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John Brzenk from this weekend’s UAL 8 event where he won both right and left arm super heavy weight titles! He won $10,000 for first place right arm alone!

In a network television event the Ultimate  Armwrestling League has just concluded their championships. It seemed like a good time to sit in with Ultimate  Armwrestling League founder Robert Drenk who joins Mark and Heather along with the greatest armwrestler of all time, John Brzenk. Brzenk made an appearance in the Stallone movie Over the Top about the world of competitive arm wrestling but his real fame has come in real life on the worldwide competitive arm-wrestling circuit. We knew nothing about this sport and how serious it was before we began but Robert and John filled it all in with great detail.

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Molly Bloom shares the story of what was the most famous underground poker game in the country…until it got busted by the feds.

A-Rod, Leo Dicaprio, Ben Affleck, Toby McGuire and a bunch of super rich, billionaire’s boys club types all played in “Mollys game” as it came to be called .

She took the game from Hollywood white hot success to even greater success in NYC where Wall St. money blew the game into the stratosphere financially and made Molly a target of the mob and ultimately the feds.

Josh Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) and Heather Ankeny (@HeatherAnkeny) join Mark (@markthompsontv).

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Fighting in The Octagon, training NAVY SEALS and his big life change…

James Wilks won season 9 of Ultimate Fighter.

He’s an MMA expert, a certified handgun sharpshooter, a knife fighting champion and a NAVY SEAL instructor.

He takes the crew through his life as a kid in England and talks about what inspired him to get into the brutal fight game.

After suffering repeated injuries and during his rehab James studied his training regimen and top research on nutrition.  He talks about the fact that he realized that a plant based diet would actually help in his strengthening and healing process more than his animal based diet.

After he converted to a vegan diet he tells us about a sudden and miraculous change in his body, training and life.

Heather Ankeny and J. Elvis Weinstein join Mark Thompson

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