I Don't Know About That - Strongman with Martins Licis

Episode Date: October 6, 2020

In this episode, the team discusses Strongman competitions with the 2019 World's Strongest Man, Martins Licis (@martinlicis).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We've been talking about it for a long time. We've got some Iron Brew. It's probably the biggest news to happen to me this week. Wouldn't you say? Yeah. You had some good stuff happen. Oh, I got married as well. Yes, I also got married.

I got married to a lovely girl. Love of my life. And it was a beautiful day. I haven't put it on my private social media, but I haven't put it on my public social media because a lot of my fans can be vicious and nasty people. Yeah, that's so fucking rude. And I wanted to have a nice time.

Like life over. It's like as if you didn't actively make the choice to get married. I I wanted to have a nice time. Like life over. It's like as if you didn't actively make the choice to get married. I do do that with my wife now. We've been married for a week, and I do do that constantly now like this. I call it the old ball and chain. Things have changed. And she's like, I went to have a drink. And she goes, are you having a drink?

Oh, you knew this when you married me. I do a bit of that with us. We had a wonderful wedding. We went to Vegas, just eight of us, two of her friends, two of my friends, my ex Kate and my son came along because we all get along very good and she's part of my family. And what we did was we went out there and we had a lovely little wedding in the little white chapel and there was Elvis impersonators standing around.

This chapel, I've got to tell you. Guy dressed like a cowboy, 80s, people dressed like the 1980s. They're all there. the little white chapel and there was Elvis impersonators standing around this chapel. I got to tell you, I dress like a cowboy eighties. People dress like the 1980s. They're all there. A lot of people not taking their marriage seriously. Wasn't it across from a strip club or something? It's across from a tattoo parlor.

So afterwards, my shop, what you can do is you can porn a ring. You can buy a ring from the porn shop. Then you can get a tattoo of the girl's name behind your ear or some shit and then you can all go to the strip club and organize a threesome what a wonderful day and it was in a neighborhood where there were some other places you can get married as well and there was one store that said ten dollar tuxedos made of paper the chapel sells those t-shirts that make you look like you're wearing a tuxedo

and they and they just have a few veils just like on hooks like what a veil what a t-shirt like that and it's like this is the thing with vegas weddings there's a myth that people get drunk and they just go in there and they get married like out of friends or whatever like when britney spears place where britney spears was married for an hour or whatever she was that's not the case you have to go to the clark county marriage registry place and get your certificate now thank god that is open till midnight right but it's like the dmv right you gotta you gotta stand around there and you gotta wait in line couples yeah it's just couples because you have to go in together the two of you have to go so so we're all couples socially distancing with us and everyone was doing the same thing

behind their master going they're not going to make it what about that one those two haven't got a chance in hell i can't believe she's with him yeah she's a bit young for him yeah she's a bit old for him you know what i mean like we were judgy as we went in there we had a lovely time then we went out to dinner and we uh had an edible and we got high and so we could have a nice little giggle and we were sitting there and we had to sit in two separate booths because of covid or whatever and so i'm sitting in a booth next to my beautiful bride and we're sitting there and i ate a i ate a tomato and burrata is that the name of the cheese? Burrata. Burrata. Morata. Yeah, like a mozzarella. Those tomatoes and mozzarella things.

And, you know, I'm high. And I'm also a fucking animal. I'm an animal, right? So I've eaten everything. But then there's some slops of cheese and tomato, which I picked up with my gnarled up hand. Yep, that sounds about right. And I picked it up and I shoved it into my mouth.

And then I reached down because I had one of those white napkins on my thing. I put it to the side. I reached down and i cleaned my hands off to find out that i had cleaned my hands off on her wedding dress oh no the horror as i realized i'd been married for about an hour oh no so now you're divorced she just looked at me like what but god bless her she just laughed yeah and everything was fine if she wasn't high the marriage could have been over i i think that we'd help the thing and i think we you normally get tomato out of things it's not a stain that persists it's not a wine well i've spelt a lot of tomato on shirts over my life i've eaten a lot of pasta and made a lot of mistakes

and uh i've still got those shirts but you also got lucky with somebody who's pretty chill. She doesn't care about, like, she didn't care about having, like, a super frilly. COVID couldn't have helped me more because she's British, I'm Australian. We would have had to fly out British relatives and Australian relatives. Everyone just watched on Zoom and it was a wonderful day.

And her mother, Becca, she listens to the podcast every week. Oh. And so I'm always a little conscious of things that I say on the podcast and then I say them anyway. And she still likes me. She still likes me. That's incredible, honestly. Yeah, she doesn't care.

Shout out to Becca. Yeah, Becca. Becca Sinnott. How are you doing? How are you doing? You doing good there, Mom? Yeah, Becca. Becca Sinnott. How are you doing? How are you doing? You doing good there, Mom? Yeah, she's your mom now. I call her Mom.

She's exactly the same age difference of me and my wife. She's higher up and I'm in the middle there. So I could have married either of them. But I chose Tasey and I'm very happy. It was very funny on the way there. We were in a limo, me, you, JJ, Kate, and your son. And I remember as we got to, it's in Old Vegas, and there is a transition getting in the Old Vegas,

especially the old where you're like, ah, this neighborhood's changing a little bit. I remember looking out the window and you were like, yeah, it's sort a little bit I remember looking out the window and you were like yeah it's sort of a shitty area I was like yep this is where you get married and then we pulled up and I was like oh boy but it was really fun and once you

actually got into the little chapel even though it was like get him in get him out get him in it was still very sweet and sentimental it was nice it was funny and sweet it was fun it was kitschy. It was beautiful. They play the walk-in music.

They walk in, right? Yeah, it's very similar. Star Wars nicked it, man. Anyway, so they walk in. But it's not like it's on an MP3 player and a Bluetooth speaker. Yeah, it was, I don't know if you're saying that, but it was your bride and your son.

And they were walking, because he was giving her away, which was really cute. It was so cute. And they walk into the, yeah, what were you saying? They walk in, and the stereo is from like the 1980s. It's like a CD. And they press play. Kink. Like that. And there's like a CD. And they press play. And there's no soft fade.

And then she gets to the end. Conk off. It looks like one you would have gotten with Marlboro Miles. I don't know if you remember those. Free stereo. Cool. Yeah, that's a good one. It was a boom box.

Yeah. It's just right there next to a Bible. That's how you keep tradition going. You don't change shit. And they go, can you all stand for the brothers? There's eight of us in there. And Jason Whitehead stands up. And he's 6'1".

So there should have been more clearance. But he just smashed his head into a chandelier. The spatial awareness on that guy is not high. It was right in shot of the Zoom. So we're Bash's head. We're all sitting there, we're all texting each other going, so on brand for JJ.

And then the whole time he's like checking the back of his head for blood. And I'm like, what do you think you hit your head on? It broke the tension because I was very nervous. And then when that happened, we all laughed and then it was all good. Yeah, it was good. There's a part at the end of the video

where Forrest is like, everybody out. JJ, watch your head. I said that? Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember. All right. So we have Iron Brew in the studio.

Iron Brew. So Jim, he said he has had Iron Brew plenty of times, so he didn't need to have it lukewarm. There you go. Yeah. Forrest and Kelly have On Ice. That's it. They have On Ice and Lukewarm.

I have an additional one that has vodka, and Luis and I have vodka. I want people to see the color, though. Like, come on. It looks like cleaner. It's rust from girders is where it originally comes from. It's not quite fan. It's like, yeah, it looks like watered-down Santa, which someone said in the comments. It's rusty water.

It's the water. If you've had a car from back in the day that's really rusty and then it rains. It smells like fucking medicine. I was just thinking that. It smells like kids' medicine. All right thinking that. It smells like kids medicine. All right, everybody. Okay, so I'm doing lukewarm first. Yeah, I'm doing lukewarm first.

