Episode 441: Chad Nicholls Fires Back - UNCENSORED
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Summary
On this episode of Value Timed Timed, host Patrick Bedevi sits down with one of the most controversial figures in the entire bodybuilding world, Chad Nichols. Chad Nichols has been around the business for a long time, and is well-loved by many in the industry. However, he is also hated by many, especially by Sean Ray.
Transcript
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I feel I'm so close I could take sweet victory.
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Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David?
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This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to haters.
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and today I'm sitting down with probably one of the most
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controversial figures in the bodybuilding world,
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and that's Chad Nichols who is both loved by folks like
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So I gotta tell you, I remember when I interviewed
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Sammy DeBull-Gravano, and when I interviewed Sammy,
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A month later, Teddy Atlas sat right here and he said,
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A month later, Brandon Curry showed up and responded to Dorian.
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Chad showed up in the front doorstep here within 24 hours.
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So with that being said, Chad, thanks for coming out.
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but it is, you know, when you wake up in the morning
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and you have 25 DMs with a clip of Sean's at it again,
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Was it anything different than what he had said in the past before?
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Like, I'm not even sure why he went down the road,
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because it didn't pertain to, like, him bashing me.
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But, like, it was, again, completely fabricated.
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but let's start off with our buddy here, John Ray.
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Did you and Chad Nichols ever do anything together?
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And I think that's where we started to butt heads.
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Ronnie Coleman, we'll defend him to the ninth degree,
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wow, we thought he was from a very wealthy family,
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We didn't talk about athletes I was working with.
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The only person I had trained up until that point
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In no way, shape, or form did that ever happen.
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Now, a lot of people will say that's his best ever.
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he a Flex Wheeler bodybuilder no he wasn't a Flex
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probably still to this day it's probably one of
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same thing with training some people like look I
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had to make sure that like look that's what
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know changed the the process but I think that I
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that I'd worked with so me and Nasr were very very
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close my relationship was not with Nasr was very
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even go down that road like it's so idiotic like I
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mean like he could have lived 20 more years and
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it was a cortisol blocker that he was talking about and and then he mentioned
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another cortisol blocker it was it was a it was the weirdest conversation I'll
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never forget it and I'm like I said you realize those are the same thing and he's
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like no they're different and I'm like no I said this is the American version
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this is a European version and he was double dip yeah and so he was double
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dipping on those now those are notorious for eating up like your stuff
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they're really hard on the stomach like even at a moderate to low dose and and he
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was doing a humongous dose of it now I'm not saying that's what had anything to do
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with it but the conversation that I had was very liked so weird because I
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remember going up to Kim and being like man these guys don't even know what they're
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doing like they were talking about this and like the same thing like what the
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hell is going on and then literally we get home from the Arnold that year and
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there and then he had died on the plane or at least coming you know over there
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and he was like an anatomy chart like after your call well no I just
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literally talked to him and it was a very brief like like it was at the show we
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were talking about stuff and I mean he was actually commenting on Kim's
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physique like he was like yeah he was like being like I'd never seen a you know a
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female's quads that lean that are done we're like you gotta be kidding me like
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look at your quads okay let's uh let's just go to uh let's go to Dallas Dallas
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kind of so obviously that's the controversial one that you care about
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what happened for sure so for sure there's a there's a the dialogue
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between Dallas and Shawn when they go backstage you know that whole thing I've
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been thrown right right and what's your relationship with Dallas because
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that's the biggest one he puts on the biggest one right so here's the thing
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with Dallas so I worked with Dallas for three months that was it I only worked with
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him for one show I met with him in November at nationals and I prepped him
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for the Arnold but I became very close with Dallas during that time and you know
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Dallas was one of these guys that was just a likable like there's no way you
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couldn't like Dallas like he was probably one of the most genuine nicest people I
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had ever met in my life he was super honest about everything like there was so
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many things that would like so I never literally second-guessed him about
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anything because the things he told me like I would have like never dreamed that
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he would have told me honestly like you know he told me you know things just from
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way back way back and there was you know the thing that I probably one of the
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toughest things for me is like when I when I think back through all the stuff
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like there was signs right from the get-go like when we first literally the very
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first week of the diet so we started we literally kind of started like the
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beginning of December and so we had talked in nationals which is the middle
