Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 309: Answering Your Questions

Episode Date: March 7, 2022

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If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! side everything massonomics welcome back everyone for episode 309 of the massonomics podcast what yeah the lifting podcast about nothing recorded live from western north east south dak. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy. And Tanner, I left the top light on. You told me right away. Rookie mistake.

I remember my first podcast studio lighting. Okay. Light is fixed. Now we're back. This is 309. We're off on a little bit different schedule this week, aren't we? It's a very different schedule. It feels like just two days ago we were recording 308.

Yeah, because we did just record two days ago. So 308 with Jordan Feigenbaum comes out the week we're leaving for the Arnold and kind of just the tail end it starts. So then this episode will come out the day that we are on our way home. The second day that we're on our way home. The second day that we're on our way home. Yeah, it would actually, yeah. This will come out the Monday that we get home from the Arnold. So by the time you and I are sitting in a vehicle listening to this, just because living it once together wasn't enough,

we're going to sit and listen to it. We will know how the Arnold went. How things actually went. Yeah, with everything going on there's a lot that's going to happen in the next week yeah yes um so we're pretty much like all systems go on that like getting that pretty amped i'm i'm already getting that feeling like i'm really excited and i'm like oh we're not even leaving for like five days still right let's see saturday sunday monday tuesday yeah right kind of

for five days like for a week it's felt like it's tomorrow though yes it has and i'm just i'm just getting i'm like oh i remember this feeling three years ago or whenever it was and then to have the rug pulled out from under you yeah it can't happen again i can't wouldn't that be quite the thing oh man i'd be like yeah we're seriously never going to this again but just and then say take my money i have to do it yeah yeah i know so we're excited we are excited you know what else is exciting what well spud ink oh they are strapped i'm just changing as i go i'm just thinking on the on the spot. I wanted to tell you about Sputting at the beginning of today's episode.

Specifically, I'm going to tell you about their belt squat belt. I'm looking at going back to one of their simpler, more basic products. I'm a huge fan of that one. Yeah, it's a time-tested classic. That'd be probably my most used Sputting item. Yeah, it gets used a lot. It might be the go-to sputting strap of the Mathsonomics gym. I think it is.

So the belt squat belt. And maybe you're still asking, what is the belt squat belt? Well, using the sputting belt squat belt is a great way to train your lower body without placing a heavy load on your spine. The sputting belt squat belt is designed for maximal comfort on your hips while allowing you to use heavy weight to train your legs. Our Belt Squat Belt is great for athletes to use in season to train legs without taxing the entire body.

The Belt Squat Belt is also a great way for athletes with back pain to squat without axial loading that a bar places on the spine, causing back pain to worsen. They do have this available in black or yellow, and it's made for lifters, basically anyone that's over 150 pounds is what they say. And they also have like a youth size for you. It's got to be this big to ride.

Yeah, there's a youth size for smaller framed athletes but uh yeah it's you almost can't mess up or not figure out how to use the belt squat belt it is very simple um very effective put it on like a belt and get to squatting yeah because at first true story we didn't have the sputnik belt squat belt at first we're using like something kind of makeshifty oh it sucks so bad yeah i think we were actually using a reverse hyper strap or something like that that's not made to do that, but you've got to make it work. And once we got the belt squat belt, we were like,

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So it'll save you infinity dollars. I did like, Big Keith did mention a certain idea in there that I think has some merit to it. That would be the Drink Spotter Strap. A real collaboration with Spuddy. Yeah, another collab product specifically related to the Drink Spotter. Yes, I like that yeah how do you think what do you think the application of this that is um i kind of like to think of as like a chain wallet kind of but it holds beverages instead you know like you hang it off your person

yeah yeah like off your well you could hang it off of you or different pieces of equipment i mean really that's the beauty of a strap is you can technically hang it off of anything. You're thinking it's kind of like one of those wallet chains. Kind of. It's pretty versatile. You can hang that off of anything, too. Yeah. Okay.

Something to think about. Something to think about. Well, this episode, we're not having a guest. We're mixing it up a little bit. We are. Before we do that, though, before we forget, I just have to laugh, Tanner. The post tonight really really cracking me up really silly goose and it was just just straight fire over in the instagram i gotta i gotta pull it up here so i don't butcher anything it's there's two types of power lifters on instagram and it's

john hack yeah i'm into nfts noses feets and teeths with a little puppy uh and then uh joe sullivan with a very serious uh monologue and that in its own is a very funny meme it's a very funny meme but where i was really cracking up was the comments under this thing yeah because they're so damn funny because you in the caption you wrote are you more of a silly goose power lifter or a serious goose power lifter and um there was a few things uh jj everly in every power lifter there are two geeks and i'm like okay that is hilarious and there were several comments underneath that but then there was another one in here and it said um i want to find it robbie pl honk squad and i'm like a honk squad that is awesome i just picture like the whole you know like the mighty ducks they'd go quack quack and here they just go honk it's like the discord just an army

of people behind us saying honk honk it's so stupid and uh then you do the flying v it's all but that part really is a lot like the mighty ducks one it's just geese instead they're all migratory birds like come on they're not that different did you know that uh geese typically mate for life do they really they life they pair up lifelong do uh do penguins do that too not sure uh doesn't the daddy penguin sit on the egg while the mommy goes out and does stuff? Or am I thinking of a completely different species of animal? No, I mean, I'd believe that if you said that. If you told me that was what penguins do, I'd be like, yeah, that sounds right.

Yeah. They don't fly south for the winter, though. I can tell you that. That'd be quite the flight. Did we talk about the McDonald's secret menu items that are like, like they have the land, air and sea sandwich. What? Yeah. It's like there.

It's like a thing. They have some secret surf and turf. Well, so no, the land, air and sea is a big Mac that also you can, you can go to the menu and it's on the, it's on the big sign.

There is a thing that says you can. So you say, I want the land, air and sea. Yeah. The land, air and sea burger, I think is what it's called. And it's a big Mac basically is a thing that says you can so you say i want the land air and sea yeah the land air and sea burger i think is what it's called and it's a big mac basically is what it looks like that also has a fish which fit you know the fish yeah the fish filet fish filet on it and a chicken all on one patty or on one bread yeah i don't know yeah okay that's from a marketing standpoint yeah you're talking about

it so it's doing something but i don't know about that as actually eating and enjoying no that's disgusting the thing that makes it disgusting is the fish sandwich because a fish sandwich alone is maybe palatable some people kind of like i don't want to have a chicken patty on my hamburger either like i mean that'd be much better than the fish on there but i don't want those ones mixed together yeah because they also another thing they have that for some reason seems better but is similar is they have one where you they just they put chicken nuggets on your cheeseburger too because then it gets to be like that's what some of those burgers at a restaurant are where they're like yeah this one has this and like

grilled onions on it and like um i get what you're saying you know like it also has pulled pork on it and bacon it's like how many deep fried things do you need on right like already fast food burger though right you know right uh but, air, and sea thing to me would sound disgusting because of the fish sandwich, but I also would never order that fish sandwich from McDonald's. No, no, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that either.

I'm not saying fish sandwiches aren't good. They can be good. You just got to be kind of selective with them. Yeah, they can be all right, where I'm like, yeah, this, I guess you've twisted me into getting this and it did end up being decent okay i'm it might have been because there was alcohol involved but our hardy's in town i thought hardy's had some pretty bomb fish sandwiches at like one in the morning probably because it is a point in time when you want to

eat anything and if but if you're you somehow by the grace of god get to actually even have hot food it's like oh my god that's the fact that i chose a fish sandwich that maybe says something i don't know about my state of decision making at the time or i know i 've talked about this before but hardy's when i was a little kid had hot dogs also i do not remember that i grew up in a very small town and hardy's was one of the few we had in the town i grew up in we had hardy's taco john's and pizza ranch is that like the midwest staples right there you had a pizza ranch when you were a little too like yeah from the time i was probably in fourth grade third grade we had a hardy's taco john's pizza and a subway and a subway uh yeah you know no dairy queen though no dairy queen nope that's kind of surprising to me that there's not a Dairy Queen there.

Yeah. But those are all staples of the Midwest. What food were we just talking about? Oh, so Hardee's. Hardee's, I always thought Hardee's was so good. Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits as a kid, those things were amazing. Still are good, but we don't have a Hardee's anymore. We have a Tommy's Car Wash instead now.

I mean, meaning to ask you you is that like you tommy you wouldn't believe the number of people that have texted me that and some of them i'm not quite sure if they're joking or serious that i built a multi-million dollar car i've been wondering and i meant to ask it just never came up until now that's what i've just been so busy with just a giant car wash yeah um so we are going to do a q a are we going to talk about our arnold expectations before after the q a maybe we could just mix it in okay like if we get a little tired of doing q's we'll uh so that's a something we have coming up um i think we could work on a little supporting our supporting members, maybe some over-under.

Okay, so they'll be sprinkled in. Yeah, we could do that. Would you say it'll be like the chicken nuggets on top of this burger? That'll be sprinkled on there, yes. And there is a lot of questions. I don't know that we'll get to every one. There's no way we are going to answer every one. You showed me it scrolled for a very long time.

