Baby Don't Hurt Me - Mike O'Hearn On His Viral Meme, How He Handles Haters, Acting In "Magazine Dreams" With Jonathan Majors

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Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Mike O'Hearn (@mikeohearn) is an actor and a legendary bodybuilder. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about how the "Baby don't hurt me" meme started, why he decided to lean into it, what he has learned from working out with Arnold Schwarzenegger, how close he was to signing with WWE in the 90s, his reaction to Joe Rogan talking about him on his podcast, his biggest pet peeve in the gym, working with Jonathan Majors on the film "Magazine Dreams", being Titan on American Gladiators, why he believes that you should never skip a meal and much more! Check out Mike O'Hearn's website: http://mikeohearn.com Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV at http://thecoldplunge.com Quote I'm thinking about: The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bleley.
0:07.7	How are you, my friends?
0:09.9	Welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:12.5	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet, and baby, don't hurt him.
0:17.1	Oh, yeah, we've got the legend himself, Mike O'Hern, in the house. And if you're subscribed on
0:24.1	YouTube, actually, I'm going to talk as if you already are subscribed, because why wouldn't
0:28.3	you be subscribed to both the main Chris Van Vlead channel and the CVV Clips channel, which is
0:34.1	that channel's growing in an insane rate, like a thousand new subscribers a day.
0:38.9	You, of course, are one of them. But since you are subscribed on YouTube, you've seen the
0:44.3	workout video that I did with Billy Gunn and Mike O'Hern at Gold's Gym Venice Beach. And both of these
0:52.5	guys are monsters. Billy's 58. Mike is 54. They're doing things
0:58.6	that most guys half their age can't even dream of doing. Mike is walking, talking proof that age
1:07.2	is just a number. And he's one of those guys that you recognize from so many different things.
1:11.8	He's been featured on the cover of over 500 fitness magazines. The only person who has more
1:18.4	covers, by the way, is Arnold Schwarzenegger. You may know him as Titan on American Gladiators.
1:24.3	How good was American Gladiators. And yes, he was Titan on both the
1:27.6	original version in the 90s and also that rebooted version they did in 2008, you know, the one hosted
1:34.0	by Hulk Hogan. Or you most recently may know Mike as the Baby Don't Hurt him guy, that meme that
1:42.2	started on TikTok but has blown up everywhere. Baby don't hurt me. So good. You see it all the time now on Instagram or YouTube. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, now that we've put this out into the world, you're going to see it. You're going to go, oh, that's the thing he was talking about. And I love how Mike is
2:03.3	totally okay and actually leans in to like poking fun at himself. We talk a lot about that here.
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