Shooting the Breeze: The Problem with Personal Trainers

What are the biggest issues with personal trainers?

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SPEAKER_01 0:30

You know, I I was thinking about changing that fucking tune, but it's kind of catchy now, and it's like a staple. It's like the elevator music. Every time it's playing, I'm like whistling along. And and the music I'd want to put on anyway is always copyrighted on YouTube, so I'd get demonetized anyway. That's the one thing that sucks about YouTube is you can't put like good music behind any videos because it's all copyrighted, it's fucking retarded. I don't know why you could do it on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook, but on fucking YouTube, it's it's a fucking problem. I don't know how Instagram figured it out, but YouTube can't fucking figure it out. I don't know, whatever. It is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

All right.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Seriously tell us shooting a breeze. We're waiting for Lee. I sent him the link. Let's see if he messaged me back. He should be jumping on. Uh yeah, we'll give him some time. It's the gaze. It's the gaze. It's the gaze. You know how far screw you, man. Um yes, so I had a bit of a crazy weekend. I actually had to go to a wake, uh good friend of my father's who uh who recently died. My father died in 2004, but these two guys were uh really close. Uh I don't know if I I don't think any of you know my background unless uh unless you watched my other channel. But I'm not gonna mention any names, but he was a like probably my one of my father's closest friends, and he was a uh he was a captain in the Bonanno crime family, and he actually just died, which is kind of sad. And uh what was sad is that my father died before he made uh captain. He was actually a made man, but when my father was alive, but he was was never alive to see him make skipper, uh just in and out of fucking you know, they were typical street guys, you know. I don't know why I'm getting I'm not talking about bodybuilding yet because I'm waiting for Lee, but uh but um yeah, it was kind of sad because I was there with his uh kids and his kids are my age, and my father talked uh died in 2004, and he according to his kids, he would still talk about my father to the day he died, but talked about how much he missed him, how much he loved him. Yeah, it's fucking fucking sad part of life. True, true, true, sad part of life. But anyway, today we are waiting for Lee. Let me see. Okay, uh, there we go. Uh he's jumping on now. But uh thank you, uh P priest. Thank you. I'm looking swole, that's right, baby. Uh I've been like trying to hit it pretty hard. I got going on uh vacation in about a month for my birthday uh uh at the Bahamas, so I've been trying to get in shape, and then after that is Nashville with Lee, and then I I might be going on a third vacation in September. Um, because this year is is my birthday, it's a big birthday, so we will be celebrating accordingly. Don't ask, no, I'm not gonna ask him about that. I will I will invite Holly. I will invite uh Bo on next Monday, and you could ask him directly. Holly is intrigued with uh Bo Lewis's pictures on Instagram, as we all are, apparently. Sweet Jesus, I don't know how he puts those pictures up, and uh it's on he's I I don't know, I think he's part moose. I think I think from the waist down, Bo Lewis is has some moose blood in him, and uh it's it all went to his dick, apparently. Sweet Jesus, holy shit. Uh uh, thank you. Uh thank you very much, John. I appreciate that. Um, John, also, I ordered your shirt, and your shirt should be on its way. I ordered it this weekend, and your shirt should be on its way with the new logo. I ordered one for you, and I also ordered one for uh what's his name? He's a bodybuilder. I forget his name all the time. I asked him to come on, but he couldn't come on because let's see. RP uh he couldn't come on because of his job. He doesn't do interviews because of his particular job. Um the fuck is his name? Uh Mr. R underscore RPG. You know the dude. He's a fucking monster. This guy. This fucking gorilla. He's a fucking beast. This guy, you know? He couldn't come on uh because of his job, so I sent him a shirt because he was nice enough to get back to me and say I would love to come on, but I can't. Um because of his job, he cannot do any kind of interviews. But he said he loved the show and he loves me and Lee. So I was like, all right, I sent him a shirt. Oh, did you? You wore your shirt today? I have to send you a new one, Holly. Um, remind me because I have a new logo now, so I have to send you uh a new one with a logo. Um uh the logo is actually pretty cool. I think the new logo is pretty cool. Every once in a while, you need a little bit of an update. So it uh, you know, a little logo. I'm gonna be putting more uh shorts up as well on the YouTube channel. And I'm gonna be doing Ron Gordon. Yes, you're right. I am sorry, Forrest. You're right. Exactly. Ron Gordon, I asked him to come on, but he said he wasn't able to because of his job. And but he was really cool when I spoke to him, so I sent him uh at least let me send you a shirt. So I sent him a shirt. Um you know uh nobody I don't charge for shirts. If you want like the jerseys, those are expensive, unfortunately. I gotta charge you for the jerseys, but a t-shirt, um a t-shirt, like basically if somebody just wants a t-shirt and it's one or two t-shirts, I'm I'm I'm not gonna let you pay. You know, if you if you're ordering, you know, five t-shirts, then you know it gets expensive. But um uh Sean, what you can do is just hit me up on Instagram and let me know what size you are, and let me know uh you know your address and your full name, and I will send you a shirt. They're made to order, uh, because I don't move a lot of shirts, so it doesn't make sense to me to to buy 300 shirts. It's not like I'm this huge podcast where everybody's buying t-shirts. So if uh uh you know one or two of my you know loyal family members, as I refer to you guys, you guys aren't fans or followers, you're a family. If one or two of my family members wants a shirt, um then uh just hit me up on Instagram, I'll send it to you. Um I appreciate guys. I really you you really don't know how much it means to me that you guys um are here every week and you guys watch me and Lee and whoever else, and uh also that you wear my shirt, you wear my apparel at the gym where people could see it. It really it means a lot to me. So, yes, thank you. Oh, and here he is. Oh, yes, the man of the hour, the man with the power. What's up?

SPEAKER_03 8:17

Yeah, I feel like I'm burning up. I got a runny nose, yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

You're getting sick.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

They know all my problems. I've had the runs going to the tortoise, I must have some bug.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Thank you, Angel. Yes, I'm hoping that it will be huge soon. Yeah, that sucks, man. I know how it is when people get sick. How are you doing, man? How's everything going?

SPEAKER_03 8:35

Uh, apart from feeling a bit off, because this morning I took Rachel to work. I thought I'll come home, I'll go to the gym later. So I come home, had two meals, went back to the gym and felt worse. Oh, Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Oh, that's that's happened to me. That's happened to me where you just go, you know I'm gonna just fucking fight through it, and you go, I shouldn't have to the fucking gym.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

I know.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Did you ever go to the gym with like a slight headache and then you get out of it in the head?

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Touch wood, touch wood, touch wood. I've never had a headache my whole life.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Touch wood. Get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_03 9:02

Never, never had a headache or a migraine.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Never, no. Wow, you're a lucky man. I get them fucking twice a week. Jesus. Yeah, I've heard I've heard some people get those really bad migraines too. They gotta get shots. Yeah, yeah, I get those too.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

Touch wood, my my mom gets them and my sisters had them, but I've never had a headache.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

No, there have been times I've gone to the gym with a slight headache, and I go, I'm just gonna fucking fight through it. And by the time I leave, it a pounding headache. I'm like, I should have stayed home.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

I've been told I'm a headache sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

Yeah, well, not for me. Well, sometimes when you show up drunk, but so um Lee loves to mow his uh huge amount of property on his lawn mower and uh send me videos of him uh drinking while he's mowing, and it's fucking hilarious. It is, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 9:53

I should start doing like daily diaries from them. Okay, we'll just call it the drunken farmer or something, and I'll just talk shit while I'm driving around.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

Oh, it's fucking hilarious. It's uh I even show my wife and she laughs. Yeah, it's pretty funny. But how um are you you're not going to the Arnold UK this week, right?

