Hodgetwins Podcast - Hodgetwins & Larry Wheels Talk About Why Indians Always Smell In The Gym...

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

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trip. The only stress for a trip I had besides Russia has been India. You got to be in India. No, I heard about that place. I heard it. You could smell it before you can get that. I was talking to a body build. I ain't going to drop in the names, but he said, man, it was like off the plane. All the nose hurts in my nose in my nose, milked it. He said, soon as you, see, soon as that door but he says, smells like a 7-Eleven. I said, is it that bad? He said, is that bad. He said, Well, he said the first couple of hours, he said it was just tears in his eyes. Yeah, that's about right. Yeah, really?

You know, what's crazy, too, is I went to, the last time I was there, the most recent time, I went to New Delhi, and I stayed at, like, the nicest hotel that the people that food me there could find. Right. Five-star, beautiful hotel. But everywhere in the hotel reeked of B-O. Everywhere. I'm like, how could this even be possible? The hotel was so beautiful, so clean.

The food was great, all that. But like the smell of beer was just everywhere. Yeah, you know, like fucking underarm, like not using deodorant kind of smell. Right. And then- Oh, you smell his ass and vagina, vagina and armpits. That's right. And cock. That's good.

They don't wear deodorant, right? No, they do not. And I was this close to telling my driver, you have to put theodorant, sir. I'm sorry. Like, it's just so, because I've spent so many hours in the car and I just suffered in silence, bit my I wanted to tell him, please, sir, use deodorant, please, just, please. I would be willing to pay him out to watch it. It was just so bad.

Every time I open the car, door, you know, it gets so strong, but I don't get, like, how the locals don't see. Well, they don't even smell it. The group around it. Yeah, I guess so. I guess, yeah, it's just part of it. I wonder. I never determine why they don't wear deodorant. I think it's their religion or? Yeah, I can't tell you.

Yeah, do you know what? I think it's something to do a religion. Yeah, I think. Well, they get some. nasty motherfuckers no they take showers they just don't I don't even think they use soap well they probably use some natural soap but doesn't really kill body order yeah yeah if you don't put on the odor that's what you're smelling the armpits the onions yeah can you imagine dating a girl out there and you go down on her oh man you're

sick to my stomach yeah I can't you're like you just start puking and shit they probably get us probably fur hormones you're actually smelling for hormones that's natural fur hormones but we cover them up with the dilter it like smell of fucking pits that's probably what you smell as spermones so that that guy who told me that he wasn't embellished you know no he wasn't maybe he was actually making an understatement I think it was an understatement yeah that's crazy oh look uh we got something while many Indians do not use deodorants scroll down a little bit and okay and antiperson

Do I go back up a little bit? There you go. The perception that they don't generally stems from different cultural hygiene habits, climate factors, and regional preferences for managing body order. That's bullshit. They just don't use it. Bathing habits in India's warm climate. Showering once or twice a day is a fundamental daily hygiene ritual.

Many Indians prioritize frequent bathing over covering up with artificial frequencies. That shit ain't working. You know what? Maybe it's a garlic onion. the other spices that that's what they're saying dietary differences the diogen just can't handle it's just too much i mean maybe you know what i'm coming to the conclusion that they do use it just the spice smell coming from their body is so much that you don't you do so much really yeah they're using it but it's just not powerful enough yeah i'd go to the indian uh yeah i'll be i'll be hey hold

don't know they're talking man you didn't even listening to do the indian buffet we go too yeah all those the taj mahoth the tautil palace of what was called yeah Everybody smells fine in there. Yeah. They're Indian. They probably put on deodorant. Yeah. Then I was totally wrong.

Then it must be. Yeah, I think they're making. I think AI is making excuses. Those people don't wear deodorants. It's against their religion and culture. Yeah. Man. Smell like nuts.

