[ grunting ]
- Let's go, B! - [ grunting ] - Get some, get some! <i> - The legendary feats
of strong men</i> <i> have been celebrated
throughout time.</i> - [ grunting ] <i> - But just how true are
these fabled acts?</i> - Yaah! - The world's strongest man! <i> - After years
of competing as rivals,</i> <i> the four strongest men
in the world</i> <i> are teaming up to find out.</i> - Keep going, keep going,
keep going. <i> - They'll take on
epic feats of strength...</i> - Yes! - [ grunting ] <i> - ...in a quest to prove
who really is...</i> - [ grunting ] <i> - ...the strongest
man in history.</i> <i> On this episode,
they're in Toccoa, Georgia,</i> <i> home of all-American
strongman Paul Anderson.</i> - [ roars ] - Steady your chest.
- Steady, steady, steady, tight. <i> - They'll attempt three
of his most difficult stunts.</i> - Find a balance,
find a balance. <i> - Including lifting
2,700 pounds of people.</i> - Uhh. - Ah. <i> - Can they beat his records...
and each other?</i> - [ roaring ] <i> - Let's find out.</i>
- Come on, Ed, come on! - [ grunting ] Big pop. [ inhales ]
Oh, God. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ - Wow.
- Well, this must be the place. - Check this thing out.
That is freaking cool. - I am probably the biggest
Paul Anderson fan in the world. "World's strongest man. "Lifted the greatest weight "ever raised
by a human being-- 6,270 pounds." So when the producers asked us which great strongmen
in history we'd like to go after, the first name I thought of
was Paul Anderson. "1956 Olympic gold medalist,
super heavyweight." - You know what I'm really
impressed about? That you read all that.
- [ laughs ] That was really good. Paul Anderson's literally like the Babe Ruth
of our sport. - Hi.
- Hey. How are y'all? - How are you doing?
- How are you? I'm Paula Anderson Schaefer.
- Yes. - Paul Anderson's daughter. - He paved the way,
and I'm not sure the sport would be
where it is today if it wasn't
for Paul Anderson. - This is our backyard,
and this was Daddy, lifting. ABC, NBC, CBS were all
here, filming him. - I can't believe we're actually
in Paul Anderson's house. This is where he used to train.
This is where he lived. He was born in this house.
It's sacred ground. - I had something
I wanted to show you. It is from
"The Ed Sullivan Show." - Cool. Cool. <i> - We're about to take you</i> <i> to the Mapes hotel
at Reno, Nevada,</i> <i> where Paul Anderson will
pick up two strongboxes</i> <i> filled with 15,000
silver dollars.</i> <i> Paul,
what is the actual weight?</i> <i> - Well, the weight
of the silver dollars</i> <i> plus the apparatus</i> <i> is a little over
1,100 pounds.</i> - [ laughs ] Geez. <i> [ drum roll, fanfare ]</i> - We have to try that. - Yeah, definitely.
- Yeah. It's so crazy, 'cause he did
all these amazing things with the movie,
with "The Ed Sullivan Show," and he didn't
get the publicity that at least we feel
he deserved. - Right.
- In 1957, there were only three
television networks. Today,
there's over a thousand, and on top of that, you've got YouTube,
Facebook, Instagram. The whole world's
at your fingertips. For us, we could take a picture
and post it, and, like, a million people
will see it, you know? - Yeah, right?
- Ha! A million people? You haven't got
a million followers. - Well,
not a million followers, but I mean, like, a million
people could see it. - I've got a million followers. - [ laughs ] Yeah, okay.
- How many have you got? - I think I'm at, like,
almost 200,000. - 200 people?
- 200 people. - In total. Robert Oberst's social media is full of American flags, tanks, hunting, pictures of himself
smoking cigars, playing the banjo.
It's pretty pathetic. - So you think you've got
a stronger following? - I know I've got a stronger
following than you. - You may have more,
but definitely not stronger. - Do you want to put
a wager on this? - On Instagram.
- On Instagram? - Yeah.
- Yeah. - What do you want to do? - Okay, let's make it fair. I've got about five times
the following you've got, so you do five pictures,
add up all the likes, and compare it
to my one picture. Before we leave Georgia,
we count this up. - Sounds good to me.
- Okay? - So then what do you
want to bet? - The usual.
- [ heavy sigh ] I don't want to do
the usual again. - We're doing the usual,
or else there's no point. Doing the usual. - All right. - You on? It's on. ♪♪♪ - Oh, wow. - That's way bigger than I
thought it was going to be. - Yeah, totally. For our first challenge,
we want to investigate the $15,000
silver dollar squat that Paul Anderson did
at the Mapes Casino. - That's exactly
what it looked like. - Yeah. <i> - Less than a year</i> <i> after winning a gold medal
at the Olympics,</i> <i> Paul Anderson performed</i> <i> at the Mapes Casino
in Reno, Nevada,</i> <i> for two weeks.</i> <i> The casino offered
a prize of $15,000</i> <i> to anyone who could match</i> <i> Paul Anderson's
feat of strength.</i> <i> But did he really squat
1,100 pounds every day?</i> <i> Let's find out.</i> - Paul Anderson is
a strength legend. So he said
it was 1,100 pounds, which is a crazy amount
of weight. We actually don't know
if it was 1,100 pounds, so we need to look into that. You know, it's really cool
that they actually-- they put this together
using the measurements-- that this is actually
the same size. - And how wide is this box?
- 23 inches. - If we were to fill the boxes
completely filled with coins, what did it come out to? - 4,209 pounds. - Wow. - There's absolutely no way that thing was all the way
full of silver dollars. - There's no coins in the back. - Yeah, the back... There's this huge space
in here. That's the fake wall. So we knew there must have
been a fake wall, then, for those coins to come
all the way to the top. So let's try
and work out what this is. How many coins have we
got in this fake wall? - This was filled with 1,800. - 1,800 coins.
- Yeah. We don't know
how many coins exactly the Mapes Casino put
in those boxes, but we estimate it
to be roughly the 1,800 coins that were needed to fill up
the front windows of the boxes. Based on our calculations, the actual setup that he
squatted was 720 pounds. I personally think
that there's a chance that the casino told
Paul Anderson this weighed 1,100 pounds.
He stepped up and just said
what they told him. - Yes.
- Paul Anderson supposedly squatted this once, maybe twice a day,
every day, for weeks,
as part of a show. - Well, I personally think he's been put on the spot
by a casino, and the weight's
definitely been amplified. I've got the world record
in the deadlift at 1,102 pounds. [ audience cheering ]
- Oh, my God! - And I did that once, and I've never done it since. - A whole ton! [ announcer continues
over cheering ] - I had blood coming out
of my eyes, my ears, my nose. I fell unconscious.
I went blind for 20 minutes. It nearly killed me. And for Paul to have
squatted 1,100 pounds almost on a daily basis, he would have seriously
hurt himself. - I think that we should all
go get warmed up and try to take on this lift, and pay him respect, anyway. - Yeah, let's do that. ♪♪♪ - Yeah, we're set. - Go! - Let's go, B. - Boom! [ grunting ] - That's it. - Come on, Brian.
Come on, Brian! - [ grunting ]
- Step back. Yeah. Go forward a step,
forward a step. All right, you're good at that.
You're good at that. - Put it in. - Put it in.
- Okay. - Sure is good. - Picking up the squat setup for the first time
was pretty crazy. With this big of an apparatus, that flex, it's just gonna
start bouncing. It was shaking. You guys ready?
- Yep. So trying to stay stable was a very hard thing
to do. - Yeah! - Stay where you are.
We'll move the rack. - [ grunts ]
- Stay where you are. Stay where you are. - Let's go, B! ♪♪♪ - Yes. Easy. - Uhh!
- Yes. - These up.
- Down, down. [ clapping ] - Whoo!
- Whoo! Replicating that squat gave me an even higher
respect for Paul Anderson because that type of setup, in the stage
that he would have done it, would have been unstable
as well, and he did that
multiple times per day, uh, for probably weeks
on end. - Hit it! - Let's go, Obie! - [ growling ]
- Get some, get some! - Come on. - You got this. Let's go. - [ growling ] - Up.
- Uppie. - Good. - Down. - Set yourself, set yourself. Big breath! - Come on, Obie. - Yeah, up.
- Up! - Easy.
- Yes! - Great job, Obie.
- Atta boy! - Whoo!
- Whoo! - Awesome, man. - The boxes are so awkward,
it works our whole core. It was so wobbly.
Oh, my God. It was the hardest squat
at that weight I've ever had
in my entire life. [ camera shutter clicks ] - Great job.
- Oh, man, I hope Paul Anderson's
looking down smiling. - Absolutely. - I don't know
why you made it look so hard. [ laughter ] ♪♪♪ The squat itself was
a scary setup. It really was. - Let's go! - Nothing.
- Nothing! - Because we had all our weight
in the front of the boxes... - Ease into it. Don't jerk up. - Good. Rack. Rack clear. ...as soon as you pick it up, you're shaking like a dog
having [ bleep ]. - Get up! Good squat. Back rack. - Whoo.