SPEAKER_03 10:12

No, no. Um I spoke to Sid. I think they're starting to organize my stuff for FIBA, which is next month, the following month.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

Ah, okay, good, good. And once again, we I gotta I gotta hit Sid up to see what hotel you're staying at in Nancy.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

I still haven't said, I still don't know myself.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

Unbelievable. Um so yeah, because Wednesday I invited a bunch of people on, Xavier and Kenton to talk about the Arnold UK.

SPEAKER_03 10:38

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

So that should be that should be pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

But what day what day is that on? That's on Saturday over there, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Yeah, yeah. I think uh well there's six hours, there's six hours ahead of us, ahead of me. So it'll be on Saturday, it'll just be late. It'll just be late. But everyone's everyone's behind me. Yeah, that's right. Everybody's fucking behind you. That's right. So they're even more behind you. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

It's hard to be it's hard to be a leader, John.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

I know. Um, so yesterday I was in the gym and I was getting really irritable because I was watching these personal trainers and it don't know that they don't know what they're doing, or do you ever listen to them when they're telling their clients something?

SPEAKER_03 11:23

And you're like, what the fuck are you on about when you listen to them? It's like they're trying to sound really scientific, and you're like, what the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 11:31

It's unbelievable. First of all, okay, now let me preface by saying not all personal trainers, there obviously are really good personal trainers, you know. Um, but the really good personal trainers aren't gonna be in retro or la fitness or planet fitness, you know, they're not gonna be there, okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

Uh so judgment free zone, joke.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Yeah, exactly. So uh yesterday I was thinking, I was like, what is the fucking problem with personal trainers? What happened? My wife took her pants off.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Oh, oh, very nice, just changing out of her work clothes into some track pants.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

I do. You know what's funny? I do that too when my wife takes her clothes off. I'm like, I know, but when I do that, then she just gives me a look like yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

What what look did you give me? Oh, what a smile. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

Never mind, forget it. Like a smile, the the smile that, yeah, look, you're not gonna get it. Um, yeah. So I was in the gym and I was getting like annoyed of these per for these personal trainers, and then I came home and I did some thinking, and I'm like, what is the major problem with personal trainers? And I think I figured it out. I think I figured out the biggest problem. Well, the first problem is it's very easy to become a personal trainer. That's number one, right? It's really easy. Like um the all the major accredited personal training certifications you could get, if you study full time, you can get within four weeks. And it's most of them are open book on a fucking on the on your laptop. You don't even have to access it, yeah. Yeah, and so it's not like it's not like uh you know very difficult. The other thing is there's a couple of things, right? The majority of people that go into a gym and want to get back in shape, they never they they don't ask about the person's credentials, they just go, You're a personal trainer? Okay, you'll sign me up. So I you know, like I look at it like this like if if if I'm if I need plumbing work done in my house, right? And the first guy comes and he's 28 years old, and I say, How long have you been a plumber? And he goes, Uh, you know, uh two years, and he's he comes in and he doesn't have his tools and he doesn't have his work truck, and you know, uh yeah, I just could be like hey, he might only need one spanner and some plumbing tape, mate.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

He could be gifted, yeah. Yeah, exactly. He could be like the gift. Some people come in, they just have the genetics for plumbing, so he might know what to do. He doesn't need all those tools, John. He's like the driver of plumbing, plumbing tape and a fridge. That's all he needs.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

That's all he needs, yeah. If it's anything, if you're like thanks for coming, get the fuck out of my house. Thanks anyway. But the guy that shows up that's been on the that's been a plumber for 20 years, and he's got his truck and it says fucking, you know, uh, you know, Russo and Sons since 1999.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

And he's hating life and he hates doing the job. And he won't complain and ah fuck if I see another sink again or block toilet, oh fuck, I'm gonna kill somebody. Yeah, and he's walked in and he's exhausted, and he just came from another ones normally do a good job because they don't want to come back, even though they could make more money. They're like, I'm gonna fix this fucking thing so I'm not coming back to do it again.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Then I'll I'm like, You got the job, but for some for some reason, personal trainers are the only trade where people don't fucking ask how long you've been doing it, you know, like and the majority of the personal trainers at both gyms that I go to, one of them is gold's they're under 30 years old.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Yeah, and I and I and I you know, I was at a gym once, sorry to cut you off, but I was just training with my friends sometimes, and the young girl at work that comes over and goes, Ali, I just need to ask, you're not training these people, are you? I'm like, No, they're training with me. Why? Oh, just cause you're not a certified trainer, you can't be training people.

SPEAKER_04 15:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I guess I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

The good thing is that that's for insurance purposes for the gym. I know, I know, but that's not the difference. The best is have you ever like this? Happens to me all the time. I don't know, it probably doesn't happen to you, but it happens to me where personal trainers will try to approach me to train me. Have you ever had a personal trainer that doesn't know who you are and tries to approach you to train?

SPEAKER_03 16:08

I had a young kid once want to tell me how to train my biceps properly.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Are you fucking serious?

SPEAKER_04 16:18

What did you say?

SPEAKER_03 16:21

My actual words to him was, is that what you do? And he said yes. I said, Well, I think I'll stick to what I'm doing. Did he ever figure out who you are? I don't know, because I was doing something with the curl or something. I remember when he came over, he goes, you know, if you keep your arm a bit more by your side and when you curl it up, do this and that. I'm like, Oh, really? He goes, Yeah, yeah. I said, Is that what you do? And I just looked at his arm. That's what I said, is that what you do? He goes, Yeah. I said, Well, I think I'll stick to what I'm doing. That's so it's so funny because let me go on to tell Tom Platts how to squat and do legs.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Yeah, all right, okay, all right, come on, yeah, come on. Let me tell let me tell Ronnie Coleman how to get a big back. Oh my god, give me a fucking break. You know, um well I did go to help a kid one day too.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

He's actually in the gym. He was going to do three plates on the incline beacon, he doesn't look that strong. But then again, don't judge a book by its cover. Some people are naturally strong when they and I watched him, he takes the free plates off and he just goes, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Oh, yeah, I've seen that.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

So I'm like, I'm thinking, oh, he's doing it then he did another set. So when I was, you know, I said, Yeah, it's a good you can lift that weight off. I said, But you know, if you maybe go back to two plates and just bring it down more, you'll get more out of it. You know what he looked at me and said, What? This is how Ronnie Coleman does it. I went, okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

Okay, that's how that's how Ronnie Coleman. Oh good luck. I'll be honest with you. A lot of times I get to the gym. I don't help people no more.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

I don't help them anymore.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Yeah, yeah. A lot of times I get to the I get to work, I get to the gym, listen to me, right after work at like, you know, uh between three and four o'clock, because I go right after work a lot of times. That's when it's starting to pick up, yeah. And that's when the young kids are there, you know, they could just they just come out of high school. And I'll be honest with you, sometimes I do help them. Um, and nine times out of ten, they're very they're they're very happy that somebody's trying to help them, you know. Uh but and the other thing, the other problem I see with personal trainers, and I I kind of understand why they do this, but this is a problem with personal trainers, is they need steady money coming in. They need a stead, they need steady clientele. So let me explain. When you train regular people, they want a not a people like us that want to see gains and grow and whatever. When you train regular people, they want a positive experience when they when you when you train them. And they want a therapist too, because you got to listen to all the abortion. Yeah, so right, yeah. So there's a couple of things that actually actually happen. They want a positive experience, so they don't want you, they really don't want you to train them too hard. They want to believe they went to the gym and they want you to train them hard. And and so the the the personal trainer has to actually make them believe that they did a good job and they trained hard and so on and so forth. But really, you're keeping it very mild and at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