Do you want to cross do a cold one yeah we should do that this isn't a what's in the can okay also if you ask like 10 questions we're probably not going to ask all 10 of yours for the sake of getting to some other people's but we'll it's called fair people and what are we drinking today here guilt free thank you okay so some of these will rattle through fairly quickly too but first question is from tom underscore lootkey and he said when will shane hunt be on the podcast that's an interesting question i i can honestly say i didn't know shane who who Shane Hunt was until we went to the showdown and I'm like who's that big jack guy that I don't know along with the you know several others that I didn't and someone said that's Shane Hunt and then I relatively recently found him on Instagram

and I see he's got a pretty big following on there and I followed him and he already follows us so maybe we will I don't know when but i would say in 2022 we'll probably try and get uh shane hunt on the podcast i think that's reasonable i think that's a good call um unless you hate shane hunt that's something that i didn't know it'd be awkward if deep seated your arch nemesis deep-seated grudge against him yeah yeah uh this next one is more of a statement than a question because there's no question mark at the end of it. Okay. It just says question.

This is from Lou Nutter. All right. Do you have any idea what it says? I'll tell you. Okay. It says gold curl shorts. I had a feeling it might go that direction. Yeah.

So not a question. So we don't have to answer anything there. Next one is from David underscore Hunter. Big David. Big Hunter. Big David. Big David. Are the inmates fully running the asylum now? What he's referring to is what we would consider the Mathsonomics Unpaid Interns, the supporting members, the Discord crew, any of all of those things.

So what's the answer? Are they fully running the asylum? Not fully. Some of them have certainly been let out of their cages. You could say they're very active in that asylum. There's a lot going on. We would like to think that it's all of our secret doing, but that's probably not true.

David also says, has Aberdeen Magazine formally apologized yet? It's been over a year. Yeah, unfortunately they have not there's still been no formal apology issued we've got some we've got some plans to work around them yeah we are working some angles on this we're gonna stay tuned that saga is not done it's like when your supervisor won't do what you want and you go uh to the big boss you can say uh yeah what's it breaking the chain of command. Yep.

So stay tuned. Yep. That saga's not done yet. Big Lance says, how's the supply chain looking? As of right now, for us, not too bad, actually. Yeah, with everything going on, it's improving, maybe, with everything going on. Well, like, the fourth quarter of the year is always the absolute worst because everyone putting like their biggest orders in for every product that exists.

And we had to, to start this year, put in massive amounts of orders for the Arnold, like the most stuff we've ever ordered in a single time in our life. And it all went just fine. I don't ever ordered in a single time in our life and it all went just fine i don't think we got a single i don't think we had a single communication back and forth with our printer that things were out of stock right now i don't which is kind of crazy because starting in what september every other every single thing every other email was like sorry yep uh that shirt only

has smalls in that size or in that color uh it was just non-stop it was it was like, sorry, yep, that shirt only has smalls in that color. It was just nonstop. It was like a full-time job just keeping up with colors. And then being like, you and I agree on something, and then that doesn't work, so then we have to have another, like, what do you, like, we have to agree. Or this is gone, but it looks like it might be back in two weeks, so it's like, fuck, I guess we'll just wait two weeks and see what happens.

I kind of forgot about that. That really sucked it's annoying but improving for us at least with everything going on yep big dutch matt says what about uh on massonomics nft non-fungible token we've actually talked about this just kind of in passing because it would be funny yeah there's also some of them sell for way too much money which is always a good thing so i don't know i don't think it's out of the equation but we're definitely how do you actually market selling like how do you i okay i probably have this all wrong i've never really heard anyone talk about creating them i only hear about people i don't know what i think it's all through like ethereum i think i think it's through their blockchain whatever it is um i don't like it it's something it does it works in some different way but then i think there's like markets that are designed to

sell these things i mean you could definitely figure it out if you needed to there's yeah there's a lot of people that have done it so it's not like it's impossible to do but neither of us obviously know this but what's your wild ass guess is um like when we're old we'll like we'll digital currency we'll just be like that's what everyone uses and what and like i'm still over there kind of like no i'm not doing it they're like nope money's not a thing anymore it's like digital currency this is also where i don't get it because people are like fiat currency. It doesn't matter. It's just a made up number.

Also, Bitcoin doesn't matter either. It's just only valuable because we all agree it's valuable. Isn't that what fiat currency is? Isn't that really the same? Like, well, but no, it runs an equation. So it's actually based on scarcity. But sure, okay. But what about the other 500 grand?

The other coins that pop up, they're only valuable because everyone agrees they're valuable, right? And then also, digital currency. How often do you have money on you? Not very, not. I mean, I don't choose to use that as my form of payment there's not anything i'm in a bowling league if it wasn't for a bowling league to pay our server in cash yeah i would never have cash on me like that's the only reason in my life right now i have cash is so that

when i go to the bowling league i can tip my server in cash otherwise i don't know it might as well be digital currency i don't see it right i don't even use my credit i just have it on my phone apple pay i don't even see a card half the time right so i don't know um i think i think right now there's a lot of people that are trying to make a lot of money and it's in their best interest to get more people interested because the more people that get interested the more people that the early adopters get more money they can make so it's a big marketing thing. Will it be?

It'll probably be a thing in the future, probably. I just don't know. To what? I'm not, I'm not, you know, it doesn't get me really,

really excited at the end of the day, figuring out how I'm going to pay for things five years from now. It's so stupid, isn't it? Yeah. I would trust that there'll be a system in place that is still usable

and like is normal and, you know, whatever. Yeah. I have bigger things to worry about. Right, right. Solid drinks. Solid gold drink spotter when? Still won't cost as much as the new lift shorts. Yeah.

Agreed. Yeah. It'd be cool. Yep. Well, there's that one out there and someone doing all the gold oh yeah uh efren or yeah yeah yeah so there's some one-offs of the red ones that people have made look cool some people have done some black ones yeah the cult the you just get so used to seeing stainless steel that right you see colored one it does yeah big austin turner, are we going to get that lift patch before WW3?

Actually, we talked about a lift patch before. I mean, that could probably be done with not that much. Oh, it'd probably be a minimal amount of effort. We've never done a patch, and I would guess it's one of the easiest things we can do. We'll look into it. It actually wouldn't be a bad idea to just have a like a patch pack on the site right three patches because we've bounced around that idea for a while now so yeah um yeah maybe sometime have you ever heard the song heard the song patches before it's like the oldies song right yeah it's like patches i'm depending on your son yeah i tried to pull you through okay that's actually i was really surprised that you know that song i had a buddy in college that uh yeah when you said the oldies

song i'm like yeah but what like i feel like you can't you can't be thinking the same this is i haven't even heard of this song in over 10 years. When I was in college, I had a buddy that had a playlist that had that song on it, and it played nonstop. And I remember that was the only time I'd ever heard that song, and I have not heard of it existing again until right now. Wow. I wonder who that song is by.

Do you know? Clarence Carter. Really? Yeah. See, I don't know who that is either. Yeah. Clarence Carter. Every day before i went to school

is that yeah yeah i used to uh do the chores on my homework too because it was patches yeah okay yeah i forgot about we better stop singing so much google will flag us they'll think it's the real thing yeah patches by clarence carter um big keith honeycutt can we get a breakdown Terrence Carter. Big Keith. Honeycutt. Can we get a breakdown of what each of you do weekly? Who's in charge of what? As far as massonomics, I'm assuming. Let's start with your Monday at work, Tanner.

Yeah, at work, I'm in charge of my direct report. Weekly. So for us, well, Tanner, maybe it's easier to explain what you do first. Yeah, so I run, do the posting on the social media. So if you DM or whatever, you're usually talking to me on things that, anything important. I mean, Tommy and I talk about it behind the the scenes but i'm the one commenting usually on there um that's about it no

orders are a huge one yeah so all the inventory all the massonomics inventory is at my house in my basement. So I pack orders every single day usually. So the way that that goes is we write thank you cards for every order that we have. So if I get the chance, I usually try to batch write like a day's worth of thank you cards. I'll just say during the day when I have time. I won't specifically say when I do that, but I do it during the day when I have time. I won't specifically say when I do that, but I do it during the day usually if I can. And then at night after the kids are to bed and stuff, I usually pack.