- Good job. - Whoo! It was just
such a scary thing to do. It's like squatting
during an earthquake. It's the only way
I can describe it. - Let's get this done, Nick.
Come on. - It's only weight. I'm not looking forward
to this. This is gonna be rough. - Come on. - Nice and easy.
Gentle into it. Come on. - Good. Clear. - Stay where you are.
- Rack down. - Find the balance,
find the balance. - I've got it.
Come on, come on! - Let's go, Nick!
- Down and up. - You got it, you got it. - Back up! Back up! - No, no, no. No, no, no. - This, get this. ♪♪♪ - Well, I'm excited to see what
Eddie Hall's gonna do here. We're gonna see
what happens now when they added
another 24,000 pounds by pulling a plane. - Do you like his rhythm
and his body, the way
it's pretty low here? - Yes, I do. Short,
powerful, choppy steps. - He's got a nice one
going here. And, Aaron, he's gonna
be successful here. - Down.
- Find the balance. Find the balance.
- When we were trying out the $15,000 squat lift
that Paul Anderson did... - Down. Let go, let go. - ...Nick went down. - Get this, get this. - Good, we're good.
Drop it. - Let go, let go. - I lost my balance
squatting the coins, due to the bar being whippy. - You all right?
Everything okay? - Yeah, I just gotta get
these knee wraps off. - Yeah, just breathe. - That was probably
the shakiest bar I've ever put on my back. I couldn't stay stable
with it, and as I started to squat down,
I just lost it forwards. There was nothing I could do, and it just slammed me
right down. - Do you want to do it again
or no? - I--I wouldn't, man. That scared me, bro, and honestly,
I almost hurt myself trying to pull that
up off you. - Yeah, you don't have
anything to prove, man. - Well, I gotta prove it to me. - It's up to you, Nick. - I want it. - You want it.
- I want it. - All right, buddy.
- All right. - I can't believe
he's about to do this again. That doesn't seem smart
to me. - Focus. Let's go. - Tight, tight! - Come on, Nick. Step up!
- Let's go! - Plant your feet
and don't move them. Do not move them.
- Come on. - Let's go.
- Come on, Nick. - Right where you need
to be, Nick. Let's go! Come on!
- Ease into it. Ease into it. Yeah. - Free your weight. - Go. - Ah.
- Up. - Yeah! - Atta boy. - All right. That's better. - There we go.
Let me get some. Coming up with that and coming back and getting it was definitely
one of the best feelings I ever got in my life. I'm really glad I did this. I mean, I love
Paul Anderson, so... - You do realize that Paul Anderson was
24 years old when he did this lift, right? And so you are more
than double his age, which is a feat in itself,
man. Yeah, that's awesome, man. - Well done, buddy.
- Really, really good. - Thanks, guys.
- Well done. - Aw, come here, bro.
- Yeah. - Come on, buddy.
- Group hug. Come on. Bring it in.
- Aw. ♪♪♪ - I want to beat Eddie, man. - Yeah, I know. I want you
to beat Eddie, too, but at 6:00 in the morning? Eddie and I made a bet to see who could pick up the most
likes on Instagram. So I was looking online, and the most popular spot
in Toccoa for pictures is Toccoa Falls. - Oh, man,
it's so pretty out here. I was thinking, you know, something funny,
something different. I think
we get a picture of you scrubbing my back
in the waterfall. - Really? - Whoo!
It's so frigging cold! - All's I can say is
Brokeback Fountain. [ camera shutter clicks ] - I'm hungry, so we'll have
to get something to eat. - Yeah. ♪♪♪ - Let's do, uh,
like, 50 burgers. - 50 burgers.
- No bun, though. - Wings as well?
You do chicken wings? - We do wings.
- A couple hundred or whatever you got
in the back would be perfect. - All right.
- It's a snack. - Just small. - I don't think
people even realize how much food we eat. Being this size, you gotta eat about 10,000
calories a day. So for me,
that table looked normal. But when it came out,
I realized it was a great opportunity
to take a pic. Wait, before we start, Nick, you gotta give me a shot
for my Instagram. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - No chance.
- Why? - No chance. You're not-- You're not benefitting off--
at my expense because I'm chipping in
with this food. Take one of me as well, Nick. - Well, that's--I called it. I'm the one
who said it first. Dibs. - Fine. Fine.
- You gotta respect dibs, bro. I was quite jealous, actually.
