This is Dave Taiton. We are broadcasting live from the Elite FTS Weight FTS Weight

Weight Room. Today I am with Brian Carroll. See, I already screwed up my intro

because it's supposed to say something about the bullshit stops, you know, cut the

bullshit, whatever it's going to be. We're going to cut the bullshit anyhow because I

already cut the bullshit by giving you some stupid bullshit introduction to a podcast that all you

want to do is to listen to us, you know, drink and smoke cigars and act like we're Joe

Rogan and talk about stupid shit that has nothing to do with Joe Rogan and kind of go from

there. So you're in town for the Arnold. So what's going on? What's been going on since you were here

last time? So first time we did the podcast two years ago exactly right before the first time we did it. First time we did it. We were here. And before the, are we even allowed to see that word? Will it penalize you if you say that word? No, no, because this isn't going to be on YouTube. Isn't that weird though? have people have to like signal it out and like say you know it's so I don't get that yeah before the C word happened like what cut like what are you talking about yeah exactly so I was here for that and then we did one last year and they didn't have the Arnold last year I came up here and we shot some content and everything they didn't have the Arnold last year. I came up here and we shot some content and everything. They didn't have the Arnold here. And so what I've noticed, the last time I was with the XPC I competed, 2017, it was definitely packed. I mean, the Expo was a lot more packed than it was today. Today's Friday, so we went through there. But there's still a lot of people there. It's cool to see that but it's just different it's still a cool weekend it's different the crowd

seems a little different you know I was talking to sput earlier and I said how many people have

you seen from the old guard and he kind of looked at me and smiled he goes well I saw he said a couple

people just randomly but none of the guys that were lifting you you know, 15, 20 years ago, it's a new breed of lean, guys with short shorts and spandies on and can deadlift like 2,000 pounds.

You know, it's like a different, it's a totally different feel to everything now. But the weekend's good. I got a guy lifting tomorrow. He's got potential to do some big things. You know, I'm Derek Wade. He's just got to continue to refine the details and stuff that I've told him. And that's the hardest part. And I know we'll talk about this a little bit later. But the hardest part about lifting, you know, I'm trying to lift at the highest level ever. And you had to make this choice in the early 2000s when you were like, it's either business or, I mean, there's more to it, but there's either business or my power lifting. And the minutia and the details are so exhausting. And that's what I've been trying to tell Derek, like, dude, the lifting weights is the easy part. making sure your weights right, making sure the gear fits, making sure your supplements are right,

trying to sleep, trying to manage your life, trying to be remotely balanced.

All that stuff, man, there's just so much that goes into that.

And then you've got to somewhat keep your wife or your girlfriend happy, somewhat.

And then as we talked about, you know, we could revisit that conversation too about the NFL football player that he's during the season, he's focused on that.

But in the off season, it gives her an out and it gives him time to, you know, spend time together, travel, make up for being a dick when you're training for a meet, so on and so forth.

But the details of what wore me out the little things like trying to get training partners

these guys i brought them up here because they've never seen the arnold i want them to take

them to meet you you know so i'm going to look up to they've seen this place you know in pictures

and stuff for decades and they came up to the arnold with me or i'm sorry they came up to

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