Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 307: Geno Biancheri

Episode Date: February 21, 2022

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You know, thanks for what you do with your podcast and all the rest. You're doing a great job. I hope everybody keeps tuning in. You get a lot of good info, a lot of insights, understandings on how to get strong, how to stay strong, how to use your strength. You do a great job, dude. You make things better than they are in real life, I think.

If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! Massanomics! everything massonomics welcome back everyone to the massonomics podcast this is the lifting podcast about nothing and like usual it's recorded in western northeast south dakota and i was just double checking our number this is episode 307 of the mass on my podcast 307 lucky 307 you know what they say about 307 it's after 306 it's um five episodes until our six-year anniversary is it really

i'm not sure well if there's a leap year in there which might no you know there's a leap year it adds a week to the calendar still be fit still be the 52 weeks. Six times five. Yeah, I think. Is that right? Yep. Three-twelve. Three-twelve, yeah. Is Jeff on the Discord? He's a financial planner.

He probably can do quick math. He definitely has an adding machine next to him right now. We've got uh exciting guest plan for today uh several topics to cover new drop to talk about uh red robin stuff to revisit all that sort of thing but before we do that we probably got something even more important than we have a special announcement today's episode is brought to you by swiss link what you know just just what just it's brought to you by who strap in over there tanner what i'm taking you on a little ride right now close your eyes and imagine yourself in mid-century italy okay you're a high-ranking military officer i

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turned out really good i don't know actually really enjoyed listening to it yeah i just enjoy listening to people talk about mass anonymousics. So that really helps. And whether this, this may seem odd saying it this way, but I feel like on that podcast, I talked a lot more about massonomics than what you hear on the massonomics podcast on an average week. Oh yeah, definitely.

Right. Cause you got to fill people in a little bit. Right. Cause you, you got to assume a lot of his audience doesn't know who we are. Right. And that's the angle that I'm thinking of. I always think it's funny how uh just kind of genuinely surprised he kind of seems that like oh

you guys are just upbeat and positive like like wow you're not like world class and you're still wasting your time with this like yeah yeah yeah um so yeah give that a listen and find it anywhere you listen to podcasts stay hated trigger warning conjugate podcast i i i enjoyed it yeah i thought it was a good listen yeah a few people in the discord said the same thing this week that they enjoyed it so i think it's worth checking out if you're a fan of this podcast absolutely you don't want to miss out on it actually if you're a fan of this podcast and you haven't been a fan a super long time that actually might be a pretty good educational episode oh okay i'll actually learn like because it's also weird for us to do an episode like that right it would be kind of odd

so it's a right it's it does a decent job of bringing you up to speed in the last few years of massonomics yeah the other um thing from this week actually today is when we did it uh wednesday the 16th we did just did the uh reddit subreddit AMA with Mastonomics. We just completed that today. And I think that was a success too. That was. Tanner, you replied to all the comments, so I just got to go in and read them. And that was fun to go in there and see everything.

There was a lot of comments to reply to. You know, a lot of funny stuff, of course. There were some serious questions too. For the most part, it felt like people leaving comments in there were aware of us but there was a few people that were saying things along the lines of oh you guys seem pretty silly you got you got me interested i might have to check this out i what i really thought was cool there was a lot of people that uh that said hey i'm just really new to your podcast like i it sounds kind of cool what episodes should i go check out where do i start that is that's a hard question to answer honestly when someone says where are you starting

to be like i don't know man i don't know i guess my you pretty much answered it right that's basically what i would say too but i guess i would just say pick something from the last like year and a half and maybe start with like a guest that you have an interest in right and you can kind of cherry pick those around. And then at that point you'll have a good, a decent taste for the flavor. And then you can, and then you can,

if you want to start just hammering through them. Right. Yeah. It's weird. There's, there's several ways to attack it. And that probably comes down to as much as anything of how you like to listen, listen to podcasts.

Yes. True. Some people probably insist on starting on one and you know, and if someone, and if you want to listen, listen to podcasts. Some people probably insist on starting on one and, you know, and if someone, and if you want to do that, I might even say start at like one 50, you know, you know, like start there. And like, if you want to attack it that way, it's like the, and then when you get all done with that, it's like the BC 80 timeline, like there's a, there's like a, there's a shift where something happens there. Yeah. But anyways, the AMA, I think that was a cool thing. I'm glad we got that opportunity.

Hopefully a few people found out about us that didn't know prior to that, right? We didn't have any posts, anything that went crazy viral and ended up on the front page of Reddit, unfortunately. Yet. Yet. Yet. You have a good point there. Yet.

There's still time. I brought a little can this week. Would you like to partake? I would love to partake. I don't want you to have all the fun by yourself. This is a what's in the can segment. Okay. I don't have a special blindfold, but I will.

You've got the built-in blindfold. I got the built-in blinders. And I just have to refresh my... Oh, yeah. This is going to be a good one. So I am now passing Tommy his can and grabbing mine. I don't believe I've had this myself. Are we ready to crack in?

Yeah. I'll be curious if I feel like I would know. It's that first aroma that hits you. Ooh, that's a crispy crack. Well, it smells fruity right away. Okay. It's kind of, sometimes it's fun to be on this side of the table, if you know, you know. Like part of me wanted to go towards grape kind of right away.

Or is it a berry of some kind? Boy, I'm actually really struggling with this one. Don't think it's easy. It's good. I'll say that. It's definitely good. It is tasty. I'll say that. It's definitely good. It is tasty. Let's say strawberry lime.

Can I look? Yep. Cherry. Tropical cherry. It's like a trick question yeah cherry again but it does have a picture of a lime on it and you said uh it does strawberry lime so tropical cherry from good and gather yep to be the the target brand yeah right pretty tasty isn't it yeah so based off the pictures in the can it's lemon lime and cherry based off of that is that what makes that tropical apparently yeah so you know if you cross a grape and a strawberry that almost is a cherry

and i did say lime so i'm basically got this so yes he nailed it uh i'm gonna give this a four yeah i think this is really good it's it's almost like if you put lime in the flavor it kind of automatically gets at least a half a point bump it's the like it's hard to not get four when there's lime and right right right oh that i i think that there's some sound logic behind that yeah that's good stuff tommy did you watch the super bowl this week i did um so it was what it was it was yeah it it felt like it had some as far as the game goes it felt a little less exciting than the conference championship i think a huge part of that is just there's not i get they were the home team but also how much of a home you don't have a home

cheering section for the super bowl ever right and that is so the environment is so much of it for where it feels like the stakes are really high when the crowd is just going nuts the whole time so that takes it that takes it out of it a little bit but the game was fine yeah it wasn't it wasn't a bad game it just wasn't like a crazy game either you know the thing that i'm more interested in is what do you think of the halftime show um it wasn't bad the thing that i also struggle with like hip-hop it's very much the attitude and everything and you always gotta you can't bring that attitude on tv quite as much just inexplicitness and your actions and all that like i've been to some pretty awesome like hip hop rap shows and they're a lot of fun.

And an in-person show is nothing like the one you see on TV, like nowhere near it. It's like the kids bot version almost is what you get. So especially in a giant brightly lit. Yes. And then that was the other thing too. You realize, Oh,

it is still daytime in California. So that, that takes it down a little bit of a notch, but it was fine. I did think it seemed really short though, wasn't it? I don't know. I thought I maybe read something that it was maybe a little shorter than normal.

I was super excited for it because it's like my favorite rap, hip-hop. It's like literally my favorite era of of that you know and i love dr dre snoop dogg and eminem uh i was excited about 50 cent being on there out of nowhere like and i love mary j blige i could certainly do without i guess like her second song she's saying i'm like i don't think i've ever heard that i didn't know that song either and actually her first one i didn't know that was her song either. Like she was singing it.

I said, yep. Didn't know she sang this one. But anyways, my point being, I really like all those guys. And I felt like, I felt a little underwhelmed by the actual thing. At best, you were just whelmed. Yeah.

I just was like, this is not like, doesn't feel like the right experience from these guys or something. And I like, at one point in time, like Dre's over there, like he's done rapping and he's over there, like looks like on like a soundboard of sorts. I'm like, that is not doing anything. Like you are not doing something. He did play the piano at that one part.

Yeah, yeah, that was cool. Yeah, it's just the Super Bowl halftime show, unless you're like a family act like, you know, Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake, you have to just vanilla down your performance so much to not offend people. And I mean, it is. Overall, I think it was pretty decent.

It's just not like the ideal experience from those guys, I think. I was just kind of hoping that Tupac was going to make an appearance. You know, maybe that hologram was going to come back. No, wouldn't that have been the extreme long play if he always has been alive and he was waiting for the Super Bowl halftime show? Waiting for the 2022 halftime show. Like, this was his shot.

That would have been fun. That would have really done it. Ads, though, Tanner. Was there it ads though tanner did you uh is there any ads that stuck out to you austin powers ad ah that that that was that's it yeah i didn't have much to much to comment on that but i'm glad you brought that up like as soon as i saw that i'm like ha this is like the perfect uh massonomic it really makes you just want them to make another one of those movies i'm almost shocked they haven't just made one that goes like directly to netflix you know right because comedy movies don't really come out anymore but maybe this is all a part of the uh oh that would be so

funny yeah yeah austin powers on it i i was excited for that one i'm trying to think if anything else really even stuck out at me the austin powers is what stuck out to me yeah there was that crypto one where it was like the qr code bouncing around on the screen for a while yeah yeah which was uh unique and as far as uh ads go um not a lot of ads for a lot of ads for electric vehicles not a lot of ads for straight up uh gasoline vehicles right you usually see a lot of those not so many of those did they do the broadweiser frogs was that this year i don't think i saw the i saw the pony straight up gasoline vehicles. You usually see a lot of those, not so many of those. Did they do the Budweiser frogs? Was that this year? I don't think I saw the,

I saw the pony. The horse was out. The Clydesdales. I didn't see, I didn't see no frogs. It was a whole dog and pony show. It was a dog and pony show actually. I think that's kind of the Super Bowl in a nutshell,

isn't it? That's the Super Bowl in a nutshell. How did I get this bloody nutshell um should we talk about our big the the real big news of the week oh the sopranos larry david one was funny i just looked over here okay larry david one was funny ah the sopranos one the sopranos one was uh the girl yeah yeah and aj yeah that was that was good too i thought that was pretty well done it didn't you know what that made that commercial my exact thought when i saw that the sopranos one was it'd be really funny to do an abr a western north kate south dakota version of that just like me and you driving in the car just uh like just all going by the gym the dumb landmarks in town that would be

really funny actually god this morning we'll have to keep that on the list that has that would be hilarious we'll do that as one of our own submissions into a contest to the gym yeah yeah and the end thing is we're in the gym just on your way to the gym like we we leave the podcast studio and go get uh you have isn't he he's driving a suburban in that isn't he always drives a tahoe or tahoe he starts in the beginning i think with us is it's either a tower suburban yeah i think he starts in the suburban then he goes to a tahoe and then by the end of the show he's driving an escalator okay but you can get a shorter escalate but so yeah it's always but you've got we can hop in my tahoe we'll go drive around we'll be like

chugging monsters like on our way to the gym yeah with crazy instead of them going over bridges it'll just be us going over our overpass and yeah let's go over the overpass like go drive by our billboard i like it i like it that'd be good that was honestly the first that's what i live with now it's like everything i think about i did not think of that but that is really really good. But no, we should talk about the coolest thing this week is the big drop. We're recording this on Wednesday. The drop's coming out tomorrow, Thursday. So by the time this podcast comes out to the public, the new drop items will be launched for real, right?