It was a really good photo. That's just [ bleep ]. - That's what a loser
would say. - I didn't think
Oberst had a chance of beating me
in this challenge, but now I'm seeing
the photos he's doing. I'm gonna really
have to come up with something great
to beat him. - Y'all want to see where
my dad used to work out? - Good shot, man. - Yes.
- Yeah, I'd love that. - Okay. Come on. - [ laughs ] Oh,
it's a little dungeon, huh? - Yes, it is.
You have to come in backward, so keep your head down. - [ laughs ]
- Wow. - Being big is a challenge that's hard to identify with
for most people. - This is gonna be
interesting. - Always tight, cramped, hot, you know, ducking your head
through doors or just being stared at
by everyone all the time. I always feel like
I'm in a fishing bowl and people are trying
to tap on the glass to see what I'll do,
you know? - So Paul Anderson truly
must have been 5'9"-- - Yeah.
- ...to be able to train down here,
because I'm 6'8", and I'm having to duck down just to move around in here.
- Yeah. - Today, everybody
goes to the gym. Back when Paul Anderson
was doing all this, there were no gyms. - These are the ones
he used, right? - Yep.
- Oh, my God. Do you know what those are? - I have to see those plates. Wow. That is insane. - Why? Is it just because
they were Paul's or because they're...
- These are original York deep-dish plates, probably
from around the 1950s. - Oh, so Nick used to train
with them, then? - Yeah. Mm-hmm.
- Yes? - I actually did used to lift with those kind
of York plates. I'm that old. - The fact that these were
Paul Anderson's, and there are very,
very few of them out there, essentially, it's priceless. - This is Brian excited. - I collect old-time
strength equipment. That's like finding a Mickey Mantle rookie card
in your basement and not really knowing
what you actually have. - I wanted to show
y'all something. Y'all come have a seat. - Oh, my God. Oh! Uhh! Cozy!
- Oh, my God, nice. - Too far to the ground. - This is lovely.
- Really comfortable, really. - All right,
so this is from Russia, when he lifted
at Gorky Park. - Have you guys ever
competed in Russia? - No.
- No. - I have. It was not comfortable,
as an American. <i> - 16,000 Russians
packed into Gorky Park</i> <i> to watch the Russians
against the Americans.</i> <i> Paul Anderson stepped up</i> <i> and had the bar loaded
with 402 1/2 pounds,</i> <i> and, without expression,</i> <i> pushed the weights overhead
as if they were toys.</i> <i> The young man
from Toccoa, Georgia,</i> <i> had just broken
the world record</i> <i> by 22 pounds.</i> - That's a very nice
little storyline. - All right, guys,
you ready to go try this? - Yeah. You guys want
to come with us? - Yeah, we'd love to see--
we'd love to watch. - Sounds good.
- Ohh. - We'll help y'all
out of the sofa. - Please. Ohh.
- Oh, my gosh. All right. - Thank you. - You might need oxygen now. - Oh.
- Wow. ♪♪♪ For our second challenge, we're gonna try to replicate Paul Anderson's
record-breaking 402-pound overhead press. - How you guys doing?
- A hell of a crowd here. - It was so cool just to have
the Anderson family standing there, waiting
for us to do this thing. Paul lifted it from the deck to his chest
and pressed it overhead, but that takes a good
couple of months of training, and we haven't had
that training. Paul Anderson cleaned
and pressed 402 pounds. What we're gonna do
is similar, but we're gonna do it
strongman style. We took out the clean, so we're gonna attempt
the press itself because that's actually what
Paul Anderson is known for. What we're here to replicate
is his press, so it's from the shoulders
to overhead. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Let's get it done.
- Let's do it. - I'm gonna start warming up. ♪♪♪ While I was warming up, my right shoulder
was kinda hurting me. It just didn't feel right. Guys, I'm gonna tell you
right now, my shoulder is not
loving this. I hurt it training last week, and it just--I can barely
get my arm up over my head right now. - You opting out?
- I'm opting out. - Okay. - I didn't want
to get hurt trying, so I just kinda bowed out. - Well, look,
since we got this set up, we've got 155 pounds
on the bar. This is a nice warm-up weight. Why don't we get an average
person to do this? Cameraman...come on, buddy. - Average Ian,
you're an average guy. - Let's get you on this.
- Ian. There he is. - Come on, buddy.
- Here he is. - Before every challenge,
we call in the average man, just to show you exactly
how strong you have to be to do these feats
of strength. - I feel like I'm gonna,
like, just keel over backwards. - No, it's fine.
- If you do, don't worry. I got my phone.
I'll call 911 for you. - Oh. Oh, thanks.