That's when I pack orders. So if you get those fulfillment notification emails, that's usually probably at between 8 8 and 10 western south dakota time every once in a while if i do get to go home for lunch i'll eat i'll pack orders then i basically do you not go home for lunch every day well you go to the gym a lot of the days oh and you don't go to home at all no that i'm gone so long to the gym that i'm that i'm like i probably can't also like i didn't know for sure how that worked no i go go back to work and eat lunch uh at work gotcha at my desk between between crunching numbers on the number yeah sometimes my keyboard gets a little greasy but just it's all filled in

it's all part of the job yep um so that's what i you know i pack the orders and then we both i you know we come for the podcast so like most of the week is just always preparing for whatever you know it's just always preparing and planning it seems like what is going on most of the time too you know like is this we have we have like 10 phone calls a week probably like at least i was gonna say there's for uh there's at least every other day sometimes every day there's a 10 minute to one hour phone call uh yeah it depends on how busy you are sometimes it's like a few times a day every day yeah sometimes it can be yeah depending on we got. So there's a lot of phone calls. For me, the duties, the more obvious ones would be like editing the podcast audio and video

and getting that put up, creating the thumbnail for that, and then any like design, graphic things that come up that week. So, you know, if we have a drop going on, that's obviously, for both of us, a very busy week. Because getting the email ready, getting that designed and sent out getting all the images sized correctly and put on the website getting the mock-ups on there taking the photos for the marketing getting those all edited sized put on there in our google drive shared with that and then for me the bigger variable is well i mean that that is for me a time-consuming thing if that happens but like for me the bigger variable is like weeks where we have odd things

going on or we're doing some weird brainstorming on things like getting ready for the arnold it was like all right designing up price signs right you know sent to the printer like they're and all of this is just a shocking amount of little things oh yeah like the number of like-shirt, but random like booth items we got designed and then talking about like the plans and how we're going to do that. And I mean, it's just any number of, all right. Oh,

we need to remember to put this message on the website next week. And we need to remember to build out this marketing code and this, and like, there's all types of weird things like that going on too, but those kind of all get split between us. So, yeah. Then I guess the other thing is like always ordering stuff we're all you know we're constantly like looking at inventory yeah does this need to be reordered yet does this get reordered ever

yeah like do we let it sit for a while does it come back in a new color um yeah is this in season is it worth ordering this again like that's always a conversation too. I'd say that's that in a nutshell though, right? Pretty much. Okay. And we didn't even mention the discord side of things. That's true.

We were both on the discord. It's a really active community. Um, this is also not a question, just a comment. This reminds me of, um, my wife told me This reminds me of, um, my wife told me like at her job,

she would have to go into like a lot of grade school classrooms, some pretty young kids. And like they present things to them and show, like show them these displays and stuff like that. And, um, there would always be like time for questions, but they always had to be very clear that it was for, if you have questions,

go ahead and raise your hand. Just show and tell where it's your turn well that's that's uh usually if someone would raise their hand you'd say now is it a question or a comment and they'd be like oh actually it's a comment they're like okay we'll do comments later this is just for questions and like almost every time if you just ask them is it a question or a comment hey beck uh it's actually just a comment because you know it's like my dad said he has uh so which leads me back to now do you have an actual question or is this just a comment and this is just a comment. The Arnold. Nice. Yeah.

You know, along those lines, I was thinking of something the other day that remember how, remember how for the strong man, there'd be the Russian strong man, what's it, Mikhail Shymlakov every year? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mark Henry always had to go, how about those Russian,

he's a former Russian military man. Let's hear it for the troops. How about those Russian troops? Let's hear it for the troops. How about those Russian troops? Let's hear it for the troops, everyone. And people were kind of like, okay, I guess we're clapping. And then like, wait, is he going to pull that this year? Because that would be really bad timing for something like that. So I had to go look at the roster and Shymakov is not on the roster.

So no one has to worry about having that conversation with Mark Henry of like, hey, don't do that thing about the troops and russia and all that especially this year like maybe just keep that on the download this week yeah this is from big tommy this isn't you though i think a different different tommy uh would you rather time stamp every episode or only listen to Buck Cherry for the rest of your life? Okay, before I answer this question, I have to... Okay, Tanner, I'm going to see if I can pull this up on the computer here. Okay, watch. This is how I found this.

Oh, because we also have to mention we have a new athlete on the team. We'll mention that at some point. I never realized this. I'd kind of seen it in passing. Did you know Google automatically timestamps? I've never paid attention to that. Well, I think I talked about it one week. Really?

And it is funny the things it catches. Yeah, it is really weird some of the stuff it catches. Brian, I was looking up his interview we did with him. According to Google's 10 key moments in this video, at seven minutes, it flags badminton. At seven minutes and 43 seconds, it flags men's volleyball. Then at 22 minutes, it covers

banners. We have the varsity hat. The pin-up girl tee. Overrated or underrated, Tony Hawk. Behind the back deadlift 800 pound hack deadlift a sputnik elbow sleeves that's what it flagged in that episode which are hilarious things yeah google's little machine to be like yes this is what we must flag is important and it kind of made me want to think like oh if you just listen like all right andrew herbert's episodes popping up below that yeah i'm curious what it's gonna say yeah check and see what

it time stamps for herbie the love bug so we have fusion whey protein isolate carpal tunnel syndrome uh emg tests i don't know what that would be motivation versus discipline really how is it picking that up like roger bannister effect physique versus performance overrated or underrated the animal i'm assuming that's cage yeah brock lesnar elbow sleeves again and massonomics meme contest okay It is really funny reading back on those. How Sputnik Elbow Sleeves is featured in episode, well, August 1st and October 24th. So I guess that is almost three months apart. That's really random.

Oh, but the question though. Would you rather timestamp every episode or only listen to buck cherry for the rest of your life oh man i'd rather i'd rather you're crazy bitch i'd rather time stamp every episode oh yeah absolutely especially because only listen to buck cherry for the rest of your life what a miserable way to live like does that mean you only does that also mean always that's a good well either way that's the only choice you get for music forever that's but only and always is way worse than just only because only and always means it's constantly like crazy bitch yeah and that's

not just like a full buck cherry album it's just crazy just a single on repeat all the time yeah that'd be miserable i mean that'd be. Didn't they use that as a torture technique? Actually, with Crazy Bitch, I think, too. They just played it. They're like, no, no, I'll do anything. And it was after the first time. Three minutes later, make it stop. That's how bad that is.

Oh, they hit repeat. No. I would just about be that upset if it repeated after playing. You're just sweating the whole time. And then all of a sudden you see him hit, go up to the CD player and hit the repeat button and you just break down and lose it. I'll tell you where all the lift shorts money is buried. This is from Big Noah.

If I poop myself in the new shorts, will the shorts catch the poop, or is it going all over? That's a good question. It probably depends mostly on your undergarment, I think. Some people might not know, but usually there's a layer between your body and the shorts. But if you're assuming you're not wearing underpants, I would say they're not going to catch it all that well.

They're not super absorbent. No. They're also not overly. They're not going to be in your crack. Yeah, depending on how tight you bottom, they're not overly tight to where things can't get out. So I'm assuming it's probably falling out. Yeah.

Big Joel Wears Crocs also wants to know if the inmates are running the asylum. And we did touch that one, but funny that two people asked that same one. Now that the lift shorts three are out, then this one's from Big Omar. I think we'll touch on this a few times. Now that the lift shorts three are out, when can we expect the gold curl shorts? Never say never. No, I think that could happen but you know we're not ones to put time stamps on our episodes so we're not gonna put time stamps on our year either

so that's right i'm just gonna have to wait and find out on that yep big uh big nicholas said are you worried about suppliers declaring force force majeure on lift shorts i i don't know if i'm saying that right but i know how you read it it's it's like french force majeure force majeure i think maybe force i'm not sure but it's like um if if you're in a here this is the classic segment where i explain something badly but okay here's what i would say if it's i think it's contract law like if you're in a contract with someone and there's like uh almost uncontrollable circumstances like a war or something like going on act of god unplanned natural disaster all that there's something about yeah i mean like

act of god is the phrase, but I also think there's even something where act of God specifically, maybe either specifically is or specifically is not force majeure or majeure or whatever that is. But that sort of thing, yeah. There is even like act of God is like, but it's like act of God might also be something slightly different, I think is the thing with that.

Like that's not force measure, but that is talked about along with it because they're similar concepts. So I'm still not completely clear. What, what was it? If I was a phrase in the question though, I'm still don't. Um,

what was, as far as the, his question about it, um, are you worried about suppliers declaring? So if we're in a contract with suppliers for them to live us 500 pairs of shorts but there's a war going on they can like get out of the contract they can declare like force majeure and it's like okay like and it's like a legal way in cases to get out of it but okay unforeseeable circumstances that prevent

someone fulfill from fulfilling a contract. So are we worried about it? Examples of events include a declaration of war, a disease epidemic, a hurricane, earthquake. Other natural disasters, events that fall under the legal term act of God. Okay. So yes, it is an act of God. I've never heard that term before.

I think I've come across it in business law classes or before it seems to be where that would fall under well i learned something today next one is from big joey and he said uh why was a shadow banned on youtube that's a good question that is weird i don't know that because yeah we looked into it. And I actually looked. There is a thing where you can see people that you've banned from your channel. I didn't know where that menu was at. I did some Googling, found it. Was there anyone there? No one's banned from our channel.

I thought maybe it was somewhere where maybe a name got double-clicked and something happened. But there was no one in there, so I have no clue what's happening on that one. Another question. Will the toque be released in time for summer? I can guarantee yes, in time for summer it will be. Yes, it will be. Maybe even sooner. Maybe much, much sooner.

