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Speaker 1: a really cool episode because we have the world's strongest man, wait,

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Speaker 1: strongest man on Earth. You know, world and Earth are

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Speaker 1: very similar. But he is his literal title, his strongest

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Speaker 1: man on Earth, and he won that in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna go to him because we talk

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Speaker 1: about a lot of this, but it is Evan t

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Speaker 1: Rex Singleton and he is a unit. If I don't

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Speaker 1: mind saying so myself, he'll tell you his size, but

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Speaker 1: he's six six he's a monster. All right. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: We're talking now with the strongest man on Earth, Evan Singleton.

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Speaker 1: Evan Singleton is here. I call him Evan Strongman. But

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Speaker 1: we should say how we met? Can I say? I? Well, first, Hippa,

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Speaker 1: although I'm not a doctor, can I say how we met?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Please? Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I had ankle surgery and I go to physical

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Speaker 1: or he looks like he killed you. One of the two.

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Speaker 1: I bet on friendly because he was. He was talking

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Speaker 1: hey man, what do you It almost felt like prison

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Speaker 1: in there, honestly, because you always want to know what

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I've.

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Speaker 1: Met like major League baseball players, I've met goalies. I

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Speaker 1: met someone who won the ND five hundred twice on

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Speaker 1: And now I'm always curious about people. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: In my world, I'd be cup stacking. I'd cup stack

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of like cupstacking, just heavy.

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Speaker 4: So do you ever do like stuff like that just

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Speaker 3: I am six foot six and three hundred and sixty pounds.

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Speaker 4: Force feed?

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Speaker 3: In order to do the heavy exercises and just the

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Speaker 3: that's five eggs, half a pound of bacon, and then

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this. Yes, out of high school.

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Speaker 3: Out of high school, I had it when I was eighteen.

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Speaker 1: How did they approach you? How do they know about you?

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Speaker 3: Just from so? I was a big fan of pro

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Speaker 1: He was also a giant and he can move. Yep,

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Speaker 3: So after I graduated high school, I knew I wanted

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Speaker 3: And I had I for wrestling. I had rides to

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Speaker 3: Did you go to Florida and train?

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Speaker 3: So I was in Florida. It's their like developmental program.

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Speaker 1: So how was your experience there doing that?

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Speaker 1: In the middle of the match. Yeah, so I would

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm sorry that happened to you. You remember it?

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Speaker 1: What do they tell you about that?

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Speaker 3: Well, after about six months of no wrestling, no contact,

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Speaker 1: A second and you didn't know when they were coming.

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Speaker 3: No, it was completely random. It would just happen randomly.

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Speaker 1: Have they diagnosed that now?

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Speaker 1: Does it still happen at all?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thankfully, that's that's like one of the few symptoms

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Speaker 4: Anything my wife tells her.

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Speaker 3: That's just part of it.

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Speaker 3: This was I'm thirty three now and it happened when

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Speaker 3: I did end up moving back home for a little while. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then are you lost as to well this was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for the longest time, that was my dream.

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Speaker 1: So one last damn wrestling question. No, what was your name?

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Speaker 3: Adam Mercer? You could have done better? Yeah, yeah, is

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Speaker 4: And that was your first one, Adam Mercer, that was

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Speaker 3: Why that name? I actually stole that from a video

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Speaker 1: So I'd like to protract my statement saying you could

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Speaker 1: You're pretty timating a gay.

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Speaker 3: So you go home.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is next at that time of

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Speaker 3: Honestly, Like I wasn't even clear to exercise in the

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna what's what's the most like esthetically pleasing thing

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Speaker 3: Once I did one show, so that no, that counts.

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Speaker 1: So if you did, if you did, if you did

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Speaker 1: No which part of it?

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Speaker 3: Diet? I'm a fat kid at heart. So when all

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Speaker 3: I have to do two hours of cardio, that's terrible.

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Speaker 4: It's not living.

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Speaker 3: That's not living.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you take two terrible eating lanes though.

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Speaker 1: It's what it's like. You're only eating, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're eating eighteen pounds of bacon in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but at least eating eighteen pounds of bacon in

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Speaker 1: When you said Danish, I was like, yes, yeah, cherry Danish.

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Speaker 3: Danish as you get from Costco when they're fresh off. Wow,

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Speaker 3: they're so good. They're so good.

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Speaker 4: The hemorrhage I don't understand, because I would think that

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Speaker 3: I think that that answer kind of like made them

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Speaker 3: Not a super super frequent thing, but it does happen.

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Speaker 3: But then they get back up on the deal.

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Speaker 1: That's normal in that culture.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it has nothing to do with past hemorrhage.

