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Episode 438: Shawn Ray Slams Phil Heath & Defends Mr Olympia

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Legendary bodybuilder and industry media icon Shawn Ray has been one of the most daring and brutally honest figures in bodybuilding. Known as ‘The Giant Killer’ back in his competitive days, in over 30 major bodybuilding competitions, Ray only failed to place in the top five once and later went on to become the face of bodybuilding news reporting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/valuetainment/support

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30 seconds.

0:04.0

Did you ever think you would make it?

0:06.0

I feel I'm so close I could take sweet victory.

0:10.0

I know this life meant for me.

0:12.0

Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got bet David?

0:16.0

Valuetainment, giving values contagious.

0:18.0

This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to hate us.

0:21.0

I'm not.

0:22.0

I'm not. This is Patrick Bedou, your host of Aitime, and today I'm sitting down with Sean Ray.

0:27.8

Sean Ray, the former bodybuilder, legendary bodybuilder, that was willing to open up and talk about a lot of different people,

0:35.6

whether it's other former Mr. Olympia folks or even Chad Nichols, it got very, very controversial,

0:41.6

but it's probably the most insightful sit-down I've ever done

0:45.3

to find out more about the current conditions that a Mr. Olympia brand.

0:48.4

The one and only Sean Ray Sean, Sean thanks for coming out buddy. It's interesting

0:51.4

because the love and the hate that didn't come

0:53.5

till I think I was done bodybuilding. I mean when you move into the media side you have a lot of

1:00.1

people that have opinions. I remember Mohammed Ali had a love hate relationship with Howard

1:04.0

Cosell and they see what Stephen A Smith is doing now as a talking head for all these other sports.

1:08.9

And moving into the interview side and the media side, these guys that you know I admire and

1:14.2

now got a critique and criticize and had some threats from some bodybuilders

1:18.3

because I was too harsh with my criticism but I'm known for telling that like it is

1:21.6

and you know I take the good with the bad so loved and hated I take it what the heck I mean if you if you're going to be at the top and you're going to be competing for a while in the business you're going to piss some people off. It doesn't matter who you are.

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