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The Dumbbells

27: The Anti-Homer Workout (w/ Matt Selman)

The Dumbbells

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Comedians, Eugene Cordero, Ryan Stanger, Weights, Exercise, Health, The Dumbbells, Gym

5612 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Episode 27. The Dumbbells get the great Matt Selman in The Weight Room. He is an executive producer and writer for The Simpsons. The boys discover that Selman is an unabashed fitness enthusiasts. They look at an article written about him called The Anti Homer Workout. Selman also tells the Dumbbells how he has managed to stay fit despite the insane food culture where he works. Last the group talks about how major injuries can force positive changes in training style as well as answer a Paleo question from a listener. Subscribe, Rate & Review The Dumbbells on iTunes Twitter: @thedumbbells Instagram: @thedumbbells Facebook: The Dumbbells *Tag us with all you fitness pictures and don’t forget #picsoritdidnthappen * Have a fitness/nutrition question? Shoot the Dumbbells an email: AsktheDumbbells(at)GMAIL(dot)com This episode is brought to you by Squarespace! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:07.4

This is the Dumbels, the personal fitness podcast where we, I'm Eugene Cordero.

0:12.5

And me, I'm Ryan Stinger, have discussions and answer questions on all things, health and fitness.

0:16.6

Yeah, this is solely based on our own working experience and a little bit of bro science.

0:21.4

Woof.

0:21.9

So please keep in your mind that we're not and never claim to be doctors.

0:25.2

No!

0:25.9

Woof!

0:26.5

We are just a couple of dumbbells who love ourselves some woof fitness and want to help you with yours.

0:32.9

Wolfie, woofie, and the help can start right now.

0:35.7

Yeah, because we're sitting here in the weight room with our guest. Ladies and gentlemen, let's introduce this mother. What? That's so, man. Hey guys, thanks for having me. What's up, Dick? Thanks for being here. Veteran writer and executive producer for The Simpsons. Crushing. You know him because he looms large in the doughboys podcast

0:55.2

universe. Looms large. Nice. And an undercover health and fitness enthusiast. Oh yeah. He's got,

1:00.3

he's got his. He's got his theories. We're so excited. You got to keep it secret sometimes.

1:06.3

Yeah. You know, so people don't get turned off by it. No joke. Matt someone came in.

1:10.7

I've made a lot of other writers hate me. Have you made other writers hate fitness because of you? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's great. It's weird. Would you say it's probably gotten better though, right? People are a little more open to being healthy and that kind of thing. It's not as much of a dirty word as it used to be. Yeah. Well, like, no, not at all. You know, work at the writers. In the writers room, you guys know how it is. There's a lot of snacks, a lot of bad health, a lot of sedentary lifestyle. Yeah. And like a writer's PA just goes and picks up whatever you guys write on like a chalkboard or something. Right. That's what Mitch used to do for us. Got it. I would make him stir the natural peanut butter. Nice. Get those oils in. I think is a character building experience for young people and like What? You mean stirring peanut butter or...

2:02.0

Stirring peanut butter?

2:02.8

Just like, you know, you have to be really patient. Dude. It's really hard. You have to just take your time. It's like a zen exercise. Are you the Mr. Miyagi of The Simpsons? Yeah, only in peanut butter only. Wow. I got to say when I heard that, in case you guys don't know,

1:59.8

famously Selman had Mike Mitchell, Spoon Man, only. Wow. I got to say when I heard that, in case you guys don't know,

2:17.7

this famously, Selman had Mike Mitchell, Spoon Man of the Do Boys podcast when he was a

2:23.3

writer's assistant. Was he a writer's assistant? He was a writer's PA. Riders PA at the Simpsons,

2:29.1

stir the natural peanut butter, which you know the natural, the oil separates from the solid. Yeah. And you have to

2:35.6

incorporate it all. Yeah. It's like kind of like dribbles down the side and shit. It's kind of a

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