Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Wadcast podcast. I am your host, Eddie Ift. Each and

every week I do a show where I usually bring guests on and we talk about fitness, health,

strength, conditioning, nutrition and a lot of times crossfit. But I like to branch out

a lot and get experts in their fields and lead athletes.

Today's episode is going to be a lot different than every episode we've ever done.

Today, I'm re-airing an old episode that I'd like a lot of you to hear.

But along with it, I'm doing a new intro right now for the episode. This is a bit of an episode

to honor a person, a person that was a guest of our podcast twice, a person who was close to me

and a person who we've recently lost. And I felt that this was, it was a tough week

to record an episode and I thought this might be a nice way to honor that person.

Unfortunately, earlier this week, I lost my father-in-law.

Dennis Franks or as we call him Diesel. The reason he was a guest of the show is not just because

he was my father-in-law, but because he was an exceptional athlete dedicated his life to health

and died, unfortunately, of bad health. So much done-pack, but I just want to talk about him

as a human because he was an incredible person that I looked up to and

cannot, this can't do it justice. There's no possible way. Me talking on a podcast can do him

justice. I'm very fortunate that I did interview him a few times and that he was very open.

Scott Norman and I interviewed him one time and then another time I interviewed him with Vince

Papali. And Vince Papali was the guy if you've ever seen the movie Invincible. The movie was

about him. My father-in-law was his best friend and in the movie is his roommate and he

Vince was a great athlete and they made a movie about his incredible accomplishment, but

it kind of overshadowed my father-in-law's accomplishments. So the only point, I think it's like

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