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performance enhancers?

A lot of people

idolize these guys,

whether it's a rock star, a

bodybuilder, a movie star, whoever,

and all of a sudden

you get to meet them

and, man,

is it a let-down.

Because they're never ever

what they appear to be.

The guy you see

in public like this

has got the middle finger

under the table going like this.

It's never "what you see

is what you get. "

It's "what you see is

what they want you to see. "

Everybody idolized

Schwarzenegger growing up.

Everybody thought,

"man, I wanna lift weights

and life a pure life

like Arnold.

And I'm gonna eat all my vegetables

and take my protein shakes.

Maybe I'll move out to

California, train at Gold's Gym.

And I'm gonna get really

big. I'm gonna win contests.

I'm gonna be

a movie star too. "

ANNOUNCER:

Please welcome a man

whose story embodies

the American dream.

One thing I learned

about America is

that if you work hard and

if you play by the rules

this country is truly

open to you.

You can achieve

anything.

Dude, that is-

That is a pipe dream.

That is

a pipe dream, okay?

To get where

Arnold got in life

you have to be willing

to step on a few fingers

and step on a few friends

and f*** a few people over.

You don't get to that

level without that.

In this world you're

either the barracuda

or you're that little minnow

swimming around like this.

And Arnold's

the barracuda.

And we'll all exercise

a little bit together

with the dumbbells. Come on

now, let's do some presses here.

CHRIS:
In the same year

that George Bush Sr. signed

the Steroid Control Act he

also made Arnold Schwarzenegger

the chairman of the President's

Council on Physical Fitness.

So I'm confused.

Was the President saying

that a former steroid user

could still be a

role model for kids?

- Are you gonna exercise?

- Yeah!

We're gonna

pump up muscle!

TV NARRATOR:

Enter Steve Rogers,

Too puny to be

accepted by the army,

but willing to risk

death for his country.

He's changing

right before our eyes!

TV NARRATOR:

Suddenly it is over

and America has

a new champion.

CHRIS:
Why do you think in America

superheroes are so important?

STAN LEE:

People need heroes,

Whether in real life

or in fiction,

because they need somebody

to inspire them,

something to aim for,

somebody to try

to be like.

I think any boy

would want

to be built like

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Did you ever want to be

big a muscular like that?

I wanted to be a little-

when I'd go to the beach

I used to wish that my

arms were a little stronger.

I looked more like

the 98-Ib weakling.

Did that ever inspire you,

that Charles Atlas comic strip?

- Did that inspire some of your characters?

- It inspired everybody.

CHARLES ATLAS:
Let me teach

you how to become strong.

When you're young

you get impressions

That pretty much

last you all your life.

If you step up

and show up

and play hard,

you're gonna play.

All right,

get a break.

Rock 'n' roll, fellas!

CHRIS:

Smelly's now a coach

for the local high-school

football team.

Kind of like Arnold, he just

wants to give back to the kids.

MARK:
Going to school

was pretty painful for me.

Oftentimes I can find

the kid who is like me

and maybe doesn't have

the best confidence

and show him

how to lift weights

and build him up

physically and mentally.

BOY:

He's the kind of guy

who would get in your life

and slowly turn it around.

He keeps me going. He keeps

me motivated about something.

When he works with those

high school kids

that's his passion.

Not a lot of kids

Have a strong male figure

in their life.

I mean, a lot of people-

they're usually very selfish,

but he's not. I've never really

met anyone that's like that.

CHRIS:
There's a gym

in Columbus, Ohio,

Where the strongest guys

in the world train.

It's called

West Side Barbell.

And this is where Smelly learned

from his role model, Louie Simmons.

I've got a philosophy like

many- when you go to war

you go to kill.

You don't go to get killed.

There's nobody

in this place

that's not trying to be the

best athlete in the world.

Everybody here is trying to

achieve an elite level of success.

Pretty much as you're a kid you

always want to be the strongest.

I always wanted to be

the strongest guy.

And I still want

to be that, you know.

SIMMONS:
In 1959 my

father showed me a book.

It was about the Russians

taking testosterone.

So I said,

"what the hell?

First chance I got, I'm gonna

do some of this. " and so I did.

I've actually been on

anabolic steroids for 36 years.

Matt, Matt, Matt,

Matt, Matt, Matt!

Up up up up up!

CHRIS:
Is it something I

should be morally battling

or should I be fine

with doing it?

Your morals are

your morals, not mine.

Who am I to judge you? And

who are you to judge me?

You want to be strong

or you want to be weak?

But you can't be strong

without doing steroids?

You can't be

as strong as possible.

If you want to reach the top

you're gonna have to do it.

Everybody thinks anabolic

steroids is the easy way out.

The people that train

with anabolic steroids

train way harder

than people that don't.

Regardless of what people

think of Barry Bonds,

you can't take

a bottle of testosterone,

put on Barry's

baseball uniform

and make him hit

Barry's got to go out, train

and hit the 700 home runs.

But what if

the scientists came up

with something better

than anabolic steroids?

You see cows, you see

immense, powerful cows,

And they basically have

changed their genes.

If they can change your

genes, would that be illegal?

What would they do then?

Just ban sports in general?

Oh My Lord.

When people see these,

is the first question

"how many hormones

do you pump into them?"

Well, it's two comments.

One would be,

"oh my gosh, what did you

do to that thing?"

And secondly, "it looks

like Arnold Schwarzenegger. "

CHRIS:
This is a

Belgian Blue Bull-

2600 Ibs, all muscle,

all natural.

So tell me again,

you're all natural?

You're not

taking anything?

I think you're ready

for Congress.

He has

a genetic mutation

that allows him to grow

double muscle.

And scientists

have figured out

how to genetically alter

humans the same way.

Dr. Lee Sweeney is

using this technology

to try to cure

muscular dystrophy.

It's obviously going to become

more and more evident

that what we call talent

is really

genetic variation.

There's genetic enhancement

available that might be able

to give you what

nature didn't give you.

Trying to figure out how

to do it in the safest way

Is something that

hasn't been worked out.

If you find out

that it's safe,

would you be somebody

who would say, "hey-"?

Yeah, I would be

first in line.

'Cause it seems

like this is

the future of sports-

gene doping.

Gene doping, yeah.

I wouldn't do it.

Will gene doping ruin

sports in America?

I don't think so.

I mean, I think

any time there's

a new technology

everyone says, "okay,

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