SPEAKER_01 0:02

Did we did we get to save any of the other stuff or we start again?

SPEAKER_02 0:05

No, we're starting over. Fuck that. Yeah. We had some technical difficulties, but we're back.

SPEAKER_01 0:11

The car was not being kind.

SPEAKER_02 0:13

No, we had uh it was uh there was also a time change. Uh you know, we had the yeah, I was there when it changed changing time, you know. Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. Yeah, that's right. That fucked you up even more. Like I was, I was, I was who was I talking to? One of the guys that went.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

You do realize I was in your country not long ago, John. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Because you had a fly, you were you traveled what about 18 to 20 hours there. Then you were there for what four nights and then had to try travel 18 to 20 hours back. That's a that's fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

I got there the same day, but coming home, I left there Monday and got home Wednesday. Lose a day coming back as well.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

So my god, yeah, that's a mess. So well, I'm glad you're feeling better now because you were uh you were texting me, you were you were hallucinating on the plane.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Yes, I was seeing things beside me, like people stand there and stuff. I'm like, is it really there that I look? But you know the weirdest thing, you know when you're on a plane, you put the overhead light on? When I was on the phone and that texting you, it's like did the light just come on? It's like I was starting to see really bright lights. Even last night I was watching TV with my wife, and I was like, Why does that look like I go up a close up of someone's face? I'm like, why is he wearing contacts? She goes, What are you talking about? I said, Well, the colouring of his eyes here, but the black pupil is like this far above it. So I saw the cut colour here, but the pupils up here, she goes, That's just your eyes. And then I'm thinking, then I'm thinking, Oh my god, I'm probably having a stroke like a blood clot in my brain where you start seeing bright lights and shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Um, so how was it working at working out with Urz Kalzinski?

SPEAKER_01 1:47

It was fun, I had a lot of fun. We got in good, we're gone pretty good. Yeah, I mean Coach was getting him ready now, trained him in arms, gave him a good arm workout, so that went well. And tormented Jay some more. That was good.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Yeah, you got a bunch of pictures of everybody giving Jay the finger.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Yeah, and saying fuck you, Jay, and that then I was getting them spookies out on the street in the rain. I said, Jay wouldn't need this, but go see him anyway and tell him fuck you. And then in the comments, people are like, Why do you hate Jay so much? It's like, oh shut up. Jesus Christ, it's a fucking joke. Unbelievable. I just put up a new thing for the Music City Nashville thing. If you look at my Instagram page, you'll see all things. Do we know what hotel it is yet? Because I got no, no, no. But um, yeah, if you look at that one, I'll say, you know, Brian Shaw's gonna be there, I'll be there, and that guy, um um, what's his name? Oh, Jay Cutler.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

Yeah, Jay, yeah, Jay Cutler.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

I go, Jay Cutler, then I go give the old.

SPEAKER_02 2:44

He probably he probably fucking on the outside is probably like laughing on the inside is like this.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Oh, but did you see um when he was at the gym there? I had that pays to be the bad guy motherfucker with that on the back that I said to Jay. Yeah, yeah, and then I had Jay hold up and like, come on, Jay, just do it once, hold up and he's like, Oh, Jay did it, Jay did it. But it's funny as he does it, he always like looks around to see if anyone saw him like you're not dropping the n-word, Jay.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

It's a finger, Jesus. Yeah, yeah. How long was the line for for to get to see you?

SPEAKER_01 3:17

That was very long, very long. I felt bad because they cut it off. And then I was just walking through the crowd because I think I'll go for a walk, I'm going to go to the toilet, and that took ever. I just getting stopped taking photos. And because Sid was there, Sid was like hearing people, oh, this is so cool. No one goes walking through. Because not only when people go walking through, they're going to the booth, they've got people that no, not go to the booth and see them. But I'm like, you know what? I'm a man of people, I'll go through the crowds and that. And then the rain booth was, I'll go down because I know Wendy's, I'll go get one of those energy drinks. And I got there, and um, four was there, the mountain from Game of Thrones and that. Yeah, strong man. He left, and I just stand in there. Next thing I look up and the line went from here around this side, the rain booth around that way, and then this way. So I'm like, oh shit, I can't really leave now. So now I'm taking photos, standing at that booth. I was there for a bit over an hour, hour and a half, and Jonah's like, oh my god, I can't believe it. He goes, You can go anytime you want. I said, I know, but if I leave, see those people at the end of the line, they're gonna think I'm an asshole. Right, right. So I was like, I just stood there and tried to please them. Not not the booth, but I mean just the fans there and that. Then you get out, you get outside the expo, walking back to the hotel through the foyer, and can we have a picture? Yeah, sure. Okay, so I'll just take pictures. It's like, you know, you've got to do it for the fans, you know. Of course.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Is that how it's gonna be in uh in Nashville?

