March 5, 2025

CT Fletcher: My Magnificent Obsession (2015) | A 50% Facts Review

CT Fletcher: My Magnificent Obsession (2015) | A 50% Facts Review

The “Superman from Compton” took YouTube in the 20-teens by way of a video called “The Strongest Man You’ve Never Heard Of.” Who was this man who “commanded” his arms to grow and reminded us over and over that it was indeed still our set?

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The “Superman from Compton” took YouTube in the 20-teens by way of a video called “The Strongest Man You’ve Never Heard Of.” Who was this man who “commanded” his arms to grow and reminded us over and over that it was indeed still our set?

This documentary sketches a portrait of a man whose great personal warmth can’t be obscured by his sometimes rough and compromising demeanor. A man who took a difficult, often demeaning upbringing and transformed it into the power to motivate others online in ways few have.

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All Star Game was in the Bay Area this year,

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and I think Too Short came out with the print

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all over like jacket or not print, but like patched

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like that, Like print all over has kind of been back,

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but like the patchy Yeah you know what I mean.

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Like he does age. Huh, bro he kills it.

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He looks the same.

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There's like one actor I've been getting tweets about, like

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we call him whatever, that that guy type of thing.

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It's like this guy's been and it labels like what

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he's been in fifteen movies, thirty shows and no one

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knows his name of the show's face, and you're like,

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I do know that guy. There's that guy that looks

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just like Too Short. Oh really Yeah, he was in

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like uh, the only thing that's coming to mind was

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like a battleship maybe, but it was like the boats.

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I think Rihanna's in it. Oh God, it's a shit movie.

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But it's the only thing that's really sticking in my head. Uh,

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he's in a Marvel movie too fuck. But he looks

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just like too Short. But two Short looks good man.

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He spit on that thing too. Whoa, she's never been

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on that than on the track.

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I think I think what made Too Short. I think

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what made two shorts career so prominent and why he's

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still relevant to this days. He never said no. He

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was kind of like Snoop Dogg. He did all these

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like small albums with all these up and coming Bay

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area artists. He was never afraid to collab with up

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new guys on that are coming up, and he just

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stayed relevant forever. That's the first.

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He was probably the first out of here, right out

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of the Bay like because obviously, but I feel like

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he was before his first almost like ninety three, and

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he was like the first and still like Dre though

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too because he had that ninety He had like no

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one eyes, but they didn't know Mac Jo, they didn't

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know Max Ra.

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Too Short was.

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That's why I always will continue to show love to

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Drake because he like shouted out Mac Dre where like

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Mac Drake didn't make it out of like a two

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hundred mile radius.

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Yeah, but he was huge.

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But Too Short did like blow the whistle and all

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that like made it so big.

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Well, the whistle for us was our that was our

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turndown for what Yeah that blow the whistle?

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Yeah yeah, yeah.

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The college was like our college age was, uh, the

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what I just said?

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Yeah, yeah, or tell me when to go forty because

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forty is still put on music all right side tracks.

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Are we in yet?

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Yeah, we've been in. Okay, this is l A culture.

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Eighty five he signed a label, Yeah, eighty five and

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we weren't even born. No, that's what you're My sister

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was born. Yeah, No, that's what I'm saying. He's o

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G he's he's got to be sixty something. He looks good.

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He looked good half time he did that fount around. Yeah,

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he had a he had a like edit the words

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he says, you know, yeah, because that song is like,

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yeah bad, he says the worst. Yeah, well and he

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says yeah everything like that's his like ad lib. Yeah,

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it's not allowed to.

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Say it like C. T. Fletcher's cussing.

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I was gonna say, that's a nice segue into our

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our film today talking about twenty fifteen's CT Fletcher My

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Magnificent Magnificent Obsession.

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Which is also from the Generation Iron Folks. This was

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kind of like.

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Sort of I want to say High CT, but it

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was like just before High CT, you know, before the

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before the heart transplant.

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Before Yeah, before the health situation got he's definitely peaking

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on YouTube for this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's definitely

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peaking on YouTube for this thing. I was on subas

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last week or whatever because we were gonna film it

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earlier this week Monday or Tuesday. When I watched it,

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how much nostalgia brought and how much it remind me

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like a like shout out to CT man, Like I've

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hung out with them a bunch of times, and I'm

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a big fan, like as a human, a big fan.

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This movie kind of reminds you of that. Although a

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lot of these things are kind of docu dramas and

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they maybe scripted, and obviously it's a big ass camera

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on you. You're gonna try to put your best personality

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out there or whatever. But like CT is that guy. Yeah,

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I'm a big fantasy. We spent a lot of time

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like like one on ones or like off cam or

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like lunches or whatever. Not a lot of time, but

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a good amount of time. And he's just always so kind,

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like he is that guy, and they show him like

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meeting fans and being that guy. He is that guy.

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He's that kind, he's that funny talk about charismatic throwing

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back to our last podcast, like you want a person

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to make a movie around, and they did it pretty

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good in this. They showed out charismatic he is. But

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you want to do like a docu drama on a guy.

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He's got the sauce, he's funny, he can talk to anybody,

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he can make anybody feel special, like he's he's he's, uh, yeah, he's.

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What do they say, like, chose the right guy to

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get famous time type of thing. Yeah, it sounded like, yeah,

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like a rough growing up. He probably beat the fuck

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out of some people, but the CT I met was

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the kindest man.

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Yeah, I was just throwing up here. A couple encounters

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that we or I had with him. We did a

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podcast with him about nine years ago, and then I

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did another one about seven years ago. Uh, and the

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second one was actually in Iron Addicts after it opened

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this The framing device for this documentary is him trying

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to get the gym the gym open, which doesn't happen

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in spoiler alert in the course of this film.

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Yeah, I think I visited what was this movie twenty fifteen?

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Twenty fifteen, so it was.

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Probably film twenty fourteen, Who knows. I think I visited

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him at the gym twenty sixteen or so, and I

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still don't think it was open. He just let us

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into workout on we film. But when I went because

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I don't think I went on the twenty seventeen trip, yeah,

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it still wasn't open there struggling so you'd film in

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there or whatever? And I told mass yeah, yeah, and

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their excuses seem so lame. Oh, there are already fifty

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six gyms, so it's like what, Yeah, what about a

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free market? Like what the fuck does that mean? I

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understand zoning, but it's a warehouse and like you said,

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there's one across the street.

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And it's yeah, and it's in a shitty neighborhood.

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So so why do you give a fuck If they're

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paying the bills, he can tax revenue, Like who cares. Yah,

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it's not an illegal business.

