Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 125: Strongman Showdown Winners & Losers

Episode Date: August 27, 2018

In this episode we discuss the results of the Massenomics Strongman Showdown.  We evaluated the new team format, and go over some of the highlights from the day.  We also introduced our new weekly segment, the "Open Powerlifting Stat of the Week."

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Yep, new scenery again. This is the first podcast in the post-Tyler era. These are dark times. The world as we know it is very different. So I'm here, Tanner, to my left, Tommy, and to the right. Ryan, what's up?

Flying Ryan, for those of you that might not know him by just his Ryan handle. Yeah, so brand new scenery as never before seen on the Masonomics podcast. Yeah, this is, and hopefully in the coming weeks there'll be some upgrades, changes here. You know, we're still in a very transitional stage right now.

We at least got the banner behind us. I mean, the bare essentials are there, banner and microphones. Outside of that, we're just barely skating by. Yeah, so we the lights are good we do have the good lights here we also have all the uh we're we're recording on our more simplified uh recording device we do have the fancier stuff here but don't have every last one of the bugs worked out just yet yeah yeah you know you don't want to do it all at once you got to save something for the next time so it gives everyone something to look forward to uh so something pretty big happened

this week just wait before we do that because this will that'll take a while i want to know have you guys have you guys get into that that's not going away yeah yeah once we hop into that i mean it shows over um have you guys been keeping up in your kfc commercials lately no okay no i know what you're talking about yeah um have you got have you guys watched these yet the one with thor yeah so yeah so for that martin martin's lisa's is martin and martin's and uh thor are in they're the new colon Or no, Thor is the new Colonel. Have you seen this, Tanner? No, I've seen a picture. Okay, so yeah, Thor is the new Colonel,

which just the picture looks so stupid. No, that's how he looks. He's got his beard, his normal beard, but then white beard on top of his other spots. I'm trying to see if I can track down the ad for us really quick here to see. to see if i can track down the ad for us really quick here to see let's see if we can um get some sound out of this okay facebook oh playing on facebook wow okay to sell our largest chicken sandwich kfc scoured the earth for the world's strongest colonel. In 2018, we found him. The double crispy colonel sandwich.

It looks kind of good. Oh, God. Technical difficulties here. I have the sound turned off. Just wait. Hold up one second. Do you guys want to kill some audio? Is Martins Lisas in this too?

I think he's the one cheering him on. I saw a screenshot of him in it. I didn't see the whole thing, but I know he's in it. He deadlifted 900 for like three the other day. That was pretty cool. Yeah, Martins did 900 for a triple. Oh, there we go. Oh, I think I'm still going to blame Facebook.

Yeah. Ah, yep. Just Facebook video. Moral of the story, don't use Facebook ever. Okay. So here we go. Back to the thing at hand. We have...

Okay, 2018, they found the largest kernel. And enters Thor. Welcome here to sunny Southern California and the inaugural KFC Double Crispy Challenge. Does the chalk clap. Into this oversized industrial KFC box so that one man can attempt to set a world record in sandwich pulling.

Sandwich pulling a world record in sandwich pulling sandwich pulling world record i mean the double crispy colonel sandwich does look fairly tasty i guess i think i might try it honestly it looks good and of course we get the commercial that doesn't actually have him doing anything but yeah i the one i did see has him uh has him actually pulling it we're going to check out one more video here. See if we can track this down. Do most people that watch this, are they going to know who that is? I don't think anyone will. I mean, if anything, people are like, hey, oh, I heard the guy from Game of Thrones made it onto.

Yeah, that's what it's going to be. It's not going to be like, oh, he's the world's strongest man, strongman guy. You know, they say strength sports don't pay, but I mean, it's obviously not right. He's living the good life. Oh, wow mean, it's obviously not right. I mean, look at this guy. He's living the good life. Oh, wow. So there's actually a three-minute video. Now, if you go to YouTube, there is a three-minute video,

and it seems fairly extensive. Yeah, it's got lots of him talking about being in Iceland. Okay, let's just get to the... Oh, there's Martins right there. Oh, Martins is the flying chalk. The handler. Yeah. Did they have to actually get another strongman

to play that part? Yeah, I guess so. I mean, it's completely necessary. I'm sure Lars from Heavyweights was booked up, so they had to. So is this airing on television? You would think it would be on TV. I don't know. I haven't seen it.

Like KFC seems to keep the kernel on rotation pretty regularly. Okay, he's starting the poll. I don't see television commercials, so I don't really know. I don't really watch. I watch YouTube and that's about it. And Netflix. And he's pulling a very large container of Double Crispy Sandwiches in typical strongman.

What do they normally call that event, that style pull? Like an arm-over-arm pull, I think. I wonder if it was even relatively heavy. It doesn't need to be by any means, but it always looks funny seeing him in this massive white jacket. Yeah, I wonder how they found a white jacket. That's kind of the same problem you had for your wedding. Yeah, I mean, you've got to get that stuff custom-tailored.

Finding a white jacket that large. Me and Thor are very close to the same size I think so. He probably went through the same process I did. That'd be really cool if this year at the Arnold he's covered in KFC stickers because it's his new primary sponsor. His new sponsor.

That'd be cool. So I guess what we're trying to say is get your giant box of Double Crispy Kernels. Oh, no, the Double Crispy Kernel box is not in stores. The one that he pulled. Just the sandwiches, though. So that's the new hotness as of today. Well, as far as... Oh, no, as of yesterday from KFC.

As far as fast food marketing goes, I'm a fan of that. I'm all on board with that. The return of the Mac and cheese bites. Nothing's been catchier ever since. So what did happen this weekend? We did something, one of our things that we did. We did a thing. Everyone.