It doesn't smell as bad as I think it's going to taste. Lukewarm? It's all right. Yeah, it's okay. It literally tastes like medicine. That's fine. It's not good. It beats Coca-Cola, though.

How does it beat Coca-Cola? It's like an orangey. I would imagine this is like what you look forward to now. Yeah. It tastes like medicine. It's not good. Yeah. I mean, I was preparing myself for truly like rust flavored.

No. The only ingredient. Did you drink it, Luis? Yeah. No, it actually tastes a lot like just a Peruvian soda. You know what? I don't hate it. Way to make an ethnic.

I'm an Iron Brew fan now. The only, you're having it with a vodka. It a Peruvian soda. You know what? I don't hate it. Way to make an ethnic. I'm an Iron Brew fan now. The only, you're having it with a vodka. It's quite nice with vodka. The vodka one's okay. The only ingredients that I recognize is carbonated water. One of the other ones. And that was number four. Is Gertrude's on there?

Braveheart's bowl. Sugar, acid, some coloring, some preservatives. Not acid, acid. And coloring, some preservatives. Not acid, acid. And then colors, more colors. Something that's just called Sport Sunset Yellow. Oh, no, that's the color. Sunset Yellow. I was recommended to get the 1901 batch,

which is when they went back and used the original recipe. And it's not available anywhere. So I emailed the company. I was like, can we have a batch of which is when they went back and used the original recipe. And it's not available anywhere. So I emailed the company. I was like, can we have a batch of that? They go, oh, that was limited. We're not making those anymore. So this is all I could get. No, the original batch was just water from Flint, Michigan.

That's why they won't fix it. I don't mind it. It's tasty. I wouldn't choose it out of a lineup would you drink this over Coca-Cola? oh no what soda in America would you drink this over? zero

you know to me it's in line with any type of orange soda that we have here except the ones here are sweeter so this is actually more i don't i don't eat as much sugar now so i think this is more tolerable it feels like adult fanta yeah a little bit it doesn't even taste like orange soda to me it's more like bubble gum kind of now anyone else got that just me and its logo is like a weight lifting guy

lifting up things like it's giving him energy. Wow, that ties in quite nicely to our episode. Well, we're recording this before. How would we say that? What are you talking about? She was about to introduce the guy. Yeah, I know, but you don't know what he does. I do now.

But you don't. First, let's do our social stuff before we introduce our guest. Oh, let's do our social stuff. Okay. Before we introduce our guest. Oh, yeah. Please subscribe to our podcast. If you're listening to this and you just like find it each week, don't do that. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Stitcher.

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oh is it really and what do you think what do then it's New York and then it's Chicago. It all makes sense, right? Oh, my mom listens. But our number one state is California by a mile. By a mile. Most of our listeners are Californians. But our second state threw me. Hello, Texas.

Texas. Wow. Texas. Texas loves us. You gun nut bloody. But it's population. It's the second largest population. Is it?

Yeah, after California. Oh, I thought New York State or something would be a bigger population. No. Oh, well, it just makes sense then. This isn't as fun. Second country is Australia. Third country is Canada. No, Great Britain.

Fourth country is Canada. And then in with a bullet, it's like, I think it's Germany or New Zealand. New Zealand makes sense. Yeah but there's only 3 million of them. I know but you know. We got all of them. And they only have 4 phones between them and all that stuff. If you would have said Slovenia I would have been. Oh no no no. We're doing terrible in Slovenia.

We do well in Austria. Austria? Austria. Yeah we do well in Austria. We're definitely a very international podcast for sure. Yeah. 60% of our listeners are not from the United States of America. This is growing on me. I'm drinking it now.

I know. I kind of like it. I'm like, I hated it. I think you guys set me up perfectly because I was really expecting something so disgusting. It has to be okay to be number one spot. I don't taste the girders. You can taste rust. Is that right?

No. Don't you think it's what rust would taste like? Let me do the lukewarm one again. If this is what rust tastes like, I'm going to go lick some things. Count me in. All right. Color me. Color me.

It was actually named in New Zealand, and it's pronounced Iron Bro. Iron Brew. Hey, Brew. Iron Brew. It's definitely better with ice. That's the joke, because New Zealanders say the word bro. Brew. Yeah, why would you serve this to us without ice, Jack?

I gave you an ice one. That was the full taste test. But why would you even do it without ice? Well, because just so you could get the whole range of what it tastes like. Who drinks any soda without ice? Lots of European countries drink. Oh, no, no, no. I forgot about that.

The British. Oh, the British. Mostly the Scottish people would probably drink this without ice because the British don't have great dental plans, you see. And all of them are like, it hurts my teeth. And then they're like, but if you get ice, because America has the self-serving soft drinks at the fast food where you go fill it up yourself. In your restaurants, the unlimited soft drinks where it keeps filling it up, filling it up, filling it up.

Everywhere else in the world, your dad, you'd get a Coca-Cola and you'd go, all right, I have to make this sit out the whole meal. Right. Don't waste it too much. Because you don't get a second Coke. Your dad's not buying you a fucking second Coke. And so there's a theory there that the ice means you're going to get less soft drink where in america you don't give a fuck about less soft drink because it's unlimited soft drink oh that makes america yeah so that's why you're more ice bound people all right well it tastes

better i can't wait for the episode on ice i i really like ice or carpet like you mentioned we're never doing it on carpet just so you know carpets happening if it runs for 30 years we'll have to do carpet what about rugs i was in an empire carpet commercial this would be a great time to promote that if we do a carpet there's there's so many there's shag pile and there's other ones shag pile carpet shag pile shag pile's the stuff from the 70s that was real shag it was real thick

the shag pile carpet yeah I've heard I've heard shag we just call it shag oh I call it shag pile that sounded more like a sexual yeah

move we got a shag pile on the carpet no no no I've got I've got a I've got a couple of shag piles

scheduled on Tuesday I've been taking out the arse too much I've got shag piles oh god I on Tuesday. I've been taking up the ass too much. I've got shag piles. Oh, God. I wasn't even going there. Where were you going? Having sex on a carpet

would be a shag pile. No, Jack. There's got to be more than two people in a shag. That could be a pile. It could be anywhere. Have you?

But he went hemorrhoids. I wasn't even thinking. You've only had sex a few times, Jack. Now, have you ever used anything beside a bed? Is there any other surface you've ventured out to? Nope.

I could try a shag. Yeah. I'll tell you what. You'll try other things. You'll try benches and tables and pool tables and floors and kitchen floors and things and all this type of stuff. Sand. Sand. Sand is the worst.

You'll do it on a beach. You'll do it on all these different things. You always go back to the bed the bed's the best one I agree some people are like where's the most adventurous place you've had sex as if you're supposed to have this long list and I'm like

I've tried places that are adventurous and none of them are better than a bed top of a mountain there's that urban myth there's that urban myth that I think it was an Australian radio show or something like that where they call up a couple, right? So they call up the couples and the couples,

he has to answer some questions and then she has to answer the questions to see if, you know, it's the honeymoon game. Yeah, yeah. The honeymoon game. See if they get it right. So the guy, they go, where was the last place you had sex? And he goes, in the living room on the sofa right and then they ring up the wife and they go and to win this prize they go where was the last place

you had sex and she's like oh i don't want to say i don't want to say he goes come on we're gonna win a car we're gonna win whatever we're gonna just just tell him just tell him and she in the living room on the couch as long as it wasn't the same place all right um so let's welcome our guest in for this week uh if i'm mispronouncing this let me know but please welcome our guest martin's lissies that's close enough well i'll say it right for us martin's martin's leeches leeches okayies okay martin's leachies leachies yeah like the fruit yeah i don't think he's related to the fruit is it leachies or leachies leachies and and uh my language is actually martin's leachies you can tell them what language it is that's not latvian i'm from latvia so oh latvian all right that doesn't help me at

all i know that's why i said he could say it well i i think okay so you're sitting in front of a tesla car you've got a monster energy seat you have a t-shirt that says i'm tired uh there's something called total fuel in the background he has something to do with caffeine or something that picks you up does Does he look like that? He's an expert in caffeine. No. What do you mean, does he look like that? He may not have slept for years.