Great job, great job.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Well done. Looking great, fantastic. You're going wonderful today, Jane. Oh my god, you're looking great.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

That's exactly right. Because and they do this intentionally because they want them to come back, especially the women, you know. And then and again, like you said, you have to be sociable, you have to be likable, you have to be, you know, um, so when they keep coming, and another thing is if you if they want a meal plan and you tell them what to eat and they're and and they're coming back and you don't see any progress, you really can't get on their ass about no progress because they don't want to believe that they're not making progress, they want a positive reinforcement, they want to think that they are making a lot of progress, they want to think that they are doing well. So the personal trainer, his job is really just to keep the clientele coming back, even though there's no fucking progress whatsoever. So you can't you can't be like you know, a Milos or or or a or you know, a uh you know, a SETO going, what the fuck are you doing? What did I didn't I tell you what to eat and you're not you can't do that. Maybe to a uh a more advanced lifter.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

Well, an average person, if they're wanting to lose weight, you maybe could if it was like a woman or guy, because if you can get someone that was overweight and they do drop weight, then other people in the gym go, Oh my god, look at look at Merrill over there, she's lost 30 pounds. He must know what he's doing. Then you might get some more clients if they see one client really coming down good.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

So you feel you feel Merrill full of clen and fucking tea free and shit. Once people see how good she's looking, you get everyone else in the gym, yeah, jump on board.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

Because my wife, I'm not gonna mention her names, my wife has friends who go to uh the same personal trainer, and they still are the size of a Volvo, and it's been years.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

That's what I don't get because to me, look, I can understand taking people's money, some just want thing, but to me as a personal trainer, I'd get like I used to, and I trained some people, you get excited if you see them improving and losing weight, might just be a little bit, but it's good to see. But I would feel guilty if I was taking your money for a year or two and you're exactly the same as when I started with you a year ago. I'd be like, what am I doing? I just you just pay me to talk to you and like be your friend in the gym pretty much. And like I said, we've dieted before too, because I've given people not even like contest, you don't go that extreme. Just give someone a healthy eating plan, you know, just having to eat cleaner foods. And you know, just by getting rid of preservatives, switching over to cleaner foods, you're gonna drop. Bit of weight just from fluid and all that sort of shit. When you give them a clean diet and they don't budge, you know they're fucking cheating because yeah, it's impossible not to. You've I've given you cleaner food, you're doing cardio and training. You're actually the same weight we've actually put weight on. So what the fuck are you doing? Because if you no, no, I'm not, I'm not, no, I swear, I'm not. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Oh, wait, let me explain. No, I in the morning I have to take my kids to school, so I couldn't get their first meal. And you know, and I just had coffee and then they had some nuggets and I ate their leftover nuggets because it's just chicken.

SPEAKER_03 22:31

I didn't want to see it go to waste.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah, yeah. So you as a personal trainer, you have to go, okay, well, you know what, you know, at least you know the problem, so you could rectify it next week. Let's get started and train. And this is this is the attitude you have you have to have in order for to you for to build a clientele. Because because if if if if a guy it might work with some guys, like some guy, you know, maybe some guys you know that just got out of the military or something, you know. Uh, but for the most part, the majority of people they just want to have a positive experience and they want to have uh a personal trainer that they could talk to and it's positive. And like you said, they're they're a therapist, and and when they when they're training, you're clapping along, going good job, you know. Um, and that's and that's you can do it, yeah. And that keeps them coming. Then you build you actually build a bond and they don't want to leave you. So even during that, you know, Rachel.

SPEAKER_03 23:27

Rachel wanted to start training with me at home, and she quit. She quit. You lasted how many days? She didn't last half an hour. Then the next day when we went training, I was training, and she sat on the floor with a cigar and tequila. You know what she said? But she's got dumbbells, right? She's doing this. And I said, You can go heavy. She's like, No, I can't. I said, You're not even straining. It's like you had like five, ten pounds, you just keep doing this. I said, On your last trip was as easy as your first trip. Go a little bit heavier. Don't tell me what to do. These are heavy. Oh, yeah, that's it. Yeah, then they don't, yeah, they're always the gods. Well, I'll try and help you. I know you didn't ask me to train you, but what I can see you could do more and push yourself harder.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

You got the shit to you. Yeah, no, it it and okay, so that brings me to another point, which is fantastic. I've noticed where where the gym I go to is where I live, where I live in New Jersey is mostly my area, is mostly white. But where the gym that I go to about 15 minutes away, it's mostly Hispanic.

SPEAKER_04 24:36

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

And that's where all the good gyms are. That's where uh signature is, that's where uh uh uh there's a goals there, there's there's an LA fitness. And for some reason, they're all in that neighborhood that you that that is Hispanic now. And I've noticed this. I've noticed, and it's it's it's actually really funny. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So um I've noticed that white women and black women don't like to listen to their husbands in the gym or their boyfriends in the gym, but Hispanic women will listen to their husbands or boyfriends in the gym, even if they have no fucking clue what they're talking about. And my man, my man know everything, he's not and it's they know it all. I I I I literally refer to it as the blind leading the blind because I I could see sometimes I just watch in amazement and I go, How he's gonna make this woman kill herself. It's just unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

And each week they get bigger and bigger because they have a good workout together as husband and wife, then they go home and have quesadillas and have 12 more kids. It's healthy, isn't it? It's chicken and cheese and nutrients, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

And the husbands never look any any good, they they always have dad bots, they never look like you notice a lot of them, nothing against them, but they do. I did notice when I went to one gym, there's a lot of Mexicans, they love wearing the tight tank tops or the tight shirts, like those compression type tops, and then yeah, and they think and and they think everything is a steroid, they think creatine is a steroid, they think whey protein is a steroid, they think vitamins. I don't take none of that shit, I don't take not that protein palada, nothing, I don't take nothing of that shit. I'm all natural, and it's like Jesus Christ, man, holy shit. Taco taco, yeah. But I've seen I've seen like couples in the gym, and I'm like, what are you trying to? And they will a Spanish woman from like you know, Colombia, Brazil, you know, Hispanic, they will literally follow their boyfriends or husbands off a cliff into a valley of fire. And a white woman will literally will tell you to shut up before she gets into a fight with a man.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

If she'll start a fight with a man, then you have to finish it. It's unbelievable. It really is. That was like that was like this yesterday, right? Because the the trucks sometimes will at the front of my house have a lot of trees. So sometimes trucks will park there in the shade. And I get annoyed because I'll park right in front of my gate and leave the engine running. And like, oh, you fucking noisy bastard, just because it's a back road. So I put these signs up, and my old friend Paul was here, and I'm inside. The next thing I hear, Lee, Lee. I'm like, what? Yes, get out of here. Some guy parked his truck, and I told him I'd get my son. He said, Go get your fucking son. Oh, Jesus Christ, he's fucking fighting. So he's actually parked down the road a bit. So I go out, but I walk up to the car and said, Oh, you're okay. You're not down near the gate. He this is the guy who's sitting in his truck, he looks up, he goes, Oh, get a I follow you.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

