Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 310: Arnold Recap 2022

Episode Date: March 14, 2022

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If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! Massanomics! side everything massanomics welcome back everyone for episode 310 of massanomics podcast the lifting podcast about the arnold sports festival 2022 my name is tanner and my name is tommy tommy we got a lot of good stuff to talk about this week don't we we? We do. I think it's going to be mostly Arnold related. Yeah, we're going to go with no guests this week because we have so much to unpack about

the Arnold Sports Festival, which we just got home from this week, and we're going to get into a lot of fun stuff there. We got a lot of unpacking to do. There's a lot of unpacking. I mean, I literally have a lot of unpacking to do at home still. I have to unpack a lot of stuff. We've got to unpack a lot of this episode right here. I've got to unpack some of my own stuff even.

Full disclosure, we're doing a little extra laughing because we recorded about 10 minutes of this episode before we realized we weren't recording. And we're saying the exact same words we said the last time. The jokes hit just as good the second time. Even a little better last time the jokes hit just as good the second time even a little better the small talk it's just as good the second time around i actually that's actually what makes small talk better yeah is the repetitiveness of it well we'll get to that yeah you're really uh i forgot about that actually a hot uh point of the weekend but

before we talk about that that i want to talk about someone that we just got to hang out with here at the arnold uh spud inc i'd actually love to hear more about yeah we spent some time actually at the spud inc booth and they're also a sponsor of the podcast we got to talk with spud and actually met a bunch of his team that we hadn't met before which is super cool um so i'm going to tell you a little bit about a specific product that Spud Inc. got, but first I want to tell you my best Spud Inc. story from the Arnold weekend. Oh, what is it? We're actually at one of the restaurants across from the Columbus Convention Center.

The one night we're sitting in the one booth, Spud and his team is in the other booth. We're with the Strength Co. team, and Spud gets done eating before us. He walks by and goes to leave we say goodbye and see you see you tomorrow and stuff and then uh grant you know not to spud but not so he couldn't hear it but he goes oh is that guy incorporated it took me a split second where i didn't get it either oh spud yeah yeah and i'm like that is funny well i should have been like do you own a company yeah yeah um but the product specific spudding product that i laid my eyes on at the uh arnold that caught my eye is the men

men's pro series the men the men all the men i had my eye on at the arnold too yes the men's pro series belt the two-ply version step up to to the Cadillac of deadlift belts with the Spud Inc. Pro Series. This belt will quickly be your favorite belt for squats, bench presses, deadlifts, and strongman. The Pro Series belt features the infinitely adjustable ratcheting lockdown system, which allows you to get the perfect fit every time. Sizing, they go from small to 2XL, all the way down from 25 inch waist to 50 inch waist it's made in america out of woven nylon it's uh strong as a house with the best nylon the best weaving no so and it's only 79.99 which is a variable very affordable price for that belt i

think put pencil to paper you can't not you can't no you can't actually can't afford not to buy you should have bought one at the arnold if you were there and then also this episode is brought to you by more friends from our arnold this last last weekend someone that we got to spend a whole bunch of time with uh our friends over at the strength co big big uh grant and big d actually congratulations on their recent game yes congratulations yeah they're practically getting two ads this episode tanner well we are literally reading this for this oh yeah yeah and you said that the other time too didn't you yeah okay yeah yes um and we did get to see the strength co plates in action a lot of they were getting put

through their paces doing a lot of cool stuff if you followed along over instagram for the weekend you saw a lot of that stuff but uh i would say the strength co was everywhere it was this last weekend wasn't it there was even multiple people that said they bought strength co plates after they listened to grant's episode with us yes which was really cool to hear cool i would um so we're just like grant you owe us big time it's i our booth was was awesome at the arnold then we will talk more about that but i would say the strength co may have been like the cool the funnest yeah booth at the arnold would you say something about having like a 20 by 40 booth yeah up here out of nowhere really makes a deadlift flat really really uh gives you room for activities um but do go check out some of their plates they

are indeed the go-to plates of massonomics gym uh we ourselves actually ordered some more plates we've got a whole bunch coming so when we're leaving the arnold we told grant hey you better get your buns back to california you got some plates to make and ship out to us get them sons of guns shipped on out to us here in western northeast south dakota so that's what they're doing right now i'd imagine so go buy some of your own the strength co plates ecoded made in america all that good stuff so this was the arnold this was the arnold so yeah this episode we're just i think we're just going to tell our whole arnold story aren't we i think that's the plan right no guests for that this one there is no room for a guest we've got too much good we got

like 4 000 what's in the can and what's in the yeah we had multiple people come up to the did we talk about the unpaid interns in this rundown or was that the prior um i don't think we've talked no we have not talked about it so yeah we have we have road trips to talk about yeah we have eating to talk about unpaid interns to talk about, unpaid interns to talk about, Discord crew members showing up in person, cans being given, all types of shirts being sold, people that we've been looking forward to meeting for a long time. I don't know. There's a lot of other stuff too, right?

Yeah, almost too much to remember all, but we'll do our best. Yeah. Just purely a 10,000- of it though it was really good it was like just like it was super fun things went great for massonomics things went great for our friends running other booths there owning other companies things were great for meeting people uh meeting listeners of the show and meeting like past guests that we've had on here that we haven't had before and just like reconnecting with people that it's been several years it was like awesome and super fun but also like emotionally and physically drained me down to a zero yeah it's i forgot that they're not in

the same time zone as us they're only an hour ahead but when we're getting up at like six o'clock their time that's five o'clock our time i never get up at five o'clock our time it's five o'clock somewhere there was five o'clock all the time it seemed like and so then you just do that for five straight days while also standing on your feet all day long which is something i never do talking to people all day long your feet all day long, which is something I never do. Talking to people all day long, not eating all day long. Yeah. Not drinking enough water all day long.

Like there's just so many things that just break you down to, to nothing and just wear you out. But it's a great weekend though. Right. And even this year, the Arnold numbers were down. Like we knew going into this the booth numbers were way down. You could see on the map they were constantly

shuffling and changing things. And when we got there you could see it. It was visible that things were very different. I throw out the number a couple times. There's for sure at least 100 less booths. There might have been 200 less booths. They did a good job of masking that.

Creating the illusion that that wasn't the case. But there was a 200 less booths. They did a good job of masking that. Yeah, creating the illusion that that wasn't the case. But there was a lot less booths. And foot traffic was quite a bit less too. It was for sure less, right? I never saw that thing. Where it's just the log jam. Right, where it's literally, I mean, you described it as like, you're in the front 10 feet at the concert

where you're literally like that bashing into people there was times where oh it's getting a little busy in this aisle but it was never part of that's because of the layout though too because things are spread out so much more that there's just more room for that you know even if there's the same number of people probably never would have looked that packed yeah but yeah there was definitely less people so even with the arnold having less vendors and less people, they still have a big enough thing going on that it still works. Yeah. And I don't know if anything else can really say that.

No, no, it was still great. I mean, I think it was still an a for us. Oh, it's still a hundred percent worth the trip financially, marketing wise,

networking wise. Like it's still made sense in every way trip financially, marketing wise, networking wise. Like it still made sense in every way. It's safe to say we'll be back in 2023. I think barring us finally shutting this thing down. If we finally missed that one podcast episode, then I guess we just have to call it quits. Right. Yeah.

And honestly it was, I mean, it was more fun than the last one in the sense that just like knowing so many more people and everything, like it just, it's like a giant class reunion kind of too. It's like it has that feel to it where it's like, oh yeah, all the people I haven't seen for a while now. And we talk about it too. Like it does feel, now after doing this enough and knowing enough people, it does feel like you're going to some high school class reunion or.

And just back to like high school because it's like okay you have like the people that you know have been around it's kind of like the underclassmen people that know who other people are but you might necessarily know them and there's just this whole dynamic of you understand everyone's their shtick what they got going on there's not a lot of places you can go and do that no so it is really funny It is the old Instagram coming to life is another good analogy to where it really is like that, where you walk down and you're like, it's crazy.

I saw so many people post images of them being there. Like we saw so many people, but yet I saw so many others on Instagram. I saw they're there. I'm like, I never even saw. I know. And that's kind of a bummer.

I'm like, ah, dang, even though we saw so many, there's still so many more that I'm like, dang, I wish we would have got to talk to that person too. So should we start the story? Go through somewhat of a chronological order so we can try to hit as many highlights as possible. Because there's a lot of really cool moments and things that will be fun to unpack. Yes.

So starting at the very beginning, tanner you packed up pretty much everything from your house yeah you folded all the shirts you had them yeah for a little while now but you had the you picked me up on wednesday morning at like 5 30 yeah the trailer was loaded ready to go yep and we hit the road yep and luckily for us western northeast south dakota didn't have any weather going on no it was actually it was real favorable for us, western northeast South Dakota didn't have any weather going on. No. It was actually, it was real favorable for us. And we went a long ways that first day. We made it, ended up making it to Indianapolis, Indiana.

Which is like, according to Google Maps, that's 16 hours to get there. So you add in a couple stops for gas and food, and that's like almost a 20-hour day. Yeah, and so we were pulling the trailer, which I underestimated how much weight would actually be in our trailer with the thousands of shirts that were in there. So when I was dollying down the trailer, the back end of my pickup, I just kept sinking and sinking and sinking, and I'm like, shit.

Like, I do not like the way that that looks so i i had packed the trailer in a way that was going to be most conducive for unpacking the trailer when we got there like to best fit our flow of setting up that booth like the 100 bowling balls you brought you set them all in the back right yes uh so i did actually then have to go in and like when i had this really nice pack nicely packed trailer that i thought going then like haphazardly like kind of rearrange it you know because i'm like frick this was after i'd been spending a lot of time doing it but like to even out some of the weight a little bit better and uh it was a heavy load we averaged uh i just have a half-ton Chevy Silverado pickup, and we averaged under 10 miles a gallon, I would say.

We spent $1,000 on gas. That was one of the unforeseen costs that we didn't really think about last time. And gas was just climbing as we were going. There's been a record number of gas memes I've noticed today. Yeah, and've picked the perfect time to drive like 2500 miles when gas is skyrocketing getting less than 10 miles to the gallon uh yeah and you could just you could watch the gas gauge go down like you we i mean our range was significantly lower than a normal trip well you just couldn't go more than a few hours because you needed gas right right so yeah but the first day was very uneventful as far as the car ride goes which is kind of

good when you're doing something like 16 hours of talking about massonomics basically was that if you were in there you'd be like man these guys have really talked about a lot something else to talk about for a little bit like yeah i don't think we talked about much else the whole time there was very little uh conversation that didn't involve masonomics in some way or another yeah uh yeah our initial goal was to try and make it to champagne because that's what we did the first time yeah and we made it to champagne at like six o'clock ish i think screw it let's keep on keeping on keep on going so we went to Indianapolis. Luckily, our hotel was right next to the place that had the best cutlet sandwiches in town. That's right.

