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So it is free, grab it right now, give it a thumbs up, enjoy the video. Classically fine and steady earnings from $150. Good morning. We got the old car back. People are excited. The internet's excited. They don't know about the new car, that's why. No, haven't been lifting weights, hip, quad issue. I think we talked about it a bit. So a little bit of body building. I got the... Coming back from Toronto, my body weight was 215. This week we're down to about a 212 average. So we're trending the right direction, slow progress, but progress nonetheless. Kind of on an Oprah lower split right now, where I'm having Bart help me out. Let's try some general kind of rehabby things, general strength stuff, since I was just feeling beat up, feeling very weak. So from going six days a week, three days of weight lifting, three days of power lifting, I'm now back down to four days. You like these shorts? Internationally known, bro. The trick is to train delts five times a week. No chest, no arms. And then everyone thinks I'm on drugs. And then you get all the sponsorships, and all the beaches. Alan, throw on all this strength training, or shit it. Energy's still low. That's all we got. We're gonna do that. And then go home and nap the rest of the day. I'm gonna go watch Icarus or Icarus. Candy creatine. And it's literally like a sweet tart. This type candy, this is non endorsement. Unless they want to send me some creatine candy. And it's like two grams of creatine. So you just grab a handful on the way out. You're the kid? Dude, it's delicious. It doesn't sound good. It's delicious. You know, sweet tarts. Have you ever had unflavored creatine though? It's the worst thing in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro, what makes you think I've never had any creatine? I was a rude ass comment. Is it open? Sold out. Icarus donuts, it is. Fucking cow. We're here for the first time. Look at me, I like meat and butter. Fucking cow, bro. When do I get my own donut? What do you want if you had a pure old donut? What about a cinnamon butterfinger cronut? Cause I like cinnamon rolls too. That'd be good. That'd be good. That cinnamon rolls, staring me in the eye. Yeah, I told you, Icarus, son of Davyless, who dared to fly too near to the sun wings of feathers and wax. That's who Icarus is. Swash movie, Icarus, the documentary. When filmmaker Brian Fogle sits out on to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance with meeting with a Russian scientist transforms the story from a personal experiment into geopolitical thriller. I knew the movie was about steroids, I knew it was about Russia. And the movie started out a little bit more in the meathead realm, where this cyclist, ex-pro cyclist, Ryan Fogle, sound like he was really good in his early 20s, got in a bad wreck, took some years off, he was trying to come back into the pro circuit, finished 14th or something at a big race. I don't think it was toward France, but it was a big race. And then he decided to film himself with really high quality, well shot shit, taking his first cycle. And I forgot the connection, but one of his friends knew of a Russian steroid guru and this Russian steroid guru ended up being the Rusada director. So the WADA representative director of Russia, anti-doping, but he knew a lot about drugs. In fitness, I think it's like, maybe not well known, but it's like kind of a common stereotype to joke about Russians and drugs and whatever. Then the whole Lance Armstrong, so you joke about even Americans and drugs or cycling and drugs. So the movie began with Ryan Fogle literally taking his first cycle on camera with help of a doctor, an American doctor, and this Russian Rusada director, helping him to potentially pass the test that he'll go under. He ended up doing poorly in the race. He finished like 24th or something. He had some gear problems on one day, gear, not as in drugs, but gear as in gears of his bike and whatever he did poorly, which doesn't surprise me because Lance Armstrong, if you guys have seen Armstrong lies, if you haven't, I suggest it was a great documentary. He basically talks about his mentality that everybody's on these enhancing drugs, performance enhancing drugs. So for him, it wasn't cheating by any means because he already was dead in his ways, convinced that everybody else was. And obviously that could be true, that could be false, what do we know? But this movie ends up going down a deep dark hole and basically going into more political stuff about WADA and the Russians having a doping process doping team to help their Olympians and their athletes do better at international contests, which I guess is semi-proven to be true in Russia, but it's just so possible to be done anywhere else and on different levels of different sports because the director, WADA has these directors in each country and they're normally from their own country. So I'm sure the director of USADA, which is the United States anti-doping administration, is probably an American. And so then there lies kind of a moral issue where I don't know that person by any means, so I'm just hypothetical here, but if they