Robert 'Obie' Oberst

“All I ever wanted to do was I wanted to be a history teacher and I wanted to coach high school football. I can do this. This right here. I promise you I will use this as a platform to do something. I promise you. And I promised her right there. And she got all teary-eyed and from there, it took me less than eight months to be at World's.”

“I got bit hard during the lockdowns and just, like I grew up a kid in California. And so doing that, I went from making 30, 40 grand a month to making $200 a month because of the censorship. And I was trying really, really hard to keep things up. I was trying really hard to keep making money there and all this stuff. And it was just it just became a battle like that was never ending.”

“I was literally the only person that stayed with my dad. And I only stayed because I felt bad, like he was fucking schizo alone, you know? And I remember we were living behind an apple orchard. We had power on the weekends because he would drive his work truck home and he would plug in the generator on the work truck. So like the TV would work, but if you tried to microwave something, it all go out. And so like the last two years of high school, I lived in a dark house with a schizophrenic dad with no water.”

“Mormons really take care of you. They've got, so like, there's a whole company called Deseret Industries. And when you're a Mormon and you're financially in trouble, or you're like, you need food or substance or whatever, there's like a whole, here there's stores. And it was like a full grocery store. Like get all your milk, get all your stuff. All this stuff produced by the Mormons in Salt Lake City.”

“I had a full ride scholarship. Well, I was taking the one in Nebraska, but I was offered from everywhere. I had a box of letters, all every school you'd ever heard of, asking me to come out. You know, it's funny. This is so fucking stupid, it's embarrassing. But I was such a fucking idiot redneck, I didn't even know you were supposed to open the letters, fill out the thing and send it back. I thought that box is still intact at my mom's house with not a single letter open.”

“I said, if you're a kid growing and wanting to be athletic, and you want to play sports like football, basketball, baseball, any of those sports, don't do deadlifts. The risk-reward ratio is a fucking joke. I've got tons of NFL friends. Not one of them deadlifts. They hang clean. They'll side handle deadlift on off season. But I've seen contracts from pro bowl offensive linemen that say, if you deadlift, you get this fine.”

“I literally, I went on a regimen of taking mushrooms to compete. I'm writing a book about it right now. So I did 3.5, which is, if you know that, that's the full dose. A heroic dose is five grams. If you wanna talk to God, it's 3.5 grams. So I'm on 3.5, fully involved, me, God and all the others. And I'm doing the photo shoot.”

“I was filming something with a guy that I didn't want to film. And in that thing, I was taking a sword and doing all this stuff, and I came down with the sword, and I cut my foot in half, my entire foot. And in that moment, I really felt like clarity. And in that moment, I felt like I don't care if I lose my foot. I know what I'm doing now. And this right here is the bloody shoe that got cut in half.”

“Brian invited me to do the arm wrestling match. I'm all in, bud. I'm all in. I like it like I used to like football. And so arm wrestling, it motivates me like that. Like it motivates me in a competitive way that I just haven't felt since I was like a teenager. I like the combativeness.”

“Benedict Magnuson fucking hates me. He hates me because I told a story one time. He told me a story and I didn't know it was private. So we're sitting in the cab, and he says something. And finally, he says enough that I switched off. I literally took my hands, and I put them like this behind my back, and I put my chin forward. And I was like, it's there for you, but I'm going to take your fucking life afterwards. I would have bit his ear off and shoved it down his throat.”