The sign said it right on the door, so we knew we didn't have to double check it. I've almost forgotten about that part of the story. I'm just remembering this right now. That feels like a long time ago, yeah. So we had 10 minutes before they closed. We got the pork cutlet sandwich, and it was good. And spoiler alert, we tried to go to a few Red Robins. None of them were real.

They were all... Actually, on the way there, we tried to eat lunch at two different chicken places, and neither one would let us in. So the first one, I didn't realize, I believe this is nationwide still, that Chick-fil-A does not let you eat in their lobby still. So we pull up after going all the way.

You drive all the way across Iowa. It's like Highway 20. So you stop in Sioux City, and then we don't stop until, I think, Waterloo. And we go from the northwest corner of Iowa all the way east across the state and then at least halfway down the state. Yeah, and I think, what was it? Is it Sioux City to Waterloo? Is that like four and a half-ish hours?

Something like that? I think like we spent like 30 hours in Iowa. It is. I never think of Iowa as that big of a state. But then when we do that drive, I just can never get my head wrapped around how long that takes. So anyways, we have to pee bad. We've been in the car a long time. We don't stop once. And we get to Waterloo. Chick-fil-A-a here we go it's right on the interstate perfect

and it's drive-through only so that's not gonna work yeah so then like two doors down from that there's popeyes oh yeah we'll go we'll go to popeyes never been there before yeah we'll go to popeyes we looked at it as as possibly a step down but we're like we're willing to try it it would be new for us it It's probably make for a, yeah. We'd be able to have this conversation. Yeah. Get the Megan,

the stallion hottie sandwich or whatever it is and pull into their parking lot. And it's looking really empty. And of course, due to staffing shortages, they're closed. Their lobby's closed. Yeah. So then we have to go to Culver's,

the old Midwest go to, right? Yup. And for some reason at 130 on a wednesday the average age in a culvers is what 70 something it was everyone like we definitely brought the age way down yep tanner had his podcast t on and i think that was the first of multiple times of people asking hey is that you guys on the shirt and oh are you guys brothers yeah that came up multiple times yes so we got our culvers break in oh and the guy said

asked where we were going or whatever i'm like oh it's this it's called the arnold it's this big uh i told him he understood we had a podcast i'm like oh it's this big strength festival and he's like but he knew he was kind of maybe stuck on the podcast thing he's like oh do you ever talk to joe rogan like no just seen some of the basketball do you know michael jordan yeah yeah so sorry if you're listening got a culvers eight hit the road again and i think we went pretty far that time. We didn't really make any real stops besides gas until we got to Indy, I think. Right?

I think so. Then we went to get a Holiday Inn Express. Holiday Inn Express. That's sort of been the go-to. That's the go-to hotel of the Mass Dynamics podcast. You know, it maintains a certain level of quality, except for the one we stayed on the way back. A certain level of expectations are assumed within holiday and

express and for the most part those align with our basic needs so yeah that's worked well but uh we woke up indianapolis hit the road three hours to go right yeah yeah it's just something like that and uh remember we're watching and man there's a lot of people with flags on the interstate is there like a parade coming through here and i thought i had heard something about some sort of things i think there's maybe a convoy or something yeah that's what i call it i'm googling and of course there's like another trucker convoy like a nation like from west coast to out to washington and we just happen to be like an hour ahead of it maybe yeah and as time goes on

the flags and the people start to get more and more and we make the joke like oh wouldn't it be hilarious to get caught up in the convoy yeah and that's why you're late to the Arnold our friends at Ghost that's exactly what happened yeah the Ghost Strong people got delayed like four or five hours because they got behind the slow moving convoy and you couldn't get around it yeah yeah uh so that sucks for them but i guess it makes a funny story yeah and it's good for us because we were just so we got to be like feel like a part of it like they're waving flags at us we also talked about isn't it funny to think about how in all of these convoys there's never anyone waving like a rainbow flag you know like there's never anyone on the bridge with like a bunch of rainbow no we were saying i would be

funny to like what the story we were talking about like you show up with the rainbow flag and damn it bill we're not doing rainbow flags at this we said any flag but rainbows damn it stand on the other side of the bridge. Didn't you get the email? We're not doing that one. So there was always an interesting collection of people and flags out on display. But then we got into Columbus by, it was before noon, wasn't it? Yeah, I think we got there by like 11 even. Which we were feeling pretty good about.

Pretty cool too. Like now that we know the process well enough of even just like where to go. The last time we had to drive around the block, we didn't really know what was going on. Right. Once you've done it and been there once, there's a lot less anxiety for that part of the process, I think.

Yeah. And we pretty much got to back in right away, right? Yeah, we pulled basically right up. What was that company? We were in X-Bands, I think. think yeah they drove from freaking california crazy bastard that's a long ways yeah but anyways we pulled in there and we started unpacking i mean we literally pulled up parked flipped the end of the trailer down and started shuttling it all out of there i think we got it all in three trips didn't we three or four maybe because we had a really sweet mega cart that you can put like

nine boxes on at a time yeah that was very helpful and then just the regular two-wheel cart yeah so that part was good we were efficient machines there and then it was putting together a 20-foot booth which we've never done before right we had a vague idea of what needed to happen but that when you have like 30 boxes of stuff it is sort of one of those things like where the hell do you even start that is kind of the thing it's like um i mean we've i think we figured it out well but it is a little overwhelming at first because there's so much to be done but yeah we kind of got our backdrop set up get our shelves set up and And then, you know, amongst other things, you build the display,

what would be the best spot for these things? What shelves, the most popular shirts, you know, they're really easy to grab off the top shelf. So what ones need to go on the top shelf? What are ones in the middle? What are in the bottom?

Yeah. But we got the system down good. We felt, felt pretty solid about it. Everything was packed and put away. That part went pretty smooth. Yeah. It took a long time.

It did. It took a long, longer than I expected. I went pretty smooth yeah it took a long time it did it took a long longer than i expected i mean i think it took us like four and a half hours to i don't yeah i don't think we left there until about five yeah actually so but it was nice though we got there early enough and we took our time we were never rushing right right we never were missing it we never unpacked and said oh we forgot this and this and this did we forget anything i we had by the end of it we had a few ideas to optimize for next time but there wasn't a thing that we're like shit we forgot to bring that which that's a good feeling that is that uh might actually never happen again right that is tough with that much stuff one and only thing because there's certain like there there's certain things you can't afford to forget but

then there's a whole bunch of stuff that if you do just forget it, that's probably okay. Or, oh, that would have been nice to have this thing. And I think we had it planned out well enough. We didn't really experience much of that. But it was nice that we got there early enough that we did. That we went that extra distance the day before. Got there early enough that Thursday.

Because it took us longer than we thought to set up, probably. But even then, we got probably but even then we got done and then we had enough time to like go to hubert's polish kitchen was that on uh that was on uh thursday okay we did not anticipate that yeah we ate lunch at like 4 p.m on that thursday because i might have even been close to five yeah because i remember it was like oh should we stop or i think it was 1 30 we go should we stop to eat lunch at two and we said yeah let's do it and then all of a sudden it's like three o'clock we stop? I think it was 1.30 we go, should we stop to eat lunch at 2? And we said, yeah, let's do it. And then all of a sudden it's like 3 o'clock. Well, all of a sudden we started making a lot.

Like we got to a point in the process where we're really making progress like getting these shirts put out and stuff. Yeah, once you got the system and you're just dumping shirts on the shelves, then it's almost like a shame to walk away when you're getting that much progress. So then, yeah, you look at the clock and it's, oh, shit, it's 5 o'clock. We have an 8 basically all day. should take a break and we're trying to figure out where to go and i could have swore the last time we went through that market the

place that it's in was only kind of open yeah i thought it closed like one or two but uh looked it up hubert's polish kitchen was open so we got to go for our polish uh polish it's almost a buffet we just loaded up on stuff got a ton of things pay for it you do pay for it ain't cheap yeah but we spent about 50 dollars at hubert's polish kitchen between the two of us but so worth it it was it's actually perfect the way it worked out that we hadn't eaten for so long so you could go there and really like the work was done so you don't worry about being all full and going back and stuff we we i really got to enjoy that meal. That was probably the most satisfying meal of the trip,

given the exact timing, how hungry we were, that it's Hubert's Polish Kitchen. It's got this now, back to 2017, it's got this half a decade history with Masonomics and the Masonomics podcast. It's just straight up fun to go there. I love to go there and tell the people that we go here every year and the lady working you're telling her and she goes oh yeah hubert's my uncle he's not in today or he left earlier today yeah and so we ate our meal what was your favorite thing at hubert's

i always struggle because the pierogies are really good and i like that little uh what's it it's like a deep fried cheese or it's like a deep fried chicken ball with like cheese little, what's it? It's like a deep fried cheese. It's like a deep fried chicken ball with like cheese in it. What is that called? I honestly forget even. That thing's good. And then I like it when they put the spicy beef stew on top of everything. I don't really like that as well.

We had the kielbasa. Kielbasa's aren't as hard to find around here, so that one's not as special. I always get the chicken cutlet. Yeah, the chicken cutlet was good too. It's all good. The pierogies were really good though though it's all good yeah it's it's hard to beat any of it what did you say with the perot you said oh put a little that little filling of the perogi you put a little bit on the chicken cutlet that was good it's like it's almost like the sauce

yeah yeah and this was the first taste of welcome to the arnold was we're getting up to leave to leave lunch or to leave our dinner yeah and i'm just thinking in my head i cannot believe we haven't seen anyone we know right like we've been outside of you know right next to our booth right people that's the other thing too while the other company booth owners that are farther ahead in you than the booth setup process while you're setting up they get to come over and harass you and ask you a bunch of questions, want to chit chat. And it's so annoying because you're like,

no, I just want to get this damn booth put together. I don't have time to talk. But these people are kind of already almost done and stuff, so they get to do that. So people are doing it and it is nice to see and talk to people, but we're just so focused on work. So you can't even really get in the conversation.