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of November and then we started in December so I only literally worked with
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him for three months he worked with another guy for two years before that and
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another guy before that and then the guy two years before me ended up working
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with when he died but the very first week like he calls me is like listen I'm
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throwing up and I'm like like well that's not I said are you you feel okay and he's
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like yeah he goes you know I do that a lot he goes I've done it all my life I
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got like a weird stomach but he's like I didn't know whether I should like
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replace the meal or not and so I'm thinking like wait a minute like what
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do you mean you did that your whole life and he's like well I've thrown up my
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whole life like I had a weird stomach like I literally throw up like I threw up
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before every football game I've thrown up like before every contest like every
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contest diet I've ever had I threw up so I'm like I said listen like don't you
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let's just see how this plays out because you may be sick like you may have
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the stomach flu or something so the week goes on and he seems fine and then
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Thursday throws up again so I'm like okay listen this ain't normal like you
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don't just throw up you're like literally 25 years old or something I'm
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like go to the like urgent care like I want you to go to urgent care like you're
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throwing up now this is a week two weeks into your relationship 90 days this is a
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week into the relationship right and so he comes back and he's like yeah they
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think that I may have bronchitis and the drainage is like coming you know drown
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this man it's making me throw up and I'm like well how do you feel and he goes I
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feel great but he goes listen I get bronchitis all the time he goes I've had
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pneumonia ten times in my life and I'm like what I go you've had pneumonia ten
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times in your life he's like yeah he goes I oh I literally like always get it and
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he kind of blamed it like like and he was very open about this I have no problem
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talking but he's like yeah I smoke weeds from the time I was 12 years old he goes I
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probably smoke more weed than anybody he goes I kind of cough and I have
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drainage and that's kind of what it kind of leads to and I'm like okay I
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mean it sounded pneumonia from weed no but if he was saying he gets pneumonia
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and I was trying to say the coughing so the coughing the drainage I mean it's
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like you know he's like a restricted breathing and then he ends up with like
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bronchitis and then pneumonia and so I'm kind of thinking like yeah you know I
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get the coughing like the pneumonia thing sounds a little weird like I don't
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know let's see how you feel I said you want to rest for a couple days let's see how you
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feel weekend goes by feels fine a couple weeks go by is back throwing up again
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and I'm like dude this is not normal like you shouldn't be throwing up and he's
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like Chad I'm telling you I throw up all the time like I literally that I've done
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it my entire life and that's the one thing thinking back like I'm like you know
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like where where was that head like how in the hell like where was that head you
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know and so we go through the process like through the whole process I can tell
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like something's off like his body is not really responding like I thought it
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would it didn't you know and then and like I don't know if people even believe
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this but like based off of what he had been doing we literally did half of that
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what he had been doing so a lot of this stuff so I'm saying you're doing half of
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what he was doing half of what he was doing so my thinking was like holy shit
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like maybe like his body's not responding well like maybe it's not
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because we pulled back so far right but then all of a sudden his body kind of
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started to come around and everything started look halfway decent so we just
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you know and then he actually kind of started feeling better everything kind of
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seems like right on target we go and we're literally planning on going into
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Pittsburgh to meet with Mannion let him look at him take a look at him posing
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just critique posing all these little things we're sitting there and he starts
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throwing up again like with the stuff and so I'm like okay like dude like how like
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this is not normal you shouldn't be vomiting all the time and he's like Chad
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listen like this is just my life like this is what I do like I vomit I have a
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weak stomach like I this goes all the way back to football like it goes all the
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way back to football and so I'm like okay so we go through the process through
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this whole process I can tell like something's clearly off his body didn't
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respond well like nothing's really responding well so and so we start
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talking and we start talking about like just personal things like you know and so
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he had moved away from his hometown he went to Boca to be part of the
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company that he was with and everything and so we literally and this is after
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the Arnold so he ends up second you know he goes to New Zealand which I
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literally didn't even want him to go to because I thought he was sick in at the
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Arnold like he was like hocking up shit like I literally said listen don't go but
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he had already like signed contracts like he was already committed he's like I
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have to go I already signed a contract and I'm like listen just go to the doctor
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and you know get it he's like nah I'm gonna go so we so we go there and then and then of
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course he's super sick in Australia almost passes out on stage like we
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literally like literally two hours before that we were literally talking on
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the phone I'm like don't do the show like I don't want you to do the show and
