Nov. 16, 2023

How should we judge the judges?

How should we judge the judges?

Every powerlifting federation has similar rules about how lifts should be performed in competition, but how those rules are applied rests with the judges/referees. Different feds have different reputations for judging, and any time an “all-time world...

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Every powerlifting federation has similar rules about how lifts should be performed in competition, but how those rules are applied rests with the judges/referees. Different feds have different reputations for judging, and any time an “all-time world record” is broken in a fed that is known for looser judging, there’s instantly a social media controversy.

Should we care where a lift was performed? Should we ignore records from feds that don’t have a rigorous approach to judging lifts? We take a stab at these questions and share a few of our current favorite non-fitness/lifting social media accounts.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to this
week. It'll be a week before Thanksgiving.

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Yeah, I love Thanksgiving. Sports
are going crazy. King's got a

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nice win. Thanksgiving. It's probably
my favorite holiday. Yeah, yeah,

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probably, I mean it's food based. I think it's probably my favorite holiday

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too, just because like Christmas song
is always a disappointment. Y's. Yeah,

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we stopped doing gifts all together.
Yeah, just do it out the

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window. Yeah, and I mean
it's just me and mom anyways. Yeah,

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it makes it obviously a very easy
decision to make, yea. Yeah,

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but it's also yeah, it takes
all weird. Well, your mom

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is a gift anyway, so yeah, yeah, we just eat good dinner

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and she cooks, and so Christmas
is kind of nice now too. But

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yeah, you get like gift anxiety
or something or yeah, gift like yeah,

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regret or yeah, all of it's
there's weird emotions around it. And

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I feel like if you have a
giant family, which a lot of people

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do, and they'll do like the
Uh, it's gonna sound racist because I

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might get a wrong white elephant,
black elephant. It's white elephant. Yeah,

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yeah, I've never done one of
those, but yeah, you have

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a family of thirty people, which
a lot of my homies do you know,

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they have cousins and they all do
it together. That's a little more

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fun. I think that takes the
pressure off, right, because no one's

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choosing for you, and then there's
no disappointment on either end. Yeah,

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a shit gift, because gift giving
can be hard if you're like, unless

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you're super close, I feel like, well, yeah, this is over

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and a whole can of worms here. The uh, the thing that that

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my White's family does, and that's
kind of we've primarily you know, even

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even my folks before they passed,
you know, would would jump in with

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my with my in laws for for
holidays, Christmas Eve, there's too many

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people and it's everybody brings one gift
and uh, then you it's all in

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a pile and we pick a way
to do it. Usually it's like youngest,

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the oldest, whatever, and you
choose one gift. And after last

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year, we finally had to make
a rule of no wide elephants, no

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gag gifts or whatever, because like
you could put a lot of time and

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thought into like putting in your your
exchange gift and have somebody else pick something

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shitty. Yeah, and you get
something shitty and you're like, fuck this,

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why did I bother? But then
like, yeah, how do you

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choose a gift for like thirty people? Kind of yeah, like a Starbucks

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gift card but then that's not like
that thoughtful but something everyone could use.

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Yeah, that gets weird. That's
what I mean. Like, if you

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really know someone, gift giving can
be cool because you make it all special

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and that's kind of fun. That
feels good, like general gift giving.

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Yeah, this is not to throw
shade on you know, everybody that I

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that I deal with in my family. Number One, I just I don't

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I'm not a big like gift giver
for other people's birthdays and stuff like that.

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That seems like bullshit to me,
but you know, it is what

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it is. But for for Christmas, I have seldom gotten anything that I

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thought was a like really me gift. Yeah, you know out and and

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I'm told that I'm hard to buy
for. I don't think so, And

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I would rather buy for myself.
I think I could make a tool little

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list if I had to, probably
so. Yeah, because gift giving is

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also a talent or not a talent, but like a skill. She got

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to put in some thought and then
you got to go a couple It's kind

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of like a joke. You know, you can't like hit it on the

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nose. You kind of have to
go one step to the side and kind

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of vibe out. I don't even
know. Yeah, birthdays, we don't

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do gifts either. I don't think. I don't think I like receiving gifts,

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So I just kind of made the
rules. You know. I'm just

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like kind of same, probably the
same reason. It's the same reason because

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it's like, you know, if
you knew me better, you would not

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think that that was an appropriate gift
for me. And then I think a

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lot of people that even that they
know me, I found this to be

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my whole life. I've shed go
into like powerlifting or music, and a

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lot of stuff I relate to is
about like kind of outcasts or people that

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don't fit in. But it's not
that I don't fit in. It's just

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that my friends aren't exactly like me. None of my friends are like me.

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Like you've met some of my friends
now, Like none of them are

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into the same shit really, or
a couple of them will be into like

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one thing that I'm into, like
a lot of my friends don't listen to

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the same music, Like my best
friends don't listen to the same music,

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aren't into clothes, aren't really into
cars, you know, like food,

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maybe food, but like one of
them. So then if they try to

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give for me, it's thoughtful,
not that this has really happened, but

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hypothetically the gift for me. But
it's always doesn't you know, it's not

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on the playground. It does end
up like shading the relationship a little bit

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if you get something that that just
just seems off and it's hard to give

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something that's right, And it really
sucks when you give somebody a gift and

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it doesn't land. Yeah, and
then you do yeah, you know,

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if you're doing a personal one,
you don't want to do the basic Starbucks

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gift card deal. No, no, you don't. Why don't they do

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registries for every holiday? That's exactly
a good point. Oh my god,

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I think we may have made the
They maybe just cut this part out and

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use this as the new business plan
Christmas registry would bang. That sounds like

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an amazing Santa Claus lists as a
kid, is that? Yeah? And

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which is genius? Actually, that's
a very commercial genius way to know what

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your kid wants. I think on
Amazon you can do a wish list that

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other people can see. Yeah,
that's kind of to just be online horrors

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doing it. Yeah, we're being
franky. Well yeah, there we go.

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That's uh. Yeah, if you're
hooring yourself out on the internet and

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not necessarily sexually, just in general
general whoror you don't have to be an

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only fans star. But yeah,
just all types of horror really helps sell

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outy horrors. And actually I'm not
that against it because if your fans want

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to buy your ship by all means. Because I had it on Twitch,

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it was cool you could sign up
for without like giving your location. You

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could sign up for your viewers to
buy you door Dash basically. Oh and

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it was an app like that you
would attach to Twitch. So that was

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cool. Up streaming for eight hours
and someone buy you a pizza? Yeah,

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buy me a coffee. Is one
of those people that's a cool idea.

