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Speaker 1: going to be a really fun one. I've known Robert
Speaker 1: Oberst for a little bit of time now. We met
Speaker 1: at the Holler Music video as I met a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys, a lot of these big influencers, and
Speaker 1: the big is an understatement when it comes to Robert.
Speaker 1: He's like three hundred and eighty five pounds and six
Speaker 1: eight He's a big dude. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: big guys. And what makes Robert so special is that
Speaker 1: he has taken something, you know, his his his drive
Speaker 1: is it comes from much more than just his size.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has competed for a long time
Speaker 1: at World Strongest Man competitions. He's been a finalist a
Speaker 1: handful of times, and he still can copeting to this day.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's training for twenty twenty and so I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to him about what drives the strongest
Speaker 1: man in the world. And this is not just a
Speaker 1: national event, like if you're listening to this podcast, this
Speaker 1: thing is worldwide. This guy goes out and he'll he'll
Speaker 1: travel all over the world and go to the world
Speaker 1: Strongest Man in competitions and win, and that's saying something.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to talk to him about, Well, there's
Speaker 1: millions of big guys. You know, there's everybody knows big guys,
Speaker 1: and so how do you take that and take it
Speaker 1: to the next level and decide that you want to
Speaker 1: compete at that kind of level? And Robert is that guy.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna like this podcast. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Granger Smith Podcast. Eye Did Kids and dcl times and
Speaker 1: long line of bi fo of up and down the
Speaker 1: back range your cool watch eageation. So people will occasionally
Speaker 1: come to me and they'll say, do you have any
Speaker 1: advice on being a singer? I want to be a singer.
Speaker 1: What's some advice you can give me? And I have
Speaker 1: a little trick to that. My trick is I'll say
Speaker 1: my first thing else telling is well, do you have
Speaker 1: a fallback plan? Because if things don't work out, you
Speaker 1: know what, you have a good option of something. And
Speaker 1: if they say something like actually, yeah, you know, my
Speaker 1: father in law's got a concrete company, I could probably
Speaker 1: come in as manager, then they failed to test. Right's
Speaker 1: the only answer in my business is there's no fallback plan, man,
Speaker 1: This is just what I do. No parachute man, you
Speaker 1: got to learn to fly. And I thought about you
Speaker 1: because it's got to be the same at your level.
Speaker 1: There's no fallback plan. No. That's literally what I tell
Speaker 1: people all the time. When I got into strong Man,
Speaker 1: everyone was telling me you can't make money, you can't
Speaker 1: make money, you can't make money. And I said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I'll show you how you make money. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it was the same exact thing I tell people all
Speaker 1: the time. If you have a plan B, then you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have that plan A. And in life, that doesn't
Speaker 1: go for everything, it doesn't fit everything. I mean, you
Speaker 1: should always be prepared and being an eagle scout, I
Speaker 1: have to say that. But you know I know that
Speaker 1: about you, Yeah, for sure. And so you know in
Speaker 1: your passion, if you're going to pursue a dream, you
Speaker 1: got to go all out. You just have to, I mean,
Speaker 1: be it as a man. Maybe you're going to hit
Speaker 1: the ground and smash, but that's what it's going to
Speaker 1: take for you to make it. So and there's there's
Speaker 1: It sounds easy when you say it like that, but
Speaker 1: there's a timey percentage of people that even do that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it sounds easy, but I mean most
Speaker 1: people thinking of this are like, oh, there's no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, Like I couldn't do that. I mean, it
Speaker 1: sounds it sounds like to us it was easy. I
Speaker 1: would guess they're thinking. But I mean, I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got people you got to take care of you and
Speaker 1: and for me, I have a son and and I
Speaker 1: had to do the exact same thing. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to just got to be all in. So you
Speaker 1: want the strongest men in the world. And but I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this today. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: big dudes, a lot millions probably in the world seven billion.
Speaker 1: There's probably a million really big guys. What six over
Speaker 1: six eight and three four hundred pounds, yeah, right, six
Speaker 1: six seven and a half three ninety five right now,
Speaker 1: So you're like right on, and a lot of them
Speaker 1: are really strong. But to compete at your level and
Speaker 1: win or even qualified pro level, there is a switch
Speaker 1: you gotta flip. And I'm interested to hearing from you
Speaker 1: how you flip that switch, because it's not about at
Speaker 1: a certain level, you got to eat so many calories,
Speaker 1: you gotta train, you gotta train hard, you gotta have funding,
Speaker 1: you gotta have the genetics. But that just gets you
Speaker 1: in the door. So then where do you flip that
Speaker 1: switch to become the guy that wins. For me specifically,
Speaker 1: it just comes from the way I was raised, in
Speaker 1: the environment I was around. My dad worked sixteen hour days,
Speaker 1: busted his ass, and we never had any money. And
Speaker 1: my mom, she just always made me feel like I
Speaker 1: could do anything. You know. I had a really good
Speaker 1: mom who I was a chubby kid who should have been,
Speaker 1: you know, very self conscious, but I wasn't. My mom
Speaker 1: told me I could be anything, and I just believed her,
Speaker 1: and I knew when she said it that she meant it.