Felt cute, might delete later. The third annual Masonomic Strongman Showdown went down. With record attendance. All of our moms came in. Every mom made it, so that was done. But since we had 20 people in it, that was 20 moms. That's a lot of moms at a Strongman event. But, yeah, it went very, very – if you're going to quit listening right now,

we'll give you the quick overview. It went really good. The weather was nice. The weather wasn't bad. It cooperated pretty well with us. And with an outdoor event, that's always a variable that's out of our control. And it played nice with us. I don't know where we would even start,

but we should probably even just touch on every event a little bit just to like. Yeah, I think, I mean, even just the setup in general. Like the morning of, for us traditionally with this event, every event a little bit just to like yeah i think i mean even even just the setup in general like the morning of um for us traditionally with this event the the big issue has always been seating um basically like if they'll bring in bleachers for us we can fill them and uh this year was i think it was the most bleachers we had by quite a bit wasn't it definitely the most we've had and um i mean when it started they were full like there was no we our start time was noon and i think by 11 30 they were pretty full yeah they were already filling up i was like boy should we start like it seems like everyone's here it's almost what

it seemed like yeah but but we're uh we stick to our words so we're firm on the noon start time um we uh you know when this event started we did have a bit of a last second change with dj announcers there was some yeah we got some real fiat a real yeah it was it was for i mean outside of everyone's control yeah there was a bit of an emergency an emergency that came up in our our normal uh mc that we've had for the last couple years who does an amazing job and has done you know we we look forward to having him because he does such a good job with it uh had to back out on us with just a couple hours you know until the show goes on which was about the biggest thing of the day that we had as far as unpreparedness like that i was kind of freaked

out with that for for until we got someone lined up. And the fill-in did a good job and everything, but he hasn't been around this before. I mean, to me, the fill-in did as absolutely good as you could have. There's no way. I don't know how often someone gets a call like an hour before saying, hey, you need to do a Strongman event, and then probably have no idea what Strongman or anything is,

and then kind of manage to get the crowd hyped for a little over two hours and seem on top of it so yeah he did great he did do a really good job uh and he you touched on the seating that was an issue too right away when i got there there uh we ended up getting more but at first there was even less than what we ended up with so it was kind of a battle to get more uh you know within the last couple hours before the event too so i was freaked out about about that a little bit as well uh but we did get more but it was all full at the beginning too we could still use more yes yeah we could have but um yeah once it got started though for me when when the strong man really feels real is when uh all the guys get announced the crowd's kind of getting excited, there's a little music playing, and then we always either have the National Guard or who brought, who was the color guard this year?

It was the American Legion. Okay, the American Legion. And so when they bring out the flag and then our top-notch National Anthem singer starts going, like going like whoa it's really happening right now and like when that whole place is like quiet for it and then it's done and then everyone just like starts cheering like then then it gets really real i feel like yeah for sure that is uh one of the funnest parts about our event i think is that it that makes it feel like a sporting event that you're going to. Yeah, the spectacle of it all.

It's not just like, all right, get out there. Go. On your marks, get set, go. That is fun, though, and I think it looked cool this year with the team, the team format having, you know, 10 guys in the one color uniform come out and 10 guys in the other color come out and line up and looking at all those 20 people you know in a row and like even seeing a picture of uh the blue team like in a line there was like seven people where the shortest one was six three yeah yeah there was there was no shortage of height,

or weight either at this thing. But yeah, there was a couple where it went, and they got announced, and the lightest one in the lineup was a little over 300, and the shortest one was 6'2". So yeah, there was big boys on hand, no doubt about that. Yes, and so we kicked off the first event, and I think it was a pretty fun one

that we started out with was a keg load medley so as you know the four kegs 50 foot each and weights again really quick 150 175 200 and 250 so the weights themselves not extremely heavy but the ground that you covered yeah you were you were doing some really weighted sprints um and then just for perspective i didn't know this until right before the thing is that an actual keg of beer is 160 pounds yeah and i in my head always thought god that is really really heavy i mean usually when when i've gotten a keg in the past i'm in no like mood for lifting anything so it's not the best gauge but uh 250 is considerably heavier heavier than the 160 yeah so that's i mean our lightest one was basically the weight of a full

keg of keg of beer yep and light beer or like oh yeah lighter heavy beer though the lighter calories in it yeah which ipa then it's well, all the hops usually kind of add several pounds. You throw a couple handfuls of hops in the bottom of a barrel and it's – We have that in there. Yeah. But they managed to figure it out, I guess. The bitters really add up. The IB – there's so many IBUs it gets heavier.

Really intense. As far as the way that that event played out, Jake, the snake, went first for the red team, and he ended up with a time of 59 seconds. He made a stumble on the last keg, which he was going fast as hell on his run. He just tripped and fell with that last keg and then had to re-pick it and throw it back over. It probably cost him 5 to ten seconds, I suppose.

I think he's still hungover from his honeymoon. Actually, he has a really good story about his honeymoon. Jake, who did start the first event, he had gotten married the week previous on a Saturday, and I think on Monday did he leave for the Dominican?

He left for the Dominican Republic. I've never been there. Sounds like a great place to go. And we were in the gym one night, and Tanner, you got a photo from him. Yeah. And why don't you explain that? He texted me a picture of him next to a guy wearing a Massanomics lift shirt. And he said, you won't believe it.

I'm in the Dominican Republic, and I just ran into a guy wearing the lift shirt and he said you won't believe it i'm in the dominican republic and i just ran into a guy wearing the lift shirt and that was the story he uh he saw it and it you know didn't he say he walked into the hotel lobby or something and and jake turned to his wife his new wife and said oh my god look at that like wearing a lift shirt do you see that and uh jake's like well i have to go talk to him you know naturally yeah and uh jake said he wasn't sure if the guy was weirded out or yeah you know he said yeah i know those yeah i know those guys i'm friends with them and he's and the other guy goes oh you're from florida and he said no they're from south dakota and he's like oh i thought they're from South Dakota. And he's like, oh, I thought they were from Florida. But anyway. Sorry.

Stormed off. But the guy was from Connecticut, and that's just pretty cool. That is pretty cool. The shirts are, I mean, that that guy went on vacation, decided this is a shirt I got to take with me. I got to put out this vibe while I'm on vacation. I'm only going to be able to take, like, four shirts to the Dominican Republic, and one of them is going to be my Lyft shirt. And, I mean, you got.

All Lyft shirts. And I mean you got... He could have brought in four. Maybe he got it at the duty free shop. Ah, yeah. There could be a counterfeit a bootleg section. And some jewelry. Yeah, but it's duty free. Yeah.

It's probably not marked up in any way at all. It's just straight up duty free. So I mean you got to expect that now when you're uh packing your lift shirt that you could be swarmed by other men now it does have to do with the pheromones we put on the shirt before we send it out though you won't be approached by girls but no definitely yeah just the men yep but then samisi from the blue team uh did his run after that and he ended up beating jake by about five seconds samisi was tossing the kegs over like yeah it was he's really giving him the old what for yeah yeah i mean like that that guy is big and fast so that

is a really good event for him and uh i would say the trip probably cost uh jake because i think it ended up being a four or five second difference and it you know that's about how much it cost him probably yep uh so one point for the blue team right off the bat and you'll notice a theme as we go yeah there's a there's a pattern here blue team getting points so what was the second event ryan the old max tire deadlift so it was me and old eve baka there was there was a decent amount of hype and talk going into this one it was a large amount of hype i mean you could facebook trash talk there was even a limo ride on the line here well which is we'll get to that because, so we agreed like earlier in the day

that we were just going to start with 600 pounds because we could both do that pretty easily. So we started with that. And, well, we did a coin toss. And did they do a coin toss for the first one too? Yep, yep, they all had a coin toss. Okay, yeah, so we did a coin toss. Eve won.