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They're talking to a random person probably at like a

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fucking walk up the window. You decide what the culture

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of the city is going to be eating, Yeah, like

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fuck you drives me. Oh you're making hamburgers. Know, you

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can open a donut shop, not a hamburger shop.

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Like what it's just some like dude, Yeah, that shit

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is crazy and then and then, like he said really

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good in the documentary. To them, it's just like another

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blip on the another day at the office. But for him,

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it's his whole livelihoods on the line. It's just some

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fucking just some schmuck in a chair in the corner

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of a fucking building in the middle of LA just

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like eating fucking doritos, like on their phone telling this. Like,

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you can open your gym.

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To open or to work for like the business license

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department or business bureau or any of that. You should

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have had to run a business like from start to finish. Yeah,

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because like you just said, like that person doesn't know

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it failed. You're literally a check mark from opening or not. Yeah,

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even if it failed, you just have to like try

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to run a gym, try to run a business.

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More like building inspectors. Those are usually like yeah, contract contractors, Yeah.

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You have to know how to build a place before

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you can tell me not to build a place. Yeah,

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you know, like it makes no sense.

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I didn't understand that. And obviously the laws are different

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here because we didn't. I mean, the process that we

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had to go through was being sure that we collected taxes.

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Yeah, and our places like Zone Fine, but so yeah,

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you'd assume his was too, because it is a very

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similar building actually, just kind of industrial.

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Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, that was.

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That they saw like they were like, oh, we've seen

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your YouTube videos and we've seen your website.

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And he was like, I think they're kind of biased.

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They were being kind of like, yeah, maybe not prejudiced.

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I don't think it was like racially driven, but it

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was more like you're kind of crazy or wild and

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maybe like it's kind of like yeah, like almost like

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this we didn't we don't really like you.

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Yeah. Yeah, I mean he is kind of scary and

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so you talk to him, you know, but like he's

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got crazy tests. He has one that just says addict, yeah,

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because the other one says iron but if you only

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see one arm.

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Yeah, I forgot how much these videos can fire you up.

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Even when you think you've seen it all and you're older,

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you listen to him talk, you're like, fuck, man, I

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do need to do something right.

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No, he's the guy, like he was the one of

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the first reasons I think talk about like a more

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recent stuff. I know Dean didn't do it like Kay

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Sinat and them like crossing the border of streamer to

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like just celebrity. He was probably the first real dog

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in fitness because like Dwayne the Rock, Johnson was a

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CT fan, like Stone Cold Goldberg, like those guys watched CT. Yeah,

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and his videos not only were big enough, but he

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was relatable enough. He was og enough that you got

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different generations like watching him and understanding him and who knows,

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like a lot of the We've obviously had tons of

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crossover with wrestlers over the years because those guys are

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all meatheads. Yeah, but there's like legit celebrities. I wouldn't

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be surprised, Like, yeah, Thor and fucking Wolverine, all this

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motherfuckers probably saw a CT video because they're probably googling

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workout shit while they're getting in shape for their stuff,

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and CT was the top motivational, entertaining and like cool

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ones to watch.

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I thought it was interesting they talked about how he

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was approached to be in that first YouTube video, but

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they didn't say the name of the kai at all.

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They did Strength Wars. Strength Wars, Yeah, I watched it

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back in the day too. They did say there's Strength Project,

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the Strength Project.

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Strength Project is that was the name of the channel,

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but not the name of the of the.

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Of the guy.

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It was a rash right, Oh maybe maybe maybe, Yeah.

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That was my understanding.

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But I don't think he like ever pushed his own name, right.

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He always went by like the Strength Project. Yeah, probably

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because he had other cool videos too. He was like

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a kind of like jew belief for strength. I don't

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know if you ever saw that, but he was kind

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of like an early Jew belief for strength for those listening,

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and you would go find interesting people or like a

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little battle. Uh. And I think he I don't know

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if I met him. I think I messaged him a

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couple of times, but it was early days and you'd

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go and find like really interesting kind of mini documentaries.

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Yeah.

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I have to say that the hype stuff does not

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work on me, has never worked on me.

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It seems silly to me.

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Usually doesn't for me, but for him, and I get it.

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I get why white impacts other people. It just doesn't

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have phased me at all. What got me about him

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is that he's really just.

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A very warm person.

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He just he has what he puts off in you know,

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it's just conversation is not the same thing. And I

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think though that a lot of what he's saying in

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his hype.

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Videos is he's talking to himself.

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Yeah, I mean that's not talking so much to you,

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he's talking to himself.

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Yeah. If you look at like David Goggins, if you

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look like anyone trying to be motivational that does it decently,

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whether it's for you or not, that has some success.

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Like I don't like David Goggins either, but he put

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it in the right situation at the right time, and

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it'll probably hits you a little bit different. I've never

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been to David Goggins fans, but when we're doing the

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weight Loss Island on the stream, all the boys on

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the last day we had a water cut, so they're

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sonning and Agent shall my boys like David Goggins fan.

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So he has that cranking and I could see in

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his face how much pain he's in from cutting water.

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And then David Goggins hit me a little different, you know, yeah,

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like Agents heads down and he's very chatty, cares about

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a guy, but he's not talking. And then David Goggins

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is or even the background, everyone in the room's kind

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of like awkward and quiet because they know he's in pain.

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Like then David Goggins kind of hits. But David Goggins

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is a perfect representative, right, Like he was fat, overweight, lazy,

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doing nothing, challenge himself to lose weight, go to navy

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seel like he's talking to himself ten years ago or whatever.

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They had a very similar I don't know if you

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guys have read day Gollon's book, but they have a

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very similar story with like a little bit of like

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abuse going on.

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Like a dad situation.

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Yeah, if I remember correctly, Yeah, he never read it.

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The the through line about is about the relationship with

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his dad, and the difficulty with the relationship with his

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dad was interesting. I thought, and this is just me

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patting myself on the back, I thought that we did

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a better job with him telling that story on the

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first podcast that we did with him, and you know,

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he talked about how his dad wanted him to be

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a preacher and that it was not something.

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He wanted to do and I never talked about that.

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And I said, I said, dude, you are a preacher.

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You're just not in yeah, And he's like, I think

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you're right. It's like no, definitely right. It's like he's

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an evangelist.

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For Yeah, getting better, doing some better. Yeah. The scene

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with his dad though, does hit. Yeah, Oh yeah, for sure,

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because you could just tell how unscripted it.

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Is and how uncomfortable.

