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Iron Culture

Ep. 113 - Competitive Natural Bodybuilding: A Journey (ft. Brett Freeman)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Iron Culture gets back to its roots in this episode, meaning, hunks. WNBF Pro Natural bodybuilder and 2x World Pro Champion in the lightweight and bantamweight classes Brett Freeman joins us today to talk about his competitive journey with bodybuilding. Getting into the sport early, he’s now spent half his life in a tumultuous relationship with the sport. Like Icarus, he flew too close initially, burned out, and took three years completely off training and competing. As you’ll hear, while these were dark times for Brett, they allowed him to return to the sport with a renewed, healthier perspective towards competition, ironically resulting in his most successful competitive outcomes.

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0:00.0

Eric, I thought our backstory, our shared backstory, would be something powerful that we can make into film.

0:06.7

And in fact, I've been pitching every single Hollywood studio because let's be honest, compared to what they're putting out right now, our story is better.

0:14.7

We may have met our match today.

0:17.6

And indeed, I overjoyed to be joined by my longtime friend, Brett Freeman, 2017 and 2019

0:27.7

WMBF, World Champ in both the Bantam and the lightweight class.

0:32.2

But more importantly, this is somebody who's had a tumultuous epic cinematic peaks and valleys relationship with the

0:40.9

sport of bodybuilding like none other he is a living embodiment of how things change and how they

0:47.8

can come back in a story of redemption uh icarus i think is is a great example that we used here

0:53.9

but yeah which which studios are you pitching this one too omar because i've been pitching some Icarus, I think, is a great example that we used here.

0:57.2

But yeah, which studios are you pitching this one, too, Omar?

0:58.4

Because I've been pitching some, too.

1:00.0

I don't want to double them up on emails.

1:08.3

So after they gave Zach Snyder his Justice League cut Warner brothers, I decided to pitch them.

1:10.1

And they said, I'm sorry, who are you?

1:12.0

And I said, who is I?

1:18.1

I said, we are iron culture. And that, so it was weird. There was a click. I think there's a delay.

1:23.2

I think it was, you know, international calling. But I've been going, Miramax, I've been going to,

1:29.2

even international films, even to international releases. I think we could be big in many markets.

1:31.4

I think maybe the, you know, the Western audience.

1:32.4

So here's the thing, Eric.

1:35.8

They're used to drivel, okay?

1:40.1

They're used to this populist trash of blockbuster roller coaster rides. And I think something that they could really bite into that has the emotional complexity

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