Gui Malheiros (00:00):
Let’s go.
Sevan Matossian (00:01):
Always. God is good. Bam. We’re live.
Gui Malheiros (00:04):
It’s live.
Sevan Matossian (00:05):
Yeah. Is that your favorite shirt? I see that in a lot of your content.
Gui Malheiros (00:12):
Everything. Yeah. I wear every time to travel to everything. I love it.
Sevan Matossian (00:21):
How many do you have?
Gui Malheiros (00:25):
Around three, two long sleeves, black, one long sleeve white, and probably four, three shirts.
Sevan Matossian (00:38):
Who makes ’em?
Gui Malheiros (00:39):
It’s a barbershop in Miami. The name is this Spot Barbershop and they sell these shirts and I buy it every time that I go there.
Sevan Matossian (00:52):
That is great. And how often are you in Miami?
Gui Malheiros (00:57):
Not very often, just when I go to Water Palooza.
Sevan Matossian (01:01):
Hey, do you have different size ones too? Do you have one where you’re feeling a little fat so you got the extra large and one where you’re feeling a little ripped? You got the medium, then you got just the normal. No, it’s
Gui Malheiros (01:11):
All Excel.
Sevan Matossian (01:13):
All Excel. Dang. The
Gui Malheiros (01:14):
First one was large and now it’s only Excel.
Sevan Matossian (01:19):
Tell me, gee, why is God good? Tell me, tell me, how do you know? What do you know you know about? God tell me.
Gui Malheiros (01:26):
I was thinking about this question. God is good because me, myself, I have experienced a lot of stuff. And if I’m here today, it’s because of him. And I think that he created us to live and to worship him. And I’m very grateful for everything that I have. And I think that I believe that everything I have and everything that actually, yeah, everything I have and everything I am is because of him and that’s it. God is good.
Sevan Matossian (02:07):
I’ve had this best friend since the second grade and I asked him one time, I said, Hey, what is it that you like about me? He goes, well, I’m not going to tell you what it is that I like about you, but I chose something very, very small to about you that way if the rest of you changed, I would always like you forever. I was like, oh, cool, thank you. But I remember. But I hear kind of what you’re saying. You’re saying that you’re thankful. You’re thankful for your existence. Everything else on top of your existence is a bonus. Thank you God for giving me a chance to exist. That’s what I’m hearing you say.
Gui Malheiros (02:41):
Yeah, every day. Every day. Thanks for my life, for my health. And that’s it. There are a lot of people out there dying and having illness and everything, and I’m just thankful for having a life and having actually sometimes problems, and I’m just thankful for existing. That’s
Sevan Matossian (03:04):
A huge deal. Yeah. Hey, and it’s like what you said too. Be thankful for your problems because I was just telling someone today a story of some problem that I had and about how it overcame itself by accident. All of a sudden I found a bunch of money that I hadn’t collected from YouTube a lot. Gee, I found $90,000 that I hadn’t collected from YouTube. Is that crazy? And I was telling my friend this story today, but I had a problem. And then all of a sudden one day I got an email from YouTube and they’re like, Hey dude, are you going to send us a picture of your driver’s license or what are you doing? And then there was that money. And I thank God for having that story and that opportunity and that problem. I love that story. I love that story. I love my problems.
Gui Malheiros (03:54):
The other day I was doing live, I usually do some devotional lives for people, mostly in Portuguese of course. And I was telling about the story about Lazarus is how you call Lazarus.
Sevan Matossian (04:08):
I heard of them, I heard of them. I don’t know the story, but I heard of them.
Gui Malheiros (04:11):
So it’s basically, Lazarus was a friend of Jesus and Jesus loved him very much, and he was sick. And in the moment that Jesus heard that he was sick, he immediately said, oh, this is going to be great, a great moment or a great thing to glorify God. So everything that we see as a problem is something that is going to glorify cheeses and God somehow. So a lot of stuff like UN and everything. So every problem is way to glorify God. And I don’t know how I’m going to translate to in English, but it’s basically this,
Sevan Matossian (05:08):
I just looked it up on Google real quick. It says, the raising of Lazarus is the last of the miracles or signs of Jesus’s divinity, which John relates. It’s clearly offered to us as the summation of Jesus divinity, representing his ability to conquer death itself through bringing the dead back to life. Was Lazarus dead? Did he die?
