Ep. 213 - Addressing The IFBB Pro Bodybuilding Controversy (ft Desmond Butler)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Cult, we’ve been working on this one for weeks. We’ve got Desmond Butler on this episode, the lead journalist who wrote the recent Washington Post series on the corruption, exploitation, and health and safety controversies in the NPC/IFBB pro league. We previously discussed this article series both in a duo episode as well as with Dr. Guillermo Escalante, and now, we’re privileged to sit down and hear it from the source (or rather the man with the sources). In this episode, you’ll learn how Desmond’s father directed the cult classic (pun intended) Pumping Iron, and then how years later he’d go on to revisit bodybuilding from a very different perspective. You’ll also learn just how much research went into the Post articles, and how many people they spoke to. This was a monster episode for sure folks and an eye-opening exposé.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:03.1	Omar.
0:04.4	There are monster episodes, and then there are episodes like this.
0:09.3	We need a new adjective to describe this episode.
0:13.3	What's it going to be?
0:14.8	I think we can keep on theme, maybe a monstrous episode.
0:19.3	It's kind of like fame and infamy, you know, which is, you know,
0:24.6	explained to El Guapo's sidekick and the classic documentary, The Three Amigos,
0:29.9	being infamous, you know, so this is one of those topics that should be heard about. Everyone should listen in. I hope it gets a lot of traction,
0:40.1	but at the same time, you don't want to hear about it. So it's a monster versus monstrous. That's my take.
0:44.9	What do you think, Omar? Yeah. For this episode, because I think this is going to be a seminal
0:50.0	episode for Iron Culture, it is certainly, we haven't even begun, but I think due to the importance,
0:55.0	going to be one of my favorites. I will be slightly less silly. I'm going to turn down
0:59.1	that we have different meters here. I'm going to turn down the silliness factor on myself,
1:02.5	about 10, 20 percent, and turn up the seriousness. Because we have Desmond Butler on the
1:09.3	podcast, the writer from the Washington Post.
1:12.0	We've been covering probably for two to three episodes.
1:14.8	Go back, Kai, who does the timestamps, we'll have it linked both on iTunes.
1:18.9	I don't know if you can have it on Spotify, but certainly also on YouTube.
1:23.3	Well, we covered, it's a far-reaching article series that we'll get into but this has been now a long
1:29.1	time coming probably the last five to six weeks i have to give the biggest shout out to actually
1:34.2	karen attia uh for hooking us up with this connection because we wanted desmond we wanted desmond
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