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Ladies and gentlemen, Starting Strength strength radio welcome back to starting strength

radio we're glad you're here with us this week we have our guest in the studio today

blake wilson from dominion strength the guys who make starting strength belts And we're going to have a long, detailed, boring, horrible discussion with him about belt

manufacture and leather and everything that you want to know.

And as usual, we start with comments from the haters.

This week we have a particularly lovely crop of comments from the haters.

Most of this, I think, is from the Stan Efforting video that ran a while back.

And we got, let's see, Eric Miranda says, I'm not an expert, but after analyzing this video and all the contents, I cannot say anything, because as I said in the beginning, I'm not an expert.

Thanks.

This is the most sensible comment that I have ever read in YouTube comments anywhere, anytime about anything.

So really he's not a hater, is it?

Okay, here's one.

Nick Baker says, both of them have lobster hands.

For some reason, they have the inability to move their four index fingers separately.

You hear that? Four index fingers separately. And are only able to make a pincere-like movement

with their thumbs.

Rip wins on the lobster look-alike scale, though,

since his hands and forearms looked like they came out of a Soviet nuclear power plant,

but his upper body is like a 98-year-old overweight grandma. Oh, God. Here, Nick. Okay. Angel of Cake says, I don't think Mark has lifted for 20 years.

He looks like he has the nice soft hands of an office worker who moisturizes, no, who moistures a lot.

Now, I'm not. no who moistures a lot now I have never that's the first time I've ever heard that I had soft hands angel sweetheart I can caress you and show you that they're not salt

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