Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 54: South Dakota's Strongest Man Competition

Episode Date: April 17, 2017

This week, we recap the State Strongman Competition that a handful of us competed in a few weeks back.. We got so wrapped up in the shenanigans from The Arnold that we almost forgot to fill you guys in on this event. Tune in to find out who won, who lost, and who fell flat on their face a foot short of the finish line to lose the day... As always, you can watch this episode in full color video...   Or check out the super-high quality audio version below.. If you don't already have a closet full of Massenomics gear, go to the MASSENOMICS STORE and load up on swag... Also, please CLICK THIS LINK TO GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING ON ITUNES... Click this text to follow Massenomics on Instagram... Vote Massenomics for President in 2020.. Have your barber shave our logo into the side of your head.. Maybe get a Massenomics tattoo while you're at it.    Or you could sign up for our email newsletter at the bottom of this page. Stay Strong, M

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All right. Well, guys, we're back. We're on our fourth week celebrating the one-year anniversary of the podcast. It's been quite the bender. The partying don't stop. We're still not quite sure where it all lands, so we're still celebrating it. We're a little behind as far as recapping some things, so we're just going to start moving through.

But I did want to start with they had the Europe's Strongest Man was this weekend. Obviously, it's a few weeks ago if you're listening to this in the future past. But Half Thor 1, spoiler alert. It was close, though, wasn't it? It was close. It was close though, wasn't it? It was close. It was down to the last event. It was head-to-head on the Stone Load medley with him and Eddie Hall. But I want to back up just a little bit.

Did you guys see when they introduced everybody? I didn't see. I watched every event, but I didn't see that. I didn't see it either. Okay, so I've got to try to find this. Let's see here. Eddie Hall. So Eddie Hall came out

with no shirt on in an all-black leather gimp mask with a steel collar handcuffed with steel chains from his collar to his cuffs. Why? In like the freakiest weird bear dominatrix outfit you could possibly imagine. I don't know where I'm going to find this on a Google search,

but it's definitely worth looking up if you're not watching this on YouTube. So did he have a reasoning behind this? I don't know. Or do you have no i don't think i i haven't seen anything where he where he references it um god damn this busted ass wi-fi down here is killing me so i mean we may we may not you're probably going to look it up i suppose but uh yeah it was a 420 pound man dressed in a basically a gimp suit and his dms were blowing up immediately i bet i bet his dms got way weirder than dan bell's for sure oh did we ever talk about on the air uh dan's dm referrals from us yet i don't know so i don't

think specifically the referrals so dan we won't go into details about who the guy was but dan gets a message and it must be it obviously is something that he's very used to because the first reply is hi oh you're big i like how big you are and dan just dan's reply and he sent all, screenshot all this and his reply was like, what was it? It was, oh geez, here we go.

And then it was this like, this like copy pasted, like weird, bare sexual pictures menu. It was like, well, it was like $35 for a compression short shot,

$35, $45 for a shot from behind. He's given all the options. All these options up to like $125 or $135 for like an all-nude picture. Yeah. He says, oh, Jesus, here we go. And he's all done on a professional camera with festive backdrop. I think the festive backdrop is the real selling point i'll send you my paypal whenever you're ready just let me know

and but the best part he said at the beginning he said did the guys from massonomics send you yeah and then he said they get the the creepo said no send me what what did they send yeah so obviously if you have any weird sexual requests send them to uh dbale underscore 74 on instagram but uh but yeah so eddie uh but eddie came up pretty uh came out pretty strong i mean considering he hadn't competed in the arnold i think he was pretty fresh he what was there was some sort of injury bug that he had had coming into it but um you also do you remember what his axle press was which was a world record yeah it was like 474 pounds yeah oh really and it was fucking strict yeah like like it was so crazy he he did the old

continental clean but like once he got his elbows underneath it he just like he just he just goes and it goes up like literally just that that exact same speed yeah so there's way more there he just yeah it's i don't know if the press could ever be the issue for him like it would always just be if he can get it there yeah because it sure looks like he could press like 550 pounds. And what's Zydrunas' log record? I think it's 500 pounds. Is it? Okay. I knew his upper fours for sure.