Speaker 1: So in my heart, I knew that I could do
Speaker 1: whatever I wanted. And growing up we were just extremely poor,
Speaker 1: Like in high school for most of it, I didn't
Speaker 1: have any electricity and we had ten people in a
Speaker 1: three bedroom house no electricity, and I saw the way
Speaker 1: that we were all you're not really suffering when you're
Speaker 1: a kid, when you got brothers and sisters and you
Speaker 1: can play outside and all that, you don't feel like
Speaker 1: I'm suffering. But I knew that there was more to life.
Speaker 1: I knew that I wanted myself and to not have
Speaker 1: that like that pit in their stomach worried about, you know,
Speaker 1: what are we going to do tomorrow or how if
Speaker 1: we get kicked out of the house again, what's going
Speaker 1: to happen? All that kind of stuff. And and for me,
Speaker 1: that's where the switch came from. The switch came from
Speaker 1: the faith that I knew I could do it, but
Speaker 1: also the fire that knew I had to do it.
Speaker 1: So good, your siblings are as big as you. No,
Speaker 1: actually I'm the big one. It's it's it happened. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man. It took eight kids and on the
Speaker 1: eighth one it was it was the giants. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's two younger than me, so there's ten of us,
Speaker 1: number eight and yeah, yeah, and so that just came
Speaker 1: out huge. I don't know. It was weird because my
Speaker 1: mom and my dad aren't aren't big. My dad's got
Speaker 1: like a barrel chest, but he's not very big. But
Speaker 1: if you look at my dad's dad and my mom's dad,
Speaker 1: they're huge. My dad's dad is just this big german
Speaker 1: dude who like ran a farm his whole life, and
Speaker 1: he looks like he ran in a farmer's whole life.
Speaker 1: And then my mom's dad was like six eight, just
Speaker 1: this giant. He used to run horses and stuff. And
Speaker 1: so I think it skipped a generation and then it
Speaker 1: skipped eight seven siblings right for me, and I just
Speaker 1: got it all yeah, you did so all right? So
Speaker 1: the switch right? So there is there this moment when
Speaker 1: like what is log press? Right? So you got the
Speaker 1: fans yelling at you, You're adrenaline's pumping, and you get
Speaker 1: it right? Here is there is there a moment when
Speaker 1: it wants to come down and you go huhuh oh
Speaker 1: for sure? Do you are? Are you conscious of that
Speaker 1: moment or something else kicking in? It's it's it's unique
Speaker 1: in every situation. My favorite, my favorite memory with log presses.
Speaker 1: I was in Australia and we were competing at Arnold
Speaker 1: Swarzenegger's show and I'm competing against my rival Eddie Hall
Speaker 1: and I'm going through and I'm I'm beating his ass.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. And Arnold shows up for the end
Speaker 1: of the log press so I'm the last one on
Speaker 1: the log. I'm I'm nobody else can touch this weight.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that's still on stage and I
Speaker 1: get the log in my lap. And when you get
Speaker 1: in your lap, this is kind of a reset. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like it's heavy, you put it down, You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a break right before I go to real work.
Speaker 1: And I have it in my lap and I look
Speaker 1: up and I see Arnold there, and then I look
Speaker 1: over and I see Eddie watching. I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: eat this dude's lunch right now. And it was fire
Speaker 1: in my soul, like I'm getting goosebumps right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that it that when you when you roll, when
Speaker 1: you roll five hundred pounds up your chest and you're
Speaker 1: sitting there and you're looking up at the sky and
Speaker 1: you're you're hoping you've got enough in you not to
Speaker 1: fold in half. There's there's not much time for you
Speaker 1: to feel like the process of can I can I
Speaker 1: is it going to happen? That that kind of already
Speaker 1: goes out the window before you get it up. But
Speaker 1: for me, I always have that thought before I go.
Speaker 1: I always I don't know what it is, but I
Speaker 1: always have this like you can snap your back, you
Speaker 1: can do this, you can do that. I always have
Speaker 1: that feeling and that that visualization in my head, and
Speaker 1: then I shake it off and I'm like, nah, we're going,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go. And I think feeling that fear and
Speaker 1: then accepting it makes me stronger. It makes me feel
Speaker 1: like I've got I've got that. And and once you
Speaker 1: once you face down the demons and you've stared it
Speaker 1: in the face and you know it's it almost feels
Speaker 1: like there's just no way I can't do it now, absolutely,
Speaker 1: David Goggins, it taking souls. There, you got the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm about to take your soul exactly. And that visualization.