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Uh probably a little bit, but probably not as crazy as a man. People won't be as bad, yeah. So they'll they'll they'll all go there to see Jay. They'll be like, Jay, there's a mean guy over there. We're not gonna go see him because he's rude to you.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Because I'm gonna go and I'll you know, I figured I'll just go and hang out with you while you're at the uh at the end.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Yeah, I like come to see him, he goes, Oh, you're my favorite. Oh yeah, probably tell everyone that. I said, if I see a bit of you saying the same thing to Jay, I'll fucking hunt you down. He goes, I'm going to see Jay next. I said, Call him a cunt. He started laughing. He goes, He goes, Lee, Lee, guess what? When I had my photo taken with Jay, I said, Lee Pree said you're a cunt. He goes, he just bust, he just busted up laughing.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Do you have any girls that want to like uh can you sign my tit for me? And they just whip a tit out and no, I had Rachel just went a long time ago.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

I signed a little I might have signed a teddy years ago, but generally, oh, one girl came up at when I was on the stage at the young LA booth and she said, Can you sign my arm? And then another guy got one, he said he was gonna get it tattooed. I said, Okay. No, but that's about it. That's about it. Okay, very cool, very cool. I did um years ago, one guy came up with his girlfriend. She goes, He goes, Turn around, turn around, show him, show him. And she had the Superman logo on her lower back.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

And he's like, She got that because of you. He goes, Every time I'm doing it from behind, I gotta think of you.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

That sucks. So uh look like uh Young LA pulled out all the stops, they rented out the city.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Oh my god, their booth there was so massive, and they had the Lamborghini up on top of a container and a Ferrari.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

Really?

SPEAKER_01 6:17

There's like one because I was up on top of one of the shipping containers, a stage up there, but then I was down on another stage. So I don't think they had like four or five stages or something that people are on different times, and it was just like crazy. There's that video where you see me throwing caps off the top, and of course, he's always the bad guy. As I'm finished throwing the caps off, up comes the fire marshal up the stairs up the top. Right, that's it. Any more of that? That's your last warning. Really? Like, I'm the fucking bad guy. We're gonna shut it down. And I said always so like he goes, Any more, one more, and we're gonna shut up thinking if I had one more in my hand, I would have gone.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like you're in elementary school, he's yelling at you like he's the principal.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

I said, Oh yeah, Lee's always the bad guy. And then the next day, I think the twins did the same thing almost, but then it just became so chaotic in the booth. They actually did shut the booth down because the number of people is just insane, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Well, they have a lot of a lot of athletes, right? I mean, they had you, they had the Trent twins. Who else is Burz.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Oh, and Jay, and then and then the rest, I think, were just um influencers. I think what's his name was there, is it Unk from Diamond Gym? Is it a black guy with the beard?

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Yeah, black guy with the beard, and then his uh the Muslim guy, Hardy.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Yeah, I think they come over because they come up and took pictures with me. They get they said they really liked it. I said, Yeah, well, I I like what you do with the young kids at your gym and that sort of thing, and you know, keeping them off the streets and giving them a good role model positivity. So yeah, they come up and got pictures with me. I chatted to them for a minute. Did you mention that I uh that you're on my show and uh no, they probably don't even fucking think I didn't think that deep into it right there. Don't worry about it. As I'm talking to them, everyone in line is just like this. Say that again. When I was talking to them, the people in line just star you like this. It's like you're taking too much time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Yeah, yeah, that's that's gotta suck. Like, you know, you want to give everybody a lot of attention, but you gotta line a mile long.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

That's like that's and then like you will start talking to somewhere, yeah, and you don't really want to say, you know, can you hurry up? I gotta go. So you're listening to their story, but then you hope you're hoping can they see the line? They might get the hint that you know, but some would just keep standing there like, oh god.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

Somebody like like, oh, I'll be the bad guy in Nashville. I'd be like, All right, let's go, we gotta keep it moving.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

Not timeout, just start a timer after a minute. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

I gotta do something while I'm hanging out with you, Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Like that's like that speed dating where you just get a couple of seconds or a minute to talk and then move on.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Yeah, we actually got a request. Um, somebody uh messaged me. Uh John, he watches the show and he he wants a shirt. Hi, John. Uh he he he wants a shirt and uh me and you autographed. So it's it'll be up my my official first autograph. Any shirt? Well, I'm gonna he would it he wanted a t-shirt. I'm gonna send him a t-shirt anyway. But he wanted a t-shirt and went to me, and I was like, well, that's gonna be tough because he's in Australia. I said, Well, how about this? I'll bring a shirt to Nashville because I'm gonna meet him in Nashville. But I'm gonna get him like uh, you know, a jersey. Oh yeah, and I was like, uh the two of us will sign it and I'll bring it back and I'll I'll send it to you.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

And I'll go to my room and just like Jack off on it. He can get a special DNA shirt. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

I think I'm gonna bring you a new shirt too. They have like uh not a football one, they have like uh the softball one and it comes in camo, it's pretty cool. So camo camo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Who's gonna see it? Who's gonna see it?

SPEAKER_02 9:41

You're gonna disappear.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

I know. I'd be like, wow, look at that, look at that USH just walking through.

SPEAKER_02 9:47

So, what do you think of all the the drama and chaos that went on at the end of the day?