But we had really, outside of the other company owners, we had a lot of talk. And that is normally how the arnold is you walk anywhere and you see people you know right and actually we took a picture in front of the arnold statue and there's two news crews in front of it yeah and we're like hey is that cool if we pop in here like you guys do whatever you want yeah and then so that we haven't kind of thought about sticking around long enough to you know photobomb in the back yeah we asked this newscaster to take our photo and while he's doing it he asked where we're from and we say this newscaster to take our photo and while he's doing it he asked where we're from and we say south dakota and this guy standing goes no one's from

south dakota yeah and he said where we tell him aberdeen he goes oh the golden eagles northern state wolves and so clearly this guy knows aberdeen turns out he's from rapid city south dakota yeah he did stop by the booth the next day oh did he didn't know it and I go Rapid City and he looks and he goes oh it's you guys again so I he said I'll come back and I don't think he did he could have when I wasn't around that son of a bitch so we're we get done eating thinking in my head I cannot believe we haven't seen him we know this we know here yet and we're walking and you go Tommy is that Max over there yeah and i'm looking and it's like yeah that's max ada sitting right there like that is him and so we go over and you go oh hey max it's tanner and tommy from masonomics oh he you know he's pretty mellow yeah cool guys yeah nice

to meet you and asking him how the food is yeah and he says good but it's no taco john's and that was so funny on the spot thing yeah it was hilarious it was good so we see him then we go down the stairs and there we see the first the first intern of the weekend yeah the first uh first crew member that we ran into the weekend mini action jesus big mini action jesus in the flesh i like to say big mini action jesus because it makes even less sense yeah he's uh he wasn't at hubert's was he was somewhere else no yeah he was and i don't even know if he was getting stuff or just walking when we interrupted him but so we got a got a photo with him somebody tag mini action jesus so he knows he's missing out on something if he's not in there listening right and that was the the first of many many hours we were about to spend with him yeah this weekend but yeah uh we went back to the booth then and our booth was good to

go we talked to grant at the strength co he was just getting set up in in his little corner of the world and i think we got done there and went back to the hotel basically didn't we oh no no that's and jonathan showed up oh yeah jonathan showed up then too some of the alabama contingency jonathan less showed up so we got to meet up with those guys and then that's when we went across the street and went to that bar where spud was yeah where spud was and we just kind of hung out and chilled for the night it was fun it was the first time we got to hang out with grant and uh all the strength co-crew and just which is really weird to think about that that was the first time we've ever met him it because it feels like we've known him a long time right right right um and it was we that that was a lot of fun just you know chatting about uh all things massonomics strength co all that stuff and

jonathan being there and he's you know sponsored athlete for both companies it was a lot of it was a lot of fun it was it was a good time yeah yeah just just having fun being stupid and just guys being guys so we went back to our hotel that night pretty nice hotel really nice hotel oh and it was funny because while we're sitting there you get a phone call you go brian carroll yeah brian carroll's calling me well yeah it just took me a second i was like and you know i have his number from the podcast and i'm like oh why would brian carroll's calling me well yeah it just took me a second i was like and you know i have his number from the podcast and i'm like oh why would brian carroll be calling and um he our trailer is parked back at the hotel and he goes what hotel you guys staying at

which recurring theme of the weekend so many people ask me that and still to this moment right now i cannot remember the name of those the embassy suites is something like that i think it was so every time someone would ask i go tommy cannot remember the name of the hotel. Was it the Embassy Suites? Something like that. I think it was the Embassy Suites. So every time someone would ask, I'd go, Tommy, what's the name of the hotel we're staying at? And I'd tell them, he's like, ah, just saw your trailer out front. Shoot me a text when you get to the hotel bar. And we ended up not being able to catch him up with them that night. But we ran into him in the lobby like four different times.

Yeah, we talked to him several times. And Brian was a really, really cool guy in person. He was. Really fun to meet those people. Now it feels like, ah, it's almost like I'd like to have you on the podcast again. I know, again, now that we've actually met. Yeah, right. And while we were eating dinner, then Huck Finn called you too.

Yeah, Huck called. And it's funny. Oh, Huck's calling me. All I hear is, oh, I just hear yelling on the other side of the line. So then I have to kind of match his, like, I can't just be at his level. Hey, you know, I have to yell back and he's like,

where are you guys at? I'm like, Oh, we're at the bar. And he's like, and to me, there's some confusion. He's like me too.

And I'm like, Oh, I don't see you. And he's like, no, I'm at the barn, you know, his barn at,

at home. He's like, but I'm going to be there tomorrow. And then he says, I want to set up a deal where I'm at your booth from noon to two on saturday and i go we go yep let's do it and we got that set up and um yeah let's get to that later too i guess but it was all the calls and like spuds behind us and it's funny when you sit down in the bar any of those nights you can spot like the 50 of the people that are all there oh god if you don't yeah if you don't

know them they have a shirt on competitor or they look like they're there yeah so that would be then we tried to go to the hotel bars after that right oh yeah all the bars were closed at like 10 o'clock yeah and we're like really yeah that was annoying yeah but we went back to the hotel i always have kind of a restless night of sleep the night before because you're just like so just like so ready to go it's funny though we talked about it we had like three nights before oh yeah because like the night before we're gonna leave you're excited to hit the road yeah the night before we're gonna get to the arm yeah because you're like nervous like do we have all of our stuff right and then yeah then the night before like the actual arnold yeah yeah so yeah there's just a lot of nights of not ideal

sleep because you're just you're just ready to go the whole time yes so then the day of we we get up we have the hotel breakfast yep see brian carroll again yeah that's right and uh we hit the road breakfast with the strength co and yep grant drove us in his van all weekend. Big Ron was there. Yeah, Big D. Big D was the only ones there at that point in time yet, I think, yeah. Yeah, so we hopped in Grant's van, drove us to the convention center, and that's when the day really starts.

That's when the trip really starts, honestly. Yep. And, I mean, it gets to be a blur at a certain point right yeah i was gonna say like highlights of the first day i really struggled yeah to think of any one thing sticking out we sold a lot of stuff we sold the first day actually went better than we thought it was going to yeah the first day for sales was uh exceeded our expectations so that was a pleasant surprise. That was the first time we got to meet Big Eddie in person.

Yes. Eddie was helping out with the Highland Unpaid Intern Discord crew member, Corn Fed Highlander, Big Eddie. He was helping out with the Highland Games competition, which was really close to our booth, actually. So yeah, I got to listen to Bagpipes for like the first eight hours of the day. That got a little much yeah it's one thing when you're there partaking in it but when you're just overhearing

them very loudly all day long it you don't realize it till they stop and you go like what just changed in my life here yeah yeah it'd be the bagpipes but that was when just really getting to meet all the crew members started to roll in. And there was too many, like we're going to forget them all, but there was probably at least 15 of them, right?

Just some of them that, you know, of course, big Eddie and big mini action, Jesus special. Well, we'll talk about more, more about that.

But just as we're talking crew members that we did get to meet a big, uh, Andrew Montoya, big Kevin is like, like, what's his Kevin? RSG. Um, the L other Alabama, to meet uh big uh andrew montoya big kevin is like rsg um the other alabama contingency consisting of uh the misfit uh barbell group which is like the love ladies and the rest of those guys they gave us a shirt from misfit barbell a really cool guy to talk about them like they've got a cool gym going there and i think there's a lot from misfit barbell a really cool guy to talk about them like they've got a cool

gym going there and i think there's a lot of parallels to like us starting massomics gym and what they're doing with that so that was super fun to talk to him about that um can't remember her name the gal that was wearing the raw power i know i don't remember her name either and uh i know i don't know what her name is in the in the discord if you're listening make sure to say something and we'll say your name right now instantly yeah um boy there was a lot there was we figured there's probably like 15 to 20 at least group um big emmet big emmet yes he was only there on friday i think so but he came by a couple times yeah yeah yeah big emmett somebody take big emmett he was he was there um there was a lot and big jess oh yeah big jess big jonathan big grant big d

yeah and it's jess as in big jess bittner um yeah there's a bunch right and there was i at least forgot over half of them yeah already and it was it's always so funny when people come up and buy stuff and they don't say until like you get them all checked out they have their items you say you're all set and they go oh by the way i love the podcast and you're like no yeah and we'll have a great time right off the bat here. Don't save that little nugget for the end. With us having a booth there, it's different than some other companies.

Maybe also similar to some companies the more I think about it too. But there's two types of people that come up generally speaking. Those that don't know anything about us other than they walked by, they saw these shirts, they want to buy one, they think it's cool, they saw the drink spotted, they want to buy one, they think it's cool they saw the drinks spotted they want to buy one they think it's cool they saw someone

else walking around with one of our shirts they said where do you get it they came to us and that's like half the people the other half the people are people that listen to the podcast follow the podcast love the podcast maybe they just know our a lot of people just know us for our instagram they love the content we put out yeah I've seen the stuff around people they know us they kind of know who we are they want to make a joke about the lift shorts or the hats

or discord crew stuff all that so there's two kind of customers the ones that kind of know us and know our stuff you know our shtick and those that don't but some of the people that really know us they don't make that of the people that really know us they don't make that apparent until like almost when it's done it's like oh we can talk about this yes and i i get sometimes it's people just kind of being goofy and they're not letting on

to it really yeah and other times people are just being shy or reserved in person and they're not getting that information out there but the people that lead with all of the podcasts like right away we know we can joke around we know you get what's going on here yeah so people yeah lead with that in the future if you ever do see us yeah make it obvious from the start because yeah it's way more fun that way there's just so many different people that said they enjoyed the pot like i blown away by the number of people that say the rest of the podcast and like people that people that i don't think of our normal demographic of like guys all different guys like that are in their early

20s to 30s like yeah oh the fact that even one woman said I listen to the podcast yeah I think there was one woman that she's like yeah he's my husband he has to wear massonomic stuff because I listen to the podcast all the time I cannot remember who that was I was gone from the booth at the time and

she was wearing a massonomic shirt was it the time. She was wearing a Massanomics shirt. Was it the one day she was wearing Massanomics gym and the one day she was wearing race hell? Uh-huh. And they were at the booth. I wasn't, and I came up, and they were both wearing Massanomics shirts. And I go, ah, you know, pat them both on the back.

I'm like, these two are a couple well-dressed. You know, like I said, that line, like... You can also find one line that works and stick with it forever you know like if a few people like it everyone's kind of likes it and um and then they walked away and you said yeah though the wife was the one that or the you know the she was the one that listened to the podcast not him i'm like oh really that's that's uh that's interesting uh-huh could you just assume well i don't know she's, and she's going to know who we're talking about. But that is super cool, too.

I mean, for sure, yeah, force your husband to listen to it, too. But it's just easy to just have your idea of this 30-year-old guy that listens to the podcast. It's just funny. It's not always the case. It's really funny the number of women that came up and said they listened to the podcast.

And in my brain, I think, you don't actually do that. But then they know some of the jokes, too. I'm like, you can't make that up. Right. Got to do a lot of the jokes with people. Yep. People like the jokes. Our sign said, don't buy our hats.