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Speaker 3: Has you ever going to do it? Do you ever

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Speaker 3: see the Anatoley videos? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know one other than the bit at first

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Speaker 1: where he's dressed like a janitor, and he's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the he looks heavy and these guys are massive and

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Speaker 1: they're they're doing all this deadlift and he's like, I

445
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Speaker 1: need to move it because I need to sweep under this,

446
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,679
Speaker 1: and they're like, man, we're Nimila doing deadlift. He's like it,

447
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Speaker 1: don't just take one second and then he lifts it

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Speaker 1: up himself like walks heavy. Yes, it's so funny to me.

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Speaker 1: You ever met that guy?

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Speaker 3: I have never met that guy, but he gets tagged

451
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Speaker 3: in my videos all the time. He's never like, done

452
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Speaker 3: that trick to you though, where you like, I remember

453
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Speaker 3: once at Strongest Man on Earth. Actually, last year I

454
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Speaker 3: deadlifted eleven hundred and thirty four pounds. How does a

455
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Speaker 3: bar even hold that? That's a different question. But anyway,

456
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Speaker 3: they were covered in like Hummer tires and stuff, so

457
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Speaker 3: it was really cool looking. But I posted that online

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Speaker 3: and then like half the comments are yeah, but I

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Speaker 3: totally or whatever his name is, like he just call

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Speaker 3: him in and he'll make that look super effortless, and

461
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Speaker 3: it's just like, guys, come on, I was proud of

462
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Speaker 3: this lifting. Now you're making it into a joke. What

463
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Speaker 3: was a weight again? On eleven hundred and thirty four pounds.

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Speaker 1: What's what's your pr for deadlift?

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Speaker 3: On a straight bar, It's one thousand and ten pounds,

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Speaker 3: and then on a trap bar it's eleven thirty four.

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Speaker 1: I have a trap bar. I like the trap bar.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense, it'd be a little more. Why is

496
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Speaker 1: DAK The base is.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a couple of things. The neutral grip, like

498
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Speaker 3: you have a trap bar, like you, we're the same.

499
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Speaker 1: We're saying, yeah, go ahead, tell them because I know obviously,

500
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Speaker 1: but tell them so.

501
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Speaker 3: With the trap bar, it's a neutral grip, and that

502
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Speaker 3: just aligns with your body's natural anatomy a little bit better.

503
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Speaker 3: It's easier to like, essentially like press it. It's why

504
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Speaker 3: people with a strong leg press and a squat are

505
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Speaker 3: typically better at trap bar than regular deadlift.

506
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Speaker 1: When I regular deadlift, I prefer I don't know what

507
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Speaker 1: mixed grip.

508
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Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's one up, one down like money.

509
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Is that allowed? Yeah, you're allowed to do that.

510
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Speaker 3: It's not recommended because in strong Man we're to use

511
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Speaker 3: straps to strap onto the bar. And if your one

512
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 3: arm is underhand grip and you strap in like that

513
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 3: and you have an excess amount of weight when you're deadlifting,

514
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Speaker 3: that could put your bicep in serious wrists.

515
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Speaker 1: That's why, Oh you have scar, you have like things

516
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Speaker 1: in your arms, Yeah, I have.

517
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Speaker 3: That's from when I tore my distal ten in at

518
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 3: World's Strongest Man trying to clean and press a two

519
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty pounds dumbbell, a single dumbell. Yeah. So

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Speaker 3: I clean it with both arms from the ground. Yeah,

521
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Speaker 3: and I take one away and then I press with

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Speaker 3: one arm.

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Speaker 4: What did that feel when it's snapped?

524
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Speaker 2: Like?

525
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Speaker 3: What are you bell crow tearing? Like pulling belcrow apart?

526
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Speaker 4: Do you hear that?

527
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Speaker 3: Yeah? So it sounds like a pop.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's just a Tuesday for you and

529
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Speaker 1: things are ripping like you're lifting such such heavy weights

530
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Speaker 1: all the time.

531
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Speaker 3: I'm just used to it another Thursday noon.

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Speaker 1: It's my Thursday at noon.

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Speaker 4: It's I guess to fill out.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've torn my biceps three times, I've torn

535
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Speaker 3: my peck ten in and I've shattered both my feet.

536
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: I've thrown my back out, i had nerve damage in

537
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Speaker 3: my neck. I've done a whole bunch of stuff to myself.

538
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: When did you start knowing the strongest man on Earth

539
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: was a.

540
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 3: Thing like strong man in general?

541
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Speaker 1: Yeah?

542
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty five. It was after my bodybuilding show. I

543
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 3: wanted to age twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, going to say, cause last year, man, you've come

545
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: a long way. If it's just this last year, I.

546
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Speaker 3: Wish, I wish. But I've known about straw Man for

547
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 3: a little while now, about eight eight nine years now,

548
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 3: and I started competing at twenty five, and before that

549
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Speaker 3: I didn't even know what straw Man was.

550
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Speaker 1: How was your first experience in competition?

551
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Speaker 3: I won, and it qualified me for the pro show.