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And that was pretty much my dream. Pretty crazy. And it turns out it was blood. It was. And it was coming from a giant body of you. And you're like, what does this mean? And I had that guy,

that other body had a jersey on. But it was the home jersey. And it was an away game. It was the home jersey and it was all stained got blood on my whites um just deep cut i noticed while you were reading an ad there uh we talked about the toques and somebody said what's a toque and i guess if you don't know it's a beanie or

stocking hat or whatever you want to call it canadian for beanie yeah yeah and someone's response when he goes what is a toque and someone said it's a hat that you wear on your head and then other someone else is like ha sweet deep you know good deep that probably has to be part of a description for yeah yeah and what that comes from is that's how i described one of the hats that we knew hats we had on the podcast one time and it wasn't i wasn't really doing it to be funny those are the actual words that kind of what came out of your mouth out of my mouth i'm like oh it's a hat that you wear on your head thanks really cleared it up yeah that was one of those ass hats what kind

of hat was i described oh i know what it was it was with john anderson oh and we were talking his uh peaky blinders hat and i was like you know one of those hats i like to think he was like yeah that actually cleared it up though well we eventually figured it out we got on the same page bottom of, yeah. You alluded to her earlier this week. We welcomed big Mikey O'Brien to the Massanomics athlete team. Yeah. So big announcement, big exciting news there. What a power move, huh?

Yeah. Talk about the dream team. Talk about the Avengers. It really is turning into it. I'll start going for it. Or is it like the Suicide Squad? It's a team. Yeah. we're putting a team together isn't like the captain honk they're just all on ice skates honking away

yeah but uh we are very excited to have mikey on the team he's yeah you know we had him on the podcast a long time ago if you haven't listened uh google it i think it said like episode 257 there are time stamps in google if yeah uh if this is your fancy but uh if you don't know who mikey is uh mikey maybe me on instagram go look stuff. At this point, it'd almost be shocking if you hadn't seen some of his stuff. That's true. But he is freakishly strong in very odd ways. Yes. Very odd ways, to say the least.

Okay. This is from Pizza Planet Power powerlifting where your significant others always on board with massonomics um yeah i mean it was in the beginning it's like well there wasn't anything it wasn't a thing well this isn't a thing so it's like yeah it's not being as on board with someone as like someone's city league volleyball team it's like not even that much because like true yeah true uh it's even less organized yeah um now it is definitely more i mean it is definitely a time commitment now so there does have to be a certain level of organization yeah you can't just be like oh sorry

i'm doing massonomic stuff gotta go yeah uh you definitely know well it is just part of having a family you realize there's boundaries on time that yeah you don't always set and that's with everything that you you have to like uh yeah juggle i have a kind of a funny running joke with my wife where uh i this isn't true she always was supportive of you know she was supportive at the very beginning when i had just made like a few youtube video blogs that were very stupid and stuff you know she it was kind of like this isn't a thing stop wasting your time on that but it really wasn't it you know it was very not what mathnomics is i mean that's almost no different than saying an instagram right page is a thing right right random person yeah um but i have this joke where i'm out where i always say see you never

support you never you never thought this would make it you know like uh like maybe like a disgruntled spouse would be like like you never you never supported me and never you never thought this would be anything you're just the tormented artist yeah i'm like see i'm really showing you and uh she gets mad because i use that a lot you know yeah you should always be like i always supported you and i'm like well yeah that's a joke but but you got to keep it in your back pocket though that's right um wow more everyone wants to say my wife because um big alex from kind of fit kind of fat goes how did you both meet your wives and then he said so this starts a chain of my wife oh boy um for me it was i had a one of my buddies was a nurse in town and um at the time my wife was

also a nurse and they were co-workers and i think we were out at the bar one night and he kind of flagged her over and i think that was how i first that was pretty much how I first met her and after that it was just uh over once I knew who she was and we kind of had some of the same social circle we started to run into each other a lot out in public and yeah that's kind of how that goes tell me have you ever seen the show how I met your mother unfortunately I have seen a few of them yeah but what about barney stinson when he's like suit up yeah yeah yeah i mean that's a thing that is a thing um the one guy that marshall he's from minnesota uh-huh isn't he from saint cloud in the show isn't it yeah yeah he is from saint cloud isn't he or i think so okay i just my my old

roommates were big fans of it so i believe that's what they told me i always like like to ask you about how i met your mother um oh that's why i said that because it's how how you met your wives and uh mine's pretty simple i actually like the first time i ever met her and ever talked to her she was working uh the desk at the we've talked about it before on this podcast for other things the local our local aberdeen ymca oh she did work there yeah oh yep i never knew that yep so she was working the uh you know the the upstairs not the front desk but like the upstairs one yeah i knew that yeah yeah i was trying to picture the down. No, not the front. And she worked the, I do remember that now I say the desk.

I mean, you were supposed to like walk around and clean, but although those employees always just kind of sit at that or sitting at that desk on their phones. Yeah. And that's also what she, and she was also working out there too, but, but the combination of her working. And I think the first time I asked her to go on a date, she was actually working at that front desk is why i kind of relate it to her working there so it all goes back to that local aberdeen ymca doesn't it starts at that damn ymca yep that's why the village people wrote a song about it that's why because of like all the

massonomics they knew what was going on um this is from pizza planet powerlifting again do you all still find time to train given family work and running a side biz i for me would say it's definitely a lot harder it is definitely harder that's what she said but uh classic it's still fine time. Yep. Still fine time. We're both in there today. Yeah. Had to switch to noon crew to make it happen. Yep. Yeah.

And I, you know, before I had, you know, we used to be night crew guys. A lot of us did. And then like a lot of us got married and just doesn't. Once families start adding up. It's like, okay, you get done with work at five. You go to the gym for two hours you didn't see your kid today like yeah you can't really do that yeah i guess you can do that but that seems like a shitty thing sucks and also if like if you have to do it every once in a

while like i've yeah every once in a while i i go to be like yeah like this is my thing five days a week or four days a week like i will not be here yeah hey child yeah you will see me a couple hours this week right it seems like an odd way to live right so yeah you find it but it is uh it is harder yeah that's for sure you got to be much more intentional about it yeah you don't say i ain't got nothing going on i'll go to the gym today that's not yeah that's that's the biggest thing that makes it uh really possible for me is that i'm able to go, you know, I have a job where I can go over lunchtime. If I didn't have that, that would be a challenge for me to, you know, I could arrange it to go on both Saturday and Sunday. Then if I wasn't going on the week at all, but that's just two days a week.

And that's. And also it's tough too, because a lot of times Saturday and Sunday is when you're out actually going to do stuff with your family. I would have to do it on Saturdays and Sundays probably early or late, you know, like would be the, like if that was going to be the thing you always did because yeah. Also you just have stuff you like Saturday is when you like typically get stuff done.

Yeah. Or you get to actually go and leave the house and do something. Right. Um, bringing back PBR shirt. This is from a big J Roy probably sometime yeah not that one a different j roy yeah not that j roy i don't think it's two of them huh yeah because yeah we do have two j roys and they have the same first name actually too um that order from us but yeah

that could happen eventually right i think so no concrete plans of that one though is what i was like it's not like yeah that's coming uh in five months or something like that can we use discount code mass at the arnold for a discount and that's from a big love lady no oh you mean yeah you please use code mass. Not for a discount, though. Right, but just use it. If when Massanomics goes public, this is from Big Jeff, will the unpaid interns be offered any equity stake? We have to keep them unpaid. Yeah.

You know, I'd hate to just pay them right at the end. There could be stock options, I guess, though. Yeah. It's like when the CEO gets paid $100,000 a year, but they have like $10 million in stock options. Right, right. So technically you might not get paid, but I guess if we're going public,

you might be able to get some stock options maybe. Yeah. I would like to keep most of that for ourselves, though. Yeah, true. Yeah, right. We dilute our shares. Yeah. We don't do us any favors. So, yeah, we dilute our shares yeah us any favors

so yeah we'll have to think on that one yeah this is uh i think from big andrew montoya massonomics grip shirt yes or yes or yes that'd be cool that'd be cool that's also not in the short-term plans yeah it's not that and i feel like that's uh with everything how that gets done it's probably many many months yeah so i would never say never on that one but not in the near term yeah this is from big steve taylor what are your thoughts on the Tom Finn edging regiment? I mean, it seems to be based in science, so you can't really argue with that, can you?

That's true. You know, I think Huck's done extensive research on that. Read through many a case study. Yeah, I mean. Gone in pretty big detail with some meta-analysis. Yeah. He's the foremost expert on the subject. So I don't think you can argue with that. No, I think it's something about,

uh, edging prior to competition and stuff like that, that it gives you a boost in testosterone, that extra oomph you need. Yeah. The science checks out to me. Yeah. From big Dylan cots.