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I remember seeing this the first time and that scene

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sticking out in my head where he's just sitting there

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and like he wants to like roll his eyes or

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say something, but he's still like maybe has fear and

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then doesn't want the conflict and just shuts up. But

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you could see like you could almost see him be

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a kid again. Yeah, and see like damn, and he's

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looking at his dad and his eyes are saying, my

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dad is full of shit, and he's kind of looking

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at production like yeah, like get me out of here.

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Yeah, like we're done.

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You got enough yet? Yeah? Yeah, it looks just it's

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almost too raw. That's like the most talk about you know,

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documentary's hitting a point, you know like that that's probably

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that's probably a five out of five documentary scene. You

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can't really like beat that.

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I would say that Jenney Croc and Transformer with.

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Their dad, Yeah, that's pretty big too. But her dad's like, uh,

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I don't know that one hits for sure. It does

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hit for sure, But this one was just so because

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Jenny is like still like talking with them a little

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bit and they had like some relationship Like this one

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just slaps me right in the face.

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Now you would go no contact with that parent. Yeah,

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unless you were talking, unless you're talking to him for

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a documentary.

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Yeah, man, it sounds like SETI didn't right the.

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Part with the fucking dude. The part that really was

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fucking sad was the whole story about like the oatmeal

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on them were telling the oatmeal story about the oatmeal

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still on the stove.

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With his mom. Yeah, he's dead on the ground.

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That was rough.

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And then he goes into detail how all he she

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was just slave to him and it was just like

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you just you just man, you just feel so fucking bad.

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He talks about how how his dad called him to

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tell him that his mom wasn't getting up, and my

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wife is sitting there watching this sort of watching it

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with me sort of peripherally, and she's like nine one one.

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Did anyone call nine one one? Did anyone?

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Yeah, he's probably concerned on why he like how he's

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gonna eat?

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Yeah, and yeah, and it was interesting that the funeral.

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When you're talking about the funeral, it's like his dad

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is like talking about all the things he did not

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talking about of course his wife or all.

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This sounds like him. I think he held back the

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real story there really did punch him. I don't know.

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He talks about like then they had to like pull

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us apart. Yeah, Like I'm like, oh, you probably punched

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your dad. You know, he just probably just didn't want

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to say it.

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Yeah, his dad seems like he maybe might have been

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like some kind of maybe sociopathic personality disorder or something.

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Pop actially and a preacher at the same time.

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That's what Yeah, I mean power positions, right, Like a

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lot of times there's people with those type of personalities,

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whether it's a full disorder, just likeliness will try to

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put themselves in a power position. And what's like a

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very normal power position in the sixties, seventies and eighties

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and probably owning a church.

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Yeah yeah, oh absolutely.

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You know that's still a power it is it is,

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but back then you know, like I mean.

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You don't got to own it. Be a priest too,

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you know.

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Yeah, yeah, dude, that ship was heavy duty though, yeah,

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it was. There was a lot that was heavy duty.

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You definitely just have this very obvious dislike for this

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person in his life, or and you feel sorry for him.

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I would say that's the one thing about the movie.

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And obviously it was a lot of truth, so you

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can't like really critique it per se, but a lot

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of it was negative, you know, where like CT is

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so positive, like a memory I have that's really strong,

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as I think we're in between takes or in between videos,

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or maybe we were just even working out, you know,

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because a lot of times we do podcasts and then

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film six videos over like three four days, and there's

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a lot of downtime, and sometimes we just work out

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and we weren't filming or whatever, you know, And I remember

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being in the gym. It was just me and CT.

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I think maybe people were there peripherally, but we were

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just about to like do a film or do the

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set or something. And I turn on like Bill Withers,

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which I grew up on through my mom and everything.

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And I don't even think we had spoken about it yet,

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but I just turned all the music because I wanted

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to listen to it. And I turned around the corner.

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He's fucking dancing and singing, like just the coolest vibe. Everyone.

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We started dancing and singing and just having a good time.

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Like they didn't show that outside of CT as much.

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They show a little bit with his cars, you know,

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and his kids and his grandkids.

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They showed him, yeah, having it showed him in him in.

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Good life for sure, but but like just not like

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how cheery he actually is, you know, like uh yeah

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with his kids and his grandkids. He's obviously they showed

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a kind heart and they showed how funny is, but

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he's just so fun Like he's just so warm. Yeah,

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he's like the grandpa everybody wanted.

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Yeah, Mike ro Sheet is in this, and that's somebody

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that he has a longer term relationship with. I don't

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know what the current state it is. After the whole

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Iron Addicts Miami.

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Situation, they're trying to open another gym that was a.

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Long time ago.

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It was a long time ago, but it was it

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was after this, however, I got it and uh Luke Hawks.

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Is a yeah, yeah, Bullo's in there like the original

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Iron Addicts Bulo because they were all part of Liz

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Freel in them because there was all out of shout

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out to Liz. Ri Ip was like all long Beach,

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metro Flex and that's where the USP a kind of

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like maybe not get their roots, but they got a

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big culture there and powerlifting in this era and so

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Bulo micro sheet uh CT obviously is like although the

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Internet didn't really know, I feel like because he talked

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about bench press records, but the Internet just saw like CT.

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But he's a powerlifter, you know, like he's probably the

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most famous powerlifter ever. Really now that we think.

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About what what did he what? What where did he win?

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World's world?

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I think it was single ply like some natty thing,

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like you know, like powerlifting has some billion federations.

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So uh so it was three bench press championships and

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a couple of curls and the three curls.

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Yeah, and I think that some of the curls standard forever,

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and so there's certain feds that only did curls and

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certain feds had that. So it was kind of like

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a side niche thing. Twenties are nothing the belts and

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it's so good. Twenties are nothing. That's hilarious. But he

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uh but bolo and then we're all in the USPA circuit.

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So like I talked to those guys all the time,

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but it was like the Asian Filipino guys that's training

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with them. And then Mike obviously we had on the podcast.

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I have known micro Sheet for a long time too,

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and he powerlifted for a while too, despite being a

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pro body builder and so like, I think the culture

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of Long Beach and I went to that gym once.

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Wasn't a huge fan, but different story for a different day.

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It was cool because it was powerlessing. It was like

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strength based again, talk about like the branch warns, like

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the gritty old school training, and I think that alone

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was kind of motivational in those senses. But yeah, he

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did single play events like probably close to seven, like

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he was fucking strong, you know. Yeah, if you compare

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him to a west Side or whatever, Natty or not,

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you know, Natty is the claim. I have no clue,

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And the more I look at it, you know, to

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be completely unbiased, it is possible he didn't look that

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crazy because he was so bloated. And not to say

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that he couldn't have taken something he definitely could have.