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Yeah, but a registry for yeah, like whatever, holidays, fucking

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first Communion and fucking yeah winning boy
Scouts, whatever the hell these kids do.

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I don't know what the help people
do, but Christmas for sure,

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something specific where it's easy for people
to find you to get you. You

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know. Yeah, my parents were
good growing up. I remember being like

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crazy excited, like and they wouldn't. We weren't like wealthy, but they

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just do like the right shit,
ye know. Like I predominantly remember like

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multiple gifts in my brain that my
dad got me that were like it's fucking

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perfect. Yeah, I will say
that my uh you know, I said

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Sam, you know, and and
his wife very often give me very very

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on the nose things. Yeah,
for me, that's it. That's a

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good point. My wife and I
tend to instead of buying gifts for each

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other, we tend to find a
thing that we want to buy together.

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Yeah, or events, right if
you're Yeah, yeah, if I'm dating,

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like, an event makes more sense
a trip or a concert or a

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cool dinner. We're even doing that
where mom and Bart's birthday are on the

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same day, and it's Friday Saturday, and so we're just doing dinner Sunday

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all together. But I'm not gonna
get bored again. Yeah, he would

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just go do a fancy dinner,
you know. Yeah, everyone will enjoy

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it more. Anyways. Yeah,
for sure, my wife and I bought

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a piece of art that we're having
heavy framed because it was just the worst

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frame, ugly, super ugly frame. But like local artists, you know,

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decades long sack state art professor or
whatever, that's kind of yeah,

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kind of interesting and different or whatever, just very very on brand for us,

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and then we didn't have to think
about, you know, what's the

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right thing. Yeah, And I
mean I don't know, maybe I am

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a mystery in that regard, or
I think that the things I want I

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usually think about for a very long
time in park because they're expensive. Yeah

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yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
the other thing too, the older you

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get, you just want fancier shit. Yeah. So like I don't expect

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a car for Christmas, right,
that'd be crazy, But that's probably what

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do I you know, like what
do I want? I want to fucking

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like, I don't somebody rolled in
here? Yeah, yeah, I don't

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want a toy with a nine to
eleven. Yeah, it's much easier with

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a kid, and that's a classic
nine to eleven, you know, Yeah,

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that's still too un our cable.
I think we did a couple big

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Christmases in Cleveland, where I have
a bunch of cousins and shit, but

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only a handful growing up. And
I think we did one maybe when I

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was eighteen or a little bit older. And uh, I think we just

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did gifts for the kid kids.
I don't know what the age cut off

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was, but if you felt like
a kid, then everyone would just get

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you shit and the adults just kind
of, you know, had dinner and

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hung out. I think that's a
good plan too, because who's going to

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actually really like it, like you
know, your grandkids, right, Yeah,

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No, we have actually not even
had the discussion about what they want

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for Christmas out and then they have
to they're coming for Christmas and they're you

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know, over three thousand miles away, and then you have to get stuff

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home and buy it and ship it. Yeah, exactly. Or you know,

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we often just give give my son
the money and have him buy it

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and have it there, as opposed
to because the shipping is insanity. Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, I think we
did that too when I was a

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kid. Maybe they give me a
couple of things there, but then my

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aunts would just send me stuff to
Sacramento. I don't know. Yeah.

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Yeah. The bigger family you are
and the more friends you have just gonna

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buy everyone shit. No, you
just can't. You can't do that.

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Ye that and money wise and just
like energy wise. Yeah, but it

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is a consumer world. I mean
Black Friday sales started two weeks ago.

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Yeah, yeah, crack of November. Yeah, November. The first week

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of November. They put the tree
up in the Capitol, So I assume

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they did it in New York and
San Francisco and everywhere else. But I

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swear that was like a after Thanksgiving
deal. It did used to be,

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Yeah, but I've been trying to
maximize the retail season. That's literally all

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it is is you find like customer
habits and purchasing dates, and you open

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that door up wider. They're going
to spend more longer. Yeap keeps the

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ball rolling, for sure. We'll
sort of do two running here. We

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haven't. We haven't done two episodes
running where we did Rose and Thorn yet.

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So what's what's the week since the
last time we talked? Doesn't have

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to be this week since the last
time we talked, Banks, similar roses,

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teams, moving, power lifting meets
sold out for March, and deadlines

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are being hit. That's probably the
best thing. I'm still like stress,

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but like the deadlines are hit.
We got you know, all our care

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packs out, we got inventory,
we're revamping the website, which should be

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ready in time. Like all that
feels good. You think that's it.

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Thorn sleeps in whatever. Oh yeah, yeah, but you know, I

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don't know if it's changed the season
or stress or I'm still dieting, so

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lack of food always makes me sleep
a little, you know, Like you

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you go to bed on like fucking
three in and out burgers, You're gonna

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sleep so good. Yeah, but
you go to bed. Have you done

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the cottage cheese thing? Like their
case and at bedtime? I did case

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and shakes back in the day.
We're about to do a skit. I'll

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spoil it right here. I saw
some kid on TikTok. This is unrelated

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in some senses, but I saw
a kid on TikTok. He has like

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a bowl of ice, and uh
he does like a pretty good acting job

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to make it look yummy, and
he sprinkles bagel, all you everything,

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everything on the ice and just starts
chomping on. Oh my, So I'm

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gonna go. Kyle's actually bringing us
ice right now, and I'm just gonna

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have a bunch of protein on it
and try to eat it, I'll probably

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throw up or spit it out.
Maybe, so it would be a good

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video because that's kind of like how
it feels like I'm eating. You start

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to diet a lot, and you're
just like, dude, I eat one

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meal a day, that's it.
So then I go to bed hungry caught

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a cheese. I don't know.
I only really like in lasagna, I

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think, oh really, yeah,
like I don't really like it by itself.

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Interesting another white thing. You know, my mom made the lasagna with

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kind of cheese, but we used
ricotta. Yeah, my mom will do

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both. But I just love lasagna, man, so I'll eat it either

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way it's super thin noodle or like
even like stuff shells cheese or rocota and

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that I'll eat that. Yeah,
it just needs more shit. It's the

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same with cheese. I don't like. You know, I don't like a

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chacudery board. I need it like
on a burger. I need it on

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a pizza. I me and the
other day this is that checurdery boards are

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lunchables for millennials, I really are, And it seemed to get popular like

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with that gen like my generation,
Yeah, which I assume invented the Lunchible.

