Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 409: Kurt Locker

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

Big Kurtis Stadsvold “KurtLocker” joins us for this one to discuss strongman training in a home gym, the life of an EOD in the U.S. Air Force, and the nuances of military acronyms. Don’t miss our new drop this week, including our Chicken Bake Tee, socks, fleg, and beanies. Build Fast Formula Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10% on every order! BearFoot Shoes Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10% on every order! Juggernaut AI Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10%! The Strength Co Get some Go-To Plates! Swiss Link Use code MASS to save 15%! Texas Power Bars Get the Barbell that changed the game!

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

If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanics! Hello everyone, we're back for episode 409 of the Massonomics podcast, the lifting podcast about nothing. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy. And oh, Tanner, you went way too fast this time. What the hell, man? Normally you've been going on and on. I cut out like half of the things I've been saying. I don't know what happened. I feel like I just got the rug pulled out from under me here. All right, do that again. Introduce yourself again.

Hello, everyone. Actually, welcome all listeners, all first-time listeners, and all live listeners, several supporting members tuning in live tonight. So special welcome to our supporting member live listeners. My name is Tanner, for any of you that are new to the show. And my name is Tommy, for anyone that's new and a little about me, is I love rocking football towns, refs who shout first down, back-to-back Super Bowl wins. With the twins. There it is. Right here.

Read them and weep. Did you ever figure out where that postcard came from? So this postcard, this is a little show and tell here actually. This postcard came to me in the mail. Which is the Coors Light Twins. I started the Christmas card with the Twins on it. Now I got the Christmas card with the twins on it.

Now I get the second one. This was different twins. And now Mary's starting to get worried. Yeah. She did send me a snap of this one, and she's like, you and your friends are idiots. And so this one has the Coors Light Twins on the front. Here's to the twins again, it says.

And on the back, it's just the note, the text, the note that they wrote right here is just, and the front. Here's to the twins again it says. And on the back it's just the note, the text, the note that they wrote right here is just and the twins. This is obviously some service. My postcard is probably the site I suppose. But classic like 2003 advertising

right there isn't it? That's great. It's like a time machine. The shimble whatever twins there they are they're over 50 years old now probably uh yeah probably doing beer commercials in some other country now at this point yeah they've been relegated so you have no idea where it came from though uh no nobody's nobody's claimed it uh you know i'm sure there's some supporting member out there somewhere that uh is behind this but i can't definitively say who did it for sure oh man to be continued but fun getting this in the mail i did get a good

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and the very first thing that pops up tanner is a coors light twins beer scary movie promotional cup and on one side it's the twins and it says Coors Light and on the other side it says check out the twins in Scary Movie 3. That's like a time machine right there. Wow a lot of time machine aspects of that. And then there's a lot of postcards like what you have but different ones of the twins on postcards that says here's to the twins Coors Light. Several of those there's a postcard that's just a picture of a Coors Light twins billboard there's

just autographed photos of the twins so yeah lots of good stuff there if you decide to take that route there's material out there you know we like them twins still okay new drop is uh as the time of recording

it's tomorrow as the time you're listening it's already out unless you're listening live then it's literally we are in the present time the time is now uh but new drop we've got four new items in this drop the fourth item actually showed up today so we do get to include it in the drop we haven't had a drop for a little while we kind of gave everyone a break after the you know the day after thanksgiving yeah what was all that stuff in december i forgot already now do we have it was a december to remember i know it was a december to remember but i don't know i've forgotten about it. I know we had the calendar. Yes, the calendar.

Oh, the Brown Varsity. There you go. I'm glad someone that listens to this knows what's going on. So that's all we did there. So we didn't have much in December. We didn't have anything new in January. And now we're bringing the heat on the 1st of February because we are locked and loaded.

on the 1st of February because we are locked and loaded. So we're going to reveal a couple things here, and we're going to leave a couple, a mystery, although we just don't want to give away all the cats out of the bag for everything in the drop. But we will talk about a couple things. One thing we're not going to highlight is the new flag that we have for sale. There is a new flag that you can get your hands on if you are into flags. If you've got the home gym, maybe you just decorate your living room,

bathroom areas, dining areas with Masonomics flags. Impress your spouse with your impeccable taste. Yeah. So the flag is secret. It is a Masonomics art that you've seen before on other things but never on a flag before so it is new to our flag repertoire i would say flag joins the legendary flag collection yes and then we have a new tea. A new tea. I was really saying flag. A lot of us.

We have a new tea. And I think we decided we're not going to directly show the tea. We'll keep that one a little secret for now. Yeah, there's a new tea. There's a new tea out there. And I think some people are going to like this thing. You might make a little bit of a chatter online when there might even be a couple of moles in our supporting member crew that already have this tea as a

matter of fact. So we'll see what it is that they're doing with it. And we'll see if they get called to the carpet, so to speak once. I don't even know what that means, but I'll just go with it. Is that a saying, called to the carpet? Probably. Have you heard that before?

When I said that, are you like, called to the carpet? I don't think I've heard that before. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it's to criticize someone for doing something wrong. Yeah, call their ass to the carpet. Called to the carpet for missing the wrong. Yeah, call their ass to the carpet. We got called to the carpet for missing the deadline. Yeah. Okay. So we'll see if anyone gets called to the carpet for being

a mole. I hope so. This probably has its roots in something either like really racist or sexist. Most old things do, yeah. Yeah, most sayings that you think are pretty innocent, it's like, oh, that was horrific.

Yep. That was a terrible thing. It was just from a different time, and they let it slide. Yeah. Okay, and so we're not going to highlight the shirt as of yet, but this is the head-to-toe drop. So where should we start, the head or the toes? Maybe the head. There's been some question if uh slides mass atomic slides

were the toe and no they're not the toe there's no slides so the head february are you people crazy yeah the head uh right here we got a couple head options these are hats that you wear on your head when it's uh you know maybe when it's when it's cooler out or maybe you're just into wearing these like in coffee shops when it's hot i don't know how people wear uh beanies like when it's all the time yeah i would be so sweaty my head would be sweating a lot yeah and then some people do it once you have long hair it really messes up your hair for the day when you got that beanie on too. Yeah, it's a commitment to go with the beanie. We got two beanies.

We got the Massanomics Varsity Script embroidered on them. It's hard to tell from the camera there, Tanner, but it is embroidered, and the embroidery turned out great on those. Yeah. The back doesn't have anything on but the front right here. I really hold these up nice and close and stuff so you can see them. But, yeah, what do we call that? Our varsity script.

It's a red and white embroidery, neither on this black hat or the gray one. So, hell of a nice pair of hats there that you can wear right on your head. Still a lot of winter left. And the beanie we used here would be the same if you happen to be one of the people that bought one of our... Second batch. Military green. Yeah. Or most recent black beanies.

Not like our first batch. Our first batch were a little lighter. These are a little bit heavier. Slightly heavier weight than our first ever batch of beanies that we did. Yeah. And then... then well we talked about the head should we get to the toe let's get to the toes the toes uh for all you feet people out here what are we looking at some new socks new massonomics crew socks and these are black and gray. It's got the Massanomics logo on the shin area, I guess.

On the shaft. That's where that would ride. And then the bottom of it, again, like our other crew socks, does say lift hard, live easy on it. We did flip it. There was multiple requests. So when you put your feet up, people can read it. So we did flip it there was multiple requests so when you put your feet up people can read it so we did flip it to accommodate for that so when you're kicking back at your desk now people can

read the bottom of your feet uh joey asked if it's the same blank yes it is although maybe it's just because all my other ones have been used a lot. Yeah. And these are so brand new. These ones do shrink. This seems really substantial right now. Like the bottom seems really cushioned. And I don't remember my other ones seeming this cushion. I think they were the first time. I think it's just because they're brand new. Yeah. Then you wear them and wash them a bunch.

Yeah. They're supposed to be exactly the same as the other crew sock blanks that we had. Here they are. I like the black and gray. Yeah. Looks they are. I like the black and gray. Yeah, looks really good. I like it a lot. Okay. Is there a left and a right? No, they're universal

for your feets. Put them on any of your feets. So that's our new drop. Stay tuned for the rest of it or if you're just listening to this and we're past February 1st, go to our website and check it out. You'll see everything else that we didn't mention there. Maybe something for the middle portion of your body.

Yes, this area. Somewhere between your neck and your toes. No, the socks are sold in pairs too. I didn't mention that. You have to buy pairs of socks. No, we don't sell one at a time. I know we have one armed monster

or wait no what what's uh yeah right one arm one arm guy what's his what's his name could someone tag him on discord if they could i haven't seen anything from him for a while but i think he has both legs so the sock thing would you know he would do even one arm hercules yeah there you go one arm hercules so he would still want a pair of socks unless he was going to use them for his hands right which case he only have a backup yeah spare yeah okay oh what do we want to hit on next do we do the can we got a special we got a real what's in the can i'm gonna get thirsty here yeah this is a real real legitimate what's in the can segment and uh did you have any paraphernalia that came along with yours well i haven't even opened the package yet i always get oh okay i just opened

right before i was afraid to open the package because i always think that i'm going to give some major surprise away so i wait to open it all so this is a fan submitted uh what's in the can and it is wrapped mine was taped up so you won't oh i'll see what's in the can and it is wrapped. Mine was taped up so you won't see what's in the can. I also put it in this. I put mine already in one of our strong and silly koozies with the goose on the other side. And also it's sitting in the green spotter right now. A surprisingly long time to arrive.

Like we weren't holding off on this one. Mine did not show up until like four days ago. Because you said you'd had yours a while didn't you yeah i've had mine for like two weeks actually okay and this is from one of the davids one of the davids when i get it he sent me a note i got a note too and he also sent me an extra an extra picture with mine too. So I've got a lot of picture postcard-y things on this one. So here's a meme that he printed out on a picture of me, and it's, is this a cherry Coke?