I'm going to try and get connected to the old Wi-Fi hotspot here so we can maybe show you some of these, but it may not happen in a timely manner. Yeah, Half Thor 1, in the end, they also, uh you know thor usually will go and rip his shirt off and uh eddie ran up to thor and ripped ripped his shirt off and then thor grabbed eddie's shirt ripped eddie's shirt off and uh and i thought it was going to get really sexual for a minute there it was like the end of talladega nights they were neck and neck on the stones for like the first three it was like even going into the floor they were yeah yeah they were neck and neck going into the fourth and eddie was like stumbled with it a little bit and then by the

time he went go to the fifth he could see thor was like already about ready to load the fifth and eddie is even like yeah you can see him curse like He goes down to his last stone and he's like, fuck. He still did it. Yeah, and he was going so fast also. Yeah. But, you know, it's like he wasn't saving anything, so that's why he's so pissed. He's like, God, I'm doing this perfectly.

Yeah. And it's still not quite fast enough. He had that one hang up where a stone kind of rolled away up on the top, but, like, there's not much more that he could have done i mean do you know in those like what the lightest to heaviest i mean i don't even know i don't know what that heaviest one is it's four something oh it's like 440 or i really i don't know i'm sure the first one is 300 pounds even i would think yeah if not more yeah but that's what i think like range is like 300 to 450, somewhere in there.

Uh-huh. And then they're usually always higher to lower. Yeah. You know, the heaviest one is, you don't have to lift it up quite as high. But the first ones are always so high, it's like they're like face high. Well, and that's the thing, it's like, well, yeah. That's what I'm surprised. And these guys aren't short.

The little bit of the video I saw, even with Thor standing there, I thought it looked pretty high. And I didn't see the one from Eddie's perspective, but I imagine that that's really high for him. Okay, I think I'm connected here. Let me see if I can pull up the old Instagrams. Geez, I don't remember if it was going to be on Eddie Hall's page or if I'm going to sit here on the podcast and have to rifle through Instagram forever.

But I wonder if Flo Elite had them. Well, I thought Flo Elite had the video of the stones up, but I just looked and, like, it's not there. So we've got... Okay, here we go. Here's Eddie's... This is going to be Eddie's 476-pound axle press. Comes off the clean to a strict axle press.

So what do they have for weights on there? I don't know what those are. It doesn't look like any weights are on it. They're axles. I know that axle was made special for this event. It's kind of the first time any of these guys have touched it. So, I mean, cranks 476 pounds to his belly pretty easy bounces it to the chest turns it and just up it goes that is easy that's fucking crazy yeah that's a big deadlift for a lot of people. Well, did our strong man,

did you see me, my, my 475 pound deadlift literally almost killed me. He just like, it, it's hard to even understand the way he does it. Yeah. I just,

yeah, I thought, yeah, maybe they didn't have the stones. Well, they did. They did. Because you take me in it. So they took it down for some reason. Oh, I thought, yeah, maybe they didn't have the stones. Well, they did. They did. Because you take me in it.

So they took it down for some reason. Oh, I bet. Spoiler alert, they had to remove it. I don't know. They must have. So what did Thor do there? I wonder what, I'm sure it was well over 400 also. So what's kind of been surprising to me with him is now he's done

the arnold he's done the arnold i believe in australia too hasn't he i don't know i don't think he competed in that no he didn't shaw won that and i don't think he did that oh he didn't i think he kicked that off because i was gonna say i just assumed he did the australia one too and then this i'm like that's almost three competitions in like four weeks. Yeah. That's like an insane amount. But even still, two in a month is still plenty. For sure. This was leading up to it, which I had seen this. This was him doing 190 kilos, which is about 400 pounds.

Yeah. 420. Yeah. 418 or something. Yeah. And this is kind of the same. So this is how going into it we knew that Eddie was going to be pressing pretty seriously because he did not fuck around on this either.

It was the same type of deal where he just, he fought it up and then it just, once it was off his chest, the thing practically just levitated up above his hands. Yeah. And he said power is not the problem. And then fully, like, note power is not the problem. Because it's obviously not the problem. It rolls it back. Just, I mean. There's also not a lot of people in the world that bench press them.