So I want to say something to do with energy drinks. No. Okay, all right. Okay, well, I'll ask a question then. Is your expertise something to do with working out never asked that i'm allowed to answer these yeah yeah yeah yeah uh are you are you a a weightlifter no okay something to do with working out and it's and i'm tired and total body fuel uh do you work with supplements don't work with supplements yeah it like is is your

expertise with supplements i'm not asking you if you take steroids that's that's is that a no yeah not my no not my expertise um uh does it involve um uh sex in any way. Well, I will say, before we keep going, before we keep going, weightlifting is in the field? Sort of, yeah. You own the Olympics. It's part of it. But I mean, weightlifting is, you know, if you talk about weightlifting, that is a very specified sport.

Yeah, okay. So you're involved in sport? Yes. Okay, so he's involved in sport. He's a badminton player. I'm trying to think of all the great Lapthian sports. Great Lapthian sports. He's a jockey.

Yeah, he's a jockey. He just looks big. But it's all from a perspective. The camera is very close. Yes, exactly. Okay, does your sport involve... Yeah, that's camera is very close does your sport involve yeah that's a good one does your sport involve animals

I have heard that it could he's thinking about it right now falcon racing I give up I'm not going to get this He's thinking about it right now. Falcon racing. Doesn't have... I give up. I'm not going to get this. Here it could involve animals. A little bit of weightlifting.

A little bit of weightlifting could involve animals. Like there. It's goat head tennis. Martin Lichis is the reigning world's strongest man of course it involves wait you're the strongest man in the world yeah we're out here and there that's just happened i love those shows me and my son watch you fucking people pick up rocks and shit you pick up the big boulders and you put them on top of little stands and you get another one and then go pull a truck for me.

Oh, fuck. You might be really good on this episode. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I watch this stuff. It's all about flipping shit. Are you the world's strongest man? That's actually very impressive. That must be a wonderful feeling to be the world's strongest man.

It's quite excellent, yeah. Does that help you pick up chicks? I would say so. Literally. Literally. Can you pick up like five of them? Let me give you that. Let me do your whole intro, Martins.

The world's most serious goof in strength sports, Martins Lichis, a.k.a. The Dragon, is the current reigning world's strongest man. At 6'3", and weighing 350 pounds, he's taken on monsters of the sport like The Mountain and Brian Shaw. Not related. Both standing at around 6'8", and 450 pounds. He's a lot smaller.

Martins optimizes body mechanics and technique to take on much larger opponents. You can find him on Instagram or on YouTube, being his goofy self at Martins Lichis. That's M-A-R-T-I-N-S-L-I-C-I-S. Thanks for being here. This might be my favorite topic we've ever done. I don't know if I'm—this is right up there with cheese. You know what's great is that he actually commented on one of our clips like this is awesome i'd love to do he probably

didn't say that was that's my edit a few just to make sure it got through yeah he's like i would love to do this so we reached out to him so this this is a perfect storm right here all right ask me away i think i know all this i know i watch this on the telly okay so this is what we're gonna do martinez 2019 one you'll see me which one you can when are you competing next uh next i'm gonna compete in march we have to wear a face mask to do that i i feel like that would get in the way will they make you wear face masks uh no will there be an audience or will there be cardboard cutouts of people wearing monsters cutouts a lot to do for now

but he lives in la so if you want him to pick you up at any point carry you around oh no i would love to see one of those live yeah no no like pick you up yeah yeah i know the joke no no he there's on his instagram there's there's a video of him picking up a former nfl player vernon davis he was a tight end and i also did yeah yeah he's picking he's picking him up over his head like these giant from the tom and grunk show no that's from that's from our last episode um all right martin so here's what we're gonna do i'm gonna ask jim a bunch of questions about strong man competitions and, and that kind of things. He's going to try and answer them and tell us as much as he knows about it.

And then we're going to see how well he did. You're going to rate him on his accuracy, zero through 10, 10 being the best. So just listen to his answers for now and we'll take notes and then we'll come back to you and we'll, we'll get going. So,

all right. What are strong man competitions? Oh, it's it's it's we're trying to find the strongest man on earth and they're they're a mixed form of events um ranging from as i said pulling vehicles to lifting rocks to flipping things over and all that type of stuff there's a lot of lifting and flipping of things lifting and yeah you're flipping car tires and shit like that. There's dragging involved. There's dragging and lifting and flipping. Sounds like Suge Knight.

Yeah. When and where did they originate? Strong people since the dawn of time. No, the competitions. The competitions, I reckon, it feels like something the Greek would do, but now I might be getting mixed up with the Olympics and them starting that. But I always think of Olympias and holding things, like the Greek gods.

I'm going to hesitate to guess it. Greece. Greece? Greece. What year do you think? Ah, fucking 82. 82? Yeah. Greece? Greece. What year do you think? Ah, fucking 82. 82? Yeah.

1982? I think the competition. You just said 82, so I don't know. I think the competitions, as we know them on TV, are a more recent thing. I don't remember them. I don't think they're from the, but I think the strongman competition that we know about now would have started in the 80s. I remember the first time they were doing it,

they were flipping fluoro tires, and in the background it was like, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun- games they're not pussies uh the highland games are like a scottish thing that has been going on um for a very very long time that's been going on for hundreds of years and that's uh like kaiber kaiber kaiber or kaiber tossing where they get the the wood the big the pole i am so they get the pole and they try to flip it in one thing they have to throw it so hard that it gets back on its axis and it flips over to the other side. So that's like a Scottish Highland feats of strength. And what was the other one that you asked about?

Crossfit. Well, Crossfit's just people doing squats and burpees fast and everything. And it's more about endurance than it is about strength and stuff. Although, of course, strength is involved. And endurance is involved in this competition, but I'm looking at this man, I don't think he is up to do 50 burpees. You know what I mean? You probably can.

You probably can. I'm not saying you can't, but that's not his skill, is the burpee or the fucking plank. His skill is lifting up people who do planks and burpees. his skill is lifting up people who do planks and burpees. Can you, can you name six events in the strong man competition? Um, I don't know the names of them and stuff.

Okay. But there's the one where they have to throw shit over like a fucking, like a, like a high jump pole, like a pole vault length of thing they get. I can't remember what they throw. I think it's like little, uh, like, uh, concrete balls or steel balls.

You know what I mean? Or maybe cowbells or something like that. And they have to chuck them over, and they get progressively heavier as you go along, and they have to do it within a certain amount of time. Then there's the one where they have to lift up the round boulders, and they have to put them on top of little podiums, and the boulders get they have to put them on top of little podiums and the boulders get high

um larger as they go along i don't i'm not sure if the if the actual podiums get higher but that one's a big one where they and then they're gonna get it onto another one that one's a good one then they have to just fucking drag a truck with their teeth or some shit right they have to they have to get a harness and they have to pull a truck a certain amount of distance or just something i think every year it might change one year it's a truck then it's a train then it's a train without a track that one's very difficult um and then not with their teeth they have like a harness or no they have a rope there's just a rope they get and they pull it over and they go with the rope then there's the

flipping of of tires the tire flipping and then there's then there's the the lift something up above your head

for the longest time without shitting yourself you can answer this question afterwards but I heard there's a lot of tampons and assholes in this event

because like people can follow through because of the – they do it in weightlifting and stuff like that. But that may be an urban myth. I hope it's not. It's very popular with Eastern Europeans and Americans are very, very into it. That's, like, a very European – well, I think Western Europeans as well. But, like, because there's always a guy from Germany. But then there's always an American guy.