They will be launched for very real. And for our Discord audience that's watching watching live tonight they're going to get the full sneak peek because we we just can't wait to talk about it any longer so this has to be out people need to know so do we start with the the big bang or do i think we start with the t's yeah just uh well the t oh the t like don't tease them oh talk about the t's okay okay the shirt so first t-shirt and we do got to give the discord some credit their detective skills have been not that it's been overly secret but they have been keeping their eye on the ball here so the first one would be the uh natural for life

the gains are never easy yep and this is of course a uh a bit of a return to our roots you could say it is a return to our roots uh and this one has been seen on a few people over the last couple weeks from ben pollock to jonathan oldham maybe even some other people yeah i think some other people out there so we haven't been sharing them no we've kept it we've tried to keep it pretty low key. So that one is a bit of a parody of sorts. I think you might understand what I'm getting for. You can use your imagination on that one. Natural for life. Some people have asked,

so is that a shirt that people wear ironically? Or is it a shirt that people wear if they are really natural? And the answer is yes. That's right yes the answer is both actually i think we'll see a lot of some of both of that so yes it works just equally as good both ways i believe and then the other t is what we're calling our logo block t which is going to turn into another classic going out tee for people. And it's on a... I should have brought it down. Yeah, we don't have it with us right now.

I wasn't thinking on that one. It's on like a dark heathered gray. It might be called gunmetal heather. I can't remember what that color is exactly, but it's a dark heather gray. Real similar to the original icon tea color yeah dark gray of the original icon tea might even be the same it is actually it is yeah i shouldn't say it's a real similar it is that same same tea uh and then what do you call that it's our stencil

logo on the front we just have our uh our straight up logo across the front which is the first time we've ever just had our name in the logo all in one line yeah we use that logo on a fair number of things we've never put that on a shirt yeah so i have that on the front and then on the back we have a big block of uh kind of a distressed massonomics logo pattern yeah honestly it's yeah it's a big pattern and can't do it justice by talking about that one over the uh podcast airwaves but you just have to check it out when you can see it on our website it's a it's a little more of a subtle t-shirt compared to some of our others but it looks great all the time exactly perfect for going out a great fan a great shirt for that true massonomics fan true that and finally

the moment everyone has been waiting for i would say there was some other potential items that were maybe going to be in this drop. They just didn't get here on time, so you've all got to keep waiting on that. We hinted at them earlier. Yeah, there is some... Just to follow up, there's some other stuff that just wasn't ready in time.

Yeah, so that might have to wait towards, well, probably after the Arnold now, honestly. But the most important thing... Ah, yes. Up there in the most important things ever to come from Asinomics... Get the crowd going we have boys the long-awaited lift shorts three there they are and these are completely

custom to massonomics they are we didn't take the start from scratch we didn't take the plain ones and put a logo on it we built the damn finally we didn't just do the plain ones and just put our logo on it yeah so big highlights of these people have been asking for something like this for a while shorter cut people wanted a shorter cut for a long time these are a six inch inseam so significantly shorter than our our champion ones say nine inch inseam they're all of nine those are all of nine yeah these are definitely a six inch inseam so okay you have a shorter short what's the deal besides that well on the side we have this this pretty cool panel another pattern another pattern not the same as on the logo block yeah another pattern on here because these are

lift shorts a pattern that says lift in a variety of ways it's a very tone on tone look going down the side you have this nice little uh slit in the thigh for a little breathability there extra mobility we have the massonomics logo screen printed uh has a little bit of a reflective character to it and yeah what do you call that that's like almost like 3m reflective yeah i don't know if that's actually what it is but it is it has that reflective characteristic to it and this this uh accent on the side here does too but then we start getting into the crazy stuff tanner the crazy stuff the devil so you know where you find you know what's in those pockets the devil the devil so we get in here and we have we have pockets okay yeah all shorts have pockets what's the big

deal not all shorts some shorts don't even have those yeah right right most shorts that matter have pockets but these ones have pockets yeah sure someone is right they're pulling money out of their pockets that is what's going to happen when you open the pocket what is that is that a pocket of jefferson's jefferson deadlift two dollar bills pockets are printed with jefferson deadlift two dollar bills so you can walk around being the richest guy in town now because when you pay for that and what is what is the two dollar bill saying it is lift hard live easy yeah lift hard live easy two dollar jefferson bill yeah amazing legal tender legal tender everywhere things are accepted legal tender in western

northeast south dakota and if that wasn't good enough we also have two there's a second pocket secret on each zipper pockets and these are more of like a little almost like a change or valuables change stash type pocket maybe yeah it's nothing you're gonna put you can't like fit a phone in these ones these aren't big someone said condom yeah uh but yeah you could and these also have a little bit of the jefferson jefferson tiny little pocket so yeah you can throw some change your keys something small zip those up and you're secure safe and good to go uh we also have drawstrings on there with the like uh almost like the chrome these nice uh they're very nice draw chrome tips gotta have the chrome tips on there just like exhibit would want when he pimped your shorts

ride uh we also have the the faux fly stitched in there like you see on so many premium shorts nowadays uh am i missing anything the tag is oh and of course the custom massonomics tag lift hard live easy um i mean you got to see you in person these things are a thing of beauty yep they're amazing they are they're um i've worn mine a few times i love them they're really a high high quality item yeah high quality um and they are cut and so is the terminology but basically we started from nothing and designed these from the ground up and it took forever. Yep.

Close to six months. You know, supply chain. Yeah. Really? There was a point we really thought we were going to have these well in time for Black Friday and it by like October was looking like,

yeah, that's not going to happen. And then November came, December, January. Here we are into February, four months later. These are certainly the nicest pair of shorts we've ever had. And they are the most expensive that we've ever had. Most expensive. You thought we, just when you thought we couldn't charge more for shorts, the Lift Shorts 3 are here.

Bam. A note on sizing. We have them available in small through 2x these do fit differently than our champion shorts that we also sell in small through 2x obviously they're shorter yep um we're going to have a sizing chart available yeah we'll have a sizing chart that you can refer to i'll build a sizing or i i built a sizing chart with with measurements'll have a sizing chart that you can refer to i'll build a sizing or i i built a sizing chart with with measurements so people can actually see you know what these measurements are but we also have model photos with different models listed with their height

and weight so you can see what these look like on different people uh naturally larry legend was involved uh by popular demand we had to make sure he was included and was he wearing large he wore largest okay and you wear what so i am i'm six one 200 pounds i wear a large large fits me good larry is uh five eight two ten ten she said he also he also wears a large it looked like a good fit on it was a good fit on him we had um uh who else was there anthony big anthony and what is he he was was about 5'8 as well, 5'7. And he weighs about 170. And he wore mediums, and those were an awesome fit on him. Right.

I am 6'2", 6'3", 260, and I wear the 2XL. I can fit into the XL. They're really tight. Some people might want that fit, I guess, depending on the director. And part of it does come down to how tight you'd like your stuff to fit. Yeah, how you want them to fit. Because I can wear a medium. It's just slightly tighter than what I would prefer.

The 2XL, I think, fits awesome on me. It is like the perfect fitting shorts on me. That is the largest size that we have. We were going to have one size larger, a 3X. Supply chain issues we were not able to have those in this particular run so 2x will be is the largest uh maybe someday we're able to get something larger but we've got the small through 2x and we i think we're going to have like plenty of sufficient information on the site with the sizing chart and the model photos to help you make your selection on what size you'll be Yeah. There'll be lots of information there. So you

should be able to make a pretty educated guess. And you know, when in doubt, you just buy three pairs and you just wear them all. Yes. Or give one or two away. Yes. To prove you're the richest man around. Yep. That's exactly right. Yeah. If you can buy three pairs of these, you've got some dough. Some real dough. anything else about these oh we have some fun some fun content planned around these two we do we have some stuff in the works we even actually got some of the unpaid intern crew involved in stuff we've got massonomic sponsored lifters involved in some things that are coming out all kinds of other lifter cameos cameo appearances lined up.

That I think people are going to love. Really fun, funny stuff to help promote the Lift Shorts 3. And, you know, get used to hearing a lot about the Lift Shorts 3 because we're going to be talking about them all the time. Our lives are banking on this. If we really want those kids to go to college we're gonna have to sell a pair of lift shorts three uh do we need to do supporting our supporting members here tanner yeah let's do supporting our supporting members i think that's a great idea um tell me you're familiar with supporting our supporting members

it is a relatively newer segment to the podcast i start by saying that it is relatively new one of the fan favorites yeah and uh one of the fastest growing segments for sure what supporting our supporting members is it's we take this opportunity we have this group of supporting members they choose to uh become financial supporting members of the podcast they do that by going on our website. It's in the shop. There's a few different options. You know, there's a $3 option, $6 option, $20 option. There's a $50 option.

