Can I Bench More Than a Socialist? | Episode 60
The Brett Cooper Show
Brett Cooper
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So at the end of last week, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani went viral for not being able to bench 135. |
| 0:07.2 | And the internet has had a field day with this. |
| 0:09.3 | It just keeps snowballing. |
| 0:10.5 | But guys, there is a reason why people care and why you should care. |
| 0:14.0 | And it's not just because it's funny. |
| 0:20.3 | All right, so without further ado, let's watch the video. |
| 0:22.8 | Roll the clip. |
| 0:23.8 | This is how you move up in the polls. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah. Who? Let's go, let me get one more. Let me get three. Let me get three. Let me get three. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. Guys, there is so much happening in this clip. So first of all, I love the fact that the guy who's filming, I don't know if it's the guy who's filming, but he's the one yelling in the background is like, this is how you move up in the polls. Yeah. Oh, my God. If he only knew that what he encouraged Memdani to do would just wreck him on the |
| 1:12.7 | internet, he would have shut his face because it has only caused him to just spiral out |
| 1:17.7 | of control. |
| 1:18.1 | This campaign is now spiraling. |
| 1:19.9 | Also, the fact that at the end of the clip, he's like, three, yeah, get three, get three. |
| 1:24.9 | This man cannot even do three reps. |
| 1:29.4 | So he is trying to bench 135. |
| 1:31.3 | He has a spotter, which is good. |
| 1:32.7 | This is like a public event. |
| 1:33.8 | A spotter should be there like for insurance and liability things. |
| 1:36.8 | Like that makes sense. |
| 1:38.0 | But this guy if you watch the video, like people have screenshoted it and zoomed in, |
| 1:42.3 | this spotter isn't just going like, oh yeah, I'm lifting the thing. |
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