Well, that's good that that happens to you. It doesn't happen to me. Uh nine times out of ten, I would be getting into a fight. It's on fire. So he was a fan.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

I think he said he had to burn off. He came from the club down the road a bit, and something came on his truck where you got to burn the diesel off or something. He goes, he was on the freeway, he could do it while he's driving, but he had to pull over to do it. Yeah. I said, You're okay. He's like, Oh, thanks. But I'm thinking Paul's trying to start fighting. A kill tells me to come out. Then the guy ends up being a fan. Like, hey.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Well, that's a good thing. That's actually really cool that that happens to you. But yeah, I mean, uh, you know, that all right, we're gonna that's another topic. But I I I don't understand why anybody would want to do that. You don't know the person that you're arguing with, you have no idea what he's been through, you don't know who he is, you don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 28:32

At least in Australia, at least in Australia, we we don't we know they don't really have guns in Australia, so you could pull out a knife or a machete, that's about it.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

And that's and that's even worse over here. You know, it's like it's like unless unless you get to a certain age where it you you say to yourself, unless it's it's really unless it's really serious, just walk away. You know, words words shouldn't hurt you at a certain age anymore. Like words don't bother me anymore, you know.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

Normally when you find it funny, it actually annoys them more when you don't get mad or respond to them. They're like, Oh, called him every name under the sun and said I'm fucking his mother, and you just go, Yeah, she's good, isn't she? I just I just put it back on him. I'm like, Yeah, she's good, huh?

SPEAKER_01 29:17

Yeah. Now, another thing uh to to get back on top of another thing that annoys the hell out of me about um about personal trainers is I feel like I'm your therapist today. You're just getting out what annoys you. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that was really frustrating because I saw this, I saw this over the weekend. This was the one thing that really fucking frustrated me. Um, spotting. Uh, I guess they don't teach you how to spot uh because uh there was a guy he was a trainer, said trainer on his back, so on and so forth. Well, of course, if it says that on the shirt, then you're definitely a trainer.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

You shouldn't say, What are you a fucking dog trainer? What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 29:57

So he had, and I'm dead serious, I'm not making this up. This is the God's honest truth. He had like he was making the guy do inclined dumbbell presses, which is fine, you know, inclined chest dumbbell presses, which is fine. But for some fucking reason, I don't know why. He was only spotting him on one side, he only had one hand on his left elbow. His right hand, I got his right hand, it he was just strong arm, was it?

SPEAKER_03 30:21

You only need one on the left side, and I was just like, but who would throw you off for it? And then if someone just spotted you one side, you'd be like, Oh, yeah, I was and I'm just like watching this.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

I'm going, why how in the why why in the world would you fucking do that?

SPEAKER_01 30:37

No, no, it and another thing that I saw which was fantastic, this was fantastic. In the squat rack, right? And in in modern squat racks, you could squat on the inside, or you could change it or squat on the outside, right? Now, I'm not a big I'm not a big fan of squatting on the outside because you don't have safety racks.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Okay, else have the ones you can put on the outside as well, but sometimes people never use them for some reason.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Right, right, right. So if you if you um Jordan, what's up, dude? If you you know squat on the inside, at least you have the safety racks that go across, and and so there was a female trainer, she's she's very young, you know, um, and this guy, she has this guy squatting, and it was it was a plate, it wasn't a lot, but it was a lot for him. Okay, it was a lot for him, and she had him squatting outside the rack with no safety bars, and she was spotting him from the bar.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

And I'm just like, Jesus Christ, yeah, you ain't saving anything.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

If he goes down, you ain't grabbing that bar. It's just you're going down with him.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

At that point, it's just common sense. Like, you don't you see how the apparatus is formed? Don't you see how the how the how the equipment is is made? Like at that point, it is like now you're just plain stupid.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

But do you do you think there's schmoes today? Because I've seen in gyms where some guys they can be like sort of husky, like truck driver looking, so you know they're somewhat strong or oh yeah, whatever, and yet they'll have this pretty little personal trainer in a tight and shit. I'm thinking, why wouldn't you have a guy train you and push you hard? You got this little girl who ain't gonna do shit to spot you or whatever. So this must just be about having to pay her just to spend an hour with her staring at a boxing ass while she's while she's like standing over your head, fucking spotting you while you do it. Could you bench press again? Yeah, just stand behind me, spot me.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

Yeah, matter of fact, that you you're 100% right because there's a girl in my gym. Um, there's two sisters that are personal trainers. One talks to me all the time, the other one doesn't say hello for some fucking reason, whatever. And the one that says hello to me is incredible body, incredible uh shape. I mean, she's beautiful, the girl. And you're right, she does have a lot of guy, guy trainers, and you would think that, and you would think that he would want a guy trainer, but you're yeah, you're a hundred percent right. It's like now don't get me wrong, I you know, out of all the personal trainers, she's probably the best one there. Um but you're right, if you're a big dude, you would think that you would want a guy to train you, but I think I think it has a lot to do with that. I think you're 100% right. Like if it's like it's like when a guy goes to get a haircut, he'd rather have a hot girl fucking cut his hair than a some dude, you know. I think it's the same concept. I really do. I think you're all I think you hit the nail on the head. It's like, well, if I'm gonna pay somebody, I want to be around a beautiful woman. I don't want to be around some fucking smelly grunt, you know. But um, and this is seems to be, you know, I I think what it falls, I think what it falls into personal training is it falls into basically building a clientele, being likable, um uh being a therapist, and having people come back. And the progress really isn't the main source of income, you know.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

It doesn't really you being happy and positive every time they come and see you, right? Exactly. You gotta be, yes, let's go, team. We can do it. Looking fantastic. We're gonna have a good one today. Let's go push it. Come on, you can do it.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Yeah, it's it's it's right. It's it's like the NBA versus the WNBA.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

And by the end of the day, you're drained mentally because you're you're using all these energy to try pick these people up and keep them positive. At that at the end of the day, you're so drained, you're like, oh fucking hell.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

You're like you're like at the end of the day, you're like exactly the analogy I made was the NBA versus the WNBA, where the NBA, the head trainer, is a psychopath, you know, telling telling the guys, get on your fucking mind, get off your ass. And the women are always very positive. Come on, girls.

SPEAKER_03 34:45

We can if anyone throws a deal, though, just ignore it. We know we don't like those things, not if not if they're attached to men anyway, but you know, just ignore. Yeah, that's the best part about the if only if only they'd throw pocket pussies. I would be in heaven.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

Oh god, can you imagine that? That'd be fucking great. Oh god, but yeah, man, I think that's what I think that's the big major problem. Because I see these people all the time in the gym. But these personal trainers, then they don't look any better from a year ago.

SPEAKER_03 35:21

Like you said, it's probably in all walks of life. Personal training, every job, they have, like you said, the experts who really know what they're doing, than the ones who go, Yeah, I watched that on YouTube. I can I can do that. Then I go out and start doing shit. Yeah, but because a real training you can put YouTube on the watch us if you want.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Yes, we're very sexy, very, very sexy.

SPEAKER_03 35:39

You can watch us on YouTube if you want.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Thank you, Gene. I'm glad you like the show. I appreciate that. Thank you very much, sir. Or or madam, I don't know if it's madam. I apologize, but I'm glad you're gonna be able to do that how's it spelled, Jean?