I remember. Sweaty nuts. Two week old sweaty nuts. I remember I wasn't, I was, you know, I was ignorant to it. We moved to back home, Virginia, Northern Virginia. I went to a lot of it. 7-11. And I said, man, you just.

smell that? And then I, and this dude, his name was actually Habib, he came up and I said, hey, where's your bathroom at? And I was still like, he says back there. I said, hey, man, you don't smell that in here? I said, you don't smell it? All I smell his armpits and ass. Well, I said, dude, I can smell

your nuts right now. Well, we lived in Northern Virginia's a huge Indian population. And I'd be like in a store and I'm like, one must be close by. You go around now, there is right there like you. Looking for shit

Not the odor. Yeah, he's definitely not looking for that. Yeah, it's just a cultural difference. Hey, what makes you start lifting and doing YouTube? Lifting was from free time, bullying, wanting to build my self-esteem. Right. Me too, we want to get bigger, yeah, yeah. You know, and I mean, once you start making us some progress, some gains.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got all kinds of games. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, that's a trip. That brings me back. Yeah. And, yeah, so once I move back to the States,

and I can finally join a real gym because in St. Martina wasn't old enough to. So she couldn't do shit, really, but play video games, ride my bike, and do calisthenics. And there's a story of me where I'm talking about using a broomstick and center block to just make sure of some weights so I can try to get to-j- We did that too long as younger.

Yeah, I did all this shit. The broomstipsed sing-a-block thing? Yeah, we didn't have no money to... We didn't have no money for weights. Yeah, we didn't have no money for weights because we grew up really parents. So we would do all kinds of things. old tiring stick

a damn branch in it what damn all was bigger than the other one because the other I know you've seen the African videos they got their weight yeah yeah we that was us cement and rocks and stuff

like that yeah yeah but it worked right you got jacks yeah well I was still a I was young we was like yeah I was 15 60 skinny as hell yeah nothing really worked until I got older when I hit when I hit 23 24

your body changes it dramatically i didn't have to live weights i got a lot bigger but yeah but i'm still weak it's fought do you think so oh yeah i was too i had i had no strength i could barely do 15 push-ups what i could do maybe three dead hangs you mean currently when you were 23 24 when i was in my 20s that was a piece of shit so but gradually i got stronger and strong and stronger yeah but i never had i didn't have strength at all none For me, that always came quickly. Like, I remember doing like 120 push-ups in it. And when I was, well, this is when I was 14 years old, you know.

But straight did come fast because I was on steroids. So I don't know how strong it would have been if I was all maddy. Yeah. I'm thinking you're nationally gifted, though. I think it's a mixture of the two, you know, and the good coaches, all that good programming. Yeah. Yeah.

But then YouTube I started because the gym I was training at the time. It was Mount Vernon Barbell, like God, I was I think 19 or 20 years old. Disso's breaking my first world record. And there was a guy there on Nick Kiger, who was a YouTuber at the time, just a local creator. He was recording workouts with me and my workout partner, Black Tom Cruise, R.P. The Goat.

Black Tom Cruise. Yeah. Greatest hype man to ever live. He's a really funny guy. And my training partner for years. But anyways, he was recording workouts with BTC and I. And then one day he was like, wait a minute. He's making, like, he's getting like hundreds of thousands of views.

and vetted with me and btc and i was like i don't just make my own damn channel oh okay yeah like the hell am i on his channel not doing anything i just need to put a phone on a try back you're making all kinds of money yeah yeah i didn't know like there was money behind you so i didn't know anything about you know i didn't care i just wanted to lift you know i just want to strong as hell and break with records i could care less about uh material things or having money or anything right besides lifting so yeah that's what basically started everything and then how many records have you broke uh just three um in three different ones from weight classes. Haven't broke any. What are the records? Um, so it's for the total amount of

the squat bench that we've put together, um, at the 242, 275 and three away pound week class. And they were all time record at the time. At the 308 weight class. That was cool because I broke it at 285. Um, so I just wanted to have three different weight class titles. That's all. Yeah. So what did you bench? Um, my best benching competition, 645. How about squat? Squat, squad I did, 870. Yeah. And Deadlift was in competition, 880. That's nuts.

The thing is now, like, after so many injuries and old shit moments and... Yeah. It's so hard now to lift and, like, test my limits, you know, go for a PR, and not get in my head about getting injured. I just can't do it. And I just, like... Bro, yeah. Yeah, you're 31 now. You're not...

Yeah. This is when the catastrophic injuries happen. So I'm like, Gloria's behind me, yeah, this is when you actually go and you hear some shit snap. Yeah, you start snapping some shit up. Yeah, I can't avoid thinking about it now.

