The World’s Strongest 12 Year Old Lives In Topeka, KS | Bo Jensen

Thinking about it now, it's a great opportunity Getting to be the world's strongest kid for 12. For my squat I did 315. And for my bench 167. And then for my deadlift, 357.

What are you eating these days? Nachos, yeah.

All right, today we have Jackson Bo Jensen and his dad Joe Jensen, the world's strongest 12-year-old. Let's go, let's go.

Let's go dude. So if you were named the world's strongest 12-year-old in the world, it blows my mind. That's even a category, because my brain doesn't make sense of that. But we saw you in the news and we were like we have to reach out to these guys. So I found your dad on Instagram. I was like hey man, could you guys come in?

We want to talk to your 12. Yeah.

I promise this isn't going to be creepy, but we want to talk to your Before we get everything. You have all of these amazing medals, trophies, rings. We'll get into baseball and everything, but what's your favorite trophy on the table?

My favorite trophy on the table is probably this clear one right here, this USA powerlifting, because when I was there I knew everybody and the entire Joe's Gym team lifted Wow.

Dude heck lifted. Wow, dude Heck. Yeah, that's amazing.

Yeah, A lot of times the big national and world tournaments, it's. You don't know anybody there.

Oh yeah.

That would be hard. It's just personal. It's just me and him doing our thing in the corner warming up. You go on the platform, you get in the hotel room, you get an airplane, you go back home.

Right, not as fun All your buddies were there.

All.

Topeka, all Kansas City, all Wichita, all the lifters, the high school teams, the masters.

Yeah.

So we were all and our whole team and our whole family was there. Oh, so much more fun.

Yeah, it was real personal right. Where was?

this at. That was in Wichita yeah.

Oh, that's so cool.

You get to have actual buddies and family and friends there. I feel like powerlifting can be a lonely sport sometimes, or it can be you, just you and 200 of your best friends, I'll tell you this. You would think that it would be ultra competitive, but it's it is. But with yourself, everybody else there ends up being your biggest supporter.

Wow it's like it's.

It's unlike any other sport where, like you know, you're trying to beat everybody, like really it's like everybody's got your back. No one's wishing you fail. Very rarely do you see that, only maybe at the highest level, for the adult men. Everybody else is like dude, you got this, come on, come on, let's go. That's amazing, wouldn't you say? That's true.

It's like that yeah.

You get a lot of support. Say that's true, it's like that. Yeah, you got a lot of support. Yeah, you probably get the most support of anybody. Everybody loves seeing you there. You're the star of the show.

These are some of my best home runs, this one being my first home run ever.

Nice 2018, six years ago. That's the first over. Yeah, it might be your first home run.

I've been like seven or eight.

Well, he hit one. That's the first over. Yeah, it might be your first home run. Yeah, well, he hit one off the tee Out at Kinbury Over the fence. That's the first live pitch home run over the fence this one right here.

Wow, this might be worse than mine.

It's still one of those compression balls To keep the kids from getting hurt.

Oh yeah, yeah, wow, john, you have young kids. Could you imagine showing up to your kid's first football game and-. No, I'm just six year old Kids playing shortstop and you need to your kid's playing shortstop.

you need a bow, just cause they're pouncing over the fence, my kid's six and I would no no that would blow my mind.

Oh yeah, from other teams. When he would come up, they'd be like go, that's a kid. They'd come over and they'd have their they'd film, cause they're not filming anyone else. He'd be bouncing them off cars driving by out at Shawnee Lake it was pretty cool. What's the other one on the far end?

this one was from Iowa, the field of dreams. We had a home run derby there oh yeah that, oh yeah, that's awesome. And also I did hit a home run In the game.

Yeah, who did you meet? Who did we meet there? Do you remember Big guy?

Hall of Famer no the.

Big Hurt, you remember.

Oh, yeah, the Big Hurt.

Frank Thomas.

Yeah.

The whole baseball team took pictures with him.

Oh, that's so cool. I think Frank Thomas is looking, or his company is looking. They're building across the street from the Field of Dreams, which, the Field of Dreams, is still completely intact.

Really Just like it looks in the movie? No way.

We played games on it. Me and my older son got to go play catch on it. That's so awesome. And then we hit the home run derby on it. And then at night they brought all the Little League teams out and we all sat on a field and they put a blow-up movie screen and we watched the movie no way, and it's in all the cornfield in Iowa, that's so awesome.

And I mean it's just like the movie you drive there is nothing out there.

And then, all of a sudden, the baseball field Wow league mega structure so you can have like the field of dreams world series, right yeah, kind of like little league world series. I thought you were gonna say you met kevin costner out there.

I think that's what you're gonna say he was there for that um all-star yankees red sox thing. Wow, yeah, he didn't have it, but that we weren't there. We weren't there at the same time.

Heck, yeah, where do you go to school at washington middle school?

nice heck yeah middle school so seventh grade yes. Nice, that's awesome. I guess they don't have baseball in middle school. They probably don't have powerlifting either.

No, definitely no, so is that all just like private, like where do you do lifting and stuff?

At my house in the backyard.

Nice, wow, and that's where you've trained.

Yeah, my whole life I built, uh, in 2003 I built a garage gym and that was it was just me and my buddies because we got kicked out of what was maximus at the time because we were bending the bars, sneaking in chalk and stuff. So we built a garage gym and then that was in our first home. Then it kind of went over to our new. That was my only ask on buying a new house was it has to have a garage for me to put a gym? She got like this oversized two car garage in the back of the backyard and that's my gym. And since I built that gym, every kid from eight to 18 or even younger now it was Andrew.

I've trained in that gym for free. Wow, having charged a single kid a single dollar, and he's trained in there. My son, my daughter, my nephew, my wife, my mom who's 70, trains in there with us now. Wow, yeah, do you have?

like the kids friends too. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, kids friends, come over. Wow.

Yeah, we got kids high school, kids from liberal kansas, carthage, missouri. Um what blue valley? Uh, what's? Carbondale seaman high school, washington high school.

Topeka high high school, wow, so I had to ask that was 2003.

You built that started in 2003, but that was just adults. Okay, that was just because I was a younger man and so, but then it into when the kids were born.

It turned into the kids. How many bars do you think you've broken, or? Baked beyond the kids I've saved them all. They're like trophies.

They're up on the rafters. I mean, look at this guy, this guy's been in bars.

I'm smaller than I used to be.

I was like 320.

I'm like 275 now. Yeah, I've been going down on purpose, though.

Yeah I get it older, it's hard.

It's hard to stay heavy yeah yeah like some of us, it becomes a little easier yeah, man, that's why.

okay, so let's just get get the big news out of the way and and I just want to hear what you think so you were named the strongest 12 year old in the entire world.

I'm thinking about it now. It's a great opportunity getting to be the world's strongest kid for 12. And also when I was nine, I was the world's strongest kid.

What? This is the second time, actually. Actually I think it's every. I mean, if you want to get technical, it's been every year yeah what? Because he's since nine, since, uh, since eight. No, it's since nine, nine.

Wow, so four, nine, yeah, 10 11, 12, yeah, four years in a row, wow, 13 on the come up yeah.

So what's it like to be told you're the strongest 12 year old on the planet Like, how does that feel?

Thinking of it. It's kind of whatever, because I'm not that old to like recognize how big it is in the world.

Sure, that makes sense.

And like my entire school knows who I am, so like every day I get is that the Bo Jensen?

Like your buddies are like messing with you. Like, is that the Bo Jensen? Like your buddies are like messing with you. Like, is that the Bo Jensen? Yes, oh, that's awesome. I mean, that doesn't feel too bad.

I wouldn't mind that you know so what does it actually mean to be the world's strongest 12-year-old Like? Do you have like a series of lifts that you, you know your total was the best, or what does that look like?

For my squat, I did 315, and for my bench 150 167, and then for my deadlift, 357.

Let's go, you did 360 also, but he got a red light on it. But I don't think you should have going back to video review but what does that mean?

what's the red light? It's just it's not a good lift he did it correct.

Yeah, like he lifted it all the way up, but there was like a technical flaw oh, gotcha, yeah, yeah. So it's a total of those three lifts, yeah, and then you total that together, and the highest total is what determines who the strongest in the world is wow this total was 837 pounds, that's amazing. Which actually is the heaviest total for anybody 12 and under in the history of any powerlifting association in the world.

What, not just right now? Ever, that's wild dog, let's get it. Come on. That's what I'm talking about, bro.

We've been slowly building up to that. The first one was just the state record, and then it was Nebraska, was the American records, and then it was like the USA world records, cause there's multiple associations. Sure, like Europe has their own, china has their own, australia has their own, yeah, um, but this is the first time where, if you get online on openpowerliftingcom or org and look at the number one for every association, no matter what he's number, one Bojins.

For me it's a big deal because USA Powerlifting is drug tested. We're drug free, yeah, guaranteed drug free when you know. I don't know if that's the case, some places, sure they don't have that.

So you think there are like 12-year-olds. I mean.

well, I would never suggest that there is, without knowing Sure. You know I would never, but I know like in the past, but it's at least possible because it's regulated. Remember Little Hercules years ago, richard Sandrake and the kid with his abs. Oh, yes, and it came out that his dad was lacing his cereal.

Oh yeah, I mean, you know but I can't judge, because they lived in a third world country and they were just trying to get out, sure, which did reach that goal. It got him to America and it got him out of there and you know.

So that's such an interesting way to look at that that is. You know, you get in their shoes. You're like, hey, I'm trying to get out of this country and listen that kid's got interviews.

Now he's an adult, I think. He lives in Florida, he's an actor and he's healthy and he's fine.

But you know, I could never imagine Sure, but I know, for us he's not even Beaver Tranquilizer for breakfast anymore, yeah not anymore, he's actually kind of pudgy.

He, I don't even think about it anymore. That's wild. So squat, bench and deadlift. Those are the three. Is that pretty universal across all powerlifting meets Like? Those are the three that people do, or are there other you know? Do you do cleans, push press, is that you know? Not really a thing.

No, we don't really do that for powerlifting, Just squat, bench and deadlift.

That's weightlifting. There's Olympic weightlifting, there's olympic weightlifting, and then there's power lifting gotcha okay.

Um, how did you? How did you figure out that you liked doing this? I mean, do you like doing? It yes, how did you figure out when? When did you first think I actually like doing these lifts and trying to increase the weight and all that?

when I was eight years old, my brother and dad were in the backyard lifting doing deadlifts with some of my brother's friends. So I went out there and did and there was 135 on the bar. So I went over and picked it up. My dad said, no, I was gonna hurt myself, but then he saw me pick it up like super easy wow and he thought that I couldn't make a living out of this but you were eight.

You were eight and you just went over and just lifted 135.

That is awesome can you lift 135? Now I could live 135, but probably not.

I definitely can't squat, and uh, as much as you said that you squatted or or deadlift.

Gosh, you said 357?. Is that what you said?

Yeah, Gosh oh man, that's amazing.

I think you have more in the tank on the squat too. Yeah, how many tries do you?

get. You get three, three attempts. Is it kind of like you don't want to overshoot and kill yourself, but you want to make sure you get one at least?

Yeah, comes in. That's where, thankfully, I've had my past experience to, you know, and all the other people I've worked with to kind of help. You know we stand on the shoulders of giants type thing. He's the beneficiary of all the mistakes. We've made sure, yeah, um, you get your first attempt. You want to make sure it's something that you can do easy, because you have to get one successful lift, otherwise you can't continue. That's, that's the rule. So, like your first, it's got to be an easy one. Second lift is really that's where we want to score points. This is where we're going to put, this is where our money's at. And then the third lift is generally, if you've trained well and you're injury free, we're going to go for maybe a new PR. Wow, something we've never done before.

I think a lot of mistakes are. A lot of younger kids make mistakes, especially the teenagers that just coach themselves. They just go for broke Every lift, all three, yeah, let's max out every lift all the time. Yeah, but it's a sport. It's like any other sport where you don't just go for Hail Marys every time. You got to be strategic, right, there's a strategy to it, wow.

And especially when he's never really competing against another kid at the competition because he's so above them physically, right, but when you're competing against history and you're looking at these numbers, like, oh okay, if we don't get this number, we're not even contending, right? So then we kind of that gives us kind of a a mindset of what exactly we have to do and and it's, it's helped us because we've never really pushed them. Wow, like that's. He's come to me before, like at nationals in arizona he was, he set a world record there and he was like dad, I could do more, what? And I was like, yeah, but why, you're not hurt, yeah, completely healthy, you just set a world record. Yeah, like, let's just go have fun, go to the swimming pool or something okay, so, uh.

So I I would like your feedback, but then I would also like your dad's thoughts on this question too, because I have kids and I want them to take on the the idea of what you're doing. Maybe not in, I mean, if they want to get powerlifting, that'd be great, but generally I want them to do hard things. You know, and get strong, do hard things. How did you get that, that sense that I can push myself, even though there's sometimes, I gotta imagine, it hurts, you're doing this thing. That's really hard. What, what made you, what like helped you get to that mindset of I think I want to keep pushing, I want to try a harder one.