So he's got tattoos all over his fucking arms and he's good. Buck Davis or something like that. And then fucking Buck comes up and he has to lift something. And he goes, oh, yeah. Yeah. And then like all the Eastern Europeans are like, I just lift things up onto stones. I don't care.

You go fuck yourself, fuckface, with your fucking lifting rock. Right? Okay, there's that one. Wait. Is that an event? That was an event, yeah. Fuckface. So I'm going to name some of the events now.

These are the names of them, and you tell me what this means. You're going to get one of these five. What's that yeah oh i still have one more guess one more guess um thanks um okay so there's throwing over the pole yeah yeah you have threat you have throw over pole yeah round boulders drag a truck by teeth flipping tires and then something was yourself yeah no they're yourself was obviously a joke. Unless it's true. Okay, I'm trying to think.

So there's nothing that involves kicking or lifting with your feet. There's more dragging involves sport. Oh, there's one that involves smashing something. Maybe like something that involves a hammer and cracking through rocks. Hammer smash. Hammer smash. Okay. All right, so I'm going to name the events now.

Okay, I'm going to throw in the Kyber Toss as one of the ones. I'm going to take that out instead of rock smashing. Okay. So the Kyber Toss, I'm going to add into it, even though that's a Scottish Highland-y thing, but I'm going to say that they do that here as well. Okay.

What toss? Caber toss? Caber, gotcha. Yeah, so caber is one that I see listed here. The caber toss, you have that. These are the other five. You tell me which one. Okay.

Farmer's walk. Farmer's walk. What happens there? You've got to get as many animals on your dick. On your dick? And you've still got to walk around like you're normal. Okay. Because an actual farmer would just do it with a sheep,

but they do it with like a full cow. How many animals could you get on your dick, Jim? Small animals, plenty. Please. I could squish on seven or eight rats oh wow okay i'd have to cut a hole in the end of their head they make them all you have some little birds perched on there forget pizza rat it's penis rat yeah yeah and then i could get some birds to sit on top. It depends how aroused I am. Okay, the McLashen Stones. That's the McLashen Stones.

That's where you smash stones with hammers. That's with a McDonald's burger. Smash them. The Hercules Hold. The Hercules Hold. Oh, that's lifting shit above your head for very long. That's the Hercules hold the Hercules oh that's lifting shit above your head for very long that's the Hercules pose so that's holding something

above your head for as long as possible cable caber toss you already said that pole pushing pole pushing is that

oh I've seen that one I might be mixing it up with that show that The Rock has on nbc at the moment titan games the titan games where there's two people and they push poles through a thing and they stand on other ends and it's like a tiger war but with a pole and then the crucifix the crucifix is uh okay so so the crucifix in the in the um in the in the Olympics is the position that you do on the rings. I don't think that these guys' bodies are built for that position. So what would they do?

I'm going to say it would be involved holding up a certain amount of weights with your arms fully extended over a certain level past the bottom of your rib cage for as long as possible wow yeah you got that wrong you got to nail your hands into some way uh who tends to be the best in the strongman competitions you kind of went over this already we'll skip that him yeah yeah ding ding ding he's the best he's the look at his fucking arms man eastern europeans so eastern europeans and buck davis yeah yeah no america does well Back in arms, man. Eastern Europeans. So Eastern Europeans and Buck Davis. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

America does well. Australia always has one bloke called Gavin who comes in and gives it a go. Gavin wasn't even really in the competition. He was just backpacking around trying to find himself and he thought it would be a bit of a laugh and he came in 27th out of a field of 25. Is there a Strongman Hall of Fame?

If so, how many people have been inducted? Well, of course there is. There's a Strongman Hall of Fame. Where's it at? Oh, under a rock. You have to – if you can't get in, you have to... If you can't get in, you can't get in. Until you get in the Hall of Fame.

I'm going to say that there's 20 guys. 20 guys? Can you name anybody? 20 guys and one German woman from the mid-90s. Can you name any of them? Other than Martins, can you name any of them do you know uh other than martinez yeah i many i i could recognize the you know well there's buck davis of course there's buck davis yeah buck davis jr there's buck davis uh joe finkel joe finkel he's always on the podcast joe finkel threw the spaceship up into the air he's a repeat offender on this podcast martinez joe finkel. He's always on the podcast. Joe Finkel threw the spaceship up into the air. He's a repeat offender on this podcast, Martins, Joe Finkel.

He's always an answer when Jim doesn't know. A couple more questions and let's get to Martins. How does judging work? How do they judge? What you do is you look at someone and you make assessments. He's a strong man. That person probably smells. Jack looks like a guy who never gets laid.

That's how judging works. In the competition. Yeah, Luis isn't a natural blonde. Holy shit, I didn't know that I was a blonde. You thought it was a different person. It's like he's gone into the witness protection program. Corner boy's gone rogue. No, the judging works, it would be, I think it's like he's gone into the witness protection program boys gone rogue um decision uh no the judging the judging works it would be i think it's the same okay so there's

some there's some events that are just quintessential you did seven rocks you did nine rocks yeah like that and then there's other things where they go they do it the same as like diving in the olympics where you have uh let's say judges, and they take away the best and the worst score, and then they average the other ones out. It's like form could matter, maybe. Okay. How do you qualify, and does each country get a representative? I don't believe each country gets a –

no, of course each country doesn't get a representative. And from the country of Mauritius, we have Martin, the rock lifter. He just shows up and he's really thin. No, no, no. We could have, like Tonga could have about 10 people, couldn't they? I think maybe they might limit the amount a country can have. I think there may be a limit on how many a country can have, but I don't believe that every country can get a person in

because, you know, I was about to pick on New Zealand, but fuck it, there'd be some Maori cunts who could really fucking lift rocks, I tell you. Oh, fuck yeah. I tell you, there'd be Maoris who could crush this sport, crush it. How many calories per day does the average strongman consume? Okay, so the average adult male should consume between,

like to lose weight 2,000, 2,500 to remain even 3,000 to gain weight. That's just regular male. Regular male. Now, I remember reading that Michael Phelps, who isn't that strong, but is extremely athletic, in case you didn't know. No. And Michael Phelps, who isn't that strong, but is extremely athletic, in case you didn't know.

No. And Michael Phelps used to consume, I believe, 10,000, 12,000 calories a day. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he was swimming for nine hours a day. He did shit. He didn't just sit on the couch, Jack. Yeah, but he could just eat and eat and eat because he was swimming. He was burning off so much. He's probably sensible about it,

but I hear he was eating lots of chocolate. I don't know. I shagged his ex-girlfriend. Are you still friends with her? Yeah, yeah. Well, not with her. Anyway, so I would assume it would be maybe similar to that. So I'm going to say 10, 10 to 12,000 calories a day.

Okay. Who holds the record for the most World's Strongest Man wins in titles? And how many and what country is this? Okay, well,

I don't know their names. Okay, I don't know their names. But who has the most? So how many wins do you think they had and then what country do you think he was from? I would think

there would be a guy who has six wins and I'm gonna give it to germany germany okay that's it for uh for jim's jim's answers martinez thanks for being patient and sitting there uh on a scale on a from zero to ten ten being the best how did jim do an accuracy when it comes to the strong man competition do on accuracy when it comes to the strongman competition. He does know about that. I'd give him like a 7 or an 8. He's not bad. Thank you.

A few mistakes here and there. Didn't know the names, but got the gist of it. Yeah, it's like the female body parts. Or just females in general. I don't know her name, but I get the gist of i know i know what a clitoris is i'm still not sure what bit the labia what the fuck is the hole in the clitoris and what more information do i need obviously no more information yeah uh confidence kelly how do you do i mean i was wildly impressed to be honest with how much he knew. And you were very confident.

