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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Mike "Silent Mike" Farr and Jim McDonald are the owners of Third Street Barbell in Sacramento, CA, and veteran podcasters. On this podcast, they try to answer a single question. Any question is fair game, but most involve health, fitness, nutrition, mental health, culture…even sex. In some episodes, they examine relevant popular media (movies and documentaries) for connections to the world of health and fitness. Full episodes every Wednesday. Business inquiries: Jim@thejimmcd.comBecome a supporter

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12:00

What’s the most important part of planning a business?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/10/21

This week’s question from Discord:Mikexbull asked “As someone who wants to open a gym eventually - what do you think is the most important part of the planning? A lot of people concentrate on all the wrong things. What grade would we give ourselves when we look back at how we started? How do you keep from being too optimistic? Or too pessimistic? What are the “gears” of your business? ____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the

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40:00

What we got wrong

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/10/19

We all make decisions based on the information we’re exposed to, the people around us, and what makes sense to us as individuals. In this episode, we discuss beliefs we’ve held during our time as lifters that have proven to be partially…or completely…wrong. Sometimes the “one right answer” has an expiration date we don’t see coming.____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll

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19:35

What movie without a sequel deserves one? | One Good...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/10/14

This week’s One Good Question from our Discord crew:Nwojjj asked: “What's a movie/documentary that doesn't have a sequel but you think it should?”Is this a “careful what you wish for” question? Are all the streamers asking this same question and will that steal our answers? ____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us!Join our Discord for free

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77:37

Kobe, Coach K, and the Redeem Team (Documentary Review)

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/10/12

As the NBA prepares to take the courts for the 2022-23 season, we take a look a new Netflix documentary about the 2008 US Olympic basketball team, Redeem Team. How much do coaches affect winning? How did a team full of NBA talent ever manage to lose on the world stage? Could anyone by Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski have gotten this team on the same page? When Kobe Bryant entered a team whose chemistry had really already gelled, how did he overcome his reputation as a selfish player?More about the

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19:36

Why does anybody drink garbage coffee? | One Good...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/10/07

This week’s question from our Discord crew:Helios Grime asks, “How do you drink your coffee and why is your way the only correct way?”____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us!Join our Discord for free! https://discord.com/invite/XVvJ5eNzdqCheck out our gym (Third Street Barbell) at ThirdStreetBarbell.com https://www.thirdstreetbarbell.com/

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37:56

Does music make you lift better?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/10/05

This is a bit of a shorter episode, due to Jim’s laryngitis. Does music, maybe even specific music really make you lift better? We talk about what motivates us, and how and when to use external motivators like music, ammonia, or what ever does it for you.Listener resources:Research on music and liftingThird Street Barbell PlaylistSilent Mike Playlist Mike's Feel Good Playlist ____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag

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17:33

Steroids: Why not? | One Good Question

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/30

From our Discord, ArrogantFool asked, “Alan Thrall recently posted a video about why he doesn't do PEDs. What are your why's? Is there anything that would push you closer to doing PEDs?”Avi Lieu, a USAPL pro powerlifter, joins us again. You can find Avi on Instagram @avi.lieu and Tiktok @avi.lieu____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us!Join

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53:35

Workout just once a week?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/28

There’s no dispute that working out once a week is better than not working out at all. But why does the media promote studies claiming that one workout a week is as effective multiple workouts a week? And how come these stories repeat in cycles year after year? Probably because some people want to believe them. We talk about not the substance of any of these studies, but what would the impact be if they were true. Also we talk about an approach to breath training that was once discounted, but is

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9:19

If you could only have three pieces of equipment for...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/23

Say you could only have a home gym, and that home gym could only have three pieces of gym equipment. What would they be? How would you choose? Your favorite ones? Or the most versatile ones? Avi Lieu, a USAPL pro powerlifter, joins us again. You can find Avi on Instagram @avi.lieu and Tiktok @avi.lieuHave a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us!Join

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53:12

How do you know what you don’t know (but think you...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/21

For better or for worse, our brains let us believe a lot of things that aren’t true. One good example is the Mandela Effect – misremembering the facts around something in popular culture. We kick things off with a little quiz to see how affected we are by this phenomenon. We then shift into a discussion of another type of mental mistake. We’ve talked a bit on previous episodes about the Dunning-Kruger -Effect but never really tied it to issues in the fitness world. How many trainers argue for a

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26:03

Is the gym your church? The barbell your religion? |...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/16