552
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: So it's not a system that we use anymore. But

553
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 3: when I started competing, they did something called platinum plus shows,

554
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 3: and a platinum plus show is like an amateur show.

555
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,239
Speaker 3: And the winner of the Open Heavyweight, which is what

556
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 3: I competed in. If you won that, you would get

557
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Speaker 3: an invite to a show so you can go compete

558
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 3: with the pro guys. And I competed in a Platinum

559
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Speaker 3: Plus show my first show. I want it and I

560
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: want to go compete with the pros. That was the

561
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Speaker 3: World's Strongest Man qualifying tour.

562
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Speaker 1: Did you know Platin Plus was also a strip club

563
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Speaker 1: in Memphis?

564
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Speaker 3: I did not know that.

565
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, because in college some of my friends would drive

566
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Speaker 1: over and they'd be like, I met the stripper. She's

567
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Speaker 1: in love with me, and I'd be like like, no,

568
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Speaker 1: she's not. They're like no, no, We drove through and

569
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Speaker 1: they go to Plantem Plus like once a month from

570
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Speaker 1: in the middle of Arkansas. I don't think that's open anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So when you when you win that and when you

572
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Speaker 1: walk in the very first time you're performing, do you

573
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Speaker 1: look around and go I think I can compete or

574
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: it is visually? Does that not really always matter? What's

575
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Speaker 1: the side what someone looks like?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, what somebody looks like is completely irrelevant. We've

577
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 3: got guys that are morbidly obese. We've got guys that

578
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 3: are really small and under three hundred pounds. We've got

579
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Speaker 3: everywhere in between. I compete with guys that are six nine, but.

580
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Speaker 1: They can Some guys that you don't think and go

581
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: can go yeah like they maybe smaller, or they maybe

582
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: but they.

583
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Speaker 4: Still absolutely or the opposite, somebody that looks like, oh man,

584
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 4: they're so strong.

585
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Speaker 3: I run into that a couple of times. There's guys

586
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 3: bigger than me that I beat on a regular basis.

587
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Speaker 1: So you when, for the sake of my knowledge, the

588
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: prelam to get into a pro it's that insulting. No, okay, no,

589
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: you go into the pro event. How did you do there?

590
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 3: I ended up coming in like eighth place.

591
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Speaker 1: How many people are there?

592
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Speaker 3: Twelve?

593
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Speaker 1: And do you feel like that's a victory since that's

594
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Speaker 1: your first ever professional show?

595
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: No?

596
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Speaker 1: Oh, y oh, you were disappointed with it. I was

597
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: disappointed with that because my strength was there.

598
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Speaker 3: I know that I could have done better because my

599
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 3: strength was there to win the show. But it was

600
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Speaker 3: my second competition ever. I made a lot of rookie mistakes,

601
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 3: like what's a mistake that you make? Then my hand

602
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 3: placement on stuff like like a frame carry like a

603
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 3: big wooden frame with handles on the inside of it.

604
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 3: Instead of staggering my grip a little bit to keep

605
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Speaker 3: the thing leveled, I didn't do that, and I just

606
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Speaker 3: picked it straight up like normal, and then it would

607
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 3: the frame would like tip forward, scrape across ground, slow

608
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Speaker 3: me down, make it harder to move. Did you ever

609
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Speaker 3: do that thing where you take the ball and you

610
00:26:58,960 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 3: thought over the top of that thing?

611
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 4: You ever see that?

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00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: Uh?

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00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 3: I do a variation of that.

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Speaker 1: Like I just remember watching that show that you were

615
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: talking about. Used to come on ESPN. They would take

616
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: they'd be in the sand, they would take something a heavy,

617
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: heavy medicine, maybe a medicine ball.

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00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 3: Oh, you might be thinking of a kettlebelly.

619
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Speaker 1: It's a kettlebell.

620
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Speaker 3: We've done kettlebells, kegs and sandbags.

621
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Speaker 4: Oh I've seen the kegs.

622
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we throw them over. Do you do

623
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 3: that thing? Yep? How do you train for that?

624
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: I have?

625
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 3: So what I have is at my gym as a yoke.

626
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 3: That's when I get underneath it, I stand up and

627
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,719
Speaker 3: then I run with it. That has giant pillars on it.

628
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 3: I put PVC pipes in the pillars and then I

629
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 3: connect a rubber band at like twelve to fifteen feet

630
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: and that gives me the height that I need and

631
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 3: then I just have the sandbags that I just practice with.

632
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: Do you hate training? It feels miserable. I love training.

633
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: You love going to work.

634
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 3: That man that is.

635
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Speaker 4: That's why he does it. Have you pulled the eighteen wheeler?

636
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 3: Yeah? I pulled a seven forty seven? Actually, are you airplane? Okay?

637
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: I was thinking like that.

638
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 3: It's a massive, a big commercial airplane. How'd that happen?