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But I've seen crazier physiques also, Natty, you know. So

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you know, an honest opinion, despite my bias of Viking

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ct I don't know if it's fifty to fifty, but

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it's possible.

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He's natty, yeah, I mean he's also he's not like

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the biggest person ever.

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Right, No, probably five nine to fight ten, Okay when

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I met him, he might have been five ten back

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in the day and probably yeah, he might have only

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been like two sixty two seventy to eighty when he

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was thick when I met him, fucking huge in those

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throwback from it was so bloadd you know, yeah, like

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it's not like he's lean when we met him. Big

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where you met him, what maybe two hundred pounds because

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he was still jacked, yeah, but normal jacked. You know,

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he probably had a little bit of abs. And again

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it was I think it was. I mean I met

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him both pre surgery post surgery, although he had multiple surgeries.

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Last time I probably saw him was twenty eighteen, twenty

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nineteen in Texas. I think I saw him, and he

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lost a little weight for sure, Like.

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He didn't train, get he didn't look like a like

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a like you couldn't achieve that just by a crazy diet.

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Yeah, yeah, and genetics right, Like he had big arms,

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Like his arms were way bigger than me. But other

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than that, he wasn't that much bigger than me. Yeah,

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I never take nothing.

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His his sons were not small.

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Yes, Sampson's a big fuck bro. Sampson's benching like four

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to fifty five hundred now too. You know?

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How come? How come his one son that ran the

466
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gym looked exactly like Ronnie Coleman's son that ran the gym.

467
00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.160
They both wore the shitt He kind of actually just

468
00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:00.759
got hired for the documentary. I was like, is this

469
00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:01.440
the same guy?

470
00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.640
And I watched the right documentary? Wait, I was like

471
00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.559
that guy, and then I started getting confused. I'm like,

472
00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:11.599
what is this? Was that? Yeah?

473
00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:12.720
Where was Ronnie?

474
00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:13.240
Was funny?

475
00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.440
Did they ever cover that Ronnie?

476
00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:18.920
Uh? I thought he was born in New Jersey. I'm

477
00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:19.559
not sure.

478
00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:22.200
Because he grew up he lived, he grew up a Texa, Texas.

479
00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.319
But c T was born and raised in like Arkansas.

480
00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:28.480
Maybe they're fucking cousins. Maybe they do have the same son.

481
00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:30.480
He's from Compton, Yeah, but it was born in Arkansas.

482
00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:32.359
Oh got it? Okay, but he moved they were pretty young.

483
00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:32.839
Right, Yeah.

484
00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.319
But I'm just saying, like, you know the story when.

485
00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:36.640
He told you can buy a gun in case that

486
00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:37.400
at him because.

487
00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:38.400
He was gonna murder it in saying he said he

488
00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:38.880
did buy it.

489
00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:40.200
Yeah, that was crazy.

490
00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.920
Yeah, it's just real's fucking real. That one hit me again.

491
00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:45.759
That would be the last time.

492
00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.920
Oh yeah, at least you know he's yeah, I mean

493
00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:51.559
I believe him. That's why this documentary is so amazing

494
00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:53.519
not uh, and I've mentioned it a couple of times.

495
00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.599
But as we're you know, turning into a documentary podcast

496
00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:59.599
like the recipe, he is like good storytelling. Then you

497
00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:01.920
need like the filmographer in the video and the guy

498
00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:04.079
to direct the bitch, But then you need the character.

499
00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:06.079
And what do you need from a character? You need

500
00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.680
something insanely interesting happening to them or an insanely transparent

501
00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:13.200
interesting person. And CT is very interesting and he's not

502
00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:15.359
afraid to tell the truth. He's not afraid to tell you.

503
00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:17.839
I hate the term his truth, Like he'll just say

504
00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:21.400
whatever actually happened. And so there's like a beauty to that.

505
00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:24.200
And that's what comes out in these depths of especially

506
00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.920
the father relationship. Again, like we have the ultimate goal

507
00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.799
opened the gym. We have a background story of telling

508
00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:32.599
who CT is, what he's done who's his family and

509
00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:34.480
all that, which is great, you know, the videos with

510
00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.319
his grandkids and his ex wife who's his best friend,

511
00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.640
like all that's really cool. And then obviously the dark

512
00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:46.039
story of his parental and and dad in particular.

513
00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:52.200
Quick correction, many call him and born in.

514
00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:53.880
That's what I'm saying, bro.

515
00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:55.960
The sound that makes more sense now because of his

516
00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:57.279
like kind of his accent.

517
00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.200
And how he moves in the early days, because I said,

518
00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:01.200
he talks like Charles Barkland, Charles Arkley, and all of

519
00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:03.400
them are like Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana.

520
00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:06.599
Yeah, I think that the relationship with the ex wife, with.

521
00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:11.559
The one ex wife is a definition of it's complicated.

522
00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.759
Well, it sounds like they're still together kind of kids

523
00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:17.960
floating around out there, like yes, no, it's not as

524
00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.599
bad as he's got four he's got three from before.

525
00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:27.920
Yeah, his second wife I met all and then and

526
00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:29.440
then Sampson is yeah, they're.

527
00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:31.680
All Yeah, the Sampson's from the newer wife. His daughter

528
00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:33.880
who they mentioned a lot, who's running the whole show,

529
00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.319
is really kind of basically his manager. She was everywhere.

530
00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:39.559
I met her multiple times. Kind I met one of

531
00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:40.920
the sons. Yeah, and I met the other two. Yeah,

532
00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:42.759
probably Samson. Samson the one that was.

533
00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:45.920
On the they're sitting on like the front portrait. Yeah yeah, yeah,

534
00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:48.240
basically I couldn't remember. That was like a daughter of his.

535
00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:50.160
That was his daughter, and she basically ran the business.

536
00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.440
It felt like she was always grinding and I had

537
00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:54.680
all the expos and she was a hustler.

538
00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:57.640
Yeah, she ran in all this social media. Before I

539
00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:01.240
even knew who he was. I got added by his

540
00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.960
Facebook profile, which had to probably be her. I'd never

541
00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.319
heard of him, and then shortly thereafter I.

542
00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:13.079
Did, so, wait, what's the timeline with like the YouTube pop.

543
00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:16.839
And this probably twenty twelve twenty thirteen. He probably tried

544
00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.079
to like a hed of just exploded. There was no

545
00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:21.279
like not that he didn't grind, because it is like

546
00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:23.480
the typical saying, right, he grinded the last thirty years

547
00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:28.119
to get the success today. It was probably twenty twelve.