And it's a Seltzer original calorie-free polar plane. And it's me saying, is this a cherry Coke? and it's me saying is this a cherry coke and it's me wearing the old massomics blindfold because you nailed me a meme thinking everything was cherry coke so I'm going to have to find a good place to hang this along with this now I've got

got to figure out where these go and he said one print artist one of the Davids valuation 6.9 million that's a fair fair valuation so i've got uh a long note here too did you get a note i have a long handwritten note here okay mine at the top of it says feel free to read on air if you want does yours say that or not uh it does not but i think i could read it okay well here i'll read

mine first at least he says big tanner here's a special can that polar sent to each of the davids we wouldn't want anyone to suspect us as the new moles so hopefully this that's already feels really suspicious uh to say like yeah i'm not've got to get out in front of this. Yeah. So hopefully this keeps the heat off of us. No, the heat's already on the Davids. Like, they're top of the list suspects. For a true what's in the can, make sure Tommy has his too, of course.

Former unpaid and underrated guest and multiple content contest winner. Big David. Which big David is this from actually? Okay. Mine says from all of us at big David Inc. Big Tate, big Tommy. When big David's win big,

we give back to the crew and closes a can for a what's in the can segment. Big Tanner has the same. Hopefully this revives this beloved segment. Happy guessing. Yours in strength, and in the name of Brian, our savior, one of the Big Davids. Which David is this one, actually? Can you confirm?

What's British? Someone in the Discord, what's British David's last name? It's David Mills. That's who yours is from? Yeah. Mine's from David's last name. It's David Mills. That's who yours is from? Mine's from David Hunter. No. Well, on the back of this, it says artist David Hunter. But maybe they were in it.

Okay, yeah, I guess they could have orchestrated this together, I suppose. Because that would be very weird if somehow they just magically sent us. Yeah. I think this is part of the game here. Okay. Because mine does say David Hunter on the back of it. Yeah. Mine does definitely not say that.

In fact, it actually says David's wife's name on it. This is the funny part about who sent it. All right. So should we try it? Yeah. Is your can little? Yes. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that I didn't have. Is your can little? Yes. Okay.

I just wanted to make sure that I didn't have just a little can on my own. You know what they say about small cans? Small koozies. All right. I'm picking up a fruity scent

right off the bat. Really relatively crispy crack like it didn't the crack didn't blow me away. Did you have yours cooling or was it warming? I cooled it a little bit. Mine's been sitting in the basement this whole time.

Very fruity smelling, right? Very fruity tasting. Man, I'm really struggling to get that flavor. The flavor's strong and I'm just really struggling in my brain to identify what that is what is that i'm almost feeling like a little bubble gummy oh yeah okay do you notice that yes i think you're right in my mind i'm thinking of a pink fruit,

and I couldn't arrive at what that would be. I'm not sold on bubble gum, but that's just kind of what I, that's my first little. No, that, that, I could totally see that. Such a dainty little can.

It is. I might have to open it. I don't think it would be like cotton candy, would it? That's got to be. I'd pick bubble gum over cotton candy. It's in there. Okay. That's what I'm going with.

Should we take a look? Yeah. Sometimes the unwrapping is the hardest part. So we do have a polar. But what kind is it unicorn kisses what the hell does that mean unicorn kisses

he scribbled over something in the tape on the top with scribble on it I don't see over something in the tape on the top with scribble on it. I don't see anything that offers up any type of description other than it is a sparkly light. Up on the very top, what does this say? A curious dream of fanciful fruit, it says. Oh, okay.

But I would take bubble gum and cotton candy all day over a fanciful fruit. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to just go ahead and say we were right. This one was on us. We got that. What do you give it? I mean, this small can, I think, is the perfect size for this flavor. I'm going to go with a 3.0.

I think so. I'm going to go with a 3.0. I think so. It's fairly intense, but it's not one that I would repeatedly go back to. So I'd probably give it a 3. Interesting. I do appreciate the novelty of it, though. Polar Seltzer Jr. even.

Yeah, I think they both won. Of course, the Davids were in on it together. The California Davids. Okay, what do we want to talk about next this week? Oh, man, we got lots going on. Lots happened. We do actually have a bunch of stuff in our list here. You wrote a bunch of one-word topics that I don't even know what the hell they all are.

Well, most of them are pretty fast, so we can get through those first. Okay, first one, we're going to play a little game here, Tanner. You need to pick up your phone. Oh. Hello? I'm calling you. Go to Instagram.

The gram. The gram. Go to the Masonomics feed. I'm getting there too. Okay, you're on your timeline. Yep. So we're going to go down, down, down until you get to the Kaiser Strength video. Oh.

That's down a fair amount by the World's Strongest Puncher. Jonah Leo at the Crew Falls meetup event, event right do you have that post selected okay now go to the likes on that post it's liked by uh 5 538 people yep and then go through your common likes that you follow and in there you will see you this was all a segment for me to just wanted to reinforce that. I have liked that. Dr. Mike, you know,

several crew members in here, Dan bell. Oh, there he is. There it is. There it is. Sam Sulik. Like Sam Sulik,

like that post are one degree of separation from big Sam. Pretty interesting, huh? Yeah. Makes you a post went pretty well, too. Yeah, 5,500 likes, 188,000 plays. I mean, those are solid numbers. Yeah, Sam Sulik would probably like to chase the pump on some Kaiser Air.

He better get Chase a freaky pump on that thing. Yeah. Speaking of Sam Sulik watch, what is his YouTube subscribers? We haven't talked about it for months. He's at 2.96 million, so he'll be at 3 million any day. That is just crazy. But it is cool to see that he liked a post.

The only reason I even found out about that he liked that post, and I was trying to explain this to you the other day and I couldn't find it, so I didn't know where it was, but I was on the Instagram Discover page and a Masonomics post was at the very, that post was on the instagram discover page and a massonomics post was at the very that post is at the top i'm like massonomics posts are i never see massonomics posts on my discover page

and so i clicked on it and the very first thing i see is liked by sam sulik and i'm thinking no way he doesn't like this this must be like a different account that has his name. And I clicked it, sure enough, it was his account. He liked it. So that is kind of crazy. I assume he liked it because he wants to get on the podcast as a guest sometimes. Yeah, he's just afraid to ask probably. How can I communicate this most appropriately?

So I'm like, I'm going to like this video. Right, I got to be just kind of. From last month. Yeah, I got to be cool about it. I don't want to be too. Yeah, he's trying to slow play isn't it he's like yeah that's what he's doing yep so that's the kaiser one um i do have oh go ahead i was gonna say i have a piece of follow-up that long time listeners might appreciate this goes way back to a little something. Tanner, put on your thinking hat here.

Way back to the original podcast studio. You mean at... What do you mean by original podcast studio? At Mr. Effingsteen's. Okay. So do you mean in his basement? In his basement. In the basement.

We talked about a little something called the TB12 method. Do you remember that? I do. I do remember the TB12 method. For those that are not familiar with it, the TB12 method was Tom Brady's, I don't know, training protocol. It was covered in Massonomics Podcast circa like 2016, 2017. Yes.

Yes, it was his. We did a whole episode titled like because there were so many things in it that were just comical actually that's uh that'd be a good one for dr mike to cover if he hasn't already that'd be a really good that would be a good one i can see that it's it was tom brady's apparel fitness brand equipment like equipment was like foam rollers that vibrated and you know or five-pound, whatever he had. It was all just kind of garbage stuff. Happy horse shit.

Yeah. He also had some, I think there might have been some type of training protocol with that too. But why TB12 is relevant, again, is because TB12 is merging with what company, Tanner? What company? The million-dollar question. Is it another fitness? It is another fitness company. Bowflex.

No. Jazzercise. No. Prancercise. Closer to our industry. Taibo. Oh, closer to us. Several people are guessing Pillar 4.

Not Pillar 4. Not a terrible guess. Not Bar Bend. Not Bar Bend. Not Pillar 4. Boy, I don't know. They are merging with No Bull. No Bull.

Is that like the shoes? Yeah, the shoes. So TB12 and No Bull are merging. Obviously those two companies are merging together because of course right so i don't really know what that means other than the fact that he's uh their official statement seems to read that brady's and the noble owner uh their vision is to become a complete wellness company helping to provide the tools for those striving to become better every day. Very generic.

If we were going to release a press release talking about this stuff, we'd at least have some really memorable quotes in it. He is now their number two shareholder. We'll keep a watch on the TB12 method as it evolves. Tom Brady wins again.

Doesn't he just play in the long game? We'll have to do our Superbowl predictions next week. Yes, we will. Do we want to wait for next week? Yeah. I'm going to need a full week to think about this one. A lot of analytics to keep up on.

I'd say the two teams made it that I was rooting against. Yeah. A hundred percent. Totally. Yeah. I was really hoping for the lions and i watched that first half and i'm like oh there's no way they cannot win this and then i go downstairs i'm working on massonomics stuff i come upstairs i'm like it's tied what is going on i know why is it tied i felt exactly the same way i felt like they really really got my hopes up on that one, too. Yeah, I was totally hoping.

Not that I have any stake in the line. No, and I really didn't care. I've had much more heartbreaking losses as a distant fan of things, but I was really hoping for a Ravens-Lions Super Bowl. Yeah, and we didn't get that, did we? Yep. There's always next year, though, right? Yeah, not really.

It seems to be the same shit over and over again. Or there's always like 30 years again in the case of the Lions. There's always never. There's always a once in every three decade occurrence. Yes. And then the Chiefs will just go like every two out of three every year. That needs to stop. Someone needs to put an end to that, please.

Okay. You were just in Aberdeen here, Tommy, too. I was. Western Northeast South Dakota in layman's terms. I came up for some other client work, but Masonomics is also a very important piece of that. Client numero uno i actually i did client stuff on one day and then we dedicated a whole another day to just massonomics and boy

did we do massonomics that was that was i'm not sure how much we want to give away but we made more videos in one day than we ever had ever yes and it was a lot of fun maybe the yeah except maybe in the the arnold uh like well yeah that doesn't really count that's a yeah that's a whole different thing yeah yeah so uh oh keith wondered if you made new menus at pounders uh actually i was gonna say i think you i did make you made new you've made there's been new menus at mavericks at least i did i did do menus at mavericks and new menus at Pau's. Whenever any of the restaurants that I go to get new menus, I assume Tommy did.