They all have creative names behind them. Or what's the specific site if you just wanted to go to it right now? Massanomics.com slash join. You could go there right now and become a supporting member. By being a supporting member, go there right now and become a supporting member um by being a supporting member you get access to the exclusive massonomics on lord online discord community which uh by being on the discord it is a really active community even right now it's just popping off um you get to listen to the podcast live as we record it on wednesday nights usually is when we record you get there's a discount code in there

you get early info on drops all kinds of there's actually even more stuff that we don't even tell you about until you're in there so yep just got to get in there but this segment is our opportunity to give back to this group of individuals a little bit so here we go supporting our supporting members number one big waffle iron jim stephen rose congratulations uh him and his significant other they just had a new baby girl i believe if i remember correctly congratulations i think he by having the baby they actually missed out on a meetup with some of the other supporting members i think big frank and um big eddie met up and he missed out on that so i don't know was it worth it yeah you got to think about that one you'll that one might haunt you for a while yeah yeah oh well i mean you live and you

learn yeah and he's next time the other one is Big Lou. Big Lou Nutter was... What does Big Eddie say? They're together right now? They're together right now. Oh, okay. They're meeting up right now. Good. But Big Lou Nutter competed this week

at the Ghost Clash in Miami. And I don't know if he had a perfect meet, but not everyone always has a perfect meet, right? So we still want to support him in competing and putting it i mean you went to the ghost clash in miami right kind of won no matter what exactly so we just wanted to give our support to big lou and uh i don't know i think he got some red lights on squat depth and people in the discord community were talking about it it looked like some of them might have been good but i don't know we weren't the judges there that day. Either way, we support Big Lou and his Malibu.

In my heart, I say they're all good. Yep. I would also like to recognize Big Chris. He did some investigative work and went to a Red Robin. No. There's been so many people going to Red Robins. I'm sick of all these people acting like they're at red robin yeah yeah you're at red robin sure like i i if i had a nickel for everyone that thought they were going to a red robin i would be rich yeah yeah i i'm i'm on to their schemes something to keep an eye

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when they implemented the new ACFT. The new Dually one-handle sled has a beefed-up bottom section so it can take more abuse. Oh, we all love the beefed-up bottom section, don't we? Ain't that the truth. They fortified the slide buckle strap with two reinforced strips to prevent it from being ripped off over time. Next, they added a back catch strap to keep the bumper weight plate

on the sled from slipping off the back. That makes sense. Additionally, the catch strap considerably drops the chances of the sled flipping over on extreme turns and cornering. Because that's like me when I'm out there. There's some pretty extreme turns and cornering when I get going on that sled. It's like a freaking NASCAR racetrack. Extreme turns and cornering. NASCAR racetrack.

The final edition was making the single handle sled strap a permanent part of the sled so that it is all in one simple, excellent, easy to use piece. That is the Magic Carpet Dually version pull sled. I kind of want one. We don't have one. And that actually would be a pretty, I'm pretty, I'm pretty sold on that. Yeah. You know, what's the cost of one of those bad boys? They cost $164.

Cheap. It's for a prowler cost. Yeah. I was going to say for the utility that you can get out of this thing and for how compact, can I see a picture of it? Okay. Yeah.

You know, it's easy to store anywhere. You could take it with you anywhere you go. And a lot of function, a lot of function fits under the bed so thank you Spud Inc okay should we say goodbye to the

discord community? Bye discord tomorrow's the drop so see you guys then and now should we say hello to Gino let's do it. Tanner.

Big Gino. How are you doing? How are you? We're good. You're on live with Tanner and Tommy. What's up, Gino? Hey, Masonomics is in the house does that sound does that sound familiar that's that's great because i don't know if you're aware of this but

from that interview we've pulled out that little clip where you said massonomics and that plays on the intro of every episode we've done now for what, Tanner? Hundreds of episodes. 200 episodes? Yeah. I'm honored, and I didn't know that until just recently, this past week when I was talking to someone, telling them that I was going to be on with you guys. They said, yeah, you're on every intro. And I said, really?

I had no clue until a week ago. So I thank you for that. That's an honor and a pleasure. You haven't been getting those royalty checks in the mail for that? They must have been getting lost in the mail. We must have your old address. That's what it is. That's for sure what it is.

No, that's true. We got the opportunity. I think we interviewed you a couple different years at the Arnold. It was probably going back, I don't know, five years ago, maybe something like that. Yeah, probably 2016 might have been the first one yeah uh and then on top of that we've gotten the opportunity to be uh you know Tommy has competed at meets where you've been uh emceeing which is yeah yeah which is a really awesome experience when was the last time Tommy um so the last one would have been the south dakota state meet in

was it 2018 maybe would that sound right to you yeah yeah that sounds about right i did i think you've only done the south dakota the one in sioux falls i think you've done that twice and i did both of those right so yeah it'd be about 2018 around there, but yeah, great meets ton of fun. You know, I'm, I'm coming out to your place, uh, to your state, uh, on, uh, April 2nd, I believe. Are you announcing that meet? Yes. Oh, we'll be there.

We're going to be setting up a booth hopefully. And we got several, uh, lifters competing there. So I didn't know you were doing that. Yeah. I shouldn't have told you. It would have been a surprise. This is even better. We can plan for it now.

But no, that's exciting. We'll be there. We'll get to see you then. And we're also going to get to see you at the Arnold, I think, right? Yeah, for sure, for sure. I'm going to be exhausted. Let me tell you, I'm going to be exhausted on April 2nd, but I am going to go on pure energy and fumes and i'm going to make

that a good a good competition from a from an announcing standpoint that is but i'll have just come off a week of uh announcing uh the high school and collegiate nationals in chicago okay so what are you announcing at the arnold this? Honest answer is they never tell me. I get there and they say, I mean, I don't get any schedule ahead of time. You know what I mean? I just get there and get there a day early. I check in and they say, okay, tomorrow morning you're doing this or tomorrow morning you're doing that. Or you're off in the morning and you're on in the afternoon and you're you're going to be in the c pod in the in the morning and then we're

going to have you come out you know onto the uh one of the main stages out to the rogue stage or the other one uh in the afternoon and i kind of go uh literally day by day is how that kind of works out is wherever they tell me to go, I run to. Yeah, the infamous CPOD, that's right. And I guess I don't know, and maybe you don't know either, it sounds like. I'm not sure what the exact setup is for USAPL meets this year, if there's some out there in that CPOD again,

and then on the main stage too. But I guess we'll all find out soon. Well, here's what i do know i do know we were back we are back in c pod and i do know that we have they said an extra event or one more event more than we have in previous years now whether that means one more event in c pod or one more event out on the main stages i'm not sure but what I am sure of is that we are going to have a bigger presence in terms of the number of competitions that we're going to have this year than any other year, which is a good thing. that you are kind of like um the live mc of power lifting if anyone has a uh you know claim to that title yeah climb to that title it's it's it's you and you you've been that way for a while but we kind of want to know so how did you get your start in uh you know on the mic in general whether it was you know pre-power lifting or wherever that was, where did you get your start? Well, I used to work in corporate America,

believe it or not. Nobody believes me when I tell you that. I have an undergraduate degree in economics and a master's degree in finance. I specialized in portfolio theory and investment analysis. And I worked for a Fortune 50 company at their corporate headquarters doing their financials and did that for many, many years. I then kind of got, that's tedious work, especially for me to sit in a cubicle all day long. You can only imagine. And I got tired of that. And I said, I'd like to try something different. Can I try working in your consumer promotions department? It just sounded like fun because one day a guy from the consumer promotions department came up to me and said, I need you to do a And he said, we want to bring a football player into our local store to do a signing. How many incremental boxes of cookies and crackers do we have to sell in order to make it work even, you know, and doing a financial analysis, I did it for them. And they said, why don't you come and watch the event? And I said,

sure, thanks for inviting me. And it just, it was just pure excitement and pure energy. And this is where I want to be. And I moved into that department and they said, well, you're going to have to take a demotion. And I said, that's fine. I don't care. So I had to take a demotion in title, but they paid me more money. Can you figure that out? Sign me up for that demotion. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah. I said, I'll take that lower title anytime you want as long as you're going to pay me more money can you figure that out okay sign me up for that demotion yeah no kidding yeah i said i'll take that lower title anytime you want as long as you're gonna pay me more money you can sit me at a little table in the corner i don't need a bigger cubicle you know so i started doing promotional events and basically it was it was a lot of uh corporate uh

corporate policies where i was hiring uh sports and entertainment equities for these corporate sponsorships that we would do so i mean i had we had a lot of big names we had uh i mean i did i did work with uh in sync and britney spears and faith hill and ringo star and i actually sang backup on one of those tours with Ringo Starr, which was kind of a claim to fame that very few people know about. That's pretty wild. Yeah, that is very wild. That seems very wild.

Yeah, not too many people can say they sang backup for a Beatle. Yeah, right. A Beatle on the stage, up on stage. So that was kind of fun. And what I would do is, you know, I was working with people like alex rodriguez and derrick jeter and uh pete rose and and uh oh god muhammad ali we were with once at a signing um so all big names and i would have to like like when we did the

thing with derrick jeter we was a charity softball game and I was the guy on the microphone announcing the softball game live actually out on the field I kind of stood behind the pitcher with the microphone and I was announcing at this stadium in Montclair New Jersey you know the play-by-play has as the the play was going on out on the field so that's kind of where i got my first start with with announcing on a microphone and uh then my friend said to me he owned a couple of bars on the jersey shore and he said i'm looking to pump up you know business in one of my clubs can you help me out he said what do you think we should do and i said well you know i'm not going to get you britney spears at your club she's not going to

come and you don't have a budget for that and we decided that what the obvious best fit when you're a bar that's located actually on the beach would be a bikini contest so So to me, yeah. So every Saturday it was, we ran a, a female bikini contest and every Sunday a male bikini contest. And, and so I'd have to cart up on Saturday, I'd cart 10 judges up to 10 male judges for the, for the female contest. And then 10 female judges on Sunday for the male contest. And I was the guy on the microphone running the bikini contest and which wasn't that tough a job. That was, you take, you know, 700 drunk guys off the beach. You take, you take 20 drunker women off the beach and caught them up on stage and they go straight across the stage and their G strings and the crowd just goes crazy. And it was kind of, it was kind of like the,

if you remember the old wet and wild days, that, that show that was on. And it was, it was a little, I mean, this wasn't a, you know, this wasn't Miss America beauty patch. This was a beach on the club on the, on the Jersey shore beach. So it was, it was kind of wild. And, uh, so I was announcing those contests for a while and a fellow came up to me after one of the shows after one of the the contests in the audience and he said i own a powerlifting gym in your town do you want to come and announce a powerlifting competition

and this was like in 1999 and i said no, no. And he said, why not? I said, you see what I do here. I don't do much. I just scream and yell up here. And these women run across the stage. And these guys run across the stage. And they're little G-strings. And he said, come on.