When will either of you get into equipped lifting uh i don't know it just feels like it's an extra step of stuff to have to do to try and lift i guess i uh i don't see myself ever really going doing equipped lifting although if i got to a point where like if things hurt and that was like what it took to keep lifting yeah i could see it then that that would be the thing which i suppose always happens to someone at some point in time but maybe it'll be at a point in time that i'm like oh there's actually just other things i can do that also don't hurt yeah you know yeah i mean i i respect it and everything i don't have a problem with it but it does just feel like it's

a whole other step to add in and the other side downside for us is that no one in our gym does yeah so it really is just uh kind of going on your own and i just i like um raw lifting so i do too that's the you know i'm just saying i like it for me for what i'm doing you know that's what yeah what i enjoy but who knows i guess you said never say never, right? Yeah. Also from Dylan, update on an official massonomics meet. Oh, like an actual massonomics meet? I think a powerlifting meet, yeah.

This is something we've talked about too, just because it would be really fun to do. It would be. It's not impossible that that would ever happen. Yeah, and it's not impossible. It's just the amount of time that has to go into that. We'd have to have the right motivation to do it. And I'm not saying that that right motivation isn't out there.

I just don't know what that is yet. Like if you ask me today, I'm like, I don't see why we do that. Yeah. I don't see what's going to happen in the future that there's really pushes us to strongly want to do that knowing what goes into it but i'm not saying that that thing wouldn't i know there has to be like like if we had like 20 people in the discord that are like yep we'll come to aberdeen for it and a bunch of people from the gym wanted to do it and it's like okay now all of a sudden it's just like a party yeah yeah that could be a really fun meet it's so hard with timing and stuff though because no matter what just like to get like

anything it's like oh actually that doesn't work well that's the other thing too is us having a meet like it's a big time commitment on our end but it's not just our end all of the volunteers we have to ask for for spotters and loaders it's actually my least favorite part of it i know it's so annoying like asking yeah because you just feel like you owe these people because you do you owe them for them spending a whole day doing all this stuff for you yeah and so it's a big ask and then we need we need refs and all the people that do that side of things which we don't do that so right um i have no doubt that we could market and promote an event pretty good. And I think we have the know-how and ability to like put on a cool show, like get a good

venue for it and like take care of that side of it. Well, but as far as the other parts of it, yeah, there's just a lot of moving pieces and people that all need to like step up for it to happen which is the tough part of it yeah it's not like a t-shirt drop where it's like hey we just gotta promote this and we can do this ourselves we can do all the work on ourselves a lot of people gotta be involved from big omar martinez other than the strength co plates what are other go-to things around your gym what are the things do you think like universally universal go-to things i'd say both the rogue racks are actually all three of the rogue racks are universally loved the ghost um the ghost combo

bench is literally used every time you're in the gym yeah so that's a go-to i think that is an absolute go-to the kabuki power actually the kabuki power and transformer bar yeah are always used yep the texas power bars are always used yep the texas out of the deadlift bars i feel like i see the texas because we have the texas deadlift bar the rogue ohio deadlift bar and the oki deadlift bar i feel like i see the texas deadlift bar being used i actually forgot we even had the rogue one until you said that because the texas one is the one that's out all the time right yeah the road the texas one is kind of all the time it is all the time yeah i i'm kind of shocked that i forgot that even the rogue yeah i use the oaky one a fair bit still just out of nostalgia because it was the first

one of the first og yeah bars that we had yeah uh i'm trying to think there's anything else that gets used a lot there's some strongman stuff that gets used quite a bit down there too but i don't use any of that ever right uh the dumbbell area gets the case a lot and like uh i'm just wondering if there's anything else on that side of any of oh the um hammer strength iso low row that does get you plate loaded that gets used quite a bit i use that multiple times per week i almost never i almost have never in there and don't see somebody use that like that out of machines probably and the lat pull down but like of course that gets used a lot but like that that ISO low row gets used to shitload. Yeah. That is nice.

Conversely, the plate loaded. I know you use it. I use it every once in a while. Chest press. Oh yeah. Converging chest press. That does not get used very often. No, it doesn't.

It doesn't. The back stuff gets, we use way, like we have several back machines and that gets used way more, or a few back machines, I guess. Yeah. Big Dylan Kotz, one more. How many attempts does it take to insert a USB

and why is it always three? Why? I mean, that's kind of right,'t it well he's obviously referencing usba here because usbc has solved the problem as you know it's the it's the same all ways around it's a omni-directional i don't know what the term for that is but uh usba yeah it is always three one time the correct way but you don't get it you flip it that's clearly wrong flip it back to where you started and then you get it right that is how it goes yeah that is the rule for usba geno's playlist versus tanner's sick ass playlist i like mine for the variety i might lean towards yours too for the variety there we actually laughed because i put geno's on the other

day in the gym and you go oh this is the same as the ipods that are sitting there like all of the songs that were on that are already exist in the gym across multiple ipods yes yes and those i said ipod there yeah yeah um let's see someone else asked about the pBR shirt. When we'll make a comeback. That was mid Midwest Jake from state farm. I already talked about that though. Okay. FML.

I think it's usually FMK, isn't it? Of the, because there's three, it says FML. Oh, Arnold, the Arnold.

Hey, Arnold. What's FML. these just uh i mean it's fmk i suppose right yeah i don't know okay maybe it's just maybe autocorrected to like oh right right so arnold schwarzenegger the arnold sports festival and hey arnold the popular 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon definitely Mary Arnold killed Hey Arnold the cartoon and you yeah yeah okay

well yeah yeah because you party you party at the Arnold so that that one gets you get to fuck the Arnold okay I did like Hey Arnold though I liked that So that one gets, you get to fuck the Arnold. Okay. I did like Hey Arnold, though. I liked that cartoon. So he had a football-shaped head.

There's something to be said for that. But I'll go along with you. This is from Big Mills. Favorite Austin Powers movie, one, two, or three? Well, it's not three. Right? So tell me again what three is. Three with beyonce in it oh that's not no that's not it's one and two that's barely yeah but so who is introduced new into three other than beyonce and then who's what do you mean like who's the so fat

bastard and me that like fat bastard is in two He's in one as well, isn't he? Oh, no, no. He's in two. You're right. He's in two. One is just number two and... Right. And yeah, those people.

Dr. Evil. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Frau Farbissina. Yeah.

Okay. Scotty and all them. But Mini-Me... Is in two. Is in... So Mini-Me and Fat and but mini me is in two it isn't so mini me and fat bastard are both introduced in two yes so three three is off the table because as we're talking i'm like wait a second that's all in two three is yeah three was three still a funny movie but three is not but this is a case where i think two make makes a fair that the mini me and fat

bastard i know two of the most iconic austin powers yes because characters but the thing This is a case where I think two makes a fair, that the mini me and fat bastard, two of the most iconic Austin Powers characters. But the thing, this is why it's so tough because one did set the template though. Like it did. Yeah, it has the long peeing scene. Like behind the curtain thing. Yeah.

Oh, like the holding the zucchini. Yeah, right. Didn't they start that in one? I think so. Or did they start that in two and then they did it again in three? I think they started that in one. Oh, yeah. Because she bites the sausage.

Right. Right. I think it's, yeah. Well, that's another point to me is like who the. Oh, no, no, no. I'm thinking of when he's walking around naked. Yeah. In the hotel.

He's not behind a curtain then. Right. She's like. Right. Yeah. She's like these different things. Yeah. But so the first one, who's that lead female character i don't know her name but it's the darker yeah um and the second one is that i don't also know that actress's name but i i know both

of their names and this is just making me mad now because i can't think of it. Heather, isn't the second one? Is it? Oh, these are both well-known female actresses and cannot get their names right. Here we go. It is Elizabeth Hurley would be the first one. Yeah. Heather Graham. Yes.

Okay. Yes. Okay. And see, I like Elizabeth Hurley better as the female lead. See, when I was a little kid, I was more of a Heather Graham. Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. And see, I like Elizabeth Hurley better as the female. See, when I was a little kid, I was more of a Heather Graham guy. Really?

Yeah. No way. I don't know, man. I can say I haven't seen the second one. I've seen the first one a few times in the last couple of years. I have not seen the second one in many, many years. That's why I'm having a hard time even going to the second one right now

because I haven't seen it in so long. But they did really, really refine what the first one set up. Right. The second one. That is, I probably do have to say the second one is the better one. Yeah. It just took everything Austin Powers and cranked it up a couple more notches. That'd be pretty rare uh rare to pick the you know the second as far as movie franchises yeah yeah right

but i'm kind of leaned towards the same thing i don't know i could go one or two still yeah i could too but uh mini me and fat bastard is so iconic and for them to be introduced in the second one um this is from big joel where's crocs i'll just i'll read the question need you to elaborate big friends of brandon and really enjoy uh the stuff that he puts out and it's probably tough to beat yeah and i think brandon comes at things from more of a uh practical sense yeah as impractical as even his setup probably is right it still is much more practical than like just some of the insane thing like some of the coop stuff now is yeah things that like

even commercial gyms don't have let alone a home gym yeah and i would say based on like i like to the content i consume i enjoy feeling like I connect with Brandon. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. It's more relatable. Right.