Actually, yeah. Both of those restaurants have new menus that launched in the past month from me. Yes, you are. Yes, Keith. That is correct. So that'll be something for everyone to look forward to this summer that's coming to the

lift our take your picture with those menus check out tommy's new menus uh we did we did shoot a lot of videos a lot of fun stuff in the gym we even did a uh training vlog together that's probably coming out in uh the relatively near future here within the next month there'll be one out yeah and i don't know we were saying i don't we filmed a lot i don't know if that video will be 15 minutes long or 25 minutes long that could be a long game i think people will like it it was but we we trained so we got to train together too which and we were the only ones in there so we didn't uh we didn't it's funny we talked about it right away and then we never brought it up again. We went the entire session with no music.

You know, we just lifted and chatted about it. And we were just going back, you know, just like one set after another. Yeah, we kept the pace up pretty good. Just guys being dudes in the gym is what I would call it. A hundred percent. It was sort of like a podcast while lifting in a way. It was kind of like that, wasn't it? Okay.

We've got to, of course, do supporting our supporting members. But do we do anything else? Do we need to fill in a couple minutes? I can tell you about something else. I clicked on. Yeah, I clicked. That's fine. That's fine.

I got it. So it zipped in front of me like right. I i was moving it i was moving it there to the top of the list um okay you ready for this one tanner you buckled in you know we've we've talked about this before this is also a call back to a long time ago there was a certain time when massonomics was snubbed from a certain list in a local are we talking aberdeen magazine yes aberdeen magazine okay they snubbed it snubbed you have my interest they snubbed massonomics from the local podcast list there was just too many to fit us on the list anyone that's been listening for a while knows knows what we're talking about here too

many podcasts that had now gone defunct to include us. Did we look? Was any podcast that was on that list still existing? I think just the one, though. Our actual friends over at the Shrinkwrap podcast, I believe. But were they even in the article? I think they were. I couldn't remember. Okay, they were in the article.

Because they do have the one other worthwhile mentioning podcast. Oh, they're the only other one that exists to this day. Right, right, right. So while not as bad as that one, there was a slight snub again. Are you aware of this? No. Was it Aberdeen Magazine?

It was Aberdeen Magazine. They did have an article on businesses to get you fit and feeling good into the new year and really Asinomics didn't make the list what was on the list I'd like to know our friends at Erosion Fitness did make the list okay that's a good that's okay well that one yeah um I think that's a good one I think they had an audiologist on the list, which I kind of get it. You mean like a hearing aid person? Yeah, a hearing aid person, which to me, that's kind of not in the spirit of what that usually is.

What was the title of the thing again? To get you fit? I think it was more actually like feeling good and wellness into 2024. Okay. Which to me is still kind of like you don't do medical services as like businesses you need to visit 2044 to me that that's that that's the wrong angle on that there was that there was one of those um i don't know i think like natural healing uh kind of uh yeah you know i don't even know what that is um and and i think there was one or two other ones but unfortunately

massonomics to make the list so uh like big jake he said i said it best here i can't believe aberdeen magazine isn't highlighting a hidden gym i know right like what's the deal come on that we don't advertise and don't put signage up for and don't really want people to come to i know this is this is going to be offensive damn it uh uh to be fair we don't really know no we don't we don't need to be fair here yeah this was the podcast one i would say was a pretty egregious that was that was a pretty clear-cut case yeah that was a open and shut they we called them to the carpet on that one and deservedly so and then this one not only have we did we call them to the carpet a lot of people

have called them to the carpet on that one they were called to the carpet and then beat over the head with it relentlessly uh where this one yeah i mean i guess we'll give them a light pass on this yeah yeah light yes but they are still they are skating on thin ice though yeah one one more time they're they're on pretty thin ice to begin one more time and they're trying to make up for it a little bit by their, their sister newspaper doing an article on scans for the lift, hard, live easy.

Classic. Masonomics adjacent though. Still not really Masonomics. It was really more of a scan. It was, and it was, it was just shows. It's a rather feature,

a man from Canada than someone in their own backyard. I'm excited for the followup scans article in 2024. Yeah. Like, uh, like I hope it becomes an annual segment of the, like, all right,

we have to check back it. Or if it could be like a, like a semi, uh, monthly, uh, or maybe he just becomes, he,

he, uh he starts that relationship and just becomes the Canadian reporter. So he just has like a column every month where he just talks about things going on in Canada. Yeah, it's like their man in the field. Oh, it's just Canada news. Okay, speaking of supporting members like Sc, uh, this is our supporting our supporting member segment and important announcement before I even get into that.

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this is all crew that was here for Lift Hard Leave Easy Classic last year and I believe is coming back next year for 2024. We got Big Jackton Ginger. He did a meet and he went six of nine. Nice. That was on purpose. Yes. 518 squat, which was a state record, a 342 bench,

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Now we're going to soon get to hear from another one of our favorites, I think, aren't we? We're ready to go. Let's do it. Welcome. You are live on the Mastonomics podcast. This is the peak moment. The peak moment of at least the last 60 days, if not longer.

Dreams do come true. They do. Yeah. Yeah. Finally. I've been dreaming about this for a long time now. We are excited to get you on. We've been talking. We've got we are excited to get you on. We've been, uh, talking,

we got several things to talk to you about. Um, so for anyone that doesn't know, I don't know. Uh, so do you, do you, do you put your full name out on stuff or not? Like, do we want to, do you use your first and last name? I mean, I see Kurt locker on mostly everything. So we, we have inside information, but I don't know if you use your full, uh, full name on anything. Yeah. Yeah. I'm nothing special. My name's out there. It's in the ether. Send it.

Full send. Good luck saying it. I'll just say it's, well, it's Curtis. We'll go by Kurt today, though, because that's what I think of you as. I don't know what you prefer. And then I'll say Stadsvold. Stadsvold. Okay, Stadsvold.

Yep, so Stadsvold stadsvold okay yep so stadsvold pretty uh pretty basic stuff means uh so i don't know if this is true or not but uh my dad once told me that it means a state of violence or like a state of war which i was like that's really dope i don't know if that's true but i also stick with it yeah i don't want to look it up and have it ruined for me. Yeah. You definitely don't want to look into that. You just got to go with what you know on that one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we're excited to talk to you about one thing. You pump out a lot of YouTube videos. You actually have been for several years now.

You've got a whole bunch in where you have a pretty sweet home gym set up that you've grown over those years. So you talk about a lot of that on YouTube. Also, you compete in Strongman. So you talk about a lot of Strongman stuff on there. You're also a big Air Force guy. So we've got a couple things to talk to you about that, as a matter of fact. And also Home Gym Con coming up where you're running a Strongman event. And like I said, the YouTube thing.

And then we'll hit on a couple silly goose, a couple of silly goose topics and big Kurt's actually a supporting member. So you're kind of familiar with, you're kind of familiar with some of this stuff anyways. Yeah. To a mild degree, uh, Monday, Monday mornings when I'm out here in the gym by myself, that's my massonomics catch up for the week. Yeah. So that's a popular topic that's discussed about some of our listeners. So do you listen to podcasts while you lift? So, so if it's like a PB or a PR, uh, probably not. Then yes, definitely. But most of the time, yeah. Like, uh, so, uh so we're directly below in my home gym.

We're directly below my daughter's room. And I train in the mornings before people wake up, you know, not too far before they wake up, but still we have a five-year-old. You want, you want them to stay asleep for as long as they are willing to stay asleep. And so most, it started with me just listening to headphones uh but i hated listening to headphones in the gym i just don't like it uh and so then it was like quiet music but quiet music's really lame and so i was like well let's just do podcasts so yeah that makes sense and plus you know with our podcast you do have kaz to get you pumped up first thing in the morning

yeah you do actually yeah kaz is a whole interesting little bag of tricks there too like oh god oh yeah have you guys ever heard like the old stories like of kaz like when he's doing drugs and stuff well like not not like drugs but right right i'm not sure i've heard those ones before man so i don't know any of them firsthand so i'm not gonna ruin them but they're out there so okay left you with i would just ruin it but uh yeah there's some pretty good ones out there that i've heard from other people in the strongman community that know them i 100 believe it because a lot of our experiences with them are pretty out there and i tend to believe he was not on any drugs when we have these conversations so like i can only assume yeah i think his nephew he told me at the arnold

in 2018 and again i i don't know if this is true or not but he's like my it was like a nephew or some sort of family member was like oh just joined the air force and i was like oh that's pretty cool unique um i've never actually thought to look him up, so maybe that's what I'll do tomorrow. Okay. Another popular topic before we dive in too much on some of the stuff, you're an Ohio man. Yeah. And you might know the question that's coming next, but in your expert opinion, is Ohio in the Midwest? Ohio, I don't think Ohio is unified in that decision, which sounds like I'm riding the line, which I understand, but in the state of Ohio, everybody seems to think that they're from the South, which is really funny when you think about it. Cause

it's like, you do understand that the Ohio river was like a point of debarkation during that point in time uh so i don't know uh geographically it's just kind of in the middle uh right like almost in the middle um i don't think it's really midwest uh because it doesn't have that midwest vibe i'm from minnesota originally it's definitely the midwest uh it's like people are nice for the most part uh they say nice to you they you know say nice things they wave that's you know just kind of a friendly thing and not to say that people in ohio are rude not to say that i don't like it here uh but i don't think it's the midwest i think this is just a region with no identity so where at minnesota were you from? I'm from a little town just north of Rochester, Minnesota called Orinoco. Okay.

That's one area of Minnesota we'd like never get to. Yeah, that gets to a ways away from us then too. Do you know where Fergus Falls is in Minnesota? Yep. Yeah. Yeah, so I spent a ton of time there. So my great grandpa lived in Fergus Falls. That's like where the Stadsvolds originated in the United States.

And our family lake cabin that my great-great-grandpa built with his hands. And I'm talking like they eventually ran power to it. It didn't have plumbing for like the longest time growing up. Like there was no shower. There's a lake there. You don't get plumbing. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so they actually changed the rules. Then later they made it to where like you couldn't bathe in the lake.

