David Keohan, St. Paddy's Day 2025

WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.910 --> 00:00:04.810 Breda Keohan: Awesome. 2 00:00:21.010 --> 00:00:40.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All right welcome into this year's episode of the St. Patty's Day Special, with our own Indiana stones from Ireland. Mr. David Keown, I think the longest running and most frequent guest on on the podcast I think it's down to you and Bobby Hicks as to who's been on the podcast more times. But 3 00:00:40.470 --> 00:00:41.109 Breda Keohan: And I have. 4 00:00:41.110 --> 00:00:47.860 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Happy Saint Patty's day, mate. I think this is maybe the 1st time we've ever recorded it actually on Saint Paddy's day, at least in Stateside. So 5 00:00:47.860 --> 00:00:52.819 Breda Keohan: I think it actually is. I think it is Emmanuel. Yes, so happy. Friday to you. Have you got a drink there? You want to take it easy 6 00:00:52.820 --> 00:00:56.579 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I do. I've got a pint of Guinness, and I 7 00:00:56.580 --> 00:00:57.590 Breda Keohan: Excellent. 8 00:00:57.590 --> 00:01:01.030 Breda Keohan: I cracked open a bottle of Powers Irish gold label. 9 00:01:01.030 --> 00:01:02.410 Breda Keohan: I'm liking that. 10 00:01:04.150 --> 00:01:06.770 Breda Keohan: Remember, we were told the last time that we're going to make a beer 11 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:08.080 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 12 00:01:08.470 --> 00:01:09.749 Breda Keohan: So here it is. 13 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:11.050 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, nice! Let's see. 14 00:01:11.333 --> 00:01:21.550 Breda Keohan: So this is my beer, and based on the lifting stones. It's called Mulan, you see, at the bottom, right MULL a n, so that's based on the stone over in Inish Moor. 15 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:24.700 Breda Keohan: And it's a 6% beer. And 16 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:37.899 Breda Keohan: I'll read a side of it named for the ancient Celtic tradition of stone lifting by the strong men of the northwestern Europe. The name Mulan comes from a beautiful red pink stone perched on the island of Inishmore, off Ireland's West Coast, and to find out more 17 00:01:38.110 --> 00:01:43.969 Breda Keohan: contact. David Kiln, the modern Celtic stonelifter here, and you got a QR. Code. You can scan into my socials and shit. 18 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:47.019 Breda Keohan: That's crazy stuff. I got my own beer 19 00:01:47.020 --> 00:01:48.719 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Crazy man like 20 00:01:48.890 --> 00:01:58.600 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm gonna I'm gonna be like I knew him back when back before he had his own beer, his own whiskey, his own TV, show his own documentaries right 21 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:01.219 Breda Keohan: Has to be done. So here it goes down the hatch. 22 00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:03.330 Breda Keohan: 6% baby 23 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:06.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Is, that is, that an Irish red is that is, that the style? What style 24 00:02:06.590 --> 00:02:16.319 Breda Keohan: It's what they call this. They call it an extra special bitter, but it's it's not bitter tasting at all. It's actually really nice kind of caramelly tasting. So like, like, yeah, like a smith, but kind of a more of a caramel. It's really nice 25 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:29.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All right. Yeah, I love a multi caramel flavored beer, like, you know, like an old and a Marzen style. Oktoberfest is probably my my favorite single style of beer. So it sounds sounds similar to that a kind of malt forward love 26 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:35.260 Breda Keohan: Oh, man! Oh, it's great! It's crazy, I mean, who would have thought we did? They had it on draft in one of the places in town. So I went in 27 00:02:35.260 --> 00:02:35.930 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, man! 28 00:02:35.930 --> 00:02:56.819 Breda Keohan: Oh, yeah, how'd you know that? But I said, Well, actually, now that you ask, it's based on me. So I told the barman all about it. So we had a point together. Then he wouldn't charge you for it. Yeah, it's just so cool. What a really cool thing to have 29 00:02:56.820 --> 00:03:00.779 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's nuts, man. Okay? So so who's the brew? Who's the brewery that 30 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:03.249 Breda Keohan: The brewery, the boys high brewery. 31 00:03:03.830 --> 00:03:25.930 Breda Keohan: So the White Hag Irish Brewing Company. They're a small little independent up in County Sligo, and they're all into Irish mythology and Irish history. So they're like, you're kind of becoming modern mythology, you know. They said to me, you know, that sounds mad to me still, but they're like, No, you are. So we want to make a beer around the lifting stones. So they said, Look, give me give me the name of a lifting stone that you think sounds cool. This is the Mulan sounds awesome. 32 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:29.689 Breda Keohan: So like they have the pink on the can, because the pink 33 00:03:29.690 --> 00:03:31.600 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Special. I love it. Man. 34 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:33.199 Breda Keohan: Yeah. Man, it's a good 35 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:36.960 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Can I get it stateside, or or is it? Is it only available 36 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:37.340 Breda Keohan: Don't worry. 37 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:38.010 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It available at 38 00:03:38.010 --> 00:03:44.219 Breda Keohan: It's only available. They haven't put it out anywhere else. They they brought it over to over to Britain, I think, and over to like to to Holland and Belgium. 39 00:03:44.220 --> 00:03:44.720 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 40 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:46.170 Breda Keohan: For them, not not not states. 41 00:03:46.170 --> 00:03:52.369 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I didn't figure it was going to be available stateside. So you're just adding adding reasons to the list why I need to get back to the home country 42 00:03:52.644 --> 00:03:55.110 Breda Keohan: You gotta get your ass over here, 100% 43 00:03:55.110 --> 00:04:01.000 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, for sure. I definitely, I definitely need to do that. That's fantastic. Okay? So asides from asides from 44 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:10.730 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: your own beer, which still like that's mind blowing like I can't. I can't imagine going and sitting in a pub and being like that's my beer on tap, like, you know, like not one that you burn yourself 45 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:23.559 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: in. Your honor is fucking nuts, man, that's that's great. But you've you've done all sorts of other stuff like, I know we talked last year like, Oh, it's going to be a crazy year. So so give me 46 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:23.890 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: goodbye. 47 00:04:24.130 --> 00:04:30.030 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Give me the high, the high level like. What are the the like craziest things that have happened this year. 48 00:04:30.650 --> 00:04:35.649 Breda Keohan: Oh, God! Well, I actually listened, re-listened to our last Podcast this morning. 49 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:42.322 Breda Keohan: And it was like, everything was just kind of like on the bile last year. It was like it was just starting to come, you know. 50 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:49.800 Breda Keohan: we'd we'd done the documentary like we shot with 5 different documentary makers, hoping that we get someone that would take it on. 51 00:04:50.370 --> 00:04:55.819 Breda Keohan: So the good news is that Rt, which would be the biggest TV station in Ireland. 52 00:04:56.180 --> 00:05:00.350 Breda Keohan: They've agreed to fund a long form 1 h documentary. 53 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:02.550 Breda Keohan: and that was only green lid. 54 00:05:02.730 --> 00:05:04.400 Breda Keohan: About 2 weeks ago. 55 00:05:04.650 --> 00:05:10.040 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So they're taking it on, and a company called Old Hall films are doing the that's awesome. 56 00:05:10.428 --> 00:05:12.369 Breda Keohan: That man. Yeah 100%. 57 00:05:12.530 --> 00:05:16.613 Breda Keohan: So like they'd be putting about a quarter of a million into this like big big production value. 58 00:05:17.340 --> 00:05:26.690 Breda Keohan: they want to make it like that. They're kind of next flagship thing on our TV. So like, that's absolutely amazing. Because I mean, that'd be in every every TV station or every every house in Ireland. 59 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:28.200 Breda Keohan: We'll have that. 60 00:05:28.790 --> 00:05:36.009 Breda Keohan: And they're also making like a little small independent film of it. So they want to release that. And they're set the east coast of the United States 61 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:52.849 Breda Keohan: and the Uk. And Scotland. So they're gonna release it like pretty much anywhere they can. They can release it. But just the fact that it's actually happening. You know. I mean, you were making these small documentaries open. It might happen. But now fucking is happening. You know what I mean. So we've shot for about. We've done about 4 or 5 shoots already. 62 00:05:53.420 --> 00:06:06.229 Breda Keohan: Over the last year, but we finally got to go ahead, like, you know, because it means a big. It's a big outlay of money, you know, and it's it's huge money to make these things so like, it's it's great that someone actually said, Yeah, we want to do this. Let's go for it, you know. So I'm on. I'm just so happy. 63 00:06:06.430 --> 00:06:13.810 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What's the what's the shoot schedule on it like, how how long? How long are they going to follow you around? What's kind of the what's kind of the plan? Where? Where are you going 64 00:06:14.880 --> 00:06:16.709 Breda Keohan: So we've already gone to 65 00:06:17.496 --> 00:06:21.599 Breda Keohan: up around the west, a lot around the west, lifting some of the zones over there. 66 00:06:21.910 --> 00:06:33.310 Breda Keohan: and we're trying to get out to a couple of the islands, and some of I remember talking last time about High Island, the one that the monks lived on. So we're trying to get out to that. So that's that's this year. 67 00:06:33.895 --> 00:06:42.230 Breda Keohan: and that just takes it's so hard. We tried. We tried all of last year to get out to that island. We just couldn't do it because the sea swell was so high it needs perfect sea. 68 00:06:42.510 --> 00:06:45.510 Breda Keohan: perfect tide and porting weather 69 00:06:45.700 --> 00:06:56.520 Breda Keohan: to get out there, because it's like it's an uninhabited island with no jet. You have to get out as close you can to the rocks and jump off, you know, so it needs perfect, see? So we tried. We tried 6 70 00:06:56.520 --> 00:06:56.990 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You know. 71 00:06:56.990 --> 00:06:57.409 Breda Keohan: Which is what 72 00:06:57.410 --> 00:07:01.229 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: The British Isles in Ireland are really known, for is their perfect weather and perfect season. 73 00:07:01.230 --> 00:07:01.960 Breda Keohan: You know. 74 00:07:01.960 --> 00:07:05.255 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Perfect, so you can do totally totally what they're known for up there 75 00:07:05.870 --> 00:07:14.789 Breda Keohan: Totally, and the West Coast like it's fucking 10 times worse. And the fact that this island is fucking here and I'm down here in Ireland. So it's a 5 and a half hour journey. 76 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:20.859 Breda Keohan: So like I've traveled that road 5 or 6 times, and for the 5 or 6 times fucking travel and go home 77 00:07:20.860 --> 00:07:29.490 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: How did the monks who was like, I just, I want to know, like, what was the thought process for the 1st month? I was like, you know what that fucking island way out there 78 00:07:29.490 --> 00:07:30.250 Breda Keohan: Really. 