This episode started as a part of our warmup conversation for Wednesday’s episode, and it ended up taking on a life of it’s own. Does organized religion install morality or is it already there? Which social structures actually create community? What role does lifting play in your life?Avi Lieu, a USAPL pro powerlifter, joins us for this discussion. You can find Avi on Instagram @avi.lieu and Tiktok @avi.lieu____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social

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38:30

About those new IPF bench press rules…

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/14

Did anyone think that in 2022 that someone would need to coin the term “bench depth?” The International Powerlifting Federation has imposed new performance rules on the competition bench press. Are they really that big a deal? Will that many people be affected? How hard are they going to be to enforce? And finally, which critics will they actually appease?Avi Lieu, a USAPL pro powerlifter, joins us for this discussion. You can find Avi on Instagram @avi.lieu and Tiktok @avi.lieu____Have a question

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11:58

One year without bathing or one year without...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/09

One Good Question warrior from our discord, Keith Honeycutt asks if we’d rather give up Internet for one year or bathing. What does bathing really mean? Can you ask someone to do it for you? ____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us!Join our Discord for free! https://discord.com/invite/XVvJ5eNzdqSign up for our February USAPL meet

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54:20

Good and evil, spitting gum, and thoughts on Suicide...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/07

We wanted to spend a little time talking about some simple, actionable ways to be helpful if someone you know is struggling and may be suicidal. Check the article below for more. We kicked off with a discussion of good and evil in high fantasy shows like the current spinoffs of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. Then, we looked into the internet controversy around whether Harry Styles spit gum on Chris Pine at a recent film premier, and we looked at a powerlifting incident from the past where

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19:14

A Titanic Remake with The Rock? | One Good Question

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/09/02

Here’s an interesting one from our Discord crew:msoli7 asked, “If you could see any movie remade with a different actor/actress what would it be (i.e. Titanic starring The Rock?”____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us!Join our Discord for free! https://discord.com/invite/XVvJ5eNzdqCheck out our gym (Third Street Barbell) at

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74:00

The girlfriend who didn’t exist: Manti Te’o...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/08/31

This week we’re taking a look at one of the latest entries in the Netflix “Untold” documentary series. On September 11, 2012, Notre Dame football sensation Manti Te’o told various news outlets that his grandmother and his girlfriend had died on the same day. Some of that statement proved not to be true at all. His “girlfriend” was a person he’d never met and wasn’t at all dead. How did Te’o end up in this position? Was he naïve or calculating? Why did the media treat him more like a perpetrator than

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11:02

Will overhead pressing help your bench press? | One...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/08/26

Nico Flores and Joe Stanek of Gameday Barbell (Austin, TX) helped us out with this one. Is one of them a cheater? Which is better? Overhead pressing or weighted push-ups?You can find Nico on Instagram @nicoflores83kg @nicoflores83kg and on TikTok @nicoflores83kg. Joe is @thejoestanek on Instagram and @joegameday on TikTok ____Have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get

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62:12

Nico Flores and Joe Stanek of Gameday Barbell

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/08/24

Continuing our visit with the team from Gameday Barbell (Austin, TX), Nico Flores and Joe Stanek sit in to talk about the origins of their gym, theories about why some lifters are prone to injury, coaching philosophies, Ninja Turtles, and we break down how our past connects to a nickname that got hung on Joe.You can find Nico on Instagram @nicoflores83kg @nicoflores83kg and on TikTok @nicoflores83kg. Joe is @thejoestanek on Instagram and @thejoestanek on TikTok ____Have a question for one of our

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12:33

What would you want for your last meal? | One Good...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/08/19

Tim Thibodeau (Gameday Barbell) and Nadeem Hamidy (Barbell Brigade) stuck around to help us with this question from our Discord:Keith Honeycutt asked: What would you pick to be your last meal if you were on death row?Is it about the food, where it comes from, or how it would make you feel? Nadeem definitely had the most unique solution overall. Nadeem is a long-time video producer for Barbell Brigade. Tim is one of the owners of Gameday Barbell (Austin, TX). You can find Tim on Instagram

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67:05

Tim Thibodeau (Gameday Barbell) and Nadeem Hamidy...

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD ·

2022/08/17

Tim and Nadeem join us to discuss the past, present, and future of fitness in social media. When was the golden age? Where are we going? Is TikTok really the future, and if so, how do we catch up to it? We also discuss how lifting videos lead both of them into both lifting and content creation.Nadeem is a long-time video producer for Barbell Brigade. Tim is one of the owners of Gameday Barbell (Austin, TX). You can find Tim on Instagram @timthebodeau and on TikTok @timmytimmadomeHave a question for

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