4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Dr. Conor Heffernan, the Strength historian, and Ben Esgro, the dual-masters degreed sports nutrition/pharmaceutical chemistry formulation artiste are both back on Iron Culture for this monster episode on the history of the supplement industry. Learn what it was like in the days of Sandow’s cocoa and how at one point in America’s history, every lifter had a little Bob Hoffman in them…literally. Contrast and compare that history with the contemporary experiences Ben has had in the supplement industry for over a decade, and you’ll see what has and hasn’t changed in this insider’s view into the world of powder and pills.
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0:00.0 | Eric, I'm going to speak for both of us when I say that Connor is one of our favorite guest, |
0:06.0 | but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention a little controversy that happened, and I have a piece |
0:10.7 | offering that actually my boy, Benjamin Franklin, Eskro is going to offer with me, but to the |
0:16.5 | Iron Cult listeners, the shameful ones who don't listen to every single episode with bated breath and anticipation, can you give just the briefest summary, maybe a minute long, of the Iron Culture Irish Potato Famine Controversy, as best as you can. |
0:33.8 | You want me or you want Connor to do it? |
0:35.5 | Because I think Connor is probably too emotionally scarred to bring it up. Yeah, no, no, and we speak for Connor. So Eric, go ahead. Okay. So there were |
0:44.2 | rumors that you and I completely made up on our own that Connor was a potato famine denier. |
0:56.5 | And you know how rumors get started. |
0:59.4 | A couple people say them once and they kind of spread like wildfire. |
1:03.8 | So just think back to high school, you know, and especially now with social media. |
1:05.3 | These things can really get out of control. |
1:06.6 | Same thing happened here. |
1:07.8 | We brought them on. |
1:09.3 | We are on the spot made of a rumor. |
1:10.7 | We kept repeating it. and by no one's fault |
1:12.1 | it just become kind of this thing that's now associated with him and he keeps telling us |
1:16.4 | don't bring it up it actually does create some some stress for me but rumors see they just kind of like |
1:22.9 | but again by no one's fault no one's fault they get brought up yeah people repeat them, and they just become part of the cultural zeitgeist. |
1:30.2 | And we're doing our best to fight against that here at Iron Culture, just by letting people |
1:35.0 | know that the rumors are probably false. |
1:37.4 | Yeah. |
1:38.0 | Well, who's to say, Erica says, as we always say, we know the nature of science. |
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