You know. No. Like lay flat on their back on a bench and have someone hand it off to them and be able to press it off their chest yeah yeah so i want to know what eddie can bench press if he trained for it i don't know i mean over 600 pounds i'm it's got to be someone you would assume yeah someone had said something i had read online the other talking about how good of a power lifter eddie hall could be if he actually tried for it one of one of the main things that that they had said about it though

was like well since there's no money in power lifting and it doesn't even fucking matter he's just not gonna do it but he would be the best you would i mean he would he would he would set the all-time world record total you would think the The one thing that you don't know for sure with deadlift, though, is grip. Because grip, as far as you know, he doesn't have to test his grip with strongman stuff. When you talk about the number of guys that have held over 1,000 pounds in their hands without straps, I think there's two. Yeah. Is it Benedict Magnuson and Andy Bolton?

So, I mean, the number of 900-pound deadlifts, there's a lot of those. But then, you know, 1,000 gets to weigh less, and then 1,000 without straps is almost nonexistent. So that's where it becomes. But, Joe, the other thing, though, is I would bet, though, that I bet Eddie Hall, just with his strongman training, probably has a better grip than a lot of power lifters you would assume with things like frame carry you know with a lot of that type of stuff well and he wears a

suit he that was a single ply suit he was wearing when he broke that record too but i would even if he is just dead lifting i mean just even if he was dead just just a thousand yeah well i would say even 950 pounds yeah he's going to be benching over 600 pounds. And I bet he's going to be squatting over 900 pounds. Yeah, you would think. I mean, he would be. But that puts him at 2,400-ish, which is also in the range of where kind of the best guys in the world are at right now anyways. And one of the things I was reading was also when they were in that discussion, a couple of the guys had said,

And one of the things I was reading was also when they were in that discussion, a couple of the guys had said, yeah, I mean, because like the IPF numbers or the USAPL, and I was like, well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, I don't. He would not be in the USAPL. I don't think that Eddie Hall's going to work out in the IPF. No. Yeah. I think Eddie would light that drug test up like in those old cartoons

when Bugs Bunny would hit the little thing at the fair and sparks come flying out the top that's just a guess and it's true well does he not even talk does he talk about it in his documentary

or not I mean it doesn't matter if they don't talk about it i mean yeah actually that was what i thought was one of the worst parts of the documentary the fact that they brought it up and the whole thing they talked about was yeah i think it's possible for someone to be a world's strongest man and not use performance enhancing drugs and then they talked to like four guys and they all said yeah it's possible i believe that someone could be in this spot it's like well what was the point of including that in here like i don't i don't believe that there it's possible for someone to be a straw that they're i don't know you like at the arnold there could have been someone someone of the caliber to make it on the stage yeah maybe

but not the caliber of those top five guys like i don't believe and and also there is like you do have to genetically be yeah at the top of it like you have to genetically be at the top you also have to work hard on the top way harder than everybody else and but yeah and yeah i think as as bill casmeyer said you also have to have your chemistry set in order yeah well and even just to to show how the genetic parts play in it, I think Eddie Hall is kind of finding out static strength, just pure moving the weights, he's probably the best in the world. Yeah, he is.

But that's not what Strongman's about. Strongman's about who can be the fastest and the most dynamic and all this. And even at, what's he, 6'1", 6'2", 6'3"? Yeah, I think he's like 6'3". And he's still giving up a lot of mass to those guys. Anytime you have anything like half-throwing the weights overhead, just being, what, 6'8", or whatever he is. He's that much closer.

You're that much closer to it. So things like that. And then on the stones, too, being bigger, taller, longer, makes it a little quicker there, too. I'm not saying he can't do it. closer to it so things like that and then on the stones too being bigger taller longer longer makes it makes it a little quicker there too and not saying he can't do it but he's getting better at all that stuff though too like his yoke carrying like he carried that i don't know who i did he beat he beat thor in the car i think or did thor beat he beat thor he edged thor by a little bit and that you know that would be an event ed Eddie used to be bad at the yoke.

