Is this the strongest episode of Iron Culture?

That is up for debate.

But let me just share, Eric, a quick little story for the listeners out there, for the viewers.

Yes, if you're watching, there is a golden light in my room because we're blessed with his holiness.

IPF royalty in the house.

I first became aware of Sir Brett Gibbs. I don't know if you're knighted yet,

but I'm sure it's an inevitability at this point. But honestly, full transparency, my homie,

Johnny Candido, where I remember in the lifting community, and I've said this before,

in 2011, there was a video that went semi-viral. A couple million views. An individual,

Jay Rhodes was his name,

deadlifted 500 pounds at a body weight of about 170.

And at that time, it was kind of unheard of to the larger lifting community.

And then there's different people.

I did the Green Ranger thing, 545.

Not a big number.

In comes Johnny Candido, and I think to myself, wow, that is the next

level where there's this individual where he's squatting 500 pounds pretty effortlessly,

you know, deadlifting. And then everyone once again, it's like this guy who, in quotations,

doesn't look like he lifts, he's lifting a lot of weight. And then we heard a murmuring.

He was the one. He was the voice in the wilderness. And he said, oh, no, there's way stronger people than myself.

And it probably was at some point in 2013 at the latest early 2014 that there was a Kiwi.

There was someone, you know, all the way over several thousand miles away.

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