548
00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.079
Yeah, so this was like kind of still on the

549
00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:34.920
How did his supplement, like, do are they still around?

550
00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:38.279
Well, here's the thing, like he was with Isotory when

551
00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.480
this was made. And then I think partly because of

552
00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:44.000
the situation with not being able to open the gym,

553
00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:47.759
uh he ended up having his own supplement line for

554
00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.160
a while, and then he got ripped off.

555
00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:52.480
In that process. There was a whole video about how

556
00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:53.680
he scammed him.

557
00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:58.480
Yeah, they scammed him, and then I think maybe another

558
00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:01.680
one came around that was not a scam.

559
00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:03.119
I don't know what the current state is.

560
00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:06.319
I said, story was really short lived too. They had

561
00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.079
like two years a run. That was it. Yeah, they

562
00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:12.240
signed a bunch of YouTubers, probably overexpanded and I haven't

563
00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:14.039
heard about him since, like they had Brian Shaw for

564
00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:14.359
a bit.

565
00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:15.559
Yeah, are they are?

566
00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:17.359
They still probably something.

567
00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.680
I think there's still something not of like relevance, you know,

568
00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.359
not in the top No.

569
00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:32.480
Thirty at this point, but I don't know. Tears coming

570
00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:36.599
down everything thinking about the story. Yeah, there you go.

571
00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:40.200
I mean, yeah, there's a there was a lot of

572
00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:43.960
emotional content in this sucker. Yeah, probably more than any

573
00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.240
other more than any others. And part of it is

574
00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.960
that's there's some water for Mykekerosey doesn't.

575
00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:54.720
Going hard on those those those wheat circles from I'm

576
00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:57.400
on fucking like seventeen hundred calories, you know, So I

577
00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:00.519
was wondering, I guess it cuts over with that, No, no,

578
00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:02.799
you just fucking track them. Yeah, you're just not gonna

579
00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:06.079
say only eating chicken tonight. That's all I eat every day,

580
00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:07.720
and so like I had to eat them because I'm

581
00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:10.920
starting to wear away a little bit last night since

582
00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:11.960
like five. Oh shit.

583
00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:15.160
Yeah.

584
00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.960
Anyway, emotional content, and.

585
00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:22.599
Part of it is that he's accessible, emotionally accessible. Some

586
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.240
of these other folks are so closed off that there's

587
00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:28.680
even the camera doesn't have anything to work with.

588
00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:32.200
I think that goes back to my idea of like

589
00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:37.319
the best fitness documentary ever would be on YouTubers, because

590
00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.960
YouTubers come up being authentic, hmm, especially the original ones, right,

591
00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.119
and so like he is just a YouTuber, He's not

592
00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:47.160
like a bodybuilder. That's like thinks he has to act

593
00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:48.920
a certain way. And even Jay Cutler says it in

594
00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.039
the other film Generation Iron, which we covered last week.

595
00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:54.839
He says, Oh, you have to you have to be

596
00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:56.880
like a role model for a lot of people. You

597
00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.079
have to be on all the time, saying the right things,

598
00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:01.839
doing the right things. Because they step into that thinking

599
00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:04.160
they have to act like Michael Jordan acted right, that

600
00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:06.799
they can't have flaws, and because back then it was

601
00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:09.000
like that that's why the steroid thing. They covered a

602
00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:11.079
little bit in that movie, but the steroid thing was

603
00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:12.880
such a big thing because these sponsors wanted you to

604
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:14.839
act like the supplement did at all. Yeah, you're not

605
00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:16.839
allowed to say right, so you have to act perfect.

606
00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:19.759
Where CT came up just being CT, he came up

607
00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:22.440
being raw, he came being authentic, And all YouTubers are

608
00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:24.839
like that. You go get you do bark one interview

609
00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:28.680
versus like a whoever's popular in fitness interview Michael Hearn, Even,

610
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:31.960
you're gonna get very different pr type answers. You know,

611
00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:36.240
Bart's telling you his skeletons. His skeletons are on the internet.

612
00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:39.079
You know everything that fucked up motherfucker's ever done. You

613
00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:42.240
know where Michael Hearn squeaky clean? You know you eating

614
00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:45.160
eggs and getting jacked Like so, I think like CT

615
00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.559
makes the best documentary and a good content creator and

616
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:51.720
a good role model because he's honesty. No, that's why,

617
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:53.960
that's why it's sad, and that's why there's emotion, and

618
00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:56.000
that's why there's death. You can't have sadness, emotion and

619
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.160
depth when you're getting like a pr ass answer.

620
00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.920
Yeah, you're not gonna do this documentary with Dwayne Johnson. Yeah,

621
00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:05.119
generic bullshit.

622
00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:06.839
They're gonna do one if they haven't really done. It's

623
00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:07.440
gonna be terrible.

624
00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:09.160
Yeah, it's gonna be awful because.

625
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:10.960
He's gonna have no real honesty. Like I think him

626
00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:13.960
and his dad actually had a really tremenduous relationship.

627
00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:15.599
He's just he's gonna lie about I'll probably never talk

628
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:15.839
about it.

629
00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:17.519
He'll lie. He'd be like, yeah, my dad was rough

630
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:18.599
on me, but I loved him.

631
00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:19.200
Yeah.

632
00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:21.279
You know, so he's talking about shooting his dad in

633
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:21.640
the face.

634
00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:29.759
Yeah, I mean fucking yeah, that's true. Yeah, Yeah, that

635
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:31.839
ship was Yeah, that ship was unsettling, like I said earlier,

636
00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:36.599
but yeah, I really liked Yeah, I really liked. Uh.

637
00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:39.480
You see kind of like you see this like unglamorous,

638
00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:43.200
uh lifestyle that these guys actually, like most of them live, right,

639
00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.279
Like you look at his porch and like, yeah, it

640
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:47.359
looks like he's living in a pretty.

641
00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:51.240
Rough Signal Hills like whatever. I mean, like everything's all

642
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.720
rusted up. It wasn't like the nicest looking place, you

643
00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:56.680
know what I mean, grass, it was all dirt and

644
00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.519
like weeds right out front. And you're like, he's got

645
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:01.920
all this money tied up in this thing. Ye, and

646
00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:03.960
it's still a la So it's how expensive Even if

647
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:06.200
he made some cash on on YouTube, he's not gonna

648
00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.319
go buy a mansion, Like a mansion's four mil.

649
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:10.559
But like in your eyes though, when you're watching those

650
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.119
YouTube videos, you think that this guy is like a

651
00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:13.079
fucking gazillion are.

652
00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:14.359
Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. And he makes

653
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:16.359
but he probably did come out great enough to live.