Speaker 1: Every every major athlete, all of them will talk at
Speaker 1: some point about visualization, visualizing that final effort, that that win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one of the most important. It's one of the
Speaker 1: most important parts of training. Is that we always like
Speaker 1: to we always like to quote Madden from Football, I
Speaker 1: say ninety percent of it's half mental, and it's just
Speaker 1: because it sounds funny, but the truth is it's a
Speaker 1: big mental game. And if you haven't seen yourself succeed
Speaker 1: over and over and over, how do you know that
Speaker 1: the pass they're supposed to walk to get there. I
Speaker 1: go on my cardio sessions and I do my weight training,
Speaker 1: and every time I'm doing it, I'm seeing myself win
Speaker 1: every single time. It's just in me now that I
Speaker 1: even I'll go for a little ten minute walks, and
Speaker 1: all my walks in my head, I'm seeing the steps
Speaker 1: I'm taking, I'm seeing I'm seeing the people falling behind
Speaker 1: me as I creep ahead. And then I'm seeing myself
Speaker 1: at the end of that walk, even though it's just
Speaker 1: a little walk, I'm seeing myself step upon the podium
Speaker 1: and take a trophy, you know, and that has translated
Speaker 1: into real life. That's why you win. And the reason
Speaker 1: I even bring it up is because there might be
Speaker 1: people that think, yeah, you could think the same thing
Speaker 1: about NFL. I mean, when you're that big, or when
Speaker 1: you're that big, it just comes natural. You just lift
Speaker 1: the log up and push it over yet, right, you know.
Speaker 1: But but the fact is, and what I was saying
Speaker 1: is there's millions of big guys, right, There's a millions
Speaker 1: of strong guys. But there's there's a certain switch, there's
Speaker 1: a certain level that that makes you elite. It's not
Speaker 1: just your genetics, it's not just your size that just
Speaker 1: got you in the door. Right, There's a lot of
Speaker 1: big guys that sit at home and play video games
Speaker 1: all that, absolutely, and God bless them, do your thing,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, to get up on the
Speaker 1: big stage. You're gonna have to pay a price for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw something about you today. It makes me and
Speaker 1: you have something in common history majors in college. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's important. You got to know your history. Man,
Speaker 1: we repeat it and you're seeing it. It's a great
Speaker 1: example today we repeat history if we don't learn, absolutely right,
Speaker 1: that's that's in a personal, personal way and in a
Speaker 1: big you know, in a way for our whole country.
Speaker 1: It's it's important to know that kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely right. I see when people say things like
Speaker 1: this is the most divided our country has ever been.
Speaker 1: Have you seen a civil war? Man? Do you even
Speaker 1: know about the Civil War? Right now? I'm not saying
Speaker 1: we can't head that direction again, but but hey, we're
Speaker 1: okay right now. Right and making statements like that has
Speaker 1: become a thing where it's like it's really divisive, and
Speaker 1: it's really like polaristic, and everyone wants to say this,
Speaker 1: this half is this way and this half is that way,
Speaker 1: and it just seems so divisive. If we all just
Speaker 1: took a minute and talked about the things that we
Speaker 1: get along with the things we agree with, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot more of those than the things we disagree with.
Speaker 1: It's way more man. That is the absolute truth, dude, yeah, absolute.
Speaker 1: I see some some some of your scars. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: bicep surgery. Huh yeah, that's bicep surgery. And this one actually, uh,
Speaker 1: that one, that scar cost me seventeen thousand dollars for
Speaker 1: me to get insurance. It's I just it's almost impossible,
Speaker 1: and for me to have it, it's thought of it
Speaker 1: that way. It's not worth it. It's like I'm paying
Speaker 1: for surgeries all every month. So uh, this was straight
Speaker 1: out of pocket. And it's not like we make a
Speaker 1: ton in strong Man and strong Man. The winner of
Speaker 1: World Strongest Man gets forty thousand dollars and that's that's
Speaker 1: the big payday, forty grand. It's like, okay, you know
Speaker 1: last month exactly. And so for us, we're professional strong man,
Speaker 1: but we're entertainers, don't. We don't get money from lifting weights.
Speaker 1: We get money from being entertaining, from having following and
Speaker 1: showing other people how to do that. That's literally I
Speaker 1: stopped calling myself a professional strong man. I am an entertainer. Now.