A lot of these things. Right. Cause he does, he does our style of training too. Right. So his training style is more relatable. The equipment he's getting is more relatable. Um,

he's a more relatable guy, I think in general. Yeah. In that aspect of things. Yeah. I agree. That's the nicest way we have to answer the question i think you know yeah who would oh this is a good question from big joey i like this question who would win in a jumping contest which i like that choice of words because it's so

ambiguous yes who would win in a jumping contest? There's multiple, track has multiple jumping events. Jessica Bittner or John Hack. And I'm just thinking, I'm just, I want to just think about the contest here. So it's a high jump per track standards, long jump, triple jump. There's also a standing vertical jump. Oh, true, yeah, yeah.

You know, that and a high jump are much different. Standing broad jump. There's probably even other parallel, not maybe sports, but games like hopscotch. More of a game of skill. Yeah, like skip it could be considered in there. But if you're thinking like the most common ones, you just say how far someone can jump or how high someone can jump. Yeah, that's the basics of a good jumping contest contest probably right right and even then when you say

in that though there is a difference between like measuring a vertical and also how high of something you can jump over well that's what that's what i think the difference of the vertical jump or if you're talking track high jump because track high jump is a skill that if you've never someone's never watched they're suited you take a person that's uh never seen someone do a vertical jump and you say jump up there touch the highest one of those you can you kind of get know how to instinctively do that if you've never seen someone jump over a pole before and they say even if you have if even if you have and say go do it you're not gonna do it well but you don't even know like when they started doing high jump they didn't even do it that way they jumped face first because it

took people that long to even realize that was the the way to do it but uh so that none of that answers the question it doesn't uh and this is actually really tricky because she was a track athlete she was and she's obviously insanely. So she probably has a pretty good vertical. Yeah. But John Hack is also really, really strong. Yep. I'm curious what John Hack's vertical is. I would be curious.

Actually, I'm very curious what both of their verticals are. I bet they're both far above average on the curve, I would think. I don't know, but that's what I would think. Their verticals are like 12 inches. Yeah, terrible. It's like, what? I guess I would go with John Hack. I think I know, but that's what I would think. Their verticals are like 12 inches. Yeah, terrible. It's like, what? I guess I would go with John Hack. I think I would, too.

But not in a way that I don't think Jessica could jump high or far. I still think she probably has an outstanding vertical. Yes. Are the Huge Life and Numero Uno shirts coming back? You might have your answer sometime soon. Yeah. I would just say yes. You just wait.

Just you wait. Maybe don't even wait too long. This is from Big Tyler of Lamar. Oh. How many beers could Tanner drink at a house party in college? I feel like this question is directed at you, Tyler. Yeah. In my prime, I could drink.

You know, I wouldn't say like if you're at a party, I'm like the guy that's like oh he could drink like there's always something like yeah he drinks like 40 beers before he's drunk or the guy that's like really drink like 20 of these just to pre yeah yeah i'm like yeah no if i drink 20 beers i'm gonna be loaded but i could drink i could get really drunk and still continue to drink a lot of beers that's probably what more so i wasn't like yeah i won't get drunk until i have to drink a case to prime the pump it's like no but um yeah i could uh drink a fair amount of beers but it's probably still better much better at drinking

them fast like i'm higher on the yeah bell curve of drinking them fast than i was drinking them all in longevity yeah yeah because i could really in any of any sort of drinking them fast than i was drinking them all in longevity yeah yeah because i could really in any of any sort of drinking not that you're bad at either one but you just really really excelled in the speed thing right yeah anything that was a speed drinking game i could do very well our favorite the game the beer game drinking game that we played almost as often as anything and i r Ross was like my equal at this of just being able to drink them very fast as we would just do beer chug race

where it's a tippy cup relay just without the tippy cup. And it's just a full red solo cup. It's just a relay. This team of who can drink the fastest. We played that game quite a bit. Is a sandwich a hot there's a hot dog a sandwich from big kevin i don't think it is i think that's a bad question yeah i'm gonna say no big kevin also do you know what's in you do you know what's in your go-to power bar oh

do you see what he's doing in that, though? He's actually wrapping in, somehow in just a few words, he wrapped in three of our sponsors. Yeah, do you know what's... Yeah, wow. That's, that, that is... Okay. That's the next level question.

That is a big swing in quality of questions there. It went from a kind of a generic one to a really, really targeted question. Wow. That's much better than the hot dog maybe he's really just trying to i think he was really show the drastic like really get us going like a bait and switch yeah yeah damn that's oh and here he is again this next one is actually a really good uh so that second one was a good question there's no real

answer to but this next one's just a really good question who would you rather have on the podcast juji or martinez or or who will be first oh that's another good question i that's tough for me because i'd really like to have both of them on the podcast they're both on they're both people too that were actively pursuing and not necessarily far from like they'll both i think they'll both happen eventually like i'm pretty confident if i had to pick first or who i'd rather i don't know if i could there it's hard because we couldn't ride the line on this he didn't yeah that's true because these are both like semi fairly realistic ones that could happen in not too long and i really want both of them to have uh i really want to have both of them on because I think they'll both be great guests.

They're probably the two highest people on our wishlist of people we want that we actually have a realistic chance of getting. Right, right, right. And what if the question is, who do you think will get first? I also don't know that because... You would have a better idea on that since you do more of that. I guess it's Juju because we've specifically had conversations and he said he's

interested in stuff so but with martinez it could you know we the problem is he hasn't really gotten back to us on anything yeah but i think at some point in time we'll catch his rate you know through something we'll catch his radar enough that we do uh get some dialogue well and it also wouldn't be crazy that just like you could wake up tomorrow and one of the guys be like hey when are we doing this right like that's a lot of times how these things that happens a lawyer we're like working on these people for a long time all of a sudden it's like oh yeah i guess we're doing it tomorrow okay sure um next is big eddie what's it going to take to make the curl shorts happen? Just more time. Just need more time.

What are you looking forward to the most at the Arnold? Well, it's always really fun to sell stuff to people. That is always really fun. But outside of that, I'm really excited to actually see people at the Arnold. Because up until the showdown this year, we hadn't seen like massonomics people in person. Yeah.

Seen them in face to face in years. Yeah. It actually been years. And this is, so we get the showdown was a good taste of it. We have to see some people that we only know through Instagram or online or people that we see very, very rarely.

And so I'm really excited to like like I'm super just the boost around us like we have like right next to us is buff chick supplements and strong strong supply with Meg squats we have ghost right across from us and I'm super excited to see all them again because they were a ton of fun when we had the showdown with them

Nick with live large is right by us I'm excited to catch up with those guys again yeah they're always awesome um we've never met city pneumonia we've never met travis at obsidian after he's right and we've worked with him on multiple things through the years so to actually meet him will be cool grant grant we've never met grant actually right which is gonna be cool to meet him uh depth before before dishonor. Grant's like six foot tall, too, so he's not a little guy. Six, six. Yeah, yeah.

Because that's like the always thing. It's like, you're five, four? I always just pictured the strength co-plates guy being a little taller. That happens so commonly. Now that I think about it, he's always standing on two plates whenever I see him. He always is. Plates the tall way. Like stilts.

That's probably what I am most excited about. It's just to meet people. That's our chance. That is kind of our networking event for the year. We get to get in front of some people, talk to them. They get to see that we're not just like these insane people that just put memes out all the time like we are actually guys just dudes being guys dudes being guys uh you know like the moment i look forward to the most which and of course a lot of the discord crew that's yeah the

moment i look forward to the most and this is like a recurring moment throughout the weekend is when we're at the booth it's not that busy so we have time to like look around a little bit and there's someone coming that either we either maybe we do recognize them or we don't and they see the mask the hand goes up yeah like

like I look forward to seeing that grin and then like people are like oh there that is you know like when they get a grin just that they see the booth okay remind me again and they introduce themselves with their instagram handle yes their actual name there's gonna have to be a lot of that too a lot of instagram or like i just know your instagram handle i don't know your name yeah that's the what i look forward to the most is that moment when someone sees it and they have a laugh or like ah point at it or something that

is actually that is the other really fun one because yeah yeah if we don't get to encounter that like ever so right will tommy and or tanner compete in highland games in 2022 um i maybe would yeah uh there's a good uh i'd say there's over a 50 chance i'll do the same the aberdeen the it's called the northeast south dakota highland games it's not called the western but it is called the northeast south dakota highland games um i've done that one like six times you have i've only done it twice, I think. Three times. Maybe it was three times. I can't remember. For sure twice.

Yeah, it is for sure twice. Yeah, I just need to actually put it on my calendar if I'm going to do it. That just comes down to as long as our family doesn't have anything else important planned for that, I'll probably do it. And as long as I'm not like very hurt on something. Because it's just fun. I mean, it's not so much fun that i can't miss it for a year but it is pretty fun i do enjoy it but it's not like if i did have to miss it it's

not that big of a deal some of the things are really rewarding yeah yeah yeah and other ones are like oh this one kind of sucks let's get it over with and there was some things after the last one i left i'm like oh that just really clicked for me finally like the weight for distance i had some good that one was my favorite ones which i might be the only person the last one i did i threw the heavyweight farther than the lightweight right how many people does that ever happen right so i don't know but that was that was like honestly if i did another one that would is what i would be the most excited about. Yeah. I was really starting to click with that one.

