Yes Jason , was an honest guy and he was very inspired by what he had learned from Dante . In a year and half Dante and his methods took me from 228 to 303 [ but was 288 - 293 in what I would call off season bbing shape] and he took Jason from about 250 to 314 -322..........Were we phenom's ? Hell no , But for guys in their early 20s we were pretty darn impressive to most people........we were both very athletic and quite strong , and didnt act like we thought we were cool because we were big and strong [so we got alot of respect from most people].......We just liked to train hard and were very interested in how the process of gaining muscle took place.........Were drugs involved ? Yes , but nothing too crazy .......Diet was the most important and to be honest,and sometimes we didnt take it as seriously as we should have . And for awhile we had the ," must be some sort of secret drug proticals that make guys freaks type attitude " [and we all did insane ammounts of research before realizing there are no secrets ....lol]........I mean we were bigger and stronger than nearly everybody we saw [ and we were around lots of pros and tops amatuers at the time] In the end, we realized it was diet and conditioning that produced the look we sought .......bigger wasnt everything after all..........And Dante preached this all along .......We were kids and didnt always listen as we should of . The one thing I will say is ,we always respected everyone in and out of the gym........we would have never talked about owning folks , or clowning people..........to each his own and we were just doing our thing challenging ourselves and having fun ..........we werent any better than anyone else cause we were serious about training and getting big.........Jason , Dante , and myself all shared a common interest and that was putting on muscle .........I made some decisions back then I wish I hadnt , but I wouldn't trade the relationships with those two for anything ..........Make your own assumptions about Jason [ that is his business to share ] , but i will say his health is fine and my gut tells me he will be back in a big way in the future.......Like I said , it is nice to see he is still remembered is a positive way ............He always wanted to be seen like his mentor Dante .......