I want to try a harder one um, first, being healthy and like mobile and like not having anything tight move every day, and also like family members and friends to help you throughout the way and they like tell you keep pushing, don't stop so you're not.

You're not the only one. Your friends, your siblings or your family, they're all doing lifting and stuff and pushing their records and their PRs and stuff. So that makes it easier for you to keep doing it as well. Is that part of what you're saying?

Yes.

Cool, that's awesome. Dad, how, as a dad, as you look back, what do you feel like? Man, I killed it here because I helped him instill that. Yeah, you feel like man.

I killed it here because I helped him. You know, instill that. Yeah, I think that if you just take, I have a big poster in our gym and it's one I made, I had made and it's like this huge monastery and it's like these steps up the side of a mountain and it's just a gigantic undertaking just to get to the top of the mountain.

Then you get up there and there's this big monastery where monks live their whole life. Well, how are you going to get from all the way down here? All the way up there, right, each step. You got to take one step at a time. All the way up the mountain, right, you can't jump from the bottom to the top. Nobody can climb, which you know. It takes a long time to get there. So, looking back at my career, the other people I've helped, career, just taking small jumps, just getting a little bit better. Uh, we got an Amazon and bought those, um, those little fractional plates like quarter quarter pound plates, half pound plates. Wow, if you can get a half pound better on each side every week and started eight by the time you're 12, the math would dictate that you're the strongest kid in the world yeah, now, if we could continue that.

Draw that out from 12 to 22. Now we're talking mark henry, half, thor bjornson, uh, ray williams, the best in the whole world type numbers and the math would lead to that. Yeah, wow, but it's just a little bit at a time, yeah, and I think for us, for me as a dad and that's probably the number one question I get a lot from people is is this healthy? Is it okay, right? Yeah, you know, and that was my biggest concern because I'm his coach, third or fourth or fifth, I'm his dad, first, sure, and I care about him and I love him. I don't want to get hurt, right? So I chased down doctors I mean a plethora of doctors.

Doctor from Squat University I don't know if you're familiar Dr Aaron Horsch he's really popular on Instagram and YouTube. Doctor, one of the number one spine doctors in the world. He invented the Stuart McGill is his name. He invented the McGill Big Three, which is like a way of prepping your spine and your core before you lift.

I tracked down Dr Steffi Cohen, who's a power lifter and a doctor, and I talked to all of them about growth plates and spine development and all this ligaments and tendons and all this stuff and they all kind of came back with the same thing is, if you take small jumps over a long period of time, your body can adapt to almost anything. It's when we try to go for, you know, throw a Hail Mary every pass, right, you know we're doomed to fail, right. So, knowing that, going into it from the beginning with like hey, we're just going to do a little bit Wow, just a little better, just a little bit, it's never been chasing some huge number Wow, and that's really been the key, I think Would you say that that's the key to all of it. I mean, we've never really, have you ever felt like we put more on the bar, like I just can't do this?

No, not at all. Yeah, really.

So there's never been a point you were like I can't, I'm done, I can't do this anymore.

That's about half the time I get earned fractional plates Right, right, that's amazing, see you go up in half-pound increments, I'm like throw another 25 on.

Let's see what we got. Let's put on plates.

That's cool. Gabe knows he sees me work out Wow.

I actually really appreciate the answer you gave us earlier, bo, when I asked you like what did it feel't recognize how significant this is?

I was like that is a real answer. We were flying when we were flying to florida or arizona. We were and we were looking. I was trying to show like hey, look out there, all these towns and all these people, none of them wow, yeah, yeah, yeah it is.

I mean, it's hard to realize, like, how big the world is, how big what you're experiencing is. I get that so. But I have a question kind of about you know other parts. You play baseball and obviously you're doing very well in baseball, but you're also, you're in school, you're a kid, you have siblings, you have other things I imagine that you do with your time. Um, and maybe this is too big of a question. So I understand if it's like, yeah, I don't know, but uh, how has that, that idea of like pushing yourself with weights and like I'm gonna keep getting better and keep getting better have you seen that in other parts of your life as well? Like, have you seen that benefit you in baseball? Or even just like as a brother or as a friend or you know, does that make sense?

yeah. So on lifting on like tv like strongman, like my teens uh, half thor, all of them they kind of influenced me to keep lifting more too, as like my family did. And for baseball, major league baseball, like all the home run hitters, like Aaron Judge, they encouraged me to keep on playing baseball. And for my friends, like they basically tell everybody at school who I am yeah, that's awesome.

They're like your hype men yeah, just walking around, that's awesome.

They're like your hype men.

Yeah, just walking around, that's awesome. So you don't just lift.

You do play baseball too. Talk us a little bit about baseball position. Do you play? How long you've been playing baseball?

Do you like that better than powerlifting, or I think I like them equally and my main position in baseball is first Okay, let's go.

That's a big position.

Sometimes I pitch and play outfield Bo's really fast.

You wouldn't believe it, because he's the biggest too, but he's an extremely fast runner, so when we need him, he'll go to the outfield and play Wow. So you coach the baseball team too. I'm an assistant coach.

Okay.

He was voted on the All-American team for baseball. We were in uh, florida, and he won the 60-yard dash and the the batting exit velocity both wow yeah, yeah, he was number one for his age group, which I was surprised at the 60-yard dash, weren't you?

yes, that's amazing wow, so you?

you said they don't have baseball in middle school, right? So, where do you play baseball?

Missouri or Kansas City Liberty yeah.

It's like a club team. Yeah.

Yeah, we're a travel team, gary Willis and the Patriot Sports Club that's the program we're with. We drive two hours each way. Wow, leave at 6 am every sunday, you get to practice and then um practice on wednesdays after school and sometimes tuesdays, if we can get there.

Sometimes we can't get there, but yeah, I actually sold my truck and bought a tesla, I saw that when you pulled up, I was like, okay, I used to have a big dodge ram and we were about halfway through the first season.

I was like I can't afford this much longer Does it drive itself.

Yeah, it drives itself, so you just put it on auto-drive all the time.

Not through Kansas City, because people are bumper to bumper, right, right, right, but you get in the long straights, like when we drove to Iowa. You get on those long straights. It's a way better driver than I am.

It follows the law.

It's not speed, it stays two cars behind people.

That means you got to leave on time if it's not going to speed, this thing's not going to let us go too fast.

Or I occasionally have to drive myself and make up for the speed.