I answered a lot of questions of people that didn't know the joke. There was a lot of questions about that. Why didn't you say don't buy those? Then they explained it, and they go, ha some people from the actual arnold event staff asked us why you can't buy hats they go ha okay and then they don't buy a hat so thank you for expecting makes it too easy uh we should do a can and an ad before we get too far here so uh one of the other perks of the in-person arnold was people gave us numerous cans for the What's in the Can segment. I also don't know if we're even going to get to all the stuff that people gave us.

Yeah. And we came home with a lot of stuff. People gave us a lot of stuff. Yes. Okay, Tanner. I want this to be a What's in the Can for me, too. Someone asked if it's a NATO fuel can. Well, it could be a really baby one.

I want this to be a What's in the Can for me, too. I haven't looked yet, so I'm not going to look either. I'm going to'm not gonna look either i'm gonna keep my eyes closed okay okay so i'm going into eyes closed mode now okay okay okay i can no longer see my hand is out i'm giving tanner his can it's definitely a can right it's cold he had it in the fridge i did back into the sack for mine and there is a note it looks or felt like in here okay should we just do the can first yeah let's do the can yet before the note oh it's a solid tab isn't it what is it god i'm almost getting like a rip beer scent right away oh no no no no definitely very fruity don't know why i said root beer um boy i don't think i know that flavor and it's strong too i just can't put my finger on it

and i didn't even see the color of the can to like influence me you know it's got to be like a raspberry or something like that, doesn't it? Or a strawberry? I was wondering if it's like peach. I don't know if it's quite peach though or not. Do you think it's peachy at all? Because when you said it smelled like root beer, I really smelled it.

I'm like, it smells like peach skull to me. You might be right, actually. It gave me a slight memory of trying to chew peach flavored skull and me getting sick from it i i believe peach here i could i could see like a peach tea or something like that it's like mango or it's not really if it's anything mango i'm never going to guess it because i'm maybe it's i'd go nectarine no i wouldn't i would never guess i'll say peach

tea will be my guess oh that's a good guess should we check them yeah it's bubbly gin white white peach ginger oh ginger okay we're pretty good i think that's a that's as good as you freaking get on that wow because what'd you say peach Peach tea? I like peach tea. Because it's never just peach. It's never going to be just peach. Ginger is practically tea. Okay. And I cannot remember who gave us this. Was there a note then?

Oh, shit. That's right. Okay. Let's see in here. What do we got? I remember the transaction. It's in a Home Depot bag. I remember you grabbing it and taking it and putting it somewhere,

but I can't remember who gave it to us. Let's see what we got here. This should hopefully tell us who it's from that looks like a long note okay it is kevin rsg okay i wasn't for sure uh thanks big kevin dear big tanner and big tommy do you know what's in your can i do and i think it's and i do and it's thanks to you that i give sparkling water a fair chance. Now I enjoy a nice Christy boy when I'm not having a flat of pounders, or as we Ohioans,

how do you say Ohioans? Ohioans. Ohioans might get a rack of bush lattes or a 12-pack of canned bottles. What's a 12-pack of canned bottles? Maybe you meant canned or bottles. Ah, yeah. I enjoy your pop culture debates and discussions

such as two spaces after a period ghr versus ghd or the existence of red robin i want to leave you with a fun or lack thereof existence if you ask me a fun list of debate topics and would love your input is a hot dog a sandwich i would say no it's a hot dog no i don't like that i don't either i don't like that one i don't like i don't even like that question anymore is water wet i would say yes you know that's a kind of a brain buster yeah it is tricky but it's a liquid i feel like liquids are wet that's like i mean if you're asking me if i have to choose one i'm gonna say it it's hard for me to say it is not wet yeah it's pineapple gone pizza i think it has its place i think it has its place too it's not in my top five ingredients on a pizza but i'll eat it right is it pronounced gif or jif i think we've we've said yeah yeah

it's gif is ohio in the midwest oh that's just barely uh eastern midwest for sure yeah edge they're on the eastern time zone to me that's kind of an indicator that says something to me that they're in the eastern time yeah yeah but you also can't say they're east coast either though they're western it pretty much looks like when you're driving around there like you're driving around this part of the country too. Yeah. I'm going with any, Big Eddie even said east coast time zone. I kind of, that's an important factor to me.

That carries a lot of weight being in the eastern time zone. Yeah. I just have a hard time saying something's east coast when it's not on the coast, you know? No part of it touches that coast. That's where I struggle with that. Right, right. So, ah, it just barely makes the cut if it does.

Kevin's answers were a hot dog is a sandwich. Yes. Water is wet. Yes. Pineapple gone pizza. Yes. GIF, you know, I'll project my version of that and uh um he says ohio's in the midwest prove me wrong so you guys do have a compelling argument there with the with the eastern time

zone though right right that is the most that's the best argument i've heard for that uh he said just want to thank you for what you do with the podcast and all the rest you're doing a great job. Welp, slaps knee. About that time. Big Kevin at Kevin underscore RSG underscore 18, west side of northern northeast Ohio. Did he include a diagram? He also included a diagram of can't wait for the curl hard cool beanie knit hat to drop. Well, just you wait. Well, he's actually kept at this point.

Kevin's already seen. Yeah, he has yeah and by the time this comes out you'll know that beanies are well we did we did i mean everyone saw our stuff that we had at the arnold i mean everyone's zooming in on the thing so we dropped the uh beanies we did four and over good four color options i think we still have all four colors available we should they're really nice And the number of people that said, wow, these beanies are a lot of people.

Yeah. I was amazed at the, for us, this is our first time having a beanie like this with the patch sewn on the front. And the number of people that unprompted just came up and made the comment. Oh yeah. That's a really nice beanie.

Yeah. Yeah. Or actually just bought it out of the blue too. Didn't know anything about our company. Just bought the beanie and went along their way. Kevin is a fun guy though, isn't he? He was a fun guy. Yeah, the beanies.

Then the Arnold is new. Or Massomics is new. Numero uno T. Classic comeback. Came back out of the vault. And then when we do that drop on an undisclosed day next week. We'll just say it's next week. There is something

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Beanies are very cool though. Yeah, turned out really good. My son's not even two and he, though. You're going to want to get them. Yeah, turned out really good. My son's not even two, and he loves them. They're great for people of all ages. Speaks to everyone. First day. What did we do that night?

What did we do that night? I was going to say, other people on Thursday, people we met, the strong man, some of the strong man guys were checking out the space they were competing the next morning too and we happened to just walk over there we wanted to check it out and first we saw Trey Mitchell over there got to talk to Trey for quite a while yeah because we had it on the podcast same where it's like ah the podcast would have

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Someone, especially our Canadian friends, they said beanies don't have a flip. Tooks do. That's also what I always grew up. Beanie was to me the hats that like the single. Yeah, that's what I, you know, everyone I knew called the beanies. But being in the industry now, they are.

You're an industry man. Well, everyone calls. It's just beanies. Yeah. But like when I grew grew up like if someone said beanie they specifically meant the ones with no flip just like that's what a beanie was was the one and like because a lot of people wore those yeah that i don't know maybe that was definitely more popular that was a more popular style in the earlier 2000s but now like you know uh the

printers like a lot of other people that uh are selling merchandise like they call them all beanies and so it's like okay so what do you have beanies and stocking caps like well that's a that's what i call that's you know and all canadian people all say toques which i didn't know that until recently and now that is becoming more common doesn't sound weird when i hear someone say it like it used to but i always called those stocking hats like what we have now was a stocking hat or a stocking cap yeah but then it's like people don't say that what's the difference between a hat and a cap you know right i don't know like i use those interchange like from my corner of the world i use those interchangeably i use just beanie and hat interchangeably. Yeah. You know, it's like a hat for your head.

It's like a hat for your head. But yeah, I get that where they're coming from on the beanie. You know, I always agreed with that, but apparently that's not common nomenclature anymore. The times are changing. That's right. Bob Dylan said it. Okay, what did we do Friday night?

That's a great question. I know we did something every night we went with okay okay we went with it was us and the strength co and eddie was that that night yeah and we went to uh like was it parlor right across the street or parlay right across the street fancy uh yeah that's where he went and you could they could not get your drink order no matter what happened no they brought me uh it was funny because they came over the table they go shirley temples guys looking around like no really who ordered shirley temples not for us so you didn't have your drink then then they came back with a glass of whiskey like it was like a shot of whiskey yeah yeah they go here you go and you're like still not right yeah and i'm not really sure did you ever even get your actual beer did you

end up i drank one of jonathan's okay like hours later they brought one finally and i'm like okay yeah thanks so it was me you jonathan big eddie and basically the Strength Co. team. I was there that night. Ryan. Ryan and Big Ron was there. Yeah, Big Ron from the Strength Co. It was fun. They had decent food, pretty expensive place. Yeah, not cheap.

No. Little rich for my blood. And then Huck Fit. We were going to meet up with Huck Fit and those guys, and they actually happened to show up right in that same place so i like ran in behind them and uh got them and huck finn goes what are you doing here you idiot you know like you would that brings me back to something that started on friday that we haven't talked about yet was uh maybe the freight catchphrase of the weekend yeah uh my favorite was one of my

favorite parts of the weekend is asking people favorite was one of my favorite parts of the weekend is asking people if they are working hard or hardly working just always the just the the dumbest thing it's like the thing you say to everyone oh it's like right up there with oh i should they let anyone in here now yeah it's one of those scenes and i i said that several times too to people like oh yeah and i i really like oh i guess they let any old son of a bitch in here i really like that like hitting them with that one yeah um but yeah working hard or hardly working i started uh it was just ambushes like the gotcha cam of like uh so they don't really see you coming and then hit them with it and then everyone's like oh yeah like it's funny

because you get like the mix of i don't know what to do and the hardly working. A lot of people saying that. It's like we go out to Dan Bell and then the Live Large team and then the Go Strong group and then Travis at Obsidian. Yeah, Meg Squats. Anyone that comes by the booth, they get them with the working hard or hardly working. Yeah, it was really funny.

It was. Those were good. Getting everyone's reaction like that's what i was doing that i snuck in behind him in the bar to get like huck finn and karen and everyone be like working hard to hardly working and if you listen you just hear huck finn go what are you doing here you idiot yeah so we got done there uh went back to the hotel i had a little drink in the hotel lobby yeah and then went to bed that night and the next day would be saturday we had some whiskey in a cup and a little whiskey yeah saturday i would mention that i get real tired by the end of these days

and i can't stay on that late you know it would be great to stay up all night drinking with everyone because there's so many people there you want to hang out with but we also this is still a pretty big work trip for us like we are working for 15 hours a day every single day and it makes your next day miserable yeah when you can't when you when you wake up in the morning just dead yeah there's a lot of there's a fair number of people that are also there to talk to us and see us and stuff and it all it sucks when you're just like oh you like you when you can't have any energy so yeah there's a certain level of uh it's a marathon not a sprint for this true oh and when we did uh get to meet alexei novikov oh yeah yeah yeah and he did

seem a little melancholy he did which was not all that every reason to be actually walked away thinking like he was polite and you know but like wasn't the usual exchange you have with people you know partly there's a little bit of language barrier but um with everything going on for him like yeah we walked around like ah maybe that wasn't the right, we kind of thought maybe we shouldn't have even bothered him. But we're also so excited to see him too, though. Right, right. And, you know, we weren't asking him about... Yeah, we just...