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Yeah probably, Yeah, I like
them. I like chicardiy Boards the

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lunchible guy, but I like sure
could boards. Yeah, if you're at

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a party, you know, at
the dinner party, it makes sense to

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have a fat one out when you're
having wine before dinner or some shit.

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I've seen a fancy restaurant. I
think I got introduced to them in Italy

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and I think that maybe did it. Sure made it kind of special in

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my head. Yeah, and they
got to be delicious and they got to

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be very delicious. Yeah, for
sure, I'm gonna go a lot.

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Yeah, my uh I had.
Speaking of sleep, I got one thorn

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that hit me at six forty this
morning. My wife burned toast in the

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kitchen while I was still asleep,
and it set off the fire alarms.

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Yeah, that's the worst. And
she's like it's all I get up and

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I'm like, ah, well,
number one, I sleep with ear plugs,

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and so I'm hearing a voice.
I'm hearing a woman's voice go on

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and on, you know, repeating
the same thing over and over again.

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I'm like, I'm in a dream
and I'm like, what the actual fuck

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am I listening to? Like,
what's happening around me. This dream is

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so fucking weird. And then I
realized that there's actually beeping going on as

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well, and so I pulled my
earplugs out and it's like, oh,

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shit, like the houses on fire. And I don't know what time it

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is, but it's a light.
There's a smell. It's a little bit

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light outside. Smell hadn't hit me
yet. I don't know. Anyway,

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though I got out there, my
wife is like, I just I only

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you know, it was only this
done and it's like black in the middle.

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It's like, yeah, because it
burned. That's why she said,

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Yeah, I just said, did
you toast it with a forest fire?

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I mean, what the hell?
But she apologized year the toaster has not

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apologized, so that's something makes it. Actually, I remember because you have

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like so many fire drills in high
school and shit, yeah, going up.

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Uh it was Henry actually, I
think who you met. He burnt

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the fuck out of some popcorn and
she was I think the sprinklers went off,

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like the whole school went crazy one
day and we're just like his dad

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was even the principal. Maybe not
at the time, but his dad turned

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out to be the princpal burnt the
shit out of this popcorn. The whole

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school's freaking the fuck out over some
popcorn. But yeah, I mean toast

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popcorn, microwave shit. Yeah,
a little smoke like crazy. Oh yeah

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yeah. Rolling back to what you
were saying earlier about your your friends,

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all of the friends that your childhood
friends that I've met are fucking cool people.

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They're like them, They're great people
and slowly migrating back here, which

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is wonderful. Not all, but
you' that's great. And the other thorn

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is like the shower head that I
just replaced like two months ago, when

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the men's bathroom was busted. Now, I don't know what happened. I

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don't know what people do with these
other getting freak. I don't know,

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we know. I mean, maybe
we're gonna have to go not handheld because

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maybe there's getting a little bit too
much activity with the hand toil. Yeah,

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who knows. You can't put some
security cameras back there wand up on

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some drama page. Oh my god, you have seen that, right,

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I've just heard about it happening multiple
times, but I assume that happens everywhere.

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What happened recently, I didn't know
that. But women's only gym.

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This guy had a wing guy runs
it. Yes, even that's alrea of

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a red flag, that's red flag
number one. Yeah, yeah, you

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really want to Yeah, you don't
want a guy to be involved in the

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women's own even though that's probably the
norm. But probably dude, probably so.

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But yeah, he had a mop
bucket in the in the women's restroom.

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He claims that people were stealing things
out of the bathroom. So your

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camera's one, So he put a
hit a camera in like the mop.

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Yeah, and of course it was
pointed right at the toilet. So well,

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then just take valuable shit out of
the bathroom. Yeah that' that'd be

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a step, right, I mean, toilet paper, for heaven's sake,

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So what are you keeping in the
bathroom? It's so yeah, yeah,

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and let it get ripped. I
mean even at the commercial gym I worked

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out was not in the greatest like
area, and we had a cabinet full

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of all the cleaning supplies kind of
outside of the bathrooms, and they get

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stolen all the time. You go
back there and all the windex has gone,

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all the toil. But like you
can't lock that stuff. I mean

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yeah, but and what are you
gonna do? You know, like they're

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not still in a computer, and
yeah, shit's gonna happen. You're at

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a huge commercial gym with people everywhere. Are gonna get fucked. I mean

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even here, I'm sure shit's got
sold that we didn't recognize. We heard

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there was a I don't know the
official term, so don't flame me,

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folks, but homeless man who had
been corrected with all the emails I write

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politicians in the city and ship,
they correct the term I use experiencing homelessness.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's even crazier
than that, the term that yield

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at me. But anyways, rumor
has it there's a homeless man stumping around

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town with a couple of our hats
on and ship. So who knows?

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Yeah, who knows what happened?
Probably yeah? Maybe? Oh did he?

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Oh well then that's why. But
I've heard from multiple members gave it

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to him because I had other members. I came up like, yeah,

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man, there's do in the corner
with your hair. I don't know,

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bro, the he's cold. That's
true free marketing, I guess, yeah,

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homeless love us? Yeah, so
do I have a rose? I

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don't know. I don't know.
I'm you know, I'm kind of looking

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forward to the holiday. Yeah,
okay, quick man, this was a

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fast year. I probably say it
every year, but it's maybe this year

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yet Maybe I don't know. For
me, it seems really long. Yeah,

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it seems super long this year,
because like I was in Europe for

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a month this year, and that
seems like it was a long time.

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Agoun. Yeah, a lot happened
in between it. Yeah, I feel

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like that's to balance. The brain's
so interesting because when a lot happens,

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it can feel very long, and
when a lot happens, it can feel

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very short, you know, because
it obviously speeds up time when you're busy.

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But yeah, I think I'm kind
of in that zone. I don't

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know. Yeah, it felt quick. And then you start thinking about Adam

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Sandler and the movie Click. Fuck
dude, how much of this life am

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I living? What's that face?
You never seen the movie Click? Because

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because he's just running through life,
not paying attention to like, not living

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in the now, and life just
keeps fast forwarding and fast forwarding. That's

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the whole moral of the story,
that my life moves too fast. Yeah,

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pretty fat, and you need to
tap in and like enjoy it that

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go watch click again, dude,
you go cry the in fairs Bueller.