He said, anything would be better than what we've got now. I said, I don't even know the sport. He said, you come, you train at the gym, you can train with the powerlifters and you learn the sport and then you can announce. I said, all right, I'll give it a try. I mean, you're in my town. It's, you know, you're four minutes from my house. So I started to go to the gym and I started to train every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Now, obviously I was a lousy powerlifter. I had the exact opposite frame that one should have for powerlifting. I was never competitive, but I enjoyed the sport very much.

I had made a lot of friends with several world champions who came out of that gym and multi-time national champions, guys who are still around to this day. Billy Clayton is still around. A guy named Ray Benamurido is a 15, 16 time national champion. I was working out with them three days a week, learning the sport. And I learned the sport. And then I showed up the first time for the first competition, you know, and everybody's got their, their, their, their, their, their power lifting outfits on and people that are in the audience are just wearing sweats. And I show up in, you know, like I was up on stage in one of my rock and roll outfits when I was on tour with Britney or something, you know. So I had the leather pants and the hats and the jewelry and the bandanas. And I wasn't dressed like a power lifter. So I've come out and I'm dressed what I think are my rock and roll clothes.

And I announced the first competition and I ran that competition more like a wild bikini contest than I did a power lifting show. So half the people thought I was insane and the other half wanted me to come back and do it again. So, uh, there was the Genesis of that. And then one of the power lifters came up come back and do it again so uh there was the genesis of that and then one of the power lifters came up to me and said uh you look like a pirate and i said what it's not a pirate i'm a rocker these are my rock clothes the clothes i wear when i go on tour with rock bands and they said no no we think you're a uh we think you're a pirate and i said you know that was when all the johnny depp movies had started to come out you know and that was all the rage

and i said fine do you want me to be a pirate i'll be a pirate and and then and then the itf the international powerlifting federation today they had this quarterly magazine that comes out and one of the quarters they put me on the centerfold spread and the centerfold the center page said the pirate of powerlifting and they did an article on me and then everybody internationally started to call me the pirate so you know i started to play the part a little bit i bought some ruffled shirts you know the puffy shirts yeah the seinfeld puffy shirt yeah exactly right exactly i mean don't get me wrong I didn't have a, you know, I didn't have like a parrot on my shoulder or an iPad. I just a little bit more like that just to play the part.

And as soon as I they said, you know, come back and do another one in this local gym in this little town of Rockaway, New Jersey. I came back and did another one. Next thing they said, we're running a national bench press championships at Newark Airport in New Jersey. Come announce that. I announced that. From there, they said, come announce the Arnolds. And at the Arnolds, the first time I announced the Arnolds, a guy from Sweden came up to me and said, would you come and announce Bench Worlds? We're running Bench Worlds in Sweden. And I said, don't you have anybody in your own gym?

And he said, no, we want you. And then once I announced that world, then all the other countries just started to roll and come in with offers to come announce here, there, and everywhere. And next thing I know, I just kind of fell into the job. And after that, I was traveling the planet. I mean, you name a country, I've probably been there announcing a powerlifting competition in between all the local ones that I was running at every state in the United States. So I just kind of felt that's it. I just literally just fell into the job. There was no plan. This was just fell into it and the rest is history. That is quite the story. That is. It's really kind of like a go with the flow and like the best case happens, it feels like. This is exactly right. It was just go with the flow and like the best case happens it feels like that's exactly this is

exactly right it was just go with the flow and see what happens and people say to me well what are your plans for the next few years and i said same as they were now just go with the flow and see what happens it's really interesting to me that you were in fine corporate finance prior to i would have i mean ever you even said that people always say no way you know but like tanner's borderline in that same field. So the idea of Tanner announcing a meet like you really, really makes me laugh thinking about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really?

Yeah, yeah. That's funny. That's interesting. I'll have to show you a picture. I was just going to say, I'll have to show you a picture of me when I was wearing my suit and tie and cufflinks. Yeah, yeah. to show you a picture of me when I was wearing my suit and tie and cufflinks. Yeah. Travel with short hair, traveling on the corporate jets, going to these board of directors meetings. It was quite the experience.

Yeah, that's cool. And it's funny, too, that your look, the way that you kind of showed up your first one and it just took off. Yeah, it was just like, yep, this is it. This is what I do now. The new career. I'm curious, like, you know, going to Sweden or going to all these other countries, don't like, is, is the default that everyone announces in English at all of these places? You know?

Believe it or not, it is. I wasn't sure about that. Actually, when i first went i said yeah i don't even speak the language what are you guys kidding me they said no they said every international powerlifting federation uh competition has to be announced in english those are the rules so uh which works well for me i'm a a typical American. You know, I know one language. That's true with most of us. You know, where you go to these other countries and they know two, three and four languages.

But no, this was every competition has to be announced in English. So it makes that a little bit easier now and most of them the toughest ones were were like japan uh japan they don't have many people that that spoke english that understood you know at the at the competition so they were missing most of it you were basically just announcing to the other lifters that were there but most of the other countries they all spoke english as their second language and and understood but but it was mostly mostly japan and and and poland uh not a lot of english speaking there so that those those countries were tough but the other ones were fairly easy and then i would always pick up a few pointers i I would learn a few lines, a few key lines, like the bar

is loaded and the lift is good in various, in various languages. So, and they would all cheer when I do that, especially Japan, when I would throw a couple of the Japan lines out there, the Americans would look at me like, if you're just talking gibberish. And I said, no, I, no, I'm not. I'm speaking Japanese and they know what I'm saying. He's been on the mic too long. He's hallucinating. What about your background in music? You must have some sort of background there

that you'd even get on stage with Ringo and stuff like that. Was that always something that you were interested in? I always had a background in music, and I played the keyboards a little bit but i did not play keyboards when i was on stage with him when i was up there that was just background vocals uh and believe me i'm not the greatest singer but uh uh you kind of get washed out up there anyway that makes sense it was kind of just the you know he's got the whole ensemble up there with him and when i was up there i was just part of a bigger crew so uh i really wasn't you know getting any grammys or anything i was doing up there i can tell you that

so i was mostly just backup vocals and keyboards was just a minor thing that i do on the side okay you talked about all the, you know, you've been almost everywhere in the world to announce and everything. You've announced thousands of competitors. Do you have any moments in particular that stick out to you in powerlifting that were some of your favorite to announce or, you know, the most exciting? I do. I have, there's a few.

You know, obviously some of the key ones are the big ones. I remember when I was announcing in Atlanta at Raw Nationals the first time anybody squatted over 1,000 pounds raw was Ray Williams. and the place they were hanging from the rafters, they were screaming so much. And I got them all pumped up. And I remember when they were loading up the bar, I was standing next to Ray and he mumbled under his breath. He mumbled, load it up, load it up. He kept saying to himself,

because they just kept putting more red plates on it. I couldn't believe how many plates they kept putting on each side. And I said, you know what Ray just said? I said, said i said he said load it up i said let's have everybody get behind him and say load it up and the whole audience would go load it up and i'd say load it up and they'd go load it up and i'd say load up and went back and forth and back forth until they finished loading all the reds up and then the place was just going nuts and when he squatted that uh it was it was just pure energy and excitement uh at the arnold's when when um when when uh uh various lifters got records at the arnold's you know probably the the biggest would be uh uh not ray williams but uh, what's his name? Um,

the equipped lifter. Oh, Blaine Sumner. Blaine Sumner. When Blaine Sumner got out there. And I think that was the first time, uh, he did, uh, uh, he broke, he broke the world record in the squat. And then another year when Blaine came, he, I got to go on the main stage out there that, that, that was big. That was another big one. Yeah. When, when, when Blaine came. He, I got to go on the main stage out there that, that, that was big. That was another big one. Yeah.

When, when, when Blaine, because anytime you're at, I was just going to say another, another one that I really enjoy doing is there's so much energy at the Arnold's except for this last year, which I'll get to in a second as to why it wasn't,

but there was so much energy at the Arnold's every year. And the one year when I got to announce Blaine Sumner benching 1,024 pounds was just – that was just unbelievable. Again, the exhilaration and the energy in the room and the excitement and the awe that everybody had watching somebody bench over 1,000 pounds with a shirt on was just unbelievable. There was uh but it was interesting this past time that i announced was you know the start of the pandemic um you know they canceled last year right i think at the arnold's there was no arnold's but but the year before they the whole country closed down like a week after the arnold's and they didn't allow only people that were allowed to go to the arnold's when was that in in 2019 2020 yeah 2020 yeah 2020 yeah we're we're we're um

lifters we're we're competitors so there were no spectators and you guys obviously know coming there every year that place pulls in like a quarter of a million people that convention center and it was just empty i mean you know our room was full but you know it's pretty easy to fill up the little c-pod right but you know there was nothing going on in the big ballroom in there and uh and it lost some of its its its its energy and uh that's why i'm hoping that there are no restrictions this year or the limits into the number of people that they allow on. Waylon Chen, I think Waylon Chen is another one, if I'm saying her name properly. She once if you look in the record books now, she's she's from Chinese Taipei. And I was announcing a Worlds in Orlando, I believe.

And she was squatting and she squatted, I don't know, close to four times her body weight. I think it's still in the record books now, if you look it up with the equipment on. And she, you know how people hit a sticking point and they will pause for a moment and then finish locking out? They come up, they hit that sticking point, and then they keep going. Well, most people, when they hit that sticking point, there's downward movement on the bar, and they get a blue card because you had some double bounce at the bottom. She came up with about four times her body weight, and she weighed about 100 pounds, and she hit that sticking point, and she just froze in that sticking point. The whole body was convulsing and shaking, and the audience kept screaming, and I kept screaming. seemed like it's it seemed like a minute now i'm sure it was probably probably 10 seconds but it seemed like forever that that woman just stood there shaking with no downward movement until

she finally locked the knees out and that one went to the record books and to this day that is that is in the record books that was another one to me that was was memorable if you're asking about not only not only the big list but when somebody does a a world record and they only weigh 100 pounds it's it's it's just as great an accomplishment you know right yeah for sure what about um we were talking about it just uh i don't know you call it unusual or you know just uh well you've you've you know announced and you've seen thousands of different people perform you know countless lifts over the year over the years has there been anything really unusual that you've witnessed in that time that's a tough one. No, not. Nothing that sticks out overly.