Can we get a picture? Yeah, right, right. So then we went into Saturday. Yep, the big day. Again, it was just selling a lot of t-shirts. But the big change for Saturday was Grant over at the Strength Co. He got to move his booth. Got a bit of a booth upgrade.

And he got to put it next to the center stage, which was traditionally the stage that would hold the strongman stuff and all that. Yeah. And he got a big booth. It was a size upgrade. For him especially, it was a location upgrade. Yeah, a layout upgrade.

Got to put his deadlift platform out there front and center with his bars. Yeah, and he turned it into sort of the strength co-cage, you could say. So they had spots lined up for people to deadlift. People would come from the crowd and do random deadlifts. Yeah, trying out the bar and the plates. Saturday, the big event was kind of dan bell uh brett from ghost john and jonathan was it those three mainly yeah we're dead lifting that day dan did like 800 for a set of four i know it's stupid yeah uh but great i think uh uh brett hit a pr dead lifting that day and jonathan pulled i don't even

remember what he pulled i don't have to speed on that's like jonathan that day he did a uh 745 single later that same day he lifted with uh i can't remember who and he did um like a 605 for a set of five the next day he deadlifted again at the Strength Co. Like when Big Jess was deadlifting. Well, did she deadlift two days in a row or did she just deadlift on Sunday? Because someone said, and Big Jess. But I think she just deadlifted on Sunday.

I think she just deadlifted on the one day. And he then deadlifted like 695 for a set of six. I talked to Jonathan, let's see, when we were driving home on Monday night. I talked to him on the phone a little bit, and he said everything was starting to catch up with him. Oh, God, yeah. Because he's also drinking a case of beer every single day.

And the thing about Jonathan is while he's doing this, he's wearing a Speedo. So he was going around the entire expo all weekend in just a Speedo. So once once he got down to the speedo you know no more clothes are going back on and that's how it was he had just a speedo and shoes on like the rest of the weekend and uh as soon as it started like guys were lining up to take pictures with him we never really thought it was never like whoa what's he doing it was just like well yeah that's what he's supposed to do it would never seem weird to us. It never did.

It doesn't seem weird to us. But it was so funny because someone had a picture of him in his Speedo from behind about to deadlift. So he's bent over. And they go, oh, Tanner, look at this picture. And I saw the picture first. So I'm waiting for your reaction. And after a few seconds, you just go, I don't know what I'm looking at. And that wasn't a joke.

I was looking at it and just like, what is going on? I'm like, where is his head at? Because that wasn't a joke. I was looking at it and just like, what is going on? Like, I'm like, where's his head at? Because I thought it was like a front-facing picture. And I'm like, I don't understand what I'm seeing on the camera. You go, I don't know what I'm looking at here. And then it clicked that it's just Jonathan bent over from behind. Yeah.

And then I was like, oh, oh. Yeah, so he had his Speedo on the rest of the weekend. And there was a good chunk of time where he's just hanging out in front of our booth. And you can just see the people look at him and kind of laugh and move along. Well, then eventually one guy goes, hey, can I get my picture with you? And as soon as that happened, it was almost like a line appeared behind him of people asking to get a picture with him. Or a girl would pop up and say hey can my boyfriend take a picture with you yeah and i think some of it was just putting their boyfriends on this because they'd be like oh man like oh you got me in yeah but it was hilarious and i love seeing the pictures

of jonathan and the speedo especially with the guys in the suits did you see those ones yeah with the uh uh yeah yeah yeah and jonathan made a comment like oh uh when they say it's it's business casual. Yeah. And so it's like four guys in all suits and one guy in a Speedo. And it does not make any sense why this is happening.

I like the people that were in body paint and just wearing a Speedo superhero. Yes. And, you know, this guy, what is this? I don't know if he was like painted to look like Iron Man. I don't even remember what it was. Yeah, he's full on body paint. Only thing he has on is a Speedo too.

And he comes walking over and Jonathan looks down and goes, he's got a lot more going on than I do. It was so funny when he said that. So then he took a picture with these guys. Uh, yeah. Putting out the vibe and now just come to expect it. Like that's almost as well.

I assume going forward now huck finn and karen and uh all of them were by the booth for quite a bit on saturday and karen is back there uh back selling for us yeah and kind of several uh huck kept calling her benedict arnold for trading and we kept saying we got her in the he's looking for like oh we got her in the back pulling screens for us and then i don't know where we're at but it's important to mention uh i think big eddie and big mini action jesus said did we talk about how much they actually helped us out so yeah now at this point by the time saturday hits those guys those guys are in the trenches with us yes at that point they've put in some time and they're still going to put in a lot more time those guys are in the trenches with us yes at that point they've put in some time and they're still going to put in a lot more time those guys basically were around the booth almost the entire

weekend so this is our support basically this right now is our supporting our supporting members segment uh portion of the podcast where we like to highlight uh some of our supporting members you know some big important cool strong any of of those words you can think of, some things that they got going on that we think it's worthy of reciprocating that support. So these are people that are in our Discord crew or just supporting members. And how do you join, become a supporting member? Massanomics.com slash join. You can sign up to support the podcast. And Big Eddie and Big Mini Action Jesus were kind of the MVPs of the day

for the booth, I think, especially on Saturday and Sunday. Of the weekend, really. Yeah, yeah. And they were, I mean, they were working. They were selling. They had the system down. There's a lot of people that come over and want to stand behind the booth. There's also a lot of people that want to help and then after about 30 minutes they go yeah yeah i got

stuff to go do yeah this i don't blame them no yeah i don't blame anyone if that is that's what happens but uh these guys were in it for the long haul they even brought uh scans with them too yeah scans watched over us all weekend yeah see and he got in a whole bunch of pictures with a whole bunch of different there was a lot of some of those big dead lifting videos scantz is in the background of it scantz in the back it's so funny because you know if you're not in the massonomics supporting membership club you probably you know if you're not a close follower you don't know but he's in all these like yeah photos and pictures everywhere it was uh there was only a couple people to go what's what's with the guy over here yeah

as random as it was to just have this guy stand there flexing but he was wearing a mask on me so it's kind of looks like only a couple people ever asked about it it was just like okay that's just how it is over here right uh touching on as long as we're in the segment touching on a few other supporting members um big dalton he had posted a while back i made a note of this he supporting member big dalton he lost 35 pounds in a year and then just recently hit a six pound pr in his competition deadlift 529 pounds so leaner and stronger yeah so that's cool and then the other one i was going to mention is big jace just uh recently here got engaged. He welcomed Big Heather into his family's crew, he said. So congratulations to Big Jace and Big Heather.

Two crews become one. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Eddie and Mini Action Jesus, Big Justin, they really pulled through, though. It was. They did. Those guys did a lot of work.

And just so everyone's clear clear there was no money that changed hands they still can officially be labeled as unpaid interns they were not we're not given money so they actually had to pay us to be there yeah yeah um there's something else i was gonna say about those guys and now i now i forget they were good advertising for us though too because they're walking around and one of them wears 3x and the other one wears 4xt so it's like great uh yeah these giant hard to miss them yeah right yeah if you're wondering mini action jesus is is not mini he's he's full life-sized it is the full full thing. Yeah. Nothing mini going on there. It was a lot of fun hanging out with those guys.

It was. It was. You never know when you haven't met someone before. Is it going to be tolerable to be around this person? Yeah, yeah. Luckily for us, it was tolerable to be around them for three days. Also, thinking of other people, Big Swim Hat came around. He was there a little bit on saturday i think

he's competing on saturday but he's there a lot more sunday yeah got to hang out with him a lot more on sunday saturday night well actually saturday was saturday the day that the most exciting thing of the weekend happened john gruden popping yeah yeah that really caught us off guard yeah because the first day his son deuce yeah he was deuce popped in bought some stuff yeah we got talked to him for quite a bit he was really nice and we had never met him before so we didn't uh at first it didn't click that that's who he was and then uh luckily he had an athlete name tag on so we could see his name it's oh it's deuce he's here yeah and you kind of nudged me and and i wouldn't have recognized him probably immediately when he said as soon as he said i'm like oh yeah of course it is yeah and yeah he came by we took a picture and got to talk to him

asking about his lifts and stuff quite a bit and he might have even mentioned did he mention something about maybe sending his dad over something i can't remember if he did if he did but we weren't asking about that we're not trying to be the dopes like being like uh hey is your dad here like we're just excited to talk to him honestly and you know meet him in person but then wasn't it was on saturday it was saturday yeah saturday i was coming back from the bathroom and i'm like oh shit that looks like john gruden kind of over by yeah and i hear oh shit it's john gruden you weren't there right when he showed up i was just like we were walking at the same time basically okay okay because i uh i can't remember who tipped me off first on like i didn't someone said something to me first i can't like someone

like outside the booth yelled it to me or something and huck finn was right next to me in our booth and i like instinctively just like punched him in the arm and I'm like what the fuck is John Gruden and this is Huck Finn like literally he like his turning face me looks sees him instantly run yeah he did he did like and like I mean like as fast as he possibly could he goes holy fuck it is John Gruden and he's like a beeline to him like he's like the first person to him and um you know huck takes a picture we go out there and he says i'm here to buy some acidomics stuff yeah he's that is what he said like i mean i don't remember the exact words but it was something along those lines and i'm like it was a little bit of a blur because i was pretty excited about the whole thing like it was very like uh high adrenaline or you know just like yeah uh very fun and just super cool almost surreal experience at the time

because he's like said that he was there to buy some masonomic stuff yeah and um and he said no no no he's like no i'm buying it yeah i'm buying it actually his wife bought it yeah my wife his wife um and what do you i remember the three shirts he picked out the strong man you have the ape he got the ape at strong man the curls the mass economics gym team the mass economics gym he remarked it how he liked the aberdeen south dakota on there and that was that was pretty fun and that was pretty cool yeah i got a picture with. Definitely caught us off guard with that one. I was not expecting that. And he was very much the way that you see him on TV. You know, there was Grant's videographer.