I'm giving you a nine on confidence. Woo. Nine. And on that setter, I'm going to give you 10,000. Okay. Whoa. Best score ever. That's a lot, yeah.

So your score is 10,017. That's a pretty high score. Pretty good, pretty good score. That makes you a heavyweight. It was lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight. You're a heavyweight today. All right, all right. Yeah, you need to lose weight.

Now, do they have categories like strongman competition for guys that are 5'2"? Or it's just a blanket thing, right? It's more of a modern thing. Nowadays, they've opened up to middleweights, lightweights, and now heavyweights as well. So they have all the weight classes. Oh, right.

So you can have like a real short, skinny fella that looks like a jockey and then the horse is riding him and we go, he's good. So let's start off. I asked Jim what is a strongman competition and when and where did they originate? He said that they are a mixed combination,

mixed form of events, pulling vehicles, rocks, flipping things over, lots of lifting and flipping. Dragon. In Greece in 1982. How did he do there? What do you?

I mean, it is one of the, it's known as World's Strongest Man is known as one of the oldest or longest running reality TV shows.

I believe it started in the 70s yeah it was 1977 is what i saw yeah the year i was born oh really star wars was in the cinema rocky had just won the oscar and elvis died and jim jeffries was brought into this world the vietnam war was winding down it was it? I don't know. Fuck, that's going to be a hard episode. New episode. And so it's mixed form events, pulling vehicles.

Do you pull vehicles? Yeah, absolutely. All right. Not with our teeth. No, no, that's being silly. Somebody corrected himself. I'll take it. It is with a rope over the shoulder, right? It's not with a harness. It's being silly. But he corrected himself. I'll take it.

But it is with a rope over the shoulder, right? It's not with a harness. It's a harness. It's a harness. You get it latched in. You also get a rope in front of you. A lead rope you can pull on. That's how you pull the vehicle.

But they do it either way. They've had so many variants. So I'd count it. Do you, this is just off topic quickly, do you get a lot of people ask you to help them move yeah man that's why i wear this shirt that's why it's best to not have any skills in anything and definitely don't own a pickup truck oh oh this is why my whole life i've behaved unreliably people don't ask you to do things he's unreliable no but you're on time i'm very punchable i'm very punchable to show up and go i don't want to do that

yeah i would imagine a lot of people ask you to move stuff because there's like as i'm getting older just like i had to pick up a 50 pound bag of sand the other day i was like i can't do it Yeah, I would imagine a lot of people ask you to move stuff because as I'm getting older, I had to pick up a 50-pound bag of sand the other day. I was like, I can't do it. I can't. That would be nothing to you, 50 pounds, I believe. You've got to believe, man. What can you bench?

I actually really rarely bench. That's probably one of my worst lifts. Overhead, I can press 460 pounds. It was one arm, about 275 or 280 pounds. And my best deadlift's been 970 pounds or 440 kilos. Pathetic. So you're 30 pounds off lifting a ton? No, a ton's 2,000.

Oh, is it 2,000? Ah, you bloody weakling. 970 pounds that's fucking incredible on his Instagram I was looking at your Instagram Martins and there's I guess it's in the competition you're lifting 750

is that like a deadlift where you're squatting it 7 times I was doing repetition with 750 pounds have you ever had a doctor advise you like you've gone and go i mean joints a bit sore and they go have you been doing any strenuous activity and then you and you go i lifted 970 pounds the other day and the doctor's like well you should lay off that yeah my joints crack when i get off the couch. So the thought of squatting 700 pounds.

Yeah, my knees crack when I just cross my legs. Sometimes when you open the fridge, you just rip it out of the wall. Here, can you pull up that on his Instagram, the pull up that one of him squatting 750 pounds? Yeah. That's it looks cartoonish. Jesus Christ. Laughing the whole

time like the weights don't look real. It does look like inflatable balloons. Unreal. unreal holy cow and there you go if you're not watching this

sorry but you can go to his Instagram martinslicis that's insane that's fucking insane go to his Instagram and watch it if you're listening to this

it's M-A-R-T-I-N-S-L-I-C-I-S. I watched that, Martine. Why did you stop? Why did you give up at the end there? A little lazy. Because I won. Because I won. That's a good answer.

You could have done a couple more, but I just feel like you phoned it in a little. I don't know. I did. When you're doing that, a little. I don't know. I did. When you're doing that, this is what I always want to ask. So when you're on that seventh one, is your body just hurting and tired? Or are you like, how do you feel? Oh, the adrenaline rush is real.

I was thinking about how to get laid tonight, so I need to get a few more. So there's just women watching there that are just. Oh, yeah, there must must be there must be loads of chicks and guys yeah no no there'd be loads of guys there but like any sport has no i meant into it that are into it yeah they're like any yeah there must be women who are like there's women who love to date serial killers you know what i mean like i'm not saying that but there must be women who lose their shit over just saying that they've shagged the strongest man on earth that must be kelly well i'm asking would you is that a thing you would uh i can awkwardly ask you yeah it's super awkward i was gonna say women love

dating serial killers because they put a lot of effort in and they're they're committed to what they do and they're dangerous um i don't i don't know that i have a strong man fetish yeah well but give it a go but i'm sure for for women it's probably great because girls always think about their weight and like i don't know if i'm gonna crush you so at least in that situation nobody nobody would ever have to worry about that. I imagine, Martine, when you have sex, you're usually there on top, right? You don't try to. Well, how do you do sex? Do you just put all your body weight on top of somebody and then just. Oh, I'm always on the bottom.

That's why I date younger. My days on top are over. You get on top and you go,'m gonna do this forever i'm at 10 but then i go let's just lay on our side and run away um all right uh i asked jim how different are is the strongman competitions and crossfit and the highland games he said they're not pussies. Highland games have been around forever. CrossFit is just squats and burpees. More about endurance than strength.

Yeah. Endurance. How's your endurance? He was questioning that. Jim was about 90 seconds of effort. Right. OK. Yeah. So right. Yes. And I need to take a little break. I could go again.

You know, we're talking about the squats. Would you be very competitive at the CrossFit Games? Is it the same set of tools? I used to be very – when I was lighter, yes. Yeah. When I was lighter, I was actually considering going the CrossFit route, but I just love strongmen so much, and that's what caught on. So I think lighter, yes.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Wait, back to the 90 seconds though did you mean between a set of squats or you mean were you talking about sex what's okay so the endurance he just nodded at you either either three times the

average man okay I asked Jim if he can name six strongman events in the strongman competition. I forgot to ask you to demonstrate them. We're going to do that. Maybe we'll do that later. Want me to flip a fucking table?

We don't exactly have the camera blocking for it. Yeah, maybe just with Jack. Use Jack as the rock and the pole. I want to add in an event. Squatting with a big weight on your back. Oh, yeah. That's a good idea um big weight squats as i said earlier you said throw shit over the over a pole round boulders smash boulders drag a

thing with your teeth you did change that flipping tires smashing rocks and then a tampon up the ass because they're shitting is that true is there shit do you have to be worried about can people like get like hemorrhoids and stuff from doing this oh i think it's shitting. Is that true? Is there shit? Do you have to be worried about... Can people get hemorrhoids and stuff from doing this? Oh, I thought you meant shitting. No, but things can fall out of your ass because of the strain. Well, you made a girl cum so hard, shit fell out of her ass, so...

It could happen. It had nothing to do with lifting anything. Well, when I was preparing, when I was competing in a qualifying contest, where the top three out of like 20-something guys were getting invited to World's Strongest Man, I remember I was carrying a mooring bit, something that people hide giant ships to. It was 400 pounds, and the thing was just enormous, and we had to carry it for distance. And I was just a rookie.

