I wanted the chance to compete at the highest level. I didn't want anything to get in the way, you know, and I hit a couple hurdles and I competed at my best and I mean, dude, if you look at my wall right now, there's a calendar and then there's underneath it there's a

piece of paper that said Ryan Atkins made you look stupid.

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800, we want to talk a little bit about the Spartan games.

You know, that was, it was an unbelievable experience, you know, for guys like ourselves just to watch that group of athletes in all of the different levels of competition, the different genres of athletes.

And just, you know, I think the other thing that impressed the heck out of me.

I mean, I've been climbing mountains for the last 30 years and I remember some of the tough

expedition type of climbs, but you guys went at it for four days and just grueling events

and just kept coming back.

What do you think from the Spartan Games,

what was your biggest challenge

that you had to overcome in those four days.

Can we talk about like actual results at this point?

Yeah, yeah, yeah on this one.

Okay. Everybody's seeing the YouTube videos now and this one airs but brother. Okay. Well, you know, honestly, I not many of us knew about this thing with a great deal of time,

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