Alex. Alex was there shooting some video and John Gruden says to me, like he was kind of videoing us and Gruden goes like, what's up with this what's with this guy over here and i don't remember what i said i didn't tell him he was like i shooting video yeah i just and uh alex later goes we're laughing about he's like you should

have told him i was with you guys but i could just kind of like oh there's there's just guys around shooting video i didn't even know what to like i was just like uh just kind of caught in the moment yeah right just caught in the moment it was super cool though it was it was really fun yeah it wasn't not expecting that and then there alex ran into him later yeah you know later outside like in the parking lot or something or walking around and gruden made the comment to asked if we have we sell online and he said yeah they do of course and um he goes yeah i'll have to get on there and buy some more stuff i just thought that was really cool yep yeah so i was surprised by that one uh i'm trying to think of anything else the days all just blend together i can't i can't even hardly pick them apart now and then yeah that night we went out oh that night we went out we haven't even talked

about this yet finally got to meet travis from obsidian yeah he had his booth just across from us and it was funny because he had a debt before dishonor shirt on we got there yeah so this is yeah we always talk about this is okay there's so many people that you know their company and all about them but you don't know what communication online all the time years yeah but you don't know what they look like you've never kind of not have their face in front of the camera all the time yeah necessarily and so unless you're really paying attention or you do like a deep dive on someone it's easy to just not know or forget what someone so a real good example of two of those that were there is hadn't met jared from depth of fortis honor before and hadn't really didn't really know what travis

from obsidian looked like so then it was like thursday night or whatever i even said on the way there i go i don't know what either of those guys look like and you're like i think in my head i know what both of them look like i think they have maybe kind of like a little bit of a beard, some facial hair, which at the Arnold doesn't really narrow anyone down. And you're like, I'm pretty sure if I saw him, I'd know. And so we're standing there. I think we were done setting up our booth on, it was Thursday probably. And a guy walks in with a Dept Before Designer shirt. And you go, oh, Jared, nice to meet you.

And he goes, actually, I'm Travis. And I'm like, oh, crap. Travis from Sidious. Okay. shirt and you go oh jared nice to meet you he goes actually travis yeah okay which is already just a few days later really funny to think now because like it's like oh of course i know that that's right across from us all weekend and we talked to him a ton we went out for dinner like yeah and trap they're they're awesome uh support our neighbors to the south yeah support that ontario canada yeah london canada whatever they're they're they're they're great yeah so yeah we got to really know travis we went out on saturday night with him at this this bar that was we were easily the oldest people in the entire bar yes it was a club it was like everyone in there was between the ages of 21 and 23 right yeah

everyone in there was super young and uh logan paul showed up while we were there came right came right by and like right by the table johnson goes he looked over and laughed and like yeah i mean he had to like sneak by our table directly behind us yeah so that was the second time we kind of had no we did see him coming to the arnold the the day or two before that yeah they actually one of the people in his entourage came and brought a baggie for us to clean up the dog shit that they were walking around with wasn't that what it was i think that i think that's what she said it was for yeah yeah he had he had a pretty big crew like 20 people everywhere he went yes With like three cameras on them at all times. Yep. That almost got exhausting.

Oh, absolutely. Everywhere you go, it's just a massive, just group of people following you and that many cameras. But hey, if it pays the bills, I guess that's what you got to do, right? Yeah. So then, yeah, I guess that night though, the mix was pretty good. Or the food was the mix the mix for the music was good too they were they're bumping up that night but their sparklers their sparklers going on yeah it was it was quite and then we go outside on the

street and because it's nice in ohio like here it's still pretty cold like 70 degrees it's like this is like a party on the street out here people lined up up and down vehicles flying around everywhere people running it was it was just like a whole new world for us yeah um sunday was you know sunday was more of the same it's kind of bringing it on home was you know landing that jet other people we got to spend time talk to you know met hayden from hybrid for the first time he came by the booth um jen thompson got to talk to her again it seems like at this point in time we've seen her many times or almost like that's one of those ones that feels like your old friends at this point in time dan bell we didn't talk to him much

but uh he was he was always around ed cone we were ed cone was always around We didn't get to talk to him much, but he was always kind of around us. Yeah, he was always around. Ed Cohn. Ed Cohn was always around. We didn't really talk to him hardly, but he was just like, sometimes it's just so busy and he was right around us. Or that person's swamped by like 10 other people, so it's just hard to interrupt. Nick from Live Large. We always talk to Nick a lot. Nick, honestly, is one of the people we talk to the most every single time. Nick's also good at sneaking away and talking too, though.

Right. And we always want to talk shop with him too like you know they're doing a lot of similar stuff that we are so we want dan bell crew member actually yeah it's true yeah dan got to talk to kevin and anna from live large plenty yep and their uh their new their new member over there emma too yep yep that was fun right next to us was meg and ryan with with buff chick supplements and strong strong supply yeah oh kind of fit kind of fat oh yeah yeah so yeah then i guess make it yeah who was biased and kind of fit kind of fat finally got to meet all the people over there that we've um mina uh like five other people yes there too i can't remember everyone's name honestly to say the truth but like obviously we've had Dean on the podcast before,

so it was really cool to meet them in person. They're all super nice. Every single one of them on their group was really, really, really nice. The next to them was Strong, Strong Supply, which is Meg's thing again. She had some other people there that came over and talked to us a little bit too. Directly across was the whole Ghost crew. Yep. Sarah, Abby, Brett.

Alex was over there. We got tolex uh uslar for the first time maybe talk about getting him on the podcast uh sean noriega cop came oh yeah yeah yeah several times we got to talk to sean quite a bit and he's uh he was a really nice guy to uh get to talk to in person lane norton came by a couple times we got to talk to him angelo fortino came angelo fortino came by and steve denovi the uh our two white lights podcast competition guys and we got to talk shop with them and the entire by coincidence uh that round table from the garage gym episode that's right that's right uh jake jake from uh garage gym um experiment was there hadn't met him before um the moderator the his yeah his i forget his name and then the uh it's keys in or uh yeah i don't know what it is

i think it's like kaizen on uh um instagram he made he does like a lot of cool woodworking stuff he made like the really fancy uh wooden drink spot wooden drink spotter and so that was fun talking drink spotter stuff with all of them yeah it is that the more you think like the more people that like oh yeah we we hung out with them we talked to them they were there yeah uh jessica came by multiple times yeah big jess we talked we got to hang out with her quite a bit and that was a lot of fun she um the kind of tried to talk her into changing from the canadian forklift to the canadian silly goose like i'd like everyone to continue to work on that because like you know there's a really good nickname like there's canadian goose you just put the silly in it's like the canadian

silly goose i think it's an awesome nickname and i I think it's better than the Canadian Forklift. In our own self-serving way. She seemed pretty receptive to it. I'm not sure if her quarter million followers are going to be as receptive to it. It's also funny that she knows the cutout of scans. She's like, oh, yeah, this guy's Canadian too. He does the garage thing. It really is Big Jess in the Discord for anyone that's wondering, and she does follow along.

So she knows what's going on. And then, yeah, Ghost Booth, everyone over there. They had, oh, TD Smash was around a bunch. Julius Maddox was around. Yeah, TD's always awesome. Yeah, TD's like, feels like he thinks. I think he went to the bathroom, and I was like the only one Julius Maddox was around. Yeah, TD's always awesome. Yeah, TD is like, feels like he thinks he went to the bathroom

and I was like the only one at the booth for some reason. And he came behind the booth and he's sitting there and people are coming up. He's like, this and Live Large are the only clothes I wear.

These are the best clothes you can get. Like talking to people. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'd buy that hat if I were you. Yeah, like giving the sales pitch. And you just tell people like, why are you,

who are you and why are you telling me all this stuff? TD is really cool he is and he's always fun he's always yeah he's like uh sometimes i'm almost like uh you're actually a little too cool like to be friends with me yeah he just seems like he's always having a good time right right yeah so the strongest ever trading card well yeah so yeah so making there's Ghost and then Travis and Danielle at Obsidian. Got to talk to them, watch them put on their sales pitch for ammonia all weekend, watch people just freak out. Yeah.

And then next to them was, yeah, strongest ever trading cards. It was Brian over there. Yeah. Brian McKean. We got a set of trading cards. Very cool. Yep, they are cool. My son was pretty jacked about those.

I bet he was sports cards guy and uh jason uh yeah jason uh yeah jason mike right yeah he signed his and stuff so and they got the td smash should have got td to sign his i'll take it next time we see him and get him to sign it that'd be cool yeah they got some big plans for that yeah the cards are really cool they are and that we said live large already i think going down before dishonor was oh yeah yeah just a couple more getting to meet jared uh yeah his uh this is what our significant other yeah that's the other thing we talked about like a lot you make the assumption of wife and stuff but a lot of times it's not wife yeah it's usually not the

case right right right but they were they were awesome you know first time we talked with them on the internet a lot of stuff before and uh they were they were uh really fun phil from strength guild jim wendler phil brought jim by uh we so phil was there on friday i think and we talked to phil first time i think that's the first time seeing him in person same way we talked to him several times we've been on this his podcast talk about getting him on our podcast and then also um when he brought by jim big jim the next day um you know i think we'll probably get be able to get big jim on our podcast here sometime soon too and uh those guys are just super down-to-earth guys and just like a couple of dudes uh they were cool yeah they were both just yeah they were both fun

and cool to be around jim was really super nice and like just uh you know really sincere and you know i don't i don't know how to describe it but he almost unassuming like if he was just walking by himself walking down the aisle i would be like not i would look at him be like is that jim wendler and then i'd be like no that's not him like if honestly like i think a lot of people i think yeah i think that'd be most people they're like yeah no no that can't be yeah that was that was pretty cool for me him as jim being someone that you know i'd followed for as long as anyone when it comes to like power lifting or lifting it was really cool um for me to be able to get to meet him in person and like when i say meet people not only get meet him but then like sit around and talk with him for a while have the time to

have a conversation yeah about a few things yeah uh is there anyone else we miss that i mean we absolutely miss people absolutely but i can't i just can't think of anyone else off the top of my head. Yeah. And also you take a ton of photos and you're like, Oh, I got these photos, but then you're like,

Oh no, that was on that person's phone. That right. So then they're kind of like a few days later, they're just kind of broken up across social media and they're not exactly as easy to track down as you think they would be. Oh, they're not.

Um, yeah. I mean, that's most of the people probably. Yeah. We forgot a bunch, but that's okay. That's what's going to happen in something like this. So final day, we tear down then? Is that where we're at with this? Yeah, I think so.

We tear down, which is quite the ordeal. And awesome to have help from, who was there? Big Eddie, of course, again. Justin helped again. Justin helped. I think he was around a little bit, wasn't he? I can't remember. I mean, who was there? Big Eddie, of course, again. Justin helped again. Justin helped. I think he was around a little bit, wasn't he? I can't remember. I mean, he was around all that day. Yeah, he was certainly helping and stuff.