Nothing. I'm trying to think of someone that would be unusual versus a tremendous achievement. Another tremendous achievement was, what's his name out of, he's from Nauru, Jeze, Jeze Uepa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I went to New Zealand, actually, he was the first guy when Ray when Ray squatted a thousand pounds, he was the first guy to squat a thousand pounds. But it wasn't an official world record because that was only a national meet. All right. He didn't do that at Worlds.

The first guy to actually get the world record was that that was at a world competition was Jezu Uepa in New Zealand. And he was the first one that squatted it, that got that world record in the books. And I remember being there and the IPF liked me to wear a suit and tie, you know, and kind of look like the other referees. I was always in a constant battle with them over that. And so I had my suit and tie on, and the meet director and a couple of the lifters from New Zealand came up to me after day one and said, we didn't have you fly all the way to New Zealand to wear a suit and tie.

We want the pirate outfit. And I said, okay. So I went back to the hotel room and changed. They said, you know, you coming in a suit and tie, it's like inviting Santa Claus and he doesn't come in a red jumpsuit. So I came back and I put the pirate outfit on and

gave them an arrr and then Jezza squatted over a thousand. So, but there were no, there were no real, I mean, I'll tell you, I'll tell you one weird, weird one, uh, only because I remember it so well, because it was my first one. I remember saying to the guy that Joe Moriel, who owned the club in New Jersey, the first time he said to come to announce, he said, I said, I don't know, you know, I'm not a power lifter. I don lifter i don't know these guys he said they're normal people he said you just come and wear a jacket you know kind of like you do here uh on stage here just wear a jacket and just just dress normal

he said they're all normal guys and one of the first guys to come out there he was wearing he was wearing moccasins i don't know how he got through equipment check, but he was just wearing moccasins. I guess they were all right. And they look like his slippers, you know. And he's wearing his slippers, and he gets out onto the platform, and he's got the bar on his back. And he proceeds to talk to himself, to pump himself up. And he is swearing and spitting spits coming out of his mouth. And he is swearing and spitting spits coming out of his mouth.

And he's swearing up a storm. And he's just going crazy, talking to himself, trying to psych himself up. And this is like the very first guy, my very first announcement. And I had the microphone in my mouth. My jaw opened up. And I looked over at Joe. And I'm like, you told me these people were normal. Look at this guy. And Joe goes, no, just just ignore him he's always like that

but no i can't think of any i and if i could ask that's a good question fellas i never got asked that question i'll have to give that some because there have been so many thousands of lists that i've seen i i don't really there's nothing that's gone, you know, other than people dumping the bar or somebody hanging in there for a long time and then locking out. I never really, nothing out of the ordinary. Okay. All right. That's good. What do you do?

So if you're not announcing a powerlifting meet, what do you got going on? What else do you do? Nothing. And you know what I used to, you know, when I got out of corporate America, I used to, uh, um, Oh, something I've never told anybody. I don't think, um, is, is I used my neighbor sold wine grapes, grapes that you buy to make homemade wine. Right.

And for a few years I used to help him, so I became kind of a wine connoisseur when it came to what grapes that you would blend in order to get a good variety and get a good load of grapes that you're going to, you know, you bring them to the people's houses or to the corporations, you know, restaurants, and they actually squeeze them and then press them and you create various wines. I used to do that, you know, on a part-time basis with my neighbor because it was his family-owned business that he lived across the street. But other than that, I mean, like, for example, let me just give an example why I do nothing now. The month of February, this February, okay, week one was Buffalo.

Week two was just Minnesota this past weekend. Week three is going to be Atlanta. I leave on Friday. Week four is going to be New Jersey. Week one of March is the Arnolds. Week two is Boston. Week three, Saturday, is a Jen Thompson and Nick Hammer meet in North Carolina on Saturday. Then I fly home that night at eight o'clock at eight o'clock flight and and I announce another meet on Sunday in New Jersey so it's Saturday North Carolina Sunday New Jersey and then week then 48 hours after that I get on a plane and go to Chicago and announce for one week in Chicago um the high school nationals and the and the and the collegiate nationals and then

as soon as that's over I go right from chicago to uh to to south dakota for jonah's meeting so you're pretty much on a plane like every other every other day just about yeah so so because of a of a schedule like that uh that's pretty much why i you know if it's if say it's a two day meet, I'll give you a typical rundown. It's two day meet. I'm pretty much flying all the between the Ubers and the planes and the layovers and the delays and the weather. You know, I'm pretty much flying all day Friday. I'll announce Saturday and Sunday all day. Then I'll fly all day Monday to get back home. You know, and then all I do on Tuesday is like sleep the whole day. Then I'll fly all day Monday to get back home. And then all I do on Tuesday is sleep the whole day. It literally takes so much out of you, both physically and emotionally. I need time just to recoup. So I'm resting all day Tuesday. Then Wednesday, I'll do some laundry.

And then I have Thursday. I. I have one day and, and, and then I'm turning around and getting back on a plane on Friday again. So, um, I, I'm, I'm not doing much except kind of relaxing my voice and my body when,

when, uh, when I'm not announcing because the schedule is so busy. Now, if I was only doing a few a year, I'm sure I'd have some other hobby or some other interest. But it takes a lot out of you when you do it almost every single week of the year, which I come pretty close to a lot of years. So is your voice trained pretty well? Or do you still, like after a long weekend, will you lose your voice? No, I won't lose my voice after a long weekend. I'm able to train it well enough. But if it's a week-long competition, actually, I've gotten better. I remember in the beginning when I was doing the national championships, by day three, my voice was completely hoarse and I sounded horrible up there. But a couple of tricks. One one don't drink a lot of alcohol at night when everybody's oh yeah that's a tricky one yeah what's the fun in that

that yeah that's a tough one you know because if i could tell you a quick funny story that i that i but i would got into a habit of doing is when you like when i did a world's it would be a week-long competition and and the various groups would finish early you know the the masters lifters would finish first and then the then the junior lifters would finish second then you get to the open lifters later in the week so as each group would finish they'd be done and they're in the lobby uh bar the restaurant lobby in the bar at the lobby bar of the hotel that we're at you know and i'd come in and they're in the lobby bar of the hotel that we were at. And I'd come in, and they're already there drinking.

They're all already pissed drunk. And then I would come in after giving out the medals to whatever group I was announcing that day. And I'd get there at 8 o'clock at night. And I had to be there at 8 o'clock the next morning. The last thing I want to do is go drinking until four in the morning with these guys. And I, and I'd walk into the hotel and they'd see me and they go, Jano, come over. You know, I'm not going to say no and walk away. So I come over and I would, I would, they'd give me a shot and I would do a shot with 20 people. They're all screaming and yelling. And then I would wait about three or four minutes

and everybody would go back to their talking and their conversations. And I would start to walk backwards. I would not even turn my back. I would literally sit down with science. Moonwalk. Yes, exactly. I would take steps backwards. And when I would hit the wall, I would turn the corner and get to the elevator and get up to the room. And none of them ever – they thought I was with them until 4 in the morning. They don't remember the next day. You can't see this, Gino, but Tanner's actually taking notes right now.

Yeah, because I'm kind of the answer to that, trying to get out of things early. I'm like, ah, walk back. Don't even turn your back on him. Just slowly back towards the door. I like it. That's the best way. You're not impolite to anybody and you're following through. So it's get a lot of sleep. You need to get as much sleep as you can.

Don't drink a lot of alcohol. It makes your throat hoarse. A lot of nights I would just take hot water and pour honey in the hot water and drink the hot water with the honey. And it kind of coats the throat and soothes the throat a little bit. And then try to get as much rest as you can in go an entire, Oh, and I also would, would I go to their PA systems and I would turn the volume way up. Oh yeah. So that, so that I'm not putting the strain on my vocal cords. I'm not yelling that loud because the volume is already less.

You just hold the mic. There's another trick Tanner, make sure you take notes on this one. You just hold, you just hold the mic. There's another trick, Tanner. Make sure you take notes on this one. You just hold the microphone further away from your mouth, and it comes in at normal volume because you've got it further away from your mouth. And if you want to scream and yell when you hold it close to your mouth, you already have the PA system set so high that it's coming out louder,

even though you're not putting that strain on your on your vocal cords on your voice then so um you can manipulate the tricks of the trade yeah yeah yeah you're learning them all now yeah you can manipulate yeah the volume that way and it and it helps to help save the voice a little bit that's good uh do youino we've got this game we play with every guest called overrated or underrated and it's just this series of topics that we hand pick for you and we'll fire them over to you and you just decide

if each one's overrated or underrated and the most important thing to remember is you can't ride the line you have to arrive at a final decision if each one is overrated or underrated. So if you're ready to play, we'll fire them over to you. I'm ready to rock.

Overrated or underrated? We talked about this a little bit. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I'm going to say overrated only because that's why they were calling me the pirate and i wasn't a pirate so yes so i think they're overrated although the movies were all great and keith richards was in one of them from the rolling stones i don't know if you knew that um but yeah over it what did what did he play was he uh he played johnny depp's father oh okay

i don't know if you you didn't know that no i don't know you know i haven't seen all those movies though okay well listen to this when they interviewed johnny depp he said that when he was playing the role early on he was playing the role he said he modeled himself after after and and and when that that hit the news, in the third rendition that came out, they actually got Keith Richards to come and play his father. And he was in one of them. Because he had modeled himself after Keith Richards in the whole series. That's kind of how Keith... His mannerisms and the way he talks like that. after Keith Richards in the whole series.

That's kind of how Keith his mannerisms and when he talks like that. That's all Keith Richards. So it's kind of cool to see Keith Richards go on. Yeah, but overrated because that's what they took that to the nth degree and called me a pirate. I'd rather be called a rocker than a pirate.