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I don't know if I've seen Full
of All. It was a movie that

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was like a flow around on like
TNT and shit as a kid, so

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I'd watch bits and pieces of it. We may have to do that one

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as a I don't know if I
watched as a generational thing. What's the

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guy's name, super famous, Matthew
Broderick, Yeah, Broderick, Yeah,

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so have you without getting into the
specifics of the meat or the lifter,

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Yeah, and anybody but Garrett Fear
Yeah. I heard someone squatted high.

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Yeah, but I didn't watch the
Squad. I don't know why I did

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watch The Squad and maybe just stopped
caring. I don't know. I saw

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shure a boy Dan Bell maybe the
best part of for all time now,

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but Dan Bell posted on it and
agreed. Yeah, I saw the dramas

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running around, but it's happened so
many times, and I feel like if

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we got side shots of any meat
ever, we could do that, you

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know what I mean. Like there's
always critique after after IPF gnats, you

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know, judges being too strict or
having favorites or even at Arnold when we

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were there, I heard rustling in
the crowd about like, yeah, they're

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making show and so hold the bench
so long. I'm like, do you

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think they really have it out for
Timmy? Like no one gives a fuck

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up about you know, Johnny,
Nobody, Like, I don't think that

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the judges depending on the fed.
Some you know, no offense folks.

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Some are just like so old and
out of tune. They don't know who

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these lifters are. It's not like
they're on Instagram all day, you know.

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I think it's I think that they
get caught by inattention. I think

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that they're like it's more focus.
It's hard. Uh yeah, it's it's

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like a slow ass sport. Like
when you're refing basketball. I've wrote a

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good amount of games in my time, and like you're literally jogging and you're

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you're locked in because you're like part
of it. You're dodging balls and you're

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fucking talking and you're you're talking to
players. Hey watch that hand. You

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know, you're you're literally like almost
a player. Where powerlifting, you're just

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sitting there staring at a wall.
It's like literally watching grass grow. So

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a hundred percent. Uh understand them
getting bored this high squad. That was

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the thing, right it was a
record, not even a record whatever.

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No, And it doesn't really matter. The issue is more the reaction than

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I And and like, really one
I want to to ask is like is

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it fixable? And how are we
supposed to think about about records, squats

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whatever across federations. This is us
PC. So that's what I was going

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to bring up. If I'm you
know, a noble powerlifting analyst, like

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a young Garrett Fear who cares very
much about the sport, I might not

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even comment on it if it's not
in like one of the feds that are

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legit. See, that's my question, That is my real question, Like

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do we care if it's not in
a federation that we know has good judging

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Because that happened for a while was
RPS, the Green Fed. I feel

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like when when raw powerlifting started,
just crush numbers, Kevin O and Little

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Bird, Everyone's crushing numbers. Then
the RPS was like the only main one

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running meets out on the East coast, and they were the USPA was just

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starting to get there and we had
a couple of meets, but it was

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really USPA dominant with the Dan Greens
and Jeremy Hamilton's et cetera. And then

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and then the East Coast would have
the RPS and the judging just wasn't up

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to the same standard. So like
all these records can broke left and right,

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and yeah, they're all on a
different standard. Yeah, but that's

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been the issue the whole time,
right, Like, I think this one

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is in a monolift where a lot
of people now are starting to walk their

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shit out, whether it's WRPF or
not. But I mean the gold standards,

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the WRPF and the USAPL slash IPF. So if I'm commenting on it,

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I'm simply saying, Okay, you're
your best in your pond, right

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now, come to the WRPF pro
whatever's next, and do it again.

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Yeah. Right, if that guy's
my competitor, or if I'm an analyst,

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that's like the same thing. Like
if some guy's going absolutely crazy in

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European basketball, ESPN is gonna be
say like, that's amazing and you're really

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good, but it doesn't count un
till you get here, come to the

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NBA and let us know, you
know, and that doesn't really happen.

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Like even the Kings just you know, signed the European MVP heere I forgot

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exactly what league, but maybe Italy. But he's on our team now and

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you know he's doing okay, Yeah, he's shitting on folks over there.

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So it's the same idea with these
other FEDS, like there's no one.

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The only one you can make the
argument is the USA pl I p F

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one because that's newly broken off.
But any other FED, I think if

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you want to take a record,
you got to go compete against where the

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studs are, and that's where the
sport is. Back in the day,

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you couldn't right back in the day, travel, lack of meats, money,

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all these things are an issue.
But now if you're that guy,

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you're gonna get a sponsorship. You
can find somebody to pay your way there,

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you can. You can bundle it
up. Like the sport's changed in

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that sense where you don't have to
break a record in your own backyard,

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so then travel and show up.
You know. That's that's all I would

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say, rather than like calling out
a high squad is yeah, it needs

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to be done. It needs to
because Karen is an analyst, like that's

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kind of his gig in this thing, right, He's the Stephen A Smith

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or whatever the fuck of power thing. So I might not always agree with

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Garrett, I'm always going to support
him because he's doing a hard thing,

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yea, and he cares kind of
he's kind of doing the Lord's work in

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a lot of ways. Yeah,
And I don't think he has ill intent

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with anything he ever does. He
just loves powerlifting more than I ever will.

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So someone's got to do it,
and he could be a wild card.

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I like a disruptor. I hate
I hate meaningless of disruptions, but

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I like a disruption that that like
tries to push things forward. Yeah.

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I think that's what he's trying to
do. He's trying to get the standardization.

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But like you know, until I
don't know what it's going to take.

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But until I guess there's enough meets
in every state by the WFPI for

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whatever federation was never won, and
until there's like a clear line from kind

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of rookie to getting paid and being
the best in a federation, there's always

391
00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:45.519
going to be someone else thinking they
can start a league. Yeah, and

392
00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:48.960
back in the day, I mean
kind of the only places that you could

393
00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:53.680
look at records and the only sort
of arbiters of what the what the actual

394
00:23:53.839 --> 00:24:00.359
like all time records were where the
magazine Powerlifting USA and Parlating Watch. Yeah,

395
00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:04.759
Parliating Watch is a lost gem.
We have Open Powerlifting, which is

396
00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:07.599
cool, and they do an insane
amount of data and statistics. Well,

397
00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.839
I think that I think that some
of the controversy. I don't know the

398
00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.160
the open parliating guys, but some
of the controversy comes in the fact that

399
00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.200
they list, you know, basically
what they're given. Yeah, right,

400
00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:22.799
right, and which I think if
you're doing stats is what you have to

401
00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:26.079
go by. I think so too. But but they got white lights.