He told me to go first, so I went first. We both did 600. Then we both did 650, and that felt pretty good and then we decided to both do 675 and i thought that felt really good too and i'd never done that that was the most i've ever deadlifted at the time on anything and then i was like i'm gonna go to 700 and he decided to do the same too and looking back i wish i wouldn't have been but i don't really know that until i mean you have you also have to assume that if you went to 685 and got it maybe he would have got it yeah i mean i wouldn't be surprised if you guys both got it and then after that like i don't think at that point after doing over 600

three times that four times that you're going to pull a PR either. Right. No, that's a lot. That's a lot of deadlifts. Yeah, yeah. And you guys didn't have a full recovery time between either. I remember doing the first one, and then 650 was loaded. And it's like, all right, let's go.

And it was maybe like two minutes. And it's like I would never do that in the gym. Yeah. go and it was maybe like two minutes and it's like i would never do that in the gym yeah and i think it was after i was after that one the 650 you're like you can take a couple minutes i was like oh yeah because we're you know we're trying to keep it moving because it really is a show it's a you know we put it on as a show but but you know there's some leeway there like the cheap plates so that i was just kind of reminding you like i wanted you to get it so i was like i want you know i want to see everyone do as much as possible

so within reason of keeping time you know in check but i but i wanted to tell you like you don't have to go out there immediately. You can take a couple minutes here. It doesn't need to seem like rep work. I don't know. I went out there to do 700 and I was pretty confident. I started pulling.

I'm not really sure, but I think it came off the ground a little bit. You guys both got it probably a little past your knees, right around the knees. Nope. And just dropped it. Yeah.

And then Eve didn't get it either, and I was like, well, at least you didn't get it either. Yeah. We both look like pussies, so... So, yeah, you guys both ended at 675. So, because you tied... We had the first of many tiebreakers. Yep.

So, yeah, this was also a theme for the day is the tiebreaker. Yeah, the day almost turned into a farmer's hold competition. Yeah, so the tiebreaker for any event was a face-to-face competitors staring each other down, farmer's hold in front of everyone. And what was the weight for the farmer's hold? 200 per hand. 200 per hand. So, 400. So, I mean mean you were getting some pretty decent times out of people with these um and you guys started and you went quite a while yeah i felt fine i just my left hand i was just like yeah this is not gonna work and i don't want to like make excuses but i have not deadlifted without straps probably for

i don't know six months yeah well and you were five months you were training for a deadlift event but you knew you were going to lift with straps you know like the yeah yeah it never even occurred to me to like oh i need to do farmer's holds because I'm going to tie during this. I really want to tie. I got to have that backup plan ready to go. Yeah, so I just stick it out. Yeah, so Eve eked that one out on you. Yep. And put the blue team up 2-0.

2-0. But. So there was a limo ride on the line. Yeah, yeah. I never. What happened with this? Why is there a limo ride? Well, because Eve has this limo service.

Two limos now. Two limos now. Two limos now. I don't know how he does that because he can only be in one limo at a time, as far as I know. But he bet me that if I win, I get a free limo ride for three hours. So you could say a night in heaven. Exactly. And I think he also made a mention of the privacy window would stay up. Yeah, there's a lot of features explained that I wasn't really sure that they had,

but I still got the free limo ride. Oh, you did? Yep. He's like, I'll give you the limo ride either way. You haven't used it yet, though, have you? No, not yet. Oh, okay, okay. I'm just going to use it to get a ride.

Use it on the way over here, right? Ride to and from to school as long as it takes every day. It is the first week of school, so just have him take you. It'll really impress the kids. Yeah, like, oh, he has a butler. Oh, my God. That's so cool. I haven't used it yet, but I'm looking forward to that evening.

Don't forget to tip your driver. That's right. Always. Here's a tip. Why don't you deadlift more that works too that's it you could tell them uh so that was two nothing blue then we went to maybe the event that some people at least were the most excited to see it was certainly hyped locally within our locally yeah it was on the front page of our local newspaper that morning that this particular matchup the the showdown of larry legend and thick nick i don't know if like um anybody saw

the newspaper article but the way it was laid out was just really awesome so yeah just uh um so we talk about larry legend on the podcast all the time he's around what's larry 40 41 yeah right around there um he's in his 40s still yeah still hitting prs to this day oh yeah um and then thick nick has kind of become his his rival is his unofficial rival in the in the gym and life with all this stuff. They're about the same age. Nick and Larry at the last powerlifting meet. They lived in the same weight class also. Yeah, lived in the same weight class, had the exact same total. Larry beat him on Wilks.

But, I mean, otherwise, they're lifting very comparable weights. And so them being the elder statesmen of the gym, they had a little bit of extra hype going into this one. Tanner may have fed the local newspaper some info. They wanted to do a little bit of extra hype going into this one tanner may have fed the local newspaper some info they wanted to do a little backstory on these guys the paper came down interviewed these guys for a little extra hype and um also did a video of them too and it was pretty funny like they uh the the interview they gave i i enjoyed it and the newspaper article was pretty good too yeah good too they were pretty cute

you could tell they were really happy to be there we all play it up as a big rivalry and stuff but like the two guys are you know best of friends but we play it out like it's serious and so what

they were doing though was the wagon wheel squat for reps so as we had wagon wheels on the end of the barbell and they're going down squatting the boxes for as many reps as possible we had it set at 500 pounds uh thick nick i guess lost the coin toss i suppose so had to go first and he got to i would say like 10 or 11 And then he had a rep that really looked shaky where I was like, ooh, he looks like he's about done. And I've never seen Nick get in that kind of situation before. Yeah. Because he's a robot.