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he's like I'm gonna take a nap and we'll see how I feel two hours later calls me
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back man I feel phenomenal I feel great you know and I'm like are you sure and
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he's like I feel phenomenal like I just needed a nap I think it was a flight wore me
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out then of course he goes on stage damn near passes out so then he you know he
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comes back home and so through this whole process I'm like listen something's
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off like I think that you're unhappy like listen I don't think that I think you left
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your home I think you moved to Boca you don't know people there you're in a
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you're staying in an apartment by yourself like like you're doing all this stuff
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that's like not making you happy like it's not making you happy I'm like you
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need to get out of there get completely out of there go back home and at the time he didn't have a good
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relationship with his family but he was trying to mend that and I go go back home
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like you know create this bond with your family that you're trying to do do do all
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of these types of things and I said I said I said we don't even need to work
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together I said go back home and his coach was in his hometown I go go back
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with him I said because I think that friendship stabilized you like I think it
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stabilized you I think you were happier within that environment I think a lot
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of your friends and and Jim people were there and he was like you know like
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that's I think that's what I'm gonna do and so that's where we kind of left
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things like we kind of left things me looking back on that now I'm like was
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that the right decision like was like was me just kind of saying go back home
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like go into that thing because it was literally right after that that they
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started posting up pictures and I could tell instantly something was wrong like
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instantly and then I became like in this like tug-of-war with myself like okay do I
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call up him and say dude what the hell are you guys doing like something looks off
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here and then like am I butting in on this because I'm not working anymore I'm not
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the coach and like it's kind of an un you know like written rule like you
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don't interfere with other people's stuff but I felt like man something's off
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like I knew it and then the last picture he posted I'll never forget this Dan
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Solomon called me and he's like have you seen the picture of Dallas and I'm like
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I'm like I have I said he doesn't look good and and I said he literally looks
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like he's getting ready to drop dead I said and and Dan Solomon says I dude I
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just saw him and he looks like he's walking death and I said that's what he looks like in
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the picture I said he's gray I said his skin looks funky like he's in the
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hospital he said no no no he just they're just posting up progress pictures
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online and and I'm like I said he doesn't look good like like he just
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looked unhealthy and two days later he died like and that's the story like you
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know I didn't you know like I wasn't training him during the time I trained him
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for three months I didn't training for the next four months or whatever from the
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time he died I have no idea what they did I have no idea what he was doing it's
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an unfortunate story because he uh you know you again in stories like this you
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get a lot of different versions of it on what happens but he was a guy that was a
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liked guy that was coming up the most liked guy yeah that's that's like I'm
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telling you like he was if not the most liked guy like I mean I'm telling you like
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you were never gonna find anybody that had anything negative to say let me ask you
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about it there's a there's an article online that says the supposed Dallas
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McCarver anabolic cycle from Chad Nichols right and all of the stuff here that it's
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got you know I mean the list is it's not I tell you first of all that's not I can
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tell you I've already seen it I it was sent to me I can tell you exactly what it
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is if you want me to tell you yeah absolutely this is not his cycle this is a
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drug list that him and his coach ordered that's the list they ordered that's it
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that's a drug list that's a drug order list but that's not you this has nothing to do
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with okay so I can tell you that with this is pre you or this is after me I believe this
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is either pre me or after me but this has nothing to do with me and Dallas at all like
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yeah that's something that's a lot of ridiculous amount but this supposedly what I was told is a
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shopping list for him and one other person that's what I was told and I was told that
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from the literally the person they ordered it from so it's a legitimate like like it's a legitimate
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guy that told me so it's a legitimate guy that told you but this has got this part has nothing to do
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with you ordering with them this ain't got anything to do okay like this literally like I can tell you
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by like there's so much stuff on this because I believe this is the one because I've seen two
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but this is the one with EPO on it yeah and it's it's weird because that drug right there
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um I can promise you like he didn't use with me but he asked me about that drug and it's weird
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because I didn't even think anything about it but we were at the Arnold and he said listen we're just
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bullshitting and he goes listen he goes I've heard people use EPO and I'm like yeah I go listen
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I I know of maybe three people that could have benefited or it has benefited from EPO
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I said very few people because it's a drug that literally like endurance people use right
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doesn't really play a factor with bodybuilders there are some very rare rare instances that possibly
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and he's like and then he asked me this question I'll never forget this and uh and this was before
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I've ever seen this list he asked me well how long do they stay on that and I'm like