SPEAKER_03 35:51

J-E-A-N, is it or yes, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

But um could that be Gene or could it be Gion in French in French? Maybe he's from Montreal. Holy shit. But um yeah, because a real trainer that really wants to see progress that you're paying a lot of money when you when you know you when you pay somebody like you know, an asito, a palumbo, a George Farrah, he's gonna fucking come down on they're gonna come down on you like gangbusters if you don't do it.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

But that's like the contest in that sometimes, but I'm just like the average person, too. I understand, but it's like if you don't know what you're doing, and it's like what a dog crying. Oh, there's another dead black snake in the yard the other day.

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Black snake?

SPEAKER_03 36:37

Yeah, really?

SPEAKER_01 36:39

It didn't uh what kind of snake was it? Wasn't another point of ship.

SPEAKER_03 36:42

Red belly, red belly black snake, the ones that bit him before. Isn't it? Yeah, but this I was mowing, it's when I was mowing the other day, and Paul had the little hand mole going around the caravan. He started yelling out. I'm like, what the on the grass, but the dogs didn't seem to get bit, but the snake was chewed in half, so somebody got so at least they learned to go for the middle, not the head.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Oh, good, good, good, good. Well, my dog one time chased a fucking skunk. Uh just when I when I had Hercules, there was the big uh the big pit. You know, I had a hundred-pound pit bull. Um rayed by the skunk. Oh, dude, it was unbelievable. I mean smell, isn't it? That skunk smell is it's like he comes in the house. I'm like, what the fuck? He stunk out the whole fucking house. I had to order this this special uh uh shampoo to to rent because no matter how many times I fucking gave him a bath, he stunk. But um, Holly, what's the question you want to ask Lee? I don't know what the veggie might. What is I have no idea what that fucking means.

SPEAKER_03 37:45

Vegemite, yeah. So it's like a that's a spread that you put on toast. It's like Nutella, but it's veggie mite. It's made of like yeast and salt. I'm gonna I'll bring some to Nashville. Is it something you only get in Australia or something? You get pro mite or marmite in different countries, but uh Australia is yeah, it's veggie might, it's Australian. Oh it's an acquired taste, but I'll bring it to um Nashville and we'll put a teaspoon on we'll put a teaspoon in the jar and get it out, and we'll all eat a teaspoon on camera.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

Okay, cool. I'm actually very very much looking forward to Nashville. And what's funny is that I'm just looking forward to hanging out with you at the fucking expo. Yeah, you know, uh we'll go down, we'll go down and no Jay Cutler. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to see how long the lines get for you.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

Yeah, probably last time, but all depends because all depends it's funny because here's the funny one. Where was I once? Jay was somewhere and I was there, but Jay was meant to be there like one to three, and I got there at like nine or something. So I was there from like nine to three, because I'll go out a whole day rather I'm just sitting in a room doing nothing. So so I'll get there early. So I'll have the huge long line going out the door coming up. So by one, two o'clock, your line's not that big anymore because you've been there since nine o'clock.

unknown 39:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 39:09

People come over and go, Oh, Lee, I feel sorry for you. You don't have many people here, but Jay's got a big line over there. And I'm looking at everybody in line thinking, they've already been here, you cunt. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

That's what people do. They come over when you've only got a few people there and go, Oh, I've been there. I'm gonna sit right next to you, and I'm gonna pretend all those people there for me.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

You can you can do the photos for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That's all just make sure, just sit somewhere every photo I take, you're in the background. Oh, yeah, yeah, photo bombing it. So when they tag me, you'll be in the background of everyone just getting your head up.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

I think I'm gonna bring a what do you call it with me? Uh uh one of those little jugs and put some fucking tequila in it. So make the the day go by a little faster.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

That'll make it more entertaining, won't it?

SPEAKER_01 39:55

Yeah, that's for sure. And but I can't, yeah, I gotta message Sid and see if he's gonna. I gotta it's in June. I mean it's already it's already gonna be April next week, you know?

SPEAKER_03 40:05

Yeah, I know. Last time we stayed in the there's two hotels right near one another, and it was it's only like a couple of blocks to the gym, too, but it was called the one. The one, the one, and that someone said someone got me a room that goes because this is where Jay stays. I went, Oh, and it was pretty fancy, of course. It was all these wooden, it's like very organic wooden fucking rooms and bar shows. I think of course Jay stays here.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

Is Jay cool like you? Like, does he hang does he hang out with people that aren't famous like you do, or he has to be around people that are always famous?

SPEAKER_03 40:39

No, I think Jay just, you know, he's Mr. Perfect. He tries to put on that front till I bring him back down to earth.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

He did come on my channel.

SPEAKER_03 40:48

Like, shut up, Jay.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

He did come on my channel when I first started the bodybuilding channel. The interview is on is on here. If you guys go back uh far enough, it'll it'll it's here, it's on this channel. And what was funny is that the first half of the interview, I was really talking to him about how uh real estate and how he made his money in real estate. I didn't get to bodybuilding till like the second half, and that's probably why I didn't get many views because people are like, fuck wants to talk about real estate. Because I was asking him about how he got into residential and then from that to commercial real estate and how he made his money from from you know uh his investments and whatnot.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

Yeah, I think Chris helped him a lot, didn't he? Chris Acido sort of helped him.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, because Chris is big into uh into real estate, yeah, real estate, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:34

Well back then, back then you fucking go back to the 90s and what wasn't bad, but the way things are now to invest in any real estate, you gotta have a fucking fortune to begin with. Yeah, it's like or you have diesel right now, diesel here, because my Humvee's diesel, because of the war, of course, they got to use some excuse to put petrol up.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Yeah, tell me.

SPEAKER_03 41:53

Diesel is diesel is three dollars a liter, so that's twelve dollars a gallon of diesel. Thank you. Holy shit, really. Yeah, normal petrol is wow. I just put petrol in the Jeep today, half a tank was eighty dollars. It's two dollars eighty-two a liter. So that would be two, four, eight, that'd be like twelve dollars a gallon for a gallon of for petrol, ninety-eight gallons.

SPEAKER_02 42:16

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 42:18

What about what about regular they're rationing it too? Because some of the farmers they're saying can't go fill up their trucks or machinery because diesel's low, but yet our government keeps saying we don't have a fuel crisis. But I think they said 66 gas stations now in different areas are shut because of no petrol, even though they say we've got reserves here and shit, it's all a they're just gouging us for money, fucking pricks.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

I mean, the gas did go up a little bit here. I'm not gonna lie about that, that's for sure. It went from like two in change to three dollars in change, but that's just regular. But that's still that's still like under a dollar a litre for you, still. Yeah, I uh what's funny is I I don't know what a diesel is because I never have to go.

SPEAKER_03 43:01

Diesel's like the shit waste product on petrol and shit.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

So it's like the cheapest thing to make, but yet it's even when I have to use the truck at work because I'm in New York City, now all the fucking trucks are electric. Like it's like everything is electric. So uh, you know, they installed all the electric uh chargers in in right at the end of the cheap, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:23

The cheapest I saw would probably be E10. E10's like 250 a liter. So you're looking at ten dollars a gallon still for E10.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

Wow, yeah, it's just unfucking believable, man. But uh, I understand it should be according to what I understand, it's should be dropping relatively soon. So we'll see what happens. But I think you're right. I think basically they just use any excuse to in increase the fucking government gets more money, gets more.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

Some truck driver said he filled up his truck and he paid uh six hundred and like eighty dollars tax because it now fuel gets taxed here. They call it a fuel excise or something where So much money from every dollar goes to the government. So you get tax on the fuel, but then you have to pay GST, which is tax on whatever it comes to. So then you got to pay income tax so you get hit again from your wages from the fuel.