Oh, yeah. Yep. He's not a human. He's a cyborg or something. But then he just stopped and stood there for i don't know maybe four seconds five seconds something like that and just started trucking again and he went and got to 16 at 500 pounds which that's a lot more after 11 yes yes that's what i was shocked like then all of a sudden was like dang he's never gonna stop yeah uh and then larry was up

and when nick came out with 16 reps of five, they didn't have a suit on, they didn't have wraps. When he did 16, I'm like, God. Larry is giving up a little weight, and Larry's not going to hang with that at all. There's no... In my mind, I'm thinking best-case scenario, he's going to get 10,

because I thought best-case scenario, Nick would get maybe 12. I didn't think that they'd be blowing past 10 so then yeah larry goes up surprised me too yeah and larry uh just starts grinding them out i mean even from the get-go i don't know if any of them looked like super easy for him but you could just tell he wasn't he i mean he said this he said this in the he said this in the interview even that they you better get like a puke bucket ready for him because he's not going to stop until he until you start throwing the dirt on him so to speak then he might as well just start what larry's quote is uh if i can't turn it on for just one set you might

as well start throwing the dirt on me now and he did turn it on so put away the dirt and he just he kept banging him out and he got to 16 struggled with it got it he had his chance at 17 he went down and it pinned him yeah and he collapsed to the ground like literally collapsed to the ground uh there's a really excellent picture of him like sitting on his ass right underneath the bar just like completely dead getting held up by ross you know one of the spotters and just the i don't know if it's ironic i don't know if it's irony or what you call it but that they both would get exactly 16 reps and you know probably one of the the the biggest hyped rivalry that we had in the bunch is just and the second tie of the day yeah and the second tie and blue's already up to nothing so ryan and i both on the red team i was really you know i was

like oh larry needs to get this we need a point here. We've got to get something. We said that a lot after that, too. Yes. So it was going to go to the same tiebreaker, two events in a row that were going to use this tiebreaker. I wasn't necessarily expecting this tiebreaker to come up. I just wanted it. I didn't think it was going to happen at all, honestly. No.

And so I immediately ran over, and I was like, because I'm trying to keep it moving, I'm like, get those. Let's get those out. We've got to get those out. Even while Larry's still sitting on the ground, I'm trying to keep it moving. I'm like, let's get those out. We've got to get those out. Even while Larry's still sitting on the ground, I'm thinking, get that squat stand out of there, and we've got to get the farmer's handles out because they've got to go. We get them kind of set up out there, and I go back over to Nick and Larry,

and I'm like, all right, we've got it set up. You're ready to go. They're like, we can't do it man like larry's like i mean you could tell like they didn't even hardly have to say anything the look on their face was just there was there was no way they're dying and they're not ones to make excuses either like that like they would tough it out before most people so that's how you know it was and i just think about it like i've never done 16 squat reps at a time in my life i don't think ever so now that 500 pounds and yeah i'm sure you felt like dying yeah so they said we we came to the determination we were just going to run through the next event and then do the tie

breaker uh so should we cover what happened in the tie breaker first then yeah yeah so they we ran through the next event came back to it and uh it was those two standing face to face for a long time again and uh larry was just the first one to i could tell larry looked like he had like an alien out of his stomach yeah like poltergeist it's just like oh my god and then once that happens you that happens, you can tell something's going. Yeah. And he dropped it. So Thick Nick got the third win for the blue team. So at that point, it's 3-0. Me being in the spectator position, I'm thinking,

yeah, Tanner is really bad at picking teams. Like, really bad. Screwed us. Well, I thought it was Larry that picked the team. No, we drafted it on the podcast. Oh, I thought Larry and Nick picked teams. No.

They were honorary team captains. Well, I wanted to put the blame on Larry, but I guess I'll put it on you now. If you listen to that episode, you can go back when Tyler and I did the draft, and I counted it out afterwards. Between the two of us, we only had three correct picks of who was going to win events.

All the other wins were the person not picked. Oh, really? Yes, I had one correct one, and he had two correct picks. You actually picked a winner. Yeah, I only picked one winner, and he only picked two winners. All the rest were the person not picked. Yeah. So that goes to show you how hard it was and how close each one was.

And it also goes to show that I don't listen to any of the podcasts because I had no idea that's how it went. Yeah, that's how we did it. Event four then was the farmer's carry race. It was 200. Got to bring those farmer's carries back, you know. They got to give the people what they want. Yeah, so at this point, we're getting the farmer's carry.

It was just supposed to be one event. I mean, to be fair, it was a county fair. Brown County, farmer's carry. That's right. You got to give the people something that they can relate to. Yeah, I mean, this one was a head-to-head race, which head-to-head events are always fun because... Two out of three?

Yeah, and it was the best two out of three. Justin kind of... He took off running with it. I mean, Nick didn't have a bad performance at all, but Justin was, like, running with it. So he did didn't have a bad performance at all but justin was like running with it so um he did make it look pretty dang easy like he had been doing it for a long time yeah his his run was the type of one where you look at you're like i suppose he could go a little faster if he wasn't carrying those but like not that much you know where it's just like oh he's just he's just like

sprinting with those you know And he picked them so fast. Like, that's the other thing, too. There was no time wasted as soon as the whistle blown. It was like he was stepping and grabbing it simultaneously almost. So, yeah, he was on the blue team, of course. That was four to nothing by that point in time. So, at this time, and like we said, we were on the red team, and I was not so much worried about the red team winning or losing,

but at that point I was thinking, I was like, well, crap, this isn't going to make for a good show if it's 12 to nothing here at the end. And I'm going down the list, and I'm like, well, we could still just win like all of you know i mean everyone could go anywhere either way and you know we'd still be okay but i was just starting to worry about whether it was going to pan out to be close enough to be uh make the team thing look like a good show uh so then we went to the fifth event which was uh the women got their uh spotlight for the first time in the strongman showdown and that was a cool event i think uh the crowd liked that i think the crowd liked watching uh megan and adele go watching the women go yeah and that was that was one we're watching

i'm like wow they're like doing a lot of work here like like it just felt like we were almost watching conditioning like them throwing those at 120 pounds sandbag 120 pound sandbag just over the bar over and over and over like i don't even know what their rep count was do you have any idea yeah it's 15 and 12 like in my head it seemed like 50 and 60 like but it yeah i suppose you don't normally just do that back to back to back-to-back like that typically. And 120, I mean, for anyone's not bad. And then, like, women, like, that's – And then for 15 reps, you know. Yeah.

Like, what was it, a minute or a minute and a half? But imagine a minute and a half of just going, you know, balls to the walls like that. Yeah. Yeah, that's tough. You'd be tired. So Adele got the first point for the red team uh one to four at that point in times and i was pretty happy i was like haha we're not it's not gonna be completely the comeback the comeback is starting i'm not gonna lie

they had us in the first half i think i heard that joke a few times in the sidelines. You know, halfway point might be a good point. We kind of had a new segment here. This is the first time on the podcast. Maybe, do we have any ideas for like a segue music for the,

it's a bit like, we can't just say, oh, stop it right there. Like we need, well, I guess this is the first song up on my phone, so we'll just say, oh, new segment. All right, coming in this week. It's the open power lifting stat of the week.