No one really looked up to me or thought I would amount to anything, but I really wanted to show them that this is the one event. I could beat them all. And I remember I was going up against Hopcore, the mountain, you know, the guy from Game of Thrones. He was the one guy that was ahead of me. I was trying to catch up to him. I was giving it my all, And I remember my whole body was just

starting to go loose. My vision was fuzzy. My legs were starting to become noodles. And then, yeah, surely enough. Yep. I felt it. Shit. It came out? It came out?

I mean, luckily, I was wearing really tight, you know, it was contained. Oh, God. That'd be the worst. What do you do at the end? You're like, I gotta go, guys.

Good to see you. And you just like run off. This has been really fun. I did place just enough to get qualified for Worlds, so I thought, you know, I was worth it. Yeah, yeah.

It was totally worth it. Good telly um is is there an event is there one of these events like i know for us about to tell me all the different events but is there an event because it feels like they introduce a new event every couple of years like they introduce like we're gonna do this now is there an event that they've introduced where you all went oh for fuck's sake it's like yeah like like they said you're all gonna be flipping mini coopers right yeah there have been plenty of those uh my freaking the one that i was just freaking thought was so stupid was stone pressing

i hate that event and what's it stone you know the atlas you see is put on podiums yeah last last year they well no this year they wanted us to press those over our heads and they don't have handles they can slip and smash your skull so every time i just thought my life flashing before my eyes like oh dear please make it through this event and i like the fact that the person who invents these events uh people with my physique yeah i can't do it at all make him fucking lift a rock over their head but you can't do that that's that's any tv executive in a nutshell do this thing that's impossible and we're just going to sit back and get the money who are you talking to there is there another strong man there

this is one of my best buddies he's also he's uh he's also my YouTube videographer and he's kind of become like my right hand man. Ah okay, I thought you had another strong man there. It's his jerk. He's a little guy but he is strong. He's like 160 pounds, 175. Now you guys aren't allowed to wear gloves when you do any of those things, right? We're allowed to, but they're not going to help with anything. Gotcha. Be intimate with the weights. Oh, okay.

90 seconds. However you feel it. As far as the competition, I asked Jim. One of the competitions I told him was called the Farmer's Walk. He said that's when you have animals on your dick. How did you win that one? Yeah. Correct? Oh. Well said that's when you have animals on your dick. How did you on that one? Yeah. Correct?

Oh, well, that's really far off. That's really creative, Jim. Thanks. You just carry weights in either hand. Oh, I know the one. It's like that one should be called the shopping bags. Yeah. I know the one.

You pick up the ones with the handles and you have to walk as far as you can you have to walk walk walk walk and then you can drop them but you have to get to the finishing line before the other one and then you pick them up again walk walk walk it's a shopping bag race that's the modern version of shopping bags

it's like when you're carrying a ton of grocery bags because you want to take one trip but you also have to shit that's what it looks like. Yeah, the shopping bags. They should change that. The McGlashan Stones. And in the women's strong pit, it's called Women Be Shopping.

Bitches be shopping. The McGlashan Stones. You said it's when they smash stones. you already knew this one i thought you'd get this this is what is this one martinez oh oh it says it's when the five heavy round stones are put on top of barrels so i guess it's like the atlas stone specific stone series okay yeah all right yeah all these guys come up with fancy many different competitions just a different stone series and they add a special name to it but it's all really do you do you have a space in your house that's just filled with all these stones that you go and

put things on and all that type of stuff is that like you must have to you must practice these things of course and you can't practice these things in a regular gym because regular gym don't have fucking ropes and cars to pull and all that type of stuff so do you have this just at home so that's a good question i'm part owner of a gym in thousand oaks in the ventura valley called the training hall where we have all this stuff but during the pandemic it shut down so we set up this garage space with a little with a squat rack and everything I need in here, which has been very nice. Yeah, on his Instagram video, I saw you, you got on your scooter and you just,

it's like almost next door. You're like, I'm going to the gym and you go. Hercules holds, Jim said that's your lift shit. Now that's pretty over your head. Do you know what the Hercules hold is? Is that the right name? That's the one where you hold two columns or whatever. There's these handles attached to these columns that are tilting.

It's a grip effect. Right. You just want to hold on to your dear life so the columns don't fall. Wow. For grip strength, huh? If you shook any of our hands, could you break it, you think? If you wanted to? I don't know about that. Let's make it in the trailer.

Well, let's not try that then, I guess. And then pole pushing, is that what that's called as well, that Jim said that's when one pushes one-on-one pole pushing? Almost on point. It's just a big log. There's a circle, right?

There's a big drawn-out circle, two competitors standing. They're holding a pole. They're trying to push or spin the other guy out of the circle. It's like sumo wrestling, but with a big log. Yep. Pole pushing was also how the Second World War started. That is a good. Damn. That was a deep cut.

That was smart. Wow. I'm Polish. He's back. Back with his political jokes. And then Crucifix, I think Jim had that right. The weighted, you know, you hold the weights out. Yeah, that seems like the worst one to me. It is pretty miserable, but no, there's worse. Ah, okay.

There's worse. That's like a break compared to other stuff. What's the worst one? The one that will really mess with you, I think, is any kind of carry for distance, like a Conan's wheel where you have to go in a circle forever as long as you possibly can it's like 750 pounds on your body and you're just carrying your arms like this

you're going to circle on and on and on until your legs collapse underneath you and you're just almost fainting then do you ever see the problem i have with work i i actually think i can lift like i've had personal trainers that say I'm quite strong. I can lift things quite well. I'm good at the lifting. But the problem that I have with any exercise whatsoever is that my brain's too smart for it, right? My brain goes like this.

You don't have to lift this, you know. Like if I have to move a bit of furniture my brain's like all right we're getting something done it's the same thing with jogging it's like my brain goes this i start jogging and my brain goes you're going further away from the house the more you do this we're just gonna have to do more back or you could just stop right now and go home and i'm like that would be more sensible than running pointlessly in one direction and then having to run back but if i have to if i have to run from like when i said i have to run from a cop or something then my brain my brain would go oh that's good you're running for a purpose i think

i could run then i've i've seen you run and the idea of you running from a cop is probably the funniest visual i've ever had yeah i i'd be more likely to run towards a cop i'd be running towards those people over there upsetting me sir sir i need your assistance no i have a terrible run if you i saw it what i i i thought because when you run you think you're running okay i was in a celebrity soccer match about 15 years ago in britain and i played for fulham because they fulham didn't have any celebrity fans right and each team got all these celebrities like that and it was televised and uh uh ian wright the the arsenal striker who was playing for england and all that type of stuff he was doing the commentary and every time i got the ball he just couldn't stop laughing he was like this guy's got the worst run i've ever seen on

here i was like sweating i have like a gallop it looks like you're doing a bit when you're running yeah yeah people think people think i think i look great but it's like when you first see a golf swing you golf swing you think i look really and then you're like you're bobbing around and you're fucking yeah on the jim jeffrey think, I look really, and then you're like, you're bobbing around. On the Jim Jeffery show, there's a couple field pieces where you're running, and people would laugh always, and I don't think that was the comedy that was intended, was your run, but it was because of your run. It was like the one where we're interviewing all the kids,

protesting in San Diego, you ran away at the end, and then the one with the poachers. I have lent into it. I do a comedy run now, but it's only a slight adjustment on my actual run. You just go faster in the comedy run. All right. I asked Jim

where most of the strongman competitors are from. He said Eastern Europeans and Americans like Buck Davis. And Australians have one bloke named Gavin. Australians have one once in a while. That is correct right It's mostly eastern Europeans and Americans

Yeah Yeah he's on point there Why is that do you know or do you have any ideas We get in the winter It gets cold and boring Has there ever been an Australian who was any good? Yeah, actually, there's been quite a few. I don't think there's ever one world's strongest man,

but Australians tend to have some competitors in the game. And then is there anyone named Buck Davis? I've never met a guy named Buck Davis. No, but I'm right. You know the type I'm talking about. He wears a bandana of an American flag on his fucking head. He has fucking tattoos with snakes down his fucking arms. You know the cut I'm talking about.

