All right. Well, we're here today with the world's strongest man.

Amazing job getting that title that is a really

exclusive thing to get, a tough thing to get, the competition level has been driven through the

roof over the years. There's just more and more people come into that sport and over the

last several years it's been kind of going back and forth between

several people you got obviously Sadruna Sevikus who's considered the greatest of all

time you have Brian Shaw has won at four times You got Eddie Hall who won a championship as well and then

you were able to get one in there. Let's back everything up and let's start from the beginning. What's your what was your childhood like? Did you were you always

attracted to strength or did you play other sports? First of all, thanks for having me, Mark. I appreciate that. Thank you.

In the beginning of my childhood, I didn't play a large sport until I was maybe how old was I was 13 years old when I started to play basketball and played that till I was 17.

It was pretty good, I would say,

you know,

pretty, I always wanted to be good you know and I tried very hard but I broke my

I broke my wrist ankle twice and I had to pull out decided to take a break for a year because I was always injuring myself.

This can be very frustrated when you're trying to become a good athlete in your sport.

I was always hurting it, you know, but I broke it twice.

So in my second surgery, I decided to take a break,

start to lift weights more, which I always had interest in, you know,

but with all the running I couldn't really gain a lot of size.

Right.

So with the break I took this year was just supposed to be a year you know

and ended up to be pretty long year. I saw very dramatic, you know, games in the first year. I got stronger,

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