Woo! All right. So what do we got here, Tanner? What is this new segment? Yeah, so this is a thing we're going to do every episode of the podcast. We're partnering with the excellent folks over at Open Powerlifting. No secret that we're fans of what they do. That's some awesome stuff going on there.

Big fans of their site. And actually, we use it a lot for a lot of the stuff we do at massonomics so um but this is going to be pretty cool what they're going to do is uh uh it might be maybe us asking for a certain statistic or them just throwing out something that they think is cool and interesting and we're just going to shoot it out over the air every every week and this first one does not disappoint it's a i don't think either you guys know it yet i have no idea it's a i'm ready to get shocked and odd here okay so let me see i'll just read it but first i'm going to explain what we're talking about here comparing men versus women and wilk scores so if you put all the men and women together in one pool and then looked uh at top wilks scores whether there's

there's more men in there or more women in that pool okay so the first thing for the top 1000 wilks scores out there male and female combined raw and wrap lifters combined all feds worldwide all years so raw and wrapped we're just not talking any ply right right just raw okay all forms of raw whether you have knee wraps or not all all men all women all federations all years worldwide do you think it's more men or women in the time i think it's i think it's more women i would say so too i mean in my head in my head it should be more men because more men have competed yeah just they're a bigger part of the pool. But just looking at the top 20 Wilks of all time on open powerlifting,

I think there's more women there, which makes me think the trend is going to continue with women. It is 86.2% men. Whoa, okay, wow. 13.8% women. Okay. That's not the end of the stat, though. So then to break it down smaller and just looking at the top 100 Wilks scores,

same parameters that we talked before. Any guess there again? Now I want to say men, but... No, I don't... Out of 100? Just the top 100 Wilks scores. 50 maybe now? See, you're headed the right way.

It starts to even out a little bit more, but it's still 74% men in the top 100. So I suppose 74% of the top 100 are men and 26% are women. Broken down even one more time for the top 10 Wilks scores now. Same parameters. What's your guess? It's got to be about half and half. I would say half, but maybe like 60% of them are men or something. 60% women.

Oh, okay. When you go to top 10, it starts to dip. The elite of the elite. Okay. So women actually hold more top 10 Wilks places than men. Interesting. So that is the first open powerlifting stat of the week. I like that.

That first level of it really blew my mind. I mean, actually, all of them were surprising, but that's cool. That's a good stat. I like that. Yeah, that's good. So I guess I'd say if you're a powerlifter and you've never checked out open powerlifting, go to it, type in your name uh check your meet history if there's no meets or if you notice any meets that aren't in there that

you competed in let them know and they will uh uh if you can get them the meet results they can get that input for you which is kind of cool it also shows you uh your best meet that you've ever done when you click on your name and then uh besides that you can have them uh link your instagram directly to your name on open powerlifting yeah and if you're feeling follow them on instagram too they always have posts with really good um statistics and really good content like today i think they had what was that one with deadlifts in the what weight class was that the weight class 181. 181, yeah, with Ben Pollack. Percentage of people that can do 315 for deadlift. Percentage of people that can do 405.

Percentage of people that can do 495. Whatever the weight was, I think it was 400 or 500. They just have a lot of content like that where they just break down something. I always like those when the top level is just one person's name. Yeah, the very pinnacle is one man. It's like.whatever percent.

Yeah,.001% is this person. And then there was one person above him. I didn't recognize that person. Yeah, I think it's a Russian guy. I can't think of it. The final thing I would say for open powerlifting is if you're also feeling very generous, like we're saying, you can volunteer, donate your time to help them put meets and do all that.

Or if financially is something you're into, you can back them on Patreon for $3 a month. You can do all types of crazy cool stuff with your name, add in colors, customize it. Or you could just start a podcast and then. Oh, yeah. Or start a podcast and give them a shout out. That's always cool, too. I'm sure they would love to get multiple shout outs on every podcast every week yeah keep it going but so joe rogan i'm sure we'll be plugging them next so open powerlifting your job now is to come up

with something yeah yeah as good as that for us next try and top that one i dare you that's a pretty good that's pretty that is out of the week that is oh i guess we don't have an outro music. No, that's not. Do, do, do, do. All right. So then we moved on to event six, which a lot of people might say was like the most handsome matchup of the day, I think. Who was that? Oh, Tire Stone and Tanner. No, it was myself in big shame.

It's like, God, who's some really ugly people the the event that took shane out of retirement yes that yeah that was awesome did you i don't know how well like with the sound system in this year how well everyone could hear the the uh the bios of it yeah but i heard it afterwards and i laughed really hard yeah we did get shane out of retirement to go against me in the uh traditional highland games event probably shane's best strength event of any discipline of any kind it is he is a really good wait for height a wait for height savant i mean anytime we've gone again against each other in it uh he's beat me. Yeah. But if it were, if you looked at just like the power lifts or something, I probably got him beat at those, but he is an excellent weight for height thrower.

He is. He is, and I mean, I'm sure a lot of it is natural, just sheer raw talent. He also probably has more shoulder work than anyone else in in he's got a shoulder day so i mean yeah he he probably trained i mean he trained shoulders more than anyone i know i would assume he probably trained shoulders more than most people most people know yeah so i think i think you're right and we went out there and it's it's a rising bar thing. So we went like our heights were 9 feet, 10 feet, 11 1⁄2 feet, 12 1⁄2 feet. And then next we went 13 1⁄2 feet. Up until that point, neither of us has missed at all.

You get three misses on a height before you're out. I missed my first one at 13 1⁄2 feet. He got it. I went on my second time and got it. So then we jumped to 14 feet, and I got it on my first one. He missed but then got it on his second try. So then we went to 14 and a half, which neither of us had ever thrown 14 and a half before. So if either of us were going to get it, it was going to be our 56 pounds.

There is, for other weight classes and women and stuff, there are lighter ones. And the women's one is a 28-pound one. And I threw that once warming up. I'd never thrown it before. And it went. Did you almost hit someone? Well, yeah. Like the.

The guy walking. And I was like watching it like, oh, that's going to land on his head. Oh, I missed him. Okay. He's got to stand there and watch it happen. Yeah, that weight for height, it's hard to just kind of halfway do it. Yeah. It's really hard to just like, all right, this is a little lighter.