639
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 3: Where was that? That was actually in Florida. I had

640
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 3: a good time doing that. And one of my buddies

641
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 3: worked on an air on an air base like a

642
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 3: like a private runway essentially, and he was like, I know,

643
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Speaker 3: you do the strong man thing. You want to get

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Speaker 3: a couple of guys together.

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Speaker 1: An It wasn't a competition, No, this was just let's

646
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: just go pull seven. That's crazy.

647
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Speaker 3: Well, are you familiar with monster trucks at all?

648
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:28,479
Speaker 1: Yeah?

649
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 3: So in World Strongest Man twenty nineteen, they tethered Monster

650
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 3: jam and Gravedigger together and then I pulled them both

651
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 3: at the same time.

652
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's why Digger was the grave Digger when I

653
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: was a kid. Grave Digger yeah, because I had Bigfoot

654
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: and Grave Digger too, like two toy trucks. So now

655
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Speaker 1: do you ever just like want to show people how

656
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Speaker 1: strong you are and be like, yeah I can. Oh,

657
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: like of a car, like a small car and it's

658
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: parallel parts and it's like it needs to be moved.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

660
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Speaker 1: Could you just lift it out?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah? Oh yeah?

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Speaker 4: Or like you go to the parking lot and like

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Speaker 4: there's somebody double parked there in the line, Ah, we

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Speaker 4: can move back far.

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Speaker 3: I've been waiting for the opportunity. I've been waiting for

666
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Speaker 3: the opportunity. I really really just once in my life

667
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Speaker 3: want to see a smart car double park so I

668
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 3: can literally just flip it into one space.

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Speaker 4: Please call us, Please call us when you do that.

670
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: That's a TikTok video for sure. So you won the

671
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: Last Strongest Man on Earth? Yes? Going into that, did

672
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: you feel like like you were a favorite to win it?

673
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 3: I did? I really did. The events were very good

674
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 3: for me. I was going into it super confident, mentally healthy,

675
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: physically healthy, and like all of my training leading up

676
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 3: to it was just going great. I went into it

677
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 3: very confident.

678
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: Do you ever lift more than you do? You ever

679
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: said prs at these events because your adrenalines.

680
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 3: Also. Oh yeah, absolutely so when I'm when I'm performing,

681
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: I usually perform anywhere between. There's usually a crowd of

682
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 3: anywhere between four to eight thousand people, depending on where

683
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 3: it is at the event. Yeah, at the event. Yeah so,

684
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 3: and I'm like WWE and just my personality, I'm a showman.

685
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 3: I like to put on a good show. So when

686
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 3: I get the crowd like behind me and they start

687
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 3: cheering for me and everything like that, that's that's like

688
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 3: adrenaline that I can't recreate. Like that's that fuels me

689
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 3: to go much harder and faster than I ever could

690
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: in training.

691
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: Have you ever been surprised, as you said, a personal

692
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: record because you're like, holy crap.

693
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 3: I just did it. I've never done it before. Oh yeah.

694
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: Do you show it on your face or are you just

695
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: like yeah, Oh.

696
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: I usually am pretty I'm usually pretty animated when I

697
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 3: had a really heavy lift, especially when I know it's

698
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 3: good points for the competition.

699
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: What do the other competitors know you as uh annoying?

700
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 3: Why guys? Oh no, I'm just joking. I'm straw Man

701
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 3: has had straw Man has had a very very consistent

702
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 3: flow of athletes where it's walk onto the platform, lift wave,

703
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,479
Speaker 3: walk off like and when I'm doing it, I have

704
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 3: smelling salts, my ammonia salts that I smell. I'll give like,

705
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 3: I'll I'll head butt like a squat racker something like that.

706
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 3: I'll have my coach.

707
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: Get you had brain injury, remember that, Just making sure

708
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm fully aware of it.

709
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm fully aware that the doctors watching right, I'm

710
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 3: fully aware that it's it's terrible for me and I

711
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: should stop doing it, but I'm not going to because

712
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: it works.

713
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 4: But how hard do you head butt? Like just oh yeah, yeah, no,

714
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 4: is it cartilage?

715
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 3: Yeah?

716
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we quit that.

717
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: You know, maybe I'll stop doing it when it stops working. Okay,

718
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 3: fair enough, Hey, man, just let them do No. I

719
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 3: know I'm not telling them again.

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Speaker 1: I got messed up earlier being like, man, we could

721
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: do better with a name.

722
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, you're doing him.

723
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: So when you win last year, was that the first

724
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: year that you actually finished first?

725
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: Yes, that was my first world title win. How awesome

726
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 3: is that?

727
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: Oh?

