EP. 343 - Derick Carver
Mark Bell's Power Project
Power Project Studios
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Derick Carver is a United States Army Ranger, Purple Heart recipient, as well as a national and world champion adaptive STrongman competitor. Derick Carver was a platoon leader in Kandahar, Afganistan when his unit was attacked by an IED that injured eight of his men, cost him his left leg, and the lives of two his men. Since recovering from the attack, Derick has been a champion competitor in CrossFit, powerlifting, and STrongman. Derick is also the founder of Team Some Assembly Required (Team SAR), which is a veteran founded and operated non-profit organization dedicated to the growth and expansion of competitive adaptive sports.
Derick’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/derick_carver?igshid=1fcgy6plteeuy
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| 0:00.0 | Poopcast what up today we have a really cool guest we have our homie Derek Carver |
| 0:04.4 | Derek Carver is a successful strong man amputee strong man he lost his leg when he was in the military |
| 0:10.0 | which we definitely got into we got into a bunch of stuff about like you know |
| 0:15.2 | PTSD, his experience in the Army and you know some of the dark times unfortunately |
| 0:20.4 | kind of went to a dark place where he didn't want to explain everything but you get the gist of it. |
| 0:25.5 | One thing he did say that stood out to us one of the many things that he said and he made us laugh |
| 0:31.0 | literally the entire time the dude's hilarious but he said when |
| 0:34.3 | something doesn't go right or something doesn't go your way it's because you're |
| 0:37.5 | being one of three things you're either being fat lazy or stupid and you know we we don't like to associate fat and lazy with people but |
| 0:46.5 | when he when he broke it down and he really explained why he said that it made a |
| 0:50.7 | ton of sense. This and so much more he talked about how to get out of a |
| 0:55.9 | slump. He stopped us dead on our tracks. He actually he said something that we like |
| 1:01.6 | the mics were silent for what seemed like four hours because |
| 1:04.8 | you know I hate dead air but basically he said you know Mark asked him like hey like |
| 1:09.4 | well what's next for you and he's like I want to become president of the United States and you |
| 1:14.9 | know because he's so sarcastic I think we were just like waiting for the |
| 1:19.5 | the punchline but he was he was dead serious and you know we all respect it because we're like |
| 1:26.4 | we're not going to question whether or not he's going to actually you know obtain his |
| 1:29.4 | goal. The last thing that he left us with that was one of the the quotes of the weekend that you guys will see I eventually butcher towards the end of the weekend |
| 1:38.9 | But Mark asked him plain and simply okay, you know, what can we as a society do to show appreciation |
| 1:46.9 | to our military men and women? |
| 1:49.2 | And he said, live a life worth dying for. |
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