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Bad Boy Running

Ep 445 | Mitchell Hooper – Becoming the World's Strongest Man | The BBR Interview

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Mitchell Hooper WILL be the next World's Strongest Man – and Bad Boy Running is calling it NOW. Of course, the World's Strongest Man competition is a Christmas classic in the UK - even though the rest of the world knows who the winner is six months before. In this episode of the Bad Boy Running Interview, Jody and David talk with Mitchell, the strong man phenomenon from this year's contest, and discover what is needed to take on the challenge of being the strongest human on...

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0:00.0

They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running.

0:06.6

Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller.

0:13.0

Come back.

0:16.0

Baby, come back.

0:17.6

But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.

0:20.4

I must admit I was a clown to be messing around.

0:24.6

But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town.

0:28.6

We've got a...

0:30.6

Sometimes we have episodes which aren't necessarily a standard episode for us when we just think this is someone we have

0:39.1

to get on. My wife and I are obsessed with World Strongest Man. We have been since we were

0:43.9

children. It's an absolute staple for us over Christmas and New Year. And our next guest

0:49.1

came onto the scene, someone we hadn't heard of before absolutely smashed everyone as heat having not done

0:55.5

strong man at all um two years ago and at one point in the whole of the whole of the strong man

1:01.9

footage someone mentioned he'd once done a marathon I'm like right that's my excuse this is my

1:07.9

excuse to get picture of the podcast I'm doing it I'm doing it so um get Mitchell on the podcast. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. So,

1:11.6

so welcome to the podcast, who I, who I genuinely think will be a future world's strongest man.

1:18.4

Mitchell Hooper. Hey!

1:24.9

How are you doing? Thank you. Yeah, really well. Thanks. Thanks for having me.

1:29.4

How has, because we see, I don't know if it's similar in Australia, we only see

1:33.5

World Strongest Man on, on between Christmas and New Year's Day. And so for us, you are,

1:41.4

we've only just found out who the world champion is whereas obviously for you that

1:45.2

was six months ago but how has how much of a roller coaster was that experience yeah it was wild

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