- And I've got my phone. I'll take a video.
- Oh, yeah. [ laughter ] - All right. - Come on! - You're gonna knock
my hat off. Geez. - All right.
- Three. - Three.
- Two. - One.
- One. Go. - [ grunting ] [ laughter ] - It's heavy.
- [ laughs ] - And it's how much I weigh, so good luck, good luck. - Cheers, Ian.
- Cheers. - One more. 10. - 5 on each side. - All right, guys,
we got the bar loaded. The bar's 45 pounds. These two big red plates
are 55 pounds. The two greens are 25s. We have a black 10, and then,
on the outside here, we have a blue, uh, 5, and then the collars
on the outside are actually 5.5 pounds, which gives us a total
of 406 pounds even. So we're taking the record up
by 3 1/2 pounds. So it's a good weight here.
This is gonna be fun. I think we can make it happen. - Let's get it.
- Good. - Ha! Hah. Get up. Shoulders are my specialty. - Let's go.
- Hah! I've got the strongest
shoulders in America, and doing the overhead press, following
after one of my heroes, I'm really excited
about this. - [ growling ] Up. - Come on, Obie!
- Get up! [ grunts, exhales ] - Good. Come on. - Good!
- Big press. - Up! [ cheers and applause ]
- Yeah! - Yes! - Nice. - I felt really good
about the press. It was a little emotional
for me. Thanks, guys. Thank you. When I saw Paula
and I saw the statute, I had goosebumps. It was one of the greatest
moments of my strongman career. Come on, Ed. - I've lifted 476 pounds
above my head. [ crowd cheering ] And that's the current
world record in strongmen to point it way above
your head, straight. - Come on, Ed, come on.
- The problem here is I haven't lifted
anything above 300 pounds above my head
in the last year. - Push.
- Come on, come on, come on. - And then we get to this lift,
and it's 400 pounds. - Let's go, Ed. - And I'll be honest. I don't know
if I can do this thing. - Easy up. Easy up. [ spectators cheering ] - Oh, come on! - Come on! - Yeah. - [ bleep ] [ bleep ] - Come on, Eddie. You got it.
- Get it up, get it up. - Paul Anderson lifted
402 pounds above his head. We're trying
to replicate that, but it's been
over a year since I've lifted
this kind of weight. I'm feeling
really apprehensive. But then I looked around. I looked
at the Anderson family, and I saw their faces
waiting in anticipation for me to do that lift. - Easy up. Easy up. - Come on, you got it!
You got it! - Raah! Boom! Boom. - Way to go. - Dude.
- Good job, man. - To have Paul's family
there watching on, I felt as though
that I couldn't fail. So I had to get really
psyched up. I got really angry. [ roaring ] And I channeled
all my energy into getting that lift done, and I'm so glad it did, and I'm glad I paid
my respect to Paul. - [ growling ]
- Let's go, Brian, come on. - Because of my training, pressing 402 pounds has now become
not that much weight. - Come on, Brian! - Now, it's taken me
a long, long time to be able to say that because, for a long time,
402 pounds was a weight that was a goal weight for me. - Pull up. Easy. Yeah! - Yes!
- Nice. - Brian is one
of the strongest guys that's ever walked
this planet, and it looks so effortless. He really is
a phenomenal athlete. - Paula, will you come up here
and take a photo of us? The whole family, you guys,
come on, come on. - Yeah, seriously.
- Come up. - Him doing that back
in the day with 402 pounds is absolutely incredible. [ laughter ]
- All right. - Come on, buddy. Good. - Let's sneak off
in that corner over there. - All right. You got your phone?
- Yeah. - What gets the most
likes on Instagram? - Naked girls?
- Booty pictures. You know, sex sells, so... - Uh, dude,
if you're gonna do that, you need to lean over and
stick it out a little farther. - I feel so exposed right now. - You've got to bend over
more and stick it out. - Nick was trying
to teach me how to do it. You've gotta pop. You want--You want the pop, and if you--you do
the duck lips, like this, this is Instagram. - Oh, my God.
- I look like I'm constipated. [ camera shutter clicks ]
- You do. ♪♪♪ - Ladies first, Brian.
[ chuckles ] - Squeeze back down here.
This is-- This is the real feat
before the feat, right? - The other day,
we saw those original York barbell
deep-dish plates. So today I want to attempt
the gold standard of pinch-grip strength. So these are 45 pounds apiece, so total 90 pounds. And the grip-strength feat
with these is to match them up
face-to-face, so smooth side out. Match them up like that.