Grant came over and helped a little. Yeah, and Travis and Daniel were really getting in there and doing a whole bunch of helping, which helped a lot. I think Expo got over at 4 by shortly after 5.30. We were out of there, actually, which is good to get. Which is like thousands of shirts. I think like 10 times in the course of 30 minutes, I uncontrollably went like this.

We got in the car and you just went, I just want to keep doing that because it's like the only thing that just makes me relax. It was just helping. And like everyone was helping a little bit more. Like literally like there is something to sighing. When you get stressed, like actually do physically sigh, like deep sighs. And you can feel like a little bit of that stressful energy like relieving.

Just disappear. And that was just, that's like the only that's sunday at 5 30 like that's the only thing i could vocalize at that point is just like a deep sigh and not because it wasn't great because by the time sunday afternoon came i could hardly talk anymore it was pretty much done talking but we hit the road it was smooth sailing we took off we made it all the way to bloomington indiana yeah oh and they're talking about how short everyone is we yes we are taller than most people most people are real short um grant is taller is tall yeah grant actually spreads

swim hack is tall um for anyone that doesn't know that already, there's a few people where you go, Oh, this person's actually tall. But a lot of people we take pictures with, it's like, wow, that,

you know, they make us look very tall. I'm by like most. The joke is like, if you want to look short, go to the mess. Yes. And I'm by all standards,

like not a big guy. Like, I mean, I'm weighing up, I weigh about 200 pounds. Yeah. But when you're six, one, like you put someone between us and they just start to look small, you know? Yeah. like not a big guy. Like, I mean, I'm weighing, I weigh about 200 pounds. But when you're 6'1",

like you put someone between us and they just start to look small, you know? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, there's a lot of big people that we made look somewhat small at this thing. Yeah. Or much less big than what they normally look. Then having a big Eddie and big mini action Jesus.

Yeah, then the other two guys. When I'm 6'1", I'm like the shortest guy working the booth yeah that does big mini is like six six you know 390 pounds so not so many uh so yeah we made it to bloomington indiana towards the end of that drive i was so tired i was practically hallucinating and of course it was downpouring that was like really hard i was white knuckling it you know pulling the heavy trailer on the interstate speeding you have the i guess that's not interstate where we're at probably yet but the divided highway and

um you know you get behind a truck and it's hard to even see what's going on it's getting hard for me to know where the lines were on the road. It's heavy traffic too. And the lights start to kind of just mess with you. Yeah. So by the time we got to the hotel that night, we were ready to be done. I was really thankful when we pulled in there and was like, oh goodness.

I was getting tired, but it wasn't like I was falling asleep. It was almost just like my eyes couldn't focus. They just wouldn't stay awake anymore. just i literally couldn't like focus properly on well you just start to lose points of reference like you don't even know where to look right that's what it's like you can't comprehend it anymore yeah so we went to bed that night and the next day i had a bit of an adventure because my father-in-law is an electrician and he my wife's dad my wife's dad he had this was i think on friday at the arnold i got a text like hey where are you guys at i bought a truck and it's like i

kind of thought it was a joke yeah and then i was like i just won't worry about this and then sunday morning my wife texts me and goes, so are you getting that truck? And I'm thinking, oh, that was a for real thing, actually. So I looked and it was maybe, I don't know, by the time it was all said and done, maybe a little over an hour out of the way, maybe. And so we pick up this truck and I didn't know what I was picking up.

We went to this place. It was like a little shop out in the middle of the country. And I basically said, all right, Tanneranner you can just drop me off and go yep and these two guys pulled this full size what what is that like a i mean it's a duly i never saw yeah it's like a one-ton truck with yeah with uh with the full what do you call that like a utility service body in the back uh and i got to drive that thing 10 hours home or 12 hours home uh i think was not quite expecting that so uh yeah so that's how we came home in different vehicles and uh that thing has like a has two fuel tanks i think it must be

75 or 80 gallons because i like didn't actually need to stop for fuel and i thought i would catch you but i'd have to stop for a. And I thought I would catch you, but I'd have to stop for a bathroom break and then I'd have to stop. And I was also, and you were booking it while I was playing a game in my, like it was, I was turning it into a, like a,

like in order to keep myself entertained, I wanted to see if I could not allow you to catch me. So when I would fill up gas, I would run to the bathroom and run back out just like you like speed What my downfall and I make it until he can't catch what my downfall was was the gas gauge and this thing was not working So I got like five miles down the road and coincidentally was having problems Which I'd never had a car with the gas and with gas gauge problems and then two and one weekend But I I first picked this thing up and the gas tanks full and I'm thinking great I can go a long ways and I'm not even five minutes down the road and i get the ding ding ding for low fuel and i'm like really i read

that wrong there's no gas stations anywhere near here so i'm kind of panicking and thinking well i guess i'll just have to see what happens and then a few minutes later i'm up to full fuel again it's like what the hell is going on here and then i just realized like every so often it would go down to zero and then go back to where it was and so my range went from like 700 miles to 600 miles and then eventually we were getting close to Sioux Falls and it was getting to the point where if I didn't stop it might be a little close and so then I did finally decide to stop in Sioux Falls well there was an issue with the gas tank on this thing where I guess they got it figured out already there's some vent or line or something that get plugged.

And when that happens, you basically can't put gas in at any speed at all. I should say diesel fuel. You can't put any. Otherwise, it was starting to spill out like it start to bubble out. So I had to just sit there with the handle at the slowest thing. Yeah. And after 10 gallons of that taking like over it took me over 10 minutes to put 10 gallons in i uh i wasn't gonna let you catch me though like i even and once that happened

you were gone there was no way i was catching i almost didn't eat anything that whole all i had was like in one of the stops i got some gas station chicken tendies did you and that was like i did i did a gas station there were good chicken tenders though holy shit i was like now these are a delicate like it was some shitty shitty gas station and they were they were excellent i had those at like 10 a.m somewhere i did a gas station burger in waterloo again on this actually i was gonna get culvers i'm like oh i did that but i missed the exit for that and so i did the next one and i got a gas station burger and it actually worked out good and then i stopped at the flying jay in sioux falls and they had these this big ass like meat lovers pizza and it was um i said they had a special for like two and the lady said you want

two or one i said one and she gave it to me like oh this is the biggest piece of pizza ever and then i got to the car realized she actually gave me two so hooked it up the other pro tip so i went to a fly i stopped at a flying j i don't even remember what state it was in and i was really focused on trying to make it like that was like what i was entertaining myself with is like how good a time i can make on this you know because it's pretty boring driving that far it is very boring the scenery doesn't change at all. But I had to take a deuce. And I was like, I was debating whether I could hold this for like 12 more hours. Like that's the games I was playing with myself.

And I was like, I could maybe make it to the next stop. But if I am assuming I'm going to have to take a deuce at the next stop, I might as well do it now because it's going to eat up the same amount of time. So I go into the Flying J. There's two shitter stalls and they're both full i stand in there for just like a minute or two and i'm like not much action going on here a while and i'm like this is a flying j i think they usually have like shower places for people uh you know for truck drivers they do yeah so they i go like past cashier. There's a special area that's professional drivers only. And so if there's any professional drivers,

they're probably going to be mad by this because I assume it's a code that I broke. But literally, as I'm walking to it, I'm thinking of my story of how I'm just in case someone calls me. Well, you had a trailer, so you kind of work for a professional driver. Well, I was pulling the trailer. But I'm like, oh i'm off i'm uh off duty today so it's like i'm still like in the crowd and i'm like uh thinking of the kind of

truck that i drive i'm like yeah i drive a grain trailer with hopper bottom you know i kids fabricate liner you know very elaborate lies sleeper in it and stuff you know just thinking of stuff that i would say if although nobody is just funny just funny because nobody's going to care. I'm like thinking I'm sneaking into Fort Knox. But go in there, great bathroom. I bet. Great bathroom. I bet. Nobody in there.

They don't let the professional drivers down here. That is where the clean, nice bathrooms are at, is the professional truck driver. The secret's out now. All you have to do is have the courage to walk past the sign that says professional truck drivers only. And a great backup story. Right. You have to be quick on your feet with and have at least a little bit of truck knowledge so that you can bust it out that my backup plan was IEM hauling

this trailer across the country so it's kind of and it is work related so professional drive at that point you are driving professionally yeah you're not doing it recreationally um great great crap in there though it's real good crap glad i stopped that's good to know great crap would recommend flying jay truck driver exclusive bathrooms um so yeah we threw everything out of the trailer threw it into my garage when we got back here finally by like 8 or 9 p.m and um still working on unpacking now still working on getting uh getting caught up on sleep. I told you before this started, there's only a couple times in an entire year

where I go to bed for the night before 9 o'clock, and I did last night, and it was amazing. It was amazing. It was so good. I am not caught up. It's late again tonight, 10.15. Another one of those days, and we still got stuff to get to right over here. Oh, God.

So this is just some things that we got from our... We still have numerous what's in the cans to get through, numerous sack segments to get through still. I was going to say, quickly, this is a depth before dishonor flag that we got. Yeah. Pretty cool beans. That'll go up in the gym somewhere. I don't know where I'm going to find any room for a flag of this size

when all of our walls are almost completely full. But you've got to make room. I do like this flag. It's kind of like a classic. It is. Depth before Dishonor look, if you ask me. I bought like a Live Large poof ball stocking hat. Oh, yeah. I didn't bring that along with me um bells of steel oh they hooked us up with a whole bunch of stuff yeah they did i think

this these are hooded sweatshirts or something in there hoodies here um they also got us a little piece of equipment i haven't even opened up to even i gotta unpack and find it was like a glute ham glider slider yeah we gotta look at that i don't i don't know what that is they dropped it off right at the end of the day and we haven't really had time to get through everything gotta check that out and then um i was gonna buy a uh weight weight tree from them and they actually just kind of hooked me up on hooked us up on that so that's cool yeah shout out to those guys yeah and that that that weight tree on on wheels you know it's like the three horizontal pins it's like five foot tall and it's got the four barbell holders on it and i haven't used it with weights yet but i've rolled it around moving it in and

out and um jonathan rolled out strength, co plates on it. It's a really nice way. It's a really nice plate tree. I do like that. So I'm excited about getting that. Then there's more. Well,

this is from, uh, big Ben Pollock, uh, mass dynamics athlete. He's got his own knee wraps and wrist wraps here. These are the 24-inch PHD, Peak Human Development. And if I remember right on this, you've got to take that apart

because this is kind of a unique feature of his. It's two different. So you put it on. oh it's the later material that first to get you the start of the wrap okay and then it's the casting like uh almost like the phantom pretty good idea so it's like the two i was two different parts of that it's a pretty interesting design actually and i think uh he makes these uh along with our friends over at uh pioneer so it's like that two different styles yeah sewn together that's a because i have wraps like this from um yeah frank and like these lighter ones i would say are how like gangster wraps yeah yeah the old slingshot ones where yeah the outside of this is just so

tough like i haven't looked at the the knee wraps are the same idea actually are they which that's kind of interesting too yeah i'm surprised that hasn't been done before i mean it could have been i don't see up super on the wrap thing god these are long yeah interesting but so the first half is this so it's kind of just like two wraps sewn together basically and these are what the 2.5 meter wraps uh-huh but for guys that don't use knee wraps don't these seem really long when you look at it or even for guys that don't want the world's stiffest wrap on their wrist but yeah i think maybe a little more those wrist wraps are super cool i mean actually if if you wear knee wraps i think these would be pretty interesting to try too these are called the peak human development

i like do you see what he did there he took the phd peak human development i like it and i think these are for sale now you know i know he's been working on these for a while. Are they on his website or Pioneer? I think they're on his. Okay. But I don't know. Maybe you can buy them on either, too. I'm not positive. We should look into that.