I always loved the weight over bar, and I loved the sheaf toss. And now that I can do it decently, I love the caber toss too. The caber's fun just because of the theatrics of it all. Yeah. I really wish Highland Games would get rid of the doubles of, I don't want to be there so long that we have to do two hammer throws you do two hammer you do two weight for distance of just the same thing just different weights and then two stones they're somewhat different but to me i'm like get rid of one of them preferably to me get rid of the heavier one so you can do the one with the you

know the actual lead up or just make it a weight in between and allow the lead up. But like get rid of those three pairs of doubles to make it is really what makes it some probably run smoother than others. But I'm like, I don't need it to like, if this was like four hours instead of eight, yeah, you know, I would like it better.

A hundred percent agree. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, there's, there's, there's a reasonable chance.

Someone asked how the weather is uh it's been pretty cold yeah it's actually just turned supposed to turn around like tomorrow yeah we should get above negative again yeah first time in a week yeah from big uh pat he says any plans for can Canadian beer parody shirts? What even is a Canadian beer? Is it like Molson's? Molson's? Well, is it? Yeah. Oh.

Keith's is what a bunch of the Discord crew is always drinking. Isn't there one called Cocaine, too? Isn't that? Someone just said that. Said what one? Cocaine. Yeah. Creston, British Columbia., he just said that. Said what one? Cocaine. Yeah. Creston, British Columbia.

I have seen that one. Is LaBap's? There you go. Yeah. That was Pam Anderson. She got, first got discovered by La... Really? Yeah.

LaBat Blue? There you go. Yeah, the world's best-selling Canadian beer. Okay. LaBat Blue. Yeah, this probably still just not actually we do have a big enough i know in following we could probably sell do one run and yeah uh we'll think about that i think it would have to be labat wouldn't it probably i think it would have to be yeah um from big matt wants to know his fiancee wants to know if tommy has ever used olaplex on his hair i don't even know what that is take that as a maybe olaplex

let's find out what olaplex is olaplex olaplex shampoo. Looks like it's just an expensive shampoo. No, I have not used it. Nope. Never have I ever. Okay. That answers that. Next one's from Big Jen.

What's worst? What's worst? Tanner beardless or tommy with short hair i do not like me beardless you know after i went full complete no beard so i actually i guess i've never seen you with short hair though i haven't had short hair since i was like 19 20 something like that yeah it's been over 10 years yeah it's funny because like give it a few more years and i've had long hair longer in my life or just as long as that long hair yeah yeah that's funny i think about i've uh now almost been like out of k through 12 as long as i was in or i actually i have been out longer than i was in it but or even

i always think in my head like the 0 to 18 age i've like lived just as much life post that i know that is kind of the crazy part and that you've actually probably now at this point probably you've probably lived in aberdeen almost as much as you lived where you grew up yeah you know right and that's the same like i'm not i'm not there yet yeah but that is kind of crazy to think about yeah you're like oh no that's my home that's where i spent my time and i lived here more of my life like in a year you could say that it it's uh it's weird um how that how we've probably had this conversation but how time goes by when you're like a year when you're in high school like there's so much things in a year like so many things important like all

these things like you think you're like oh no i'm a junior like i'm i'm a g like that's that's a whole year away but when you are older it is insane how different that is from your freshman year to your senior year, four years. Yeah. That's a totally different person. Like so much shit happens. Right. And then also like 18 to 22, quite a bit of stuff happens in two.

Right, right. But now like 32 to 36, that's going to be, I'll just say 30 to 34. That's going to be a blink. And I mean, a lot of things are going to happen. Yeah, indeed. And they have happened. But it's more like your body and your whole life itself isn't like getting uprooted and changing every couple years yeah so what's worse i don't even know

i guess tanner without a beard. Yeah. Big Jen also asked, this is an interesting question. Biggest massonomics achievement to date. That's a hard question for me to answer. That is a hard one. That's what she said.

Biggest achievement. God, that is a really tough question i i mean i think when you just look the fact that it's maybe just the longevity and the fact that it actually is kind of a mild success yeah is that achievement is the achievement right like the fact that's just saying everything like yeah they're kind of just saying the whole thing yeah but that sort of it really does feel like the fact that it's still a thing and yeah and it's still gaining momentum like it's not like right oh man two years ago those were the days like right kind of remind myself that like oh these are the days right now and then like a year from now are like and then like a year later i'm like no these are the days right now and it's still always like these are the days yeah like we haven't had to look back and be like oh and the good old days when everything was just easy like right um so so far it's still

momentum is on our side maybe that is the achievement yeah like as like this kind of still is saying the same thing but specifically to like i think about to narrow it into something to say like that the podcast we've gone now 308 weeks straight and never missing a new episode yeah that's like that's insane because how many how many like lifting podcasts are doing that and it's like virtually none even if you take a person you know percentage of like all podcasts that's probably still uh pretty small small group right right so and the thing is it wasn't even honestly for probably the first 160 episodes or so it wasn't even like oh we can't miss a week it was just like well this is just we just put it right out every week and now it really does

like we can't know that would be a big deal if we have to like it'll it's really not that big of a deal we could rerun something or do do something there'd be ways to get around it but it's almost it's the streak really yeah it's just it's going yeah you just don't want the streak to end the streak itself is bigger than the missing in a week though like like the actual like being able to keep the streak alive is bigger than what just missing a week is the repercussions right actually missing right there's zero right big chris uh which red robin will you hit on the way to columb Ha, tried to trick us. Red Robin isn't really a silly goose.

Good try. Big Chris also said, any plans to expand the gym? Not expand. No, not as in like take on a bigger footprint. There's no plans of that like adding square footage yeah i'd actually even like just don't even want to do that it's just i don't even really think it's that necessary oh we got what we need kind of for square foot yeah because there's never a time when you say oh there's 30 people down here we can't all that that doesn't happen if we had double the members i still don't

think it's even i don't think so either and it's bigger than some commercial gyms in town right that have and have hundreds and hundreds right exactly yeah that have literally more than 10 you know 10 to 100 times the members that we have so in that context no also i don't want to like take care of more like i don't want to take care of more. I don't want more to manage. Not that I specifically manage it in that way, but it all is more headache. There's more wall space you got to try and fill then.

I would like the wall space to put more banners on, though. That's a good point. And I say banners, but just put shit on the walls. We just need a banner room. We'll just build a banner room. Chili's, what's the place with all the shit on the walls uh any one of them really uh shenanigans that's the yeah the joke the joke um the mess i'm shimmy is turning like to to the shenanigans of gyms though where it's just every so much stuff all over the walls just covered and i do like that it's a good vibe now there's plans to keep rolling with uh upgrading and getting in new equipment it's all about refinement now yeah yes and i have like a full year's worth

of things that i want to get like a cigar room in there and like a wine cellar we're finally going to get that uh like a classical body lounge what was the body vibrating thing we i will specifically dig that up and we can listen to that clip on the podcast again sometime this one is from skinner strength um nothing to ask just thanks for making me laugh and spreading cool beans well thank you thank you was that a question or a comment? No. That sounds like a comment. Put your hand down. Yeah. And I think that's all of our questions that we're going to hit on today.

Okay. Yep. That was fun. That's good. We hit on a lot of questions. We do have a couple other things to touch on, though, for this episode, right? I think so. We talked about Big Mikey coming on the team.

That was pretty exciting news. Um, we went through our Q and a here supporting our supporting members. A couple of quick things. Uh, Ryan Erickson, big Ryan won the discord meme. There was a little discord exclusive contest that was in there.

And in the best on the discord, they don't even know about this stuff. And a big ryan won that oh i i'm sorry to explain this better this is supporting our supporting members i completely forgot that everyone's kind of wondering what the heck's going on this is supporting our supporting members and this um is one of our fastest growing segments but it's a relatively new segment to the podcast where we highlight uh our a few of our supporting members each week so these people support us and we'd like to support them in return and if anyone else is uh interested in becoming a supporting member you can just log onto our website what's the address massonomics.com slash join okay you could head there sign up there's

a few different options and all those options get you access to our private discord community there's discount codes there's uh access to watching the show live just like the discord community is here tonight and then you have the chance of getting supported by them and then there was one other thing on supporting our supporting members ah i was thinking just because february is just winding up here i just wanted to do this again and welcome some new supporting members good call uh oh other one supporting support members uh big grant started a uh oh yeah taco a food review i think i don't know if it's a taco, a food review. I don't know if it's a taco or a food review page channel on YouTube.

The first part was tacos. And I haven't seen it yet. Some chicken and tacos and coleslaw. And it was good. It was entertaining. Okay. Welcome Big Patrick to the supporting member family. Welcome Big Christina. Welcome Big Zach. Welcome Big Adrian. Welcome Big Joel. member family welcome big christina welcome big zach welcome big adrian welcome big joel

big tim welcome big hayden welcome to the crew big joel welcome to the crew big caden of masonomics gym welcome to the crew big tom welcome big justin welcome big taylor welcome big noah welcome and most recently welcome big dalton wow that's a lot of activity yes it's a Big Justin, welcome. Big Taylor, welcome. Big Noah, welcome. And most recently, welcome Big Dalton. Wow, that's a lot of activity. Yes, it's a very active community. Welcome, all of you. I think if they only each do a measly 50 posts a day, that's hundreds of new posts every day.