- Yeah. - And then squeeze them
hard enough to lift them
with one hand. There have only been
five men in history that have accomplished
this feat with one hand. More people have been
on the moon than lifted these plates. - Literally,
that's the difficulty level. - [ bleep ] I thought I'd try it first, just to gauge it
and, you know, give him some idea
how tough it is. - Give it a good squeeze. - [ grunting, whistling ] Ah!
- All right. [ plates clank ]
[laughs] - Does that count?
Does that count? - Not a full lift,
but you broke it up, yeah. - Oh, my God.
- That's awesome. - I'm not trying that again.
You could--You-- This is your record, man.
I don't want it. I didn't quite do it,
so now I was interested to see if Brian
can do this. Okay, Brian, you ready? We're in Paul Anderson's
basement. You've got two 1950s 45-pound York plates.
- Yeah. - Only five people
on the planet have done this. In your own time, buddy. ♪♪♪ - [ grunts ] - [ sputters ] [ laughs ]
Bloody hell, Brian. That was so easy. - I thought that would
actually be harder. - To see Brian do
that feat of strength, it wasn't a shock to me
at all. Left, for good measure. You know, just another day
in the life for Brian. I'll have another
go at it for you. - Yeah, yeah.
- But then, when Brian did it, it put the fire in me
to go back and try again. [ exhaling ] [ grunts ]
- Nice! - [ bleep ] Aah!
- [ laughs ] - I honestly can't believe
I did that. - That lift counts.
- Thanks, buddy. Brian became the sixth man
to pick up these plates, and then I became
the seventh. - So that's history, man.
That's neat. You know, me and Brian
have become a part of a small little family
in the grip world, which I was
super pumped about. - Dude, that was--
- I'm happy with that. - That was sick. Seriously. - I'm happy with that.
- Yeah. - All right,
so this is the idea. I think what we do...
- Okay. - I do a lot of, uh,
cigar shots, so... - True.
- ...I got some cigars. - Oh, great. - For my final
Instagram picture, I had to go
back to Paula's house. When I saw Paul's Cadillac, I was honestly
a little bit jealous. That guy had some style. I want to get the emblem
in it, but I think it's gonna be
kinda tricky. It's a big,
beautiful Cadillac with that emblem
on the front. You know, I wish I would
have thought of that. - Are you ready? Taking 'em. - Do I look strong and pretty? - I don't know.
Get one from the front. I figured, what's cooler
than a big, giant Cadillac with Paul Anderson on it
and a cigar? - Let's see. These are good. - That's good. [ camera shutter clicks ] - All right, I like it.
All right, quit swiping. I got naked photos of me
on there. - Oh,
I don't want to see that. - I'll send them to you later.
- No, no, no. ♪♪♪ - Hi.
- Hey. - You're Kay?
- Yeah. - Morgan,
nice to see you again. - Nice to see you.
- How are you doing? So for the Instagram bet that me and Robert
have got going on, I've got something
really nice planned. I met two girls
at the gym yesterday. They were quite good-looking.
I persuaded them to meet me at the park today,
11:00 a.m. - So how do you want
to set this up? - So I'm gonna get the same
pose as Paul Anderson... - Gotcha.
- ...with the bar, and obviously girls
instead of weights. Now, I think this is gonna
win people over. - All right, here we go.
- Ready? - One, two, three, up. People like to see
pretty ladies, people like to see muscles, and they also like
to see legacy as well - You ready, Brian? All right, you're good. - Ah! [ laughs ] - [ grunts ] - Move, Brian, move around. - All right.
- Got it? - Yeah.
- Okay, nice and slow. - No, no, no, no stance. - Easy.
- Oh. - Good job.
- You okay? - Are you good?
- Good job. - No, that's fine.
- That was incredible. [ laughter ] - But it's gonna be really
tough to beat Oberst. I've seen a couple
of the photos that Oberst has put out
so far, and to be honest,
they're pretty good. - Let's have a look at it.
- Nice job. - Is that a good one?
- That looks so good. - All right, let's post it. Let me just refresh it
and make sure. It's already got 200 likes.
[ laughter ] I'm not even kidding.
- That's awesome. - Oh, Oberst is gonna be
so screwed. - He is. ♪ [ applause ] - That looks great. For our final challenge, we wanted to take on
the carousel lift that Paul Anderson did
on "The Ed Sullivan Show." That is awesome. <i> - In 1957,</i> <i> Paul Anderson appeared
on "The Ed Sullivan Show,"</i> <i> lifting up 18 celebrity guests
on a human carousel.</i> <i> These Hollywood stars,
along with the apparatus,</i> <i> collectively weighted in
at...</i> <i> How did Paul lift
more than twice</i> <i> the weight
of a grizzly bear,</i> <i> and will our strongmen be
hip to this challenge?</i> <i> Let's find out.</i> - Who's up first?
