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FLEX_ASKED AND ANSWERED B Y D AV I D B AY E

JOSE Who was your first
RAYMOND celebrity crush?
Birth Date: Oh, that’s an easy one:
Dec. 29, 1974 Madeleine Stowe. She was
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 215 lbs incredible in [1992’s] The Last
Residence: of the Mohicans. She was so hot,
Boston, MA and I was only 17 at the time. I
Instagram:
@theebostonmass just loved her.

What is your all-time
favorite movie?

The Outsiders. Patrick
Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio
Estevez, Matt Dillon, Ralph
Macchio, Rob Lowe. How can
you even come close to that
cast? You can’t.

Which movie sequel
would you eliminate?
Anything after the
original Jaws got pretty redun-
dant. It’s a shark. It eats people.
Did we really need four movies?

If you could time
travel, where would
you go?
I’d travel back to the ’80s, when
music was great and social
Jose media didn’t exist!

Raymond What’s one song you
have to sing along to
when it comes on?

Patrick Swayze’s “She’s Like the
FLEX asks the hard-hitting questions to bodybuilding’s Wind.” Every single time.

best that have nothing to do with bodybuilding.
Who would play Jose
Raymond in a movie
about your life?
YOU KNOW WHAT TITLES they’ve won, you know what their Esai Morales from the original
favorite workouts are, but how well do you really know your favorite Bad Boys. Not like the Will
IFBB Pro League superstars? This month, we hit 212 bodybuilding Smith and Martin Lawrence Bad
legend Jose “the Boston Mass” Raymond with some questions that Boys. I’m talking the one from
have absolutely, positively nothing to do with lifting weights or flexing 1983. Look him up!
muscles! Time to put Jose on the hot seat.
If you could have
What was your How old were you? dinner with one
very first concert? I was 10. I went with person from history,
Oh, man, it was a great my older brother. We who would it be?
one. Madonna in 1985. The True went in a limo, and I may have I’d have to have dinner with
Blue tour at Sullivan Stadium in even had a drink. It was a day I’ll Elvis. That man knew how to
Foxborough, MA. never forget. party!

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