I mean, that was a car, similar idea, though. And now he's one of the best in the world at it. I would say, just over the last two years, as far as the guys that are in the mix, like, say, your top ten guys, I would say that Eddie is actually probably the most improved. Yeah. And he's the only one who is i'd say in that top five

who is actually like really taking huge strides improvement the rest are just gradually getting better still getting stronger but they're they're all fighting the same fight among the same people but i think eddie has taken huge steps compared to the other guys yeah you know and had had he not messed up that frame carry with his dislocated finger and world's strongest man he still could have had a good chance of winning yeah like that getting last in that event is a tough one yeah getting one point or whatever he got for that so we're gonna we're gonna segue from is that all we have on europe's strongest man do you have anything else and we've already talked about way more than i know about it so no that's probably

more than anyone so one thing this is probably more even behind the scenes and i don't know if you guys know giants live is that like the production company behind it or the promoters i've never understood i don't understand that's my guess i think eddie has something to do with that with giants live okay eddie personally because at first i thought giants live was that that deadlift competition yeah but that was a part of but yeah and then you see this giants live thing popping up here's what i'm looking at right here this is what giants live is according to their wikipedia giants live was created in 2009 as the official tour that qualifies strongmen to compete in the annual world's Strongest Man contest. At each Grand Prix, up to 12 international strongmen come together

and compete in over six events. The top three at each contest get the invite to compete at the World's Strongest Man that same year. And then the World's Strongest Man, that's IMG World's Strongest Man, isn't it? No, what is it now? Isn't it Commerce? Yeah, it's Commerce is a hotel. Okay. But that's a sponsor.

So I was looking, though. So Giants Live was licensed the exclusive rights by IMG Sports Media, creator and owner of the World's Strongest Man competition. Okay, that's what it is. Commerce is just the sponsor. They're the corporate sponsor. Must be the ones who have their name on it. But that's why the Arnold and and giants live are kind of like it's split split a bit a little because giants live basically is world strong you know yeah

and then the arnold is basically its own tour right now which but seems confusing a lot of people i've heard them talking about uh this europe's strongest man some people consider that you know that a lot of people would say world's strongest man in the arnold but then now a lot more people are saying like that europe's strongest man is like getting to be considered right argue in some ways is the premier event because like the way that they do it and the crowd that they draw people show up yeah yeah because in because people love it there like it's actually a big deal even is america America's Strongest Man? Like, because that's a thing, though, isn't it? Is it a thing?

I don't know. I'm sure it is. If I remember correctly, Brian Shaw, on, like, one of the last PowerCasts he was on, talked about how America's Strongest Man, or whatever the title is, that a European had won it. And he's like, and that's not the way that should be. But it's like, well, then, yeah, show up for this stuff. Yeah, but he should be competing in it. Yeah, that's what I'm... And maybe, maybe who knows maybe a terrible timing or bad promotion but we have america's strongest

man established 1997 uh annual strongman competition featuring all supposed to feature only american athletes for some reason dimitar savatv, his name is on here. He's pretty American. That is not, maybe he was born in Ohio. Yeah. That still doesn't explain the back of his neck looks. Yeah, but it actually doesn't say much. Brian Shaw won in 2013, but that was... Yeah, Dimitar Savatinov won in

2014 and 2015, and then apparently they just stopped updating their Wikipedia page. Then they have North America's Strongest Man. Oh, maybe that's what it is. Maybe that's a bigger... Get Canada in the mix. As I'm looking at this, it's like

85% Canadians. So that's basically just Canada's strongest man. That's interesting. But we're going to transition from North America, America, Europe's strongest man to obviously the next in line. The greatest state in the unions's Strongest Man competition, the South Dakota's Strongest Man competition. Arguably the most prestigious. That's what they're saying nowadays.

Yeah, I mean, we fought pretty hard. Yeah. So we had a pretty good turnout. It was a good event. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the... united states strongman was the federation there's kind of two in that level and this is going back a little we haven't talked about this for quite a while so now this is this is probably the last time we talked about this was over a month ago and how busy we've

been with the podcast we just haven't just counting our money so this is for people that have been kind of in the loop there wasn't a second Strongman competition that took place. This was just the one from early March that never got covered. So you're getting the full recap now. So basically, we went in there. The events we had talked about that we didn't know anything about were the Conan's Wheel. That was a motherfucker, wasn't it?

That was the motherfucker. I don't want to do that even really like i don't even want one of those to practice and fortunately there was a couple of guys uh in the master's class who like exclusively compete in strongman and they were really really helpful to us basically where it just had to clarify like not in your division but i really need you to tell me how the fuck to do this. So we got some pretty good tips on it. But, you know, Tanner had dropped a tremendous amount of weight. What, 11 pounds?