I'll just kind of loft it up there. Because if you don't put something into it, it's not natural then. Yep. I don't know what my point was on that but is that i went sailing uh anyways we got to 14 and a half and i was first so i missed he missed i missed he missed i went to my third one, and I missed that, so I was out. The competition, the only throw left was his last throw. If he missed it, it wasn't a tie. I won.

Oh, okay. Because you play back to the prior round. Okay, see, I thought we were on the fast track for another tie is what was. No, if he would have missed the last throw, I would have won because the play back to the prior height, I got it in one. It took him two. If he makes it, he wins because it's over. I've already missed my three.

So literally everything rode on that last throw, whether he gets it or not. And both of ours, through all the 14-6, were hitting the bar, and they're in the neighborhood. And he got together and threw it over the bar and you know they're in the neighborhood and he uh got together and threw threw it over the bar and it was a pretty it was a pretty fun moment i think when he got that like it like rolled over yeah and like i was the one getting beat and i was still like yeah yeah you know like i thought it was fun oh it's finally over my god i am sore from my well that was a lot of throws though i was yes i guess probably could have

started at like 11 and a half feet yeah but it's hard because no i mean you know yeah you don't want to miss your first throw and be like oh well we scratched on this event so yeah we certainly should have done that and i think you know we would have went a little deeper towards the end of it but but shane was on the blue team again so that made it five to one yep uh so i don't have anyone to blame for the red team uh not winning you know the farthest i have to look is to myself yeah for that you're a complete and utter failure yes exactly and and at that point i was like dang it we really need like that is my fault and we really needed that one so like I said yeah that's 5 to 1 then we went to the car deadlift

car deadlift yeah which is always a fun one I think and this one had the out of everyone the most physically most different matchup with Grayson at what 5 did we say 5-4 5-4 5-4 was it 175, 180

175 and then Matt who was 65 65 and 260 ish and matt can deadlift more than him matt is on record deadlifting more yeah but the car deadlift is not a deadlift it's a car deadlift right so it is a little different and we've seen grayson car deadlift before and we all know that he's good at he's a car deadlifting machine and he lost the toss so he went first and what did he rep out it's 12 12 which is lower than last year and we were talking about that and he's like i looked it up the car seemed like it was the same weight basically did we have the one last year it wasn't the same car it was the same car same year different color though a different color You do have a point there. Think about it.

Yep. Okay. Oh, well, how much gas was in the tank? Oh, okay. There we go. Was the one last year on blocks or anything? No. Okay.

I think it was the first year. The first year it was. So it was a shorter range of motion. So it really was almost exactly the same setup. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, he went out there with 12. Matt, the bar was set.

He knew what he had to do. And what did he have? Eight? Yeah, he got eight. He's normally a sumo puller, so he was a little out of his, I think just a little out of his element. I thought he looked good pulling. No, I mean, he was good. But I remember thinking that even that he had been kind of worried about that and he pulled sumo.

And I was like, maybe you should pull conventional more often. Like, it looked pretty good, I thought. Yeah, I should probably just do that anyways. That's what I always say. You want to do a real deadlift, I guess. Yeah, those cheaters. So, and Grayson was on what team? Red team.

Ah, okay, so the red team. Five to two. Five to two. The gap is staying about the same then we went to event eight which was what was that the oak yes oh and this was this was favorite events of the day this is for me yes one of my favorites most impressive thing that i yeah we had some hype going into it i know you guys throw out the number that oh alan and um trevor they talked about let's just start at 800

pounds and i thought well all right i guess we'll watch them struggle through that one and then when they put 50 more on and call it quits it'll still be really cool to watch but i'm yeah i just thought in my head they're setting the bar really high right away. I had not seen either one of those guys before that day, and that just completely surprised me. I mean, they're both really big, but if you told me they could yoke 1,000 pounds, I was like, no, no, they can't. Trevor and Alan, I know you guys are – I'm looking at the camera. I know you guys are both listening, and those two gave me so much hell after the event

that they said when we recorded the pre-episode or when we did the draft. You were calling them out? Well, I don't. Was I? No, I didn't think you were, but they said I was dogging them and that I didn't have any faith that they could go that much. Well, in your defense, I think we kind of dogged everyone, though.

But they really let me have it faith that they could go well in your defense i think we kind of dogged everyone but they really let me they let me have it on that yeah and which rightfully so because they put up one hell of a impressive yeah so what did they start they started with 800 and they did that and it was like they had no weight on the yoke and i was like whoa we're gonna be in for a show here that was my immediate thought yes and what did they jump to next 900 same thing it was pretty much like nothing changed uh the worst part about this event though was resetting the yokes each time so like 10 of us are out there like trying to push them back to into the right place on the starting line on each time and so after 900 they go to a thousand things are getting slower but it's not like they're picking it up and dropping it over and over. Like, I think on 1,000, Alan might have went the whole way.

I don't think he dropped any of them. Alan never dropped it. Even on the last one he did? Okay. And I think Trevor dropped it once, which still, I just assume like, oh, 1,000 pounds. Yeah, they'll get it. They'll just drop it. Like, before the event, before I saw him, I a thousand pounds yeah they'll get it they'll just drop it like before the event before i saw him i thought yeah yeah they might get it they'll just drop it

like eight times it'll be like you see at the arnold when they take like a step and then maybe a second one and that's it but no i mean it was still like they were going and when they called 1100 i mean i was shocked but also based off of their performance it's like yeah why not and and uh they were this was a head-to-head event, which I think was pretty cool. Yeah, watching them. It was much cooler that way than going back and forth, I think. Yep, yep. Because just seeing two 1,100-pound yokes out there getting ready to move at the same time.

Yeah, and so they both finished 1,100, and I think the initial call was – Or 1,000 they both finished. Oh, yeah, so they both finished 1,000. Yeah. They called for 1,100. Or they went 1,050 after that. Oh, they they both finished. Oh, yeah. So they just finished 1,000. They called for 1,100. Or they went 10.50 after that. Oh, they did? Yeah.

So they even did another. So they did 800, 900, 950, 1,000, 1,050, and then 1,100. So they ended up doing 6. And this is less than like 10 minutes, I think, at this point. They were not taking long breaks. And the same way I went up to them after the maybe second to last, one third to last, and was like, now you guys take a minute here we'll get these reset and like we everyone wants to see you do it here so we don't want to take forever but like it's okay to breathe for a couple minutes

here because it's a lot of work yeah and when we when they they got the 1050 and they called the 1100 we got 1100 loaded on the bar on the on the yokes and i was looking around before they started and i was like there is no more weights left like the 1100 on two yokes was taking all the weights that we brought you know it was 32 45s all the 25s we had the 10s there was literally uh four fives left so once i figured that out I went up to him and I said, guys, this is 1,100 pounds. There is enough for you each to do 1,110 if you want to run time, if you both get this.

