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I don't like it, but it's

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that or nothing, dude. Everyone's
stringers. Everyone's skin is leathery brown.

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Got the meat slap a little bit
this though, trade your home gym for

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a gym home you happen to open
a new gym, so maybe you Ladies

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and gentlemen. Welcome to the gossip
gossip Boys Topic Thunder, Topic Thunder.

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I love that we are the gossip
boys. That is topic. This is

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Topic Thunder. Welcome Dean Sadorus of
Katherine and Kilos, the legendary Jim mcdee

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three SB dot CEO and Kevlar so
good so his gaming name, we call

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him KAYI. It's kind of cute, it's kind of evolved, and his

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name is Kyle. His gamer name
is Kle, and we call him Kayi

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KAII just because it's kevlar Kai.
Yeah. Also I get of all merch.

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Yeah, just wiggle that in there. Fitness has changed over the years,

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but especially around COVID, I feel
like fitness has evolved, and as

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we all know, the price gouging
went ape shit and most people just started

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to buy weights to sell them again
on Craigslist. But there's also many of

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folk that built a home gym.
I think we're the only home gym guy

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as right now, here's you.
Yeah, I'm also out in the you

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know, far away from any gym. Yeah, it makes sense. So

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obviously there's sometimes there was a necessity
to have a home gym, but it

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was also just a necessity during COVID. What are the pros? Do you

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like home gyms? Do you like
a home gym? I've basically owned my

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own gym, which was a home
gym in two thousand and nine that I

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trained people out of, and I
trained by myself. But what do we

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think about home gyms. I'm actually
the more I get older, the more

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I'm against them. Uh yeah,
I'll go. I honestly don't prefer them

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whatsoever. Yes, I have one, of course, but like because you

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just said that, but like I
don't like it. But it's that or

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nothing. You got a kid,
I got a kid. You live in

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the middle of nowhere. I live
pretty far. The gym option that is

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close to me down the road is
literally like a glorified hotel gym. I'm

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talking about a liptical maybe a pull
down bar and like some fourteen pound dubs.

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Know what I'm saying. Your wife
like trains, trains, like she's

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a lifter. Yeah she doesn't.
She likes to go have she's not a

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cardio bunny. No. Yeah,
well yeah, we kind of we kind

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of turned into that. It's like, how can I get the most bang

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for my how to lift? Like
her, her idea of fitness isn't pilates,

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no, no, no, no
no, she's like lifts, trains,

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she trains, She's in the game. Are you're right? You're right?

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Yeah, my bad. But yeah, I'm trying to show her some

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love and you're beating her down her. So yeah, I think that being

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in a gym, being around other
people in a gym is important to training

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as far as like even just like
honestly being around people, being motivated from

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your friends or from strangers, and
just like having conversations with new people.

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Yeah, and also just like when
you're in the gym and it's in your

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house, it's like a lot easier
to just lay off when you're at a

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gym in an environment I'm here to
do some work. I'm here to get

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in and get out and like work
hard. That's it's really easy to fuck

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that off at home gym. That's
part of the issue of owning a gym,

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as you don't get in that same
mindset. My favorite thing of going

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to the gym used to be the
mindset where I'd have like a routine.

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I'd eat lunch at eleven, then
at noon, I'm taking my caffeine and

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then and then I'm listening to music
for half an hour to get to the

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gym, and then it's going to
go. It's all set, it is,

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and routine is everything. But now
you own a gym and you work

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in a gym, you don't get
that routine because I'm here for three hours,

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four hours, then I got a
train, then I don't got a

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train, then I well it basically
it turns into basically a home gym,

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yeah, without a bust or a
bad Yeah. Me and Jim over the

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years have talked to many lifters,
and I actually have changed my opinion Jim,

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maybe yours has it. But I
used to talk a lot about lifters

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being able to be at the highest
level regardless of whether they train alone or

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not, because back in the day, there wasn't powerlifting gyms, so most

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people did kind of train in their
garage or totally by themselves, are with

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like two guys. But now every
guy I know that's absolutely dominating the sport,

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pure power lifting or even strong man, they have a crew around them.