So like we had to put a shower in because we kept on getting in trouble for being, I guess, heathens and bathing in the lake. But that, but that was near Fergus Falls too though. Yeah. Right outside of Fergus Falls Falls so right on Blanche Lake okay um so if you know where Battle Lake is basically right next to that so there was a part of Blanche um that we would go and we would canoe and we go fishing over there and we could pick the canoe up and go over land maybe like three four rods and you're in Battle Lake gotcha yeah I went to uh I went to college in Alexandria, Minnesota,

which is just down the interstate from there. So know that area up there a little bit. I was south just a little bit, though. Yep. It's a good area. It really is. Yeah, beautiful. Another thing you pointed out there that I think it's a hot-button issue

that we have to clarify is you said your gym is below where your daughter's sleeping but if i if i'm thinking of it correctly your gym is an uh is it is a garage gym right so am i right on that it's not a basement gym so the layout of your house must be such that uh there's a second story above your garage that's right which is uh an interest you know it's kind of almost riding the line between a right but yeah right so so it's still a garage gym you would call that though right like that's definitively still a garage gym but it's kind of but there are living quarters above the gym right right so if we are looking up right yeah okay so where this is here that is this is the rooms yeah all of that is just roof so it's like garage just kind

of subsets in a little bit and so that side of it is just on the outside and then this side of it is uh i guess below the house maybe four feet four feet eight feet okay but it does bring up an interesting point because it isn't like i guess truly like a garage in the sense that it's it's not ice yeah yeah it's not isolated i wish it was i really wish right right okay but uh if you had your complete ideal setup would you be uh you'd be a standalone building garage like this not connected then that would be yeah so my coach in uh when i was stationed down in texas uh mike batalina with chrono strength if i had his setup so essentially what he had was it was like a standard probably like 24 foot wide

garage and it was probably 40 feet deep and uh yeah it was just absolutely phenomenal super high ceilings as well you couldn't quite throw in there like you couldn't do sandbag tosses that kind of stuff uh but it was tall enough that we were hanging uh like banners from the ceiling vertically and you could still train in there with no problem um but yeah ceiling hike is a big reason that i don't i wanted a big gym when i moved here uh but when we were talking with the builder i was like hey can i get uh 10 foot ceilings in the basement and it was like 40 000 extra and i was like what like buy a lot of jimmy cookman with that yeah uh mike badalino am i right or wrong did he used to podcast with kale back on he did yeah he's

on starting strong man yeah he uh he's had he has had some massonomic stuff over the years he's bought in some flags and flags and shirts and stuff uh yeah okay i helped hang those banners okay okay so who knew about mass dynamics first, you or him? So I met you guys been briefly like in passing, I think at the 18 or 19 Arnold, it was just like really brief. Cause I was working like a recruiter booth. I wasn't a recruiter, but they would bring us up there. Were you in uniform?

Yeah. Did you come to our booth or were we walking around? Man, I don't remember. If you go back and look, though, in 2000. Well, anyway, so I don't know who met each other. I don't know who knew each other first, but they were definitely more aware first. And so, like, Rick Pa, so Ricky Infante and those guys, they all had like the banners and all that stuff way beforehand.

Yeah, so they probably knew first. But really funny going back like way back in the Arnold days in 2018, the first year I did it, there's a really funny video. So like Arnold came to the booth and I got to be careful what I say here because I don't want to get in trouble. But we had a female who was like, look at me, like military female chick. Sure. I'm sure she was special, whatever. She was, and she was, gosh, she was like a seer specialist or something, some stupid crap.

And she like gets into her combat shirt, she was like a seer specialist or something, some stupid crap. And, uh, she like gets into her combat shirt, it's all nice and tight and pull down her tits and stuff. And just like shoves in front of everybody. And so like talking with Arnold, so like me and my buddy are standing there and we're like in uniform. The best part is like, someone's filming all this. And so you see this like pissed off, look at my face. And I like look at my buddy and he looks at me and we're like, yeah, but it's like out there so you can find it.

It's out there. Okay. So you got pretty up close and personal with Arnold though there. No, no, she didn't. Arnold doesn't want to look at this. All right. Something I wanted to ask you about. So you are, you're in the air force.

What is the current air force physical fitness test? I don't, I don't actually know. cardio event which is either a mile and a half run something called the hammer run i think there's a couple other it's like a all a cart you get to choose your own adventure pt test um and then you have push-ups and setups but i think even then i think you can like choose to do like hand release push-ups or something like that but it's it's that. So right now we have to take it kind of in the EOD community. We're supposed to have our own physical fitness test. That's supposed to like test certain, you know, occupational sequences. So like there's a trap bar deadlift in the, in the new EOD test as well as a thousand meter row.

We have to throw a medicine ball ball which is actually a ton of fun and uh another one distance yeah for it's like three throws and dude for distance um but right now it's like in this weird limbo state so i just take the air force test um i don't practice for it and i i get like a excellent score every single time i meet people that fail and i'm like like really like really it seems odd the way you're like like how uh um not set in stone it is like the way you're describing it like uh you know the old army pt test was two miles yes you know it's two miles push-ups sit-ups yep you know you guys got two minutes two minutes yeah yeah we only got one okay yeah so we've been doing faster but you guys had to do more full range

because you guys had to put your hands behind your head yeah what was yours like ours was like like a crunch okay okay um but our push-ups were more difficult because in that one minute back when i was younger so i'm in the old man test now so like because i'm 36 i get to take like the i think there's a 35 and up category submasters yeah yeah submasters and uh it's a it's but uh back when i was young it was like 70 i'm gonna get the number wrong here so whoever looks me up that's fine uh 72 in a minute or some crap like that and the push-ups were like full range of motion push-ups so i mean if you think about that 72 in a minute that's cooking pretty that's a lot of push-ups yeah that is that's legit yeah are you uh are you close to having your 20 years in then? Is that the rule? I will hit my, so the DOD does Skill Bridge.

So you can do like up to six months where you intern. I will retire in October of 2025. I'll hit Skill Bridge April of 2025. So I have just over one year left doing my normal job. And as long as my Skill Bridge gets approved um i'll be done in april basically you'll be able to retire when you're 37 38 38 38 uh what will you do then oh man that's a good question so uh when you were a junior in high school and everybody was like getting there what are you doing yeah um that's where i'm kind of at so

uh the air force pays for so obviously the department of defense pays for like educational benefits it's how they get people to sign up um i went years and years and years without ever getting any degrees and in the the last 10 years i'm working on my fifth degree now. Yeah. I mean, it's online college. Like also like people that fail online school, like, come on, son. Chat GPT exists now too. But so my, my bachelor's that I was like trying to be responsible, like I'm going to get a job with this bachelor's degrees in security management, which is like physical protection system.

So I would be the nerd that sits over at like X factory or like nuclear power plant. And I would be designing the physical protection systems. I've got a couple of cybersecurity certificates as well. If I wanted to crime prevention through environmental design. So like working with construction companies to design safer parking lots it's just all stuff and uh when I started my master's program I actually started an MBA because I was like oh well I'll get my MBA because business and I got like two days into the first class and I was just like, I fucking hate this so much. And so I was still within that window where I could withdraw.

So I withdrew. The Air Force made me get reeducated, which is really funny to get my benefits turned back on. I had to get reeducated and like I had to do all these personality tests. And then I had like to choose a new degree that I wanted to do. Um, and I started my master's in exercise science. So in strength and conditioning, uh, which is actually really dope. Um, I really enjoy it a lot. So I don't know, I could go like the Bengals are just down the road from where I'm at. I'm not necessarily a Bengals fan but if they're hiring yeah you could become a Bengals fan yeah yeah I could easily I I'm a Vikings fan so I'm easily sweet right like

it doesn't take yeah there's not much to hang on to there it's just not really I mean ever since Brett Favre left yeah uh so yeah that'll be an interesting change. It's funny, you know, for some people the thought of retiring from your first career when you're 38. That's wild to me. You know? The benefits are pretty cool as well. So I've survived four med boards. I'm about two inches shorter than I was when I joined.

I just had another MRI done on my back and it looks a little bit more Salvador Dali than it did before. So like my disability rating, I have three separate 40% ratings. I'm pretty broke. I mean, when you do 20 years in the service in a combat support related career field, you're going to get beat up. So we'll see what happens. But I might be collecting a retirement. Plus if I do a hundred percent disability with my current dependent load, we're talking like $4,200 extra a month. So, I mean, I could just do just do, just do YouTube home gym. Yeah.

Not even do that. So my wife's a blogger. My wife is a blogger. And so we could just support her and get her going on her thing. And we're actually looking at doing a blog together now because our daughter recently got diagnosed with celiac disease. And I get really frustrated because, like, I like meat. I like cheese. And I get really frustrated because like, I like meat, I'd like cheese. And if you go out there and you look up gluten-free recipes, it's like gluten-free, dairy-free, meat-free, like enjoyment-free.

It's the worst, it's the worst crap. And so I'm, I'm pretty good at cooking. So I just kind of cook stuff. So I've just been writing stuff down lately and we'll see what happens. I mean, if I got, if I got this awesome of we'll see what happens I mean if I got if I got this awesome of a gym imagine how cool the kitchen I could get if I just start making recipes yeah so where where did the uh you know the YouTube obviously you know you're building a gym where did the YouTube idea start come from like when were you when was the moment when you're

like I've got this stuff I'm doing this thing why don't i try to like do something with it as far as content like why did you you know what was the inspiration for that part of it so uh nobody was doing reviews on equipment that i wanted to see um at the time i think i started in 16 or 7 17 i think 2017. And the first video is pretty awful. I think my first video is actually like an Atlas Stone loading platform that I like constructed in bare feet, not using any safety equipment at all, which for the record, that's still the par.