Here's a question. It's been bugging me ever since I've heard you played baseball.

How come you don't play football? I don't like getting hurt or hurting people.

We started laughing. What did you say? I didn't hear you.

I like hurting people, you don't like getting hurt or, more importantly, you don't want to hurt other people. Heck yeah.

He's always been a lot bigger than everybody is. He was on the playground in elementary school right and he they were playing ball and he hurt a kid pretty bad on accident. He was like I don't want to do that Right.

And everybody.

Of course everybody wants him to play football. Yeah sure they're all over him for it. Oh, I bet His brother's baseball coach, jared great guy. Uh, magellan Financial he was. He runs, the he runs like or at the time he ran like the number one football team and he was just every day Bo you ready for football yeah, you ready for football.

No, bo you ready for football.

Yeah, never, never turned out to be a football player wow, it's probably.

You know I. It's fine by me. Yeah, what they say about all the CT stuff's coming out, you know I mean then uh you know baseball is guaranteed contracts and you very rarely get hit in the head.

Right, right, right you know, yeah, especially as a young kid. With his talent and his size and strength and speed, you know he'd be running the ball nonstop, right yeah?

It's true, you'd be hit a lot, you're almost guaranteed to get hurt.

For sure. You know afraid, you know getting hurt. It's just, it's a part of the game, it's a part of life. But I don't know that it's necessary to put yourself in that situation if you don't need to, especially if there's no, if there's no love for it right, sure you know if there's no love for the game, then why?

play the game. You'd rather hit bombs all day?

yeah, much more satisfying, hey, dingers, yeah. I wonder what's more satisfying hitting just a nu nuke or just lighting a guy up? Well from someone who's done neither. I would say hitting a nuke. His last home run. Tell them about your last home run of the season.

My last home run of the season was a grand slam over the fence.

What Is that? The third ball?

No, actually that might be the third ball. It was on a high school field.

Wow, dang dude, it's on a high school field.

Wow Dang dude, that's sick. You know what's even more impressive and people who haven't played baseball maybe wouldn't appreciate this but as you get older, I feel like it's easier to hit home runs because the ball is coming in much quicker. You know, at 12,. You know it's coming in at 75, 80. Is that?

what it's coming in at. Oh, for real, I don't know 75, 80.

Is that what it's coming?

at oh for real, at the highest level. Okay, at the highest level. It's coming at 75, 80.

As you get older it's coming in quicker and harder.

That's harder than.

I figured yeah, there was a kid we faced this year that threw 83 at 12.

We had him at the end of the year.

Radar guns and everything.

Yeah, he Right out of middle school Straight from the seventh grade who's your favorite baseball player?

Bo Jackson Bo.

Jackson.

Oh yeah, His name is.

Jackson Bo named after Bo Jackson.

What? No way. So Bo's your middle name.

Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool. He goes by. Bo Mom calls him Jackson, because that way when we're in crowds he can hear just her voice, because she's the only person that calls him Jackson.

Right.

Everybody else calls him Bo. Yeah, who is. We actually talked about this earlier and I love the answers. Who's your second favorite baseball?

player Brady Willis. Who Brady Willis?

Who's Brady Willis?

He's on my baseball team. He's one of our ace pitchers.

Oh, okay.

When I first joined the team. He really helped me express to the team and know their names and all that.

Wow, that's awesome, dude, that's amazing. So he's a buddy of yours, on your team, yeah.

Wow, I'm not going to lie, we really don't get a lot of time to watch baseball because we're so busy playing it Right, we baseball, because we're so we're so busy playing it right, so we're driving there. Yeah, he got a chance to meet salvador perez at the urban youth league in kansas city. So cool, um salvi was. He's super nice, yeah, very nice and real. All about the kids did you understand him.

Yeah, yeah, I like the baseball man, baseball, the ball girl man, you guys kansas city. But no, he was. No, he was really, he was really nice. I bet I would. I would say that he's hilarious, but no, he was really nice. I bet I would say that he's probably up there too. Plus, he's a stud.

That's funny. You said Brady Willis. You know I watch a lot of baseball. I grew up playing. You said Brady Willis.

I have no idea who that is.

I was waiting for you to say oh yeah.

I know.

I know, brady, this and not and then I will tell you right now if this kid continues. You will hear about brady willis someday. Yeah, he's a left-handed pitcher, he's got the mindset, he's got the athleticism. Wow, yeah, sounds like a great kid. He's good kid, great family. He's his dad's our head coach. Oh, and he runs the whole program. Oh, really, basketball, basketball program, baseball program does the whole thing.

Wow, yeah, yeah so what does your uh training or practice look like for power lifting? I guess everyone kind of understands how you practice for baseball, but power lifting, what does that look like? Are you? Is it a routine? Is it daily, weekly?

uh, it's daily you have to like. Take all your vitamins and pills, grow your muscles get good sleep and have healthy foods what?

what are you eating these days?

Nachos. We have nachos every Sunday, you're not on the carnivore diet yet.

No.

And then lots of meats.

Let's go. Vegetables Okay, let's go.

What vitamins do you take?

Do you remember Vitamin D?

Yeah, Zinc, zinc, remember Magnesiums.

Magnesium potassium.

Yeah, and methylfolate.

There you go. That'll keep you healthy.

I don't know if you would know this. This might be an answer for your dad, I guess. Compared to most 12 year olds, I have to assume he's taking in significantly more calories. You know, most 12 year olds are eating yeah, yeah, well, when?

we're so we'll. To get back to your previous question what about the training, the actual training, what kind of stuff? And we'll come back to that. Yeah, yeah, we'll come. What like the actual weight lifting? What's that look like? Like? How often do you lift weights?

I lift three days a week nice and we it's we practice, since powerlifting is dedicated to the three lifts the back squat, the bench press and the deadlift. We have squat day is Monday, okay, express days. Tuesday, thursday is deadlift day. When we get closer to competitions, we'll add a fourth day for like, whatever the weaknesses. Okay, like accessory day, or normally it's bench press day, sure, um, because if you do too much squatting or too much the other thing, it'll fry your central nervous system, your body can't recover. Yeah, so we'll add in like a fourth bench press day or like to just to work our weak, weak links in the in the chain, um, and as we get closer to competitions, then the, the food intake will go up for him.

And this is primarily how I prefer to coach everybody. Power things, about being more about being as strong as you can be, not about like manipulating the weight class systems, you know. So I try to never really encourage kids to cut weight, right, I mean, if you're close to a national championship and you're two pounds off, then sure let's, let's drop two pounds, but they're dropping 30.