Our other option is to strip one yoke. And if you guys really want to go heavier than this, if you get this run, we can do that. Or we could just make this 1,100 a race. Because up to this this it wasn't a race it was just if they if they got it there they got to advance you know with the other guy to the next level and they you know thought about it and i assume they didn't want to do a whole bunch more like thousand well why would you at this point when you've done that many so they they did the

race and they both picked it up well and it's just alan never dropped it you know so he he finished first they both made 1100 look way easier than it should be it was that was a staggering number yeah that that was i was really really impressed by that that was that was awesome that was the most impressive thing of the day so i guess i didn't have any faith in you two guys. They really pulled through. But Alan was on the red team, so that made it 5-3. So there was some light at the end of the tunnel,

especially with the tug-of-war being a two-point event here at the very end. I was like, wait a second, we could. Yeah, this could tie it up. Yeah, I could narrow it up here. That was probably the moment in time where there was the most hope of the day on Alan getting that. Then we went to event nine, which was the log, the max log versus big country Jacob Daigle and Tyler Stone. You might remember him from such things as the first 124 episodes

of the MathSomics podcast. If you're not familiar with that, just go back. Check it out on IMDB. But yeah, that was Jacob Dago's log, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he had the closest replica to the... The old Austrian log. The Austrian log, yeah, yeah, that you could probably have.

Yeah. I mean, full-on log, like it's... Full-on log. I it's it's a real log it had the ropes on it like it had some finish to it like i think did he stain it or something like and he made it himself it looks good it looks good and so like with something like that there's always it's not i mean logs do have some variance to them so tyler was tyler was like definitely like oh am i giving up a little bit of an advantage by going to this? And what did they start at?

The bare log was 261, and that's what they started at. And were they jumping at 10 or 20 right away? Then they jumped 20, 281. They both got that pretty easily. They went to 301. They both got it easily. Jacob started doing this thing where he was walking. Yeah, he'd have

to walk forward to like finish the lockout yeah press fun to watch the people that were sitting on the floor in the very front because like man if he drops it on them like they could probably go to the hospital yeah yeah they would be in trouble but considering the hours and hours that jake put into jacob put into making that log he wasn't about to just drop it on the ground. Yes. You would tell he was protecting it. He would get it locked out, hold it straight overhead, and then take about four steps backwards to set it back onto the crash pads.

And I was like, he's doing like a 300-pound overhead yoke carry. Backwards. If only we had the insane budget of Rogue where we could make bumpers, crash pads that were like 10 feet in length on both sides. Maybe next year. Next year. There's always room for improvement.

When we get that Winston cigarette sponsorship. Yeah, yeah. I told Ryan, it's like brought to you by Winston cigarettes. You might remember us from the Winston cup of NASCAR. Getting back in the sports. You know, next year our sponsors will be Jewel Pods, Four Loko, Camel Crushes, Backwood Cigars. You know, that'll be like our sponsors, you know, for the kids. The kids love that stuff.

They went to 311. They both got that. They went to 311. They both got that. They went to 321 then. I think Jacob was up first. And he made a good run at the press on that, didn't he? Wasn't he fairly close to all? Yeah. I mean, it was moving.

He had it just about locked out. And then he bailed on it. It went behind, and it landed as perfectly flat as it could. Didn't even phase it. Yeah, yeah. And then Tyler went up, and he pressed it pretty good. on it went behind and it landed as perfectly flat as it could and it didn't even phase it yeah yeah and then tyler went up and he pressed it pretty good like yeah like tyler made it look like he had a lot more in the tank yeah like once he gets it cleaned and it's in position like it just it goes it's not an issue at all yep uh so that was cool seeing two 300 plus on a natural log you know

uh yep you know your common person isn't going to do, your common person isn't going to do that. Your uncommon person isn't going to do it either. It's also worth noting that Jacob is enormous. Yeah. His lower body is. Oh, his legs. Like, he has those, the reband power shorts on. Yeah.

Yeah, those things are pretty, those things are pretty cool. They were maxed out. Those things were pretty full. They were maxed out. So Tyler, blue team, made it 6-3. And last two to go were Brad Neitzel and Tim Feathers in the dumbbell. Brad was on the red team. And I said to Brad, it's 6-3. If you win this, it's 6-4.

The tug of war is worth two. We could still tie the whole event. Their event was the Circus Dumbbell. It was originally slated to be the last man standing Atlas Stone. Brad had a last week bicep injury, and we weren't about to have him go out there and do it and make it even worse. That's not going to be fun for anybody. So we evaluated the situation and came up with the best alternative

that those two guys could still go against each other, be competitive, and we settled on Circus Dumbbell. And we did it as the last man standing format. And from a spectator standpoint, at one point I thought, these guys could go for over an hour because they both made it look so easy in the beginning, so easy to the point where I ran over to Tanner and said, I think we have to add weight to this thing. Like, I don't think there's going to be an end in sight.

And that was probably after like eight or nine reps each. So I went up to Brad and I was like, yeah, that's probably true. And I asked him, what do you think about stopping for just a second and putting more weight on there? Like, are you guys ever going to not be able to do it and he looked at me and goes we don't need more weight so i was like oh it's maybe there maybe there is an end coming and i think it went made it go another two or three yeah something like that and uh i mean they were just like brad was just fatigued that's a lot of circus dumbbell well in the handle what's like a four inch handle or something like that three three inch okay yeah it's huge yeah and uh he just he finally got where they just did enough of them and he couldn't quite lock it out anymore and then

uh tim just had to go and get it and tim never once looked any different than any other that he did no not at all i am convinced that like if you did cut into tim you would find out that he is like a cyborg or something and there's not there's a good chance inside of it because his technique uh on that and pretty much anything else i've ever seen i don't think you could make it better i don't think that's possible like i'm convinced there's a lot of people that do strongman that will never touch that realm and overhead of circus dumbbell level yeah and i mean there's i'm talking guys that are even probably 100 pounds more than him or more yeah so he is good he got the win for the blue team made it uh seven to three uh we still have the tug of war left so

there was the blue team had it won a lock already, but I guess as the red team, I don't think any of us were... That was the real event. Once the tug of war rope came out, I got kind of excited because you don't realize the amount of space needed for a 10-on-10 tug of war. You need about a 125

foot stretch, which is a big... It's a lot of area. You guys are watching it like it's getting set up you guys are getting into position and you get the start call and immediately just dust starts kicking up it was like a herd of cattle like that's the only i compared to like that's the only thing i saw it was just like you just see a lot of like big things and dust kicking up everywhere yes and it was i i, it was at a stalemate for like the first several minutes. Okay.