402
00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:29.200
Yeah, you gotta take it.
Yeah, But that's that hypes it up

403
00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:30.720
because like, oh, it's a
legitimate because it's on there. Yeah,

404
00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:38.240
And you have to as a discerning
consumer of like you know, powerlifting judging,

405
00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:41.319
you have to know that sometimes it's
going to be bs. Yeah.

406
00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.640
I think we need a little UFC
type shit, you know, get a

407
00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:48.920
little Twitter fingers And whoever, what
weight class was he two seventy five or

408
00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:52.920
something? Whoever that fucking other two
seventy five is I'm on this dude's ass

409
00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.680
on Twitter. Yeah, you know, I think that's what the sport kind

410
00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:56.599
of needs. One a little bit
of hype. It doesn't have to be

411
00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.440
negative, and it doesn't have to
come out to fucking slashing tires and fighting,

412
00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:03.240
but you know, let a little
competitiveness come out. If I'm if

413
00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:06.839
I'm a good two seventy five or
even a top five, I'm probably chomping

414
00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:08.319
at that guy. Yeah, I've
just never been good enough a power left

415
00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.200
to let a rip, but I
would let a rip. Man. Hey,

416
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.599
bro, that's cool. You're over
there in the fucking pee wee leagues.

417
00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.160
Yeah, come over here to the
WRPF before we get judged tight and

418
00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:18.759
let's go head to head. I'll
buy your entry or something. You know.

419
00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.880
I would, I would be doing
shit like that. I think that

420
00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:25.960
would be good for the sport.
Russ Russ Swoll and that kind of squad's

421
00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:27.759
one that talks about it a lot
too, and I think Garrett as well,

422
00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.599
where like not that you need shit
talk, but you kind of need

423
00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:37.000
storylines, and storylines only really come
with like off the field drama in a

424
00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.079
sense of adversity of some kind of
competitiveness. Yeah, you need a rival

425
00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:44.839
in a way, right and if
no one's you know, you can all

426
00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:45.880
be friends. You can have a
beer afterwards. I don't give a shit,

427
00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:48.559
or you know, say in the
leagues like that too, you know,

428
00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.920
like Lebron James and Kevin Durant are
buddies, but they're gonna talk a

429
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.400
little mess, you know, and
they're definitely gonna try to win. Yeah,

430
00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:57.359
Kevin Rant came out recently, which
is an interesting quote. I think

431
00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:03.039
he said, uh, because the
biggest knock on the NBA now is maybe

432
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.160
similar to the powerlifting or powerlifting in
the West Side days. Guys would fight

433
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:10.559
and you know, you hate each
other in NBA too. You know,

434
00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:15.519
there's numerous videos of Jordan's shoving guys
and talking shit where they say, now

435
00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.519
because the Internet age or maybe the
soft generation or whatever, that they're all

436
00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.759
friends. And Kevin Durant I think
it was literally last week because he played

437
00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.480
Lebron and they're smiling and high five
en after the game or whatever. People

438
00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:29.880
talk shit on that, say yo, like Larry Bird would never, you

439
00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.519
know, Jordan would never. And
he said, oh, which you guys

440
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.440
don't know, is that friends actually
want to win more. That makes sense,

441
00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.119
which which I see a side.
I don't know if I was ever

442
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:44.119
like that, because there's you know, you grow up playing basketball long enough,

443
00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:48.119
you're going to see the same kids
everywhere, whether it's college or leagues

444
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:51.079
or charity tournaments or whatever. And
so there's a couple of guys that would

445
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:55.920
become friendly without you know, you'd
give a mutual respect, but came recognize

446
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.559
the game. Yeah kind of.
But I don't know if I ever I

447
00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:00.119
don't know if my friends on the
other team, if I want to beat

448
00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.400
them more than a guy I hate
hate pretty powerful man, you guys,

449
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.359
go go watch episode three, you
know, obi wan, I'll fucking show

450
00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:12.480
you that HET's powerful. Yeah.
So I don't know about that in powerlifting,

451
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:15.960
but if I'm whoever two seventy five
ers or whoever this dude is,

452
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.440
I'd call his asset right now.
Yeah. It's a couple of other things

453
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:21.559
that Garrett said that I agree with. Like he said, if somebody gave

454
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:23.839
me the white lights, I would
take him to Yeah, you can't always

455
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.799
blame the lifter. Even though a
couple of people have denied world records based

456
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.240
on bad performances of their own.
I forgot who that was. But a

457
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.039
couple of years ago, someone squad
a world record and said, nah,

458
00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.559
it wasn't up to my own standard. But the only thing too And obviously

459
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:37.880
I'm not on their strength level,
so I can't say, but there are

460
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.960
lifters that get do it consistently.
Is just like, if you train to

461
00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:47.000
standard, you'll compete to standard.
That makes sense, you know what I

462
00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.960
mean? So like, why are
you having this moral standard issue with what

463
00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:52.960
white lights you've given? If you
know you lift good, yeah, yeah,

464
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.880
you know, like yeah, you're
always going to be nervous to hit

465
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.920
death. But like I feel like
it shouldn't be as much of a conversation

466
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.200
as it is. Just train,
just train better, train more standard.

467
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:04.119
I mean we see it in here
all the time. People squad high at

468
00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:07.039
ship and I'm like, well,
good luck at your meat you know,

469
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:10.240
yeah, And that's that was obviously
the big thing with the geared era is

470
00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:14.319
that it was really hard to squat
to depth period, let alone, it

471
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:15.519
would it would take so much out
of you if you did it in training,

472
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:22.000
yeah, and then but then doing
it on meat day you would try

473
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.039
uh to soordiating you down there and
kind of rely on the fact that somebody

474
00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.119
who's gonna be you a gift,
and that's yeah, you just judgment.

475
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.440
At least we'll give you a gift. Yeah, the sports obviously it's almost

476
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:33.759
just a different sport. But yeah, you're just hoping to stand up not

477
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:37.839
die. Yeah, exactly, we're
like raw. I mean, if you're

478
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.759
raw, especially with sleeves let alone, I mean raps. Still you can

479
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:44.759
be so consistent. You know,
there's just so many less factors than a

480
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.359
squat suit. So just fucking squad
normal and and and how the sports progress.