79 00:07:30.250 --> 00:07:31.039 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Like how did 80 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:41.800 Breda Keohan: The way I describe it to people is the way I describe it. The only way the monks used to go into the desert. They used to go to the desert in Jerusalem, and and all these places they used to go to the desert 81 00:07:42.060 --> 00:07:51.199 Breda Keohan: to be more pious and more close to God away from everything else. So we call these the deserts of the sea, because these are small little islands. 82 00:07:51.670 --> 00:08:08.710 Breda Keohan: So I mean you literally. It's very, very hard to get to them. Obviously enough. I tried. So they get to these islands, and they just stay there and like there's there's nobody comes out to them, or can get to them, because it's so inaccessible. So a lot of places in Ireland are like that are called, or DYSE RT. Literally after desert, because 83 00:08:08.880 --> 00:08:11.229 Breda Keohan: they were the the place that the monks used to go to. 84 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.900 Breda Keohan: to be further away from like humanity and closer to God, you know, spiritually that way. So 85 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:28.109 Breda Keohan: that's that's their their thinking behind it. But I just can't wait to see this fucking place, you know, finally set foot on this island, after so many, so many fucking tries 86 00:08:28.110 --> 00:08:29.610 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Structure standing there is there still, like 87 00:08:29.610 --> 00:08:38.549 Breda Keohan: Yeah, just yeah. There's there's an old Drystone church, drystone monastery, outdoor altar, carved crosses. 88 00:08:38.909 --> 00:08:43.819 Breda Keohan: and that large lifting stone that they used to lift, and it's all there, I mean 89 00:08:44.052 --> 00:08:49.640 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I mean, I know it's an estimate until you actually lay hands on it. Do you have any idea what you're getting yourself into 90 00:08:49.640 --> 00:08:54.050 Breda Keohan: I'd say roughly, a hundred 20 kilos. But it's perfectly, perfectly spherical. 91 00:08:54.500 --> 00:08:56.630 Breda Keohan: It's like it's like an apple stone, you know. 92 00:08:56.630 --> 00:08:57.690 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay. Okay. 93 00:08:57.690 --> 00:09:04.179 Breda Keohan: So that's an easy fucking lived because those apple stones are. The roundedness of them makes them more difficult, you know, because there's more degree 94 00:09:04.730 --> 00:09:32.099 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah as I. So I think you'll I think you'll appreciate this. So I've started setting up. I've got an axe. I've got an axe throwing range in my backyard now. So I actually, I actually took over. I actually took over my children's swing set in the dead of winter because I'm like, well, they're not using it, you know, when it's 10 degrees outside. And on the recommendation of my therapist, he was like, I think you need an activity that's not a side hustle. That's not another business. That's not. He was like, I think you just need something that you do just for fun, right, and I was like well 95 00:09:32.570 --> 00:09:57.389 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: to do axe throwing. So I started doing that, and I like set up set up targets in the backyard. Well, that's like one of the one of the easiest things to do is to get a big round right like a big, you know, a big, you take a big cut of a tree right the stump of a tree, and you cut, you know, 6 inches off of it, right? And so you've just got a big ass round, and I was trying to hang that off of my kids swing set, and I was the only one there. And so I'm like, I'm like getting down deep, and I'm bear hugging this fucking round, and I'm 96 00:09:57.390 --> 00:10:21.510 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you know I was deadlift, and by the end of it, like my left bicep was like screaming at me just from the tension of you know, doing the the bear hut. You know the the lock grip like this as I'm got hooks in it, and I'm like trying to just lift it up high enough to like just to move the chain up one link, and I keep like doing a lift, moving the chain up, one link, doing a lift, moving the chain up one link because I'm just like propping it up on a on a step stool right up a, you know. 97 00:10:21.540 --> 00:10:28.489 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: 3, 4 inches at a time. So I did like, I don't know. Probably like 150 of these trying to get this, trying to get this 98 00:10:28.490 --> 00:10:29.409 Breda Keohan: I'm just mad 99 00:10:29.410 --> 00:10:46.849 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: This log, this log round hug hung, and I did it with 3 different 3 different rounds. By the time I got to the 3rd one. I couldn't do it because it was just it was. It was too heavy and I was too smoked. I was just. I was just like man fucking, hey? Like I see what David's talking about with these, with these things that like are just awkward, and it's probably 100 00:10:46.850 --> 00:10:47.480 Breda Keohan: Yeah. 101 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:48.099 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I know it's probably 102 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:48.540 Breda Keohan: Yeah. Man. 103 00:10:48.540 --> 00:10:54.039 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Probably not even a hundred kilos. Maybe it's a hundred kilos I don't know, but it's probably not even that heavy, but like for what you're 104 00:10:54.040 --> 00:10:55.229 Breda Keohan: It's just awkward. 105 00:10:55.230 --> 00:11:24.070 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You'd be like you'd be like, oh, this is, this is no big thing. But it was just such a. It was just such a different demand. And like, I did, okay for a while. But, man, by the end of it, I was like, I'm just. I have a newfound appreciation, you know. I woke up the next day. My adductors were really sore like, just from getting into that deep squat and trying to lap it, you know, and, like, you know, having to maintain tension in places I don't usually have to. So I was just like I was like, man. I can't wait to talk to David about this, because fucking laugh at me be like, Oh, yeah, I told you, man, you got to work on them hips, boy. 106 00:11:24.390 --> 00:11:29.170 Breda Keohan: Oh, man, it's on the hips, and especially you're getting down that deep with these, with these pigs, you know. 107 00:11:29.590 --> 00:11:39.909 Breda Keohan: it's all hip strength like it's all hip strength like you said. I talked to our strength. You know. People think it's all back, like some people do lift with poor form, and it is mainly back. But if you're lifting correctly, you're just, you're using your your hips 108 00:11:39.910 --> 00:11:49.080 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That was the thing. I was kind of pissed at myself like I know better, but like by the time when you start getting tired, and you start having things that hurt. You start doing things the wrong way. 109 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:50.480 Breda Keohan: You started jolting the wrong way 110 00:11:50.480 --> 00:12:15.600 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I started muscling some stuff. And then I started like trying to get it. I'm like, Okay, my right bicep is fine. It's my left one that's bothering me. So I'm like, you know, and of course I don't want to leave the thing half hung, so I'm like, I'm like, I got to finish it, you know. So it was just it was just a whole. It was just a whole. It was a whole thing. But like, yeah, I ended up, I ended up tweaking, tweaking my bicep and tweaking my tweaking my right, my right hip a little bit. Nothing, I mean nothing that stopped me from lifting 2 days later, but it was just like 111 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:20.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I woke up the next morning. David would be laughing at me. He'd just be laughing. Just be laughing at me 112 00:12:20.880 --> 00:12:29.039 Breda Keohan: It's it's it's the difference with. I think it's the difference with gym strength and kind of like what's called farm strength, like you know about farm strength. You you're brought up. 113 00:12:29.490 --> 00:12:36.650 Breda Keohan: But it's it's it's there's a big difference in in both, because, like I've seen guys, one of the one, probably 114 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:47.469 Breda Keohan: the most amazing one I saw. Like I was speaking at the European Powerlifting Convention, which was held down in County Limerich on a panel discussion myself. Dr. Eric Helens and Dr. Connor Heffernan were on a panel, discussion, talking about 115 00:12:47.670 --> 00:12:56.919 Breda Keohan: ancient strength and Irish strength, and I was talking about the stone lifting, and we had a great chat actually was in front of about a thousand people down in Ul, and mainly 116 00:12:57.450 --> 00:12:59.230 Breda Keohan: the European powerlifting 117 00:12:59.790 --> 00:13:07.210 Breda Keohan: competitors who were over for the weekend because they were lifting at the the European Europeans in Ireland, and 118 00:13:07.460 --> 00:13:11.229 Breda Keohan: I got up, and I was speaking about lifting stones, and people just fell on over it. They were like 119 00:13:11.470 --> 00:13:20.940 Breda Keohan: we love lifting obviously enough. That's what we do. We're powerlifters. And we love lifting. We love the idea of the culture behind it. So we're really speaking about the culture and the history of it. And they were like, Okay. 120 00:13:21.330 --> 00:13:32.989 Breda Keohan: you gotta stay around, have a few drinks with us tonight and take you some one of these lifting stones tomorrow. It was like, Okay, I can have a few drinks and take you to one of the lifting stones. It's my fucking 121 00:13:32.990 --> 00:13:39.050 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Me with a good time, man. I'll throw back a few pints and go live some heavy shit in the morning. That sounds great 122 00:13:39.510 --> 00:13:44.069 Breda Keohan: Oh, no, that sounds terrible. So let's do that shit. So. 123 00:13:45.050 --> 00:13:52.720 Breda Keohan: Oh, no, I gotta do 2 things I really enjoy. So so I took these guys out, John, right 124 00:13:52.880 --> 00:13:54.519 Breda Keohan: now, you're talking guys 125 00:13:54.630 --> 00:14:00.279 Breda Keohan: at the top top level. European boys would have about a thousand kg, total. You know. 126 00:14:00.280 --> 00:14:05.600 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I was just gonna I was just gonna say, these are guys that can lift a thousand kilograms in a day without it being a thing. 127 00:14:06.415 --> 00:14:07.129 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yes. 128 00:14:07.130 --> 00:14:19.619 Breda Keohan: You know what I mean. So a lot of these guys have have over 1,000 Kg totals. So I was taking them up to, because there's also women there as well, I said, look, I'll take you up to County Clare. It's only an hour and a half away, and you got the man's lifting stone and the woman's lifting stone in Faha right? 129 00:14:19.900 --> 00:14:26.400 Breda Keohan: So I was taking them up, and we were on this little minibus. It was like sort of asking to be up like, how heavy is the manstone. 130 00:14:26.520 --> 00:14:28.990 Breda Keohan: And I said, It's 162 kilos. They were like 131 00:14:29.820 --> 00:14:32.920 Breda Keohan: 162 kilos I left out with my Dick. You know what I mean. 132 00:14:33.540 --> 00:14:34.849 Breda Keohan: 62. 133 00:14:35.180 --> 00:14:36.430 Breda Keohan: Oh! Is he here? Here? 134 00:14:36.430 --> 00:14:40.069 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Here I'm here, I'm thinking, I, when you say that I'm like, that's a serious 135 00:14:40.070 --> 00:14:41.630 Breda Keohan: You know. That's a scary 136 00:14:41.630 --> 00:14:42.456 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Cool man. 137 00:14:42.870 --> 00:14:47.719 Breda Keohan: It is so these guys were like, Oh, they cause they just thought of it in terms of weight. Okay. 138 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:57.859 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Thinking of it in a uniform Barbell, loaded, loaded evenly. You can grip your. You can wrap your hands around it easily. Get into your familiar position. Yeah, of course. 139 00:14:58.330 --> 00:15:00.460 Breda Keohan: Ergonomic, equally weighted. 140 00:15:00.460 --> 00:15:00.