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five weeks max and he's like really he goes have you ever heard of anybody staying on longer than
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that and I'm like um yes cyclists like cyclists he goes bodybuilders and I'm like no and he goes
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so nobody like six months a year and I'm like I go that would be I go dude I don't he's asking
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he's asking me that question and I said no I said that would be friggin idiotic like I said
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you get a sense that he asked you because he had done for six months so I didn't have any idea I
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didn't have any idea what he was asking me but then when I saw this then I saw the EPO on it and
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that's when I was like holy shit like what was he asking about like and then it was and then I had
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already seen this list and it wasn't until after the list um that somebody told me like well you know
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what that list is that's a that's an order list you know and if you know anybody involved with this
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list there's a couple things on the list that points right to who the list is so who it came
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from yes okay and your world would know who that is my world would 100% know who that is and they
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would 100% know that has nothing to do with me okay so so let me let me ask you this the reason
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why I'm going in this direction is the following is uh I'm a fan of the sport at this point of the game
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you know I'm a fan of the sport I showed you a picture earlier what I looked like when I was 20
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years old I wanted which was amazing by the way I mean I was crazy yeah I wanted to go in the world
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in the direction of being a body with and in one minute I'm like no I'm leaving it so with the
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current state of where Mr. Olympia is with no Joe Weider there's not a Weider right there's not somebody
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that's selling it pitching it's you know from the top and with the current social media conditions
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where something like this wouldn't be around 1994 someone's not going to write an article like this
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and say hey look what you right someone's not going to be online saying hey Chad hey
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that's not the world we're in today not today 25 years ago right so today where everybody is quick
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to jump and say I can't believe what happened there what do you foresee taking place with the
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future of Mr. Olympia today in bodybuilding and what do you think needs to happen for it to become
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mainstream rather than a niche small community sport of don't bring too much attention a little bit
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it's good we can make money but let's not bring a lot of attention to it um I think the direction
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that we're headed right now is positive like literally positive and there's a couple things
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like the the direction that the Olympia went last year now people are going to rip the shit out of
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the Olympia last year because there wasn't a like a defending champ there wasn't big names in it and so
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you know I I honestly feel sorry for Brandon Curry a little bit because you know he was in a no-win
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situation like him Boanac Hottie like listen any three of those guys could have won and they all
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three are going to go through what kind of Brandon is going through a little bit right now and they're
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all going to be like well of course he won because he didn't beat anyone there was nobody in it
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Boanac wins he goes through the same thing like they all do it but at the end of the day Brandon
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Curry earned the right to be Mr. Olympia he he showed up he battled like I personally don't think
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he should have won like I I thought Hottie should have won like because I was so he was third I
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loved Hottie's physique because I'm a guy that's big on conditioning I like conditioning um I like
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I thought to me like when you look at structure muscularity and conditioning in comparison to all
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three I thought Hattie Hattie had more of of that but I also could see how Boanac could have won
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and I can 100% see how Curry did win so I thought it was that close I thought it was literally there
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just wasn't that one guy that just was like oh shit this guy it's over type of thing so that being
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said but the direction that the Olympia has gone turning over to Dan Solomon who everybody knows a
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good friend of mine but I know the direction he wants to take things and if you look at all the
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stuff that he's doing right now um he's brought Shaq on board and they're doing a lot of promotional
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stuff and they're doing a lot of things you're going to see big names in the show this year so
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there it's going to have heavy hitters in this you're talking about Flex Lewis or who are you
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talking about you got Flex Lewis in it right we know that big Ramy's probably going to be there we
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who knows if Phil's going to be there but like it's going to there's going to be some major major
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guys in this lineup so whoever wins this it's going to be a legitimate win so that's that's a
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foregone conclusion but the part that can take us into the next level is Athleticon it can benefit
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across the board now everybody's trying to act like oh Athleticon is going to hurt the Olympia
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I completely disagree I think Athleticon is going to benefit the Olympia because anything that has the
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rock involved in it and he has embraced this industry he is a bodybuilding fan he is a tree he
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trains he lives this type of sport and he is bringing a different level of you know like everything that
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he can do nobody's been able to do like listen the what he could do for this sport there literally
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hasn't been like Joe Weider and and the things that they've done like you nobody will do what they
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did again because it was just a different time like that for me was like the golden era because
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like he knew all the athletes and and he was it was like a family like it was a little bit different
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but it was a little bit of a cult type you know thing it wasn't mainstream even though they wanted it
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in the Olympics it probably was just never going to get there the rock can make it in mainstream he can
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put it out there and say look at what these guys do look at the hard work they do can he take can
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it take attention away from Mr. Olympia or no I mean I don't think so I mean I think that the Mr.