I have that edge at, you know, 17 when I got into the sport now, and I'm like, this could be the last time I ever attempted to slip because something goes really wrong. Yeah. I'm lucky I have no chronic pain. Right. After a decade of doing it. Yeah, you don't want that because I got chronic pain.

Dude, trust me. Just pick up a moderate weight from here on. Yeah. That shit I seen you do it other day? What was that? 250 pound dumbbells? Like, I was like, oh, my God. I'll run that prayer, man.

Nothing bad will happen, right? I was like praying. This is crazy. Yeah, right here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This, uh, yeah. A little more toes up, a little more hair.

Hey, I got out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Hold on sight. Oh, let's sight.

Oh, come on. Do it again. Yeah, that exact moment, it was too much. Yeah, yeah. I got this apple. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

There you go. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah.

That's the Vucchi snapped out. Oh my God. That's insane. That's 500. Just 500 pounds in dumbbells. Yeah, I mean, I'm lucky my peck stayed attached all these years. Yes, that's what always happens. It's a rip pet torn by self.

I got that one right here, if you can see it. Oh, okay. How'd you do that deadlifted? No. What's up? Oh, it's me for code 220. Two hundred and twenty. Yeah, this is a straight perils.

This is fine. I got into this for a while. This is another side quest. Damn dude you just arm curled me Is you 220? I wish I'm about two 30 but yeah pretty basically arm curl me I thought well not anymore and not with this torn bice up how did you do that? Oh that was with an atlas stone in the UK's preparing for us a strongman competition and I was doing a stone run from 100 kilograms to 200 kilograms and 20 kg increments

and on the fourth those 180 kilograms I got sloppy you know still new to the sport was a learning curve instead of going over the stone I went like under like an isip girl oh popped right away yeah oh bad technique yeah this is what I tell people all the time the money get into heavy lifting is it's uh or any set of strength training um it is um oh total brain fart sorry uh it's all good i cut it out no worry oh good well make you look real good it Oh, he's live on news. Yeah, I saw like a mumbling idiot right now.

I can't say that. That's why I don't be doing live shit. Yeah, shit. It's great. So it's you human. Oh, yeah, I always tell people that, you know, if you want to get into strain training, heavy lifting, it's just about having proper preparation and technique

because it's the ones, it's a moment where, like, you made a mistake during said heavy lift, right? That really lead to injury, you know. But if your technique is sound, your warm-up is good, you're prepared for it, it's unlikely to have. You know, but it's like the gym bros that are in their hidden bench five times a week and trying to max it every single time. Yeah. You know, with flaring the elbow, doing a guillotine press, bringing into Adam's Apple.

Like, that's where people get. Yeah, you're trying to snap some shit. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, man. I never, I, well, when we left, I never had the curbs to, like, go really heavy. I think the heavies I went was on incline. I had 275 on it.

That's the hip as I went. Okay. Not bad. Yeah. Were you natural at the time? Hell no. I was walking around with lips on my dick. I was taking Tren and all that shit.

I had blow torch going on when I did that. Yeah, I think we had stopped saying with natural body build as we just kept it to us. Yeah, I didn't promote myself as being natural. Yeah, you know, it's funny when I was in, I was trying to do it natural. And, you know, having a YouTube channel, you see all these other guys doing the exact thing.

They say they're natural bodybuild. Oh, natural bodybuilder. I'm like, there's no way in hell you're natural. And I never really ratting on people, but back in those days, people used to claim they were natural, and everybody was on it. Everybody. Yeah. Yeah, people still claiming that right now. People are still coming up that I know are obviously not natural, claiming that.

Yeah, yeah. I wonder why people won't come clean about it. I just stopped saying I was natural. I mean, the brand deals don't stop. The opportunity don't stop, right? The money keeps flowing. So if that's the reason they're doing it, I mean, maybe people have more respect for people that are built, like, gods you know and doing great shit naturally but as far as like financially an

opportunity comes with saying that you're in hands nothing changes you know I never had any conflict because I said not natural people only have a problem when you lie yeah you know it's not that's taking storage that's a problem is the lying about taking it that's a problem right right