Why don’t lifters share a bar anymore? Guest: Jacob Ross
50% Facts
Jim McDonald
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We also cover Jacob’s time working with the South Sudanese Olympic Basketball team in Paris for the Olympics last year. We also share stories of gym ownership (Jacob owns Be Better Barbell with Tom Kallas outside Chicago). You can find him at @jacob.w.ross on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Goodness. I have to say your lighting on that side is really quite flattering. |
| 0:15.4 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:17.1 | I don't know why, but it's very, very natural. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm like overlit over here because I'm, |
| 0:24.4 | I'm lighted for the other cameras and not for the, |
| 0:26.8 | not for the webcam, but I've got a window on this side and a little ring light on this side |
| 0:33.0 | that's turned down pretty, pretty good, but that's about it. |
| 0:35.8 | That's what it is. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, C-B bass is nodding yes |
| 0:38.3 | yeah anyway so uh welcome welcome back thank you |
| 0:47.1 | we got Jacob Ross on the line just just two of us today |
| 0:50.5 | awesome still in parts unknown mm he probably thought it was 10 p.m. Still in parts unknown. |
| 0:57.6 | He probably thought it was 10 p.m. |
| 0:59.0 | No, no. |
| 0:59.6 | He's out of town. |
| 1:02.4 | He's been out of town for, I don't know, weeks now. |
| 1:03.5 | Seabas? |
| 1:04.3 | Probably like two weeks. |
| 1:05.0 | Probably two weeks. Yeah, probably two weeks. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:06.2 | So I've been, I've been just punting on the podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | I've been bringing in a guest and just talking to people I want to talk to. |
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