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Olympia is the Mr. Olympia and I think that what I think Athleticon Athleticon could be huge I think it
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could be monstrous to the point where they can buy 51 percent of Astro Olympia or no well I mean
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possibly but I think that I think the key really isn't so much overshadowing the Olympia I think
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what the key is how much attention and how big Athleticon could be draws that much more you know
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to the Olympia in my opinion I well I mean listen what's going to be interesting to see what happens
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because for me again it goes back to the conversation with uh what Dana White did to UFC okay
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and Dana White build that Joe Weider cult cult like type of an environment with UFC where
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people like me who were you know all boxing and you know following boxers to all of us and say you
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know what I don't even trust any of the judging over here I'm going to go watch you see so I got
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you so I hope I hope you're right and I hope that does take place but I also hope uh uh I also hope
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that somehow some way the relationship with somebody like a Danny or a Rock gets deeper in
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to to develop and promote the next bodybuilders and take them to the next level with the context
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that they have that's the only thing I go with it uh uh Dan uh seems like a really nice guy when
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you you know super guy yeah that's like a really nice guy sincere guy that wants to do the right
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thing uh uh you know sometimes organization some companies are missing one or two pieces but the
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other question I was going to ask you with this part was we just talked about the Dallas we just
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talked about some of these stories right what what do you think needs to be do you think
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the bodybuilding world has a black eye because kidney kidney kidney you know young you know
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don long all do you think bodybuilding has a black eye of uh uh the amount of people that have died or
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have had issues there and if yes what do you think needs to happen for it maybe going to a different
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direction the thing is when you look at the number of people that have had issues you know um it's pretty
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small like when you when you look at it and like I said you know even with the flex thing like the flex
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thing was that even the Don Long so I mean that was one of the guys that that Sean Ray brought up
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again he's 100 aware of what what the deal is with Don Long like if you if you google Don Long you will
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find out that Don Long was born with one kidney one functioning kidney he didn't find out about it
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until 1999 so you know and again like did bodybuilding like escalate the problem 100 it escalated the problem
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if he would have picked to be a golfer would he have needed a you know a kidney transplant so those
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things are all out there I think that the biggest issue is that just like this list like this is
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what is being pushed out there because this is shock value like and I think you know it's not so much
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like look there was the death Momo died from diuretics and we know that he died from diuretics and like
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you know there's there are those cases that happened at shows like there are like but they're far and few
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between um and in reality most of those are like all related to something else like the the Momo stories
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are very limited and but I think this stuff because you have a lot of young people right now that are
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on the internet and they're like like trolling the sport you know realistically yeah and because what I
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gotta be honest like when I first seen this list I'm like it's a fake list like no there's no chance
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that's the real list like it's a fake list you like you know and then you know when when like I
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was talking to somebody and they're like it's actually not a list it's a shopping list and I'm
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like okay like I get it now and it's not for one person it was for two people and you know so I'm
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like okay I got that now and so those are the things that are out there but this list being pushed
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around by 16 year olds and 18 year olds and 19 year olds and all of these kids and then these
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kids talking about this and these kids just like the side enhancement so you see all of these like
