Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

It's always a good sign when the guy opposite for you is slumped over his chair,

praying for help. I've been there. You poor guy. You're in so much pain.

It's seizing up and it's getting stiffer and stiffer as we go. I pulled my back yesterday,

trying to do a dead lift at the gym, which if you're not

doing it right is a dangerous lift. And then... What a humiliating place to hurt it as well, because those

gyms are... I'm already intimidated in there. Seriously, it's like, when you go to a gym,

there are two types of people there. There are women there who are relaxed, who are comfortable

in themselves and their self-esteem.

And then there are men? And they're not men, actually, are they? We're boys. You're looking around

at the bigger boys. You know, even when I go into a locker room, I'm not 48. I'm a teenager.

Oh, they're going to see my bottom. Don't whip me with the towel. I've got the big chap over there. He's going to take my lunch money.

There's a lot going to.

It's fraught with tension in the gym.

It is.

So when I pulled my back yesterday, I felt so vulnerable.

Because you were paralyzed for a little bit with pain.

And my knees hanged up to my chest.

One of those big apes could pick you up and have a way with you.

Use you as a beach ball.

There's nowhere to go that I desperately wanted to stand up and walk it off.

So were you really on the floor? I was on the floor and that all I could do is wrap my legs up

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