481
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.799
You know, people are they're going
nine for nine, you know,

482
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:55.880
they're coming well planned out. They're
not. They're not coming in you know,

483
00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:59.680
on a coin flip. And the
same with regular sports. You know,

484
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.880
it's just it's just grown. You're
you're not going into an NBA game

485
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.599
championship and shooting a shot you've never
shot before. You know, you're doing

486
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:11.400
shit. You're not. You don't
not throw a curveball season. Now you're

487
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.599
in the World Series, right,
you're like, I'm gonna let this one

488
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.599
rip. Like no, like you're
throwing the pitches you have in your pocket.

489
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.599
It's not like a marathon where you're
not running. You're not really running

490
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:22.440
twenty six miles before you, before
you the marathon, your even that twelve

491
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:26.720
thirteen and yeah yeah, yeah even
yeah even that's like just a mental test

492
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.319
because the variables are so gone.
But yeah, yeah, that that is

493
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:32.279
kind of how I was raised on
it too, like, oh, you

494
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:33.960
hit five hundred and training good,
you'll be good for five fifty on game

495
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.119
day? Like, oh will you
like that is kind of how they thought.

496
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:40.759
That did happen to me? But
yeah, yeah, it happened to

497
00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:42.799
me too, Like most of my
prs are are in meat, so get

498
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.119
all revved up, and I wouldn't
be reripped up in training and and the

499
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.319
style of training we did. But
nowadays it's just not like that because people

500
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:52.480
are so competitive that you kind of
have to go, you know, seven,

501
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.759
eight, nine for nine to even
have a chance. So the untested

502
00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:57.720
world is a little bit different still, but I think a lot of them

503
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:02.279
are evolving that you have a game
plan, you got to follow it out.

504
00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:07.079
But I just don't get I guess
I don't get squatting high as a

505
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.119
thing, especially if you're like the
best, right because normally, like it's

506
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:15.319
the only sport where the best are
can off, not it's the only sport

507
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:21.079
where the best in the sport may
not be the most skilled. Oh yeah,

508
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:22.160
right, right, Like, whoever
this guy is, I don't know

509
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.039
who he is. Sorry if I'm
ripping you, buddy, maybe we're even

510
00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:26.920
buddies for all I fucking know.
But well we're not saying his name,

511
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.480
so we're over. Yeah. I
didn't even like click on it. I

512
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.599
didn't even look. I just I
did watch it, but I didn't like

513
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.359
memorize the name or anything. And
I'm intentionally keeping that part vague. It's

514
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.319
just sort of a broader discussion about
it, because like Steph Curry's the fucking

515
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:40.880
best. Like, you're not gonna
out dribble or out shoot Steph Creek because

516
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.359
he's the best, so then he's
gonna score the most points. But someone

517
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:47.119
in powerlifting can like score the most
points. And I'm a better squatter than

518
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:48.880
them. Yeah, because they're not
they're not a technical squad. Yeah,

519
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.640
they're just like not skilled at all
a brute strength. Yeah, yeah,

520
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.000
they just have genetics or steroids that
Yeah, other folks don't have, you

521
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.200
know, which is weird. Maybe
that happens in football sometimes, but rarely

522
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.559
happens in any sport. Baseball definitely
won't happen. Like, you have to

523
00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:06.000
be the skill. You have to
be the best to be the best,

524
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:07.839
And in this sport, you could
be the strongest and be the worst.

525
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:14.920
Like you could be very unskilled,
untalented, unexperienced, unscerebral about at all

526
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.000
and somehow get a world record.
Yeah. I used to say, never

527
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:19.799
follow a freak. Yeah yeah,
yeah, you can literally just be a

528
00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:23.240
freak, And we say that in
other sports. But like people say,

529
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:26.920
Lebron's a freak, but he's also
just as skilled as he is freaky.

530
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.440
That's the only way, Yeah,
right, Because I've played with guys that

531
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:32.599
were like freaky like Lebron, but
had no skill, and then they're in

532
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:34.160
junior college. Yeah you know what
I mean, they're jumping through the roof.

533
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.599
They're six six, two hundred and
twenty pounds, jacked out of the

534
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.119
brains, but they don't have that
skill, so you don't get there.

535
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:41.759
We're powerlifting. You can sneak your
way through, even strong man. I

536
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.240
don't think you can sneak your way
through anymore. Yeah, you know,

537
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:48.279
because the game's evolved. Yeah maybe
back in the day, you're just a

538
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.799
brute. Yeah, and the technique
hasn't caught up. But now all those

539
00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:53.920
guys are technical as shit with the
stones and technical as shit with the log

540
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:59.160
right, so they're strong and technical, you're screwed. Another point that Garrett

541
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:01.279
made, I thought that was interesting, and it certainly it's something that I've

542
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:06.079
observed in the in the untested world, in the geared world or whatever,

543
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:15.759
especially back in the multiplay days,
that lifters would be positive to each other

544
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:21.640
in person and maybe positive about somebody
else's you know, high squad or bench

545
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:25.000
that wasn't locked out or deadlift that
wasn't locked out or whatever on social media,

546
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.359
and then privately to their to their
other friends, talk shit, talk

547
00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:35.960
shit. And I saw that more
often than I think that's just human nature,

548
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.680
probably because I'm also the one like
I just hate conflict. I'm not

549
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:42.759
gonna like, I'm not going to
also rain on your parade in person.

550
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.319
Yeah, you know, like if
you get white lights and I think you're

551
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.319
squat high, I'm not about to
just run up to you and be like

552
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:50.880
Jim, that squad sucked. Yeah, you know what I mean. So

553
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:55.480
not that I think talking behind someone's
back is good. Yeah, let's social

554
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.839
media ring a little bit, you
know, I think there is a time

555
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:05.359
to be a keyboard warrior in the
sense that you don't need to get into

556
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:08.000
fist fights in person. Yeah,
but you also don't need to be fake

557
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:13.240
in person. You can be neutral
in person and then you know, be

558
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.319
a little more truthful online because it
is just easier. Like it's you know,

559
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.640
what are you gonna do if you're
at that meeting that guy squat site.

560
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.200
I don't think Garrett's walking up to
him either and saying, hey,

561
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:23.359
bro, that fucking sucked. He
may not, I don't know, you

562
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.799
know, like maybe at the bar
after hcause I think he's got beat up

563
00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:29.119
for shit like that. But like, you know, I don't know.

564
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:34.400
I I do agree with the general
point of not being you know, a

565
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.720
sleeves ball and talking shit behind people's
back. But I also don't think you

566
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:42.119
just go straight up to them and
say they're like, yo, that's up.