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They should have a study for that
or something. Yeah. Good,

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But home gym guys or indeed breaking
records and ship desides the online competitions,

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even that. Dan Green used to
be one that we'd point out to or

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Mike to Sheer or whatever. Mike
to Sheer I think is pure necessity and

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he's a different animal in his brain. Dan Green, I think was only

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before he opened his gym, and
now he has a bunch of people around

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him, you know, like there's
not a lot of people. Bryce Lewis

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trains with a bunch of people.
Jamal Browner, a bunch of people,

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Bilbo swagons, John Hacks training with
a bunch of people, like everyone's around

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Bilbo swagons of all time, of
all time. We could and we could

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even pivot towards you, like just
from a cultural standpoint too. Yeah,

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Like I grew up. I mean
I think Mike did too. Like my

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dad was a gym rat, like
just all he did, Like he played

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football for UNLV's a big old d
n guy. I remember just going in

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there and be like, all right, you're gonna be up there for like

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fucking three hours, have fun.
And I'm just like and I'll just look

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out the window and I see all
these macho, huge dudes like Chris Dim

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like he's one of whose friends with
him and stuff like that, Like just

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bodybuilders, just not really powerlifters as
much. Obviously. It's like kind of

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it was all kind of the same
then, yeah, yeah, it didn't

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just heavy. Yeah. My first
strength and conditioning coach for the world in

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eighth grade, really good guy,
turned with a bunch of football players.

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I shout him out all the time. Was best friends with Kyle's dad,

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which I didn't know. And so
the gym that all the world, Yeah,

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the gym I grew up in was
work. Kyle's dad also trained.

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Yeah, and it's it's funny.
It's as close to Gold's Gym Venice as

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you could get it. It really
was. It was nuts, dude.

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Everyone's stringers, everyone's skin is leathery
brown, everyone's jacked. Every single person

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in there was jacked out of a
huge dude. It looked like I hopped

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into fucking pumping iron. Yeah,
it was. It's really cool. It

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was my coach, I think,
was the only one. I didn't remember.

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Dad because I was younger and homeous, he didn't know. But my

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coach was the only dude. We
wore a hoodie all the time. It'd

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be one hundred degrees out and so
I never knew. But sometimes I fuck

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with them, you know, and
be like, oh, You're like,

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oh, get the meat. Slapping
that meat a little bit with them,

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Then you're like, oh, man, yeah, I think the Yeah,

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the home gym culture, I mean, I mean, it's not really a

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culture, but I mean I think
they did it. It kind of.

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I think it's turning into that a
little bit. I'm starting to see it.

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It's almost becoming like a like a
kind of CrossFit mentality almost like,

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oh, I have a home gym. Two, you have a home,

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how is it? Like, I
don't, I don't know how the conversations

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I think COVID. Even our buddy
Brandon Campbell popped off. His video started

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to pop off. There's some people
that do equipment reviews on YouTube start to

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pop off during COVID. But Brandon, I obviously I don't want to speak

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for him. He's a long time
friend, but his seems out of necessity

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too. Yeah. Kids, I
think his issue is it's totally necessity and

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he kind of listen what Rhode Island. Yeah, yeah, you got kids,

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you got a wife, the older
you get. But but I even

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think that's more of an argument to
try to get out when you can.

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Yeah, like you said, the
cultural, the community, be a friend

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to somebody. It'd probably be easy
to get sucked in and just stay there.

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You know. I would never leave
my house if someone had If there

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was a if there was like a
gym in my neighborhood, like i'd like

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the clubhouse or whatever, Like I
would go to that for one hundred percent.

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It could be kind of ship and
you would still go. I would

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probably still be fine because if you
see your friends are to other people there,

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I woul one hundred percent and not
even a mess with the home gym.

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But it's like like the thirty minute
commute to like the nearest gym,

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that's just not an option because then
it turns an hour work out into it

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and I and I got literally like
twenty five to thirty minutes to work out

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normally anyway. So it's like,
I actually, excuse me me to rephrase

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that that I want to dedicate to
working out because like, honestly, I'd

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rather spend that time hanging out with
my son and like he's working out when

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I can, you know what I
mean. It's not like a huge priority

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at this point in my life.
But I do notice that the CrossFit scene

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really blew up in the home gym
work. It's always been big, yeah,

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but like post COVID, like during
COVID, like the CrossFit people really

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a lot of people stayed home with
the gyms and never really went back.

