#242 George DeFranco On Parenting, Participation Trophies & The Never-Before-Told Turning Point of Joe's Career!

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Muscle, Health, Sports, Health & Fitness, Lifting, Bodybuilding, Strength

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🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

George DeFranco returns to the Industrial Strength Show to answer YOUR questions! Topics discussed during this week's Q&A include: George's biggest pet peeves (as a gym owner); Worst excuses used by people looking to get out of tickets; How Joe pisses off his dad; George's advice to his 45-year-old self; Memorable fatherhood moments and stories about "little Joe D."; Discipline in the DeFranco household; George's thoughts on "participation trophies"; The key(s) to a successful marriage; The true "meaning of life" (w/ Lucy DeFranco)...and much, Much MORE!

*For a list of all questions answered on today's show - along with specific timestamps - goto: www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode number 242 of the Industrial Strength Show.
0:04.8	Let me be the first to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.
0:10.4	I hope you all have a great day, great weekend with family, friends.
0:17.0	Hopefully you're not spending too much time stuck in traffic or in an airport, but if you are, maybe this episode will help you get through the experience,
0:30.4	make it make it a little more bearable for for some of you guys so got a special show today as you probably already seen from the title of this episode
1:00.0	We did it. I hounded him. I harassed him. I did everything I can and finally convinced my dad to come back on the show. In fact he is on his way over to my house right now with my mom. It has been a year since either of them have been on the show. It was last Thanksgiving.
1:07.4	So I guess we're kind of starting a little Thanksgiving Day tradition.
1:12.3	I think we will do a family episode of the Industrial Strength
1:18.6	Show each Thanksgiving. I think that would be kind of cool. And from the response from last year, last year's
1:26.4	Thanksgiving Day show with my parents and Ashley was, if it wasn't the most downloaded show it's definitely in the top three
1:36.4	which it just always it's I'm I'm humbled by that the fact that you guys enjoy listening to me and my family you know with
1:49.6	This is first and foremost a training podcast so I'm always I always second-guess myself whenever
1:57.1	I sprinkle in a show that that doesn't have much to do
2:05.0	really well, it's more of an off topic type show, but whenever I sprinkle them in, they always do really well.
2:08.0	The feedback is incredible.
2:10.0	You guys love my dad, love parents love Ashley so I appreciate that you guys are like our extended family and it is true without you without you
2:21.6	Without the listeners without my supporters, I couldn't do what I love doing for a living.
2:29.2	And you know, for that I thank you my family thanks you like it's stuff to pinch myself sometimes thinking I can support a wife kids you know support a full family doing what I do for a living you know not not
2:46.7	that it's not a lot of hard work but it doesn't always feel like work because I
2:50.8	truly do love it so So thank you guys.
2:53.8	That is something I am very thankful for on Thanksgiving.
2:58.2	So hope you enjoy this show.
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