728
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 3: It was like seven eight years in the making, Like

729
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: because at World's Strongest Man, I've had a history of

730
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: like something bad happening that's costing me the title, tearing

731
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 3: a bicep or a PEC ten and or like getting

732
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 3: sick before the show even starts, like just over and

733
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,239
Speaker 3: over and over again, just these random acts of just

734
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 3: bullshit that it's essentially taken away my ability to perform

735
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 3: and to be able to go out and win a

736
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 3: world level title. Like like there was a part where

737
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 3: I just broke down and cried in the hotel room

738
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 3: after you won, after I won, Yeah, I took the

739
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 3: trophy back to the hotel room, showered, and I was

740
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 3: just like, finally did it. Because you always get to

741
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 3: be that now. Yeah, I'm I am the strongest man

742
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 3: on Earth until the day I die. And I love that.

743
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 3: See That's why I like chasing titles over world records,

744
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 3: because everybody's always like, oh, the world record deadlift, this

745
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 3: a world record deadlift that. It's just like, yeah, but

746
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 3: eventually someone's gonna come along and beat your record. You're

747
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 3: not the deadlift world record holder anymore. But if I

748
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 3: win World Strongest Man, I'm world strongest Man.

749
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: Forever, and I'm dancing Win Stars Champion forever.

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00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 4: Kyle, look at you too.

751
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: I mean, there'll be other dnswers that wins, but for

752
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: that season, I won. But I'll always be that.

753
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 4: What's the point though of And I'm not arguing with you,

754
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 4: but what's the point.

755
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: We're all scared?

756
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 2: Now?

757
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 3: Hey, what question you wanted to ask you?

758
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 4: What's the point of being the strongest dude and not telling?

759
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 1: Like you saw Bobby in this Yeah, he can tell me.

760
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: He would never tell me. He wouldn't have told me

761
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: tell him.

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00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: I'm just like like I I I deal with a

763
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 3: lot of personalities on a regular basis because of what

764
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 3: I do for a quote unquote real job, and then

765
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 3: like my history doing strong Man and just Jim culture

766
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 3: in general, I run into a lot of people who

767
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: just are arrogant, who just undeserved entitlement and think that

768
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: there's somebody when they're not. And it's just I try

769
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: not to be I try not to be over over

770
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 3: sharing with with my accomplishments because I don't want to

771
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 3: come off like that, you know what I mean?

772
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 4: But you are that though, you know what I mean.

773
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 3: I looked at him and I thought I was a golfer.

774
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: This guy looks like he plays on the tour on

775
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: the PGA tour. Yeah, no, that he wouldn't have told me.

776
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: I mean he had Daniel Lot told me. I would

777
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: have never known. And I was so interested. I messaged

778
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: I literally as soon as you left, I've followed him

779
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, dude, you got to come up

780
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: because I just have so many questions about it. So cool.

781
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: Then the holiday's hitting and so for me, this has

782
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: been like a thrill to just get to know your

783
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: story and like your world's strongest man. What I worry about.

784
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: What I wonder about is you tore your peg, but

785
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: now you've got to compete in a month. Have you

786
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: been able to train at the level that you usually

787
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: train because you've been injured?

788
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 3: I have. Yeah. See, It's it's funny because I've been

789
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 3: injured a lot in my career, but the strong man

790
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 3: community has kind of gifted me with the nickname Wolverine

791
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 3: because I just have a history of just bouncing back

792
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 3: from injury so fast and healing, and I like to

793
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 3: take credit for that because I go above and beyond

794
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 3: when it comes to my recovery, because I hate sitting

795
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 3: on the sideline and I don't like not doing what

796
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 3: I do, So like when guys will do their rehab

797
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 3: like twice a week. They'll go see Daniel twice a week,

798
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 3: and then the rest of the week they're just kind

799
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: of relaxing and letting their body recover. Like I'm hitting,

800
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 3: I'm doing rehab stuff at home or at the gym,

801
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 3: and at the rehab center three times a day.

802
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: I why I wanted to hire you to train me. Would

803
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: you let somebody pay you to train?

804
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 2: Yeah?

805
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so they want to impress you, because that's

806
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: what I would. I ended up having a brain imager

807
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 1: doing min press. Trust me, I promise you I watched this.

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00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: You'll train people. Yeah, but for strong man or for

809
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 3: like No, No, I do general fitness as well. I

810
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 3: have one guy who I actually trained before I came

811
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 3: in here. Nice kid, never been in the gym a

812
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 3: day in his life, so I've just been getting giving

813
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 3: in the basics and building his strength and he's put

814
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 3: on like fifteen pounds of muscle.

815
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 4: Do you get impatient with people like that though, just

816
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 4: because you've been doing your whole life and they haven't.

817
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 3: No, No, I understand the level that I'm at doesn't

818
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 3: give me any right to treat anybody any differently. Like

819
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 3: we're all people we're all on our journey, whether it's fitness,

820
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 3: whether it's business, whether it's anything. We're all at different levels,

821
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 3: but we're all. We're all people.

822
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: What do you What do I get wrong? General public

823
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: get wrong about when we work out, because like I'll

824
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: be like, should I be maxing on bach press zero percent? No, Corey, Yeah, yeah,

825
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: of course I don't do that.