654
00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:18.640
But then yeah, like that might be his family home

655
00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:20.799
or something. You're gonna sell it and then you can't

656
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:23.559
really upgrade. We're not making Tom Cruise money on YouTube,

657
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:25.839
you know, Like he's probably made good money, but it's

658
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:28.519
so different, and it's where he comes from and loves

659
00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:30.920
probably like Signal Hills. I hang a little north east

660
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:35.359
of like Compton in that maybe south sorry west. It's

661
00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:37.279
either northwest or southwest of like Compton in that.

662
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.440
So like there was that weird there was that one

663
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:44.279
weird uh little shot of him getting out of bed.

664
00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:46.039
It's like, dude, is it really that rough for you

665
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:46.839
getting out of bed?

666
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:48.079
It might be bro powerlifting.

667
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.720
Remember he was getting up and he's like his eyes.

668
00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:55.000
Were all like grizzled up, just like oh it was like.

669
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:56.880
Is he acting they tell him to like really church

670
00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:58.160
this up or like that.

671
00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:59.160
He's probably grizzled.

672
00:28:59.240 --> 00:28:59.799
It's bad.

673
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:00.960
It's roby grizzled.

674
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:03.960
Look at where Signal Hill actually is, because I'm where

675
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:05.279
I think it is is is.

676
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:06.240
I know it's near Long Beach.

677
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.680
Yeah, it's like, yeah, I went to LBC for a year. Yeah, LBC.

678
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.359
Yeah, yeah, it's doing with the Long Beach, which I

679
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:14.440
think is yes, southwest of scroll Out a little bit.

680
00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:20.559
Is that Guardina. No, that's Garden's Casino, Lakewood, Notts. Well

681
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.319
maybe I was right originally maybe the south, Yes, southeast

682
00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:24.000
of Compton.

683
00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:25.319
Yeah, right, there is up here.

684
00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:29.279
Yeah, southeast is Compton. Yeah, yeah, I don't think it's

685
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:31.720
like terrible, but it's not you know, Beverly Hills.

686
00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.559
No, I think I, like I said, I lived there

687
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.519
for for a while, going to.

688
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:38.079
Long Beach State and I think I went to Signal

689
00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:41.559
Hill one time for something. I don't rember where it was, but.

690
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.640
Good old Guardina across for games, yeah, I do.

691
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:48.440
I remember having to go into Compton like to sometimes

692
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:50.279
go to a gas station during the games. You're just like,

693
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:55.279
oh shit, it felt different, especially just getting out with

694
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.759
our highlight or fucking shoes on ye Disneyland.

695
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:02.160
No, I'm just this is actually this is where I lived.

696
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:06.359
I was in Sale Beach, which was great, you know,

697
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.079
just a few blocks from the beach. It was fun,

698
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:15.799
right up. Yeah, we have any other salient points about

699
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:17.880
this film?

700
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:21.960
Yeah, it was long, but it didn't have much like

701
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:27.000
segues or didn't have very many like side quests. Here

702
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:28.880
we're going we're telling the story about the gym, and

703
00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.160
we're telling the story about the dad, and we're going

704
00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:32.240
in a little bit into the past.

705
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:34.279
Yeah. And maybe I'm biased again because I do like

706
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:38.000
ct and know him personally, but probably probably in the

707
00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:41.160
top of what we've covered documentary wise, besides pumping iron

708
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.119
again to me, cause it does like it's cool to

709
00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:47.519
cover like a topic, you know, like a generation iron,

710
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.240
but it's cooler to tell like a real person's story,

711
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:54.759
you know, And this tells like a real story. And yeah,

712
00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:57.119
I guess you never get to win at the end. Really, no,

713
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:00.480
you don't. That's that's the disappointing part. I would say

714
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.000
that that dealing with him and we're talking to him

715
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.400
in person, like he brings so much in the moment

716
00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.799
that it's almost like you you pull back because it's

717
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.359
he's putting out more than maybe you're ready to take in.

718
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:16.839
Yeah you don't. You don't think that, you don't really

719
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.839
going into this. I had no way idea where this

720
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.640
was gonna take this kind of turn. Yeah, and I

721
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:22.839
know he was gonna be this deep. I thought I

722
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:25.559
was gonna be like, oh, fucking you're a pussy motherfucker.

723
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:27.559
Yeah, you know, his YouTube is more like that. His

724
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.720
YouTube is very motivational, and I'm sure he has some

725
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:31.559
vlogs or somewhere he opens up a little bit, but

726
00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:33.480
I only knew that side of them from hanging out

727
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:36.599
with him. More of his YouTube content is obviously on

728
00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:37.480
the positive side.

729
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:39.599
Which he's gonna Yeah, that's what he's gonna make h money.

730
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:40.880
Yeah for sure. And yeah, no one wants to go

731
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:42.759
on YouTube and just bitch all day about how bad

732
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.519
your life is. No, That's why this documentary is cool again,

733
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:46.920
because you're seeing him behind the scenes of a guy

734
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:50.079
who's already authentic and hearing more of like the normal

735
00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:52.640
struggles of like trying to make a business in twenty fifteen.

736
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.599
And it was really you really see like, man, like

737
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.279
how many people the guys like him reach right. Yeah,

738
00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:01.839
these people are like, say, he's like saving lives out there.

739
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.640
No, his lines were the biggest for for a very

740
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.079
long time at expos doing the circuit. Uh, you know,

741
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.880
him and probably DLB were like the biggest lines for

742
00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:13.000
a good four or five six years.

743
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.799
You call you called it David Goggins just a fraud.

744
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.680
He just ripped off fu CT Fletcher. He is the

745
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:19.920
running Flecher.

746
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:20.960
He is the running ct.

747
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:22.400
I doesn't even think about that.

748
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:26.039
Yeah, fucker Pastard's funny. Another thing too, is it sort

749
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:27.880
of missed? Makes you missed this period of time.

750
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.680
It was very nostalgic. I told about very nostalgic. It was.

751
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:33.559
It was like, you know, obviously it's where we came

752
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:36.319
from and where we were all built up. But biased

753
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:37.720
or not. I do think it was one of the

754
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.839
best parts of of of the online fitness community because

755
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:43.880
it was so tight. Everybody knew everybody where. Now there's

756
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.400
so many influencers, nobody knows nobody, no one cares. They

757
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:48.480
only meet each other for pictures and a collab. Like

758
00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:51.240
back then, you actually knew everybody, and he didn't love everyone,

759
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.599
but you knew them all and you all go work out,

760
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:55.720
you all high five. I remember every explot, I'd make

761
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:58.079
sure to go to CT's booth gimma, hugs, hey, what's up.