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 141 00:15:00.920 --> 00:15:03.350 Breda Keohan: You know what I mean, Troy. Tohola 142 00:15:03.670 --> 00:15:08.279 Breda Keohan: so took these guys to the stone. We went down and 143 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:26.470 Breda Keohan: they saw it. And they're like they're like, fuck. That's big. Yeah, it is. It's a big lump of stone, you know. It's intimidating. You know what I mean. They're like fuck. So we had 8 guys there like, I said, who probably 6 of them would have over a thousand kg, total. 144 00:15:26.620 --> 00:15:32.060 Breda Keohan: and 2 of them just just broke the ground with the 162, 145 00:15:32.060 --> 00:15:32.710 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Under it. 146 00:15:33.330 --> 00:15:38.170 Breda Keohan: That's all. You know. I got that stone up to my chest, and 147 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.250 Breda Keohan: they kind of couldn't believe it. You know what I mean? 148 00:15:41.250 --> 00:15:42.070 Breda Keohan: Yeah, 20. 149 00:15:42.070 --> 00:15:48.379 Breda Keohan: How the fuck can you do that? You know? Look, I mean, these guys are fucking hench. I mean, they're huge, you know, really big 150 00:15:48.380 --> 00:15:51.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You're you're no wilting flower yourself anymore. But well. 151 00:15:51.470 --> 00:15:53.710 Breda Keohan: No, I mean, but I mean, compared to these guys 152 00:15:53.710 --> 00:15:56.490 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Compared to the yeah. Compared to like professional powerlifters, they're still like 153 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:00.139 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: dainty. This is a dainty flower over here 154 00:16:00.684 --> 00:16:02.930 Breda Keohan: That's it. But it was like. 155 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:12.359 Breda Keohan: it just showed the difference between specialist training, I suppose, really, because they're training specifically on bars. And I'm training specifically on stones so like 156 00:16:13.430 --> 00:16:15.080 Breda Keohan: they were just amazed. 157 00:16:15.250 --> 00:16:24.089 Breda Keohan: And it gave them a hell of a lot more respect for it, because when you're just mentioning it in terms of weight. They're like, that's ridiculous. I warm up heavier than that 158 00:16:24.090 --> 00:16:24.680 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, yeah. 159 00:16:24.680 --> 00:16:33.709 Breda Keohan: But then when you get to it and you see it, and you see how intimidating it is. You're sitting in the field, and it's muddy, and it's hard to get a grip on. Then they're like, Oh, yeah, that's difficult. And that's that's actually a really 160 00:16:33.710 --> 00:16:40.580 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Are you cold, wet, slippery, and picking up an asymmetrical, unbalanced object when you're when you're warming up, because that's what we're about to do. 161 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:50.560 Breda Keohan: Because that's what it is, and there's no fucking warm up, you know. So you just go pick the thing up, and that's it. So it was just amazing to go with all these people and see then the level of respect that they got for us. 162 00:16:50.670 --> 00:17:06.280 Breda Keohan: and that they really want to come back and do it again this year, and so they want me to go down and have a talk again, and maybe do a little tour of them the next day, maybe taking the 3 or 4 different lifting stones, you know, and I've seen them training on stones as well at home, and it's like they got bitten by the bug. So that's to me. That's your job done 163 00:17:06.280 --> 00:17:10.329 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Man I got. I gotta say, like, there is just something primal about like. 164 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.099 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you know what I'm gonna pick that fucking thing up like 165 00:17:14.109 --> 00:17:17.539 Breda Keohan: It's, you know. 166 00:17:17.540 --> 00:17:17.989 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, I 167 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:47.170 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: logs more so than logs, more so than stones, just because I don't have a lot of stones around here. But like I've got all sorts of wood and stuff, and like I mean my son and I spent 8 h this weekend clearing brush and stuff we're turning. We've got a little little wooded area behind our fence. That that was all full of, you know, felled branches and stuff and sticks and garbage. And what have you, because it's by a railroad track. But we're like we're going to clear this out and turn this into the axe throwing range because my wife wants our backyard back. And the kids like they want their swing set back. So I spent like. 168 00:17:47.170 --> 00:17:49.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: without axes being thrown at them. Yeah, yeah. 169 00:17:49.590 --> 00:17:56.320 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: exactly. So I spent like 8 h clear clearing this out, and it was just chopping and chopping and carrying wood and tossing it. And you know, picking up. 170 00:17:56.430 --> 00:18:06.009 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And there's just something about that that is like there's something intrinsically rewarding about it like, we're just hardwired to do that kind of it just makes you feel good. And you're like, okay, I can 171 00:18:06.010 --> 00:18:08.420 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: no 100% that that stump 172 00:18:09.230 --> 00:18:12.000 Breda Keohan: A 100%. It's it's deeply ingrained in who we are. 173 00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:41.600 Breda Keohan: because that's what we had to do. And like when I'm going to these islands, and I'm meeting these men, and they're talking to me with this kind of stuff. It's like, Look, if we wanted to build a house we had to build it ourselves out of stone. So we used to have to just stack stone and build these clock ons or these stone houses on the islands. If we wanted food we had to go out in a cork and catch it. Roll on the sea. You know what I mean. If we wanted to cut the grass. We had to cut a bit of sides, you know. So it was all. It's that's just who we are who we were forever up until the very fucking recently, you know. So like, I said, that's deep in the marrow who we are as a people. So when you start doing that kind of work. 174 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:46.969 Breda Keohan: You kind of go. Oh, yeah, I remember this. And sometimes you remember this, yeah, man definitely 175 00:18:47.110 --> 00:19:10.970 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, there's that that interesting through line. Okay? So you got the. So you got the the big, the big documentary, which is, that's so cool, man, I'm really. I'm really stoked for you. You got your own beer. What else? What else has gone on? I've seen you on. I've seen you make appearances on a few shows like you've you've done all sorts of cool stuff this this last year, and I know you had all sorts of other stuff like we'll say on the you know, on the burner, right on the back burner, waiting to see if it came to a boil 176 00:19:11.410 --> 00:19:15.609 Breda Keohan: Yeah, man. So so the we were talking about. I was writing the book. 177 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:17.630 Breda Keohan: so the bulk has now been 178 00:19:17.630 --> 00:19:18.109 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Book, yeah. 179 00:19:18.110 --> 00:19:20.540 Breda Keohan: Yeah. So the book has now been written. 180 00:19:20.670 --> 00:19:27.750 Breda Keohan: and I just signed a contract 2 months ago with Bloomsbury publishing, which is worldwide publishing. 181 00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:29.880 Breda Keohan: Harry Potter, Jk. Rowling is in Bloomsburg. 182 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:32.449 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I know I was like, I know that publisher. That's that's the 183 00:19:32.450 --> 00:19:37.760 Breda Keohan: So if it's good enough for Jk warning, it's good enough for me. And 184 00:19:38.020 --> 00:19:39.780 Breda Keohan: we signed that contract. So 185 00:19:40.180 --> 00:19:44.049 Breda Keohan: that's that's a done deal. So we just have to get that published over the next 186 00:19:44.410 --> 00:19:48.819 Breda Keohan: 3 to 6 months. And then they said that'd be sent out to every English speaking country in the world, you know. 187 00:19:48.820 --> 00:19:50.929 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay, so, and then sign me up. Sign me up for 188 00:19:50.930 --> 00:19:51.380 Breda Keohan: On, that 189 00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:54.429 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Advanced copy, I would request an autographed original 190 00:19:54.430 --> 00:19:55.220 Breda Keohan: One of the same 191 00:19:55.220 --> 00:20:01.569 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: If possible. You send me an invoice, and you know I'll pay it. But I'm I would love to see that man. I'm so excited 192 00:20:01.570 --> 00:20:11.720 Breda Keohan: I'm so pumped I can't believe me. That's just like just to have it in my hand. And say, Look, you know, that's I wrote that, and you know you've done all the research you wrote the book yourself. 193 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:26.619 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You want to go. Really, if you want to go really, like, you know, full on egomaniac like you could, you could pour a pint of your own beer. Sit down and read your own, read your own book, and then put, you know, put one of your own documentaries on the Telly while you're saying 194 00:20:26.890 --> 00:20:28.820 Breda Keohan: Like stroking yourself, saying yes. 195 00:20:32.140 --> 00:20:34.169 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I know that's not exactly your style, but that'd be 196 00:20:34.170 --> 00:20:36.840 Breda Keohan: Oh, man, that's not me! But then it's it's fucking man 197 00:20:36.840 --> 00:20:38.239 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That'd be kind of hilarious 198 00:20:38.864 --> 00:20:40.240 Breda Keohan: It is an option. 199 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:45.299 Breda Keohan: Oh, for fuck's sake, who'd ever thought so? I mean like, so I'm just amazed that 200 00:20:45.510 --> 00:20:53.789 Breda Keohan: because we have to send it off to them, and we have to send it off to publishers, and they have to read it for us, and then agree with it. But, like they were like, No, really, really happy with this. We're delighted to take you on. 201 00:20:53.910 --> 00:20:57.119 Breda Keohan: And again they signed the contract that's done, and 202 00:20:57.870 --> 00:21:01.860 Breda Keohan: then it's just a matter of just getting that publishing off and doing book signings and book tours. And 203 00:21:02.340 --> 00:21:19.370 Breda Keohan: that's just amazing like that's happened as well. So I mean, it's not again. These these things have been signed. So they're happening. They're not released yet, but it's it's it's after happening now, you know, as opposed to just talking about it, maybe happening last year. So I'm actually in the process of writing the second book. Now, at the moment, like second book, it's just really continuation of what's been going on. 204 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:28.880 Breda Keohan: And so like, hopefully like, if that goes well, we can release the second one then as well, and just keep the keep it going, because I mean, it just keeps building and building and building, you know. 205 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:38.689 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, dude. So you got to tell me about your writing process a little bit like having having written all sorts of you know, short form stuff, but I have never had the courage to sit down and actually write a book 206 00:21:38.800 --> 00:21:39.499 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: like, What do you 207 00:21:39.500 --> 00:21:39.920 Breda Keohan: Okay. 208 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:45.320 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Like, what do you? How do you? How do you go about that? What does your process look like for actually writing a book like as some. 209 00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:46.210 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, that's a good point. 210 00:21:46.210 --> 00:21:52.820 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Not a trained professional author, right? But you're, you know, like, you're passionate about this subject like, How do you? How do you get into writing? Writing your 1st book? 211 00:21:53.310 --> 00:22:00.530 Breda Keohan: So remember, I was on a podcast, with them, with blind by and blind by would be upsetting by that last time he'd be one of the best known Podcasters, probably in Europe. 