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[mac187]

the best live with interview hands down. thanks for the content. respect chris and dave a lot.

[davidcua]

Incredible! Just Incredible!.. Easily top 5 interviews EVER, not just on RX, but from any body building show - respect to the great work from Dan Solomon in the past on PBW.

I hate to say that to be the biggest surprise is that Chris is a Muslim...but I'm wondering if this changes anyone's perception of him, or how he may be perceived in the future. I'm sure he's aware of the concerns in the US of Islam, and I wonder if he's been privy to people's opinions on the issue WITHOUT knowledge of his faith. Will people be more less open so as not to offend him, or to let them know their true feelings.

Thanks so much for sharing Chris! Blessings.

Yes it will, now I won't say that Championship bodybuilding is the muscle building Bible any more. I would rather say The muscle building Coran.

No but seriously I wasn't very surprised since he does not speak a lot about private things and thats understandable since nobody has to know what your relation with god is, especially those who are not family or close friends etc.

I thought Chris was an Agnostic theist, meaning he might believe in god but did not believe it through any religion. I was wrong, he's muslim.

Love the Bob Gruskin and Gold's Gym stories, Aceto making lot's of benjamins at a young age ! In gold's gym he had witness probably the best bodybuilding era ever and that's priceless.

Very inspiring all along interview to say the least.

[mackdaddy567]

Chris embodies class and credibility. Truly a great man.

[Curt James]

Chris embodies class and credibility. Truly a great man.

This.

[Wtdoom]

Incredible! Just Incredible!.. Easily top 5 interviews EVER, not just on RX, but from any body building show - respect to the great work from Dan Solomon in the past on PBW.

I hate to say that to be the biggest surprise is that Chris is a Muslim...but I'm wondering if this changes anyone's perception of him, or how he may be perceived in the future. I'm sure he's aware of the concerns in the US of Islam, and I wonder if he's been privy to people's opinions on the issue WITHOUT knowledge of his faith. Will people be more less open so as not to offend him, or to let them know their true feelings.

Thanks so much for sharing Chris! Blessings.

Yes it will, now I won't say that Championship bodybuilding is the muscle building Bible any more. I would rather say The muscle building Coran.

No but seriously I wasn't very surprised since he does not speak a lot about private things and thats understandable since nobody has to know what your relation with god is, especially those who are not family or close friends etc.

I thought Chris was an Agnostic theist, meaning he might believe in god but did not believe it through any religion. I was wrong, he's muslim.

Love the Bob Gruskin and Gold's Gym stories, Aceto making lot's of benjamins at a young age ! In gold's gym he had witness probably the best bodybuilding era ever and that's priceless.

Very inspiring all along interview to say the least.

Agreed , awesome , brave , fantastic video .
god I love this website .

my friends let me give you some ammunition to fire if someone says something derogatory you don't agree with regarding Muslims / Islam or even our own Chris Aceto and the subject of religion .

point out that Isis for example have until today killed a ratio of between 7 to 10000( seven to ten thousand) Muslims to each westerner they have killed worldwide.
point out that the Kurds in Syria whom we support that are fighting Isis are Muslim, like the free democratic forces we support in Syria are (mostly) muslim.
the Iraqi army that we support , that are fighting Isis are Muslim .
the Turks that are now starting to kind of fight Isis are Muslim .
the Iraqi Kurds that we support and train and arm are fighting Isis are Muslim .
same with the Iranians , Jordanians etc fighting .

and the list goes on .

These little things don't make the news for some reason , any one would think the news had an agenda or worse still thinks we are stupid and can only see in black and white .

Greetings , new member but mid term lurker wt (and sorry if I stated the bleeding obvious .)

[Big Beat]

If asked to guess I would have put Chris as an atheist. Same with Dave even though he is half Jewish and half I'm guessing Catholic by birth.

I thought I remembered them talking about fairy stories.

[Curt James]

(snip) These little things don't make the news for some reason , any one would think the news had an agenda or worse still thinks we are stupid and can only see in black and white .

Greetings , new member but mid term lurker wt (and sorry if I stated the bleeding obvious .)

Washington, April 2, 2015 — The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s major religions, as well as by people switching faiths. Over the next four decades, Christians will continue to make up the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion. If current demographic trends continue, by 2050 the number of Muslims around the world (2.8 billion, or 30% of the population) will nearly equal the number of Christians (2.9 billion, or 31%), possibly for the first time in history.

With the exception of Buddhists, all of the world’s major religious groups are poised for at least some growth in absolute numbers in the coming decades. Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though also increasing in absolute numbers – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.

These are among the global religious trends highlighted in new demographic projections by the Pew Research Center.

More @ http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/n...ds-population/

[Curt James]

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Time markers

0:00-0:46 Intro music
0:46-1:20 Dave intro
1:20-2:00 Chris Aceto mentions following Levrone, Triple H, and references Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson
2:00-3:28 Dave asks Chris about being a Muslim/Ramadan/eating
3:28-5:50 Dave: “how an Italian boy from Maine wound up as a Muslim” and Chris replies and references Dubai, Qatar, Samir Bannout “Me and Samir went to Qatar…” for bodybuilding promotions
5:50 Ed Connors was the architect for the hotel Chris stayed at in Qatar
5:50-7:50
Culture shock, Islamic culture, Samir missing for five days, hosts of Samir and Chris was well known strong religious family of Qatar, “That was my initial introduction to Islam. It made a lot of sense to me. That was really the footprint for 1991.”
7:50-7:52 subtle Christian Duque reference
7:52-8:38 “The same people who introduced me to Islam was the same family to introduce Muhammad Ali.”
8:38-10:20 Dave: “What were you doing there with Samir in 91?” Chris: “We were trying to promote bodybuilding. The irony is everywhere I went to these little gyms there’d be like Ahmed so and so, Mustafa so and so, little 18-year-old kid, they were little Ramys. There were just a lot of people with unbelievable genetics!”
10:20-
Chris the bodybuilder

This is going to be awhile. lol

Fantastic show!

[Big Beat]

Good interview. I'd like to see a Part 2 where Chris talks about diet and supplementation.