762
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.319
It was just like the norm. It's just I checked

763
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.319
in with them every three months because we're at a

764
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:05.079
different expo every three months. And so yeah, it was

765
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:06.319
just a cool, cool, cool time.

766
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:07.319
And then we.

767
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.599
Wherever you are a Columbus or whatever, you end up

768
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.559
at a gym, catching a workout or dinner and they're

769
00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:13.680
three tables over having steak too. You know, like it

770
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:17.799
was just always like that, and that's just it's part

771
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:20.039
of something you'll never get back because the industry is

772
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.119
too big now, which you know, for better or for worse.

773
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:24.160
There's good parts of it too, but it's like.

774
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:27.079
I wouldn't even say it's like bigger, it's just faster.

775
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:28.000
It's faster.

776
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.440
There's it's it's not consistent anymore. It's not the same group.

777
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.759
You go to the event and it's a whole new

778
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.960
group of people. They're all trying to make a quick buck.

779
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.240
That's the thing I was gonna say. The motives. You

780
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:40.599
just don't know everyone's motives. Then we're like Cet, like

781
00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:44.240
he had a million followers for probably six hundred thousand

782
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:46.240
followers by the time I met them. You know, him

783
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:48.440
and his daughter never once thought like I'm here to leach,

784
00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:50.319
Like I'm just saying what's up? Because I watched this content.

785
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:51.759
I think he's cool, you know, and like that's that

786
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.119
where now? Bro? Like, if I'm in his position, someone's

787
00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:57.160
coming to me in an ex poem right as an eyebrow,

788
00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:58.119
like what do you want? Mother fucker?

789
00:33:58.440 --> 00:33:58.559
Right?

790
00:33:58.799 --> 00:33:59.680
What are you trying to get out of me?

791
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:00.000
Yeah?

792
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:06.960
Yeah, Well we all experienced the full gamut of people.

793
00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:07.960
In the influencering space.

794
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:11.280
People who like CT who are just like open and

795
00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:14.440
like a little bit amazed that that they have the

796
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.119
popularity that they have and they're not assuming or they're

797
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:20.320
not they're not acting entitled or whatever. And then the

798
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:23.320
other end of the spectrum where they're super entitled, they're

799
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:24.599
not actually interested in you.

800
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:26.880
It's all fake. They're just trying to get what they

801
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.000
can get from you and move on.

802
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:30.400
Yeah, the entitlement's probably way higher now just because the

803
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.719
expectations higher. You get this amount of followers, you get

804
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:34.280
this amount of money, you get the Lambeau like there's

805
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.519
a path you know where back then we're all just

806
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:38.960
trailblazing our own trails simultaneous.

807
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:42.039
Yeah, I think that's where the I think that's where

808
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:44.400
like the Sam Solick effect comes into play. I think

809
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:49.000
people like him because they seem they see the what

810
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.519
they what they knew and loved from early days of

811
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:55.039
like fitness industry YouTube of like these guys in their cars,

812
00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:58.400
like going to the gym, and like it's very nostalgia.

813
00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:59.559
Or even shout out lead Beef Patty. You know, there

814
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.639
are some real og, kind of authentic creators that kill

815
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.519
it now but have an old school feel. My boy, JPG,

816
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:06.920
like the industry is not totally shit.

817
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:08.800
Yeah, I'm like super keen on everybody.

818
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:10.719
But no, no, no, as a whole, it's trash. But

819
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:13.079
I've bet some of them personal that are still at

820
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.719
the top. It's still grounded. Yeah, JP's a great guy.

821
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:18.960
Lean Beef does does very like normal ass ship like

822
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:20.639
we are. She's a normal human you know.

823
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:21.360
Yeah, she's in that.

824
00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:24.039
She fits in the same winshow It's like like Sam

825
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:27.039
Soul lives in her house with her pig. Yeah, and

826
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:31.519
just like it just trains hard and just like she's herself,

827
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:34.280
keeps it simple. Yeah. The truth is you're just yourself

828
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:36.199
where everyone else is trying to replicate who you think

829
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:37.199
the Internet wants you to be.

830
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.199
It's so crazy too. Yeah, it's just you just don't

831
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:43.679
You just don't under It's so funny when you come

832
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:49.920
in with the wrong intentions. I'm trying to figure out

833
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.280
how I'm in a phrase, I'm trying to figure.

834
00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:52.400
You'll definitely succeed, you know.

835
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.000
It's just like just like you can win.

836
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:56.760
It just shows you that there's just like if you

837
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.639
just it's not about trying to make money, right, because

838
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:02.519
like you look at like the Sam's and the Leans,

839
00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:04.760
like there's no yeah, you ever tried to do that.

840
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:10.079
You would not make a fucking scent yet. And for

841
00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:13.519
some reason, the authenticity that they bring of their selves

842
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:14.239
is what's interesting.

843
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:17.280
Yeah, to fabricate that, right, even even though the middle

844
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:20.599
pack are all duplicates. Yeah, the ones that stand out

845
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:21.480
tend not to be.

846
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.360
Yeah, they're just yeah yeah, and it's just weird. You

847
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:27.400
wondered yourself like how did this turn into this? I guess,

848
00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:28.599
But and then you look at it and you and

849
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.480
you pay attention like, oh these people are cool.

850
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:31.599
Yeah, yeah, and that's it.

851
00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:32.280
That's the answer.

852
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:34.119
Yeah, and some of it is luck of timing and

853
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:35.960
all that, but they are they're they're cool people. Yeah,

854
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:37.599
JP has a lot of knowledge to share, lean be

855
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.440
so authentic to herself.

856
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:41.360
Using weird they're not using fancy equipment.

857
00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:43.679
They're noting ads or some ship, they're not.

858
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:46.559
Covering themselves in logos and you know what I mean,

859
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:48.360
They're just like they're not changing their style. They're just

860
00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:50.199
kind of the same old bullshit. And I don't know,

861
00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:54.199
it's interesting for sure, all right, some to.

862
00:36:54.239 --> 00:37:00.199
Rate this thing, I I think that the only way

863
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:05.360
that I can can rate this thing is with motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah,

864
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:12.719
I have had a difficult week from an administrative and

865
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.880
logistical standpoint, and I don't think I touched in the

866
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:21.800
whole week the number of motherfuckers that CT said in

867
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:26.320
maybe ten minutes. It's the beginning of this documentary.

868
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:27.320
It became him.