212 00:22:01.980 --> 00:22:07.609 Breda Keohan: And just so happens he's an Irishman, but he's also a writer, a very, very well published writer. 213 00:22:07.610 --> 00:22:08.200 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 214 00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:16.439 Breda Keohan: And so he was like, we were on the podcast. He just started talking. Look, I'm going to give you some advice. I know you're you're writing at the moment. So I'm going to give you some advice about writing. 215 00:22:17.020 --> 00:22:23.700 Breda Keohan: Don't think of it as the finished product ever. Don't ever think about it as that, like it has. You have to finish it. Here it is. You have to finish it here 216 00:22:23.830 --> 00:22:30.729 Breda Keohan: literally like like training for Kettlebell sport, or like training for anything. Take it just in steps like ladder steps, you know. 217 00:22:30.890 --> 00:22:39.799 Breda Keohan: Just think about writing the next page or the next chapter have an ultimate goal. But never even think about that like climbing a mountain. You don't think about the peak. You think about the process. 218 00:22:39.800 --> 00:22:40.390 Breda Keohan: Yeah. So 219 00:22:40.390 --> 00:22:41.210 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It's all about the product. 220 00:22:41.210 --> 00:22:45.380 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Set your 17. You're 17 kilometers a day, or whatever the you know the march, the march. 221 00:22:45.380 --> 00:22:46.200 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: and you just do it. 222 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:46.810 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Arctic 223 00:22:47.260 --> 00:23:12.589 Breda Keohan: You know, and when something's inside you, and you're so passionate about it, you just want to express it. So we said, Look, what you do is make sure when you go to these stones, or you're talking to these people that you know, bring bring your phone with you, and just maybe even have it on and listen to people. And you know, talking to it, or write down what you felt at the moment, because all that stuff will grab people. It's that emotion people respond to. You know, people respond to passion, respond to emotion because we all feel it so. It's like right. 224 00:23:12.790 --> 00:23:15.830 Breda Keohan: Get that passion down on the paper, and that's that's what will sell it for you. 225 00:23:16.010 --> 00:23:26.410 Breda Keohan: So that's what I've done. I went to all these places, and I talked to all these people, and I had the phone with me, and I had my little notebook with me, and just like what you were feeling at the day. What even like, what was the weather like? What did the wind feel like on your face 226 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:28.089 Breda Keohan: all these little things? 227 00:23:28.630 --> 00:23:31.060 Breda Keohan: So then the process of actually writing. 228 00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:42.819 Breda Keohan: I just I have the notebooks and pen, old school, and and so I'll notebook and pen at 4. So I get up in the morning, Jordan, because it's my favorite time of the day. I'm awake at 4 o'clock, 4, 30 every day 229 00:23:42.820 --> 00:23:44.429 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, you're you're an early. You're an early bird. 230 00:23:44.430 --> 00:23:45.629 Breda Keohan: I'm already like old 231 00:23:45.630 --> 00:23:53.800 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: We're we're on the opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm the I'm the guy that will be texting you at 2 in the morning, and you'll you'll be the guy that's like, alright. I'm getting up in 2 h. 232 00:23:54.010 --> 00:23:59.079 Breda Keohan: I said, Yeah, I'm getting up. So I get up in the morning. I do my stretching for about about half an hour. 233 00:23:59.420 --> 00:24:05.270 Breda Keohan: and then I'll put the coffee on, and from about maybe 5 o'clock until 7 o'clock I'll write for 2 h 234 00:24:05.540 --> 00:24:08.029 Breda Keohan: pretty much 3 to 4 mornings a week. 235 00:24:08.190 --> 00:24:17.920 Breda Keohan: Nice. I absolutely love it. Now I love it. I look forward to it. I go to bed early, specifically to get up and do it because 236 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.810 Breda Keohan: you're just processing what you felt. You know what I mean. You're putting what you felt 237 00:24:23.590 --> 00:24:28.679 Breda Keohan: on the paper, you know, and it's wonderful to revisit that and remember what that felt like. 238 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:37.449 Breda Keohan: and then stuff that's coming to you, and it just starts flowing. And then it's like shit. That's 2 h already. I should. I gotta go to work, and I don't want to go to work. I want to keep going with it, you know. 239 00:24:37.470 --> 00:24:37.970 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: But 240 00:24:38.228 --> 00:24:47.540 Breda Keohan: It's it. Just. It just happens then because I think that it's like you're someone from fucking somewhere else or something. There's like, you're just like a lightning rod for stuff, and it's coming through you. 241 00:24:47.670 --> 00:24:54.560 Breda Keohan: So it was. I just love the writing process now, which I never thought I would before, because, like I said, it's intimidating. It's an it's an empty 242 00:24:54.930 --> 00:24:57.129 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Book. Yeah, it's an empty page. Yeah. 243 00:24:57.130 --> 00:25:00.980 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: that's always. That's always the scariest part of writing. Right is staring at an empty page right? Like 244 00:25:00.980 --> 00:25:05.589 Breda Keohan: But then it's just make a start, and once you once you make the start, the rest will follow. 245 00:25:05.840 --> 00:25:11.369 Breda Keohan: and it has, and it really really hasn't like 70. I think it's 75,000 words for the 4th book. 246 00:25:12.013 --> 00:25:15.059 Breda Keohan: And I'm about that now for the second one as well. So 247 00:25:15.270 --> 00:25:16.570 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's that's incredible. 248 00:25:16.570 --> 00:25:16.920 Breda Keohan: Is it 249 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:23.360 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So is it. Is it like a collection of short stories about, like each of these stones that you go discover? Or what is the what is the 250 00:25:23.360 --> 00:25:24.760 Breda Keohan: Yeah, pretty much. 251 00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:46.029 Breda Keohan: It started off as just as that. So it's like every stone has the story. But like every story has its parts. So it's like, 1st of all, is the research. And like, you're going through Ducas. And these these kids, a hundred years ago, wrote these stories dictated by their parents. You're sifting through that for the nuggets of truth through the arms and legs that Irish people love to put onto stories. 252 00:25:46.110 --> 00:25:50.439 Breda Keohan: Then you're it's wonderful, you know, and 253 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:50.930 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Drive that way. 254 00:25:54.320 --> 00:25:57.520 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm not lying. I'm just. I'm just giving the story legs, that's all. 255 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:14.209 Breda Keohan: I'm just embellishing it. Never let the truth get in the way of the story. That's the way we are here, but it's just finding that, and then looking Gpsing the place, and then driving to the place and describing the actual drive or the surroundings and the scenery which is just going up the West, and stuff 256 00:26:14.970 --> 00:26:20.919 Breda Keohan: I've been looking after. I've been blessed like I've driven through pretty much most of Europe, Scandinavia, Australia. 257 00:26:21.260 --> 00:26:27.260 Breda Keohan: and the nicest drive. I think I was ever on was driving from from Colloquay to County Mayo, in Ireland, which I was never on before. 258 00:26:27.600 --> 00:26:29.849 Breda Keohan: because I never. I've never gone up that far West. 259 00:26:30.040 --> 00:26:33.630 Breda Keohan: But I'm like this is next like Lord of the Rings. Stuff is like. Look at this. 260 00:26:33.810 --> 00:26:57.799 Breda Keohan: I can't believe this is here. I can't believe I've never seen it before. You know how. Come, I never knew about this place, you know, invers and islands and islets and coast and lakes and mountains, and totally unspoiled. Not a house in size, I'm like this place is fucking magic, you know, and then you're like, because I love landscape painting, as you can tell, you're going around with your like, your jaw on the ground going. I can't believe the beauty of this place. 261 00:26:57.970 --> 00:27:09.639 Breda Keohan: So then you have all that. And you're meeting the locals. And some of these people are fucking. Just the characters are incredible. You're meeting these guys who are poets and Shani keys and local legends, and some people who can't speak English. They can only speak Irish. 262 00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:26.909 Breda Keohan: and you're getting all the stories of long ago of their their parents and grandparents when it was a totally different time here, you know, or mythology and stuff. And you know, folklore kind of intertwined with day-to-day life, and you get in touch with all that through meeting these people, and then you're going to find the fucking stone. You're going to lift it, and the crowds you gather along the way 263 00:27:27.060 --> 00:27:32.110 Breda Keohan: the stories you get from them, and every every stone has its own chapter and story like that. 264 00:27:32.450 --> 00:27:38.490 Breda Keohan: Some of them are in touch with with metallurgy. Fiona Cool Colin, it's told you 265 00:27:38.650 --> 00:27:46.159 Breda Keohan: it's been an emotional kind of eye-opening experience to me as well what it means to be an Irish person, you know, because it's it's got me in contact with who I am as an Irish person. 266 00:27:46.330 --> 00:27:49.709 Breda Keohan: so much more than than anything I've ever done in my life. You know. 267 00:27:50.070 --> 00:27:56.479 Breda Keohan: I consider this. It's not just a book about stonelifting. It's a book about culture like Irish culture in general. Really, now, it's kind of took that 268 00:27:56.780 --> 00:27:59.559 Breda Keohan: through the lens of stone lifting. It's become something else, you know. 269 00:27:59.560 --> 00:28:04.130 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What's the what's the title of of the book? 270 00:28:04.130 --> 00:28:15.730 Breda Keohan: The title is the Wind under it, so the wind under it. So that's a lovely poetic expression of the wind under it. Yeah, getting the wind under the stone is one of the ways of lifting it. 271 00:28:15.730 --> 00:28:16.420 Breda Keohan: Yeah. And that 272 00:28:16.420 --> 00:28:21.190 Breda Keohan: and someone's in the west is literally just to get the gray for you. It's just to pick it up off the ground, even like an inch or 2 inches 273 00:28:21.190 --> 00:28:22.240 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Guifi. Is that how you say it? 274 00:28:22.620 --> 00:28:25.040 Breda Keohan: Gway free, the gray free at the window 275 00:28:25.040 --> 00:28:26.330 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice week. Okay. 276 00:28:26.330 --> 00:28:27.818 Breda Keohan: 4 years. Lovely. So 277 00:28:28.340 --> 00:28:35.740 Breda Keohan: It's a lovely Irish or Gaelic expression of stonelifting, so call it. The wind unders unearthing last culture. So 278 00:28:35.850 --> 00:28:42.820 Breda Keohan: that's the plan. So the very 1st chapter and the very last chapter are about the original find of the very 1st known Danish Moore Stone. 279 00:28:43.260 --> 00:28:50.859 Breda Keohan: and ultimately more, flirting the whole story behind it and going to it. No one gave a fuck, because the very 1st stonelift found, and then going back 280 00:28:50.960 --> 00:29:02.430 Breda Keohan: full circle the whole, the last chapter going back with like 4 documentary teams and a hundred islanders, and all the people who lived over there, and the Limo Flaherty society and going back to lift the stones. It was like 1st chapter, last chapter, whole full circle. 281 00:29:02.650 --> 00:29:04.999 Breda Keohan: So it was a lovely way to start and finish the book 282 00:29:05.433 --> 00:29:14.380 Breda Keohan: and then, like, I'm going from there. Then, taking that and kind of how far it's gone. Then the next book has kind of gone up another level again. So just describing that and how that feels and stuff. But 283 00:29:14.610 --> 00:29:16.609 Breda Keohan: yeah, man, it's been just an amazing. 