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crazy guys that have just injected like ridiculous amounts of shit in their arms and they look
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like a sideshow freak show but where are they they're on generation iron they're on all the
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platforms they're being talked about on all the podcasts like most people are making fun of them
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it's the ugliest thing it's the dumbest looking thing ever but they're literally there like they're
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there and when those are the things that are out there and people pull up bodybuilding and bam there
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that is the general public looks at that and is like what in the hell they don't see the story of
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Brandon Curry flying literally home with the sandow and going directly to a school and talking to kids
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like you don't see that very often you see this freak who has pumped a ton of shit in his arm for
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no reason whatsoever and that's the stuff because that's what gets shock value why doesn't mr. Olympia
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develop better content with their YouTube channel and start pumping stuff out there and start really
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putting stuff in our faces so we see these types of stories exactly again that also goes back to the
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marketing aspect exactly you tell the story and I and it was a part of conversation that we had
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by the way I'm by the way I am assuming you have spoken to Dan about about being on value attainment
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I'm assuming I actually haven't so he doesn't know you're gonna be here today absolutely not okay
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no no clue he's gonna enjoy this yeah so he has no idea when Sean was here Sean was fully uh uh you
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know he sounded like he was all team you know uh the way he came right prepared to you know shots fired and
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all right he seemed really prepared for the whole thing but you know again my interest I'm interested
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in the sport I mean you see who's in my right there's a reason why that's there I'm interested
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in the sport I think there's a and in me but if you look at what Dan has done like Dan has you know
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he had Mark Wahlberg at the you know Olympia this year and he's immediately you know teamed with Shaq who
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I think is you know one of the most visible personalities you know out there no question and so those things
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you know are are huge steps in the right direction credit to that but I also agree that
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the only person that really has the ability to pull the strings to that next level
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is Danny and the Rock and they have the ability
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ability to I think take athletes to put them in front of people that you could never get in front
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and that's what it's going to take it's going to take somebody whoever if it's Phil Heath or whoever
01:41:58.160
it is um to win potentially Athleticon and to be put out there in front of people that would never see
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him and when he's sitting next to Danny Garcia and the Rock and they're talking about Athleticon and
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all of the you know physical fitness and stuff all of the nonsense then is eliminated all these freaks
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that are doing the idiotic stuff is eliminated and it's more of a positive and that's where
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everybody needs to go I mean I hope it happens I hope it happens I think it benefits the entire
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sport if it does happen I get asked if Pat do you want to buy Mr. Olympia I don't have the time to buy
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I want a financial firm I don't have an interest in wanting to buy the company today I'm in a
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different state my life but I wouldn't mind seeing somebody like them taking it now let me ask you this
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2020 Mr. Olympia what does it look like with Phil Heath what does it look like without Phil Heath
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comes back what happens what would the excitement with the people in your opinion now you're more
01:42:56.740
team Solomon you're not really team Phil Heath so for full disclaimer but right but I like Phil
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though so don't get me wrong like it's funny like I didn't used to really like him that much I was
01:43:04.420
actually like when he first came on I was like ah he's narrow and he's this and that and he proved
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me wrong like you know like he I felt like he had weaknesses and then he progressed as a bodybuilder
01:43:15.280
and you know I like the fact that he did that you know and I mean he'll be the first to tell you
01:43:20.960
like listen like Chad would call me out like listen when I look good Chad told me I look good when I
01:43:24.960
look bad Chad told me I look bad um and so I'm very pro Phil when Phil is a hundred percent like