No, we're not doing that.

And that used to be a viable strategy. But now they do one-hour weigh-ins, so you weigh in an hour before you lift. So you can't get away with that anymore. So, like this year, he lifted in the 220-pound weight class and he's nowhere near 220 pounds, so he could just kind of eat as he he wanted. Um, in the past we were in the in the lighter weights and he was right at the weight class, so it's like all right man, we gotta be careful, we can't.

Yeah, we gotta kind of.

We had to make like a true eating plan, yeah, but now I've always tried to tell everybody, like, if you're eating lean meats, if you're eating green vegetables, you know, if you're not consuming a lot of calories through your pops, or you know juices and calories through drink liquids, you can pretty much eat as much as you want. You're not going to gain a ton of weight.

Especially with how active you are. I mean, you're using all of that pretty consistently.

I would say probably. I think closer to the competition time this year he was probably around 2,800 calories a day. Wow, which is you know? Normally I would say it's probably around 2,000. Dang.

So what's your monthly grocery bill like?

My wife runs a home daycare so that's not really a.

Thing.

So, we got like 10 kids total. I got my older sons in college and then my daughters. She's a junior in high school. She took eighth place in the country in powerlifting Wow so.

She's a junior in high school. She took eighth place in the country in powerlifting. Wow, so does Kroger just have a stop at your house before the truck stops at the grocery store.

Thankfully we've really lucked out with our friends hunting. We got deer meat, elk meat, one of our daycare moms. She brings us farm fresh eggs. Oh, I love that.

So yeah.

So we've done as good as we can with that. I've always wanted to start growing some vegetables but just haven't made the time. But no, I mean the bill's high because we also open up the doors to the whole team my nephew and his friends and the high school kids so they come over. It's always here, you guys got any snacks, so it's oranges and grapes and blueberries, so it's oranges and grapes and blueberries and like there's always a, we got a whole pot of rice that we just keep out like here's some carbs, but you know we try to.

We try to be make it available to them as much as they want to eat and if it's healthy. You know there's no restrictions, yet no I've never been a big fan of milk. I've never have been. Yeah, it's not. It's not my, not my favorite. Yeah, I'm sure my mom might argue with that when I was growing have been. Yeah, it's not my favorite. I'm sure my mom might argue with that when I was growing, but now it's not much.

So I have to ask, just because, out of all of these on the table, this one sticks out to me. I mean, just look at it. Can you tell us what that one is?

Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember? Yeah, what is it? That was after Florida, after Daytona Beach. That's when I was nine.

Yeah, so this, I got this he has so many awards.

He's reminded about them. He's like I don't know which one is this one again?

After I was nine Was this custom.

Yeah, that was the first one where you got noticed on the world stage. This was the first where he had the world record for all the lifts, including the total. That's the one that got you on Now News, and then the Sidemen Bros and then Steve Harvey. After this came, the social media train came calling oh yeah, and he wrote it for a while. It was great, but that was do you remember that? In Daytona Beach? What was your favorite part of Daytona Beach? What did you tell Steve Harvey?

Going to the beach and the arcane.

Let's go, let's go. He was like the strongest kid in the world. He wrote all the world records. Are we going to go to the beach soon? The world, it's all the world records. Are we going to go to the beach soon?

Yeah, you know there's we went to the ice cream parlor. He won.

What was the game we played where we won?

all the tickets Space Invaders, space Invaders we rocked Space Invaders for hours.

dude, that's gotta be so that's gotta be.

So I don't have kids, so I, the arcade, I want to go to the beach. It's like you are a kid.

Yeah, that's awesome we've I think that's we've tried really hard to make sure that it stays that way. Yeah, you know, yeah, we do take what we do very serious. We try to be the best at it. Obviously he has become the best at it, but we really we schedule time to be a kid. I'm like, dude, go play class or what's it. What's your favorite game?

call it, call it. Oh yeah, yeah, I was like go play call duty like no working out today, yeah, or whatever.

That's awesome, because I don't want this to be. I don't want to be something where you're done by the time you're 15. You're like I hate lifting weights. I hate that always made me blah, blah, blah no no, and well, I think to. Fortunately for me, I don't have to make him, because success breeds desire, and the more success he has, the more he wants to do it. I'll catch him out in the gym on his own. That's so true.

That's a good phrase Success breeds desire. It is, it's true. It is very true. What was it like being on Steve Harvey man?

That was amazing. The only downside it was super hot it.

It was Atlanta in the summer. Oh yeah, were you like it was hot on the set, we were outside.

Oh, really yeah, because we did what'd you do. I pulled a 5,500-pound truck, Just easy breathing. So we had to go outside to do it and it was. And Steve Harder was so mad because they had him in like the sweater vest, oh my God. And he he was like whose idea was this?

this is ridiculous so they had to pull a truck across the parking lot and they they moved us all out there. Who did they? Uh, this is like one of our, one of the awesome friendships he's gotten to make, we've gotten to make as a family. Who did they bring out as a surprise guest? Martin lisi's do you guys have any idea who that is? No, he won the um. Was it 2019? World's strongest man? Wow he lives in california.

He has a fantastic youtube show called strength unknown. Uh, he goes around the world and finds unknown places of strength and then focuses on their culture and their food. Wow, it's just. And his best friend, romark, is the guy that does all the videography, flies the drones, does the whole thing, books, the trips, like all of it, and they've become really, really great friends to us. They flew on a red-eye to be on the Steve Harvey show with us, Then at the Arnold. What did we get to do at the Arnold when he won?

We were the first people he saw after he won. He comes backstage.

This is his childhood dream, right? The Arnold's the heaviest show in the game, yeah, and it's heavier than World's Strongest man by a long shot.

So if you win the Arnold, you're the strongest dude, you've arrived. Yeah, and this is this guy's lifelong dream from childhood, since he started competing at the same age Bo did. He started at like nine years old eight years, crazy. So they've got a lot in common. And so he like calls bo on the phone and he'll talk to him on instagram and stuff like that. And we were at the arnold and they get us over in the private area with all the fans, like the family, and then when he won, we were the first ones he came over in the backstage we got pictures with him and bo and this guy's a grown man crying.

He picked me up in the air like we got pictures with him and Bo and this guy was a grown man crying. He picked me up in the air like a child, like he's huge.

He's so much bigger than me. He's like we did it. Yeah, that was it. That's cool. They've been really. They've been, quite an inspiration to, wouldn't you say? They've been really big in helping you, like they've showed us that there's a lot more to the world of strength than just lifting weights and stuff, and they've given us like a a clear avenue of what else you can do with your life, like you can. You can go from yeah, being strong is great, but then you can open up other doors, yeah, and that's. I think that's cause there wasn't really that. That's not really a thing.