I just don't show it on video because I got a lot of hate for that. But yeah, I just got frustrated with what was there so like uh it was just coop basically and like no no offense to coop i mean at the time it was actually really good content but it was like these are like the bow flex adjustable dumbbells and i was like yeah i don't care um and then it was like he went from that to like here's the alico trap open trap bar and it's like yeah that's like 1300 and at the time it just wasn't accessible and so there's two reasons one it was like i wasn't getting these stuff i wanted to see so

i was like well i'll just start doing the stuff i want to see and we'll see what happens and then i was like coop seems to be getting all of this really cool stuff. So like, maybe if I make videos, I will also get cool stuff. Which I think this year is like the first year that maybe that's the reality. Other than that, this is all just purchased.

Yeah. But you have, I guess what the way, like when we, Tommy and I talked about it um i think your youtube channel is probably even a little underrated with what you've been doing it with it lately you know i mean the first thing that sticks out is when you actually look at the sheer number of videos you have um yeah you know 397 videos is the official number here

uh that doesn't happen accidentally you don't, you don't accidentally get anywhere near that unless you're trying very hard. So trying very hard inconsistently. I did a really good job of not following the algorithm, kind of just kind of going at my own pace. Sometimes I get really far on myself. So Adam at Garage Gym Lab, he's the one that usually has to come and get me out of my depression hole. And he's the one that tells me like dude just do you uh but yeah i i'm not trying to do this as a living um which is part of the advantage of it so like gluck is a really good example of this so like gluck when he first i remember when he passed me in like subscriber count and he posted this meme with from the movie cars and it

was like glucks pulling ahead or something like that it was funny it was good but gluck did a really good job of like he understood what it was he was very like intentional with what he did so he's like i want to grow i want to do this because um i guess being a teacher sucks that's what they say. Yeah. So yeah, I've just not been consistent. I mean, I also have a job that makes me travel. Right. It's really, it's really difficult. And you guys are really organized. I've actually like kind of been watching your YouTube and I'm like, okay,

yeah, there's still hitting us every week. It's not like you guys aren't, you guys are doing a good job yeah but yeah i just suck at algorithm um i'm only recently like i took like a six month hiatus from youtube altogether um just because between school i was going through some medical stuff that recently just got finally taken care of which i feel great now um and uh yeah so i took like a six month break. I came back, I was doing two videos a week for two months, I think. And then I slowed down to one because I was kind of hitting that. I was just, my idea here is I was like, well,

I'll just throw a shit ton of fuel on the fire as we come back into this and try to restart it. And it worked pretty good. The, the dollar amount per month, you know, ad revenue pays in the tens of dollars. And so the ad revenues, you know, it kind of went up during Christmas. And now it's back down to what it was basically before. But the subscriber in the last 28 days is like three times what it was before, which is good. Yeah, that's great. I mean, would you say you mostly just do it because you enjoy it then? Like you're saying like you're not trying to make this your job, you know, you're not as worried about the algorithm maybe as like just doing what you want to do.

So would you say the reason for doing it? You know, you talked about, I i guess getting equipment out of it uh but at this point you've got you know like you're not in need of like you're not like you can just look behind you there you're not in need of like someone to send you uh a barbell or something like that you i mean it's still fun like that is your opinion right no i that's i should like it's funny for me to even say it but like yes i i love the stuff too but like you know you're yeah you've got a lot of cool stuff so it's like would you say you just do it because you enjoy it then yeah i i do it because i enjoy it and uh i think another thing that that makes it more difficult for for my channel to grow as much as I'm way more focused on, I focus on the niche. So, uh, originally it was

like a hundred percent American made all the time, veteran owned companies. Um, and, and now it's a little bit more of like the high quality equipment, but I'm not really, I feel like I'm kind of fibbing right now too, though. So like RIT fit fit which is this really affordable that was the right word yep really affordable uh equipped to manufacture they're just a reseller it's like a chinese so they like sent me a free gym um they don't watch this so i'll just say it um so they like dm'd me and they were like oh we want to send you this gym and like my my buddy who lives next to me he's about to have a kid and i was like hey dude you want a gym and he's like yeah that'd be pretty cool and i was like do you want this gym he's like yeah that'd be cool and i was like sounds

good and i was like sure i'll do it yeah so yeah he got a free gym out of it now they're offering me a leg press so i'll wait like a day and if if they like message me, I know they watch your podcast. So are they expecting something specific in return from you? Or is this a weird time to, to tell you that this episode was sponsored by RIT fit? Is that the, I actually haven't heard of RIT. I haven't either. That's the first I've heard of that. It's it's a, so it's, it's, it's like entry level. Like if you were like, Oh, maybe I'd like a garage gym but i don't want to spend twenty thousand dollars to find out

you might be a rent fit yeah you might be fit uh but i really like the like the the very niche equipment so like i'm looking at a stone and steel um not all of the strongman related um but a lot of it is so like the havoc triads are a really good example of that like i i love the triads i love the cube bells i think they're great i also can't afford them um which is why i only have a set of 50s back there but i i think they're a great design but like most people when they're flipping through their their youtube feed for the day and they see you know havoc triads but then they see that someone else is doing a video on like the rep aries or the you know whatever the bells of steel this or the rogue

fitness that you know they're gonna be like oh i'm gonna go watch that because it's way more mainstream um but if you want to watch like you know some weird guy talking about triangular shaped hand weights or a guy who wants to stick like a cable call off the side of his thing, then I guess I'm your guy, but just a smaller market. Yeah. Uh, so you brought up something there being as a Minnesota guy, you'll probably be able to wrap your head around this pretty well. We like to do the Mount Rushmore game. So the big Kurt version is we want your, you being there again, Minnesota, you've probably seen there's four presidents on Mount Rushmore. So we need your

Mount Rushmore of home gym, strong man equipment. So for a strong man with a home gym, what's your Mount Rushmore pieces for pieces? Oh man. So obviously Mike Bart mike bartos um if there could be one that's like overly energetically positive that'd be mike uh oh no no no what uh i'm thinking like actual pieces of equipment oh gotcha well that's easier yeah so we're doing four yeah yeah so you got to know you i like where you're headed on that though already uh past podcast guest big uh big mike yeah oh yeah mike mike's here oh man have you ever talked to mike in person uh no we haven't no i've never met him no it's no it's the best it's the freaking best like i wish that mike was my neighbor uh oh so i go there i go up there when

i pick up equipment because he's just a couple hours drive. Okay. It's better than getting it shipped. And, uh, every time I've gone up there, Mike is like, Hey, like I'll meet you here at like, uh, the power center back when it was a thing, or like, I'll meet you at the powder cutter or whatever. He's like, but I got to run real quick. Cause I got a thing. And it's like two hours after I got there and we're still talking in the parking lot, but but yeah mike's a great conversation uh yeah absolutely great but yeah so let's go with the equipment real quick uh yeah it's going to be the old short kegs that are hard to find i'm not talking i'm talking like the seven and a half year old short kegs that you can't find anymore those old where they call pony kegs

yeah yeah i think so yeah like the ones that world's strongest man that they would throw. I have, I was helping move a piano and I saw this guy's backyard and I was like, Hey, I'll give you money for that. He's like, Oh, you can take those. And I was like, yes, I can take those. And he's like, Oh, thank you so much. I've been trying to get rid of this for years. Like, all right. So, okay. Um, you gotta have a log. do i got to say a specific log or just log in general is there a certain log you have a preference to all right well so like so in my opinion uh a strongman log made out of wood um i know that i do a lot of my lifting these days

with steel but there's something about a wood log um and and if you're going to say a slater log i'm going to say an old slater log not the new slater logs new slater logs are really nice they're uniform they look pretty uh but i'm talking like from what was it world's strongest man like early 90s where they were pressing the one that had like the hand holes cut in it and like the bark is still there yeah they didn't really even know there wasn't even like a uniform way of cleaning it and stuff yet even they're just kind of like like everyone was guessing yeah everyone was just like making it up as they went my biceps still hurt i still watch this old um so yeah so that's two uh atlas stone of some variety uh for the home gym though it's got to be the stone of steel just

because of space um that's three so i gotta do one more and uh i'm gonna go with probably the event i i hate the most but i wish i was better at which would be like circus dumbbell okay yeah circus dumbbell doesn't take up much room in the home gym either so it's kind of a nice piece to have that way yeah and i've got three of them now because i just had to buy another one so you had to well for home gym con for the oh you actually had oh yeah yeah i was like i had to buy another one yeah uh so yeah talking about home gym con then so when is it and were you there last year and what are you doing are you hosting the strongman competition that's going on there yeah so last year i was there and uh so garage jake from garage gym experiment hit me up and was basically like hey are you willing to

basically wrap your entire gym up into a trailer bring it out to french lick indiana in april and be our strongman guy for home Gym Con. And so I jumped it. I love that kind of stuff because the home gym community is really awesome. The strongman community is really awesome. A lot of people in the home gym community think that strongman is really weird stuff and they never get a chance to touch the equipment. So I packed everything up, showed up, they paid my hotel. That was my incentive. And, uh, and they gave me food and, uh, set it up. So it was great last year. Uh, it was pretty small, like as far as like vendors, um, actually a decent amount of people came through, uh, this year it's on April 27th

and is it 26 and yeah, April 26th and 27th, which is the Friday and the Saturday and the strongman competition that I'm the meat director for is on the Saturday. So on the 27th, which is the Friday and the Saturday and the strongman competition that I'm the meat director for is on the Saturday. So on the 27th. So are people already signed up? I mean, is that, could someone still join if they were listening to this? Could they still get in on the competition or is it full? They should, they should definitely still get in on it.

So I think by my last, I got an iron podium a couple of days ago and I think I had 14 or 15 athletes signed up, which is really low, but it is out in French Lick, Indiana. And the pricing, when we first worked out the pricing between Home Gym Con, because it comes with like a two day pass to Home Gym Con, as well as like, I need to get t-shirts made. I got a circus dumbbell, all that stuff. It was at 90 bucks after the early bird so i had some people that signed up at 90 after the early bird the first 10 were like 65 and i was talking with jk garage and experiment we got the price back down to 65 because i think that that price was a little bit off-putting for some um even though it is fairly competitive to some of the other strongman competitions. It doesn't seem crazy to me.