That was the worst part of the day. That very first tug of war. Cause like we started and I think everybody was just so like, at least on our team, I was like, yeah, let's do this. Let's go. But nobody was like, yep, let's win. We're just like, okay, we're just going to pull on this until we can. Yeah.

just like okay we're just gonna pull on this until we can't yeah and and that first one i mean not out i i asked everyone after this after the event you know at the after party and everything i was like first have you ever done that and nobody had and then second like did you ever imagine that it was going to be as hard as it was and nobody hands hurt so bad and i mean just i can't imagine getting so tired not moving like literally just standing in place like you're not doing anything yeah like that first one yeah we had no strategy which tug of war it's like if you're not pulling the same time like you might as well just give up because we were just not doing anything and we had uh we went short you know lightest shortest in the front and tallest heaviest in the back and we didn't know that was a bad idea no and

and you can see it even like the short guys in the front are almost hanging from the rope like pulling like above their head their feet are almost like dangling from the ground you know it's like well how much can you pull on it when you can you know when you're grabbing up yeah none uh but they but the blue team won that first first round after a long battle and there was points in that first one when i was thinking boy guys i don't know if i'm pulling anymore i hope someone on this i think i'm just holding on to it like kind of there's a picture of jake even where it looks like he's just draped over. Like he's dead and just draped over the side of it. Yeah.

So second round, we got together. Someone ran up and said, hey, you need to put the short guys in the back, the tall guys in the front. So we're like, eh, we'll try that, I suppose. I don't think we have anything to lose at this point in time. Yeah, we could have used any pointer at that. Yeah, and then we said the other thing we decided is we need to go on a cadence, you know, on a call so that we're pulling at the same time.

Pull, pull, pull. We did that. That and moving the shorter people to the back and putting the taller people in the front, that was like boom. Like every pull was like we were getting. Like watching it, it wasn't even like a competition then. Every pull it was like we were moving like a couple feet like you guys look like tug of war professionals like it just looked like you were just doing what you wanted and did that one last 15 seconds even

like every poll you gave her five good yanks and you're done you know it just shows the i guess i don't know the competitive nature or whatever it is but we had already lost the competition and it didn't really matter, but everyone was so excited. I was really excited. Everyone was jumping and slapping each other. It was like, oh, my God, we just won the Super Bowl. That's kind of what it felt like. Just a couple of dumbasses playing tug-of-war.

Right. But in that second, everyone's so excited. Oh, yeah. So then we flipped, and the blue team must have re-strategized a little bit before that third one, I think, too, because it was a lot better battle again that third time around. It still wasn't like the first one where it was a miserable life experience, but it was longer than the second one.

But we kind of made ground for the most part almost. Like it got to a point where it stopped, and then we picked up again and won. Same way, everyone was so excited. It's just fun to be a part of that, I guess. That was really fun. So 7-5 final score, Blue Team won. If we would have just won one, if Ryan or I wouldn't have lost our event. Man, if I could go back, things would be different. Then it would have been a tie.

Coach would have put me in. Which would have been exciting. Yeah. Then we would have had another farmer's hold. But that would have been captain elected. True. A team elected farmer's hold. So I don't know who...

We talked about this afterwards, like who each team would have picked and i asked jacob i said would would it have been you would you have done it and he was like not me so ours would have been brad night so i think oh to see the grip because i i guess i don't know the other guys but in my head tyler has an insane grip but the sioux falls guys like trevor and those guys they practice no but you know who they said they would pick? Who? Tim.

They did, really? Yeah. And they were like, oh, it would be Tim. Like, that was their response to me. Like, that was the way that they said it. Like, oh, it would be Tim. Wow. You know?

So that would have been really fun to watch, you know, whoever it was go at it. But it didn't quite happen that way. It was still close. The blue team got to vote on their MVP or their power performer, as it was, for a special trophy that he won, and they voted Thick Nick Berlovich for winning that ballsy squad event. And he got a cool trophy for that

we took some cool pictures at the end like we always do and then it was the after party which is always a good time the 12th event yeah event 12 the most important event there was a great turnout we had a lot of fun i love the 12th event it is a lot of fun yep yep yep and bringing in the new the new crew of guys this time. Yeah, that was nice too. Yeah, yeah. It was a lot of fun. Yep.

And we picked a good group of guys too. I really do hope that every one of them will be back for it next year. That would be really awesome if they did. Whatever way we do it. Yeah, however we do it. If it's similar, I could see there being a lot of rematches even. You know? Yep.

We don't know exactly what we're going to do next year, but bigger and better i suppose who knows what they'll come up with but yeah overall it was a really good event um i mean we have to give a big shout out to our sponsors uh are the sponsors for the event um natural dakota soy was the headlining sponsor yep and outside of that there was always barbecue sauce steven list automotive northwestern energy northwestern energy did a really good job they're good sponsors they did an excellent job loggers qqp tommy d creative and how would it have been i feel like we're forgetting one hmm no they must not be yeah but it was a great event it was our best one yet

they uh someone estimated the attendance at over 8 50 and someone else told me they thought it was a thousand but either way it was our biggest crowd that we've had so far yeah and it's cool seeing that big of a crowd to watch a strongman event yeah you don't see that every day at a strongman or any strength sport event that's you don't yeah no it's like non-existent almost no so that was awesome uh i'm glad that i'm also when it's over i'm also really glad that it's over oh yeah because it is like the most stress one of the more stressful things i mean i didn't even really have to do much for it but i was getting a little stress so between like my wedding and that being in august i was like oh august is just like turned into a lot of work here yeah um but it's over and as far as things being over this podcast is probably going to be over this is over yeah one other thing about the strongman event though we did uh we had these

event shirts this year we've got a few of those left and at least at the time recording this i think there'll be a few left when this comes out but they are on sale now you can pick these up for just uh 14 bucks on our website yeah they are steel pretty sweet shirt got our logo on one side american flag on the other and the event logo on the front yeah and they fit nice oh so nice you look super cool yeah yeah you don't want to wash that never wash it never gonna wash it my warm pants they're probably still warm so otherwise that's it you can check out our store for the rest of the stuff you know the weekend warrior shirt of course all of our lift hats or regular massonomics hats check out our website articles uh anytime any of us or

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