It's just lift weights and see who's the strongest, and then go lift more weights right.

Okay, I have a question, get answers from both you guys, but I want to hear from bo first. Who's the coolest?

person you've met, uh, doing what you do? Who, aside from the two of us, obviously, yeah, other than john, who are the two coolest who's?

the coolest person. You take your time on that one because he's gotten to meet a lot of cool people, I bet I have four half four half four yeah, half four, half four beyond. So he's from iceland. We're distant relatives. Um, we spent a good amount of time, me and my wife did, in iceland. I went there distant relatives of yours, yes, uh, we're from my family's, from denmark and iceland, and his dad, bjorn, was explaining to me how we're. I think everybody from Iceland is related because it's like 300,000 people total.

Well, just first impression that a hundred percent checks out we look awful, an awful lot alike but we met each other at the Arnold five or six years ago and last year, like last year, he made a. He made a huge comeback. This guy's got the biggest deadlift in history. He did like 1,1 a huge comeback. This guy's got the biggest deadlift in history. He did like one thousand one hundred and Wow, yeah, he's one world's strongest man. He's won the Arnold, he's won everything. He was the mountain on Game of Thrones.

Why didn't you say the mountain from Game of Thrones?

It's half Thor, okay. Okay, his grandpa called me quarter thor. I'm like, I'm really a strong man, I promise. But we went there to iceland, me and my wife went to iceland to um to lift the viking stones that they have over there. It's like the ultimate test of viking manhood, it's very hard to do.

I herniated disc, a ruptured disc in my lower back doing it. But I did it, wow. But we became friends while we were there, got to know each other real good. My wife and his wife were friends and at the last Arnold, we were there, me and Bo went because Arnold invites him to the Arnold every year.

So wait, the Arnold invites him to the Arnold. Well, Arnold's team, I'm sure.

Sure, yeah, but yeah, meeting Hafthor. So they were kicking everybody out after it gets over. And Hafthor, what did Hafthor?

do Caught us over yeah.

And then he talked to Bo for a while and said hi to the whole family Wow, Dude, that's sweet Wait so what did you guys talk about?

Lifting.

He apologized for not winning Really. Yeah, he apologized for not winning Really. Yeah, he apologized for not winning. Yeah, but he was on a comeback, he had a massive peck there and he had retired to take up boxing. He was the biggest boxer for a short period of time in history, wow.

Yeah, so did you say. You found out you were distant relatives.

Yeah, I mean it'd be like fifth cousin or third cousin or something like that Fairly distant, yeah. Fifth cousin or third cousin or something like that, so fairly yeah so my family likes two generations into america.

His family's never left iceland but we came from the same place. Actually, my grandparents, my grandparents were, so my dad um has been obviously been his whole life here. His dad obviously his whole life here. His dad was the one that moved to america cool, so came iceland, norway, denmark, america um, it's like kind of the shipbuilding trade, oh yeah, brought him here um, but so checks out, it sounds like something, so but thorvald was, uh, the last family member of ours.

Apparently that and this is all bjorn. His dad was telling me the history of it. Um, but my family member thorvald had a store on the main street in right cubic, iceland. Well, it's actually still there. I got pictures of him no way, oh, that's got his name on thorvalds wow, it's got his name on and everything, but so they, they were related somehow, I don't know.

But that's wild, yeah, but I mean it's not like we ever knew each other hung out or anything, sure, yeah oh that's sweet yeah, but we ever had. Somebody sees like we were the strongest man on earth. Uh, in colorado just recently I was in the team iceland jersey and everybody's like are you half thor's brother.

No, no, not at all yeah I watched half thor, six or seven seasons until I killed him off he was good he was, so he was.

You know there's multiple mountains. He was the final, the big big in the beginning there was another guy, but he didn't. Then they, they went to Iceland to film the winter scenes and they saw Halfthorne and they're like that's the guy that guy.

He's the one you're out, he's the one that like crushed the dude's skull.

He did all that. I would say that the most famous person he met, by far the coolest, is Arnold.

We met Arnold at the Arnold.

The first year we went there, the first year we went to the Arnold with him after he won the Strongest Kid on Earth title, and he was like, yeah, that's the kid right there. He was like, how's it going, buddy, his person, his guy has him like, it's just because it's a, there's 20,000 people in that building.

Right and it's an open building, so he would be swarmed.

Yeah, so it's their security team. Keeps it moving quick. Yeah, so it's just a handshake and a see you later.

Nice.

Nice to meet you.

How's, how's it going?

see you later yeah, that's all it was, but I mean technically, he pointed you out awesome dude.

Yeah, you're not even fully appreciating how cool that is.

Like you said earlier, I'm too young to watch the terminator.

Yeah, you did. What about predator? A little bit, a little bit. Yeah, he's like god, it's so cool what's? Your favorite arnold movie, I don't know. Yeah, jingle, all, jingle All the Way, or something.

Jingle All the Way is an incredible Arnold movie. That's a great movie.

So are you from Topeka?

Yeah Well technically, I'm from Okmogi, oklahoma. I was born there. Sure, we moved to Okmogi Wow, okmogi, muskogee and Tulsa. That sounds fun to say. Yeah, sure, but my parents moved to Galveston, texas. When I was young. There was a huge hurricane Brought us back up to Topeka. My dad's from Topeka, bruce Jensen, my mom's from Silver Lake Rhonda Milner was her name and then we moved back here. Family was here and everything Solid. So that was when I was four.

So I mean basically so the world's strongest 12-year-old is truly from Topeka. It's not like one of those. We live in Kansas City, but we're claiming Topeka. So we're here for the truly from Topeka.

Let's go.

Let's go.

We went right over by Landon Middle School, let's go.

Come on, man. So hey, what has it been like growing up in Topeka? Do you like Topeka?

Yeah, do you like Topeka? Yeah, I mean, I've been to better places, we're cutting that from the episode.

Topeka's great. No, no, I'm kidding.

I love it.

Yeah, what do you like about Topeka?

All the schools are good communities. I get to meet new people.

What about your teachers?

You've had great teachers, right? Yeah, oh, you want to shout out. What about your teachers?

You've had great teachers, right yeah, oh, you want to shout out some of your favorite teachers Mrs Adams, yeah, my kindergarten teacher, my second grade teacher, ms Warren, and my fourth grade teacher, mrs Sanders.