567
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.559
That's not going to solve anything either, Yeah, for sure, you

568
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:47.759
know, but I think they only
solved the only real answer, And that's

569
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.440
what I always look for in anything
business. That lifting the you're right,

570
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:53.559
we have a problem. How do
you solve it? Is? Is other

571
00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:58.160
two seventy five ers or whoever's in
this dude's weight class, like politely,

572
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.079
not politely call him out in the
sense you need to challenge them, don't

573
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:04.000
just say like you know, I'm
better on you, bro, say hey

574
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.759
man, great squad. I don't
think it was up to standard company me

575
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.480
at w RPF Pennsylvania. I'll pay
your entry. Let's go ahead to head,

576
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.400
you know, and then and then
and then either the guy shows up

577
00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:17.920
and he does it better or you
just don't show up. The rest will

578
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:22.760
answer itself, and that's how the
UFC works. I feel like, yeah,

579
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:24.159
I think that's true too, right, Like guys call each other out

580
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:29.199
that aren't always going for the belt. You know you're ranked ten, you'll

581
00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.079
call out the six guy like that
kind of that kind of matters, and

582
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.920
one it will build a story and
then two you'll see what people are made

583
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.159
of. I think that's the competitiveness
we need. So I think the bottom

584
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.039
line for me is that you just
don't have to pay attention to every single

585
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.760
one of these. Yeah, like
you should definitely, like on social media,

586
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:52.199
should be congratulatory for the people who
set records, break records, you

587
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:58.800
know, lift in a in an
admirable way in uh, conditions where the

588
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.280
judging is a pair carently spot on
kind of regardless of where the where the

589
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:06.760
the federation. If you can look
at a video when you say yeah,

590
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.760
that looks right, Yeah, that
looks right, then then congratulate. But

591
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:15.480
it doesn't necessary if you're not personally
involved, if you're not personally if you're

592
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.199
not a commentator the way Garrett is
or whatever. Yeah, so that's the

593
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.360
amendment. I guess to my keyboard
warrior thing like, you got to you

594
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:23.920
gotta have skin in the game.
Yeah, exactly, Like Garrett's been to

595
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:28.519
every meat on the planet. He's
memorized everyone's prs that's ever lifted a weight

596
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.679
in their life, right, Like, Garrett's got more skin in the game

597
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:34.760
than most as a competitor, but
definitely as an analyst, you have to

598
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.480
be around the sport and be in
the sport. You can't compete once and

599
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.360
now be critiquing the strongest in the
world, you know, like train with

600
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:42.800
some cats, be around the game
a bit, you know, same with

601
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.960
like those. Most analysts have either
started at high school, college like Steven

602
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.800
A. Smith, I imagine been
reporting basketball for fifty years, right,

603
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:53.920
like starting in college to basketball to
pro and if they're not, they played

604
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.880
pro right. And now you have
Shannon Sharp's a big voice in sports,

605
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:01.639
like they have skin in the game. Critique isn't always perfect, but at

606
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:07.880
least it has thought behind it.
Yeah, I'm not for random keyboard warriors,

607
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:09.159
but have you got Yeah, if
you're a big squatter, if you've

608
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:12.639
been around the sport, if you're
an analyst, yeah, I think your

609
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.199
voice matters to hopefully evolve the sport
at the right place. Well, I

610
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.639
got one more department. I want
to roll out here for the first time.

611
00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:22.480
And I'm stealing this the title of
this from other podcasts, but we're

612
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:29.480
gonna do it our own way that
I'm calling this three things, So three

613
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:37.519
social media accounts that are not in
the fitness space that you enjoy most.

614
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:49.280
And I just followed a sick one
yesterday. I got you guys this one.

615
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:54.840
I think I don't know where I
stole it. Maybe on my Discovery

616
00:36:55.599 --> 00:37:04.599
non fitness you said, non Fitness
Star. I hate sometimes I do feel

617
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:07.039
like a gate keeper hipster that I
don't want to share, but I'll get

618
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:13.159
over it. Star World Lab okay, And they just do like crazy shit

619
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:17.840
in the world, just like anything
from there's like a new island that just

620
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:21.960
formed the Pacific. Did you see
that? No, So some volcano went

621
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:28.159
crazy and literally formed a new island
six hundred and twenty miles south of Tokyo.

622
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:34.320
So it does stuff like that.
Or Kanye West built a whole studio

623
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.159
in the middle of nowhere, Saudi
Arabia and like some oasis city they post

624
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:43.840
about that. There's like these fucking
blue Java bananas, just like crazy.

625
00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.440
This is the texture doesn't look really
weird. This is the texture. Flavor

626
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:50.800
is vanilla ice cream and it's a
natural fruit. So it just posts like

627
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.159
crazy, kind of mind bending type
shit. I really like that. I'm

628
00:37:54.159 --> 00:38:00.239
trying to think of another good one
that I have Recently. I follow a

629
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.360
lot of dog ones like Rescues kind
of makes me sad and not sad.

630
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.800
Mm hmm, let's see another one. A lot of them are like fashion

631
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.760
e too. If you guys don't
know who Mao Wolf is, Mao Wolf's

632
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:15.559
a decent follow. Mao Wolf is
like a artist, but they put on

633
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:23.039
like like interactive exhibit museum type things, and so he has some really trippy

634
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.280
art direction y posts that are really
cool. If you guys have heard I

635
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:30.679
think it's is a Era fifteen,
Area fifty one, Area fifty one,

636
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:34.800
No, like the exhibition, Oh
exhibition, I don't know. I think

637
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.280
it might be Area fifteen. It
might be Area fifty one too, But

638
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:43.199
it's basically like a like a super
interactive like in person almost video game treasure

639
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:45.559
hunt you can do in this crazy
looking building. And that's him. That's

640
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.280
in Vegas. I forgot what it
was called, but yeah, Mao Wolf

641
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:55.000
would be another good one. It's
another good follow. I'm just scrolling around

642
00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:07.159
like crazy. Yeah, I follow
a bunch of random ship I do too,

643
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:14.880
but I mean there's some basic ones. Oh shout out my boy dude.