I mean, yeah. And then also got with, so I think I'm getting with Luke Meredith, who's the United States strongman rep for Indiana. And he's going to kind of help me push it. But one of the big things about strongman competitions is that usually they're hosted at gyms that have a strongman room, right? So that means that there's already people

invested in that gym. And those are the ones that show weirdos like me that train in a home gym are the ones that are surfing iron podium trying to find one matches up with like my training schedule. And so it's just been kind of low so people definitely should go sign up and the big reason is because if you sign up right now there's like a 100 chance that you're taking home a prize that costs that would cost you more to buy than your text yeah so you can't afford to do it yeah yeah't afford not to do it. Yeah, it's like finding money. So will the competition, is that held outside or indoors then? So it'll be a mix depending on weather.

So First Form, which is the big supplement company, they are bringing, they're F750 out for the truck pole, which will be outside when we do it, unless it's raining, and then it'll be an inside event. Obviously, I have a substitute scheduled. I'll pull it out of my rear when the time comes. But yeah, so it'll be all indoors, and we have two different competition areas. So it's really really unique

the way that jake gave me the layout for home gym con so you have like the main event space and at the far end of the event space conveniently right next to the bathrooms which were way nicer than the ones at the arnold wouldn't take much well it doesn't take too much but uh there's two there's two event spaces so it should be fairly seamless. So I can be doing one event. Well, I have some people setting up the second event. So it should be a pretty cool little area. It's really well located. It's like right next to Cerberus's booth is right there. They're one of the sponsors for the competition.

I think AdMat is actually right there and they're another one of the sponsors for the comp uh swing sesh which have you guys ever heard of a swing sesh i don't think so okay you guys both got kids you're gonna want this after you look it up um so this marine test pilot who is a total badass uh designed a swing set that has like this plastic dipped coating on it uh that's like height it like hydrostatically discharges all of its crazy corrosion stuff and uh it's a swing set that is also a gym so like he's got a power rack built in i did i think i've seen something of that yeah right right i want one so bad uh super cool thing but uh his swing sesh which the there was there was a ton of us last year at home gym con and we all like so tyler obringer probably saying yeah yeah so yeah he got like on top of it like up on like where

the climbing rope was and he was like yeah and he's like huge and so we're all up on top of this thing and tyler's up on the top but anyways you can do that watching the comp because the swing sesh event thing is like overlooking the competition that's cool um so it should be really awesome uh tons of giveaways plus 400 prize packs for the first place in each division and uh jake and i finally started talking through it'll be a a minimum 2500 cash giveaway um we're still not quite sure how that'll be dispersed but essentially it's going to be another one of those competitions that pays the athletes um so yeah 65 buried entry uh and really i mean at this point you're pretty much guaranteed

to to walk out of there with something worth a lot more than what your ticket cost. And there is a, uh, like I've been looking at the map and stuff. There is a ton of, uh, vendors there that are committed to come to this year. You know, I mean, it, I think it's over 70 now. Yeah. And it's, uh, as far as the equipment manufacturers manufacturers go like there is a ton of them there yep rogue sorenix rep uh i think bells of steel just pulled out but they i thought they might they might be coming back though it's what i think i think they're on the fence yeah um gosh yeah i almost don't want to name something like surplus belt fed strength going to be there. I don't think so. No, no. Um, gosh,

I don't think so. I should have asked him. I was at, I was actually just there today. Um, didn't think to ask. Yeah, but there is, I mean, point being, there's a ton of, uh, ton of like all the, not all of them. We're talking about some that aren't, but there's a ton of equipment manufacturers that are going to be there. Is this the first strong man event that you've ran before? Like in this way? Uh, sort of, um, I was, so I had a major shoulder repair back in 2019. Um, so I ran a comp in 2019 because I couldn't compete in it. Um, but I wasn't like the meat director. It was actually Mike Badalino was the meat director. Okay. Uh, but I was helping out a whole bunch, doing a lot of the coordination,

slinging a hundred pound plates with like one arm. It was a good time. Were you, would you, do you think you get more anxious, uh, if you're had an upcoming competition you were competing in or when you're running the entire thing? When you're running it, you're yeah, it's way higher. Um, cause when you in or when you're running the entire thing when you're running it you're yeah it's way higher um because when you're competing yeah it's kind of whatever it puts it into perspective of how unstressful it really is if you're competing in something it's like oh you're the one that actually gets to have fun yeah i mean it's gonna be great but the pressure is definitely there uh because i also want i want it to be a really solid, I mean, I've got, I've got a ton of sponsors that have, I mean, obviously there's pleasing the sponsors, please.

The athletes are going to be happy. Let me just say that right off the bat. Like, especially if, if, if what we have today is all that shows up, they're going to be the happiest fricking group of athletes you've ever met in your life. Because I mean, I'm going to have to like figure out how to like redistribute the the prize packs from first form for first place because uh we don't even have each weight category filled yet there's some that just don't have competitors especially in the female classes i think i only have one chick right now yeah there's a real advantage there for like uh

getting sponsors uh uh at that running event at that location you know considering they're all going to be there it makes it so you can have a pretty sweet uh sweet group of sponsors that are in on it then yep yeah it'll be exciting so surplus strength belt fed strength uh ab mat first form cerberus and freedom strength co so i've got the uh kratos bar behind me um that'll be the uh that's so that's like the elephant bar from cerberus yeah so that's going to be the uh the deadlift event for home gym con will be a max max single rep and then a bridge built which is this i don't know if you guys are familiar with it, but it's this really awesome company run by Patrick Bilkowski. I can't remember his last name.

I'm going to mess up his last name. Big Patrick. Big Patrick is making me these custom 26-inch wagon wheels, but they're his bulletproof plate design. And obviously, he's going to take them back. I don't get them because they'd be like way outside of my budget. But still, it's going to be an absolutely amazing event um so like some of the giveaways are really cool too so like the ab mat uh crash cushions for the log which are like 400 bucks yeah i just bought a set of those uh

well if you'd shown up to home gym con and competed you could uh take on the second pair because uh so i've got my pair um and then I have the pair they sent me for Home Gym Con. So the warm-up area will have one, the stage will have one, and the stage ones are going to go home with somebody. Okay. Maybe it's worth mentioning, we won't be there in terms of a booth this year, but it's not completely ruled out yet that we will we may possibly be at home gym con there we're we're it's being discussed as we speak so uh possibly we'll have an appearance

of some kind there i mean if you're if you're looking for good home gym equipment for tommy if he's wanting to ever switch over to the dark side just Just never leave my house. So last year, last year, a lot of people. So you, I imagine you guys might fly based on the distance. Yeah. But I think we're trying to set up some sort of shipping. Cause there was a bunch of people last year that flew that one. Like bridge built gave away one of them. Yeah. They won like big stuff.

And so they had to figure out how to like get it back to their place. One of them happened to be a buddy of mine. So I a free like zx push sled out of it i wasn't even in the drawing because i was working that's actually one of the um hacks for the arnold is if you show up to the arnold with a trailer and then the last day everyone knows you have that trailer you just become the we don't even care just take this yeah I have, the last couple years at the Arnold, we have brought back. Like thousands of dollars. It's been heavier on the way home than it has been on the way there. That's awesome.

That is one of the many things I enjoy about the Arnold. That's certainly one of them. I didn't know that one about the Arnold. That's a good hack to have. Also, I suppose, you know, it helps that we helps that we know you know we we're not just a random person showing up at the trailer we know people stuff so yeah um what tommy what do you think about a little overrated underrated yeah let's do it you know i i think that this game is underrated oh that's like a bonus one in there yeah that's like on over uh underrating the entire

game yeah okay so this is a special you know the drill but i'll say it anyways this is a special kurt locker set of topics hand-picked for you and you've got your druthers uh to elaborate on each one as much or as little as you'd like to but the most important thing you got to remember is you can't ride the line you already know we we talked about the Ryan lighting and how it can't be done. So here we go. Topic number one, overrated or underrated the hurt locker, the 2008 film starring Jeremy Renner.

Uh, the hurt locker is a severely under rated movie. And I will say that I have gone back and forth. I have full John Kerry flip-flopped on this several times. Now as a young single man, when that movie came out, that movie when chicks would ask was 100% accurate. And then I went through like this purist phase where I was like, no, that's a bunch of crap and it's stupid.

And then I basically come back back to you know what fuck it um sure uh the movie itself like if if one guy had all of that crap happen to him and then he he redeployed at the end of it like he deployed again uh gee oh my gosh i'm not so sure about that but uh it's underrated overall. Honestly, a great movie, I think, especially there's like certain parts of that. So one of my really big rocks in my life is not to get dark, I'm not going to get dark, but like veteran suicide is a huge thing that I'm always trying to work after. I've had people that, EOD techs that work for me that have committed suicide, really close friends that are gone now. And I thought that movie did a good job capturing a little bit of that

specifically towards the end. So overall, underrated. I thought there were parts of it that were pretty awesome. Like when he's talking to like the, not Afghan, cause they're in Iraq for that movie, but like the Iraqi kid who like sells DVDs and stuff. Yeah.