Okay. Overrated or underrated? Another MC, famous one, Bruce Buffer. Oh, God. I can't walk the line, can I? No, no, no. There's rules here. Yeah, there's rules. See, I want to say underrated because look what he did.

He's got his one line, which by the way, are you guys aware of the fact that he has incorporated that line that you cannot say that line? Yeah, he owns that, doesn't he? Yeah, he owns the rights to that you you have to pay him if you're going to say let's get ready to rumble at some at some official event so uh i think underrated from from the standpoint of of look what this guy was able to do with one line right so famous famous for that but underrated I want to say because that's all he does and then he walks off he's not there for 10 hours a day like I am

so if I have to go one way or the other I'm going to go underrated because he's only talking for 10 seconds that's true okay overrated or underrated Motley Crue underrated Iley crew?

Underrated. I want to see them at more powerlifting competitions, their music at more powerlifting competitions. Can't get enough Motley crew, pal. Uh, I, I always make sure I play kickstart my heart and girls, girls, girls, and, uh, uh, underrated. I, and, and, and as a band, I think they're, they're, they're fabulous. So I'm going to go underrated. When I picture Gino at a meet, I picture Kickstart My Heart coming on and people just jumping around going crazy. That's what comes to mind for me. Kickstart My Heart is such a great song to start a session. Not bench.

It's either got to be squat or deadlift. You can't start with bench because bench is when you kind of me you kind of mellow out and you have to turn the volume, the music down because people are, it's kind of the break in between. It's the break in between. And you can't, you can't be, there has to be highs and lows.

You can't turn it up to 10 for eight straight hours. No, you can't. And, and, and the audience wouldn't, wouldn't engage. If you were up to 10 the whole time,

you have to have ebb and flow. And and bench is perfect time to do that because it's in the middle and they're laying on the bench looking up at the ceiling. They can't they can't see the chief referee. They can only hear. So the music's got to be turned much lower. But you put on a motley crew when they come out and the first guy starts pulling. You know what they say? The competition doesn't really start until the first weight hits the floor.

That's right. And when you, and you turn Motley Crue way up. And I always say the same thing. I said, you know, we turn the volume down during benching, but when they start pulling,

I said, buckle your seatbelts. It's going to get loud in here. And it usually gets pretty loud with some Motley Crue underrated. What's your favorite Motley Crue song? Definitely Kickstart, my heart. Okay. I think that's a song.

I agree with that, too. What else? Is there Livewire? Yeah, Livewire's in there. Yeah. And then Shout at the Devil, is that Motley Crue, or is that somebody else? It's Motley Crue.

Yeah, that's Motley Crue, right? I think so. I think so. I think so. I've played that a few times. Now, I usually put on 666. You know me and 302.5, right? Yep, that's 666. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I usually put on 666 from Iron Maiden, but I do have a few others that I sometimes go to, which is Shout at the Devil, and I'll put on Highway to hell from acdc sometimes so um but yeah that's good and then and innocent girls girls girls yeah there you go yeah yeah i always put on when there's a flight of when there's a flight of girls okay do you have a single best power lifting meat song that you could, or I mean, you named a bunch of classics right here, but I just wonder if there's one Like your all time.

No way. You want to know what my best my favorite is? It's just too many good ones out there. My best is go to Spotify and look up Gino powerlifting songs. We didn't know that's out Go to Spotify and look up Gino Powerlifting Songs.

Okay. All right. That's a good one. We didn't know that's out there. There's a lot of our listeners that are going to be interested in checking that out now. Oh, good. Now, there's two of them out there. Somebody else created one and put my name in there called This Is Gino Powerlifting.

That is not the one. It's Gino Powerlifting songs on spotify and there i have you know a hundred of of my favorite songs to play for powerlifting for one reason or another you know it's right to play at this particular moment or this one's right for this situation in that situation um and and so i don I mean, I have some favorite groups. You know, I love Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine and ACDC and Motley Crue, but no particular one because so many of them are so good then.

Perfect. Okay, this is the last one, Gino, and we always save the most important for last, so there's a lot that rides on this one. All righty, all righty. You might know this fella, overrated or underrated, Jonah Leo. Oh, he is definitely overrated. My boy Jonah.

Okay, what, just because he's a multi-time world champion bench presser and he's got a plaque hanging up on his wall from the senator of uh of of of south dakota or one of the previous senators not the current one you know or the governor i forget i don't remember who it is but some high political. He's got the plaque congratulating him on the wall in his office when I was there with him. But but yeah, Jonah's definitely overrated. He needs to he needs to mellow out a little bit, show a little humility. I love him. You know, I love Jonah. He's my pal. And I'm looking forward to getting out there on the 2nd of April for another one of his competitions.

He puts on a good show. He does. You guys ought to know that. You're there often enough, right? Absolutely. He's great at it. He has great sponsors and great music. He's got a great sound system. He's got great stage setups with the backdrops and the banners. He does a good job, Jonah. He's my pal stage setups with the backdrops and the banners. He does a good job, Jonah.

He's my pal. The environment is all the way it should be. We're looking forward to it. We're excited about it. What do you announce when Geno comes out for a bench press? What do you say? When Jonah comes out? Yeah, when Jonah comes out, yes.

I know what you mean. I usually do my line. It's kind of a Bible reference. You know, Jonah, who was swallowed by the whale. Yeah. And he comes out and I say, I'd say, ladies and gentlemen, from the clutches of the largest whale in the ocean, spitting out of his mouth comes the ultimate, the ultimate venture. Ladies and gentlemen, from the depths of the ocean

the biggest whale of the ocean here comes jonah leo i just go on and on and on and then and then i'll say he's a prophet that has taken uh benching to the next level because you know jonah jonah was supposedly a prophet and and he spent three days. Now, let me get very scientific on you here, okay? And very, did you guys ever watch Ancient Aliens show on the History Channel? I know the reference, yeah. Well, I mean, technically speaking, if you follow the religious aspect of it, okay, Jonah was swallowed by a whale. It says right in the Bible that he spent three days living in the whale until he came out, and then he became this prophet.

And you shall go forth and teach thou to bench, I say, instead of to teach the religious youth. bench i say instead of to teach you now the religious use but but if you talk to if you talk to any of the ancient alien theorists if they they take a different interpretation that the bible they have they have a specific description of exactly what the inside of the whale looked like and they there's like these steel beams and basically what they're saying is that an alien ship, how do you live inside a whale? For three days. They're saying that he lived inside an ancient alien spaceship that was underwater for three days, and he came out enlightened

because he went through this whole experience, this UFO experience. Well, if you were to ask me which one of those stories might be more possible, I, you know, I'm... It's got to be the UFO one. I can be convinced of that, yes. There's a case for that, I believe, for sure. Yeah, I'm a big space person, and I love talking the cosmos with people in my spare

time. I consider myself an amateur individual that enjoys the whole physics and the cosmos and all that stuff. Especially lately, I don't know if you guys have seen, people are going to think I'm nuts, but if you've seen

some of those military videos lately that have come from the military where these fighter jet pilots are flying along and there's something flying alongside of them. And the guy's going, look at that. What the hell is that? And the thing's rotating and it's keeping up with them and it's doing all kinds of things that the human body couldn't uh you know it couldn't handle if they were in them and and then and then they say well no it must just be a blip on the radar must be a must be a screw-up it's just a blip on the radar it's it's it's a it's a misnomer it's not real and but you know then there's other people that say there's the proof it's right there on the radar and our military is recognizing it now

so if i had to guess which one is more accurate i'd say he was under there in some kind of sub uh ufo craft that that uh was uh roaming around under the ocean for three days making him crazy well i do think with the infinite expanse of space it is it is kind of crazier to imagine that there is no other life out there than it is to think that there is other something else i am so i'm so happy to hear you say that because look look there are there are there are millions there are millions of of galaxies out there uh there are billions of galaxies out there, or billions of galaxies, and millions of planets within each galaxy. I mean, the math, the statistics is just insane.

Just like you said, to believe that there isn't the possibility that there might be another Earth out there somewhere, earth out there somewhere you know what what what we would call in the goldilocks zone which is which is with all the stars that are out there and all the planets surrounding all the stars you're gonna have one that is in that goldilocks zone which is not too close where it's where it's too hot and not too far away where it's just a frozen chunk of ice but right next goldilocks zone where we are and you know statistically speaking say that one one one um one scientist came up with a formula there is a formula for it yeah where it's oh you guys know you i'm impressed you know that if you have your billion galaxies and each one has this many planets in it and if only let's say one one millionth of those have have a chance of having an earth-like planet well that means

there's millions of earths out there. Right, right. I am so impressed with you two. We're going to be talking wormholes and Einstein-Rosenbridge. I see you guys at the Arnold's. You know what? In between, you know, we might even be talking some of that while the competition is on.

Here's another thing that I do. You ready? If I swear this, now this is a statement on society, on human nature. If I talk to somebody, if I'm screaming and yelling on the microphone and talking about the competition, I can talk to someone that I want to talk to on the microphone when they're in the other side of the room. talk to on the microphone when they're in the other side of the room and and just by lowering my voice and speaking in little short quips and they will answer me and come up and say walk up and say here's like for example i'll say here comes michael johnson and the lift is good and i'll say bill what time are we going out for steak tonight? And the rest of the people are somewhat like, uh,

they don't hear that. It doesn't make any sense. You've lowered your voice and it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense to them. So it's like the brain doesn't register. Cause then I'll say to the people, I'll say, did you hear when I asked that guy,

what time we've gone out for a steak dinner on the competition? And they go, no, you never said that. And I said, because it didn't register with your brain because it's a non sequitur. It makes no sense. But the guy that you're saying it to, he hears it. And then he'll come up and I'll say, 6 o'clock, we're going to Morton's. Meet us there. You know, so this is what I'm going to, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to say, and she's squatting three times her body weight, her dots, formulas, I was such, and I'm going to say, Tanner, Tanner,

um, um, uh, what do you think of wormholes? Yes. Yeah, that's great. And you'll be the only one that the two of you the two of you will be the

that's we'll pick up on that well uh really good news you passed overrated underrated it was it's a pass fail uh game and oh i passed oh thank you so you've got that badge of honor you can rub that in uh jonah's face next time you see him then i can't wait to tell him i can't wait to tell him now now now how long have you guys been going to the arnold's well so we went just like going to interview people and running around for maybe was that really the first time well 2019 was our first booth the first year we had a booth was in 2019, but I think we went three years prior to that, right? Three or was it two? I bet 2016 was our first year.