Gui Malheiros (05:26):
Yeah. So he was sick. And so Jesus heard that he was sick and he was like, okay. And then he stayed two more days where he was. And then two days later he was like, oh, let’s visit Lazarus. But Lazarus was in Judea, and I think that people from there wanted to kill cheeses. So he was like, yeah, let’s go there. And his disciples were like, bro, you’re going to be killed. And he were like, bro, Lazarus is dead, so let’s visit him. So they went and Lazarus was dead for four years, four days already. So his sisters came to him and said, Hey, if you were here, he wouldn’t be dad right now. And Chi was like, Hey, do you believe that I am the resurrection? And one of his sisters said, yeah, I believe, but in the end of everything. But Chi was like, no, I’m here right now and I am the resurrection and I am the life. Do you believe it? And she was like, okay. So the other sisters come. Did she
Sevan Matossian (06:42):
Roll her eyes like that too? You did. She went, okay.
Gui Malheiros (06:45):
I’m just like,
Sevan Matossian (06:47):
Did she roll her eyes at Jesus?
Gui Malheiros (06:50):
She was like, okay. So the other sister comes and says the same thing. Hey, if you were here, he wouldn’t mean dad. He wouldn’t mean dad. Yeah, he wouldn’t mean dad. So he looked to her eyes and say, Hey, didn’t tell you if you believe you’re going to see the glory of God. And he is like, Hey, rode the stone that was on the, I know on the
Sevan Matossian (07:20):
Grave, on the grave,
Gui Malheiros (07:21):
The grave. And the guys rode the stone, and he is like, Lazarus come over. And then Lazarus comes from the deaf. So that’s a lot of things that we can see in the story. And then I was telling people the revelation that I had about it, that story. And because I was kind of studying and I saw that Jesus was being grateful for God, and he wanted God to be glorified by resurrecting Lazarus, so then people can believe, could believe that Jesus was sent by God. So that’s the gratitude of Jesus for God, the problem that was for the sisters and the people over there, that was a problem for Jesus was like, bro, God’s got to be glorified by that thing, by that sickness or by that death. So it’s crazy. I love that story now that
Sevan Matossian (08:34):
Someone in here is making fun of you, and I really like it. I didn’t, I get it. At first. They call him Jesus. But that’s what it sounds like. You’re saying instead of Jesus, that’s Jesus, Jesus.
Gui Malheiros (08:44):
How do you guys say, how do you guys say
Sevan Matossian (08:50):
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. He’s a G. That guy’s a G. But when you say it sounds like Jesus, hey, don’t change it. It’s perfect the way you say it. Don’t even, it’s beautiful. Hey, it’s so funny. I’m not a Christian man. I’m not a follower of the Bible per se. And I’ve had so many people on the show who say they are, or there’s all these people that espouse that therefore women’s rights or therefore black rights or therefore Christianity or therefore something. And they come on the show and they don’t say shit about it. And here you are. You just spent eight minutes of your time showing your devotion to what you stand for. And dude, in a thousand shows, you might be the first one. And I take my hat off to you for walking the walk. Dude, you are such a stud. I appreciate you for walking the walk so much.
Gui Malheiros (09:48):
It’s awful Him, because I’m here, what I am right now with you because of him, it doesn’t have anything about me. My gift and my talents and everything that I have is not for me. It’s just for the kingdom. So whatever I be, whatever I am, I got to share their gospel because this is why I’m here. So if I’m not here because of that, that’s no purpose. That’s kind of my purpose. My goal is another one in CrossFit in my life, but my purpose it has is about for people. It’s not for me. You know what I mean?
Sevan Matossian (10:31):
Yeah. For others. For others. And obviously to share stories about God. You just did.
Gui Malheiros (10:37):
Yeah. And I always like to show God and Jesus, Jesus,
Sevan Matossian (10:46):
You need a Jesus shirt.
Gui Malheiros (10:49):
Nice. That’s a good idea. But yeah, in a light way, funny way.
Sevan Matossian (10:56):
Hey, your content is primarily on YouTube. You have a great YouTube following, and it’s primarily all in Portuguese.
Gui Malheiros (11:11):
Yes. For now, yes. I’m trying to look for a translator to put some subtitles on it, but I didn’t find yet.
Sevan Matossian (11:21):
Why not just make some content? Why not just make some content? Gee, in English? Yeah, why not? Just don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you need to. I’m actually asking the question. Obviously your Portuguese following is massive. It’s wild actually. It’s really the only test I have for how big CrossFit is in Brazil. When I looked at your numbers on YouTube yesterday, I was like, what the hell is going on here? Because it’s all in Portuguese. So I’m like, these aren’t Americans watching it. And yet you have numbers than the biggest people here in the United States. But I was thinking, huh, I wonder if he just did five minutes once a week a sit down on some weights and be like, Hey guys, this is what I’m doing. This is what the new song I’m listening to. These are my new things I’m lifting. This is what I read in the Bible today, five or 10 minutes. I bet you people would eat it up over here.