SPEAKER_01 44:15

Jesus Christ. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable. All right, let's try to get back on topic. I have a question for you, sir. Okay. What was the worst? What happened? What'd you say? Has it got to do with personal training? Yes. Okay. What was the worst thing you've ever seen a personal trainer do at the gym?

SPEAKER_03 44:37

Uh I'd probably just say similar to what you've seen. Either try and give their client too much weight and spot them incorrectly.

unknown 44:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 44:47

And then tell them, tell them they're doing a good job and still keep spot. You know, like when you know they can't do any more, and now you just see the personal trainer or he's lifting the bargain and then he's struggling, then you go, You got one more. And I'm thinking, well, I did that to a guy once. I was spotting him, right? And I'm thinking, fuck me, dad. After the like second one, I'm thinking, fuck, I'm starting to do it. I said, could I went to put it back in? Now one more. I'm like, Yeah, they got one more guys. Yes, I do. I went, okay, let's let it go. I went.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

What happened? You said you had it.

SPEAKER_03 45:20

Yeah, okay. Come on.

unknown 45:21

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

Okay, then show me.

unknown 45:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:25

I'm gonna help you a little bit, but I'm not gonna lift the whole bloody thing, but that's the ridiculous yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

For some reason, um spotting has become something of the past. I don't understand why it's so difficult for personality. I don't even watch that.

SPEAKER_03 45:36

You watch people that are spotting, like someone could be doing the bench press, and their mate will either be here on his phone.

SPEAKER_01 45:41

Oh, that's the bar.

SPEAKER_03 45:42

Or he's just like this, looking around the gym. Oh sorry.

SPEAKER_01 45:48

Jesus, pay attention, man. It's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 45:50

No, they don't.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

Holy shit. Is it and and even where the even the hand placement, like I said, I've seen people spot somebody squatting and they're holding it by the bar, and there'll be two, three, four plates on hand.

SPEAKER_03 46:02

Well, sadly, like you said, it'll be a young girl spotting her boyfriend or husband, and the weight he's using you thinking, love, you ain't gonna if that comes down. I know you're there for moral support, but if he physically needs help, you ain't gonna be helping him.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

Yeah, right. You know, I I I mean, I it's just I've seen it used to be it used to be everybody knew how to spot, you know, and I think the biggest problem is the fact that most people go to these commercial gyms so they don't learn, you know, because if you go to like you know a signature or a diamond gym by me, you know, they know they know how to spot, they know, you know, whatnot. But um, you know, you see people do the uh dumbbell press and they're spotting you by the uh by the uh wrists, and I go, pulling out from the end. Yeah, and I go, Oh Jesus Christ. I just don't, you know, it just it just it just blows me away, you know, unreal. Or I'll do uh you know, um close grip bench, and I say, okay, you gotta give me a spot and they and they grab inside where I'm trying to grab the yeah, and it's like dude, what the fuck are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Like it's not this isn't I really think you go outside, you think outside the box? Outside the box, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:17

You know, and I've I've come to terms with the fact that I think if you think that people are gonna get smarter, be able to to solve problems easier, and IQ is gonna go up, you're for sadly mistaken.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

But even someone passing you a dumbbell can be wrong because I was doing oh my god, it's ridiculous. I was doing 180s once, and I had my training partner Kurt hand me one. We got this other kid to hand one. And of course they're big, you'll grab them out here, but then Kurt will bring it in with me. Like he'll hand it to me because it's long and wide, but he's still got his hands on when I bring it here. The young kid, I grabbed a 180 out here, then he just let go of it.

SPEAKER_01 47:49

It's like yeah, it's like no karma.

SPEAKER_03 47:52

I just I just dropped it. I'm thinking I ain't flying one fucking 80. So once you let go, I can just feel my chest go. I just dropped it on the floor, like you fucking idiot.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

Yeah, they just they just don't, they just don't, they don't get it, you know. Or or if you stand what I do a lot of times is I stand if I'm doing heavy dumbbells, I'll stand the dumbbell upright and I go, just put one on my lap. Okay, yeah. So all they have to do is like literally lift up, put them on my, but they'll grab it from the handle and I go, What do you mean by now? Jesus Christ, man.

SPEAKER_03 48:18

Well, they'll grab it from the ends and give it to you when you're laying down, but they'll somehow come in and twist it the wrong way. So you're trying to twist your hand to grab it this way because they turned it that way. Like, what the fuck are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 48:28

Just sitting in my hand, like this.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

You just gave me an idea. I think I'm gonna do a tutorial on how to spot with every movement. I think I'm gonna do that pretty soon because it is it is a forgotten art on how to spot somebody, you know. I used to I used to do this. I used to, when I used to train at a at a hardcore gym when I lived in Staten Island, and if I'd go to uh there was a gym called uh uh uh it was uh Pump and Iron Gym, or there was a Golds or whatnot, I used to say, I used to say, all right, um uh I got I you know I got it up, help me up on three, and then just stay with me. And they knew exactly what to do. And now I say that and they will look at me like they'll look at me like I'm retarded. Or have you ever had this? Have you ever asked somebody for a spot and they tell you no because it's too heavy?

SPEAKER_03 49:21

Um but seriously, I've always just had like a friend or someone, so they never said that. Uh because I say that I say that to people now. If somebody asked me for a spot, I'm like, well, I can try, but I got a fuck shoulder. So if you don't get up, I said I ain't helping you. Okay. I'm giving you a warning right now, these shoulders fuck. So if you come down with it, I'm not being able to do much apart from moral support. Yeah, shallow, free shallow while it's on your neck. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 49:50

But at least you're honest with the guy. I'd prefer that I prefer because there have been times where, like, you know, I'll using over 100 pound dumbbells. Uh, and I was never a super, super, super duper strong guy. Um, and I'll ask, you know, for a spot, and they'll just a lot of times they'll just say, you know, I I don't know how, or I've never spotted anybody that heavy, and at least they give me that.

SPEAKER_03 50:12

You know, at least they give me that. Say, let me show you my son.

SPEAKER_01 50:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or because I'd rather have that than the mysterious look on their face when they walk over and go, okay. And I gotta go, and I gotta literally go, dude, do you know how to spot? If you don't, don't worry about it, I'll get somebody else.

SPEAKER_03 50:31

Yeah, I think I do, and the whole way through, you'll sit you thinking, this gun's not gonna help me at all.

SPEAKER_01 50:36

Yeah, that I just do, yeah. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Because a lot of times, you know, when you're in the zone, you want to get those, you know, forced reps.

SPEAKER_03 50:45

You know, you don't know just enough how to give enough to you don't want to. I've had it before where even just psychological, you could be pressing a bar back in the day, someone just puts their thing, you could be struggling, yeah, yeah. Someone just puts their hand, someone puts their hand there, you go, you're like, Did you help me? They're like, No, but psychological, yeah. But then you will get the idiot where you are struggling, then they go and they rip it off you.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

Yeah, but not that much, just just help me a little bit if I need it. Don't just take order weight.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

Yeah, exactly. And I have to tell them that. And it's funny that you said that because a lot of times I have to say to them, you know, uh, I have to say, Okay, look, just keep your hands on my elbows or keep your hands on the just enough to keep it moving, sort of don't have to come to a dead stop. Yeah, right. I go, it's a mental thing. If I know your hands are there, it's uh you know, the weight's gonna go up.