Yeah, 11 pounds. For me, that's a tremendous. To show all of your formals for yourself. To hit the heavyweight class. Yes, skin and bones. But I did make it within one one tenth of the you know they round down so i had to be make 275.4 and that's right where i was yeah i mean i had five hour you know four hours that i could have shed a pound if i needed to or something or wait to piss again i

came in at a solid 300.0 so uh so you weren't the heaviest in your class though no no big dylan was 308 or eight or three yeah maybe it was three he wasn't much heavier than me but i still feel like he is heavier than me it's the being four five inches shorter yeah but um but yeah we had that conan's wheel was a son of a bitch so tanner t 650 pounds for a ride, or was it the- It took me for a ride. It took you for a ride. Yeah, it doesn't, I literally like the way that that went is I, their advice was pick it up and don't start,

like pick it up and get solid with it before you take off. A lot of people would like try to pick up and take their first step in one motion. And this was as soon as you put it down you were done right yeah yeah as soon as there's a little gray area i think as far as it touching and skidding or like yeah because i saw sometimes when i'm like that has to be touching the ground but but you know the couple of the masters guys they were like that makes it actually way way harder yeah i wouldn't want to do that on purpose anyways so but i picked it up and it felt fine.

Like, it didn't feel heavy. Well, it was heavy, but it didn't feel, like, unbearably heavy, like, picking it up or doing the Zurcher part of it. And then I walked, and I made it only one quarter turn, and it jumped on me a couple times, and then my legs went completely mush. Like, like I felt went from strong to nothing, like no strength in a split second and dropped

it. And I immediately felt, felt like I was going to pass out. And I just leaned against the bar for a second. It was like, whoa. Yeah. Because I felt good up until the exact second when I didn't feel good. So do you think the mixture of like maybe holding your breath and just the weight of it and the pressure just kind of, I really don't know. Like if I did it 10 times, I don't know if that would

happen every time or not happen again. I'm not really sure. You know, part of it is that it, it kind of hangs like, you know, the weights lower. So it's kind of like a pendulum. like you know the weight's lower so it's kind of like a pendulum so you pick it up and if you're moving and you change your speed at all so if you slow down that's 650 pounds it's going to it's going to move be moving you're not going to slow that down the same way so so that weight pulls forward and then so you try to slow down and that goes says nah bitch and cranks you forward and then it comes back. And so, and when it comes back, it comes back down. So it just starts, it like comes alive.

If you fuck up your, if you're not a nice consistent speed, um, it really starts to buck. Yeah. And I got about two thirds of a turn, maybe almost three quarters of a turn. And, um, and same deal with mine is i i didn't know if i was strong enough to get it off the ground so what i was hoping was to get it up and get moving with it at all so i got under it and i just fought and stood it up and i was like all right which only expecting to get it off the ground probably had me in a better position yeah because i was

like hey look at that yeah that's a big win and then gradually getting the soul sucked out of your body with that weight on your stomach started moving and everything was going as okay as it can be when you're carrying 700 pounds and then all of a sudden same deal like you slow down you start jumping and misstep once and the thing starts that weight starts swinging yeah and you go back a little bit and then all of a sudden I covered about six feet in the snap of my finger. And then that fucker just is on its way down. I mean, you're not going to stop 700 pounds that's trying to do something. Right. Yeah, that was pretty gnarly.

But I did better than I expected to do with that. You won your... I did win that event. I was fully expecting to scratch that event, possibly. So that was a win. And I got last in that event in my heavyweight. Did you? Yeah.

Then we had the deadlift event, which Tanner came out and just absolutely smashed. Yeah, the deadlift went good. A lot better than... Actually, the deadlift was prior to the it was the prior event and um but that didn't have an effect on how far like it's not like because i deadlifted heavy i didn't do well on the conan's wheel yeah that wouldn't have mattered the conan's wheel is such a was such a wild card it's like a skill it was one of those things oh well that just is what happened yeah for sure um but we came out with the deadlift and i am not a good deadlifter as we've talked

about on this for about a year and so i come out and i'm like well i'm gonna open at uh 4 35 and i first off the the people taking the openers looked at me like like are you hurt you mean you're in the you're in the super heavyweight class you know what i mean like like what are you doing here and um and then like they probably didn't look like that but that's just like what you think that's what i yeah yeah this paranoia well no because a lot of the competitors would because because i'm just larger than yeah so a lot of competitors what are you open at? And I'm like, 435. And they're like, what the fuck?