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Oh my god. I like talk about a bunch of soft cocks in the sport. It's like and and anything, I put up a post too saying, you know, all sports are bad guys, and you watch UFC. I see this UFC. People go, how can you compare bodybuilding to UFC? There are fighters. I'm like, I'm not talking about the actual sport itself, I'm talking about the people in these sports, right? Where it's basketball, you'll have the people who are a bit edgy and do stuff. And in UFC, you've got if you look at Strickland, he's out there using, he'll use a bit whatever word, call people faggots and this and that. So and the the cancel culture always goes to Dana White. He's like, fuck off, I ain't getting rid of him and stuff like that. And yeah, that's right. You know, I had a on Matt's thing where Matt's like, should Raw drop him and this and that, blah blah blah. And like Matt kept going on. I'm like, come on, you what are you calling for his head? Look, he's got if we're talking about Martin, he's got some issues there, and you know, when you've got those issues, you're not thinking straight. So it's not like you know, he's like, and he's attacking fans. I'm like, Yeah, well, you get to that point. I've I've been there where and I, you know, I'm not I'm not sick at all in the head, John. I got crazy.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Yeah, John.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Sometimes, sometimes these fans can write you enough for all you're like, fuck this. So you start writing back to him, and then they go, Look what he wrote me. I was like, Yeah, but how many times did you abuse him first before he did that? That's why he should be able to do it. And then like, well, he hasn't apologized yet. It's like he's not ready to apologize. I actually saw the you know, it's a post that they put up with Steve Weinberger, where he actually, Steve Weinberger said he caught him and that. It's like in his due time, he'll be like that. But I said everyone coming down on him when he's in that frame of mind, it's just like everyone just jumped on the bandwagon, like these people who you don't even know, like influencer stations are like and what got me was all these people like, oh, raw should get rid of raw should get rid of it. I'm thinking, I bet 99% of you people don't even buy raw fucking products, so shut the fuck up. It's like I know you know, people probably and I said they just dumped him so quick. I'm like, wow. So you know, he'll probably come back. Everyone likes a good comeback story, and yeah, he's just the whole the whole thing with it, just like I said, just went out of control because it really did. It was when I and I don't had people too abusing me because they just said, Look, he the thing was too. I said what he did was bad sportsmanship. I admit I said that, and then I said, you know, he'll get reprimanded. He'll, you know, he shouldn't get off scot-free. He'll probably have to pay some sort of price, which even has with the losing sponsorships, and like, oh, you're one to talk or the shit talk and you did it. And I said, I said, I never did a shit talk, and I just talked about the politics and told the truth. That's why I got in trouble. I never should talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

But you know, you never did what he did. I mean, you know, you never disrespected a uh a fellow athlete on stage.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

That you never said, but I said all sports have those people. And the funny thing is though, bodybuilders, when you watch all these other sports, they love the bad guy, they love that person that's causing problems and shit. But in this sport, which is like mild pornography, you know, guys on stage and girls covered in oil, wearing nothing, using illegal substances and shit. If you want them to be fucking choir boys all of a sudden, come on, it's like you always gotta have a few loose cannons. Yeah. Uh, what do you think of it? The mac and rowing tennis, fuck, there was a loose cannon, and people loved you.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Well, uh, Pac-Man Jones and um from an NFL, he used to be in the NFL. He just got arrested like 10 times. Well, it's like, dude, look at the biggest.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Michael Vick, Michael Vic, Michael Vick, the break was fighting dogs and shit.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

Yeah, that now that, yeah, no, that that when it came to shit like that, I wouldn't bring you back.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

You can't forget.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

Yeah, I'm like you and me are dog lovers. I can't, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Yeah, when it comes to animals, no, he could have been out there selling kids on the black market, I wouldn't care, but dogs.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Yeah, I can't, I can't forgive. Those are two things I can't forgive. The um the the the dog and little kid thing. I can't I can't get past that. But I I think Martin, you know, I mean, I I I tore into him on uh on what do you call it? Uh shooting the breeze. I had Xavier and Ken. No, no, I was watching at the airport writing on your feet. I didn't know I didn't know that I didn't know at all that that it was you to be honest with you. But um, he'll be I think he'll be fine. He just needs to take some time off and get it.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

But that's the thing, does it? The thing is too, is like I think what probably set him off even more is I'm sure I'm sure after what he did, he probably felt, oh shit, maybe shouldn't have done that. But then the worst thing he did was probably went online, and like I said, once you're in that frame of mind, and now you're seeing all this, then you're like it's like he never had time to come down, it just escalated and escalated. Now it's like I'm attacking you and I'm gonna attack you. Then it's like so it just yeah. So I even sent Brett, I sent Brett a few messages, and we're communicating back and forth, you know, that they're private, but I won't say what he said. But okay, yeah, he was he's been helping Martin Martin out and stuff like that. And I know when I spoke to him, he goes, Yeah, he was in a very bad place when the raw thing happened, and he said he went and took his phone off him, which is probably the best thing. Just get off it, don't read yeah the comments. But it's just so funny how many people just wanted to see his destruction. But as I was saying about Matt, because when Matt was talking about the Raw thing and that, he put up a post today and I commented and I said, But that's weird come off from you because his post was, What does Martin deserve a second chance? I'm like, How can you even ask that question? Everyone deserves a second chance. I said, Asking that question, he's only gonna get the idiots to come on out. And then he asked the question about did raw drop him too soon. I'm like, well, it's almost like you're pushing for him to drop him. How can you have this guy on it? You can't say one thing and stir up, stir at a pot, and then go, Oh, did they drop him too fast? It's like, and then that's that question, does he deserve a second chance? I'm like, Why even ask that? Everyone does. So why to me? When you ask that question on social media, yes, you'll get a few yes, but then you're gonna get the ones, no, he doesn't, then they're just gonna. It's like, we know what's happened, let it go. What pissed me off was Andrew won. It's like, but that one's talking about the contest and all and all the positive stuff. Notice how they all just went to the negative.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