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absolutely if Phil is in the show it is a better show like it is a better without a doubt like a
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hundred percent okay you know I just you know I think that that's the key like do we see Phil
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at the Olympia I think we're going to see Phil this year a hundred percent you think you're going
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to see him a hundred percent I think we are going to see him I just don't know if we're going to see
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him at the Olympia I agree with you I that's right Athleticon I totally yes I totally agree
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and and there's been some uh you know there's going to be some uh very interesting announcements
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being made here pretty soon but you know I just hope it's not going to be one of those things
01:44:04.860
because you know how sometimes like imagine if I am right now you know how you said if I had it
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my way I would have done whatever I could to help the other candidates to help beat Sean Ray because
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I wanted to you know exactly so you know so so maybe if Mr. Olympia is a little bit pissed off
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with Phil before the way he's kind of been with Sean Ray maybe Phil is kind of like dude if I come
01:44:22.940
back they're pumping up Flex Lewis to kind of subtly give him the Mr. and they'll give me number two
01:44:27.200
why would I put my body through this those are some of the things he's got to be concerned about
01:44:30.440
because there's a lot of politics there is a lot of politics and I mean those are things here's the
01:44:34.360
thing like and I know that's a big topic right now because Flex Lewis gets an invite and like
01:44:38.880
they're pumping Flex Lewis right now big time yeah it is big time and and here's the thing that's
01:44:44.540
tough about that like I get the aspect of he's a 212 champion and I believe 100% he deserves an
01:44:53.300
invite because the Olympia champions literally carry over full-time so he literally deserves what
01:44:59.260
he's getting no but nobody and he's got a beautiful but here's the problem here's the problem you have
01:45:04.540
you have guys literally getting ready for the Arnold right now you have Brandon Curry who's the reigning
01:45:09.000
Mr. Olympia and the last thing they want to do is prep for a show with even an inkling of doubt
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like and I know exactly what that's like because my wife prepped for the Olympia who's who's who's
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without who you're talking about so like Brandon yeah like so Brandon Curry like you know listen you
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so here's Flex being pumped pumped now I have a feeling when we get closer to the Olympia that's
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I have a feeling they're pumping Flex right now because they just invited him and so I think
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everybody a little bit yeah I think I think a little bit everybody's jumping the gun and I
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think when it comes right down to it I think so I think we're gonna have a dominant winner at the
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Arnold and I think that guy's gonna be a major force and I think that we're going to have Brandon
01:45:50.320
Curry coming back as like really trying to prove himself because let's get real I mean he took a lot
01:45:55.460
of shit this year because he didn't beat anybody so he's now trying to prove himself you know Flex
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Lewis you know going in who who has all this hype and he's trying to prove himself and I think that you
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have a situation and who knows what's gonna happen with Roden like if Roden's court case is over and
01:46:09.540
he's you know basically you know basically cleared of all charges I believe that he will be I think he
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will be in and so we could potentially see four or five really good bodybuilders battle it out on stage
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I still don't think it's going to include Phil Heath but the the ultimate goal you don't think Phil's
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going to hit the stage this year I think he's going to hit Athleticon okay without a doubt but at the end
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of the day I still think we could benefit because the ultimate goal potentially would be whoever wins
01:46:38.540
the Olympia goes to Athleticon now I think obviously if mr. Olympia then beat you really
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scary it is what you just said it's scary because without a doubt then that means that let it come
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becomes the not necessarily just think if Phil he's like my pastor Olympia we'll just think if just
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think if let's say that Phil Heath bypasses the I'm just gonna throw this out here yeah so let's say
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Phil bypasses the Olympia and goes to Athleticon yeah and let's say that big Ram he comes in and wins
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the Olympia okay and decides he's gonna go to Athleticon and then he beats Phil at Athleticon
01:47:15.620
he just proved that the mr. Olympia is still by far the top thing now the flip side of that is if if he
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wins the Olympia and goes and gets beat by Phil then it becomes a different story you scare your part
01:47:29.100
