What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Iron Culture presented by Mass. It is me. Eric Trexler joined as always by the Dr. Eric Helms-Helms. How are we doing this morning, tomorrow morning in New Zealand?

Hey, first, thank you for recognizing the time zone difference and accepting that even if it is not

the most dominant preferred and financially respected time zone in the world, that New Zealand

does have a time zone.

And it's an especially important thing because this morning, my wife, unofficial doctor, Lyon, successfully defended her PhD

in geology in my enemy university, the Auckland University, or University of Auckland, I should say.

I bet when you guys have football games, it is just, I mean, the budding of heads in that football rivalry.

You've talked up collegiate sport in New Zealand enough that I know how intense it gets.

I only recently found out that actually there is such a thing as AET sport and there is a very little known university league where the, it's basically the equivalent

of like the chess club, you know, kind of size, you know, that there are some of them.

And they reached out to us a couple years ago for our institute, the research institute,

like, hey, do you guys have me postgraduate students who might be doing strength conditioning related stuff and can help the aet sport teams and I was like we have

a UT sport teams but yeah it is that an entirely different world people don't understand

um in either place like people from the u.s are like what do you mean there isn't university

teams that aren't massive and and like, who do you support?

And I get questions Americans all the time.

Like, oh, so, so like, what teams is AUT good with?

And I'm like, that's not a thing, bro.

And then outside of the U.S., everyone's like, what do you mean 90% of the university is funded by the athletics department and that it basically costs the GDP of a small nation to, you know, to do this. And then you have. Because, yeah, like if, when you're, when your football, yeah, when your football team alone is a $100 million enterprise annually, yeah, that's a different kind of thing.

Yeah. So, like, it's not like university towns are not a thing in other countries or, or places, but the economies of scale are a little different, typically. And it's, and then they're even more confused in the sport and exercise world.

So like, oh, that's really cool.

Then you must get the opportunity to work with these D1 athletes.

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