Or like when he comes back in the gate after going to like figure out who, you know, where his buddy went. And when he comes back in the gate, the gate guards like, where were you? And he's like, I was in a whore house and the gate guards like, can you tell me where? It's like, and I'm thinking back and he's like i was in a whorehouse and the gate guard's like can you tell me where it's like and i'm thinking back and i'm like where the fuck was there a whorehouse uh i haven't seen that movie since it was basically new but my one takeaway on it is uh i was deployed in 2009 and i watched that while i was uh like i watched that like sitting in the desert you know not that i did anything all that high speed or anything like that i don't want to make it sound like that but it does seem even cooler at the time i was like i was like yeah like i was

like at the time i'm like yeah badass you know kind of like that sort of feeling but um i haven't seen it since i'd have to watch it gets referenced all the time. We'll be at work. So like the, the, the name, the Kurt locker comes from that, but it's not what you think though. So like my, my homie Ricky. So when I first got to Wichita Falls, Texas, my neighbor knew Mike Madalino, but I didn't know that. Right. Cause I'm like brand new we're PCSEN. And so my neighbor's watching me like take gym equipment into the garage and he's like oh one of my really good buddies has a home gym blah blah blah blah blah and like keep in mind at this point in time like I listen to the starting strongman podcast this is like something I do and

he's like oh yeah his name's Mike Battolino and I was like wait the mic so anyways fast forward i get invited so chronos is an invite only gym um so i get invited and uh ricky who is like first generation mexican he's an air force veteran he got out during uh some sort of manning force shaping that they did and uh ricky comes up to me he's speaking like the fastest spanish i've ever heard in my life. And I'm like trying to, cause I like, I know like biblioteca and Banjo and like, you know, I'm pretty good at speaking Spanish. So I'm like listening to him talk and I'm like trying to figure it out. And everybody in the gym who like knows that this is a ruse is like, Oh, they, he's asking you this question or this question. And I'm like trying to explain. So like one of the questions that they said that he was asking you this question or this question and i'm like trying to explain so like one of the questions uh that they said that he was asking uh was what do you do for a living and i was like

oh i'm in the air force and he's like and they're like everybody's in the air force and i was like okay so i'm like trying to explain how do you explain to a guy when you don't speak the same language that you diffuse bombs like boom like uh no boom uh yeah and he's like oh heart locker and i'll be like at the time i was in that purist phase where i was like oh yeah yeah yeah and i was like yeah sort of like that and uh so ricky uh keeps talking and i was like man i really wish i paid attention in spanish and he's he like hits me he's like yeah i I really wish I paid attention in Spanish. And he's, he like hits me and he's like, yeah, I really wish that I paid attention in English. And I was like, it was good.

So yeah. Yeah. Okay. So he's the one that created the moniker. He called me Kurt Locker that day. And that's right. And history was made. Yeah.

On that day. Overrated or overrated or underrated titan fitness oh gosh it's not an easy question i don't think actually so they keep on teasing like it's gonna be a hard question but they're overrated and the reason that they're overrated is because so so back when i created it's like i think it's my number one video it's like i think so i think it is that sucks uh which is funny because i was just pissed uh because i got so much crappy stuff from titan and i think the last time i checked the uh i've i've made cumulatively like $800 on that movie. It's been watched that much,

which is great because I've never spent that much at Titan. But Titan keeps on like teasing, like, Oh, we're, this is going to be our year. They like partnered with Coop and Coop. Yeah. I remember him making a big push for them with that too. Yeah. Yeah. And it was like, nothing happened. Like just nothing happens every year. So if Titan's going to be great at something, it's going uh pallets um because they make uh titan makes a whole bunch of stuff they got like titan outdoors so if you want to get like a dope fire pit that's important and has bad wells you can do that um yeah but overrated like to an extreme i did think about

it hard for a second and i was like nope they're just overrated because they just keep teams that were never provided that's fair okay one one more movie overrated or underrated top gun maverick oh yes all right so this is this is what's difficult about this game. So Top Gun Maverick gets good reviews. One of the highest rated movies of the year. Yeah. And so if I say it's underrated, it should get more reviews, I can't say appropriately rated because that's riding the line. Correct.

So it's got to be, it's underrated. Just in every sense. I'm not sure how that came up as a specific question unless you know just just i mean you've you've worked on f-16s i think and stuff before right in your past at some point in time in some capacity and uh yeah okay i didn't know if you knew i was like who the hell did i was like thinking back to my aircraft maintenance days and yeah so every my roommate and i when i was stationed up in alaska and I was working on so I was working on block 30 and block 40 f-16s uh we would watch Top Gun and Iron Eagle alternatively uh on Sunday every week so like we watched Top Gun one week and then it was Iron Eagle the next week and then Top Gun

and it was basically just because all that i did in alaska on the weekends was just get hammered um because that's just what people do in alaska yeah um but yeah so i don't know if you've known that fact but yeah it's underrated as a franchise it is underrated as a movie tom cruise is underrated because i'm scared that i'll get killed by a scientologist top gun maverick is a good movie like there's just like i was blown away actually but i it was just so much better than what my expectation was going into that event especially for a sequel oh god especially for a sequel because they were like oh it's goose's son and i was like i mean we'll see uh yeah it was good i liked it and i especially love that it like so i do love aircraft still um after working on airplanes for a few years you get a little bit jaded at times uh but like the f-14

as much as if you look at it from like an energy maneuverability theory standpoint uh it doesn't really score high as far as its uh its power to so it's thrust to weight ratios like it was a really heavy airplane because it had those articulating wings uh the the sweeping wings uh but it was just so fucking cool um i remember in eod school um i'm sure it's still there but but in the Air Ordnance Division, they have an F-14 sitting out there. And that was like the first time I'd seen one in person. And it was one of these moments where you're like, fuck, yeah. And then you get yelled at by an instructor. So it's still a cool moment.

Yeah. Okay. Last one for overrated, underrated. This one's sort of worth all the marbles, at least to some certain extent. So overrated or underrated, I'll ask you the topic, and then I'll just give you a little bit of elaboration on it. But overrated or underrated military acronyms, because this is something that I got a kick out of my time in the Army,

is just how many and how ridiculous the acronyms can get. And the reason I thought of this specific question for you, because someone said, you got to ask him about NAVS, coal, EOD. And I'm like, there is like 13 letters in that acronym. And I don't even know. And like the last one is already a common acronym of EOD. So I don't even know what you, but the rest of it. So how do you, how do you say, and that's, I think it's EOD. So I don't even know what you, but the rest of it. So how do you,

how do you say, and that's, I think it's EOD school or something like that. How do you say that? So it depends. So just NAF school, that's the, uh, the, uh, the common we'll say like the vernacular, which is called NAF school within the community. People that read that, they're like, Oh, NAF school, EOD, NAF school, EOD, but basically so the way, the way that EOD is formed is it follows. So, Oh man, how deep do we want to go down this rabbit hole? We'll start with NAF school. Yeah. We'll come back to acronyms. So when the EOD program in the United States first stood up in World War II, you had Major Cain with the Army, who is technically the true originator. And I'm willing to back that shit up because as much as at the time, like Lieutenant Kaufman, so like 03 Navy Kaufman, he was the Navy version. So Kaufman was the first guy that defused a bomb at Pearl Harbor.

So one of the Japanese ordnance that hit one of the ships, it didn't go off. So Kaufman, who was an ambulance driver, World War One, he went there and he disarmed the first bomb in the United States, like on Hawaii. But Major Kane stood up at, he's the one that stood up Aberdeen Proving Ground, essentially, or at least that's where he was at. He stood up the original nine bomb technicians. So all those eventually came together, the military being what it is, everything comes down to dollars. we'll give more money. And so now we all fall under the Navy. So even though I'm an airman in order to earn an EOD badge, you have to go to NAV school yard, which is a delightful Navy school explosive ordnance disposal on a beach on an air force base, which is kind of fun.

That's surprisingly complicated actually. Did you say the word Aberdeen somewhere in there? I almost thought you said Aberdeen. Aberdeen Proving Ground, yeah. So Aberdeen Proving Ground, not Aberdeen. Western Northeast South Dakota. It is Aberdeen Proving Ground, right? I just felt like we couldn't gloss over the fact that you did say the word Aberdeen in there.

I did. I feel like I'm going full retard. I also thought... Aberdeen Proving Ground, that is a thing. Yes. I also thought Major Kane not to be confused with Major Payne. No, definitely not confused. Well, Major Payne was a Marine.

That's true. Yeah. Was he a Marine drill instructor too? He was a Marine major that was a drill instructor what is how is that that can't be a real thing right no no no when i was deployed with uh the second uh combat engineer battalion uh which is the marines not only june uh yeah like my i think he was a yeah the gunny did he make was he a gunny i don't remember what he was the pl yeah, the gunny. Did he make, was he a gunny? I don't remember what he was. The platoon sergeant that we were attached to.

We would hang out and like talk about random stuff. And of course I'm like, Hey, like I've never been to Marine Corps bootcamp. And he's like, well, I used to be a hat. And I was like, excellent. Let's have a conversation. And I was like, could, could someone like major pain ever be a hat? And he's like, no, yes, no. So you are an NCO then, right? Yeah, so I'm a master sergeant. Yeah, so you work for a living.

I mean, that's, I'm in the Air Force. Let's not get crazy here, okay? What about if it's, some people would say the chair force. What do you think of that? Man, it's so accurate. I mean, just talked about pt tests a little bit ago yeah um man some of these people oh man who else who did we have on those air force a little bit ago oh vintage rob or uh vintage weights rob yeah he was an intel officer oh oh okay so he didn't he was an officer yeah he didn't work for a living okay yep he so he's an intel officer okay but so anyways let's circle back real quick to acronyms yeah yeah so overrated

underrated military acronyms so do i so nav scoliad as an acronym is underrated just because it's really funny and because it's there's so many variations and it's so fucking confusing um now acronyms in general are uh severely overrated and i used to probably think that they were underrated but the reason i think they're overrated is because i'm getting to the point now where like i'm the old guy right so like the new guys have invented new fucking acronyms which is super frustrating um especially since like the later you get in your career, the more that you have to branch out and like deal with other career fields. So today I was sitting trying to learn like RF communications to a degree that's like way beyond the scope of a slinging bomb monkey.

And they were like, yes well uh we have an ato to atc with the dm set solution which is a tab which is going to be for an ud with itac running on a bytac server with the mpu5 running with a pr163 green radio yeah don't get wrong like i know what that means now right but man i google so much shit like i'm sitting in those meetings and like you would think that all military guys know all military acronyms i google the hell out of stuff you think do you think some people ever just pretend they know what they are 100 that's what everyone's doing that's what a lot of people are doing i think dude so there's people that don't even know what words mean um and i'm not saying you gotta have like an extensive vocabulary um so like when i find like fun words i'll kind of like use them every once in a while um so

elucidated was a word and i don't remember why that word came up as a word that like would exist in my life but elucidated means to like to make clear um i'm kind of dumbing it down yeah obviously i mean because if it was we all knew that clearly so i put uh i put elucidated on a awards package and submitted it up and i'm sitting in this meeting talking with this e9 and the e9s like elucidated i don't even know what that word means and i was like oh it means to make clear. They're like, how do you know that? And I was like, cause I wrote the package.