284 00:29:16.770 --> 00:29:25.929 Breda Keohan: an amazing kind of a roller coaster journey, you know, and it's it's I think it comes across. Well, you know. I went back into it a good few times, and I'm quite happy with the way it sounds. Now, you know. 285 00:29:26.230 --> 00:29:33.150 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's fantastic, and it this is taking you kind of all over the world. Now you're like, you're you're going, you're going beyond. 286 00:29:33.150 --> 00:29:57.719 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You're going beyond your little island. You know you've gone. You've gone. You've gone, I mean. Not that there's like you said. There's still all sorts of amazing unexplored places, even on even on your little, you know, even on your little island of Ireland. Right? But there's this whole great big world, and you've gotten to Australia you've gotten. You've gotten all all over there. So so where are you going next? Right are you sticking? Are you sticking in in Europe, or are you? Are you thinking? Are you going? You're going global, like, what's what's next for? 287 00:29:57.980 --> 00:30:00.919 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yes, thinking all the things you're doing 288 00:30:01.510 --> 00:30:08.399 Breda Keohan: Yeah. So like, I'm heading over to to the United States, actually, June. I'm coming over to. Yeah. I'm going over to Boston 289 00:30:08.850 --> 00:30:09.250 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay. 290 00:30:09.537 --> 00:30:14.999 Breda Keohan: So I'm coming to Boston in June, I guess. The 24, th 2021, st that weekend in June. 291 00:30:15.260 --> 00:30:23.290 Breda Keohan: and we're doing the. There's the no fame games, the Celtic games over there. So I'm being brought over as like a stone stone lifting 292 00:30:23.878 --> 00:30:30.850 Breda Keohan: do a bit of judging. Show people the stonelifting triad station, and I'll also be doing a workshop in one of the the bigger gyms 293 00:30:31.080 --> 00:30:32.250 Breda Keohan: in Boston. 294 00:30:32.958 --> 00:30:34.750 Breda Keohan: A stone isn't workshop. 295 00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:48.250 Breda Keohan: and I'm pretty much like a chat and a seminar just about Irish stonelifting in general. And then we're going to the Boston Cultural Center Arts and Cultural center to inaugurate a lifting stone to put it, put a brand new lifting stone there have me be the 1st person. Lift it, and then forever. Then that'll be the 296 00:30:48.700 --> 00:30:52.830 Breda Keohan: the lifting stone of the area, you know. So that's that's an amazing, an amazing thing to do as well 297 00:30:52.830 --> 00:30:53.690 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Honor, man. 298 00:30:53.690 --> 00:31:11.640 Breda Keohan: Oh, man! Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. So it's going to be a pretty intense weekend to be nonstop. But it'll be just an incredible experience, because, like, you know, Boston being such an Irish, an Irish part of the States, you know a lot of people there were from here, you know, who went into jury into exile 299 00:31:11.750 --> 00:31:14.659 Breda Keohan: because they had to. So it's just reconnecting 300 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:24.609 Breda Keohan: the people again through through strength, which I think is a beautiful thing to do. So that's happening in June. And we're looking forward to that. And that's the next big thing, I suppose 301 00:31:24.790 --> 00:31:25.330 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's fantastic. 302 00:31:25.330 --> 00:31:33.293 Breda Keohan: Lots of local stuff in Ireland. Lots of doing lots of festivals here, lots of talks. I'm going to colleges. I'm going to seminars, panel discussions. 303 00:31:34.030 --> 00:31:47.220 Breda Keohan: I'm going over to the islands again to meet the the islanders and the Nemo Flaherty people. I'm getting in contact with Pete with Irish, Gaelic, Irish speaking festivals and being a part of that. And it's just that summer's just going to be absolutely hectic. 304 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:55.840 Breda Keohan: because, like everybody wants to be a part of it. Now, you know, everyone wants to get involved with it, because it's it's beautiful, it's simple, it's beautiful, but it's a part of who we were. 305 00:31:55.990 --> 00:31:56.565 Breda Keohan: And 306 00:31:57.320 --> 00:31:59.520 Breda Keohan: It's it's great that it's getting that much recognition 307 00:31:59.950 --> 00:32:05.390 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. Well, so you're you're also a musician and an artist. Right? You have an artist soul, you know, which is why. 308 00:32:05.910 --> 00:32:30.399 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: which is why, I'm glad. I'm glad you've taken to writing, because that that does that tracks to me the way you described it. Actually like I was like, Oh, yeah, of course, of course, that that suits him because it gives it. He's got his magic hour. He wakes up early, he gets his time for collect his thoughts. He gets his, gets his blood flowing, and then he gets his coffee, and then he sits down and he gets into his like artistic creative space, and that's probably like just fuel for the soul for you, you know, like I 309 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:31.040 Breda Keohan: 100% 310 00:32:31.040 --> 00:32:42.080 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I can just totally see how that would, how that would totally track with you. Do you? Do you find? Do you find an opportunity to to connect musically with people while you're traveling as well. Is that 311 00:32:43.090 --> 00:32:46.499 Breda Keohan: Yeah, we had an amazing experience. We went over to 312 00:32:46.670 --> 00:32:59.299 Breda Keohan: the Island of Innish Man, and on a stone lifting tour I organized a stone lifting tour. Danish man, and I didn't advertise it. I only put it like about 3 or 4 times online, because I knew the documentary crew were coming, and they wanted to keep it at, you know, a low enough number. So it wasn't gonna be too rowdy. 313 00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:05.090 Breda Keohan: So we went over, and even with not advertising it at all like there ended up being 20 people came 314 00:33:05.676 --> 00:33:07.960 Breda Keohan: over to the island on the ferries. 315 00:33:08.590 --> 00:33:11.799 Breda Keohan: so we went over. We had a fantastic day. Lifting, we lifted all the stones, and 316 00:33:12.270 --> 00:33:25.989 Breda Keohan: the lads were just the lads who came over were, you know, getting fierce, emotional, and they were loving the whole thing. And then we said, We go back and we stay in Karana, which is in West Galway. So back on the back from the Islands again. We said, we go back to Karana and West Galway, and we stay there for the night, and we have a session. 317 00:33:26.150 --> 00:33:50.699 Breda Keohan: So I've been learning the Irish tenor banjo the last couple of years, but really got into it over the last, like 6 to 8 months as well. So we're learning all the traditional Irish wheels and jigs. And so I said, fuck it up. We bring it up and we go to the local pub, and we'll see what happens, you know. So some of the boys, as it is, as Irishmen are, a lot of the lads are musicians, anyway, so some lads are the Beaurons traditional drums some lads had like even just guitars. 318 00:33:51.100 --> 00:34:07.000 Breda Keohan: and I had the banjo. So we walk into this tiny little bar in Karen. Now you're talking right out on the west coast of Galway, so like the nearest village, could be maybe 1520 miles away. So it's very isolated village, very old history there, very old, and the main language spoken there was Irish. 319 00:34:07.410 --> 00:34:23.710 Breda Keohan: So we walk into this this Irish speaking bar. We walk in, all of us like 18 lads, big lads, big Irish tone lifters, guitars and fucking banjo cases and stuff, and 320 00:34:23.710 --> 00:34:25.500 Breda Keohan: that song, or fuck us up. I'm not quite sure 321 00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:47.340 Breda Keohan: what these guys going to. Do you know who the fuck are, you tiny little bar re local? But we went up to the bar. Man introduced ourselves, and he's like I fucking. Saw you, he said. You're the guy on the Telly. I said, Yeah, that's me. I saw you on the fucking, Telly, he said, about the stone lifting. Yep. So Daniel was straight in. She was like, Oh, I'm gonna call you like this is David Kehn, and he does the stonelifting. 322 00:34:47.489 --> 00:35:00.029 Breda Keohan: So then we were in. We were we were in. And even so, like some of the guys there just had cards, you know, because, like, there's not much cash being used around there anymore. So cards lately, isn't it? So they went open like the barman was like, we don't take cards when we take cash. 323 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:10.770 Breda Keohan: So the lance like, where's the nearest bank machine bank machine? He said. You're in the fucking village in the west of Ireland Bank machine. So like I said, you're gonna have to go, maybe about 40 min drive and come back. 324 00:35:11.130 --> 00:35:17.760 Breda Keohan: I'll do what he said. I'll give you 50 quid each out of the bar out. The 2. 325 00:35:17.940 --> 00:35:21.549 Breda Keohan: You spend that now and come back and pay me tomorrow. 326 00:35:21.910 --> 00:35:23.759 Breda Keohan: It is not amazing, like 327 00:35:24.080 --> 00:35:30.449 Breda Keohan: I mean, you won't get that anywhere. So you gave it like 6 to the lads. 53, I said. Looks better tonight. Give it back to me tomorrow. 328 00:35:31.100 --> 00:35:35.369 Breda Keohan: So we just started playing the session, and we started playing music. So we started singing. 329 00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:43.889 Breda Keohan: and I learned some Irish and those which is old Irish, and sang in the Irish language and unaccompanied music. 330 00:35:44.010 --> 00:35:47.839 Breda Keohan: So very, very ancient song. It's good to go all the way back hundreds of years, sometimes thousands of years. 331 00:35:48.530 --> 00:35:54.977 Breda Keohan: So I'd learned a chandel song, and I was really nervous about singing it, because no, it's it's in my native language. I'd never sang my native language before. 332 00:35:55.410 --> 00:36:04.899 Breda Keohan: not in front of people, anyway. So and I mean an Irish speaking pub in an Irish speaking village. But I went up and I said, Look, I explained what I was going to do. I said, look, I've been singing in my whole life in the English language. 333 00:36:05.170 --> 00:36:17.540 Breda Keohan: you know I never sang in Asqueega in Irish before, so if you just bear with me. So I sang and turns out it was a Karen song. I didn't know that it was a song that was written in Canada, so it's called Eleanor Narune. So I just sang that. 334 00:36:17.820 --> 00:36:18.730 Breda Keohan: and 335 00:36:19.290 --> 00:36:27.090 Breda Keohan: Sean came up. Who'd be the shanarky kind of poet and storyteller? He came up and we done the wind dolls, or like the hand holder when you're singing the song. 336 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:33.249 Breda Keohan: And then everyone in the bar knew it because it was a camera song. So we were all singing it in Irish. Oh, man, it was just amazing 337 00:36:33.250 --> 00:36:34.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, that's beautiful! 