My fifth grade, mr Stevens, if you didn't hear your name and you had Bo as a student. Do better. Well, there was that one year with the web teachers. That's a tough year. Do you want to shout out to?

your teachers. You really didn't like. I'm just kidding.

I'm kidding, don't do that Mrs Cooney was a fantastic principal at McCarter Elementary.

Yeah.

She was great, she worked, she was we had to, you know there's a lot of navigating being at school and when we got to leave to get on airplanes to go to Steve Harvey or whatever Sure Right she was we just talked to her and she'd help us out and make sure we got our homework and made sure that we were getting. But he's a great student so he wasn't suffering in school by any means. Sure, but it's nice to have her daughter plays college won, I think, college volleyball national title maybe, so she understands what it's like to have a kid that has to travel and it's, you know, it's a big thing.

Oh yeah, that's Megan's mom.

Yes, yeah, I went to school with Megan.

Grad? Yeah, she would definitely. Mrs Queenie definitely would understand they win a title, or was it second place? I can't know if they want to say we're in the same game. I remember well you got high school or college.

I didn't follow her much in college but there was a one-state either in the national championship. Yeah, she was a Illinois. That's amazing, okay, so going forward.

Yeah, you know, when you think college or maybe even making a living off doing something like this, is it, is there like a path to making a living doing powerlifting? Or like, what does that look like? Or is it kind of like hey, baseball is maybe the future because I can play that, I guess? What do you? What are your goals?

Oh well, I hope to play baseball basically the rest of my life and then I do a small amount of lifting, yeah.

Where do you want to play in, andrew? Is it still the same that you've said in the past, or has it changed?

I changed.

Oh breaking New favorite team.

The New York Yankees.

Oh, okay.

Oh, this is going so well.

This was going so well. He has always said I want to play for the Royals scout team out of Kansas City and then I want to end up getting drafted out of high school for the Royals and win a World Series for the Royals.

That was always the answer. This is the first time I've heard about the Yankees.

Well, I mean hey there's nothing wrong with winning.

He's like, hey, now that we're on the podcast, I'm finally going to tell my dad what I think. The truth comes out.

Hey, listen, I'm not mad at Yankees money. Every guy in the lineup makes over $10 million a year. Yeah, If that's my son.

I'll take that Exactly. I'll take that We'll hate on it if I'm not a beneficiary. I mean listen, that's so cool man.

That's awesome. Why the Yankees? Why the change? I?

don't know.

Historic past Huge paycheck, big city. I don't know. You're not a big city guy. I don't see you. As that might be, you might have to revisit that, I don't know.

Yeah, we might need to.

I might have to finally interject a little bit. I might need to revisit the Royals.

I will not allow it. We're going to have a very serious conversation.

I mean, I can see it now.

Bobby Witt three. Bo Jensen four Right Boom, boom.

Talk about back-to-back studs play. What's the youngest player? Is it Griffey? Is it still Griffey, probably At 18? Yeah, really, so you're five years away.

I mean, it could be a Bobby Witt. Bo Jensen, Could you imagine the?

Jackson-Bow on the Royals, where Bo Jackson played in the same spot. That would be insane, that would be a story.

He's trying to win you back over.

I just don't want to see the big market always win right we want to see the underdogs. I love baseball teams to develop the team.

I say with this World Series, Dodgers Yankees, my hope for the World Series is that it just got rained out well listen, no matter what, we're going to have the most expensive loser in the history of the major leagues.

It's so true, it's so true, oh my. God, that makes it a little better right, yeah, exactly.

A little better. All right, we like to end our podcast segments with just some rapid fire questions. First thing that comes to your mind you know you don't think about it super long, but how many potholes did you hit on your way over here today?

But how many potholes did you hit on your way over here?

today? Oh no, zero, because I swerve around potholes. There we go, there we go.

You can't be a poor if you hit potholes in the tent.

Listen it handles like a dream?

I don't hit potholes.

Have you ever been able to get somewhere in Topeka without hitting construction Dad?

Since we voted for that road improvement bill thing. No Right, you gotta really know Topeka well to hit all the back streets to avoid this.

Alright, bill, this one's for you. What is your favorite restaurant in Topeka? Yeah, Come on.

This is a safe place, bro.

This is a safe place. I know why he's hesitant Because there's a couple places that treat him like that Give us two or three.

Give a couple, whatever.

Arby's one that's not a restaurant.

What are the places we go and sit down?

El Mezcal.

El Mezcal has always been really nice to us.

Elmez Cow shout out to Danny there. Jorge's is fire right across the street from us, so we walk over there and they all know us by name. They all know all about him. They celebrated his birthday.

We're trying to get Jorge on the show, jorge's great so what do you get at Arby's?

this french dip? We're trying to get Jorge on the show. Jorge's great, jorge's awesome, wait, wait. So what do you get at Arby's?

This French dip.

Yeah, nice, it's a French dip guy.

Oh yeah, but he just found out the last time that the au jus sauce how do I say it? Has onions in it, he was like, is that?

an onion. I was like you've been eating it this whole time. I've been eating it this whole time. I didn't know.

Wow, that's amazing, bo, do you golf? Yes?

Really.

Yeah, let's go.

What's your favorite golf course in Topeka?

What's the one over by? The only one you've ever really played doesn't even exist anymore. My dad lives over off of was it Prairie Prairie View? Prairie View yeah, they're off of Urish yeah. I think they're trying to revamp it. So my dad lives off like the ninth hole right there so as a young child, he'd just go out and, like practice, chipping up onto the ninth green.

Cool, yeah, yeah. But when you're Bo Jensen, chipping's no fun. You don't when you were 11.

He's about to humiliate us. Oh my gosh. He hit one on the. Where's that place downtown that you can go and hit indoors?

Oh yeah yeah, yeah, I can video him going 250. Dang 250 yards on a drive Wow.

Let's go. And that was for your 12th birthday, right yeah, because Cameron was there.

So 250 at 12. On your 12th birthday.

No, I don't know if it plays that way in the real world. Out with the air it's pretty close and all the pros use it. I mean pretty sweet, I could all right, this one might be your dad, go towards your dad, but if you're fixing up something around, the house, home Depot, lowe's or Menards. What are we fixing? Whatever you want, you had to go into one of those and spend an hour there. What would you go to?

where have we gone together the most?

menards yeah, I knew he was going to say that, but home.

People is closer to our house, so if it's got to be quick, yeah, that checks out, yeah that's right.