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But also like a big percentage went
back with also they didn't because I would

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I almost think the opposite of my
head looking at it, you know what

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I mean, because they're there there. Their whole thing is community and that's

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what CrossFit has done so well over
the years, and and their exercise stuff

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is so varied, Like if you're
at home, you get a barbell on

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a jump rope, and then all
of a sudden, you got wall balls,

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so you can go buy a medicine
bowl tomorrow. And then all of

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a sudden, you got you know
this and that, and like, all

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right, well, I gotta go
get this. I gotta get a baseball

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because I gotta toss it down the
road. I saw this YouTube video,

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this guy's doing this. I gotta
buy this ship because then you need a

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kettle bell. Then you need a
CrossFit has done something, so they're more

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basic than a commercial gym, but
they're way more complicated than strength training.

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Yeah. Yeah, I basically do
glorified CrossFit without much bar bell workouts.

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Yeah, like I do. Like
I still do a lot of strength stuff

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like squatting and like strict pull ups, and I have like a rack and

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stuff, so I'm still getting in
like the strength working. I can do

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deadlips and stuff like that, but
as far as like the Olympic lifts,

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I've kind of like removed that from
the CrossFit side of my training and just

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doing like make sure I'm working on
strength and some kind of medic ball conditioner

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or just broady body bro out for
the day. Feeling its maintenance Orange theory

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and five. And that's whether arguably
making more money they killing. My feeling

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is this, though, Trade your
home gym for a gym home. Go

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someplace where you feel comfortable, break
your routine. Like Mike was saying,

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I had when I had little kids, I had home gym stuff, and

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I only worked out after they went
to bed, and and that's when I

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had time for it because I was
working, Like don't have kids. Well

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from the show, it's hard.
It's really hard to make. Yeah,

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my neighbor across the street, you
know, he's a former CrossFit. You

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know, guy, he's an attorney, his wife's an attorney. They have

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three kids, and he works out
in his cross because that's really what he

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gets time for. You know,
I totally understand that. But I think

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that what I miss most about the
old days was, you know, when

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you were lifting multiply, you had
to have people around you. You just

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couldn't do it. You couldn't get
into your ship, you couldn't get out

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of it. Certainly forced people suits
again I'm not saying that necessarily, but

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like the whole idea of the tea, yeah, to force the team.

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And really I thought that's what made
the videos that I did back then,

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is the fact that you're watching a
whole team together and a kind of with

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the other way. Yeah, I
got my sleeves. I don't really need

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a spotter because I'm working on OURPP. People love seeing people in groups.

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Man. I think there's a community
and team has been a thing and it

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will always be. Think tribes will
always be a thing because like you put

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your team like that, you know
what I mean. You see you see

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Mike, Jim and some other guys, You're like, oh, okay,

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I got my boy. Here,
got my boy here, they're gonna go.

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I'm like, oh, this is
sick. It's like me and it's

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like me and my boys. You
know. Yeah, you know how much

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you need to help or how much
it helped you, so you're more willing

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to help the other people. Like
it would be great if everyone was selfless

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and just wanted to spot load and
help. But until you need help,

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sometimes humans won't be as nice and
help others, you know what I mean.

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That's absolutely true. If You'll have
had a flat tire and I couldn't

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do that thing, and then I
figure out how to do it. I'm

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way more likely to help someone else's
flat tire. Well, I have to

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tell you too that if you were
somebody who went who came in expecting to

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get help and you hadn't helped other
people. Yeah, yeah, So back

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to real quick. There's that balance
too, right where like you're like talking

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about Kelsey and what she does is
like two three days at home during the

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week, Saturdays, that's her day
she goes down to the gym. She

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makes that drive and make sure that
she gets in that group environment at least

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once a week. Yeah, and
that's I think she probably loves Saturdays.

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Oh, it's like yeah, of
course, Like she's around her friends.

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They're training like for two hours,
like hardcore with the group, and it's

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like, yeah, so there is
that she's done a better job at like

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still involving that. But she knows
how important that is because like she works

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out that's probably in that two hours, because that's all she could probably do

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and still be in good shape because
of how hard they work together in the

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gym. I also wonder if we're
just spoiled being in California. You know

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about like Nebraska's garage gym scenes a
little different. Yeah, when it's like

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minus forty and you're trying to like
build a rack squad, now they build

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a room. I don't know the
true Tom Callous, I mean that's a

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garage, right, I mean that's
true yells. Yeah, he's one of

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those like one percenters with that and
like Indian Wilson, right, you know,

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back the gym's pointed about going to
a gym. Unrelated completely, we

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happened to open a new gym in
Sacramento. Did you know that here?

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Did you know that? Never heard
of third Street? Barbell? See you guys there