338 00:36:34.950 --> 00:36:37.840 Breda Keohan: I think it was kind of the one of my favorite moments of the year, you know. 339 00:36:38.510 --> 00:36:45.059 Breda Keohan: including everything, including someone. Just I love that like I kinda regained a piece of my soul, I think, really, you know, and 340 00:36:45.060 --> 00:36:46.910 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Did you? Did you know that when you, beautiful 341 00:36:46.910 --> 00:36:54.079 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: with someone, while you sing a song with them, that your heart, your hearts, your heartbeats actually sync up over the course of singing the song 342 00:36:55.210 --> 00:37:09.779 Breda Keohan: I did not know that, and I know the reason that the Irish one was there was a couple of reasons. It was emotional support. And 2 it was if you signed beautifully enough that the the fairies would come and take you away, so it's to hold you in place, so you don't get taken by the fairies for your sing. 343 00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:12.259 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, okay, yeah. You gotta weight. You gotta weigh yourselves down 344 00:37:12.470 --> 00:37:38.719 Breda Keohan: Yeah, so no, that was a beautiful moment, you know, and then we went off and we played, and then we started playing a session. Then I was playing all the reels, and the lads were playing away in the power ons, and there's just a great atmosphere. And then one of the guys there. He's a Shanows dancer, a guy called Garrow, who do Vaughan, who'd be one of the best channels dancers in the world. Actually, he just happened to be in the bar that night. So I'm in the middle of playing this fucking reel. And this guy just gets up and starts dancing. You know, it's like this shit don't happen. You know what I mean. This just doesn't happen, you know. 345 00:37:38.750 --> 00:37:55.110 Breda Keohan: but we were like we became a part of the whole thing. Then it was. It was just absolutely beautiful, you know, and then we went back and we got absolutely fucking, pissed back in the house on whiskey. I was never sick the next day in my life ever we went back, and we drank a pot of whiskey, I think. Then, between about 3 of us. 346 00:37:55.230 --> 00:38:11.270 Breda Keohan: and the next morning the documentary team were all there. So the next morning we're like we want to do kind of a postmortem of the day which is so meet at 10 o'clock the next day down at this bridge, and it was like I was absolutely dying of a hangover. I was like, lads. I can't meet you. You have to meet us. We have to do this job for Rt. 347 00:38:11.460 --> 00:38:16.650 Breda Keohan: So I'm busy down in bed, and I'm Johnny, you're so sick you can barely open one eye. You're like I'm fucking dead. 348 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:17.820 Breda Keohan: It'll it'll 349 00:38:17.820 --> 00:38:23.439 Breda Keohan: I haven't been there off the whiskey in in quite a while. But I I know I know the feeling right like I did that 350 00:38:24.110 --> 00:38:34.829 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Couple weeks ago where I I overdid it. I overdid it at a at a hockey party, and I was like I was like, oh, shit! I remember now why, I don't drink that much whiskey in one sitting anymore. I'm too fucking old 351 00:38:34.830 --> 00:39:00.840 Breda Keohan: I was never as bad. I got up. I got sick without getting the car, got sick, drove the car about 10 fucking minutes down the road, got sick. Got to this bridge, was meeting, just shivering like that in the car, just dying. So they came over to the cameras. They're like. Look at the fucking state of you, I said. I know. What am I going to do like so like? Here's some day or light. Here's some water, you know, slap across the face. Then get up there and give a nice little jolly interview about what happened the day before. Oh, man! 352 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:12.399 Breda Keohan: And do you happen to know, and they're going to. So going to put this in the fucking documentary, they're like, we want to get some emotion out of you now, right? I was like, I'm not a fucking actor. I was like we'd love to get some emotion out of you 353 00:39:12.470 --> 00:39:24.430 Breda Keohan: so literally. They were like he turned the camera on, he said, what did it mean to yesterday? I just started fucking, crying. I started crying, weeping because I was just so a. I was Hungover and B totally, emotionally fucking 354 00:39:24.640 --> 00:39:30.240 Breda Keohan: distraught after the weekend. Just an amazing day and night. But I just started balling like it just all came out. 355 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:38.339 Breda Keohan: so they were delighted. Oh, this! That was fantastic! I was like, oh, please don't put that in the fuck documentary. Oh, fuck we are! That's oh, that's brilliant! That's that's gold! 356 00:39:38.340 --> 00:39:42.200 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's the good stuff, man. That's the good stuff. It's the unvarnished raw 357 00:39:42.200 --> 00:39:42.769 Breda Keohan: That's it. 358 00:39:42.770 --> 00:39:43.230 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Right. 359 00:39:43.230 --> 00:39:44.230 Breda Keohan: Your role. 360 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.229 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's the good stuff right there, man, that's awesome. 361 00:39:47.230 --> 00:39:56.919 Breda Keohan: Just know when you see it. I was absolutely dying of a hangover. So you know, when you see me crying on documentary. Yeah. Oh, he was so pissed off a whiskey that 362 00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:59.870 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's fantastic. Oh, man, I love that! I love that so 363 00:39:59.870 --> 00:40:01.300 Breda Keohan: Oh, my God! I just 364 00:40:01.300 --> 00:40:15.630 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I keep having this like vision of you being like the the Irish Anthony Bourdain, just like driving around like going. You know the points unknown. Dot. You know that you remember that that series where he just travel around and like he would connect with different cultures over food and stuff like I could. Just I 365 00:40:15.630 --> 00:40:15.950 Breda Keohan: It's 366 00:40:15.950 --> 00:40:19.480 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Just being like you're just going all over the world like, oh, my 367 00:40:19.660 --> 00:40:25.919 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: telling stories, lifting stones, singing, music, eating like I don't know. I just I feel like I feel like I could see you totally 368 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:34.540 Breda Keohan: It's made for it. I mean, I was talking to Will. Who's the director? And he's like Dave. Once this gets made, he said. You know, this is just the start. It isn't the end of it. 369 00:40:34.810 --> 00:40:45.070 Breda Keohan: I can see a lot of stuff, he said, happening with this once this gets made people see it. There's gonna be people knocking your door all over the place. So look, it's just like the fact that it's it's going to open a hell of a lot of doors for me, you know. 370 00:40:45.250 --> 00:40:49.418 Breda Keohan: and, please God, I'll be able to get out of this job I'm in, and that's the idea. 371 00:40:49.990 --> 00:40:53.879 Breda Keohan: because I applied for. 372 00:40:54.210 --> 00:41:01.149 Breda Keohan: And I'm going to actually do a Phd on this. I'm gonna rise 373 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:20.769 Breda Keohan: a dissertation and do a full Phd on stonelifting because I was talking to Dr. Connor Heffernan, another doctor who said they'd be my supervisors, and I have like the Bachelor of Arts through art history. Anyway. So it's like, why don't you fucking? Because blind by said, Why don't you do a Phd. On this? Did you have all the fucking work done? You've written a book that's your thesis. Just fucking ship stuff around 374 00:41:20.770 --> 00:41:21.100 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 375 00:41:21.100 --> 00:41:24.429 Breda Keohan: You know, pay the money and get the fucking bit of papers like I never even thought about 376 00:41:24.430 --> 00:41:26.630 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Defend the thesis, and I mean 377 00:41:26.630 --> 00:41:27.070 Breda Keohan: Let's see. 378 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.949 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You have to do, Phd. Defense in in Ireland? I don't know. Maybe that's an 379 00:41:30.950 --> 00:41:40.330 Breda Keohan: Yeah, oh, you do. Yeah, you do. Yeah, yeah, you do. So I'm just offended. Then in front of a few people. And please God! It's like Dr. Fucking Indiana stone 380 00:41:40.330 --> 00:41:50.179 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Will be pretty easy for you. You just go in and you'd be like I defend my thesis. You cross your arms, you look fucking big, and they're like challenge. Challenge me on this, and they'll be like 381 00:41:51.560 --> 00:41:55.758 Breda Keohan: I brought the culture back. Motherfuckers, what are you gonna do 382 00:41:56.140 --> 00:42:00.750 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, yeah, you're you're good. You're good. You're you're looking pretty young. You're looking pretty young. 383 00:42:00.750 --> 00:42:01.919 Breda Keohan: Give me that fucking piece 384 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:10.089 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Videos on on your Insta. You're looking. You're looking. You're looking stacked. You're looking big and big and strong. What are you weigh? What are you weighing these days? What and how are you? 385 00:42:10.090 --> 00:42:14.160 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Are you intentionally mass, or is it just happening by virtue of all the lifting you're doing 386 00:42:14.390 --> 00:42:20.880 Breda Keohan: It's a bit of both, and I'm I'm deliberately using more. I'm doing a lot. You see, my forearms are after getting pretty big. I'm doing a hell of a lot of grips. Don't work. 387 00:42:21.471 --> 00:42:27.908 Breda Keohan: Which really, really helps. So anybody who is into zone open get into your grips joint work. It really helps 388 00:42:28.660 --> 00:42:34.670 Breda Keohan: because that's where the the Europe, the powerlifter guys, were having the problem lifting the stones. They're plenty strong enough, but they just couldn't grip 389 00:42:34.670 --> 00:42:37.400 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: They're used to straps. They're used to straps and hooks and 390 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.440 Breda Keohan: Exactly, whereas, you know, you can't be just a pure, you know. 391 00:42:42.690 --> 00:42:54.540 Breda Keohan: grip strength just to get the grip on that stone. And so that's really been helping. But yeah, just put on a lot of mass. I haven't weighed myself in 12 months. I don't really care what I weigh anymore. And I'd say we're definitely over the 100 Kilo mountain at this stage. 392 00:42:55.180 --> 00:43:01.849 Breda Keohan: but just eating more, eating, healthier and and lifting heavier, lifting heavier and heavier, heavier, because 393 00:43:02.190 --> 00:43:05.019 Breda Keohan: these there's not. These stones aren't getting any lighter. You know what I mean. Everyone 394 00:43:05.020 --> 00:43:11.059 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: We say, like, like at a certain point, people are like, people are like, Oh, you think you can lift this one like at a certain, you know. There, it's just 395 00:43:12.580 --> 00:43:16.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: to the right on intensity, right? Like it. Kind of it. Kind of has to be that way. 396 00:43:17.053 --> 00:43:31.490 Breda Keohan: I mean, I'm finding all these new ones. I mean, I'm up around. I think we're at 48 now. I'm actually starting to lose count. I think it's 48, or 49. And the last thing we were talking was 30 something, I think, you know. So we're at 48. So it's just, it's 397 00:43:31.490 --> 00:43:35.949 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Anticipated. One of my questions I was, gonna say, like, is I is Ireland fully discovered yet? Or like. 398 00:43:37.550 --> 00:43:42.429 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: what point do you feel like it's fully discovered, but apparently they just keep finding more 399 00:43:42.750 --> 00:43:48.210 Breda Keohan: Never, because, like, I think, this this really was in every village in Ireland, you know, at 1 point 400 00:43:48.210 --> 00:43:49.949 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Of Ireland back in the, you know. 401 00:43:49.950 --> 00:43:56.320 Breda Keohan: It was man. It was the thing. It was their thing, you know. So it was the thing. So all you gotta do is find 402 00:43:56.930 --> 00:44:07.349 Breda Keohan: the stories, because the stories are the important thing other than that. It's just a stone by itself in the field, even though it might look like a lifting stone. It's in the right area, but if the story isn't attached to it, it's just a stone, you know, so 403 00:44:07.350 --> 00:44:10.400 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It's a stone. Yeah, it could. Just it could just be a marker on a farmer's property 404 00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:15.449 Breda Keohan: It'll be a marathon. Exactly. So. It's it's the story. It's the story is the thing. But I mean, like I said at 48 now. 405 00:44:15.750 --> 00:44:17.429 Breda Keohan: in 2 and a half years. 406 00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:31.599 Breda Keohan: That's some fucking resume already, and more just keep happening. I mean, I just I just got contacted last weekend about another one or 2. And now it's not just me doing it, Jordan. This, boys you have, like Andy Downs down in numerick 407 00:44:32.103 --> 00:44:42.499 Breda Keohan: you have Martin Gallagher up in Donegal, up the north, up Monaghan. So these boys are going like, no, I can send these guys like fucking mission. Impossible! I can say, look, lads, this is in your area. 408 00:44:42.740 --> 00:44:48.620 Breda Keohan: You mind going down and have a look at that something here for? Yeah, I had on the weekend. It's only 40 min from me, rather me driving like 3 h and 3 h back 409 00:44:48.620 --> 00:44:49.340 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, on stage. 