Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a powerlifting talk show that will probably talk about powerlifting today.

Maybe.

Yeah.

There's things moving. We're gonna like graze the edge of it.

I don't know, I got a couple things.

Okay. Oh, good, good, Okay oh good good because I came in with

nothing and I found this one thing so. Well leave with yours maybe and then I'll lead

with mine but some of the things are you know people always talk about it. I wonder about weightlifting or even other sports like what the internal talk is about growing the sport and then like why do you want to grow it? Like what's the end goal?

Yeah, is it money, is it to make pro athletes, is it the Olympics?

And I wonder if that's a reason maybe why weightlifting

doesn't necessarily seem to try to grow because it's kind of already on the biggest

stage and although it's not you know the richest sport which we talk about another episode like

gold medals and what they get paid or stipends per country.

Other countries probably make a full-time living and celebrity hood doing some other more obscure sports in America.

But powerlifting, it seems like a lot of people wanted to grow.

We've had multiple guests on and had this as a topic.

They either want the Olympics, or yeah, maybe they want the athletes to be able to make a full-time living which I think is kind of silly in some sense because then it gets into a deeper like W. N. B. A. A. Talk or whatever where like if the demand of sponsorship and

viewership is just never going to be there. Yeah, T, uh,

NBA, NFL, MLB,

Yeah, even soccer.

All those started off with people having regular jobs.

Yeah, that's your two.

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