Brian Shaw

Yeah.

That guy standing next to me, like Brian Shaw.

Do you know who Brian Shaw is?

Yeah, yeah.

Brian Shaw was in the mothership the other day.

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He's, uh, 400 fucking pounds.

The skulls are massive.

That's what I'm saying.

Brian Shaw, like, a world strong man.

Yeah.

yeah

And it was, uh, sort of nostalgic to think when he was a baby-faced kid, he won the Irish Open, and it was the biggest victory of his early career.

Brian Shaw has been at Doonbeg since they first put a spade in the ground to build that golf course with Greg Norman all those years ago along the Wild Atlantic Way, and he's on our AT&T line right now ringing in from Ireland the morning after the night before.

I don't know, maybe with a sore head, maybe not.

Thank you for being here, and congratulations on a fine event at Doonbeg.

You know, we're six months till St. Patrick's Day, and, uh, what a feast on television for two weeks for the rest of us around the world.

Folks, if you're watching either of those events at Lahinch or at Doonbeg, you could go play those courses, and they're about a 30-minute drive apart.

Well, if you're Brian Shaw, you go really fast, so it's probably 15 minutes.

But you can play them both.

Um, so I mean, the atmosphere apparently inside the hotel is very relaxed.

I was speaking with, uh, golf pro Brian Shaw a little bit earlier.

He said the family are very relaxed.

He said one of the advisors had told him Donald Trump only s-slept for fifteen hours on Air Force One on the way over.

Yeah.

Well, and there's so many cool people that are there too, right? Like Brian Shaw was there this year, right? Like how cool would it be to have an hour-long breakout with Brian Shaw talking about, you know, power lifting or Strongman or whatever?

Yeah.

And I just felt like I met a lot of gym owners and coaches and stuff that were looking equipment for their own places, whether they're training people out of their gyms or they're, you know, trying to build a physical space somewhere, and like to hear from different coaching perspectives.

So listen,

um, Brian Shaw, world's strongest man.

Okay.

We did a coop for him.

Uh, it's gonna be almost a year ago now.

And you, if you follow the world's strongest man competition and Brian Shaw, then you've also are probably following Eddie Hall, also known as the beast from England.

Um, super funny guy, very competitive.

And we woke up this morning to this post.

So I researched a lot of the top performers isn't the right word, but athletes.

So like Brian Shaw, Hathor Bjorsson, Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler, bodybuilders, strong men.

there really aren't any famous power lifter diets out there that isn't McDonald's.

So I didn't really pull from that.

But I found that a lot of the top performers have around 600 grams of protein.

Brian Shaw has seven to 800 grams of protein, Hafthor Bjornsson around the same between, I think it was like 400 and 600.

So I'm like, here's my happy zone.

And this is one of those things where like I try to shoot for the start or shoot for the moon and land among the stars.