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Speaker 1: going to be a really fun one. I've known Robert

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Speaker 1: Oberst for a little bit of time now. We met

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Speaker 1: of these guys, a lot of these big influencers, and

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Speaker 1: the big is an understatement when it comes to Robert.

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Speaker 1: He's like three hundred and eighty five pounds and six

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Speaker 1: big guys. And what makes Robert so special is that

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Speaker 1: he has taken something, you know, his his his drive

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Speaker 1: is it comes from much more than just his size.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has competed for a long time

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Speaker 1: at World Strongest Man competitions. He's been a finalist a

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Speaker 1: In fact, he's training for twenty twenty and so I

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Speaker 1: wanted to talk to him about what drives the strongest

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to talk to him about, Well, there's

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Speaker 1: millions of big guys. You know, there's everybody knows big guys,

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Speaker 1: and so how do you take that and take it

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Speaker 1: You guys are gonna like this podcast. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Granger Smith Podcast. Eye Did Kids and dcl times and

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Speaker 1: long line of bi fo of up and down the

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Speaker 1: back range your cool watch eageation. So people will occasionally

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Speaker 1: come to me and they'll say, do you have any

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Speaker 1: What's some advice you can give me? And I have

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Speaker 1: a little trick to that. My trick is I'll say

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Speaker 1: my first thing else telling is well, do you have

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Speaker 1: if they say something like actually, yeah, you know, my

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Speaker 1: the only answer in my business is there's no fallback plan, man,

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Speaker 1: This is just what I do. No parachute man, you

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Speaker 1: because it's got to be the same at your level.

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Speaker 1: There's no fallback plan. No. That's literally what I tell

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Speaker 1: people all the time. When I got into strong Man,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have that plan A. And in life, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: got to go all out. You just have to, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it sounds easy, but I mean most

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Speaker 1: So you're like right on, and a lot of them

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Speaker 1: how you flip that switch, because it's not about at

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