826
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 3: Well. The thing, the thing that I see with a

827
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: lot of guys, this is mostly guys, and I hear

828
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 3: I see it so much. It's it's they constantly push

829
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 3: their body to the absolute max with certain lifts, deadlift,

830
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 3: bench press, anything like that on a regular basis. And

831
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 3: that's not how you build strength. If you're testing your

832
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,479
Speaker 3: your one rep max every week, your one rep max

833
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: is going to stay the same every single week. So

834
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: how do I How do I get stronger? You need volume,

835
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 3: so lighter, lighter, but more Yes, So, like let's say

836
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: instead of going for a one rep max on bench press,

837
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks, I have you doing four

838
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 3: sets of ten to fifteen, and then I'll have you

839
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 3: do one week, I would have you do a sets

840
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 3: of eight, but the weight's a little bit heavier, and

841
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: then we would just progressively up and up and up,

842
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 3: and I would have you do that rotation for maybe

843
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: eight to ten weeks and then we can retest your

844
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 3: one rep max again.

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Speaker 1: A left that people do that probably is so old

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Speaker 3: I this is just I'm probably gonna get heat for this,

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Speaker 3: But I I never understood calf raises. I think calfraises

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Speaker 1: I've done everything we've talked about this calf raises until

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Speaker 3: Like what could I do? Then? Do you squat?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: How have you? Uh? Pretty give me a percentage of

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879
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: so I weigh about one seventy If I'm going to

880
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: do like a set of four, okay, two sixty five

881
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: or so, it's not bad. Yeah, I mean for a

882
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: thinnish guy, I'm pretty strong.

883
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 3: That's not about at all.

884
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: Say yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, day all right,

885
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: for sure, dey, all right, but my caps again smaller.

886
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: Actually I don't even have cats anymore. It goes try

887
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: angle to knee, so like my so, but do you

888
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: say squats are a big part of that.

889
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 3: That's one part of it, because you're you're working your

890
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 3: cats when you're doing any kind of full body movement

891
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 3: like squat, deadlift, stuff like that. So I would recommend

892
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 3: just doing volume with other exercises, including that targeting the

893
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 3: calves with seated or standing calf raises. Just I don't know,

894
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 3: never did anything for me, and like plianame metrics stuff,

895
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 3: I like biometric stuff. Do you do them?

896
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: I do? I do.

897
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 3: My coach has me doing jump the jumps where I'll

898
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 3: literally just maximum max max distance jump three times in

899
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 3: a row without resetting. So just jump jump jump. I

900
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 3: do box jumps. I do all kinds of shit, all

901
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 3: kinds of ship like that.

902
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 1: What do you do anything physical as far as exercise

903
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: that's not lifting.

904
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 3: I do jiu jitsu? Oh my god, can you imagine

905
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 3: on the ground with him?

906
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, your first day in class?

907
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: All right, guy, Yeah, I do jiu jitsu and I

908
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 3: shoot guns jiu jitsu.

909
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: Man, that's tough.

910
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 4: Have you done m m A, because you you were

911
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 4: talking about combat sports like.

912
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 3: Wrestling, Brazilian jiu jitsu. I've done a little bit of kickboxing,

913
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 3: but nothing notable, just honestly just kind of a fitness class.

914
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 4: Kind of Have you seen the slapping competition?

915
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 3: Fun fact about that. Don't do it. You had a

916
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 3: brain hemorrhage. Ude, No, I'm not. I'm not doing that

917
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 3: as an athlete. Hell no, I'm never doing that. But

918
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 3: I actually got invited, Me and another guy from World

919
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 3: Strongest Man got invited to be the uh the guest

920
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 3: catchers for when guys get slapped and they go unconscious,

921
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: there's guys there to catch them just really hit the ground.

922
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 3: That's me and another guy from World Strongest Man were

923
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 3: invited to be special guest catchers for their first super

924
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 3: heavyweight out, So we.

925
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 4: Need strong guys.

926
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: Did you know they had guest just touchers at all.

927
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because they fall backwards and they get caught.

928
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 4: It's to stop them from I don't know they had

929
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 4: guest ones.

930
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: I thought I catch like that was a legitimate like

931
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: a job. Do people see you and go what are you?

932
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 3: Because you're something.

933
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: If it's like if you were to see a six

934
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: ten guy who looks kind of athletic, you would go,

935
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: what are you a volleyball player? Basketball player?

936
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: Oh?

937
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 3: I get that a lot. In America, I get football

938
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 3: player a lot, and then and then over in Europe,

939
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 3: I usually am recognized. Oh so in Europe, strong man's

940
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 3: a lot more popular in Europe than it is here.

941
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 3: That's like in Sync in the early days, what do

942
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 3: you mean? Yeah?

