaker 2: have to go through it for that technology to progress,
33:06
Speaker 2: and you know and also to like these things only
33:09
Speaker 2: get made because someone had to go through this pain
33:11
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, how can we fix this?
33:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, but looking forward to doing it, looking forward to
33:17
Speaker 1: get back to looking forward to jump some rope again
33:20
Speaker 1: and having fun. So anyway, I hope you all have
33:24
Speaker 1: a great day and go out there and just be
33:28
Speaker 1: good to one another and always train hard, train smart,
33:30
Speaker 1: and be the best that you can be.
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