Gui Malheiros (12:12):
Yeah, people ask me a lot because I have a lot of followers outside of South America. So Europe and Italy and United States. United States already is the basic, the English, the basic English, but Europe and from that side that people always ask for. And yeah, sometimes I don’t feel very comfortable or confident speaking in English. It’s not difficult, but sometimes I’m like, it’s not that good. So sometimes I just don’t post or don’t speak much.
Sevan Matossian (12:59):
What’s interesting too, I wonder if this resonates with you. Gee, I had been interviewing Miko Selo back in 2000, I don’t know, nine. And I’d been interviewing him for a year or two, and then finally he said to me one day, Hey, this isn’t really who I am in English. And I go, what do you mean? He goes, this isn’t who I am. This is a much more thought out. I can’t remember exactly how he phrased it, but it wasn’t him because he was choosing words. He was choosing from limited words. It was a slowed down version of him. It made him seem maybe more serious than he was, as opposed to the way the Finnish people knew him. And so I wonder if also that’s part of what it is for you, that you’re like, when you go back and listen to it or as you speak, you’re like, Hey, this doesn’t feel like me. Maybe
Gui Malheiros (13:48):
I don’t have these legs and the amount of words to make jokes or to make fun of something or this kind of stuff. So I tried as much as I can to be who I am in Portuguese or I don’t know, but I tried the maximum. I try to be the most I can in Portuguese and in English with my friends here. We always joke and I understand the jokes and I try to be funny, but sometimes I have some jokes in Portuguese that doesn’t make any sense in English. So it’s kind of weird. But yeah, that’s kind of true. Yeah, sometimes kind of weird to express ourselves.
Sevan Matossian (14:43):
I don’t know what it is about you being from Brazil. I don’t know if it’s the fact that your YouTube station is based in Brazil or it’s the Brazilian, the way Google looks at the country of Brazil. But I’ve talked about this often on my show that that podcast that I did with you was the highest amount of money I ever made per clicks. So whoever is watching the show to come to my channel to watch you, for some reason, Google puts a premium on those viewers and pays me the most. I think it’s the second or third most I ever made on a show. I want to say the last time you came on, I made like 900 bucks or something crazy. Have you heard that before? About when you go on people’s shows in America? Yeah, something about the click-through rate for Brazilians viewers in the United States. It’s really high.
Gui Malheiros (15:25):
That’s crazy. Yeah, I don’t know why, but people in Brazil, we have the culture of soccer, of soccer crowd. So people for soccer in Brazil, bro, they’re crazy. They go to the games and they’re singing songs and waving flags and all that shit, and they transfer from soccer to CrossFit, and they have the same energy. So when they see me on TV at games, they always put flags on it. They’re cheering. They look like
Sevan Matossian (16:12):
They get crazy in the comments.
Gui Malheiros (16:14):
They get crazy. So yeah, that’s awesome. The first video that I post here at Mayhem, I think that to this day is the most views. It has the most views of the whole Instagram. I don’t think that my channel, but on Mayhan athlete profile has the most views probably. It was crazy. More than 1000 comments and all the flags, and it was crazy. It’s huge. CrossFit’s huge in Brazil.
Sevan Matossian (16:47):
Yeah. That’s awesome, Sarah, thank you. Yes, it is a beautiful QR code. Yes, thanks. Gee, I want to go back to 2022. The games just finished, and you are in 10th place, and this is your rookie year at the CrossFit Games? Second
Gui Malheiros (17:10):
Year.
Sevan Matossian (17:11):
Second year.
Gui Malheiros (17:12):
Second year. Third year as a lead, but second year as a full games competitor.
Sevan Matossian (17:18):
Okay. I apologize. And the first year, how many events did you win? Three events. Your first year.
Gui Malheiros (17:25):
First year, yes. Three events. Three, seven, and 12.
Sevan Matossian (17:29):
Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Come back the second year and you have some remarkable finishes. A first, a first, a fourth and a fourth. Yeah. Four top five finishes. You finish in 10th place. Can you take me back to that? Of course. When that’s over are happy is gee, happy with the 10 place finish,
Gui Malheiros (17:52):
Bro. Thanks for asking. So Hugh, we go, do you have time?
