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Barry Turner

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first: 2025-02-24
most recent: 2025-02-24
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“Cannot. My natural body, my natural body, I could get to, I got to about 217, I think, was the biggest I got to naturally. It's still a lot. It was still big. It's still a professional athlete. Yeah.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, obviously the film never gets made. So we're literally, Benny and I are just being paid by this person to just work out. We worked out twice a day. We ate. That's all we did was just get bigger and bigger and bigger. And yeah, seriously, like,”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Because at that time, I was like, it was one of those things. I'm still kind of young. I'm like 29 or something at that time. Yeah I can finish later.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kick is the mass, and we're big guys. We're growing our hair really long. So we just had a look. So yeah, it was just, it was just one of those things where you just go, you know what? It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move to California. I never in my heart believed a movie would ever get made, but I'd ever start in this movie. I just had an opportunity to go to California.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was similar to the movie Warrior. If you remember the movie with Tom Hardy and Edgerton guy, back then it was about, like, that was like UFC type fighting for that movie And so it's kind of similar to that. It was like, you know, two guys were going to be wrestling.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, she had this lady. She had a little bit of money. So when people find people with money at that time, everybody's pitching a movie script around the country. You know that guy.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Biddy was. I actually met him at a gym. And he said, Hey, I heard you're doing, you see a little bit of pro wrestling. Would you want to consider it again? Because I really want to get into it. And I said, yeah, I'd love to. So he and I started training together and we just became instant friends. We were just kind of goofballs and having fun. And he was a personal trainer too at the time. And so he said, I'm training this lady and she has this movie script written for two guys that would be you and I. She'll move us to California. She'll And I was like, hmm, let's go for it. And so we packed up and we went to California. Let's just unpack this”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My girlfriend at the time thought wrestling was beneath me. Thought I could do better. So I chose a girlfriend and it didn't work out.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know well when I showed up, I was barry Turner, but when the promoter saw me, he goes, this guy's too pretty. We got to put a mask on him because I can't look better than the actual guy who's going to beat me. And the coolest thing about that is, man, when they put a mask on you, you just become someone else. So they put a mask on me. They called me Mr. Olympia. And they gave me a manager. I got a guy's name's Diamond Dave. He's wearing a red tuxedo with a red top hat up. It was full on like a major production. And I was getting picked up by a bigger group. They were going to send me on the road like immediately. And this was like NWA, WCW type wrestling at the time. And that's where I was heading. And that's what I really thought my career was going to be. I was going to become a professional wrestler and be very successful at it.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was living in a little town called Cartersville, Georgia, and my mom had seen a, a guy had a wrestling ring in his backyard, and she told me about it. So I kept going to his house every day for two straight weeks, leaving notes, knocking on his door. And I kept saying, I want you to train me. I want you to train me. And he doesn't respond. So finally he calls me one time and he just said, he goes, look, dude, I've been traveling. I've been on the road wrestling. All I kept saying was just see me. That's what I just see me. And maybe you'd want to train me. So I show up and he sees me. He goes, you know, I think I could probably help you. So we trained for two weeks nonstop, seven days a week. We're just training. And I learned everything I can about professional wrestling, you know, how to fall, how to do a sunset flip, how to come off the top rope, fly at elbows, everything. And it was so much fun. And so within two weeks, he gives me a match.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Len Hoffman was a retired baker from Intaman's Bakery. And the first thing he said, he goes, stop calling these recipes. He goes, these are formulas. And I was like, okay. He goes, this is scientific now, boys. So we get Lynn to start helping us with these products that we're working on. And we're also starting to do some private label for a pretty large coffee chain here in Southern California. And they're like, well, hey, I wonder what else these guys do. So they ask us about doing some scones. And we told them we made the best scones in the city.”
2025-02-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT