Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Iron Culture. It is me, Eric Trexler, and I, of course,

am your normal standard host. And tonight I am joined by a very special guest. I was not sure

if Helms was ever going to come back to the show.

Obviously, he's been gone for a while, stopped attending, and as I covered as a journalist

on a previous episode, he was saying a lot of things that made me question his dedication

to really the iron in general and the culture that surrounds it. So

very pleased to see that you've had a change of heart and you've come back and you are

always welcome. I just didn't know if you were still into this stuff. So lovely to see you

and welcome to the show. Yeah. So I am not going to acknowledge that Trex.

I guess I just did by saying Trex.

I can't help myself being nice.

But I will just speak directly to the cult.

The cult who has known me since the start,

and I will say that don't worry,

Papa is home and everything is going to be fine.

And let's just make sure that things are clear because that claim that I don't think is worth repeating.

And in fact, the specific claims on the last episode where you had the good Dr. Colenzo Semple on with you that I had denigrated

individual iron disciplines, including Olympic weightlifting, bodybuilding, and powerlifting,

with specific quotes that will not be repeated, but broadly that I had issued the iron game,

frankly, are offensive and preposterous.

And also they directly conflicted with the claims made on the prior episode,

where it was stated that I boycotted the episode with the good Dr. Mark Lewis,

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