869
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:29.599
Yeah, yeah, it kind of always was. From the first

870
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.800
couple of videos, I would we did pumping iron at

871
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:34.559
one point, right, Yeah, we did. I don't remember what

872
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.039
I rated it, probably high. I assume four and a half.

873
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:38.159
We all rded it pretty high.

874
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.480
Yeah, we did, and my head probably at four and

875
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:41.119
a half ish I'll probably give this like a four

876
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:44.079
to two. Yeah, solid four two. I think. I think

877
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:48.079
if you don't know CT, go watch some CT YouTube

878
00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:50.800
videos and then watch this. If you do know CT

879
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:54.119
videos or content, you should probably just watch this. It's

880
00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:56.119
a good watch if you like documentaries, I really do.

881
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:59.480
I've always liked documentaries, even before we started covering them.

882
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:03.320
I've always been documentary guy, and honestly not that much

883
00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:05.599
of a fitness documentary guy. I would always watch them

884
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.280
because it's what I do, and they're rare to come about,

885
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:10.039
so you always dug in, you know, the super size

886
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:12.519
mes and the whatever the fucks. I'd always be interested,

887
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:16.760
and they always disappoint. But the story here, the authenticity, uh,

888
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:19.199
and then yeah, obviously the nostalgia for me is a

889
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:21.199
big part. But yeah, I said, like a good four two.

890
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.800
Yeah, I mean, I'll give this like a probably like

891
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:26.039
a four. It's just it felt like a real documentary.

892
00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:28.519
It felt like a real story that had depth, that

893
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:33.280
had emotion, that also had like a good, uh you know,

894
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:37.440
just kind of good structure. I've always been a CT fan,

895
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.360
you know, I remember like watching those videos, motivational videos.

896
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:43.440
I watched this actually while we were uh, well, I

897
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:45.840
was working out, so it was like a nice little

898
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:47.679
background video, like I made me like, man, I need

899
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:49.760
to get a fucking TV in my garage so I

900
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.039
can just have these kind of like documentaries on while

901
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.079
I'm training, because like that's like, man, you really work

902
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:56.559
hard when you listen and watch these things, even with

903
00:38:56.599 --> 00:38:58.239
the other ones in the past that we do, Like late,

904
00:38:58.239 --> 00:38:59.639
we've been doing so many of these lately, Like I've

905
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:01.920
been just watching when I'm working out. Found piece of

906
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.000
them together because it's hard to just like sit down

907
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:06.760
obviously with my family life and just like watch a

908
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:09.880
bodybuilding documentary when the TV is on. It's either for

909
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:11.519
the kids or me and my wife are watching something

910
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:11.920
together and.

911
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:15.480
She watching Fletcher my wife did, but god bless her,

912
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:16.920
she was reading a book at the same time.

913
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.639
So yeah, yeah, but yeah, I really I enjoyed it.

914
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.639
I I was. I was taken back by it. I

915
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:26.280
was surprised by it, which is rare with these. So yeah,

916
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:28.840
I think it was good. I think it's really a

917
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.679
good story.

918
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.800
Sib as you saw most of it, Yeah, I would

919
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:33.920
give it like a four or five.

920
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:35.880
Yeah, I like that you really liked it.

921
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:37.760
Yeah, No, I really liked you would you would love

922
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:38.800
meeting see team person.

923
00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:43.280
She watches YouTube videos going up at all never never

924
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:43.800
yeah just.

925
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.000
Before Yeah that's yeah, that's too but you watched watch them.

926
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:48.840
Yeah he's got I mean he's got a ton of content.

927
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:50.920
Definitely seen that Hulk smash video.

928
00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.960
Like full wolm up. Really just to yell at the.

929
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:05.079
Full wolm up I that. Yeah, he's hilarious unintentionally.

930
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.039
No, he's a wrestler. He's a real life wrestler, Like

931
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.000
he has all the gimmicks, he has all the memes. Yeah,

932
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:09.400
he's good.

933
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:15.280
Yeah. I would give this a solid four maybe maybe

934
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.679
four to two. Quite good.

935
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.920
Again, a little longer than it really really needed to be.

936
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.280
And that's all of them have this in common.

937
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:28.079
And I don't know why.

938
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:32.119
I don't know either. I feel like an hour, our

939
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.079
fifteen hour, twenty Yeah we've been plenty two hour mark.

940
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:37.840
We're like, okay, this isn't fucking Dune three.

941
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:40.760
Yeah, it's you know, it's what they say about filmmaking,

942
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.960
Kill your darlings. The scenes that you've seen are the best,

943
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:49.239
are the ones that are most removable.

944
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:51.199
Yeah, like the whole scene of him waking up and

945
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:52.760
getting out of like that. We didn't really need that.

946
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:53.199
Didn't need that.

947
00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:56.320
It was a very YouTube log Yeah, yeah, it happens.

948
00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:57.159
Logging, it happens.

949
00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:01.480
Yeah. Hopefully we'll do a little Generation Iron nattiness coming soon.

950
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.440
Maybe the Seabum doc if we get the release date.

951
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:09.239
Yeah, the one we saw, the Breaking Olympia from last year,

952
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:10.800
the Phil Heath.

953
00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:12.559
Oh, the Real field Heath one. We could, we could,

954
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:14.039
he's going on me, Yeah, we could do the Real

955
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:18.079
field Heath one, the natty Generation Iron. Jonathan Major's want

956
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:20.000
to drop seabone would have drop. So stay tuned for

957
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:23.039
a lot of fitness content. Yeah, probably the US Olympics,

958
00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:24.719
just because I've heard it's so good. I heard there's

959
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:28.039
some really raw interviews, Like I know KD cries in it,

960
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.960
and he's kind of known for being not very emotional,

961
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.960
so there's probably some good stuff there. Dean working the fund.

962
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:35.039
Sure it wasn't one of his all to accounts, but

963
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:38.880
don't I'm a KD. I like KT too, but I mean,

964
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:40.719
if you're gonna do that, you can get roasted by it,

965
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:41.079
I know.

966
00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:44.159
But he'll go on his own and roasted too because

967
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:46.760
he got caught, baby baby, but he's been known like

968
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:50.159
fireback for sure. Yeah, like he don't care it must

969
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:51.239
fuck Chris Paul last night.

970
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:55.639
Wow, Yeah he's spicy. Yeah, you can find me out

971
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:57.800
Dean storesk Alright, Kevini Kills.

972
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.199
Ladies and Gentlemen slom like we're gonna find a third

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Street Barble S Talcmold, Californa.

974
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I'll see you there.

975
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You can find me at Sebashi Underscore brand, bil On

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977
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