Buck Davis. There's a guy named Brian Shaw. Yeah, Buck Davis. One's a guy named Brian Shaw. Yeah, Buck Davis. One of our lights just went out. Yeah, no. Brian Shaw was a very good one. He actually is related to Forrest. And his signature move is when he lifts something, he goes,

eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. There you go. My last name's Shaw, Martins. If you didn't get that, that's me. Hey, Jack can do it better. Do an impersonation of if Forrest was a world's strongest man lifting a boulder. Me and Forrest were playing golf yesterday, and Forrest had a chip up to the thing, and I was standing.

I was in the way a bit, but he should have chipped a bit closer and he sliced it a bit hard and the ball was coming towards me and he couldn't make the word four in time and so all I heard was, yeah! It worked. It was enough for me to jump out of the way.

Almost hit you. Right by you. Is there a strong first of all how many times have you you won once I've won once before this I made it to the finals three times so this is my fourth year

competing world's strongest man if I want to put some money on the world's strongest man gamble are you the guy to put the money on? Be honest. Should I put a few bucks on you? Me? Yeah.

Mateusz or Tom Stolpen? I'd say those are your top three right now. Who was the second one? It was Tom Stolpen, you, and who else? Mateusz Kieliszkowski. All right. I'm going to put it on. Thor just retired.

Right. Who just retired? Thor. Thor. Thor just retired. The Mountain. just retired? Thor. Thor. Thor just retired. Thor Thor. The Mountain. Ah, The Mountain.

Yeah. It's just, yeah. Is he Thor and The Mountain? I'm not sure. Well, his name is Thor. They abbreviated it to Thor, but he's known as The Mountain from Game of Thrones. You know the guy that- Sure.

The guy's head and pops it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know his real name, though. Just from The Mountain. Have you broken any records? What's your records? The Steinborn squat record. Yeah, I have that one.

It wasn't broken for over 100 years. Originally, it was broken by Milo. The record was held by Milo Steinborn at 560 pounds, and I did 565. This is a squat where the bar sits on the ground and you have to tilt the bar up and then you gotta rock it onto your back and squat um now is steroid use um it do people use steroids is it policed or is it just like people don't give a fuck they really don't give a fuck that's how it fucking should be

i want to see the world's strongest man i don't care how you fucking get there lift that rock um we're testing for all sorts of other stuff like speed and other hardcore drugs but that's one that we're not testing oh right right right so they they test you for cocaine because they're like geez joe joe buck or whatever his name is he's a bit confident today that's actually in the past that was an issue oh really yeah yeah because because because nothing no drug would be better for lifting heavy things than something that speeds you harder.

Right. So this is the question that we asked. Is there a Strongman Hall of Fame? Is there? I believe so. Not like, you know, I really don't know much about anything I don't. Okay.

There is a Hall of Fame and there's only four inductees so far. Only four? Who are they? We'll find out. There's meant to be a comedy. I have a feeling they probably started it one year and then totally forgot about it. Are you saying

there's not a lot of organization? Great idea. Yeah. I'm not going to be able to pronounce any of these things. These things, they're people have you seen john paul sigmerson yeah um i think this is the guy you just said murray maurice mariusz pudzianowski yeah um sven carlson yeah from norway and bill kasmeier who's an american that's a stat that definitely hasn't been updated for like a decade you're right though that's that's really fucking people who are living in the cold huh yeah because i feel there was always scandinavians in

there as well there's always some fucking drago looking fuck my name is you know like out of rocky four i know he was russian but like like you know, there's always some Drago, like, blonde guy. And so judging, I asked Jim how judging works. Is it just, it's just how much you lift and how many times, right? There's no, like... How much and who's the fastest. There's absolutely no... There's no, like, form disqualifications or anything like that.

Yeah, yeah. No style points. No flair points. There's no, like, oh, he dismounted and the rock landed on his chest. Oh, he died. He's going to lose points there and his life. That was a beautiful rock lift, yes. Maybe if you wore a nice outfit.

An Elvis costume. Is there people in your sport that when they lift those Atlas balls, I think that's what we're calling them, Atlas balls, is that what they're called? When they lift like like like when they lift those atlas balls i think that's what we're calling them that was balls when we when they lift them up and you go oh he's a guy guy who puts his hand underneath and went on the top what a fucking hack like is there like ones where you go oh that guy's a fucking dickhead the way he lifts yeah yeah are you allowed to say okay you don't have to name names, but have you got a rivalry with a bloke

that every time you show up at the competition, you go, ah, fuck, Sven McLifters. Yeah. Sven McLifters. Absolutely. You've got to watch out for that one. And so, all in all, is it a fairly friendly sport? Do you all go out drinking afterwards?

That's actually one thing that I love about the sport. I mean, you would never think, but we all really get along. We support each other. We're very friendly. Like afterwards, we always go out for dinner together, buy each other drinks, ketchup. I assume it's an all-you-can-eat buffet. Yeah.

Not anymore. Let's answer the calories. I'm fascinated by calories. Okay. Yeah, so Jim, I asked him how many on average, on average, how many calories does a strongman consume in a day? He said 10,000 to 12,000. There are some that claim to do that.

I personally do like 5,000 to 7,000 getting ready for a show. I personally think that anyone who says that eat that much it's full of shit like that that's i don't even i don't even know if i believe that uh michael phelps really did that regularly but uh it's possible i don't know do you do you do you have a strict diet or because you're working out so much you just eat whatever you want or is it all just chicken breast and brown rice? You know what I mean? It's not chicken breast and brown rice because I need a little bit more fat in my diet. But it's fairly clean, yes. And I try to eat a certain amount of protein a day.

I try to hit a certain amount of calories a day. I try to get it from healthier sources. Do you believe that a vegan could do what you do? I have no idea. There is that movie, The Game Changers, that kind of hints at the possibility of athletes being able to get very strong and successful on vegan diets. I personally believe it's very difficult, and also all the claims in Game Changers, there's experts that say otherwise,

so I don't know what what quite to believe uh patrick emian uh strong man is he's a very strong guy i gotta hand it to him uh he never competed out on our level though right he was a vegan or a vegetarian he's a vegan but i've never seen him in our circuit so i can't really say i've not met a single vegan that's at the world's strongest man level doing all the stuff all across the board that we're doing. There's an article here about Brian Shaw's daily menu. So it says he eats 12,000 calories a day. So eight eggs for breakfast, cinnamon toast crunch,

and a tablespoon of peanut butter. But lunch is like a bunch of peanut butter um but like peanut butter uh lunch is like a bunch of meat and pasta a cow you said i've always been curious about that because like they like they reckon you carb up that boxes carb up before a fight right what do you do what what would be your breakfast the day of an event or your lunch would you have pasta or would you just have lean meats and fruits or what would you eat i'll do the lean meats and fruits far away from a contest but like the month before a contest it's very hard but warm and the day before it's like pancakes and syrup that's a good day what i what i would do is i would do that. I'd do that in the morning. And then I'd go, oh, my shoulder's a bit sore.

I'm training for a competition. You could just eat pancakes. Yeah, but I want to have guilt-free pancakes. But people aren't judging me. Yeah, they're like, oh, he was training. I asked Jim who has won the most. He didn't know the name. He said six wins and they're from Germany.

Do you know who has won the most. He didn't know the name. He said six wins and they're from Germany. Do you know who's won the most? That would be Mariusz Janowski. He's not too far off. He's Polish. He's Polish, right. He got five. So not too bad. Not too bad.

Five is a lot. That was correct. Almost a mile wins, yeah. And it says here, because I'm looking at it right now, it has an American flag next to your name though. Not Latvian. I've lived in the States since I was four years old. So I represent the United States at this point. You've lived here since you were four. Yeah.