We'll look into that and follow up. But check them out either way. If you go on Ben's Instagram page, even, you'll find it. And this is a pretty interesting design. Yeah. I like that. A little ingenuity. Yep.

Something different. Just when you think there's nothing different to be done. They do it. They do it to them. Then there's other stuff that we've, you know, Travis of Obsidian got us a new Obsidian banner, hooked us up with a whole bunch of ammonia. Some teas.

We'll bust that out later. Stickers. Oh, yeah yeah we got shirts from them too yeah let's see some of the stuff i literally haven't even like we're set for ammonia for like years yeah i have so much ammonia now yeah um then big eddie corn fed highland. What's in the box? Opening utensil. Yeah, we need an opening utensil. He sent us back with a what's in the box. What's in the box?

Do you know what's in this? I don't. Okay. I do not either, but knowing Eddie, it's going to be good. I'm trying to get it open. I saw him kind of packing this up. Didn't really know what he was up to until later. It was a what's in the box, and I was like,

oh, that's like a what's in the box for us, huh? So now we're finding out what is in the box. If I can ever get this dang thing open. He sure packaged it correctly. Oh man, what is all in the box? Oh, what do we got here? What's that?

PA Dutch County koozie I heart intercourse PA so that's a koozie okay

okay I don't I'm interested in these what do we got here Lilber chocolate mixed chocolate buds ooh baby

and semi-sweet an American original I'm definitely gonna eat one of these I'm gonna I'm gonna scare everyone on air Wilbur Chocolate. Mixed Chocolate Buds. Ooh, baby. And Semi-Sweet, an American original. I'm definitely going to eat one of these. I'm going to scare everyone on air of having to hear me eat this, so I'll wait a minute there. Okay. Big Tanner and Big Tommy, or maybe it's Big Tommy because it's just BT and BT. Could be anyone.

Thanks for all the laughs. The chocolate is for the wives. Enjoy some mini coolers. Nice. Big Tommy, let me know if you want to talk. Quantity? Quality? I'm not sure can't you read that starts with a Q

lift hard live easy big Eddie oh man this is for me this is more maybe it'll make more sense here this is out of one of Grant's bags I remember that are these okay these are labeled. Oh, look, he sent us a Mastodonics sticker.

Oh, perfect. Thank you. I always wanted one of those. All right, so we got this envelope. It's a padded envelope. And what could it be? What could it be? Oh.

We got... I'll wait for you to open yours there tanner very sticky envelope oh what is this ah oh kung pao enter the fist because i have not watched it oh you actually haven't actually seen it no no we talked about that so that's like that why like because uh i haven't seen it so now i can watch it yep kung pao yeah you gotta watch it with jack he'll think the chosen edition yeah jack that's funny that's cool and then is this what you got here oh oh wow yeah sick it says an extra level to it now yeah in the events that have since happened oh wow we got the bud jeffries apocalypse sexy signed t-shirt dang honey i'll be back with toilet paper. Apocalypse Sexy. A man or woman who's strong, rugged, gentle, rough, good in a crisis, works, provides lifts, runs, shoots, fights, grows things, reads, thinks, prays, supports your dreams, scares away zombies, goes all day, pleases you all night, keeps you warm, loves your curves,

brings back toilet paper, flowers, and donuts, and would fight the devil himself to protect you. That's pretty sick. When the world's on fire, pretty boys and fake girls don't get it himself to protect you that's pretty world's on fire pretty boys and fake girls don't get it done dang that's cool and then bud signed it bud jeffrey's number three god bless why is my number two i don't get it uh must have been these number number one okay yeah that makes sense's, this is pretty damn cool. I, this was my other little gift in here.

Ah. I have a curls sticker. Ah. That would go great on a pair of shorts. I like that. This shirt is cool. Yeah. But I would not want to wash it.

I know. That's the thing. It's like, this isn't almost one that can be worn. It's like a collector's item at this point. That's pretty cool. That's really cool. cool big eddie well thanks a lot eddie yeah i mean one for everything that you've done especially everything going on two for this damn package yeah what's in the box now we know big bud

RIP yeah okay we'll see if I let my wife have any of this chocolate or not and then oh this is from bud too then right or not I thought I thought maybe this would be

oh no this is from PA so that's Pennsylvania it Or not. I thought maybe this would be. Oh, no. This is from PA. So that's Pennsylvania. It's just the I love intercourse part of it. Threw you off. All the intercourse. Very cool. Let's see. What else do we got here? A couple things here ads we got to read

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are you relatively familiar with the rules tommy i'm familiar you've been here done that haven't you yeah all right overrated or underrated columbus ohio part of me says anything that is considered part of the Midwest, which that might even be debatable, but something, anything almost part of the Midwest almost has to be underrated because so few people give anything in the Midwest props for things. You know, they have the Arnold kind of is the,

a bit of a lifting Mecca as far as anywhere in the world goes. Ohio State University is there. It's kind of a big deal. The Ohio State University. The Ohio State University. That's a pretty big deal. I think I'm going to say Columbus is underrated. Okay.

I think it probably is underrated. Yeah. The weather is more mild than it is here that's a win the parts were been in i always seem to like i haven't really been in a real bad part of it but i also have only been in a few yeah yeah we keep to a pretty tight area overrated or underrated beef jerky beef jerky god you'd say overrated but the thing i you'd say underrated but it's so damn expensive i on this trip got my mind blown yeah you didn't know how expensive jerky was he said like guess how much this costs i'm like oh like eight bucks it was like oh 16 i'm like what yeah what yeah we bought

a bag of 20 beef jerky yeah this bag of shredded meat costs more than like a full-on meal at most restaurants yeah because similar to an actual steak yeah um a damn steak dinner i do like beef jerky it's good good source of protein it's a nice little snack to have. This is a really hard one for me because I don't want to say it's overrated, but it's just so damn expensive. I'm going to say beef jerky is underrated.

I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt here. I'll still say it's underrated. All right. This is the last one. We're just doing a three banger this time. Okay. Overrated or underrated? Logan Paul.

I have made somewhat of an effort to not really pay attention to what his whole thing is. Yeah. Other than he does boxing matches. But I don't care about boxing. Boxing does not interest me. I can appreciate the athleticism of it. But as a sport, it just doesn't interest me. And he's one of like the biggest youtube people you can't say one of the biggest youtube people is underrated right that's hard to do so he's overrated i would think he's overrated too

with that being said if you wanted to have us on his podcast or any of our stuff i could does he have a podcast oh yeah okay uh um it'd be weird if he didn't i suppose at this point but is it called the joe rogan podcast impulsible i think that's what it is i believe that's what it's called is it funny i would assume yeah does he still do youtube i think so pretty sure i but i don't keep up with him yeah either, me either. Yeah, if he wants to run that. I almost didn't know what he looked like. If he wants some autonomic stuff, I'll say he's underrated. I'll switch my answer in a hurry.

Yeah. Yeah, you can't. It's like Joe Rogan. He's way bigger than I thought he was, that's for sure. Yeah. I thought he was like this skinny little wiry guy. And you can see why he wouldn't. Because no one's tall.

No one's tall, you know? Now I get the athleticism and strength thing a little more. Yeah. What did we miss from the Arnold? I'm sure a lot of stuff, right? Yeah, we definitely did. But that. It's just so hard to get it all.

We packed this into almost two hours and we still missed a lot of stuff. That's a lot of unpacking. That is a lot. We unpacked it and then we packed it all in. It's almost like setting up a booth right now. We almost unpacked a booth. I know. We unpack unpacked stuff but then we had to pack it all into two hours that was the problem yeah i know we definitely missed it i just can't think of anything else my brain's like dead a teaser for uh future episode maybe next episode we have uh

talk about uh some mcdonald's stuff people really want to know the McDonald's talk. And there's some continued McDonald's talk that he's talking. McDonald's interior is what we'll tease that as. We'll get back to that. We've teased that a few episodes. So to be continued on the McDonald's talk. Just not enough time today, I don't think, to hit all the. I have to save it for the next one. The McDonald's interior discussion.

And I think we can go pretty deep on that. I think we could. Deep and hard, right? that's what she's big eddie got me with such a good that's what she said when we were packing up i can't remember yeah what was it i know i can't remember what i said but i wasn't purposely setting up for it and after the fact i'm like that is the perfect that's what she said yeah i can't remember either but i was like damn it got me sick burned me real sick on that burn uh yeah arnold 2022 very cool beans could we give it maybe we should give give the arnold 2022 some cool beans i give it cool beans okay okay two of them i'm gonna give it two cool beans okay very good probably four and a half jd powers how? I'm going to give it two cool beans. Okay, very good. Probably four and a half JD Powers.

How many is that? Would you give it four and a half JD Powers? I'd probably give it four out of five. What would you give the peach? Oh, that? I'm giving that three and a half. Yeah, that's a three and a half for me. And what did you say on the Arnold?

A four or four and a half? I'd give the Arnold a four. I'm going to give it a four also. The final point is tied directly to attendance numbers. Right. Right. I think 2023 could hit the 4.5

pretty easily. I think it could. I'd love to be surprised and see it hit a five. Five's tough. Have we ever had a true five? No, but the Arnold could do it. It could. Only time will tell. Only got to wait a year yeah a year anything else i think that's everything all right tommy where do they find you at you can find me at tomahawk underscore d and you can follow me at tanner

underscore baird uh but more importantly make sure to follow massastinomics at Mastinomics. See ya.