Sevan Matossian (17:59):
Tons. Tons. I got a full cup of coffee. Let’s do it. Let’s party,
Gui Malheiros (18:03):
Let’s go. So that’s going to be probably the first time that I’m going to speak about it. I was planning to do a video, food, video in Portuguese, but I didn’t do it yet. But I would do, because this is in English. English, so I would start, that’s going to be the first time that I’m going to share. So yeah, after getting temp and at the games, I proposed to my ex-girlfriend. Now she’s my wife. No, it’s my wife. Oh,
Sevan Matossian (18:36):
You scared me for a second.
Gui Malheiros (18:39):
Okay. Former girlfriend. And yeah, I was happy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then I went to Peru, did some mission trip over there for main missions. After that, I went to Brazil and that’s where everything started. So after that games, I had a horrible Thursday and Friday. Yes, actually Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were my worst days, my worst days. And I was very mad. I was upset, I was ashamed. I was, how can I say? I was just mad at everything, including not including God, but I was asking him to not leave me, to not leave me alone. And I was praying and trying to be, I wasn’t being grateful, but I was trying to get his help.
(19:53):
After the games went to Brazil, and I was in a limbo because I was applying for a visa because I only could get to United States with the visa. So I went to Brazil, got my interview for the visa, and I was waiting for one month for the response. During that one month, I was thinking if I was competing at Rogue or not. And by the time I wasn’t training that much, I was training, but at the same time, I was trying to enjoy my off season, trying to get some rest, because leading games, leading to the games, I was just done smashed. I just wanted to finish with the games. I was like this, I just wanted to get to Monday at the games. So I was very tired and during the whole season, dragging myself. So in October, September, I was seeing if I was about to compete a rogue or not, my visa, blah, blah. So in the end of September, I think I went to my home city. And when I got there, I got the response, the response for the visa that I should come back to the city that I did the interview to do another interview. So I was already in that city. So I was there for probably two weeks and I had to go back to the south of Brazil to do that interview.
Sevan Matossian (21:35):
How far is that
Gui Malheiros (21:38):
By plane? Probably like three hours-ish
Sevan Matossian (21:43):
From Rio. By plane. By plane. Wow. Yeah,
Gui Malheiros (21:45):
From Rio to the south. So yeah, still waiting for the visa, not training, training, not training training. Did the second interview, and that’s already October. And I didn’t know how much time I had between the interview and to get the actual visa, because I did interview and went to the northeast of Brazil to visit my parents. I was there for more two weeks in that limbo, should I compete or not? And also suffering with the shame of the competition to get 10th and for didn’t doing good at the games and all that kind of stuff.
Sevan Matossian (22:41):
So gee, really quick. Gee. So you’re saying that that Wednesday and Thursday and Friday after the games, when you were feeling down and you were asking God to stay with you, I didn’t realize you were feeling bad because of your performance.
Gui Malheiros (22:54):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (22:56):
You were hating on yourself.
Gui Malheiros (22:58):
Yes, yes, a hundred percent. And I was just like, bro, I don’t know what’s happening. I’m trying to push. And people always talking about that event of the running and jerk, because people were like, he’s not running. And bro, I was selling my soul in that running and my body was just not responding. So everyone talking about the games and everything for people, the top 10 was good. But for me, for the amount of training that I put in, that wasn’t good for me. So I was pretty very, very, very upset and very, very mad and very, very ashamed for that top 10.
Sevan Matossian (23:46):
Okay. Turns out we’ll come back to that. Sorry. Turns
Gui Malheiros (23:50):
Out you
Sevan Matossian (23:50):
Were back the visa.
Gui Malheiros (23:52):
Yeah. Turns out my visa took longer than expected. I had to decline rogue. And then I
Sevan Matossian (24:00):
What happened in the second interview? What happened in the second interview? Did they not like
Gui Malheiros (24:04):
You? No, the guy just asked me, oh, we just wanted to confirm that you’re not working there and this kind of stuff. What do you do at Mayhem? What do you do in the United States? Do you coach there? Do you do anything else where your money come from? This kind of stuff. And I was like, bro, I just trained and I get my money from my sponsors. And he was like, oh, okay, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I get my visa approved. It took longer than expected to get to me, so I had to decline rogue, unfortunately. So that’s November. In November, I don’t know what it was.
Sevan Matossian (24:46):
How do you think you would’ve done in Roge? Do you think you would’ve done well that year?
Gui Malheiros (24:50):
Probably not. I wasn’t in the mind space of doing anything. I wasn’t even training good, so probably not. I wasn’t still in that limbo. Training, not training, kind of burnout. I had a burnout probably. It was a hundred percent burnout. I was just burn out. I didn’t want to work out. I didn’t want to do anything. Just eating chocolate and drinking soda from November on.