Speaker 1: Well okay, so what are you doing right now entertainment
Speaker 1: wise because dude, you got a new YouTube channel. Yes,
Speaker 1: just flying right now, I'm cracking on YouTube. We're doing videos,
Speaker 1: We're making stuff, and that I feel silly that it
Speaker 1: took me so long to get going on it. But
Speaker 1: you got to have a good camera guy and everything.
Speaker 1: You can't have crap content going up because then it's
Speaker 1: no good for anybody. So I've got that going and
Speaker 1: I I just started a new nonprofit called Little Monsters,
Speaker 1: and it's where I grew up. Like I said, we
Speaker 1: didn't have much. And I fell in love with the
Speaker 1: gym because instead of getting in trouble and messing around,
Speaker 1: I would go to the YMCA. And at the YMCA,
Speaker 1: I met people that showed me, like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a way to get all that out of you, to
Speaker 1: feel better, to exercise, and to just feel like you
Speaker 1: have a community. And then when I went to high school,
Speaker 1: I missed my first two years of college. I didn't
Speaker 1: I was a second team All American, first All State
Speaker 1: in California, which is a big deal. I didn't know
Speaker 1: you had to take SATs to go to college. Nobody
Speaker 1: in my family was around. I didn't know. So I
Speaker 1: fell through the cracks and right now My goal is
Speaker 1: to make sure I can sew up those cracks as
Speaker 1: much as possible for the kids in my community and
Speaker 1: help them. Free training is just the beginning I want.
Speaker 1: I want them to understand that, you know, everyone tells
Speaker 1: you you got to go to school, you got to
Speaker 1: get your grades, but nobody explains to you that getting
Speaker 1: a two point five and getting an eight point fifty
Speaker 1: on your SATs means you can go anywhere. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you can if you want to play sports. There's there's
Speaker 1: NAIA Division III, Division two that will happily pay for some,
Speaker 1: if not all, of your schooling. There's schools out there
Speaker 1: begging for kids, and there's kids that are ending up
Speaker 1: not having any type of education because they didn't even
Speaker 1: know about it. So that's it. That's my biggest transition
Speaker 1: right now. And just get get Little Monsters going and hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get through this lockdown period and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll be able to get going on that. And what's
Speaker 1: the website for Little Monsters right now? The website is
Speaker 1: just the Americanmonster dot com and Little Monsters doesn't have
Speaker 1: its own official website yet. We just got done with
Speaker 1: the paperwork and then it got it got logged back
Speaker 1: like crazy because it was right right when the when
Speaker 1: the pandemic had started, we'd we had started pushing for it,
Speaker 1: and then it going through the government. Right now is
Speaker 1: just it's really hard. They're busy, and the YouTube is
Speaker 1: American Monster, American Monster Productions, American Monster Productions. What about Hollywood?
Speaker 1: They come knocking on the door. Yet, We've we've done
Speaker 1: a few things. I actually just yesterday I got offered
Speaker 1: a commercial for some stuff, and I've I chased a
Speaker 1: lot of that for a while. And it feels just
Speaker 1: I moved to LA and I was living in LA
Speaker 1: trying to work, and it just felt like it stole
Speaker 1: my soul, Like when you go out there and you're
Speaker 1: going to like audition after audition and you're trying to
Speaker 1: please these people who are like So I separated myself
Speaker 1: from that, and since I've separated myself, more people come knocking. Actually,
Speaker 1: So we've we've we've got a possible commercial coming up
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks, and then I've got
Speaker 1: a TV show and that we're supposed to film in Georgia.
Speaker 1: They women spent a month out in Georgia doing this
Speaker 1: big show that I'm I'm not supposed to say what
Speaker 1: it's right now, but it's it looks pretty cool and
Speaker 1: we'll see you know, I'm I'm I'm much more inclined
Speaker 1: to do stuff on my own instead of working. That's
Speaker 1: the right way, man, make them come to you. Build
Speaker 1: this YouTube channel, and your channel is is multifaceted. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's some just sit down serious talking, there's funny stuff,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: I could see you personally. I see you one day
Speaker 1: in some medieval movie with a massive accent. That's the
Speaker 1: most common thought. My goal. I don't really have any
Speaker 1: dreams of being like big Hollywood any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But my goal is to just have one epic death scene,
Speaker 1: Like I just want the most gnarly like warrior death
Speaker 1: scene where I can have like a five second clip
Speaker 1: that I'll keep forever. You know, that's what the guys
Speaker 1: like you are usually the guys that get killed by
Speaker 1: the little guys. That's the hero. And run me over
Speaker 1: with a tractor or run me through with a sword.
Speaker 1: Just make it good, dude. I appreciate you getting on
Speaker 1: here me and you're about to go film some stuff.
Speaker 1: You're at the Ee Farm. Buddy and I hope we
Speaker 1: get to do this again one day, anytime, brother, brother,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Mm hmmm mmm