And then it was kind of like quiet and awkward for a second. Cause like this person outranks me. And I was like, you're welcome for the lesson. So I kind of like testing the water. Yeah. I don't care about getting promoted anymore. So it's fine. That's a good spot to be in actually.

Oh, it pisses people off though. But anyway, so non-commissioned officer, not to extend my time here and just, so I was at the non-commissioned officer academy in 2017. And again, I look up words and I'm a big fan of like princess bride as well. So like, I like to work a lot of princess brideide references and Princess Bride is the greatest movie ever made. So there's this guy in my class and he's just a total fucking douchebag. Like he's like the world's biggest douche. And he's like an AGR, which is an active guard reserve, you know, because we're talking acronyms.

So like he's a active member in the guard and he was just just such a jerk for like no reason and he kept on using like these big words that made him sound smart and it's like me sitting next to this cop my security forces dude who i'm still buddies with and the cop just kept laughing because for that six-week course i had the dictionary.com website up on my computer. And every time he was using these words, I was like looking them up. And I had a word document created with all of these words, what they meant in the way that he used it. It was like all wrong, like not even close to being right, like completely. And like every time he'd do it,

like during break, he'd be like, ah, this word, you you do it like during break you'd be like ah this word you keep saying it i think you mean i think you think it means what it doesn't mean yeah yeah now that's the military for you yeah uh good news though we did just tally things up while we were talking there and you did pass overrated underrated so we will get to air this episode nice i'm so happy that that happened i was really sweating it yeah so you should yeah you can you can put that up there like with your military retirement your uh um the honor of running the strong man first strong man show at home gym con all absolutely prestigious right uh so what else uh do where should people find you i mean it's the youtube channel that's what i would recommend the

instagram channel i would recommend that and then also if anyone wants to know more about uh home gym con especially the strongman event there that you'd be the guy to talk to obviously right absolutely slip into those dms uh on instagram. That's probably the easiest way. You can also message on a YouTube video. I do respond to almost every single comment that gets put on YouTube. I get a notification. So if you comment, I'll get the notification. But DMs is the best way. will find uh my phone number and uh send me a text i don't care uh i just warn you um i suck at texting um like i'm very forgetful so if you text me and i text you back and i say i'm gonna do something for you and i don't do that thing you need to text me again fair warning yeah awesome all right well big, we appreciate it. I think this is a good episode. Will we see you at the Arnold this year for sure then?

There is like a 98%, 97 and three-quarter percent chance that you will see me at the Arnold. Usually it's my birthday. All the places you'll go. All the places you'll go. Now I'm excited for the Arnold. I wasn't before, but now I am. Yes. I need to get a new set of jords

that fit we know just the guys uh to help you out with that so we'll see you there for sure who knows maybe we'll even see you in april we'll see about that it'll be great all right thanks buddy thanks a lot kurt thank you see ya there they are it's cool beans didn't blow up on them did they oh those are cbs cool beans i see what i did there yeah i see what you did there um let's see do you have an ad to read did you read an ad or did you already i do have an ad to read? Did you read an ad or did you already read an ad? I do have an ad to read. You're right. Do that. And then I've got a topic for us to talk about too.

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I did receive, I got my full pair of nines, which is the rarest, hardest. I had just one single for a long time, and now i actually found a separate pair so now you got so now i have three so i will be hitting the market pretty soon here i'm not in a rush and it's a single nine is the kind of thing that can be worth even more than its monetary monetary value so i may even that may be trade bait for something that i need at some point so okay uh let's put it this way i know what i've got all right yeah you're playing chess

i know what i've got he's firm on this so i don't know what i'm going to do with that one i mean i want to turn it into something else i'm missing more than i want to turn it into a few hundred bucks but so I got those nines I got the other one I that is like questionably a part of the collection uh it is the half pound salesman sample pair so the traditional pair goes from like one pound that yeah if you do York roundhead dumbbell half-pound salesman sample, you'll see them. They weigh a half-pound each. They were literally the salesman sample, I believe. They said, like, hey, here's what you could be buying,

like this set of York dumbbells. Big Efren. Actually, out of Big Efron's greedy gold palms. I snuck a pair of these gold half pound salesman sample dumbbells from him. Actually, those should show up this weekend. And then when we're in Columbus, we'll be, I'll be picking up my eighties, nineties and nineties fives. All this to be said, the only pair of dumbbells that I'm missing in the

entire collection at this point is a pair of 85 pound York roundhead dumbbells. So if anyone listening knows or has, or knows anyone that has potentially a pair of 85 dumbbell, 85 pound York roundhead dumbbells that we can somehow get in my hands in Western Northeast, South Dakota. Hit me up open to all possibilities. Are those hard to come by? No low ball offers. I know what I need.

Are those ones hard to come by? The 85s are relatively hard to come by, but they're not. They're hard for a couple of reasons because they end in five, and anything over 50 that ends in five is rarer than anything that ends in zero. They're rare slightly in the sense that they're very heavy because the heavier they are, they get a little bit rarer also. So, like, the 95s is a pretty rare pair. The 100s is also a pretty rare pair because it's the most expensive.

pair okay the hundreds is also a pretty rare pair because it's the most expensive but but the 85s you know it's maybe the if i'm going to say nines twelves hundreds 95s it's maybe like the fifth or six so it is up there okay i mean yeah kind of i'm just really like really way over analyzing it when i even say that but it's not i should be able to track down a pair for out of at a fair price but i just i need somebody's if anyone's got any leads on an 80 pair of 85s and that will officially did you find the half pound sales i actually had a trouble finding a picture of them here okay um uh i have york roundhead dumbbell half pound salesman sample, and unless I just skipped over the picture, I don't even see one on Google anywhere here.

They are fairly rare. I mean, apparently even photos of them are rare. Well, I'll just show you a picture. You'll be able to see this a little bit. I've got them right here. I mean, they're just itsy-bitsy, tiny little half-pound each dumbbell. Kind of looks like a paperclip.

Yep, yep. So those are on the way. Exciting news for me and nobody else because nobody else probably really cares. The other thing i wanted to discuss is the ipf sheffield sbd powerlifting meet is going on february 10th oh it is so that'll be moved up isn't it i guess i don't know when it was for some reason i thought it was uh after the arnold maybe i'm wrong though actually you know when it was last year last year was the same day as the south dakota state powerlifting meet because i remember i was watching

the sheffield and then later that day i went to jonah's gym but i actually don't remember when that was now that could be similar then possibly so but i know this one is february 10th and it's the same structure as last year how they pick winners but it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out. The most interesting thing is Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Uh, he has lifted now. I think his lifts off the top of my head that I've seen.

He did a thousand 47 pounds squat single in prep for this, a 617 pound bench, something like that. And then like a 938 pound that looked so easy deadlift like so easy really easy um so i think that that's a a gym training total of 2600 pounds yeah yeah it's i that's when i'm most excited to see like what's going to happen there um man it's so hard to say but you just do wonder on that day that moving those amount of weights in a relatively quick flight too yeah yeah how do you hold up but it's yeah i mean it's you still

gotta do it that being said like he's he's done these numbers in the gym but in order to get that 2600 pound total you still got to do it at the meet which is um he kind of last year proved that he is capable of doing that so i wouldn't be betting against him but there's still always that factor in power lifting you gotta not be hurt like he can't be hurting you know he can't be like my back's bugging he's got travel too get him on a travel ahead of like there's a lot of variables there but and then he's basically got to go like nine for nine he's got to hit all of his lifts to get put that total together it would be cool if he does well and you also assume he's planning on doing more in the meat that you

know if if things go as they should you're peaked for the meat he's going to have more weight on the bar than he did in training so what's the numbers there you know like that tells me over a thousand fifty pound squat you know be push i don't know deadlift is the trickiest one because just can you do that after the squat? Yes, at the end of the day, what's left. After benching 600 pounds. But also that 900-whatever-pound deadlift was the easiest-looking lift out of the three of those, though. That was. And, like, he got to the top and just held it like it was nothing.

You know, everyone else just seems like they struggle once you start getting over 900 pounds. And he was just chilling there with it. Yeah, so that, he'll, I mean, he is obviously the most exciting, you know, without us analyzing the finer details of this because, quite frankly, we don't know about or care that much about the finer details. But that's the headliner is to see what he does there. For sure.

Like, that's what I'll be really curious to see. Yep, that would be the reason worth watching. That's what I'll be really curious to see. Yep, that would be the reason worth watching. Because if he totals 2,600 pounds in those conditions, or more, essentially we're talking then about the highest powerlifting total of anyone. And he's going to do it in sleeves and on the bars and stuff at a certain point. I don't know how much some of the stuff does or doesn't matter, but kind of is doing it under like the...

And what is arguably the strictest standards too. Right, right. There again, he's got to do it. Yep. You know, just like in theory, someone being able to do it and actually doing it is still harder. But if he does, that's pretty insane.

It absolutely is. And then if he does that, it's okay. He's still young, though. How much longer does he keep this going? Would he be able to do 2,700 pounds in a few years? Like he's doing something now that it's like three years ago, people would have been like, well, that's not possible. You would have just said, yeah, right.

You know, and now he's doing that. Yeah, I know. It doesn't make sense. It also makes you wonder, okay, five years from now, though, who's the next guy? That's how it goes. It's just five years from now, there's another guy. And you'll be like, oh, yeah, remember Jesus? He used to be pretty good.

Remember when people were hyped for a guy to hit 2,600 naturally? Well, here's another guy and you'll be like oh yeah remember jesus he used to be pretty good when people are hyped for a guy to hit 2600 naturally well here's this guy now and he's only 22 he's he's 12 yeah he hasn't graduated he weighs 112 pounds you know that's like that's the other thing some of the people they're like yep they're 75 kilos. And he can sumo deadlift 1,200 pounds. Like, what? What? How? Why? Yeah.

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