That checks out as a kid. Are you still in the face? Like? When I was a kid it was the worst when my parents would drag me to a store they were going to be in for like two hours. Like, is that how it kind of is?

it's all for shopping for like clothes, okay, yeah, what's your?

favorite saying as soon as we leave the whole time we're gone, I'm bored, I'm bored I'm so bored all right, I'm gonna ask both you guys this one we'll hear, maybe your dad first, then we'll hear from you. You guys have traveled all over. What is something that Topeka is missing? Like if you could bring one local business or an idea to Topeka that you've seen, what would you bring here? Hmm, boy.

Are we talking?

anything I can dream of, or are we?

talking within reason, both A dome would be great to play winter sports in wintertime.

That would be great yeah, to play winter indoor sports, winter time like that'd be fantastic I mean the little league community in topeka is strong.

Yeah, there's plus softball fast pitch softball in topeka is great. Um, there's multiple practice facilities. If you could put it all in one dome area and play tournaments and play league nights, get into. The biggest problem we see when we go down and play in the South is these kids are playing 300 games a year. Yeah, you know they have more experience. By by the time they're in high school they've played 1500 games. Wow.

You know, to where you know we're here, you know we have to travel. Well, you can't drive to Texas every weekend, right? So you know we maybe can start playing down south by march, but the winter period we're just stuck. So I mean, if you're, if you're looking at trying to compete at that level or just play for fun in the winter, sure, and if you got a dome, I mean, there's so much you can do inside and it doesn't have to be a major league size dome if we're talking for, like you know, under high school age kids, right?

right you know that would be huge and I that'd be huge, that'd be great, wow, and then that's just coming from a sports day, yeah, no, yeah, that's we're talking about just living stuff.

I mean, yeah, drive our uh outdoor movie place would be cool, so like that yeah, I mean my wife would love that.

I mean cody foster put a dom in jim parish get on it.

Yeah, yeah, all Bo. What's Topeka missing? What's a restaurant you love that we don't have here?

Do you remember what's your favorite? You've had a lot of weird foods, like what's your favorite food that you wouldn't ever think of having in Topeka, that you've ate?

Gator, alligator Gator.

You love some gator?

Yes, We've had like a Gator and a lot actually Gator when we were in for Bama and Alabama Gator in New Orleans.

I think that's the best answer. We need, like a Cajun barbecue place or something. Yeah, I'll get it, it's good.

Yeah, and they're silver run down there. Did you get?

this, you can just go on, you don't open.

Yeah.

It's just go get them in pythons, I guess. Yeah, for real, it's open season on pythons, that's a good one. Well, last question for you guys, and we'll wrap it up where can people find you at? Are you guys on social media? Yeah, where can people follow bo and his his journey?

he's got instagram. Uh, he's big jackson bow. And then he has a youtube. Um, it's not, we don't do a lot on there, we just post a little bit here and there, but, um, we try to put most of the big stuff he's done on there. It's the world's strongest kid. I don't, I don't even know You'd have. If you search, if you search Jackson Bo Jensen, world's strongest kid, it'll come up.

Sure, but it's not.

it's not something we spend a ton of time on yeah, or just google jackson, bow, jensen, there's a whole bunch of stuff comes up. Yeah, yeah, heck, yeah, what about you?

uh, I'm a little joe jensen, so big jackson bow little joe on instagram and then, um, I have my joe's gyms on youtube. Again, don't do a whole lot on there, but I try to highlight the high school kids from the area. They're doing really good that go to usa powerlifting. It's kind of like the it's the highest step of powerlifting. Well, um, we got some really good kids in the topeka community doing, have done really good in the past and are continuing to do really good right now.

So I try to always around our powerlifting season while national championships is in march for them. Um, I try to always post stuff on there of the kids so that they get their their couple seconds in the limelight. They deserve it, and there's not a whole lot of limelight for powerlifting, sure, you know, although I think there should be, because all coaches will tell you get stronger in the offseason. Okay, now what, though? How, where, right, you know, turn it into a real sport, and I'll add to it for any kids that are out there that maybe aren't the best football player or baseball player or basketball player or wrestler, but you do love lifting weights, which, which is oftentimes the case. A lot of times, athletes fall in love with weights more than the sport. Wow, there are colleges in Kansas, in Nebraska, in Oklahoma, in Texas, in Louisiana that are giving real scholarships for just powerlifting. Now, wow, I have had in the last three years five kids get $55,000 or more for a year for scholarships.

Per year. Per year for powerlifting.

That's wild. We are trying really hard to try to get it into the Division II, division I. Right now it's just like your private schools and I like Friends University, ottawa University there's a couple up in Nebraska that are great schools but it's a real option now.

It's a real option.

You can get an education, you can get a scholarship and you can lift weights as a competitive sport. That's awesome. I have a question Can I give my son a gift on air?

here. Oh yes, I totally forgot about that Absolutely Okay.

He has not received this one yet. We just got it yesterday. Knowing we're coming on, I wanted to bring it. He hasn't seen it, he doesn't know what it is. I think it might be the coolest trophy you've ever won.

Let's go, dude.

We don't have the base and we don't have the placard yet to put all the things he did. So since you are now any association any time, all of history, the world record holder, you're the king of the world for 12 and under, powerlifting.

You got this trophy. What the?

heck your own real king of the world crown.

Look at that, that's amazing Wow.

Put it on. Let's see it on. Hey, let's go.

That's.

That's awesome, official dog come on, man, let's go look at that hey, it actually gets on.

Yeah, buddy, yeah, uh, you want to stand in the middle?

so where did that come from?

uh, the guy that ran the competition in missouri, um so bo competed actually in the open division against all the grown men. It was a pro show. What it was? It a pro show. It was the last time he was going to be able to compete before he turned 13. So I said, forget it. He actually beat seven adults. The guys are like well, I can officially retire.

But these are really good. These are really good power throughs. And they threw him in with the super heavyweight group in the back, treated him like just one of the bros they're very.

They're very inspired, they're very helpful and, um, talking with the, but because he's competing with grown men, he didn't win, you know. So there's no medal for him, there's no trophy for him, and he was like that can't be. You can't come in here and set all the world records and then get nothing Right. So he's like we're going to get something that he deserves, like so me and him worked it out and that's what we came out. That's super.

He's like, you know, he's like he's got belts and he's got rings and medals. He's like what I was like you don't got a crown, boom man, that's just yeah. And then it's gonna have a little stand and it'll have lists of your accomplishments on it, buddy, wow, you like it. Yeah, what do you think about that? Yeah, heck, yeah, I think you're the only 12 year old.

That's got a real crown, I know hey. Well, thanks for being here. Guys appreciate your time.

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