And then it was the same deal. I got asked, like, are you hurt? Yeah. No, except for my feelings. And just, I don't know, deadlifting ain't clicked yet. And so I came out and I hit 435 and it actually felt good. I hadn't had a good deadlift day of training in months and I actually hadn't lifted more than 405 in months

and even that didn't feel good. So 435 was really easy. Well, as easy as me deadlifting goes. I didn't enjoy it. It moved and I was like, well, I guess I'm'm just gonna go for a big pr and hope i hit it so i put 475 on and did like the nastiest pause halfway back down like that lift definitely would not have counted in a power lifting meet it was the weirdest weirdest i just i just had to laugh because i didn't know really anything about it until I saw the video on the Massanomics Instagram page. And I think your caption, Tanner, was like,

Tyler sets a double pause PR. And I was very confused because I had no idea what I was about to watch. I don't think anyone else could do that with a heavy weight if they were trying. You couldn't put on like 90% or more of a... And there hold it have it come back down yeah and come back up and then pause it again it almost looked like the strength was absolutely there it was more like your brain was like we don't do this okay it's going well maybe we should stop and then it's like no just kidding really easy but that's what was weird is like after both pauses or even went down maybe like six inches. The first one it went down for sure a full like inch, inch and a half.

But then how fast it came back up again is what didn't make sense. It's like, how could that have been going down? And then you just like went like reverse it. Yeah. What it was, was the absolute fear of shame. I was like, I had already like had everybody judging me for being weak by opening at 4 35 and then like and then i got this and it started and i all i was just like i am not going to let go this fucking bar so i pulled it up and it was

like one of those things were like in the gym for real if i'd have pulled that up like that and it would have felt the way it felt at the moment when it starts going. But like, that's when you go, fuck, and you're done. Yeah. And I got there and it hung up and started coming back and I was just like, no, bitch, it's time to go. And, uh, just fucking hung on and moved it. But, uh, if a fly would have pissed on that, that would have dropped it for sure. It would have went down and up at least one more time.

There would have been a third. Didn't really have to hitch it. No, that's not what I would call a hitch. I did all that at my shins. Yeah, yeah. No, there was no hitch, I don't think, at all. But that was good. So that was a PR, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then did you do a third, or did you just say, like, What I wanted to do to make Dylan keep, keep Dylan on and say like 600, I wanted to come in and open it like, or then, then have my third attempt be like, uh, seven,

10, you know, just to, just to make sure he has to do three attempts. But, uh, um, then they,

they let Dylan go back after I basically proved that I wasn't going to be able to compete with him. He went back and changed all his openers, changed his openers. He was able to, uh, kind of get through it. He still, he still went,

you know, he did try. He went to failure. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, I think he deadlifted six Oh five or six 15, maybe something like that.

So, um, but Tanner comes in Tanner and another guy opened at 585 well i uh the other guys there's three of us in our weight class that in heavyweight and they had both picked their weights already for their opener and i just went up and asked what theirs were doing a little gaming you know and i my plan was to open at 625 ish 615 625 And the one guy was opening at 585, and the other guy was opening at 635. So I was like, eh, I'm not going to do 625 and be 10 pounds behind this guy after the first round. So I just went 635.

So you opened at 635. Yeah, me and this other guy both opened at 635. There's no point for me to start 20 to 10 pounds less like it just especially when you knew you were going to get it right yeah i mean i was pretty i thinking that i was going to get it at least but so we did that opener oh caveat to the way that they do this deadlift you know i'm used to powerlifting meet everyone does their first everyone does their second everyone does their third they order them in weight within the you know confines those three rounds but in this it's the the weight on the bar

never comes back down so it starts at 135 or whatever and then everyone that has their attempts within the 300 gets done and then all the 400 ish people get done in 500 and stuff so it took like i don't know i felt like forever like i was ready to go and it's just like standing there waiting to even get to do my first one you know so that's definitely i don't i don't like that just because i'm not used to it yeah it doesn't really matter but i just i don't i don't like that but it didn't seem to set you back. No, no, it worked out just fine. Uh, I'm just not used to it. So I wanted to complain about it, but I think that as you should. Yeah. Yeah. That guy, uh, let's see, I went first and I got six 35. I don't know,