644
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:15.639
I haven't met him yet, but
I wanted. His name is Andrew

645
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:22.480
Dutton ad underscore sneaks. Uh.
He's a teacher, but he does like

646
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.480
sneaker and fashion photography on the sign
on the side, and his photography is

647
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:29.400
insane. I followed him a couple
of months ago. I like his content

648
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.920
a ton ad Underscore sneak. Shout
out to Andrew. Uh. He looks

649
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.920
like he's maybe about my age and
he's just a grade school teacher, but

650
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:39.760
he's super into like clothes and shit
and his photography is insane. If you

651
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:46.400
guys are into shit like that,
maybe him, Okay, you got my

652
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:51.239
number number one. It's not fitness, it is it's a sport, but

653
00:39:51.280 --> 00:40:01.079
not not fitness, is uh.
Ash Watson, former uh British uh gymnastics

654
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:07.159
champ. Uh little guy I mean, I mean he's short. Yeah,

655
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:12.039
he's probably taller than matter here,
but that's also very short but uh,

656
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:17.719
you know, and and pretty thick
for for gymnastics, like not in the

657
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.639
you know, a lot of gymnasts
are are jacked, but they're but they're

658
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.800
frame is small. This is a
bigger framed guy who is a small guy

659
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.599
at the same time. Yeah.
Uh, And a lot of his account

660
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:39.639
is uh trying different gymnastics things that
are done by women or done by by

661
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:49.239
really high level like performing Yeah,
yeah, exactly, exactly. Just try

662
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.079
to do the trick. He just
tays it over. You see, can

663
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:52.920
watch it doing him doing it over
and over and again until he until he

664
00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:59.199
finally nails it. And he's not
shy about showing you like an ugly fail.

665
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:01.440
I can't do that. I don't
know why this shit scares me,

666
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:06.119
So I just feel like a joint
is going to get dislocated somewhere. Uh

667
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:08.199
yeah, yeah, I think that's
possible. I haven't seen anything terrible like

668
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.280
that happening except out he'd post himself
can wrecked. Probably not, but like

669
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:16.199
he I mean, they also do
a lot of you know, there's a

670
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:19.760
lot of pads down like that,
and it's like he's not He's not gonna

671
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.199
break his neck probably. Yeah.
I'll just watched like yeah, like Travis

672
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:25.880
Pastrana and even th that Sean White
stuff. You see them like practicing over

673
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:29.039
and over. Yeah, it just
makes me like cringe, like all dude,

674
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:31.280
I know something bad's about to happen. Yeah. Yeah. Another one

675
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:36.239
of my like very long time favorites
is Smoking Tire. Yeah they're good.

676
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.119
Matt Farrah, what's your YouTube A
good amount? Yeah, yeah, just

677
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:43.199
because they'll do like old BMW's and
cool shit and yeah, they'll grab like

678
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.719
a random kid who stooped up his
car and take them for a drive.

679
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:50.360
Yeah. And I mean his his
social media is good, does a lot

680
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.239
of cool stuff. There's a lot
of food and and and stuff in his

681
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:58.039
social media. And then the YouTube
videos are are are good. Yeah.

682
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:01.760
Probably the thing that hooked me years
ago, probably fuck probably twelve years ago,

683
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.679
is how much fun he has doing
this stuff. Yeah, it seems

684
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.079
like he's still passion over, still
a lot a lot of laugh, a

685
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:15.440
lot of you know, uh,
just just pure enjoyment of what he's doing.

686
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:17.880
And it's got it and you know, it's work. People forget that

687
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:24.400
content creation is straight up work,
very much so. And I'm gonna have

688
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:29.440
oops, this is loud all of
a sudden. I'm hoping that I can

689
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:34.239
remember I just watched this guy this
morning. I follow him on TikTok.

690
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:37.840
Actually, you know what I'm gonna
I'm gonna do another one. I'll save

691
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:43.119
this one for another time. Another
one that I really enjoy is nobody cares

692
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:52.360
Anthony. He It's largely like signs
or or ads or whatever. They have

693
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:58.039
like outrageous typos in them, and
he's got he's from Boston. He's got

694
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:04.039
a really like thick Boston accent,
and it's they're just fucking hysterical. I

695
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.119
wonder, yeah, I wonder if
people like that can monetize enough that they

696
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:10.840
get to travel and find signs or
it's really repurposing online. It's a really

697
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:14.880
good question. I don't know,
And probably the reason that that I'm mentioning

698
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.639
him as opposed to a couple of
the other ones. Is like, yesterday,

699
00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:22.239
I think he had a post about
either. I don't know. It

700
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.960
does not very clear. And this
is a thing about social media. You

701
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:28.480
know, when somebody posts about somebody
in their life who died, you don't

702
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:32.480
always know what the what the relationship
was, and you seldom know how they

703
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:36.760
died or whatever, so they's no
cautionary tale that can be taken there.

704
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.719
You know, accidents and cancer seemed
to be like the leading causes if you

705
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.840
actually hear something. But I think
it was supposed yesterday that he lost a

706
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:50.559
girlfriend or wife or whatever like six
years ago, and it was like it

707
00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:53.960
was a you know, very sweet
sentimental post that show you that the person

708
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:58.039
has more than what you're seeing.
Yeah, a little out of the content.

709
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.719
Yeah yeah, and you just you
know, obviously if you're a human

710
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.599
with empathy, you you resonate with
that, start to relate a little bit.

711
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:10.079
Yeah, But generally there's so like
laugh out loud funny the you know

712
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:14.519
I see somehow on my discovery,
maybe not him, but random signs that

713
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:20.960
are funny. Yeah. Just there
was a there was a Facebook marketplace ad

714
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:24.480
that he was talking about the other
day, and it was somebody was selling

715
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:30.159
a TV, a you know,
flat screen TV's a woman. She took

716
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:36.440
a picture of the TV. But
she is buck naked and a reflection or

717
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:40.880
something. Yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah, and she's got like her

718
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.639
her nipples and her hips are touching
pretty much nice. Yeah, He's like,

719
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:51.039
it's like they're extra limbs of Facebook
fling that. This is a really

720
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:52.440
good question. I don't know,
because they're not paying attention. I don't

721
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.400
know. I'm sure I got it
at some point. That's wild. Yeah.

722
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:59.599
He was even like turning the telling
you to turn the picture in different

723
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.320
ways. You can like see different
things if you keep turning it, and

724
00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:07.440
you know a lot of you know, just funny stuff. We I should

725
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.760
mention this because I'm sure nobody got
it. But the episode that we did

726
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:16.199
last week that we were just housekeeping, there's one of his repeating bis,

727
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:22.480
is this like sign that says house
kipping, house skipping, house skipping?

728
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.760
You just automatically reading an accident.
Yeah, exactly. It's because it's written

729
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:31.440
phonetically basically. So, but yeah, that's about all I got. Go

730
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