Ep. 180 - Cultural Shifts in Lifting

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

The lifting community is more siloed than it used to be, and it is larger, so it’s understandable why today we have a broad and varied cultural landscape. It’s also more complex now in the modern age, and you can find parallel communities in the same lifting discipline with very little crossover. Further, in each community, the changing of the guards seems to be happening at an increasingly accelerated rate. The lifters, coaches, voices, and perspectives of today in any given subculture, don’t seem to be the ones of yesterday. More so, the time between “today” and “yesterday” feels like it’s getting shorter. Why is that? What role does social media play? Should we be concerned? Most importantly, what is the things that don’t change? How do we use this information to avoid a “dark age”? Join us today on this episode of Iron Culture as we discuss the wild world of lifting, from an almost anthropological perspective, ultimately coming away with a deeper understanding of what unifies and what also persists beyond any single person.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:02.0	Omar.
0:03.0	Where are you right now?
0:06.0	I am in the great state of California, specifically in the great capital of the great
0:12.0	state of California.
0:14.0	Sacramento.
0:15.0	Some people may say, really?
0:17.0	Sacramento is the capital of California, not Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland,
0:23.9	or literally anywhere else? And I say, yes, God damn it. Sacramento is the capital of Sacramento,
0:29.7	I mean, of California. And yes, we are recording at midnight your time. And no, we're not tired
0:35.1	because we love our job. And yeah, that's what's up.
0:39.3	Grind doesn't stop.
0:41.3	Sacktown Boys reunite. And out of curiosity, Eric, there's a rhetorical question.
0:45.3	I know the answer to this question.
0:47.3	But you could reveal because when this is released, you will no longer be in said place
0:52.3	so you could safely reveal where you are without the fear of your adoring fans standing outside kind of beetle mania-esque your hotel what hotel are you staying at
1:03.4	so hotel that was very like 2013 2014 3d mj we actually rented out most of Rancho Cordova for this trip
1:14.9	so you know like we we just change houses every day and we kind of we kind of
1:22.6	just we run the city so I mean right now I I just happen to be in the Hyatt. But obviously, it's adjacent to a
1:33.5	couple blocks that we've rented out just for the parties that happened when we come to town.
1:37.6	Yeah. Block parties. Yeah. So it's funny that he says, folks, the Hyatt, because if anyone looks up
1:42.9	stock photos of the Hyatt in Sacramento,
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