943
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: In Sync went the year they got big in Europe first,

944
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: really Yeah, in Sync and Battery Boys both I did

945
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: not know Sync. Yeah, you're you're in sinking about your voice?

946
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.

947
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: Me too, and they were. They were massive, and they

948
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: came to America and they really weren't yet. They were

949
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: kind of known, but they blew up over there first.

950
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: They're basically Evan O. You feel good though, now? Yeah?

951
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 3: I feel much better now. Man, that's so cool.

952
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: It's like if I saw i'd just been like, I

953
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: would be intimidated to ask what you are, but I

954
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: would know you were something because you're You're too physically

955
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: dominating to not be even It's just like a muscular

956
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,720
Speaker 1: guy You're just not that, like there's something elite about

957
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Even I saw you, I knew you

958
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: were doing something, but I was like, I wonder what

959
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: that guy even is. Like sometimes I think they're like

960
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: lizard people aliens. I thought possibly, possibly he was that.

961
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: And you still have fun doing it?

962
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 3: Oh, I have a blast doing it. I love what

963
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 3: I do, to be honest. I love competing. I love

964
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: pushing myself to the absolute limit physically and mentally. I

965
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 3: love doing the per simal training thing where I'm helping people.

966
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 3: I love doing my security jobs because I like to

967
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 3: keep people safe.

968
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: Like I love you security I do.

969
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 3: I'm an armed security guarden, an exact executive protection. You

970
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 3: don't need arm you don't need.

971
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 4: No, you don't need. You don't.

972
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 3: Off well. I like to well, I'm I'm okay with

973
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 3: using guns because if somebody's gonna run away, I'll chase

974
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 3: you for ten seconds and be like, all right, Na,

975
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 3: you're tired. Oh I'm joking. I'm joking. I am joking.

976
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 3: I am joking. That was a job.

977
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

978
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 3: Imagine him bodyguarding.

979
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 4: I would feel so good, I feel so safe, like

980
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 4: i'd probably cause trouble yeah, just.

981
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 3: Because I would.

982
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go and do bad stuff just because I

983
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: have him, and I'm not somebody who wants to do

984
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: bad stuff.

985
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 3: You are not the first person to tell me that.

986
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say who else told you that? Because thereby

987
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: telling the truth. Yeah, so if do you do you

988
00:43:58,680 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: do virtual training at all?

989
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 3: Yeah? I do online stuff.

990
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: So if people because this is a big podcast, but

991
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: if people somewhere were listening and they were like, man,

992
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: I'd love to like virtually hit up evenue like train

993
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: and like, how do they get a hold of you?

994
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 3: Instagram? Actually it's most most popular and.

995
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 1: Easy way to get a hold of me is that

996
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: like Evan Strongman. What is it?

997
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 3: It's Evan Underscore t Rex Underscore strong Man.

998
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 4: It's a long one.

999
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 3: Well, okay, why t Rex because that's actually I got

1000
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,959
Speaker 3: the nickname from my tattoos. Good are those t rex?

1001
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 4: Oh?

1002
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that. I have t Rex call in

1003
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 3: my hands.

1004
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: I uh, why did you do that?

1005
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of dinosaurs and Jurassic Park is

1006
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,240
Speaker 3: my favorite movie. T Rex has always been my favorite

1007
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 3: dinosaur and still I keep up with paleontological discoveries and

1008
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 3: updates and all of that in the scientific community. It's

1009
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 3: just a hobby of mine. And t Rex was always

1010
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 3: my favorite dinosaur and I always wanted to start getting tattoos,

1011
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: but I didn't know what to get. I came up

1012
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 3: with this idea when I was like fifteen sixteen, And

1013
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 3: you know how when you come up with an idea

1014
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 3: for a tattoo, be like, Oh, this looks cool, and

1015
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 3: then like a month later, you're like, Ah, that's stupid.

1016
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 3: I'll think of something else. This stayed consistent like up

1017
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 3: until I was like twenty four to twenty five, and

1018
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 3: I ended up getting this two months before my first

1019
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 3: draw Man competition. I just pulled the trigger. I said,

1020
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 3: screw it, why not? So I went out and got it.

1021
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 3: Two months later, I competed in my first competition, and

1022
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: halfway through, when I started dominating everybody, people started calling

1023
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: me t Rex, and then I just kind of ran

1024
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: with it.

1025
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: You got a good nickname, that's cool. My name was

1026
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: t Bone because they said ID a boner in seventh grade.

1027
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: T Rex is true. No, it's a true story story.

1028
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: T Rex is so much better off a nickname? Did

1029
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: you given to you? T Bone?

1030
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 3: That one sucks. That's a good porn star name I was.

1031
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 3: I was in I was twelve, and there was nothing

1032
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 3: porn star about it.

1033
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 4: It was like something I wanted to highlight.

1034
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: It was not highlight.

1035
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 4: It was in the gym right well, I was wrestling.

1036
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 4: Gets some worse.