All that goes right to the drama. I mean, it was yeah, yeah. I tried to cover, I covered everything on shooting the breeze, but listen, it this could end up one of two ways for him, you know. I think he's gonna come back and redeem his own. I think he'll I think he'll come back. Um, but it could end up one of two ways. He could either, you know, uh continue this yeah, uh continue this behavior, and then you know, sooner or later the IFBB will ban him, and then he'll be the bodybuilder that never was, you know, the guy who had the potential but couldn't fulfill it. Or he could get his shit together and it could be it could be a retribution story. He could come back and um, you know, you know, because we've seen athletes do it. I I brought up the I brought up the uh the example of George Foreman when he lost to Muhammad Ali. Yeah, he went into a bad depression, uh, and he he to and then he took 10 years off of boxing, he couldn't get his shit together, he was mentally, he was he had to go get help and so on and so forth. And then um he came back 10 years later and won the heavyweight championship again, you know. So it can it can happen.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

It's just that you know I think you will, because I even wrote to him, and actually I was surprised Martin replied and that when he's just saying, Oh, yeah, I'm not sure he's undone. I said, Look, I said the choice is yours, but just take some time off and you know, regroup and that I said, Look, I just said I'd hate to see you throw it away because you do have the potential to win the big one, you do have the potential to be Mr. Olympia. And I said, 100% I'd hate I'd hate to see you throw all that away just over a mistake like this and stuff. And that then, like I said, when I was talking to Brett and that, and I think someone said he's I think I was probably I'm not tooting my try, I think I was one of the first ones to come out. Not and the thing, I wasn't defending, I was just saying what he did was wrong. I was more telling people, lay off, stop jumping on the bandwagon now, kicking him when he's down. Yeah, and I was glad to see that Phil came out and did a video too, and other people, and then it was nice to see Andrew Jack because remember him and Andrew had that big thing at the Arnold UK, I think, last year.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

And it's like yeah, a couple of years ago.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Andrew, Andrew's forgiving him and stuff like that. Andrew was, you know, saying, Listen, I'll pay for you and your wife to go on a trip and stuff like that. So just getting it.

SPEAKER_02 17:33

Andrew and Andrew and Nick are consummate professionals, class respect, real.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Nick was wishing him all the best. So it's like, you know, it's like I just hate it. Everyone that just seemed like they were coming down. It's like, is your life that perfect that you've done nothing wrong? You gotta remember too, when you're going through that shit, if you ask someone in the public eye like that, it's a lot different than just the normal person that does something wrong. When it's being filmed and then you got everyone talking about you, it just multiplies the thing. And and if he's in a bad spot, it's like I said before, that would just let's just say you were gonna off yourself. That type of stuff wouldn't help because I remember when I was in that dark place when I cut my wrist, I was just looking for shit to egg me on to do it. You know, I'd put sad songs on and this and that.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

So yeah, yeah. You're at that.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

So seeing all that shit come, seeing all that shit come now. I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say courage is the right word. Courage to kill it, not knock yourself off is like whatever. But it's almost like it gives you, like, okay, what I'm gonna do is justified because look at all this shit I'm getting. It's almost like you're looking for that, okay. This justifies me doing it. I'm not wrong doing this because these pricks don't like me and this doesn't like me, so okay, I'm gonna do it type thing. So I just hated seeing that if he's in that frame of mind, because it can just push someone further and further. Then that's why I said if he does something, all you people are gonna be happy and endless. Like, yeah, well, then you know, you then obviously I don't I don't think he's gonna do anything because like but if he was, I was just saying all that type of thing wouldn't be helping if he's reading all that shit and doing stuff.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Look, I think the I think, yeah, I think the majority of the people, including myself, want to see him get his shit together and get back on the stage and do well and just you know, you learn from your mistakes. You don't want to see, like you said, you don't want to see him throw away, throw his career away because he uh because he made a couple of mistakes, you know, but he it's it's not an isolated incident. He's had stuff happen in the past, so he's really gotta he's really gotta work on himself.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

And and that's the thing. Sometimes it takes, you know, some people can make one mistake and come back, some don't learn as quick or they just fall back into the old ways.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

So Mike Tyson's a great, a great example.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

You can always say how many chances do you give someone? It's like, you know, until the point where you know they're never gonna redeem themselves. But you know, as long as he's willing to work on and do stuff, you can't just shut somebody out when, like I said, when they've got that much potential. And like I said, yes, it was bad sportsmanship, and they're only like little things, it's not like really he's like done something super bad, like he wasn't out there punching people on and swearing a frog. I was like, come on. Everybody goes, I thought I got reprimanded and suspended for less. So come on.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

Everybody was worried about Hardy. And to be honest with you, I thought I thought that um if Martin didn't do what he would what he did, I think Hardy we'd be talking about Hardy's a soul loser because he retired immediately after getting third, and then like, no, no, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. So, like, I think you know, Martin doing that actually saved Hardy from getting more shit from the fans.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

But I don't know about you, but it could have gone whatever. But I thought personally I might have put Brandon over Martin, then I'm like Oh, 100%. We were talking about that, thank God that didn't happen. It might have made him worse.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Oh my god, no, I thought Brandon looked great, and I thought I I thought he was I thought he deserved fourth place too. But you know, yeah, there's a lot there was a lot of controversial decisions.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

And I do think too, like even if Hardy won, or like Nick he won, or if Hardy won, to me, like they all like you said, to me, normally when you see a lineup sometimes, there's always that one where you just go, fuck, he's winning. Yeah, like just to stand out. So, like I said, they all had their good points and strong points and negative points. So to me, there wasn't just the one that blew you away and said he's the clear winner. I don't think people would have complained if Hardy had a one.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

Right.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

People would have gone, okay, but he should have won. So it's always gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

