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This is the Dumbbells, a comedy fitness podcast, and I am Ryan Stanger, a certified personal trainer, and flying solo tonight. We are here to provide you

inspiration, motivation, and sometimes information. Hey, dumbbells, let's get dumb. That's right,

guys, flying solo tonight. So I really turned on the host voice, Mike. Yeah, you did. Yeah.

We were talking completely normal a second ago,

and then I just, like, put on this full affect.

Buddy, you would be a great Jeff Probst, like.

I would love it, dude.

Well, hold on.

Let me just introduce our guest.

Okay.

So tonight we have coming back to the wait room,

and for the first time a wonderful actor,

comedian, improviser, and teacher in many ways, the great Mike McClendon.

Mike, welcome to the way room.

Hey, thank you for having me, man.

Thank you.

Hey, ooh.

So, yes, it's funny because early in, you know, if you're pursuing any kind of career in acting or comedy or, you know, whatever it is, I don't know if you, I would ever say I looked down at it, but it wasn't like, you know, it wasn't like number one on my list. It's not first choice. Yeah. But now it's like game show host, you know, reality show host. You're like, fuck yeah, that would be so fun. And you could make it really cool. They're doing 50 seasons, like it's almost 50 seasons of Survivor now. That dude has just like lived on the beach and has slowly risen to being the most important personality. Yes. Oh, yeah. And then people are happy to see him and have them around and the guy's got, you know, endless safari shirts and chokers or whatever his... And he looks all in shape and shit. He really just like works out and does that show it's a lot of

calves days dude like like they they get in on those calves those props caps are big yeah dude they got to be

they got to be so um so you guys uh it's very cool to have mike here mike and i have been hanging out

recently and we've known each other for gosh a hundred years well let's see

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