410 00:44:49.340 --> 00:44:54.189 Breda Keohan: These guys, especially up in Johnny Gola, which is like a 5 or 6 h drive, I can say to Martin, Hey, Martin, this is 411 00:44:54.320 --> 00:45:03.439 Breda Keohan: in Guidore. I was in here. We have a look. Yeah, sure, I'll go down the weekend, and they're fully invested. They absolutely love it. So now this guy's going doing it. 412 00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:07.780 Breda Keohan: you know what I mean, but they might go find their own stories and go do it. So it's like it's just 413 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:18.080 Breda Keohan: it's back. Now, you know, it's back now. It's not just me anymore, but a story in my back pocket, as men going and women going literally looking for these in their own areas and then sending me on videos that they found it, you know. So 414 00:45:18.490 --> 00:45:22.909 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And when you and when you find and when you find a new one, do they? Then tell you like, Yeah, I gotta 415 00:45:22.910 --> 00:45:23.250 Breda Keohan: Like. 416 00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:24.239 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And then you 417 00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:24.710 Breda Keohan: Oh yes! 418 00:45:24.710 --> 00:45:26.660 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Plan a trip, and you get together like the whole crew. 419 00:45:26.660 --> 00:45:28.749 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, we're good, and goes and lifts it together 420 00:45:28.750 --> 00:45:44.079 Breda Keohan: Yeah 100%. So like, the boys are like, they found one up in County Loud last weekend. So it's like, yeah, we're going to make a trip up now and see that in the next couple of weeks I went and found one myself up in County County, Galway. Galway is the hotbed for us. At least a 3rd of the stones in the Hall of Ireland are in Galway. 421 00:45:44.370 --> 00:45:50.330 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Galway seems to be the place it was really really popular in, just purely because the landscape is so fucking Stony over there. Anyway. 422 00:45:50.330 --> 00:45:54.339 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I was gonna say, is that just virtue? Virtue of there being more stones there? That was that was the question. 423 00:45:54.340 --> 00:46:00.899 Breda Keohan: Should there be a be more stones there? And B, it's just another stone in the field of stones when people are trying to clearing roads, or they're clearing for for 424 00:46:00.900 --> 00:46:01.430 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Button. 425 00:46:01.580 --> 00:46:13.839 Breda Keohan: Agriculture like it generally gets alone because it's just another stone, whereas they stand out over the East because it's more arable land, you know it's more fertile land. So if the stone is in the way, certainly just gets gets chucked out of the way, you know, are turned over. 426 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:15.810 Breda Keohan: throw over a fence or 427 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:20.349 Breda Keohan: broken up and put into the road itself. But I found some great ones 428 00:46:20.510 --> 00:46:25.610 Breda Keohan: over the past year, especially up the west, and they're all fucking huge. 429 00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:39.789 Breda Keohan: They're huge, I mean men. What the fuck are they eating? I mean, everything is like 177, 200. 1,100. 9,182. It's like these men were fucking, built different. It's just different, you know. 430 00:46:39.900 --> 00:46:45.050 Breda Keohan: There's nothing there. 1 50, I mean 1 50 be like would feel easy now, like 1 51 60. 431 00:46:45.210 --> 00:46:47.039 Breda Keohan: That's well manageable up to chest. 432 00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:50.849 Breda Keohan: but they're not. They're all heavier, and they're all really awkward. And it's like. 433 00:46:51.420 --> 00:46:55.780 Breda Keohan: and these guys, without any specific training were just animals, absolutely 434 00:46:55.780 --> 00:47:07.940 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Just, I just want to. I just want to translate that real quick for our American audience like you just said 150 kilo stone, which is roughly 330 pounds. That that would be that would be easy just to 435 00:47:07.940 --> 00:47:08.950 Breda Keohan: That's easy. 436 00:47:08.950 --> 00:47:19.999 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's an easy. I'm gonna take 300 pounds up off the ground, asymmetrical in my boots and my jeans, you know, and I'm gonna take it up to my chest, and that's an easy like. That's an easy Sunday 437 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:26.219 Breda Keohan: That's an easy lift. That's an easy lift now. And like we went over to Danish Manstone. The graveyard sounds 153, 438 00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:32.790 Breda Keohan: and it came up like I was picking up a football. It was like that was easy, you know, and it felt easy. I felt like I could do reps with it. 439 00:47:32.980 --> 00:47:34.980 Breda Keohan: And whereas these guys 440 00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:56.369 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Are you doing for training? Then? Like so is it? Is it literally just stone lifting, stretching, like I know you do your daily stretching. I know you're like that's that's almost religious for you like that. You you stretch every morning for 30 min. Are you? Are you doing anything other than specifically lifting stones? Or are you really just focused on because you mentioned grip work? And I'm not sure if that's grip work with stones, or like. Just tell me a little bit about 441 00:47:57.480 --> 00:47:57.900 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: with some 442 00:47:57.900 --> 00:47:58.220 Breda Keohan: Told you 443 00:47:58.220 --> 00:47:59.850 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Training, insight, here. 444 00:47:59.850 --> 00:48:11.080 Breda Keohan: Sure. So like, say Monday, I do my heavy, heavy training. So that would be specific. What I call stone deadlift. So it's literally just picking up heavy stone from the ground to the ways to lap 445 00:48:11.805 --> 00:48:15.470 Breda Keohan: and building that up in a linear, deadly fashion. So it's it's 446 00:48:15.990 --> 00:48:19.089 Breda Keohan: up around 100 9,200 kilos now 447 00:48:19.820 --> 00:48:33.769 Breda Keohan: stacking kettlebells on this flat stone app so, but which are getting down like super deficit deadlift mode, stone, lifting mode. So it specifically helps that initial drive from the floor. 448 00:48:33.770 --> 00:48:34.799 Breda Keohan: bold, full depth 449 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.180 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Be able to generate power from your phone 450 00:48:38.180 --> 00:49:00.139 Breda Keohan: Exactly, you know. So that's where like the mobility comes in handy, because then you can get down lower in the squat so you can pump up out of it, I suppose, just being stuck here and having to try and drive and generate power, you can get under and pump up so that really helps the mobility in the hips really helps with that. So that's Monday. So that's heavy. That could be only 10 to 15 lifts 451 00:49:00.630 --> 00:49:01.890 Breda Keohan: and attach. 452 00:49:02.070 --> 00:49:07.309 Breda Keohan: You're absolutely spent, you know you're spent after it's it's serious, serious 453 00:49:07.710 --> 00:49:18.419 Breda Keohan: smoke, totally smoke, you know, and you get your last 2 or 3 lifts, and sometimes you might not be able to do the last 2 or 3. You're absolutely fried, and but it is heavy because it's like a really super heavy deadlift day. 454 00:49:18.940 --> 00:49:21.239 Breda Keohan: Then, when it. When I get tired from that. 455 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:28.259 Breda Keohan: I work on a bit of upper body and shoulders with Kettlebell presses. I do a lots of Kettlebell presses and start off with 28 s. 456 00:49:28.370 --> 00:49:32.474 Breda Keohan: Build up to 36 s. And 40 twos. So just strict pressing 457 00:49:33.210 --> 00:49:48.200 Breda Keohan: 28 lots and lots of shoulder work that really helps again with grip with back, and I do a lot of stone rows. So I get my stone and just roll the chest, keep the body flat, keep the knees, don't, don't bend the knees, just use the lats and just pull so lots of stone rows 458 00:49:48.200 --> 00:49:52.420 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: In a position you're unsupported. I'm assuming. So, having to keep tension through to protect 459 00:49:52.420 --> 00:49:52.860 Breda Keohan: Exactly. 460 00:49:52.860 --> 00:50:20.969 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: The whole way right like. So that's a that's a core exercise, too, as much as it's a i mean, it's an obviously back in a pole in a pole exercise. But that core stability, the ability to resist rotational force, and those shifts in the stone. Because I think that's that was one of the things that it didn't surprise me, but it's still one of those like when you feel it like when I was doing that shit with the with the logs and stuff like if if you moved a little bit and it's asymmetrical. Suddenly you're getting a force that's trying to pull you to the left or to the right or whatever. 461 00:50:20.970 --> 00:50:23.830 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, like, you're trying to get that back. Nope. 462 00:50:23.830 --> 00:50:34.620 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: ability to like anti rotational tension like resist resist something that's trying to pull you out of alignment like that was, I knew it was going to happen, but it would still surprise, like surprise 463 00:50:34.620 --> 00:50:54.850 Breda Keohan: It's very surprising, isn't it? It's very surprising when it does happen. The amount of force it generates through the body. So like, I said, fighting that back. It's wonderful training. So that'd be a Monday. On a Wednesday our friend comes over every Wednesday. Religiously. We train on the back in the pissings of rain here in Ireland that has been for the whole of the Irish winter. We train Kettlebells, and he's a long distance ultra runner, Peter. 464 00:50:55.060 --> 00:51:00.640 Breda Keohan: So we train specifically, Bulgarian splits, watch Bulgarian split squats 465 00:51:01.670 --> 00:51:05.776 Breda Keohan: all like at for about maybe 20 min to half an hour, and it's 466 00:51:06.070 --> 00:51:08.100 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Carrying people. Why do they squat like that that 467 00:51:08.100 --> 00:51:16.400 Breda Keohan: I don't know, man, but I'm I think I'm a masochist, because I'm loving this exercise lately. It's like this is really getting my legs strong. I mean, really. 468 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:24.499 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: One of my favorite. It's a love, hate thing. It is one of my favorite exercises to prescribe, and one of my least favorite exercises to do, which means I'm an asshole and coach, but, like 469 00:51:24.852 --> 00:51:28.377 Breda Keohan: Do what I say don't do what I do, but 470 00:51:29.350 --> 00:51:45.969 Breda Keohan: well, I'm getting that depth like you're getting right down to the depth of the split squat. You're getting a lovely stretch in the front of the hip. They're getting a lovely strength in the back of the hip, and then you're pushing through that you're building those weights. You're you're doing that maybe 1015 reps per side, going at it again, building the weights up so they would know where at 471 00:51:45.970 --> 00:51:51.380 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Are you doing? Are you doing weights below you, where you're where you're gripping? Are you putting it on your back 472 00:51:51.756 --> 00:52:03.049 Breda Keohan: Suitcase. So it's totally below you. So like there's not. There's nothing common. It's you're just using your legs to get those things up. So doing. A lot of those 473 00:52:03.050 --> 00:52:05.159 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And you're getting that grip. You're getting that grip training, too, which 474 00:52:05.160 --> 00:52:07.059 Breda Keohan: And grip training, grip training with 475 00:52:07.060 --> 00:52:07.620 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Join. 476 00:52:08.130 --> 00:52:19.949 Breda Keohan: So like, we're, we're now lifting the 42 and the 48 Kilo Kettlebell doing that. So we're going Google that you know what I mean. We're gonna go with that sets of 5 sets of 6 each leg, maybe 6, 7, 8. Now we're at 8 8 sets. 477 00:52:20.140 --> 00:52:27.610 Breda Keohan: So building that leg, strength and endurance. And he said, David, my my running is fucking through the roof, he said. He does a lot of 478 00:52:27.610 --> 00:52:29.079 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You're building those shock absorbers for 479 00:52:29.080 --> 00:52:29.740 Breda Keohan: Oh, man! 480 00:52:29.740 --> 00:52:33.180 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All that, for all that pounding that he's taken as an ultra distance runner. That's 1 of those things 481 00:52:33.180 --> 00:52:47.520 Breda Keohan: Ultra distance. He does ultra distance mountain running, so he's totally fucking massive altogether. But he said, on my uphills and downhills, man, he said. I've never felt stronger, and he's he's winning races, big international races. They're all asking him what you're doing. 