I thought I thought I honestly thought they were gonna give it to Hardy. Um, because uh he seemed to be, especially at the when he came back the next day, it was a little drier and harder the next day. I thought they were gonna give it to Hardy because he has that, you know, Nick's Nick's Achilles' heel is his waist.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Yeah, but did you notice that was only they said if someone can teach him to because when he stood there and controlled it, it was tight and that it's only when he walked or moved, or in between sometimes he let it out like the obliques and it just seemed smooth. But when he sucked it in tight, it was like sh it's like three or four inches smaller. So if you can just learn to keep it sucked in and tight the whole time, because that's maybe that could have been what messed it up because the judges look up and that's what Tyler Manon said.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

He said even in the transitions, yeah, the transitions um

SPEAKER_01 22:00

his uh his waist and his his his gut uh his you know gut extension distension rather but i mean it's gotta be it's gotta be difficult for him because he knows you know he know he knows it's not like he's not a stupid guy he knows what the deal it's gotta be hard for him to control I saw photos like guy assister nana showed me photos well I saw Nick at the gym like a day or so before the show but guy showed me photos and I mean without tan on it's probably the driest I've seen it looks like Dorian Yates paper fit skin so and like as good as he looked I'm thinking even that tanning product he used maybe he should try another tanning company there's one in Australia called Contest Colour and one called Sun Tan on they're both great because the one he has on when I saw him I'm thinking the photos I saw he looked twice as ripped as that I mean like I think even Dave Palumbo said he saw the pictures I'd never seen Nick that dry so and like I said even with that tanning on I think it did cover up some of the I mean like it was just like wrapped in cling wrap you know from the back he was fucking insane his back shots were light out like you could like his rear double by you could compare to Phil's rear double by Ronnie's rear double by you know Derek's rear double by he was insane from the back yeah just that you know and his midsection is his is his is his issue I saw um is it Terrence or someone was it Terrence I saw put up a thing where he was saying he would like to help Nick with his posing stuff like that so yeah why not you know where whatever help you can get you know that's that's that's one good thing at least there's some some solid camaraderie yeah I feel like is I feel like like Andrew helping trying to help out uh Martin and then Terrence trying to help out Nick at least you you have some good people that are saying look you know we could help each other out and uh that's that's really good for the sport you know that's that's one positive for the sport I think the guys are really looking to help each other out but the the one thing is yeah I I think um Martin really overshadowed Andrew's Andrew's win.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

It sucked but what are you gonna do you know my mate Paul pulls into the yard each time and he's beeping the horn to make the dogs go crazy on the dogs oh your your uh your neighbor no you know the old guy Paul I sometimes go to the car shows with him yeah you hang out with yeah yeah he just came in as he comes in he's beeping his horn beep beep and the dogs go crazy he's like did the dogs miss you when you got home yes yes they were all over me then last night I had the cat stuggled up to me going side to side and stuff like that so yeah it was good good to be home yes you don't feel 100% yet today still a little bit but so they had um what was that restaurant that they that they uh rented out where the ice cube davon busted no that was um Andrake that was the one up on the building where they had the big ice they even had a huge ice sculpture and the young young la thing and they must be making a fortune that company must be making a fortune i googled I think um Sid looked it up and I think was it last year like 176 million in sales wow that's amazing even when um I gotta get some shit myself I gotta order some stuff myself to be honest with you because even when we went to the hotel I said you need a credit card put down for it's a ten I said like no this card put down for covers everything so I'm like oh okay so and because really a company that big you know all of that your sponsorships and stuff that's all a tax write-off so the more the more tax write-offs you can get helps you come but yeah you still gotta get there though you know you still gotta make it then that that's I think I think they're making it so they can yeah I think so yeah yeah no that was pretty cool man i'm I'm glad that they they pulled out all the stops for you guys you know because uh I don't think a lot do a lot of companies do shit like that I don't think so they might not go to that that extent maybe not that extent I know some take people out on you know dinners and stuff like that and do different things but I've never like you know I've been sponsored by a lot of companies over the years and that but I've never been with one like this that treats you this way and goes all out as much as they do.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Yeah yeah yeah yeah so that's pretty and then and it's funny too because all the fans that even come up it's like I see him it's almost like they're young but like I said due to the trend twins and Sam and that's resurged like they come up there like oh we love your videos Lisa I guess they've watched them now think and these weren't even born when I retired some of you in 06 some of you less than 20 some of you are less than 20 years old and stuff but yeah it was pretty good and like I said a lot of them it's weird because you have a lot of gamers there I know some of them aren't even into bodybuilding so if you looked at it almost looks like a cross between a bit of fitness a skateboard type place or like a combination of really you know back in my day when you went to an expo everyone walking around was like like they trained yeah yeah now it's almost like a bit of a surfing convention skateboard convention gaming which I guess everyone if they're all into fitness they're into fitness but yeah well that's just it's just different to what it used to be type thing you know well I think they uh that was the whole idea to expand and bring more uh more people in but make it more mainstream and obviously they did it you know it worked yeah yeah because back in the day I remember I met John Jones John Jones was there at the booth too really yeah he was there did you tell him you what you would kick his ass or did you go listen bro I'll beat the shit out of you buddy yeah kick you in the shins I'll drop you he was cool though uh I only only walked past and said hello quickly because I had to get up top there then he was downstairs in another area so and how was uh how was the mountain how was he was cool yeah I think so quickly because it they were taking him off he had security the people from the rain booth taking him out and like I said I was just there to get a drink and say hello to Wendy and I turned around I'm like oh I guess I'm not going anywhere for a while. Did you see uh anybody else was Brian Shaw I just talked to anybody else nah because I I wanted to try like I said I was kind of hoping well Hardy wrote to me hoping to meet up but I didn't get to see him because once I got down there on the floor and tried to walk it's almost impossible to you know I wanted to try catch up with a few people but I didn't like I said I caught up with Phil and Jay mainly at the young LA dinners and stuff like that and I was drinking gin and he was like what's that I just like drink it it's tequila was he having a couple of drinks yeah he just shakes his head I said that's right first it was Krispy Kreme now it's drinks I said I'm he's like he goes he'll just bow I said that's right come to the dark side I said I'm just like I'm Lord Vader bringing all you people one month of Phil Heath hanging out with you is gonna be fat and alcoholic he's gonna be a mess. It's gonna be a fucking disaster I know Phil's getting into different stuff I think like positivity stuff and different things like that. So what is I said he put out I think like I saw a post he put up where he was somewhere he put up a post I think he came out of somewhere and he's talking about when you look in the mirror behind yourself I comment I go yeah I need to do that because of this sciatic nerve and that when I go to the gym and I can't lift properly and my shoulder hurts I just look in the mirror and go you fucking piece of shit why are you it's like I'm so negative on myself I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't be talking like that.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