Probably, yeah. Yeah, because you might not have had the booth, but didn't you have... Yeah, we were doing interviews. Yeah, we were around doing interviews. Yeah, I mean, I was doing interviews with you even before you had the booth. Yep, yep, yep. Didn't you have on the banners yeah i mean i mean i was doing interviews with you even before you had the booth and yep yep

didn't you have didn't you have on the on the on the banners the the uh what do they call those banners um the backdrops or the yeah the backdrops you had didn't wasn't wasn't your logo on some of them what some years or no i don't think i don't know that it was uh no we might have spray painted it there without people knowing. That's actually what we need to do. We're going to bring a stencil and just spray paint and put it on everyone. I mean, it's there. We can't get a new one.

Yeah, you give me one of those stencils and I'll help you out. Throw one on the back of all the USAPL backdrops. Yeah, when somebody's out there going for a world record, we'll be in the back rearranging all the advertisements for the yes powerlifting community and you know you know another thing that i look forward to now every year is arnold coming over yeah and getting to announce him now now when he comes over like usually i would just in the beginning he would kind of sneak in and just sit down. But now I get some of the guys in his entourage, tell me when he's coming.

So I know when to expect them. And then when he comes, I just stopped the competition for a couple of minutes. And I kind of do a little intro, you know, ladies and gentlemen, I have some of them on tape somewhere, you know,

here he comes, the originator, the governator, the terminator, he's back. And then he gives me the little fist pump. And then he grabs the microphone and he says,

you have great energy. That's awesome. And then he looks at the audience and he goes, he has great energy. It is, for anyone that hasn't like been to the arnold or especially or if you haven't seen been somewhere where arnold comes through or comes to it is a well first yeah you said the entourage like he that's not a joke he's not just there

yeah there is a entourage with him but it is like there's a certain uh presence when he's around too oh god the place just goes nuts and it does i mean sometimes he's had he's had what do you call it he said the the um the the military like the national guard there or something yeah right that's right that's that's the words i was looking for yeah he has the national guard escorting him around and and and he's got that whole crew and he's got a guy that literally takes his videoing every step he makes. And then another guy that's taking photographs every 10 seconds, wherever the guy walks for the entire, you know, 10 hours that he's there. And he tries to get around to as many of the different.

That's what I love about him. It doesn't matter what sport it is now. You know, I think somebody told me they saw him. You know, this ping pong is one of the events now at the Arnold's. You know that. Pole dancing, ping pong. Yeah. Yeah. And they saw him, they saw him sleeping over in the ping pong thing once, but at least he was there. At least he was there supporting them, you know? Yeah. But he got his start in powerlifting. He tells everybody that the same thing every year is I got to my start in powerlifting. That's why I got into bodybuilding. So I really love the powerlifters because that's how I got to my start. And a lot of people don't know that he started out as a powerlifter before he got into bodybuilding. I think everybody knows it now.

He's been saying it for the last 10 years. He does kind of say the same. Yeah. I mean, or if you go to the final bodybuilding show in the Grand Hall or whatever that is, he kind of says the same stuff every single time. Yeah. Yeah, he's definitely got it on automatic pilot. Yeah.

No, that's good. Well, we really loved having you on here, Gino, and it's been a long time overdue, so I'm glad we got to get you on here. And we're going to be seeing you a whole bunch here in the next month, so this is really cool. It's cool to catch up beforehand before we get to see you. And when you're in Sioux Falls, watch out.

There'll be a few Massanomics lifters. One of our favorites that you call out, Larry Legend. You've done some good calls for him over there. So be on the lookout for Larry Legend. He'll be there, and we'll be excited to hear a few Masonomics' in the house down in Sioux Falls. You're going to get more than a few.

Can I say thank you again? It's been an honor to be on your show. Your show's been around for a long, long time, and what an honor. I was tough to get a hold of for a while there during uh during the whole corona thing and um i you know i love you do you two guys so i'm looking forward

to uh seeing you on more than one occasion coming up uh in the next month or two uh and i can't believe that i'm looking here at the phone now an hour hour went by. That went by really fast. I feel like it got on 10 minutes ago. That is the way it always goes every week. That's the way we like it, though. Well, that's a good thing. I've been on some where I've been like, when is this going to wrap this up?

Pull out the hook cane. Get him out of here. Thank you both, gentlemen. I appreciate it. Awesome. We'll see you soon thanks a lot gino all right thanks those beans need no introduction no that was really good that was good yeah that was fun yo i didn't know he was going to be announcing i didn't either that makes me i don't think we even talked about this on the podcast at all but uh they're planning on being yeah as of right now the south dakota state meet will happen on what do you say april 2nd is that what yes

that's saturday in sioux falls south dakota um for those people that are geography inclined you could say southeast southeast south dakota yeah um and we we have there'll be multiple massonomics lifters there massonomics will also have a booth there yes would you say it's central southeast south dakota see i'd almost say it's southeast southeast south dakota because it is pretty damn close to iowa and minnesota would you say like um is it I would actually say eastern southeast South Dakota. That's what I would say. Okay. I think that's good, yeah.

I think eastern southeast South Dakota. Because what is like Yankton? Do you go by Yankton? Well, Yankton would be like south southeast South Dakota. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, Sioux Falls is definitely eastern southeast South Dakota. You could make a case for it southeast southeast South Dakota. I know.

Southeast southeast South Dakota. There is a case for that. That is getting down there Dakota. I know. Southeast, Southeast, South Dakota. There is a case for that. That is getting down there. But that'd be more. What's right down in there? What's what's North Sioux City? What's that? Bluff.

Council Bluffs. Yeah. They do have the mark accorded on Southeast, Southeast, South Dakota. I'm really glad with Gino that we got to also get into an ancient aliens discussion. Yeah, yeah. He seems well-versed on a lot of different things, doesn't he? Yes, he does. And you do, you just, you assume it's like, oh, this is just a guy that yells at things.

Yeah. What does he know about this stuff? You're like, oh, you had this corporate finance job. Like, that's, I would have never pegged you for that. Did he say he had a grad degree in finance and stuff yeah what do you say a undergrad in economics and a graduate degree in finance yeah i don't think they let any dummy do that that's true that's and i you know that that was a very interesting interview i'm glad we got that's another you know we we're kind of checking all these people off that it's been years in the making of getting them on the list for years there was this was years ago at one of like probably at

the 2017 or 2018 powerlifting meet in Sioux Falls I went down there I wasn't competing I was just went one of those years I just went down there uh to watch you guys I was going to do one in person with him and I took all the equipment and I was actually there waiting and it just didn't work out. Like something came up, him and Jonah had to do something and it didn't work out. So this one literally is like five years in the making. Which now it's funny because you're like, oh, why would I bug someone with that?

Like the day, the weekend of a meet, they got so much other stuff going on. This is so much easier and like, I don't think anything's lost in this either. No, no, I don't think so. Yeah, that was fun though. That was cool beans. I'm excited to hear him scream Larry Legend a few times.

That was always... We'll get him really going on that. Larry Legend. We'll get some good videos of that too. If I remember right, it's more of a Larry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That certain East Coast flavor to it. That's right.

Oh, you know what else? Do we even need to do that right now or do we wait a little bit? Do we wait? We have something else to talk about. Okay, yeah. So do we wait until the end? Okay, we'll wait for them. Kind of switch up our ad format this week a little bit. Yep, yep, yep. We'll wait for that because we each have one left here to visit on that, right? Yep, we do. Okay.

So there was... Alright, we got to pulp the list here tanner yeah there's there's those things oh okay oh that's what it is i know i know what we're going so we actually we have a little little bone to pick here and this kind of started in you talking about it last week and i was a hundred percent knew you said, and anyone that- Was this off the podcast? This was off the podcast. We're like, oh no, we got to talk about this next week.

Because you're the first person I've ever talked to about this in person. Yeah. I've heard it brought up before. And you knew exactly what it said. And I knew exactly what you said. And every person that has an iPhone right now, Android people, I have no idea.

You might be in your own world. This might not be relevant. But anyone that owns an iPhone, if you don't relate to this 100%, I i'm gonna really question how you use your phone yeah so uh what did you say tan you're like what's the deal you know every time you use safari and you start talk or you start yeah you start googling something or typing something in i'm why am i hitting the period so much like my i don't have spaces hitting the period it's just like what period does period this period period mean period i'm like why is there why am i is it in this that i'm always

hitting the stupid what is going on and for a long time i also wondered that and i'm just like well i'm a moron i just can't type right half the time but it's also weird that i can only not type right sometimes and if you've never really taken the time to look like the iphone keyboard when you're messaging someone the iphone keyboard has no period on it you know everyone just hits space twice and that's how your period goes in right i'm assuming that's what everyone does right this is where you get to hit the space bar twice unlike uh you know our previous discussions you do get to hit the space double space bar twice yeah you get the space bar twice because on the iphone you hit space bar twice it puts a period in,

a space, and it starts the next sentence. But if you're in the Safari browser in the actual address bar and you're typing, on the very edge of the spacebar, instead of being a spacebar, there's a period there.

And you hit that damn period all the time. But it's also weird how that period is just on the very edge and you hit that. You don't hit. But it's also weird how that period is just on the very edge, and you hit that. You don't hit the space wherever. You catch that. And it's just a universal thing, I think.

Yeah. I think everyone does it. I mean, it is constant. Like, it's hard to type something in there and not hit that stupid period. But Google seems to know that, like, yep, everyone has this problem because it never really affects your searches hardly hardly other than the words just like right right so why don't they just move that period why don't even if they just put it on the other i suppose if you're left-handed maybe you wouldn't be a thing would it though i don't know well to

me i'm like move it to the other side of the space next to the one two threes and all that yeah because like you you know when you are right-handed and you're typing like i think you're inclined right for your thumb to be on this half majority of the people are right-handed so you think by that case it would be on the left hand side uh yeah it's weird though i and i actually looked is there a way to turn that period off because the number of times that i'm actually entering an exact web address in that bar is so rare. You're just searching, right? And when it is, I'll just hit the- It's mostly a search engine.