SPEAKER_03 51:33

And I have to explain that with squatting when I used to squat over six plates. I mean, because if I'd only wear a belt, but sometimes when I'm standing with the weight on my back, your hips would just sort of go side to side a little bit. So I just get my friend to put his hands on my hips, not help me, but psychological, it's the same. It's like because I know he's there, I just felt safer and I could just focus on the squatting. So a lot of time it's just psychological, just knowing someone's there.

SPEAKER_01 51:57

It is, it's it's 100% psychological. Uh, I don't squat much anymore. If I squat, I use the hack squats. But when I used to squat, uh, the most I ever squatted, like I've never squatted six plates, but the most I've ever squatted was five plates. Um, I would make sure that I was inside the squat rack with the safety bars, you know, low enough so that I could do a full range of motion, but high enough that if I don't, if I have to drop the weight, I won't kill myself. And I would have and I would have somebody spot me from the waist, you know, not the ball. What are you gonna do when somebody, you know, you what are you gonna do with five, six plates on and you and you think you gotta hold it, do a shrug. Yeah, I wouldn't think it's gonna fuck, you know. It's it's just sometimes it's just uh sadly.

SPEAKER_03 52:39

Didn't we see was it last year? Was it last year where that kid squatted and the person did it spot and he fell fell forward and broke his neck, didn't it? The bar cracked his neck.

SPEAKER_01 52:49

Yeah, I did a video on it. Guy kid fucking died, and that's why I don't understand why you see this.

SPEAKER_03 52:54

You've seen it on bench presses too, where it fucking gets him in the neck or the chest and fucking yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:59

Uh I'm looking forward to seeing Lee and John in Ashville. And don't change me, don't charge me for a picture. I'm not gonna charge her for a picture, Nico. I don't know about Lee, but I'm certainly not charging her. If you want a picture with me, holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 53:12

I only charge for like if they want to sign like I don't charge for like someone just to take a photo with me, but if they wanted like a signed photograph, like a 10 by 8, they charge for them, but I don't charge, I don't charge just for a photo.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

No, I don't, I don't, I don't charge. You know what's funny? Um because we're almost done, but I I I I talked to Joe.

SPEAKER_03 53:34

I'll tell you when we're fucking done, all right.

SPEAKER_01 53:36

That's right, it's not about bitch at bad. Um I actually spoke to Joe Zapata uh this weekend. Um and he's a huge wrestling fan. Oh yeah, yeah. He's in the wrestling, yeah. He goes to all of it. And um we were talking and uh there was there's a video out of John Cena, and somebody he's speaking, he's at a you know, he's at a uh the latest one he tells him he's got cancer or something, then he goes down and hugs him. Yeah, and you know what Joe Zapata told me? John Cena gets paid$75,000 to do a public appearance. Yeah, and I'm like, that hug was not sincere, dude. He got paid.

SPEAKER_03 54:22

But I think I think he's pretty sincere because like I've met him a few times. Actually, he actually did an interview. I was in an Iron Man Mag, I think, and they asked him who was his favorite bodybuilder, and he said Lee Priest, and he goes, Oh, no, no, he bases with you now.

SPEAKER_01 54:36

That's it.

SPEAKER_03 54:36

He's and he said he goes, Lee Priest doesn't realize what a big fan of his I am. So when he came to Australia and I went to see him and he signed me a picture, he's like, Thank you for all the inspiration, Lee. And that then when he was on stage, someone said, The wrestling that did you think of bodybuilding and that? And he's like, Yeah, I did, but then that guy down there came along, and I figured, no way. He's like Lee Priest turned up on the scene, he's like, No.

SPEAKER_01 55:00

Yeah, I believe John Cena wanted to be a bodybuilder first.

SPEAKER_03 55:03

Well, Ed had him working at Gold's gym on the front counter. That's right, yeah. Ed told him to go into the wrestling and check that out. So but he's um, I do know out of all the maker wishes he does the most every year, like he's like way up there in the maker wishes. He's like the number one.

SPEAKER_01 55:20

Well, that's good. At least he gives back.

SPEAKER_03 55:21

Yeah, but but let's not he is pretty sincere when he does that type of stuff. He is uh even though he gets paid a lot of money for those type of things. But I know the maker wish ones where he just goes to hospitals and that he's not paid for. And I think he's like the number one. I think if you Google, I think he does like 400 or more a year or so.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

So oh, good, good, good. That's good. You know, we kind of need more celebrities like that, to be honest with you. Uh, but you know, when Joe told me to get 75 grand for appearances, I'm thinking to myself, god damn, I would have hugged everybody in the audience.

SPEAKER_03 55:51

I'll have to I know Sid Sid knows the numbers, but when we're off air, I can tell you there's uh few people in this industry who ask that much. And some and some get it. Are you serious? Get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_01 56:09

Who's gonna get out of your fucking money? I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's me, man. I I I just I I I I don't understand how somebody could ask me to go someplace and pay me that much fucking money. I don't understand.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

There's one or two, there's one or two in bodybuilding that I know of who get a hundred thousand to go turn up somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 56:32

Get the fuck out. Are you serious? Who in bodybuild? Like an actual bodybuilder or an influencer? Bodybuilder? Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 56:41

I do know there's a there's a couple of influencers I know. Let's just say to go somewhere. I'll tell you when we finish recording. Because even when when I got told, I'm like, are you kidding me? They ask that and they get it, and then I yeah, I'm like, fuck me, dead. I wouldn't even have the hide to ask that.

SPEAKER_01 56:59

Jesus Christ, man. And all I want is a goddamn fucking sponsor for a couple of hundred bucks a month. Jeez, I can't even get that. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 57:07

I I um launching launching in Nashville, um partnering up with a company here, and we're probably gonna have the Lee Priest pre-workout.

SPEAKER_01 57:21

Very nice, very cool.

SPEAKER_03 57:23

Which will be called, which will be called Crucified. Very cool. I like it. And then the BCAA drink, the drink will be called holy water, and we're coming up with the labels, but we could be releasing the two flavors of the pre-workout at Nashville.

SPEAKER_01 57:38

Oh, very nice, very nice.

SPEAKER_03 57:40

Maybe when it does start doing well, I'll sponsor you. Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you. Because you want to hear something funny, I asked.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

Because um, I I like the old school bodybuilding clothing stuff, and I ordered a couple of shirts and they never came.

SPEAKER_03 58:04

In your shoulder, in your shoulder video that came up you're wearing the old school yellow one.

SPEAKER_01 58:09

Yeah, I actually ordered that shirt in a couple of different colors. Um, ordered my wife uh a shirt because I just just like it. So I ordered them and I never received them. So I I called them, I left a message for them, and I was like, you know, and they got they texted me back. We never received the uh the order. So I re I reordered them and I go, love wearing you love the clothes, you know. Um, I wear them on my podcast, I wear them to the gym, I send them the podcast, and they go and they go, Oh, great, love it, thank you, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, if you're ever thinking about sponsoring a channel, I'm very affordable. Dead silence. That was the last text. What happened? No answer after that. Oh, not another one. Uh Gene, thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Hey guys, uh short guide to Lee. You're a great inspiration to keep getting bigger and better. Oh, do I have to send the four dollars the five dollars to uh to Lee now, Gene?

SPEAKER_03 59:12

I got another one of these, and gotta go pick it up. Why the fuck can't you just leave shit in my letterbox?