1037
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: No, no, yeah, no, it's all.

1038
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 3: It's like peak as bad as it could get t bone.

1039
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 3: It came out.

1040
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: I still say it was not a boner, but it

1041
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: did come out of my short. My shorts ripped, it

1042
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: came out. The legend is what it is. They wanted

1043
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: to call me t Rex, but and I was like,

1044
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: soon there'll be a real t Rex and his name

1045
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: is Evan Singleton.

1046
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 3: I'm rooting for you, man, it's awesome.

1047
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: That's super cool. When you speak, I'm assuming you speak.

1048
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm just assuming, PIZZI, I have you speaking stuff?

1049
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 3: Do they whenever the opportunity comes up, Well they should

1050
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 3: because you have a great story.

1051
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: They should.

1052
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 3: I like to share my story if my short. I

1053
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 3: like to think that all of the hell that I've

1054
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 3: been through in my life is worth it if I

1055
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 3: can help one person. Oh yeah, you got to get it.

1056
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: You got to speak to some folks like do speaking

1057
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: towards and stuff you have a really great story. I

1058
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: got nothing else because that's all. That's what I wanted

1059
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: to talk about, was all that you just said. I'm

1060
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: rooting for you. Edie got one, I.

1061
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 4: Got one more questions. So I would think that being

1062
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 4: strong and being able to lift whatever you want, you

1063
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: probably feel like you can do anything. What's one thing

1064
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 4: that you're just like, Man, I just can't do it?

1065
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 4: Like I'm so bad at it.

1066
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 3: Baking. I am terrible at baking. I've tried numerous times.

1067
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 4: Are you good at cooking?

1068
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 3: Though? I am good at cooking. I used to work

1069
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 3: in an Italian steak restaurant and I was the head.

1070
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 4: I wasn't the head chef, but I was the head

1071
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 4: steak chef. So what's so tricky about bacon for you?

1072
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 3: I don't know. I can't figure it out.

1073
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 4: You burn everything.

1074
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 3: I burn everything, all of my fucking shit falls. I'm

1075
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 3: not using a beast or I use too much. I

1076
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know. I just can't figure it out.

1077
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 3: I can cook a five out of five steak like

1078
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 3: I'll make up I'll make a steak dinner that will

1079
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 3: knock you off your ass. But I can't figure out

1080
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 3: if you want me to make cupcakes. You got to

1081
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 3: you gotta recruit somebody else we'll do.

1082
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 1: Not gonna call you for cupcake, gud Go follow Evan

1083
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Do you ever post clips of you lifting stuff?

1084
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 3: Oh? All the time? Yep? I post clips of meh lifting, shooting,

1085
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: competing or some stuff on there with me and my wife.

1086
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 3: We do some funny reels every now and then, funny

1087
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 3: lifting reels. But your wife left, yep, she is actually

1088
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 3: getting ready for her first bikini show, or not her

1089
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 3: first bikini show, but her next bikini show.

1090
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: So is that like a female bodybuilding type thing kind

1091
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: of yeah.

1092
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 3: But she's not like super muscular, she's super super thin

1093
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 3: and lean and uh yeah, she's just getting ready for that.

1094
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: Are you the favorite going into the next year next competition?

1095
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 3: I'm one of them. Can we bet on you can

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Speaker 3: bet on anything?

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Speaker 4: Love it, love it. I'll look for it. I'll look

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Speaker 4: for it, I'll find it. I'll bet on you guys.

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Speaker 3: Go follow Evan. Dude.

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Speaker 1: This has been awesome. I hope you have fun doing this.

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Speaker 1: This has been super surprise. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: and man, So I have a full time security guy

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Speaker 1: that works for me generally, but if for some reason

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Speaker 1: you happen to kill him, you.

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Speaker 3: Can have the job.

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Speaker 1: Pure Yeah, guys. And also Evan's his name is in

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Speaker 1: the notes if you guys want to go follow him.

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Speaker 1: That was That was great and good luck man. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. All right, thank you guys for listening.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you can watch the YouTube.

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Speaker 1: It'll be up on Bobby Bones channel if you want

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Speaker 1: to see what this guy looks like. Uh, super awesome,

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Speaker 1: super nice. Thank you guys for being here, and we

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Speaker 1: will you guys later this week. That is it for

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Speaker 1: this week's episode of twenty five Whistles. Blud Whistle Goodbye

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Speaker 1: Everybody theme song written by Bobby Bones, That's Me and

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Speaker 1: performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon

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Speaker 1: Ray Music.

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Speaker 3: You can follow the show on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: At Bobby Bones Sports. Thanks to our crew co host

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Speaker 1: at producer Eddie, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, and executive

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Speaker 1: producer at Mike Gestro. But most importantly, thank you for listening.

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Speaker 3: Bobby Bones. We'll talk to you next time here on

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Speaker 3: twenty five Whistles