And you still have a slight accent though. Yeah, I guess so. It's not that it's not strong. I said slight. I said a slight slide accent he's from the east coast all right hey i'm lifting here so it still goes along with your it was cold i have all sorts of an identity crisis going on latin massachusetts now in california i don't know what's going on oh yeah that's it he's moved around a lot. So I'm very proud to be an American. I'm a naturalized American.

I'm an American citizen. I'm about to vote for the first time. Very excited. Thank you. It's going to make a big difference. I'm voting in California. Swing state. Still can't believe it. Trying to make a difference.

All the propositions i'm having a guess at i i i don't want that lady to lose her dialysis oh they're more dialysis anyway so i anyway but i'm gonna be i'm very proud to be american but i if i see a sporting event i still support australia there's something about your childhood where i can't swap over and america you win everything all the time and i know how important it is to an australian to win the olympic medal in comparison to america because you get gold all the time we only get a couple of things and if we win like a soccer match a football match uh coming from a country of 20

million people it's very impressive when we win fucking anything yeah so i still support australia in sport. And then, this is the weird one, and if Australia drops out of the competition, then I support England. America's not even in the top two. I don't know why. I am such a fucking,

I am such a hypocritical American. It's true. When the Olympics come around, like, I watch them, but I'm never like, we won. I'm like, we win so much that it doesn't – you're just like, whatever. But I think that's pretty normal, too, anyway. It's like I call Chicago home, so I root for Chicago sports,

even though I've lived in L.A. longer than I ever lived in Chicago. L.A. teams are always my second favorite teams, but – Do you still have a lot of ties to Latvia at all? Like, your family there? Or do you still, like, identify – I'll go back with them and uh actually choosing to some you know represent the united states it was a tough decision um because you know my heart at some level didn't want to represent that but uh choosing to be with

the united states kind of a you know almost yeah i, I think when I compete at a sport on a professional level in the near future I will represent Australia Americans will embrace you more I can't get in the American team I gotta Eddie the Eagle the shit out of it, I gotta fight some event where there's no Australian bloke

doing it Latvia has 28 Olympic medals. I just looked it up right now. I don't know if there's any that you could, I guess you couldn't, you'd be American, or you could compete for Latvia if you wanted to. Oh, I could, yeah. Now what's the thing you throw over the pole?

What does that have been? Chucking things over pole. One of the influences that you kind of muttered quietly was kettlebells. Kettlebells, That's what I want. Kettlebells. That's what it was. Egg toss.

It's usually kegs. Keg toss. I thought you said egg toss. I was like, that seems easy. When did they get rid of the egg and spoon event? Carrying the egg on a spoon? Yeah, yeah. In the potato sack race.

No, but it was like an ostrich egg. They're strong men. Right, right, right. Yeah, I want to make it clear. I said six events. Like, there was only six events. There's a lot more. There's Atlas Stones, Vehicle Pool, Overhead Press,

Fingle Fingers, Power Stairs, Deadlift, Keg Toss, Car Carry. Car Carry? Oh, the Car Carry. That's the one where they get inside the body of a car and they have harnesses over their shoulders and they lift it up and they walk along with the car around them. It's crazy. It's almost exactly the description. That's what happens.

I know, but I'm just surprised you're so good at this. What did you call it? Backpack? It's like a backpack. Yeah. They're in the middle of a car and they lift it up and they walk along. I'm on the car.

It's Flintstones. It's Flintstones. It's the fucking Flintstones. It's exactly know it's a flintstone it's a fucking flintstone it's exactly how it is i've seen it i've seen it yeah i know it i've i've it's funny because i watched a lot of these when i was younger i haven't seen them recently but i remember when i was young i used to watch a lot of these i just guess i don't know where to watch them what happened was i think it's like an esp any time yeah i think what happened was that that was one of the events they showed up and they go we're doing what when oh they've taken out all the seats of the car and they put a couple of handles in and then they go is there still an engine oh no we just put some weights in the front

there a few weights in the back and all that yeah what type of car is it that you live what brand of car is it i don't even remember uh what kind of car is it usually it's like a hatchback or sedan yeah it looks like it's something from kazakhstan the car made like it doesn't look like a car that you don't even know it's not like a volkswagen volkswagen beetle or something it looks like it's uh it looks like a like maybe a voxel what what i think the last one might have been real oh wow oh wow yeah actually it might have been i gotta look it up now that one seems too easy this is fucking insane i've lifted so many cars remember what car he was lifting up i i i if i changed a tire in a car i'd be telling about

people to years he's lifted many cars i'm'm sure. Back in 97, I changed that tire and it was fucking beautiful. It's just another day at the office. Another day at the office. Here's a question, though. So, like, if you lifted, like, I don't know, how much do you weigh, Jack? Like 155.

155. Not after the last night's meal. How easy is that for you to lift? 155. Does that even strain you at all? It depends. Are we talking about a bicep curl? Is it a dead body or somebody who's helping out?

For the most part, no. Have the movies approached you? Yeah. Do they need a strong guy in a film? This last year has been pretty epic. I was on Game On, also to tell the truth. And now I've been in a couple of commercials. So I'm going that way.

I'm just a manager. So all this is just kind of blowing up in my life right now. Wow. You've got a manager who goes, you've got to be big, kid. Even bigger. You're already big, but you've got to be really now. Wow. Like you got a manager who goes, you got to be big, kid. Even bigger. You're already big, but you got to be really big. Yeah.

I'm working with the same guy that managed Gronkowski. Oh, right. The Tom and Gronk show. Oh, is that why you lifted Gronkowski?

Because that was like part of some promotional thing? That's exactly why, actually. All right. Okay. Well, i think that uh do we did you already go over the dinner party fact yeah so basically his dinner party fact was like despite you know strong men like having this reputation as being these big gruff guys they're all teddy bears and they hang out with each other and support each other which i was saying is like

kind of opposite of like hollywood everybody wants everybody to fail all right that's good yeah because we have that dinner party fact, as you know, we had talked about with you, but you'd already mentioned it. I don't know if there's any other questions you have for Martins. I have a lot. Well, you guys will have to get together for dinner or something. Yeah, he lives here, so there we...

Hey, do you want to do it? I'd love to meet you. Do you want to come over to my house and have a beer sometime? Yeah. Real invite. And then come to one of my shows when COVID stops. Oh, that would be such an honor. Oh, mate. I'll give him your number.

The honor would be mine. I would love that. Yes. All right. Well, there you go. All right. I made a friend. One friend in 23 episodes.

He's never invited anybody over this is great I was never confident enough they'd say yes and that would have been a lot of dead air you wanna come over you wanna hang out with me alright that's it for our podcast today thanks for being here Martins

again you can find him I'm sorry were you saying something I just said what a great time I'm so happy he's so nice you can follow him on Instagram martinslicis m-a-r-t-i-n-s-l-i-c-i-s

follow him on there and you can check out his cool videos and if there's anything else you want to say on the way out no you're not. I'm happy. I've asked you twice. Sorry, I put you on the spot.

Do you have any more? Jess said he had a wonderful time. I know. Any other things? As I was saying it, I remembered. What's that thing you wanted to say? Do you have any compliments for Forrest specifically? No, no, no, no.

Forrest, you did a great job facilitating all this. Yay! Forrest did good work. He didn't cut off any comedy gold this episode. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for listening to the podcast. If you're ever at a party and someone says they can lift something

really heavy, you go, not as heavy as a bloke that you heard on the Jim Jeffery Show podcast. Martins Leach's. I also like that you heard on the Jim Jefferies Show podcast. Martins Leach's. I also like you just called this the Jim Jefferies Show podcast. And then they'll go, is there a podcast called the Jim Jefferies Show podcast? And then you go, I don't know about that. And you walk away.

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