SPEAKER_01 59:20

Oh, why don't you gotta go to like the post office and get it? That's annoying. Sorry, sorry we missed you. That's an I know, I know. That's annoying. It's like, dude, fucking just fucking leave it on the on the stoop like Amazon for fuck's sake. Nobody's gonna take it, you know.

SPEAKER_03 59:33

But I think 9 27 a.m. I was home, I might have been vacuuming and didn't hear him. Sometimes these pricks don't even come to your door, they just go, ah, fuck it, leave a card. They're too lazy to come to the door.

SPEAKER_01 59:44

That's why I think that's why Amazon is such a goddamn uh success. Because they literally just leave it there, take a picture, send it to you, and go, it's there. And sounds good to me, you know. Uh well, this uh this weekend is my wife's birthday.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:02

Oh, happy birthday.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:03

Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:04

So where are you going?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:06

Well, she likes this. Um when we first started dating, I took her to this very famous Italian restaurant in Brooklyn where I used to live in my old neighborhood. And she loves that the food there. So she every year she wants to go back for her birthday. So it's uh Spumoni Gardens. Some people call it LB, uh Spumoni Gardens. They have fame, it's been there like over a hundred years, and uh, so I'm I'm taking her there Sunday. And she's got a full weekend, Saturday. Her girlfriend's taking her out Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:35

I'm taking her like they're doing like the nails and all that sort of stuff, or beauty, beauty.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

They're going to fucking go have dinner and drink wine. That's what they do.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:46

Yeah, she's coming home slushed.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:48

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's gonna be her birthday. Maybe you know, Friday's her actual birthday, so maybe that she owns the salon, so maybe the girls at the salon will probably do that, you know. Uh but um, and then Monday she's going. One of her girlfriends is taking her to the Weber's. That's unbelievable. So Friday, you know, Friday I'll have a cake and everything, and then Sunday I'll take her out. What sort of cake? Well, she I'm the chocolate freak, so she doesn't like chocolate, so I don't have to get anything but chocolate. You know, I'll either get her ice cream cake or this is like ice cream cakes are the best. Ice cream cake is really good, yeah. So we'll see, we'll see how that goes. But you know, she we've been together, we were together now, we're married 11 years, together 15 years.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:36

Oh, and what did you get her a nice gift or just taking it at dinner?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:40

No, I I always buy her something. This year I bought her.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:42

Or do you just stand in front of her and say, This is it? What more could you want when you have this?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:50

Seriously, come on.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:53

This is good as it gets. You fucking helped a little Viagra and stand there with a little Woody and game. This is it, enjoy.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:06

She'll be there with a wine going on.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:12

You know what she actually does?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:14

She wears glasses, right? So she'll she'll be looking at her phone, right? And she'll wear her glasses like down here, right? She'll be over the top of it. She'll look at me phone, and then I'll stand in front of her naked or something like that, and she'll look at me and go, oh, and then just go.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:29

It's like it's like take the glasses off and look again. Yeah, yeah. I look I look better without the glasses. Yeah, that's yeah. Uh with the glasses, she goes, uh, without the glasses. Oh, you look like Brian Peter.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:45

Meanwhile, it turns out she's fucking far sighted. But uh that's not the look, it's just a uh that comes with it's yeah, and it's it's every time it's every time.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:58

What do you say when I stand naked in front of you? Baby gorilla, baby gorilla, she says.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:04

Did she call your baby gorilla? Yeah, so wait, uh as long as you don't get this. When that starts happening, it's over.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

You've never done that, have you?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:20

When I'm naked. Oh, I'm fucking beautiful, she said.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:23

There you go.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:23

See now but are you are you are you drunk when you look at me naked? Oh, she's not. I was gonna say it might be the drink that's your beautiful baby gorilla. Yeah, yeah. Or she'll tell me to do the sl swing it.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:39

Do the helicopter, do the helicopter, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:42

Yeah, no, she's or you just flap it between your legs like then it gets you hard, it hurts.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:47

That's funny. Yeah, I know. It's funny. I do do that, but she does not get she does get no enjoyment out of it whatsoever. She just rolls her eyes.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:53

She gets enjoyment out when I do that. Rachel does, see.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:57

We've only been we've only been married seven years. Maybe when I get 15, she'll be like, hey, yeah, I was gonna say, I'm telling you, when you want to so I hope that helicopter crashes. I hope that helicopter loses the propeller.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:10

With today, with today's fucking uh medical advancements, it never will. It's you know, you'll have a heart on till the day you die. Yeah, between Viagra, Cialis, the injection, the implant. There's no reason not to have a heart on anymore. Testosterone injections, forget it. All right, bigly.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:28

And then if you're just in love with your woman and you find a sexy, that should do it, shouldn't it?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:32

Uh, not after 15 years. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:35

Uh, that's when they say it's not the Viagra you need, it's a new woman, is it? Something new.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:39

Now what happens is she has to, you know, play with my nipple, rub my left testicle, you know, stick a finger to the right five times, and okay, I'm ready now.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:49

All right, we're good, we're good.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:50

She watches your training video and tells you how strong you are. And yeah, exactly. She's got it. Oh, yeah, I'm ready to go now. Quick, yeah, quick while the commercial's on. I'll give you two minutes of fury that you'll never forget.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:02

Two minutes of fury. I'm stealing that. I'm stealing. Hold on, baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:09

It's a roller coaster.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:12

It's like one of those roller coasters you wait five hours in line for it. It's like a minute 30 seconds. That was it.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:19

That's fucking funny. Uh, all right. So your Thursday afternoon, my Wednesday night, we will be we will have Xavier's coming, my friend Ian, Rich from uh Canada, everybody basically who has I invited everyone so we could do a Arnold Clef review. Yes. Um there's not a lot in it so far, is there? Or is there more jumped in? Um, as uh as far as I know, no.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:47

Was it six sales six six people roughly at the moment? Yes, not a lot, but which is weird for two hundred and fifty thousand it's like the second biggest prize money. You would think you would think that I don't get it either. You would think that even the Detroit show the week after. Nobody was there. Just to do another show. It's like you're in shape. You died it down. This one's a week later. Then the Arnold is a week after that. What the fuck? Fucking go. I mean, seriously. I don't know why Nick uh Nick could have been Detroit would have been an easy qualification. Then he could have shut it down before the that's right.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:25

I don't uh I don't uh I think Mo Food is doing the UK. I'm pretty sure he's doing UK. Um I know Blessing's doing it, I know Andrew Jack is doing it. I know I can't. Hope Wesley beats Mike Sommerfeld. If my if Mike can make weight, I mean this will be the third show if he can't make weight, you know. But we'll see. Hopefully, uh Wesley's got an amazing classic physique, he really does, and he seems to have found the formula. But we'll we'll talk about all this stuff uh my Wednesday night, your Thursday.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:51

Let's not let's not talk about it all now.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:54

I don't know. I gotta save it for fucking save the excitement, people.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:57

Oh, there's another money. Is that a donation for you there?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:01

Yes, it's for five dollars, but it's it says for you, I'm gonna have to venomo you five bucks.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:05

It says, Hey guys in in Australia, that's probably seven dollars something. Wow, we'll see what happens. That will get me that wouldn't even get me a gallon of fuel, but thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:15

Yeah, good enough. All right, big Lee, thank you very much for coming on. I appreciate it, brother. Thank you, thank you. And um, I'm gonna message you in a little bit because I want to know who those bodybuilders are. Oh, yes, yes. Yeah, I'll talk to you later, bro. Bye, bye.