Yeah. And when it is, I'll just hit the one, two, three and enter the actual period in. I don't need to have that there. And I looked and from what I can tell, there is no way to actually turn that keyboard off in Safari. It looks like there might be some apps that you can get so that it knows when you off in Safari. It looks like there might be some apps that know that you can get so that it knows when you're in Safari and get rid of that keyboard and change the keyboard up. But by default in the Apple system,

it doesn't look like there's any way to actually remove that period because after we got done talking about this, I'm like, yeah, I don't need that period. I'll just remove it. It doesn't look like there's a clean way of doing it. So,

so that's our, that's our call out for someone to fix that. If you work at, is Safari its own company? No, it's Apple. It's Apple's browser, yeah. Was it ever its own thing and Apple bought it or was it always just Apple's browser? As far as I know, Safari has,

I guess maybe if you go back far enough, maybe they bought a team that was making another browser. But as far as I know, Safari, as it's called, has been just the mac browser since forever and is surfing safari is that by the beach boys yeah yeah every time i hear safari i think hey surfing safari are you a beach boys guy at all tanner i i don't i i don't dislike the beach i, there's a time and a place. Oh, there is a time. There's definitely a time and a place. It's actually weird just how little the Beach Boys come.

When I was a little kid, I liked the Beach Boys. Yeah, it was like this fun kind of like, you just say surf music, but it had a definite sound to it. But it just doesn't come up. I don't know. You don't encounter the Beach Boys. No. But you encounter the other older groups.

I just don't. I encounter Elvis and I encounter the Beatles. So they don't get played on classic rock. And they don't get really played. Yeah, I kind of get what you're saying. Yeah. But I think the Beach Boys have a place. I do like the Beach Boys.

And actually, in my younger, more party-heavy days, my friends also had a... My whole friend crew, we all had a very big Beach Boys thing going on once the drinking was involved. And we got to the point where, in Aberdeen, you could call one of the bar shuttles. One of the bars in town has a shuttle

that would pick you up and take you to their bar yeah and uh we were we were notorious for we would get on the shuttle with like 20 people the shuttle driver knew who we were he would put on the beach boys and we would just lose our shit and just go crazy well if you put on beach boys 20 greatest hits everyone in the bus well even you don't think you know the song you know those words and all of a sudden you're like oh yeah like I know all of these like you might say I don't know any Beach Boys songs and you're like wait I know all of them you know the words to a

majority of yeah yeah so that's kind of part of it too is just like just like why do I I'm singing these words why do I know these because that's how I felt for a long time yeah like why do I even know these words and you're like no everyone knows these words so yeah Beach Boys. Underrated, right?

I kind of think that they are. I think they are a little bit. I actually saw them live. I've seen them live twice. Really? They had to be ancient. They have to be extremely old. I think there's only like one or two of the guys. Does anyone, do you know a name of any of the Beach Boys?

Yeah, it's Mike Love's uncle was one. Kevin Love, you know, the basketball player. His uncle was one of the founding members. Is it Mike Love? I'm pretty sure. Okay. Dude Love. I actually feel really dumb for saying this,

but I can't think of the main guy's name right now. And I just have to- I wonder if I would know it. Like, I'm just curious what it is. Is it Brian? Members. Yeah, Brian Wilson. I was gonna say Brian Williams, and I'm like, is not right uh brian wilson he's kind of uh that sounds kind of i feel like

he's maybe gets the i think he kind of gets the most credit as far as the beach boys go or he's maybe the creative genius behind a lot of it mike love is the saxophone player kevin loves uncle so i did not know that fun fact yeah that is a fun fact on the top of music and on the topic of motley crew have you seen any of this biopic uh pam and tommy i have not no i'm not even i'm have you seen it i have i watched i've seen a lot of advertisements for it i um i haven't been getting to watch i'll start this off i haven't been getting to watch any tv the only off i haven't been getting to watch any tv the only two like the other night my wife and i said when was the last time we either of us have even had this television on and we weren't sure like i gotta make sure it still works the

only things i've been trying like when i can like on sunday like there's like sometimes in sunday afternoon i have like a little time where i can get to i've been trying to watch the um book of boba fett oh yeah yeah you're kind of which i'm mostly caught up on that and what i the little bit of cliff notes i give on that it was like way slower than mandalorian not as good as uh mandalorian until more recently boba fett turned into mandalorian part two and then it's really good again because it's like ah the mandalorian's back and all that and baby yoda's back grogu mandalorian even okay i'm really out of the loop on all that stuff yeah so i that's the one thing i've been trying to watch and then the one other thing that i want to watch and like i've just

started to is that uh biopic and it's pretty interesting to me like and like I've just started to is that biopic and it's pretty interesting to me like and also I'm just I'm pretty into like 1995 and stuff so I just like the music it's funny too because the world was so different then what's really cool about this is like it gets

into like a lot of internet stuff and it's like it's so funny watching them talk come out like 1994 1995 no like the tape like that's when it like went to the public was then yeah oh it was yeah yeah yeah okay see i thought like for some reason in my mind that the tape didn't actually get out to the public until like 99 no and no as long as this biopic is accurate so it's i don't know it probably is i don't know and like it's like 1990 it's 1995 and which is funny like the conversations in there i guess when i was six years old i wasn't really into the tommy lee and uh pamela anderson sex

tape scene but to me like so that's you know i would have been 10 in 1997 you know and that is like prime like pamela anderson you know like everyone knows you knew who she was right right sure yeah uh but the the world wide web talk on this show is just awesome just hilarious how like most of the people don't this is 1995 i was like in upper grade school like not far out of middle school almost you know and like most people like didn't understand what the world wide web was yeah like they'd be talking about it explaining and they'd be like what do you like yeah 95 was still relatively early though and if this is accurate like it's it's weird like how fast that changed though how even like from like 95 to 2000. Oh yeah. How like,

like apparently gen pop didn't get it. They did like, just like that tiny little window there where it really changed drastically. Yeah. That, that would have been, that would have been it. Cause that's part of what was really interesting about the show to me is like just this 1995 era and everything that's going on and in there and like how it

all relates back to music and pop culture and stuff like that it is that's the best part of the show to me yeah i and i can like that would be yeah that'd be fun to watch just for that part of it and how the actor and actress that play tommy lee and pamela anderson look like them you watch it enough and you just like start to think that that is who that person is. Like that is who that is. Like, yeah.

But the, the actress like that plays that she does not look like that in, in like, there's a lot of like makeup and stuff. Yeah. Way stuff going on to it. But like when you watch it enough, you like,

I start to be like that. I feel like that is them. You know, I'm confused now. Like I've got to get my senses right. Right. Um, but I'm kind of enjoying that. It's also like really graphic and not a family affair it is not a family show

also like i didn't know what my expectation of what is allowed on hulu see i don't know what i didn't think it was that okay so they're like they're going places here yes all right yes and so interesting and i did not i wasn't aware that you could just like that that was like what was on who like that i never know what the rules are for that stuff like i don't really get like where does netflix and hulu and hbo i feel like people kind of know what to expect with hbo yeah but like yeah where yeah, where does Netflix and Hulu draw their lines? Right. I don't really know where that is. Did you ever watch Barb Wire?

I never did. I just remember being a little kid in the video store and seeing that damn cover. What is that? Seeing that cover all the time. Yeah. Seeing that cover

and the striptease cover in the video store. Yeah. There's probably some other ones. I never saw Barb Wire either, but like, it's funny how you know that image perfectly. Yeah. Back when Barb Wire tattoos tattoos were kind of a thing.

Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, the 90s. Simpler times. Simpler times. And Seth Rogen is in the show. Is he really? Isn't he one of the guys that steals the game?

Yeah, and then also the dude from parks and rec ron swanson oh is he one of the other ones yeah okay like he those are kind of the two main characters that aren't pam and tommy all right i think i did catch that in a little preview so that's also interesting like and i didn't know anything about the show when i first clicked on it so i'm like i'm like that's seth brogan i like i didn't realize what a like a you know it's it's good cool so that's enough on that uh one other thing slightly related but not really i think it was on the super bowl they had a commercial for an hbo show about the building of the lakers empire oh i did see that pretty cool didn't it yeah and my son loves basketball football and he you know

when we saw that we were like oh yes you know because it's got magic johnson and uh kareem in it yeah that's what i thought i thought that looked like that's got some potential i'm i do want to see that i'm curious like how much it gets sensationalized and how much it feels like a kind of like a documentary or not but i would like i really do what is that on hbo okay and that's not out yet i don't think it is but adam adam mckay um you know he did uh succession okay yep also doesn't isn't he the guy that does stepbrothers and all that stuff too is it okay isn't it i don't know but i did i did catch that too and i really thought that that looked good yeah what about um yeah stepbrothers anchorman the other guys you

know all those classics do you know anyone that watched that kurt warner movie uh it came out or i hardly even know that this is a thing other than i saw like one or two people talking about it and i didn't even know i saw one or two people having like posts about it and i honestly didn't know if they were being for real or if they're making something up no it's real i kind of wanted to go to it in the theaters and then someone else i talked to said you know that's probably a terrible movie and i thought about i'm like it probably is a terrible movie and so i never you know i haven't seen it but i was just curious about it there's still a part of me that wants to see it because they're again catching me and like kind of want to see like what kurt warner was doing in like 1998 and like what you know like

it could be interesting yeah the fact that it flew so under the radar yeah maybe it wasn't the best thing i usually my assumption still that it's bad yeah let us know someone reached out and did let us know that they are uh from maine and powerlift oh one person okay so there's one yep i forgot i don't have that saved quick to pull up but you know who you are yeah you know who you're that one person from maine that powerlifts and i really have been getting a lot of in all coming from all different ways uh people that have said they have been to Red Robin. Also, Red Robin. Some people will be like, oh, Red Robin is awesome. The endless fries, blah, blah, blah.

Then for every one of those, there's another person that messages and says, yes, it is real and unfortunately it is the worst or the most bland version of that. Yeah, like for everyone that says how good it is, there's at least one more that says how bad it is. We're practically conducting consumer research for Red Robin. They should be paying us.

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