Plague of Strength

Two podcasts in one day? Say it ain’t so! And yet it is- in a bizarre bit of synchonicity, both of the podcasts I recently recorded dropped on the same day, and I was busy looking like the most overly muscular garden gnome ever to guard cannabis yesterday I didn’t have a chance to announce either properly (I’ve been working security at The NJ Weedman’s Joint in Trenton, if any of you ever want to roll through and listen to one of our rad Djs while blazed and housing a chicken and waffle sandwich, feel free. Somehow, I keep getting bigger and leaner doing so, but I can explain my ever-less-emulatable methods in an upcoming Ask the Asshole, which I just now decided to write after I drop a new keto recipe on you.

More to the point, the podcast is rad! Like the Breakthrough Secrets episode, this covers the history of lifting, but in each episode I give you more of the context I think is necessary to understand how and why lifting started when it did, and why we have such limited knowledge about the lifting of the past. If you guys hadn’t noticed, the untold history of lifting is sort of my thing, and it appears the wider world is starting to catch on that this story is as rad as it is weird. Luckily, I had notes for this one, but like the 30 for 30 I shot in April, even my dissertation-level prep for specifics in a certain regard never encompasses the span of history I have tried to wrap my arms around. So be prepared- you get to listen to me organize my thoughts for the story of lifting in real-time, as I’d not actually yet broken ground on the books I’d started compiling on the subject- I am still in the “dropping old shit I’ve written into a document to see how it fits together” phase of my writing, so this podcast episode was incredibly helpful in organizing my thoughts, as was the Breakthrough Secrets podcast, which was recorded about a week after this one.

It’s like a super deep-tissue massage that comes with an equally painful happy ending, but for your brain parts.

If you want to know exactly what was discussed, here’s the episode description:

During this fascinating interview, Jamie displays a near-encyclopedic knowledge of everything training-related from around 1,600 BC to the modern day.

So often, we can learn so much by looking back. This episode will undoubtedly provide you with jaw-dropping stories of how people used to train, the social, political, and economic pressures that drove physical culture at different stages of humanity, and why, with all the advantages we currently enjoy, it’s a crime so many humans are in such bad health.

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