- Uh, me. - Let's get it, brother.
- All right. - Let's start warming up here. I'm so honored that Paul Anderson's family
came to watch us do
the carousel lift. This piece of equipment, which is almost exactly like
the apparatus Paul used, is 4... - It's 485 pounds.
- Yeah. - Oh, good grief.
- A nice little warm-up for ya. - Yeah, 'cause everybody
warms up with 500 pounds, right? - A hip lift is exactly
what you would think it is. It's putting a belt
around your hips, having a weight connected
between your legs, and then using mainly the muscles
in your legs and hips to lift the weight
up off the ground. This is all gonna come down
to leg strength, so strength through the quads,
hamstrings, glutes, hips. That's really what's gonna be
needed to lift this thing up. ♪♪♪ [ cheers and applause ]
- Nice. Good. Go on down on it. - So it's pretty important,
guys, to be safe with this.
I did this in Australia probably six,
seven years ago, and it cracked my L4 vertebra
in two spots and cracked my L5 in one. I've shrunken
an inch and a half. - Well, thank you
for that information just before
I'm about to lift it. [ laughter ] - My concerns with the lifts is getting the balance
correct. If we mess something up,
we could be crippled. ♪♪♪ - When you do a big lift
like this, you don't start at the max. You got to warm up. - So good?
- You're good. Down. - You've got to let your
central nervous system fire the proper way. - You're four or five inches
off the ground. - Down.
- So you do lighter weights, and you build up
to the maximum lift. - How do you feel?
- Yeah, it feels good. - All right. - So you want to get
Paul's family out here? We don't have any seatbelts
for this ride. Sorry. - You all right, Mama?
- I'm all right. - This is Paul Anderson's
grandson and son-in-law. So why don't we go Edward
on that side for sure, and then we'll add Paul
on this side. - In order to replicate
Paul Anderson's lift, we need to add enough people
to equal 2,700 pounds. - We need Caleb, Tate,
Kayden, and Luke. We actually weighed
everyone in attendance before we started
the carousel lift and then wrote their names
down on a list. You guys weigh 640 pounds. We're not gonna list weights, although you all could
probably eat a little bit more. So that we could
pick people out based on their body weight. - All right, guys,
so here's what we got. We need to find two young men
that are-- are fairly balanced
in weight. So we've got one
that's 242 pounds and one that's 234. So that'll give us
476 pounds. - Yeah. - But 159 plus 242 would be exactly
2,715 pounds. - It's unbalanced, though.
- It'll be fine. - No. - I'd rather go
the heavier weight. - 80 pounds heavier
and balanced or 80 pounds less
unbalanced? - It won't feel unbalanced,
though. It's so heavy,
you won't feel it. ♪♪♪ I think, no matter what weight
you put on that carousel, there's always gonna be a risk
factor to hurting yourself. Could I have the heavier guy
on that side and the lighter guy here? And I think, as long as
the balance was somewhat equal, which it was, then we've done
the best we can. So can we all shuffle,
everyone, six inches to your left? - It's not safe
to move people around once we have the balance. - Six inches to your left. - I do not want to get hurt. And once the balance is set, you don't mess
with that balance. [ grunts ] - I'm a little concerned
about the carousel challenge. It's something
I've never done before. - Come on, Robbie,
nice and tight. - Let's go, Oberst. - So going up there,
I was worried. Uhh! Ah! No. - You okay? - I felt the pop in my back. - Oh, dude.
- Ah, I'm not good, man. - All right, give me a second. Just give me a second. I could feel a little bit
of a slide on the belt, but what was happening
was my spine was moving. Ah! It popped twice,
and that was it. - Are you tapping out?
- Yeah. - You all right?
- That's it. - Good job, Obie. - Sometimes we make things
look easy, but you got to understand
it's a ton of weight. We're picking up human bodies. - I think
both my legs went numb. - Yeah? - My body just said no. - To put that in perspective, that is over a ton that you had
strapped to your waist. - It felt like it.
- Yeah. [ laughter ] - Let's go, Ed.
- Let's go, Eddie. ♪♪♪ - In your own time. Let's go, Ed! Tight. ♪♪♪ Good. Clear.
- [ grunts ] [ applause ] Yeah. I felt a big pop
in my butt then. - You all right?
