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You may know Chris Deffen from Kabuki Strength or his notorious strength equipment line, including the Deflou Bar.

But what you may not know is his incredible backstory.

His upbringing and adolescent years greatly shaped the person you see today.

From former engineer and business consultant to world record holder and author, Chris has transformed in more ways than one.

Enter his book, The Eagle and the Dragon, a story of strength and reinvention.

Here it is, episode 518.

I'm smoking going down the road. invention. Here it is, episode 518.

Howdy, John?

What's good? It's good to see you. Welcome to the episode of Power Athlete Radio.

We are joined by the professor, Mr. Chris Duffin. Thanks for coming in to Austin, dude.

Man, I've been looking forward. It was maybe a year and a half, two years ago we did an online one. And I've just been wanting to do an in-person one with you since then because it's just so much better. Communication is so much easier when you can read just the energy, I guess. Well, I think it was two years ago you posted something about like hey whose podcast should I go on I think that there was an overwhelming amount of fanboys

were like power athlete oh yes there was I'm like you're like who the fuck is power athlete radio

and then you reached out and I was like yeah let's do it man we have fair, a decent amount of your bars in our gym and have used the transformer bar more than just about anybody else I know.

I mean, we've used it a ton and, you know, not only that, but all your other just normal, you know, 45 pound bars, which fucking have some gnarly nerling to deadlift with.

I got a lot of stuff. we have like one nice old west side bar that's like a little slick so you don't feel like you're just fucking cheese grating your legs but that duffin bar i'm like ah and then uh obviously the uh the duffalo bar yeah so we got that and um yeah man it's been some killer bars. So I was happy to connect and then learn that you were so much more than just making cool bars.

Well, that's the thing.

You know, I was following power athlete, but I hadn't been following you.

And then it turned out we had some very similar hobbies and other stuff, I guess you would say.

So it's been good having conversations with you kind of fairly regularly since then about some of our projects and things that fall outside of the scope of what we're going to sit around here and talk about.

Yeah, no, it's always called to talk about fabrication and off-road trucks and basically just stuffing massive tires under vehicles and putting crazy motors and things and then trying to launch off the cliffs. We do have that fan base as well. Yeah, we do. It calls in and seeks that information. Well, for some reason, we've, uh, it's become, you know, performance, obviously, strength conditioning, movie reviews,

and now it's purveyors of shitty old trucks.

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