here's the scary part say Phil goes and competes at Athleticon he wins he gets a contract with
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Under Armour he gets a contract in the movies he makes nine million dollars Rami then goes and wins
01:47:41.640
the next year he gets a four and a half million dollar contract then there's a massive exodus and and and you
01:47:47.760
have to understand capitalism works no I get that I understand I had a guy of mine I'm sitting down he's
01:47:52.680
talking to me he says to me Pat I'm telling you I got the safest business there's no one that's
01:47:59.220
going to put me out of business I said Andy Grove the legendary CEO of Intel in the 80s wrote a book
01:48:04.920
called only the paranoid survive and it wouldn't be the smartest thing for Mr. Olympia to not be
01:48:10.020
paranoid it wouldn't be just my absolute I agree and again I could be wrong but I got to tell you
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like if that scenario played out it would be the absolute greatest thing for the athlete I agree
01:48:20.340
it'll be unbelievable agree you know Phil Heath make an X amount a million whoever the next person
01:48:26.040
is it would be the greatest thing because in my opinion what it would do is it would light a fire
01:48:31.860
hopefully under some of these guys and go holy shit look what Phil just did because right now that
01:48:39.240
fire is not there like you can see it like when you're looking at guys Wayne Johnson and Danny Garcia
01:48:43.800
are way more sex oh dude keep the opportunity and the other sex so you're getting into that world
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that's a sense and it's a different scenario because like these guys like right now I think
01:48:55.740
you know I mean when you go to these shows and when everybody's talking about like these guys aren't
01:49:00.540
suffering and these guys aren't putting in the work and these guys are out of shape and this and
01:49:03.840
that I can tell you that a eight million dollar Under Armour contract or whatever you know like all that
01:49:10.920
kind of money that will literally light a fire under somebody's ass you know and that's yeah and so
01:49:16.840
and then I'm gonna give you the bipolar complete opposite side of it I'd love to see Phil get nine
01:49:22.980
I just don't know if the political power people want to see Phil get nine because I don't know if
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they want the face yeah of nine to be ahead of Lee Haney or Ronnie because it's almost a little I just
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hope I'm wrong again I hope I'm wrong we're talking nine Olympias I'm talking nine Olympia yeah yeah yeah
01:49:40.200
that's tough if I'm if I'm a guy that's right now in Olympia I want to see him come get nine because
01:49:46.800
that's that's media that's conversation that's talk but again but but when you think about it like when
01:49:52.600
you know and then I just had this conversation when we're looking at that talk like that guy okay the
01:50:00.460
guy that's gonna do that and I'm not saying it's ever gonna be done but even if it's Phil first he's
01:50:06.520
got to win one more to to eight yeah to get to eight right that just ties him and then he would need
01:50:13.360
another one to break nine to break that like to break that that athlete literally has to be 100%
01:50:24.100
like that athlete doesn't come in and just win I you know what I mean because even when Ronnie was
01:50:29.500
going for nine and we and he was already dealing with the back issues Phil can be a hundred percent
01:50:34.120
I don't know if he can be a hundred percent but in two years I'm not sure if he can be he'll be 41 he's
01:50:39.040
40 right now yeah so he can still go possibly possibly you know but I even when Ronnie was
01:50:44.240
coming in and he was having the back issues and stuff and you know I remember having this
01:50:48.340
conversation with Kim he's like you know this is like nine and and where is he gonna have to be
01:50:52.360
and I go this will be the hardest Olympia ever to win I said no matter even if he's a little bit even
01:50:58.400
if he's a little bit better he's not winning this one because that separates somebody that's a
01:51:03.800
monstrosity of an achievement if anybody could do it maybe Phil maybe Phil but
01:51:08.800
it would be it'll be crazy well Chad I think we have to thank Sean Ray for making this happen
01:51:14.440
if it wasn't for your best friend Sean Ray you and I are not sitting in front of each other
01:51:18.000
conversation exactly but also at the same time I uh I like the fact that you have the courage to
01:51:24.680
sit here and take all the questions you know it's not it's probably the most open I'm like I'm not
01:51:29.260
the most open guy just because bodybuilding is typically not open you know what I'm saying of
01:51:33.620
course um but I think that there's so many negative things out there right now and like look
01:51:39.080
it's not like we're hiding something like we all know what's going on and I think the problem is like
01:51:44.340
there's so much misdirection and so much miss you know uh information out there as far as like what's
01:51:50.640
actually involved and stuff and that's why you know like um even Kim was like you know like how far
01:51:56.120
are you gonna go with this you know and I go you know what like I've never like literally spoke
01:52:00.620
like openly and um I'm gonna speak as open as I possibly can and that's exactly what you did I
01:52:06.000
think that's exactly what the audience is going to appreciate about this I am assuming there's
01:52:09.920
going to be a Sean Ray camp that's going to be here as well to put their thoughts and we want to hear
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from you as well but Chad appreciate you for coming out really thank you so much 24-hour thing I was
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here right we're gonna get you on the fly but appreciate you for coming out I appreciate it thank you
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