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Ladies and gentlemen, starting strength radio hit it record it welcome back to

starting strength radio my name is mark ripato and it's Friday and this Friday it's just me and you.

No crowds, no other people in the way of our little intimate time together here on Friday.

Some of you are intimately spending time with me shortly after midnight Friday.

Some of you have waited until we posted it on starting strength.com on Friday at noon.

But whatever the situation is, just me and you today.

So, you know, I've got all kinds of stuff to talk about here.

Unfortunately, it's going to be a very long time before the COVID-19 situation can be excluded from our discussion,

since it's the most significant event in world history.

The first time the entire economy of the world has shut itself down voluntarily.

You know, it's just we just can't fail to talk about that because it colors everything we do.

Even our training, and we're talking about that today. We're going to talk about how you get back to training

in this cesspool of insanity that we're in having being forced to inhabit right now but first

and you know what I'm going to do.

Comments from the heaters.

And boy, they're good this week, as you might imagine.

They're really good.

All of them are some version of Rip stupid.

Rip doesn't know about COVID-19, so we should just talk about training. Now, imagine if you were to apply that same rule to your friend the plumber your buddy who's a plumber

wasn't allowed to talk about anything except plumbing now how long do you think you'd be

friends with him shut up man you're just aumber. You don't know anything about the NFL.

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