Whatever Podcast Puts the “Women Are Stronger” Claim to a Live Grip Squeeze Test

The Whatever Podcast table was deep into another strength debate when someone decided talking about it wasn’t enough. They pointed at Glenn, 6 foot, 245 pounds, and noted he’s shorter than a 6'6" woman who had come up earlier in the conversation. The host floated that it’s not likely any woman trained in MMA is going to do a great job against him. Then came the follow-up: what if she’s taller, stronger, and bigger? Are you down for a little experiment?

They turned to the blonde woman in the red crop top. She used to play soccer and do competitive dance. The plan was simple and physical. The woman sitting next to her would grab just below one wrist and squeeze as hard as she could. Then Glenn would do the same on the other wrist. They made sure everyone was cool with it,“I need consent for this one”, and set the rules: they’d scale the pressure in percentages so no one got hurt. Start low, go up, opt out if it crosses into pain.

They kicked it off. The woman squeezed. They checked in—is that matching her level or already more?—and dialed it up: 10, 20, 30. Still matching. They kept going. Forty. Sixty. Eighty. Someone joked about 69. The blonde was still in it, smiling and answering that it was okay as the pressure climbed.

Then it was Glenn’s turn on the other wrist. The questions shifted. “Can you go more?” “What are we at?” “Fifty? Yeah, about.” The feedback changed fast. “It’s the diminishing returns. It doesn’t matter after a certain point.” Then the line that landed: “I just am losing circulation.”

The two bearded guys on the other side of the table, one in the black Whatever hoodie, one in the button-up, lost it. Full open-mouth laughing, one clapping, both reacting like the result had just shown itself in real time. The whole thing stayed under 90 seconds. No dynamometer, no formal numbers, just one woman maxing out a squeeze on one wrist and a 245-pound man applying enough pressure on the other that circulation became the limiting factor while he was still well short of full effort.

That’s the experiment the post flagged as putting the claim to the test. They took the abstract argument that was already running on the show, picked the people at the table, got consent, and ran a side-by-side wrist squeeze so the difference could be felt instead of debated. The laughter at the end came after the man had to back off because the woman’s wrist was losing blood flow, while the earlier woman’s max effort had been treated as the baseline they were still matching at lower percentages.