Right there. What an eclectic group. That's a nice thing to say about them. So that's supporting our supporting members. Tanner, as one thing I thought it would have been fun, I was going to do a little leg work today, figuratively speaking, not literal leg work. You did that at the gym?

I did that yesterday at the gym. I did some upper work today, but I thought it would be funny to go back on YouTube and look at some of our past Arnold interviews. Oh yeah. Dissect some of the comments on them, but there's just so many stupid ones. It wasn't really,

I couldn't really find anything that really worked. You didn't really get what you're like. This is kind of like stupid in a bad way. yeah i had every good intention of uh doing a deeper dive on some of that but then i got in there like okay it's just people arguing about goliath from the bible and uh the kaz interview is our that's the paul anderson comments and i believe scott dodds i think was setting up someone in the comments at one point and i think you went along with it um god i should find that comment because where was it about paul anderson paul anderson i'm like i think scott's setting this one up yeah because

the old joke with that is that uh everyone for some reason on the our cas interview one of them i don't know if it's from the first year or the second year at the Arnold. We interviewed him twice there. I don't know why, but it drew in like 10s, 20s, even more, of people commenting about how Paul Anderson is better than Kazmaier. And it was like, actually, it's because Kazmaier, we kind of asked Kazmaier to rank some of his top strongman of all time his Mount Rushmore maybe something like that not in that word those words probably and he didn't mention Paul Anderson I don't think and it brought out

out all these wacky Paul Anderson like defenders yes okay this is where the comment that made me laugh two years ago scott dodds wrote fact paul anderson single-handedly tore down the iron curtain with one lift and you replied scott dodds that is true we can verify and then someone else goes on to just go on and on about how great paul anderson was with uh the 1200 pound squat on film uh backlift backlifted get this 6200 pounds never replicated pounds yep uh so there's just way too many comments about that in there someone said bill casmeyer with another 70 to 80 pounds of muscle would be scary. And I thought, who wouldn't be scary if they had another 70 to 80 pounds of muscle on their frame?

70 to 80 pounds of muscle? That would take someone that's just not muscular and make them look pretty, you know. I want to know who could get 70 to 80 pounds of muscle and not be scary looking. You'd have to just be the only way possibly if you're very morbidly obese. So there is a if you go to the Massonomics YouTube

page and sort by most viewed it is the first CAS one that comes up. There are some pretty interesting comments as you go through there and some heated debates even too. Did you want to do a quick game of overrated underrated oh yeah we got a quick little something here uh overrated or underrated road trip the movie since we're taking a little road trip i think road trips really underrated that would be so funny i think tom green's really underrated. That movie's so funny. I think Tom Green's super funny.

I think, what's it, DJ Qualls, the skinny guy in there? Yeah, yeah. I believe he was also in the movie The New Guy, right? Wasn't that what it was? That sounds right to me. If that's not right, it sure seems like it is. He's like the total loser, and then he kind of turns into the cool guy somehow.

That whole movie is really, really funny. It's so 90s like it couldn't happen today because cell phones would just solve, the whole movie's done in five seconds because of cell phones. But the fact that he thinks he sent a sex tape in the mail to his girlfriend and then Tom Green's like, ah, it was, what did he say?

Ah, they went to Boston. Or no, Austin. Austin, Massachusetts. And they actually went to like Austin, Texas. And so the guy goes to Austin. Oh, there's just so many stupid things there. He's like, oh, the DJ calls. Dude, last night.

He's like, check it out. Like, what are those? They're panties from a girl like pointer like pointer would you kill a cheetah because yeah there's just so many funny things in that movie yeah uh yeah tom green with the snake and oh it is it is a it is a hilarious movie it's very funny over did you make a copy if you made a copy we could just watch the copy he's worried he's worried he sent a sex tape in the mail to his girlfriend and tom green thinks they're worried that they can't watch it yeah yeah he's like oh if you

made a copy we can just watch the copy yeah he's worried that they won't have one to watch anymore like that's the problem uh overrated or underrated christopher columbus i think christopher columbus is overrated oh okay i'm like when was that holiday? I think Columbus, Ohio. I think he's pretty overrated. I think most people agree that didn't he? He turns out he is. And he was don't most people also agree now that he really wasn't the first one to discover. Well, he didn't discover America.

He discovered Cuba. Wasn't that where he landed? The West Indies? Isn't that where he landed? In the Bahamas down there? That sounds right. And don't most people agree now that the Vikings really discovered America? Yeah.

But I guess maybe. I saw that. That was on Vikings. Was it? Yeah. And maybe he was the one that got people interested in coming over here. But I think he's probably overrated. Yeah.

Overrated or underrated? Speeding. Driving too above the speed limit. Oh, man. I would say when I was younger, I did enjoy speeding a lot more. Yeah. Like it was almost like. Breaking the law.

Breaking the law. It was almost like it was like a time trial trying to go. It was just like how fast can I get. law. It was like, it was like a time trial, like trying to go, but it's just like, how fast can I get? You know, I'm not saying how fast can I go and not get in trouble, like driving a hundred miles an hour or anything, but it was like,

Oh, okay. If the speed limits here and I strategically am going 10 miles an hour faster and all these parts, you know, like you can shave off a few minutes, but yeah, um,

it's probably overrated. I don't know. I don't know. That's a, that's when I would ride the line, but I, I'd sure's probably overrated i don't know i don't know that's when i would ride the line but i i'd sure speeding's overrated you should drive safe last one a bit of a wild card here overrated or underrated jack-in-the-box that is a wild card i've only had jack-in-the-box a couple times what is jack-in-the-box it's just really cheap right it's like is that low-end fast food yeah it's just really cheap low-end fast food there's a like is it the bottom of the fast food there's like a billion jack-in-the-box and del tacos everywhere um i'm trying to remember

jack-in-the-box i think they had a thing on their menu. This was many years ago, but it was two tacos for a dollar, two hard shells. That's pretty cheap. It's pretty damn cheap. But, like, is it the bottom of the – I think it kind of is. It's probably overrated. It's got to be overrated. Yeah.

I think so. I'm buying it. I'm buying what you're selling. I don't think so. If I have, it's so unmemorable to me that, you know, it doesn't even stick out to me. I'm seeing the commercials, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, but even we don't get a ton of those really even.

Is there any Jack in the Box in, like, South Dakota? No, I don't even know if there's really any in the Midwest. I don't think they're really around here anywhere. So we'll just never know. It's kind of like a Red Robin. Does it really exist? I think the answer to that we know is no at this point. What do you think?

There's something else I wanted to talk about this episode, Tommy. There are Jack in the Box in Illinois and Indiana. So technically, and Ohio, technically we could hit one on our road trip here. Yeah, it's tempting. Do we want anything that bad? Are we ever going to be in that much of a pinch? No. A lot of things have gone wrong if we got to that point.

Over 2,200 locations. That's a lot. Damn. Well, you sell over a billion dollars in foodie or you got to be in a lot of places. There was also, I just see it there, there was a few dong bulge questions in there. I didn't see those. I just didn't know how to answer many of them.

You didn't want to ride the line on the dong bul the don if you know what i mean you know what i saw some people doing at the gym today and it wasn't either of us there are so many people at the gym today what that we did not get to go where we want either of us probably really wanted to go to the go-to plates oh you're right because it was a fairly busy day at mass dynamics gym and um there's people on a lot of racks a lot of benches all kinds of things the first people in there they sucked up those go-to plates yep they went to them yep they went right to them so then we were no longer able to and we just had to go to some regular old not go-to plates um and of course

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this podcast. You know, that NATO fuel can would probably be a good idea for this road trip we're about to go on. That's actually not the terrible idea. I wonder if there's enough time for them to overnight us a NATO fuel can. There's always enough time. That could be just the 5.3 gallons we need to get to the next town

in the middle of Iowa or Illinois or whatever state it is we're going across. Whenever one of those barren Midwestern wastelands we're traveling across. I like the Great Plains that we're from. That's the fun thing is you just claim whatever you... When we live where we live, we can say anywhere is a wasteland

because it's like, ah, hi, okay, yeah, they're being funny. That's the beauty of western northeast south dakota do we have anything else we need to touch on for this week's episode talked about our ads we supported our supporting members we've talked about the arnold what we're excited for yep i guess yeah otherwise people just well actually it's too late i can't tell people to come see us at the Arnold because this had already happened by the time this is out our next episode should hopefully be a recording that we do on the way home from

the Arnold we plan on doing a recording so that should be that should be a fun one a little bit different too switch it up alright Tommy where do they find you at you can find me at Tomahawk underscore D you can follow me at tomahawk underscore D. You can follow me at tanner underscore bear.

Just make sure to follow Massonomics at Massonomics. See ya. See ya. See ya.