- Gen-Genuinely, yeah. Big pop. [ inhales ] Ah, [ bleep ]. - I warned Eddie
not to shuffle the people because we had
the perfect balance, and Eddie didn't listen. - Oh, God.
- You all right? - Just breathe, buddy,
just breathe. - Oh, my God. I did hurt myself. I think, either way,
it would have happened anyway. It was just the sheer weight that really hurt me. I'm not admitting
to being wrong. - Come on, then, Brian. - Let's go, B, let's go.
- Let's go. ♪♪♪ - I'm actually
really concerned. Both Eddie and Robert
just got hurt. You never know
what's gonna happen when you're lifting
that kind of weight. I don't even know
if I should be doing this. - Clear on my end.
- [ grunts ] [ applause ] - That's a lot of pressure
through the hips. - Ain't it just. - I feel like if I go
heavier than that, I'm now risking a big injury, so I'm gonna tap out. I'm gonna let Nick do
what he wants to do. - I'd rather go
the heavier weight. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - You do have the world record
in this type of lift, so I think
you're the man to beat. I think you should go for it. - All right. - So why don't we do this,
Nick? Will, can you step up, please?
- Will? - Swap William for...
- Will. - For Will.
- Good trade. Will for William. Perfect.
- Good trade. - That'll give us a grand total of 2,791 pounds. - 91 pounds over
what Paul Anderson did on "The Ed Sullivan Show." You ready for this?
- Yeah. - Do this for Paul.
Let's get it. - I'm feeling pretty excited
about the challenge now because we got the balance
right. It's safe. - Let's go, Nick. - So I can put
all of my focus right into that one moment
and pop it off the ground. - Let's go, Nick! ♪♪♪ - Come on, Nick. - Down and up. Let's go. - Get it done. Get it done. - Clear! Stop!
- Stop! - Aah!
[ applause ] - Yeah!
- Good job, Nick! - I don't want
to spoil anyone's fun... - Pretty sure it did. - That definitely
didn't leave the ground. - Huh.
- All right. Now we're gonna ask him
to do it again? - Do you want to be
respectful to Paul? That never broke the floor. - Eddie called BS on my lift, saying that I didn't get
the side off the ground. I put everything I had
into that, and it just sent me
over the edge. - Let's go, Nick.
- Get it done. - Nice and straight, Nick! - That's it.
- All the way. - Yes.
- There you go. Yep. - Good man.
Good man, Nick. - Was it good?
- Yeah. - There was no way I was getting
off that carousel without doing it
and showing everybody I had it. Yeah! They always count me out. But at the end of the day, I'm the one that lifted
more than Paul Anderson. The oldest man beat you.
[ laughs ] - Didn't you guys have
a Instagram bet to settle? - Yeah.
- Yes, we do. - We did indeed. - You guys ready to find out
what the usual is? - Right, so the deal was
the loser has to drink... - From the other person's
shoe. - A shoe full of water. - You guys ready to tally? - You want to tally up
yours first? - Okay, I'll go first. - I'll count them for you.
- Okay. - In my first picture,
we're at 11,924. I cannot wait to watch Eddie
drink out of my shoe. And then this third picture--
18,829. I've been working out
with no socks for the last week,
just waiting for this. - What's the total? - The total of your five photos is 72,515 likes. - That's pretty good for me.
I'm happy with that. - All right,
let's see what you got. - Total for my picture
was 86,508 likes. - Aww!
- Wow. [ laughs ] - Oh, dear.
- Dude. - Brutal.
- Are you ready for this? - Let's do it.
- Okay. - Oh, my God.
- Just to let you know, literally I've been wearing
the same socks for a week. I want you to taste me.
- Mm. - God, those reek.
Man, I can smell them right-- [ coughing ] - Ugh. - Whenever you're ready,
buddy. - You know that warm saliva
you get before you throw up?
- Yep. - I've already got it. - Oh, my God. - I bet
the color of the water's gonna come out, like, gray. - Ohh.
- Horrible. - Come on, Obie, get it done. - Ohh. [ laughing ] - Get it done. - Oh! - Ugh! - Oh! [ laughing ] - [ retching ] - Honestly,
watching Robert Oberst drink water out of my shoe was the best thing
I've ever done in my life. - Ugh.
- Oh, my God. [ laughs ] - It taste like Bigfoot
[ bleep ]. - Yeah. - [ retching ] There was little bits in it
which I'm hoping were shoe, but more than likely were
part of Eddie's foot. Oh, it was disgusting. Ugh.
- Yeah, I'd--I-- - Give us a kiss, Eddie!
- Whoa! - Give us a kiss, Eddie!
- Aah! [ laughter ]