Maybe I should turn the way of thinking around I think you should be very positive man you got a blessed life you know it's fantastic. I mean you know people around the world line up to fucking see you.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

But I guess frustrating though when you want to train properly and you can't it's just like fuck it. Yeah I know but you go to the gym at what three o'clock in the morning or some shit like that so you could I get up at three I go to the gym at five so maybe on some stuff I have to go with legs now I go in the morning when I drop her Rachel off and I'll do cardio but on leg day I'll go do cardio come home for have breakfast then I'll go back for legs because sometimes five in the morning the back of the nerve isn't really where it wants them.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Right right right but then when I get home for two hours and have breakfast I'm like I don't really want to go back so sometimes I don't if I don't do it first thing I sometimes won't go back so it was a catch when you're in the gym uh do you have people that come up to you and bother you and talk to you pretty much all know me so it's okay I don't know because I always even when I you uh but they're like they're like I don't want to interrupt your training I said have you seen what I'm doing I'm not gonna be trained well that I always try to like if I saw uh Keem in the gym or if I saw Justin Rodriguez in the gym or Sean Clarita you know what I just noticed I must have put a setting on my thing you watch behind me here my camera follows me look oh look at that wow very cool but anyway we have to know because my phone's not moving because before I'm thinking I must be tired because when I do this I'm watching the game I'm thinking the box I got the phone on I'm like is it tipping forward I'm like yes that's weird look but when I used to when I used to go when I holy shit when I used to see those guys I would just give them a quick hello because I knew they were training you know and I would say I would shake the hands okay go ahead I know you're training and I would just keep it moving because I don't want to be you know I don't want to be a pain in the ass and stop them from training or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

But uh yeah I would think the majority of people understand but especially huge expo probably one of the biggest and most packed and I did see Brian Powers they are adding a first day they're gonna have a fourth day at the expo because it was just so many people that's actually pretty cool. Maybe next year we're you haven't been to the Arnold have you no I've been to the Olympia three times I've never been to the Arnold maybe I'll uh maybe Arnold's actually closer than the Olympia the thing is though there's there's an incentive to go to the Olympia because it's Vegas so I can make a vacation out of it still you don't you don't you don't think ohio is a it's a good vacation spot in the middle and at the beginning of if I'm with young la still next year you'll have to come along yeah next definitely if they've uh get Dave and Busters again we can play games oh yeah that'll be a lot of fun well hopefully we could do a lot of fun shit this year in Nashville is uh LA is uh young la gonna be there or you're with somebody else no I'm just there as Lee Priest Lee Priest ah very cool very cool with that um what's his name again uh Jay Jake Atlanta yeah that guy Jake yeah that fucking guy yeah yeah four time Mr Olympia whoopy do how is it adjusting back to uh Australia though oh I sometimes don't know what day it is right George she woke up in the middle of the night she's like because I slept in the other room because it was warm because I I have like fans in the main bedroom but the other room has a nice new air conditioner so I set it to 15 degrees I mean there with the cats. She woke up and she's like oh great Lee comes home today and that and she forgot I was already home this I didn't even think of that the weather difference does that bother you because it was it's cold in Columbus Ohio I liked it was cool I liked it cool it's like that one time I left the expo and I'm eating the cookie and that and people have stopped me it started to rain really hard and they're like come on Lee I'm like oh no there's people on the street I'll take photos with them so by the time I walked down to the gym I was pretty wet holy shit that's gotta be pretty cool man um did you go out drinking uh the night before the flight I drank I drank at Dave and Buster's oh night before the flight yeah night before the you left you went out uh that would have been Sunday night wouldn't it yeah I can't remember I no I think I might have drunk at the hotel but not much because I was thinking about that but I think I I think I had a few uh or was that the night at Mandrake's that was Mandrake's Sunday night where was it that Mandrake thing that was Sunday night yes I did drink I had probably three Long Island iced teas and then I had there's that young Logan kid who's like 19 and I got with him and he was getting a shot at the bar I was like Lee get a shot of me I said okay so I had two shots of ginny had like two shots of thing and then I took one of the young guys dropped out that's rough but he I ended up his mate would tell me we lost him somewhere he ran off and slept in his car this young kid I'm like I said be careful be careful now it's like you're drinking a bit I was like yeah so I did have a few that night yeah but then I was thinking I don't leave to the afternoon and I went to the gym that morning just did some light legs but then I was doing light legs I'm like you gotta fly tonight maybe I shouldn't do too much because I'll probably get a cramp and feel like shit oh it's the worst like I said but I think cause of that I just wasn't I think I was just so brain tired and I get home and my psychiatrist is telling me I got psychosis was it hallucinating I was hallucinating she said watching TV I'm like what's that there she's like what I said don't you see that she's like that's just your eyes in your head I said you can't see that that's because you're fucked up well it's like it's like I was drunk on on THC gummies but hadn't had any of it wow my gummies are in the suitcase when you did the show with me and you you were like Sid said I'm supposed to take half and you popped the whole thing well my gummies are in the suitcase it was still on its way here.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