Sevan Matossian (25:16):
What kind of soda? What kind of soda,
Gui Malheiros (25:18):
Bro? Guana. Guana is a soda that we have in Brazil. That’s so good. Is it carbon?
Sevan Matossian (25:24):
It
Gui Malheiros (25:24):
Better than Coke. It’s better than Coke.
Sevan Matossian (25:26):
Is it carbonated?
Gui Malheiros (25:27):
Yes.
Sevan Matossian (25:28):
Does it have caffeine?
Gui Malheiros (25:30):
No. Pass. So yeah, so we got to November. We had a train with Gee, down in the south was nice. After that. I got Covid for one week, and then after that week I had some, I don’t know if you guys know, but I’ll try to see here. It’s like a huge pimple. You know what it is?
Sevan Matossian (26:08):
A pimple? Yeah, a pimple. I know what a pimple is. I had one of those when I was a kid. I had a bunch of them. Huge. Where was it on your back? Butt face? It
Gui Malheiros (26:15):
Was on my armpits and one here and two, one in each knee. It was
Sevan Matossian (26:24):
That, was it cyst? Was it cyst?
Gui Malheiros (26:27):
Yeah, like this.
Sevan Matossian (26:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ve had those.
Gui Malheiros (26:31):
Huge, yeah, so I wasn’t training for three weeks because it was hurting so much to do anything. So that’s four weeks without training since November.
Sevan Matossian (26:43):
What were those? Were those ingrown hairs? What were they? Couldn’t you just take a pin and pop it? Just be like bite a rag and just be like,
Gui Malheiros (26:49):
So my wife, she’s a physician, so she was working on it trying to squeeze and take the fluid out. Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (27:00):
Fluid, yeah,
Gui Malheiros (27:01):
Whatever. And it was very painful. She was working on it because I didn’t want to take an antibiotic.
Sevan Matossian (27:11):
Yeah, fuck that.
Gui Malheiros (27:12):
Yeah. So I was kind of reluctant to take it because I didn’t want to mess me up. But then I was like, bro, just give me, because it was hurting so much, I took it, got better, come here to United States on December, I started training with Rich and Luke and Tyler, maybe Rich and Tyler, working good, blah blah, blah. Holidays. Christmas went to Missouri. In Missouri, I hit a barbell with three 15 pounds on my head. So I was jerking and my hands just slipped from the bar and the bar hit my head. It opened a little strip, little hole, but that was fine. And then my throat got inflamed and on the way back I had some throat inflammation from probably five days.
Sevan Matossian (28:11):
Gee, let. Let me ask you a quick question before we get too far ahead. When you trained with Rich and Tyler in December, how did you feel? Were you like, fuck, I’m out of shape, or were you like, fuck, these guys suck. I’m fucking shit up.
Gui Malheiros (28:24):
I was feeling like trash. You were the first day
Sevan Matossian (28:28):
Old man. Rich was beating you up. Old man, rich was beating you up. Oh yeah,
Gui Malheiros (28:31):
Always.
Sevan Matossian (28:32):
Oh man. Oh man, that’s not good. That’s not good.
Gui Malheiros (28:36):
The first workout that we did was a row interval and jump ropes. My leg just started cramping and it was like holy shit. And I had to stop the workout, but it was good. So after that,
Sevan Matossian (28:51):
Then why did you go to Missouri? What’s in Missouri? Brazilian shouldn’t go to Missouri. There’s nothing in Missouri for you.
Gui Malheiros (28:57):
That’s true. But Bailey and her parents, they lived there. No, Bailey’s parents lived there, and Bailey and Tyler were going there to spend Christmas. So we went, me and my wife, we went there.
Sevan Matossian (29:11):
Okay, alright, fair enough. How bad was that cut on the top of your head? Those bleed pretty bad. Was it pretty crazy? Did you get stitches?
Gui Malheiros (29:19):
It just bleed a little bit? No stitches, just some eyes on it. And my neck was hurting for three days, but that was fine.
Sevan Matossian (29:29):
Okay. It
Gui Malheiros (29:29):
Was very traumatic.
Sevan Matossian (29:30):
But on the way home, on the way back to Cookville, your throat closed up.
Gui Malheiros (29:36):
Oh yeah. So we had to drive eight hours, nine hours from Missouri, Cookville in the whole trip. My throat was just like this and I was having headaches and almost fever and I was just trying to survive fast on the road to get home fast and.
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