482 00:52:47.530 --> 00:53:15.009 Breda Keohan: What kind of training you do, he said. I'm training Irish, yoga. He always calls it Irish. Yoga, he's from the Czech Republic. He's like, I do Irish, yoga. So what's Irish? Yoga? I'm not telling you. So he doesn't put up anything online. We just train at the back and we just train. We train Bulgarian split squats, heavy. Kettlebell swings, you know, just really, and we do a lot of hack squats. You're the old school bronze era hack squats behind the back. 483 00:53:15.200 --> 00:53:33.829 Breda Keohan: so it's purely just quads deep knee, bend strength, quad strength, ankle strength. So take a lot of my stuff from legs of George Hackenschmidt and these guys as well, and there's nothing new in the world. And these guys were just amazing athletes, and their jump strength and their leg strength was incredible. Even up to the age of fucking 1780. You can see George Hackenschmitt jumping over chairs and stuff 484 00:53:33.950 --> 00:53:40.090 Breda Keohan: just because he used to do the hack squats a lot and 50 Kilo hack squats for sets of fucking 20 or 30, 485 00:53:40.090 --> 00:53:41.400 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Why, they're named after him 486 00:53:41.900 --> 00:53:57.450 Breda Keohan: That's it, man. You know what I mean. So we do a lot of that. So all Wednesdays leg day, and it's a bastard, because on a Thursday, then you're like toilet seats and stairs aren't your friend, you know, but it's it's really, really helping. And then on a on a Friday. I'll do a lot of grip strength, work 487 00:53:57.450 --> 00:54:01.310 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Why are you moving so slow? You hurt? No, I just trained leg yesterday 488 00:54:01.310 --> 00:54:24.130 Breda Keohan: But I mean when we train legs we really fucking. Train them, you know. It's it's horrendously always takes me on the tours, he said, you're some fucking bastard, I said. I know, I know, but actually getting better. Yes, I'm looking forward to next week already. So then grips 489 00:54:24.130 --> 00:54:26.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: When do we? When do we do it again 490 00:54:27.295 --> 00:54:28.990 Breda Keohan: That's exactly it. 491 00:54:29.170 --> 00:54:40.839 Breda Keohan: That's exactly it. And then, like a bit of like grip, strength stuff and a bit more shoulder stuff on Friday, because I've done all my legs and back stuff Monday and Wednesday, so that'll be my training week, and I might go out the weekends, and I'll just do some natural stuff in the beach 492 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:48.020 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And are you are you doing, are you doing any like cardio, or anything on your in between days, just to to keep your keep your recovery up, or is there anything? Are 493 00:54:48.020 --> 00:54:48.780 Breda Keohan: Yeah, it was 494 00:54:48.780 --> 00:54:50.249 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Cns needs the rest. 495 00:54:50.590 --> 00:54:58.980 Breda Keohan: So what we do is like on on the Wednesday we'll do a 10 min to 15 min nonstop Kettlebell workout, so like at the very end of the set. 496 00:54:59.310 --> 00:55:18.059 Breda Keohan: We grab a 20 kilo Kettlebell each, and we do. I just say swings, and we do swings. One arm swings, snatch long cycle. Press long cycle, press back down around the body halos, and we just keep that going for 1015 min. So like pretty much just like a high intensity, Kettlebell workout for 15 min with different exercises. 497 00:55:18.190 --> 00:55:29.200 Breda Keohan: and that really gets tough and blowing at the end. But, like I said, it keeps the heart and lungs healthy, you know. So that's the Wednesday. So like Wednesday is a good, intense workout. So I do need a day off Thursday. A good bit of stretch on Thursday morning. 498 00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:41.929 Breda Keohan: and then, like some light work Friday, like, it's like, grip, strength work and stuff. Yeah, man, that's the training that's going really well, and I'm 46 years old now in June. So, please God, it's I've never felt stronger in my life, and 499 00:55:42.470 --> 00:55:48.076 Breda Keohan: hopefully you can kind of keep going and get these documentary shot, and can maybe can relax a little bit more after that 500 00:55:48.320 --> 00:56:00.399 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It's so. I'm so excited for you, man, I love, I love these conversations. I look forward to it every every time the year, always the year always goes by fast, and I always I always look forward to it, and I'm like shit. It's time it's time for my chin wag with David like. It's 501 00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:01.189 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: the things I looked at 502 00:56:01.190 --> 00:56:07.040 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: forward to every Saint Pat. It's honestly my, it's my favorite Saint Patrick's Day tradition now, honestly, even even more 503 00:56:07.040 --> 00:56:07.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: same 504 00:56:07.450 --> 00:56:13.989 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Guinness and my corned beef and cabbage. So I really, I really appreciate it. I've got. I've got one more question for you, and then I've got to hop, because it's 505 00:56:13.990 --> 00:56:14.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: sure 506 00:56:14.470 --> 00:56:38.150 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: it's 10 am. Here in the States, and I actually have to get to work. But so is there. Is there any. Is there any like Moby Dick Stone for you? Is there any one stone that you're like? Oh, man, if I can, if I can either unearth that one find that one, or even if you found it. And you just like I need to lift that one like. Is there? Is there one that you're chasing, is there? Your Moby Dick Stone that you're chasing? I see you're nodding vigorously for those on audio 507 00:56:38.640 --> 00:56:40.792 Breda Keohan: There is, there is 508 00:56:41.500 --> 00:57:05.949 Breda Keohan: The stone. Well, 1st of all, the one on High Island is is the one that I want to get to see more than anything else, and it's not even the stone itself. It's the island itself. It's the energy I'm going to get in that place so that one definitely and to lift it will be the initial Torque stone again on a small little island again. Tough to get to. But I tried to lift. That's the one of the 1st ones I tried to lift. And on the start of the journey 2 years ago. It's 207 kilos 509 00:57:05.950 --> 00:57:08.479 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That one's over 200 kilos right? It was 510 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:09.330 Breda Keohan: It's 2 0, 7, 511 00:57:09.330 --> 00:57:11.709 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: In the, in, the, in the old football memory. Not necessarily. 512 00:57:11.710 --> 00:57:14.620 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, not fair play, but I thought it was over 200 kilos 513 00:57:14.620 --> 00:57:20.410 Breda Keohan: So it's 2 0 7. So it's a big fucking lift. But I feel I'm stronger now than I was back then, and 514 00:57:20.620 --> 00:57:24.049 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm what 450 something pounds like 400 515 00:57:24.368 --> 00:57:26.280 Breda Keohan: 4, 54, 60, almost yeah. 516 00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:28.680 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, yeah, like, I was, gonna say, 455 is where my brain 517 00:57:28.680 --> 00:57:34.690 Breda Keohan: Yeah, yeah, so around that. But but it's it's awkward. It's it's kind of rounded, shaped 518 00:57:34.690 --> 00:57:38.639 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's that was my! That was my Max. Ever bench press, by the way, like so 519 00:57:39.070 --> 00:57:39.689 Breda Keohan: That's a good 520 00:57:39.690 --> 00:57:40.430 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Dangerous. 521 00:57:40.430 --> 00:57:45.500 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That is a huge amount of weight to lift off of the ground like to it is 522 00:57:45.500 --> 00:57:48.100 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you're talking about 523 00:57:48.690 --> 00:57:49.280 Breda Keohan: Forever. 524 00:57:49.650 --> 00:57:50.330 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, cool! 525 00:57:50.330 --> 00:58:00.976 Breda Keohan: So I've been invited over by actually did on in a shark island have asked me to come back over, and the island itself has invited me back. So so 526 00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:01.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Challenge from. 527 00:58:03.010 --> 00:58:09.309 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm not sure I'm not sure which. There's. There's something there's something harkening to you to to get your ass back out there, and and do it. 528 00:58:09.310 --> 00:58:14.569 Breda Keohan: I got to get back out there and do that. So those 2 islands, if I can get to them this year, man, I'll be a very, very happy man. 529 00:58:14.855 --> 00:58:36.869 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Man! Well, David, as always, I love having these conversations with you, man, it makes me so happy. You have. You have filled my point, even though my pint is almost empty. You filled my cup, as you always do, brother. I I love, I love hearing about all the things that you're doing, and I am. I am so excited for you, for all the all, the amazing progress that you have coming, and all the 530 00:58:37.190 --> 00:58:48.349 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: the the passion that you have poured into this is is apparent, and that's why I feel I feel like. That's why it's it's coming to to fruition in the world is because it's clear that you're passionate about it. And you've 531 00:58:48.440 --> 00:59:06.370 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you've done all the work behind this, and and like as someone with Irish heritage like, I really thank you for bringing back this really important part of our culture and and all of the work that you've done. So you know it. Just it means so much to me, and to be able to call you a friend, and to be even a small part of this journey is 532 00:59:06.370 --> 00:59:20.019 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: so exciting, and to be able to witness it even from afar, is phenomenal. So I really hope that everything keeps moving the direction because you've earned it. You deserve it. And you're you're awesome, man. I just I love you so much, and I really appreciate all this time together. 533 00:59:20.700 --> 00:59:36.389 Breda Keohan: I thank you so much. Thank you so much, my friend. It really means a world to me. And like I said, we keep going forward, and we are well overdue to sit down and have one of these together at some stage. So like I said, if you're around the Boston area you probably are. But if you're around the Boston area in June, you know where I am 534 00:59:36.390 --> 00:59:41.729 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: No, I got the. I got the date written down and they have planes here. So I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I can't get out there for it 535 00:59:41.730 --> 00:59:42.329 Breda Keohan: That'd be awesome 536 00:59:42.330 --> 00:59:48.412 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I got. I gotta see how the how it lines up with the the summer, the summer travel, schedule for the kids and the family and everything but 537 00:59:49.410 --> 00:59:51.269 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: and so all right, brother. 538 00:59:51.270 --> 00:59:53.730 Breda Keohan: On the ball, my friend great chatting, as always. 539 00:59:54.260 --> 00:59:54.990 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: See you, Bud. 540 00:59:55.510 --> 00:59:56.170 Breda Keohan: See you, my friend.