How did um how did they work?

SPEAKER_01 35:03

Did they work pretty good those gummies that you were taking yeah yeah and um I got some Sid's mate bro sent me some did a show so I've got a couple of packets of them in the suitcase well hopefully they're still in the suitcase does it relax you or what's the outcome? There's two types there's the do you know honey what they are because there is like the people like well you don't know no I don't know I think the ones that help you relax and sleep there are the ones that's comedy yeah that's what I would yeah the ones that get you up a bit like boost you up. No fuck that I want I want I like to be calm I like to be chill and I suppose it's that fine line too where you go from calm to chill to oh oh it's trippy now it's like oh shit hang on we're on a roller coaster oh fuck that uh so what the next time you come to the states will be June now yeah because next month is Fivo in Germany I've actually been talking to Martin Ford a bit I should try and get him on the podcast because he wants to he he's interested in joining young la I said well you got 4.8 million followers he's damn Jesus he's in the new he's been in so many big movies and TV shows Martin Ford he's in the new Mortal Kombat 2 and he was in that with Anthony Hopkins those about to die where he played a ton if you look at his resume he's been in a couple of um he's perfect for Scott Aikens movies and that and yeah he's perfect yeah and I said it'd be great for you know young LA just different you know and I guess I think young LA just cares about you know your following like that you have a huge following well I saw someone say that I there's they're interviewing the owner summer said what's it take to be a young LA athlete like this and they mentioned something about how many people you got following you and if you're something that we can whatever so it doesn't matter what you think one guy he's into gaming and then other people are just into whatever. So they go across all boards on things which is pretty cool because I guess they're gonna sell clothes to everyone so if they just were going to sell to bodybuilders they wouldn't be making the money they are because bodybuilders are cheap bastards.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Yeah no definitely not yeah no absolutely you know I gotta go on the site I actually went on the site a lot of stuff was sold out I actually went on the site last week I got I got a box right here I don't know what's in it we could do a we could do an unboxing while we're online right now honey can you bring me a knife please I want to be like one of those influencers what could it be yeah yeah here it is look here it is why do you have that why do you have that knife beside the couch?

SPEAKER_01 37:41

Holy shit holy shit what's it got engraved on it on one side it says I fucking hate you it says on one side I fucking love you and on this side it had engraved I fucking hate you Jesus Christ you know do you know this brings back I'm gonna get emotional our very first our very first night together this is the knife I used to cut her chest oh don't don't tell me that don't don't tell oh baby it's so beautiful oh my god this was the one I found under the pillow and then she sat on top of me and she goes she said I fucking love you and while she's sitting on my cock with this in her hand we're only the first night together I said I fucking love you too that's it it was love oh Jesus Christ when a girl sitting on top of you holding this in her hand and she says she loves you what are you gonna say oh I'll check in with you tomorrow no it doesn't I have I have feelings for you what do you mean feelings oh my god here we go oh here we get a well hi people young LA has just sent me a box what could it be what could it be why don't we open it together like Mr. Rogers go on oh look at this beautiful track pants beautiful look at that they have the zipper in the bottom oh the feeling on my skin great you can wear that three months from now when it gets cold in Australia oh look you can put all over your cars and whatever young LH like the I reckon they could save millions the packaging on all their stuff is like perfect yeah you'd like this one if you like your one of these type tops with the big rough around the corner like that's a nice one you like what do we got here's like a t-shirty type one that's a nice material that's like that stretchy material that's all long sleeve stuff so I guess I was gonna say I can't wait the summertime comes out here I get I get I don't even wear long sleeve in the s in the winter here because I I always get hot. That's probably another pair of pants that's my that's uh I don't like white who wears white this is oh let's see what let's see what's in this one you know this is so exciting this is exciting shit it's like watching those youtube things where we're doing the unboxing I went to Amazon today and I ordered this is actually I only watch I only watch the ones that uh girls do when they have big you like this one look at this one does that those that is pretty cool yeah but that's the front and this is the back that is pretty cool and I do I I wear a lot of sweatshirts uh to the gym but now that it's getting warmer out but if you're a good boy I might bring you that oh thank you and that's a nice military colored one like I mean there's it's like 13 kilos of clothes here hold on this is something now that this is something I wouldn't wear now people what do we have here hold on oh the smell is just so divine how these people go on when they fucking undo boxes and this is actually nice because I like these type of shirt like a nice oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that is cool there's fun there's a funeral I'll be here all day if I went through it all and there's another don't knock yourself out there's another one similar oh this is a nice colored one I'll just show you I won't undo it but similar for that one but this color oh that's cool that's a cool shirt that's nice that's blue you know probably bring out the colour in my eyes yeah yeah yeah beautiful blue and then there's some nice oh this ain't a bad one it's probably it better not be long sleeve it's probably long sleeve again I could just cut the sleeves off them but that's like a nice oh no it's actually short sleeve instead of a Y on the back that's like a nice oh very cool I gotta go for that remind me I actually gotta I gotta because I'm going on uh I gotta see if I can get some uh shirts because I'm going away in April in about what five weeks I'm going away I'm going to the Bahamas yeah well I don't think you need jumpers really no definitely not they guess is what's in the box Wow they really take care of you man that's pretty cool that is very cool long sleeve fida tees fida t's regular tees regular tees star crisis star crisis zip ups tailored white long skate tailored white tying weekend jackets something weekend jacket American flannel american flannels performance workout something performance workout raw something tanks tanks classic striped sweats class rips tactical backpack tactical backpack okay something key chat always the backpack honey can I have your assistance can you get me out the tactical backpack it could be camouflage so you might not see it if you see anything that looks like a tree like it's not a big box but I like take it like the tag it so tight I've taken out four items taken up the table already