are so patriotic and so pro-America and they have gray feelings on steroids or performance enhancing in drugs, then maybe potentially they could let things slip on purpose so their country can perform and do better at international sport. And all of this, I was talking just rambling as I do, it is a kind of a culmination in a comparison to war and countries and otherwise we wouldn't be taking this sport so damn serious because at the end of the day it is just a game. I've heard winning a gold medal, you only win a couple thousand dollars and you literally get a gold medal, which is an insane honor and it literally does prove that you're the best at what you do in your sport and I have crazy respect for that as an athlete as a coach, but when you break it down it is just a game and to bring so much politics and so much danger, this guy I don't wanna, here's the spoiler alert, Connor throw up a big spoiler alert for the movie that he ends up having to go under witness protection because he flees Russia because he basically tells the story of them doping up their athletes and then he talks about how he was double thinking I think is the phrase he used where he is in charge of anti-doping for Russia and he's also in charge of doping for Russia which is a fuck of a conundrum to be in, but I did find it very interesting and within this last week, again don't quote me, it was just one statement by USAPL executive mentioned that they're in danger of being banned for a year or two in the IPF because too many USAPL lifters had been tested positive for a banned substance at an international competition and I did a little bit of research, most of the stuff you can find, who has been banned and what have they been banned for, what substance and how long and at what competition both in the USAPL and the IPF and it did seem in 2017 the latest report I saw maybe there's more coming because they do update it every quarter or so that there was three positive tests, maybe a lot being gentlemen and then two athletes from America so being two thirds of the people that tested positive in the international level isn't a great ratio for America and it's just hard because then again that we don't, so they're not in charge of the test at the international level and that's what the movie was basically about is that the Sochi Olympics and other Olympics the WADA, all these directors of the countries themselves come together and run the tests at the official WADA Olympics so at the Sochi Olympics in particular in Russia this director had more control and more power to manipulate the tests I don't believe that's the same as the USAPL to the IPF so does that mean that more USAPL guys are just taking more banned substances whether it be some type of steroid stimulant, whatever or does it mean that whoever's testing our USAPL lifters is letting them through with those performance enhancing things and we're being more loose on this level and then they're getting caught on this level I don't know, I don't know the truth so I don't know the ins and outs of the testing on either level to be honest I know some of the basic rules of local meets five or 10% of people getting tested at our national meet 10% are getting tested plus the winners are the top podiums of each weight class and I think every country has their own rule for that and how they regulate but there's always cracks to go through and when you have a governing body that has potential interests in different people winning or different countries winning you're always gonna have conflict and conflict of interest is where some of these inner workings happen with the Russia story so it was a really good movie, I do suggest it you know me, I'm not pro steroids I'm not against steroids but if you're using a performance enhancing drug and competing in a tested federation I do think you're cheating there's other ways, other sports Instagram's a great competition for you whatever it might be to break your own world records or whatever sport it may be but it is a interesting topic even on the surface of just competition and performance enhancing drugs and how much it helps like this guy Brian Fogle in the movie who did worse although he was on his first cycle of I think HGH and some test which is a whole kind of performance conversation let alone the political and the actual testing side, the logistics of it I find equally as interesting and so that's why I really did like this movie because it took a twist that I wasn't really used to go watch the movie, leave your comments below tell me what you think give it a thumbs up for Icarus and who you think Icarus is I had to inform the world from my art school days thoughts of the day, steroids, politics go get Jack to my friends, I'm out of here what's up guys, quick announcement I will be coming to New York City August 31st, meet and greet Q and A lift some weights at Solace Gym which is dead middle of Manhattan 7 p.m. again on August 31st if you want to RSVP it's totally free all you have to do is email info at NewYorkSolace.com so the RSVP is just info at SolaceNewYork.com let them know you're coming I'll see you guys there August 31st, 7 p.m. See you guys there