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Is that a backpack? No. This looks nice. Is that the backpack? Oh okay, hold on. This one looks worthy to shout. Oh, this is nice.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

Look at this one. Oh I can't describe the material. It's like a it's actually a black dirt. Like a suede material.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Oh that's nice. I don't all that stuff I I I like because I wear all that stuff uh to the gym or to go to work and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

They put all these things in there too. What the clothes are gonna go stale?

SPEAKER_02 44:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

This is actually a heavy backpack. Let's have a look. Oh my god. I got one like this. I was gonna auction off so I could get the money. I got one like this. Yeah, look at that. Nice.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Very cool. That is nice.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

There's young LA. I got one like this. It is like camouflage color. It says Lee Priest there on it and stuff like that. That's actually a nice look at a nice big.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

Yeah, that is pretty cool. That is nice.

SPEAKER_01 45:06

So there you go. That's our unveiling of the box.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

Very nicely, very nice. Now I wanted to ask you, you got something coming up with Greg Valentino, right?

SPEAKER_01 45:16

Oh yeah, like somehow they asked me to do this podcast thing with him. I thought it was a one-off thing, but now they're like when we're recording the next show. So I'll see how it goes. But you know, it's like how many shows can I go on and talk about the same shit?

SPEAKER_02 45:30

Same shit over and over and over again. I know.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

But with Greg, well, then I think it was Greg is we don't really talk bodybuilding, so it might not do too well.

SPEAKER_02 45:37

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

Well, what what podcast is it? I don't know. We'll figure it out. I sent you that thing. What's it what did it say on that thing I sent you? Oh, let me see. I think that's what they're gonna call it. I don't know. Let's see. Come on. I think what's his name does the editing in the background. Johnny Styles. Uh let's see. Where are you? Oh, you know, you know who it was who who I saw because they sent me a group message. What's his name's in it? Um it's not in it, but he somehow put it together for Greg when they cut it. What's his name? Um, the guy from Strength Addicts, Christian Duke. Christian, uh it says no holes barred. Oh, that's what it is, that's what I think.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Yeah, no, no holes barred. Uh Lee Priest and Greg Valentino. Yeah, so if you don't want to learn anything, yeah. Go into that one. All right, very cool, man. All right, I'm gonna let you go and get some rest and chill out and relax. Thank you very much. No problem. This week is uh the Detroit Pro. So we'll be having that. That's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_01 46:41

Who would have I think uh who are the big names gonna be in that? Who's the main ones now? That it is I was surprised Nick didn't go to that one a week later. He would have fucking just wiped the floor and got the Olympia.

SPEAKER_02 46:54

It looks like Blessing and Nathan Nathan Epler are the two big names.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

Uh Nick would have won that hands down.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

Like yeah, I know. There's a lot of oh, Patrick Moore's doing it.

SPEAKER_01 47:05

Oh, yeah. He he never like if he Patrick Moore's not bad. If he hits the if he comes in shape, he's got like great shape in that. He does.

SPEAKER_02 47:13

You know, there was one Olympia. I I don't remember what year it was. He came in and he looked fantastic, but anyway. All right, dude, good. And I will uh I'll text you tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 47:24

Now I've got to go fold up all these fucking clothes. Thanks. I'll talk to you later. Wasn't it a great unboxing? It was wonderful. Thank you, Young LA. And if you want that, go to Young LA and use code priest.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

Oh, that's right. Yeah, go to use code priest.

SPEAKER_01 47:38

You know, I didn't even think about a sticker, and you'll get a sticker.

SPEAKER_02 47:40

That's right. I'm gonna use code priest when I go on there. All right, dude.

SPEAKER_01 47:44

I'll just show you so many stuff I got here because I won't wear a lot all of it. But if you like that white one there, I'll I'll bring it to Nashville. You don't like white.

SPEAKER_02 47:54

I don't want to wear white.

SPEAKER_01 47:55

It's gonna it's gonna be you you're racist, or what is it?

SPEAKER_02 47:58

Yeah, yeah. No, you can I don't you don't have to bring me anything, bro. You know, you know, no, I won't. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

All right, I'll see you later again. I'll bring you this empty bottle when I'm finished, AK. See this? I'm gonna sign it and bring it to you. Yeah, thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. I'll talk to you later, bro. Bye.