really easily, I guess as easy as it could have felt like, and his was good. He got a good lift, but it didn't look you know it looked harder than mine for sure and so I went over and they were waiting for me to say my second attempt and I just told him I'm not going to pick until he picks because I'm going to take whatever he takes on a second I'm going to take two and then I was just going to go for whatever I wanted on my third and he's what would have happened if he walked in and goes well I'm just going to do what he does I we would have I I was a suspecting that that's what i because that's what i would say if i was him so who was the rule what's the rule on who's supposed to go first there well i'm

technically supposed to oh i think probably like if it comes down to it i probably have to be the one to say a number yeah uh but he he you know we weren't we were in agreeance probably kind of that we were going to do the same weight on our second so he said 675 and i was like okay sounds good you know i i was pretty sure i would get that so i got it and it felt pretty good and he missed it and once you miss you don't get a third attempt you're out yeah once you miss a lift yeah you're done you're out so if it was on your first and you missed it you don't get a third attempt. You're out. Yeah, once you miss a lift, you're out. So if it was on your first and you missed it, you don't get to retry the weight or anything even. So I had won at that point,

and the smart thing would be to just quit there. There's no reason to do more for the competition. I had that event won, but I just wanted to do 700 pounds, and I was in a place mentally where I wanted to try it then. And, you know, it was kind of my chance to give it a try. And then they played the intro to the song, to the show Vikings. And Tanner was like, oh, fuck, here we go. Well, see, I wasn't going to do it.

And then I walked back over and like they had just put the song on and stuff. And I was like, ah. And then I, Tim, the guy that, Tim Feathers, the guy that runs it, I said, ah, put 700 on. Let's try it. And he said, all right, let's go. He was already moving on to the next event, suspecting that only an idiot would go and do that. And he said, I'll be that guy.

Yeah. So I did 700, and I got it. I didn't use straps, and I didn't hitch. I think it probably would have been good in the powerlifting meet. So I got it. You know, I didn't use straps and I didn't hitch. I think it probably would have been good in the powerlifting meet, you know. So I was happy. I was about as jacked up as I get at, you know, there's not a better feeling to that for me than like getting a big deadlift. Yeah.

So I was pretty pumped. And Megan did pretty good on that event too. She had pulled 315 in training a month or so ago. She hit 305. I think she did fail 315, but that was after the press event, which is pretty taxing for her. That event was what most pressing events are. They just kind of are what they are.

There's not too much. I was surprised by how many reps everyone was doing you know ourselves included like i just thought the weight to me was going to be like you know people doing five or six yeah but it was more like 15 or 20 yeah yeah what do you what do you mean with that like you because it was max reps and we could never train it so we didn't really know what it was going to feel like because we didn't have the implement. So we had been training with a couple barbells rigged up. Because this was the biking press? Yeah, biking press.

I was thinking just an overhead press, but yeah. Yeah, so rigged up in a squat rack is all we had done. And this was part of the Conan's Wheel apparatus. And by the time they got to Dylan and i at the super heavyweights it was like i think they had all the weights they they had on the thing yeah and so that the whole rig started moving you know i started i about bucked the thing off there but i don't know dylan got like 10 or 11 and i but i didn't remember when i was moving just did a couple so i just got to that and got past it and i was like well what i don't want to be like I had plenty of time left

I was like I don't want to be stupid and stop now so I just like I'll do two more in case I miscounted and then and then we'll be good so you you got to go you were second I was second yeah I think I got like 14 or 13 or 14 or something and I was lucky enough to draw last of my weight class too so I just did one more yeah then but you had yeah yeah which that would have sucked to have to go first and really do that just burn out yeah yeah well like if i had to go first i probably would have had right 22 or 25 and that would have fucking really set me back i don't know that i'd have been pr in my deadlift after that that's for sure um then we moved on to what other events was there there was the uh frame carry which was a motherfucker um being a shit deadlifter having a 650 pound frame for me it

was just not moving i mean dylan's a strong deadlifter he got his he got his moving but maybe like 30 feet i can't remember did he make it one he didn't make it one no no no he i think made like 20 or 30 feet he got it but getting that fucker off the ground was yeah that was nasty enough i didn't i like sat there and just was like it was kind of like when we did our car deadlift i was just like i don't know what else to do i'm really pulling you know like i'd i'd love to miss a weight getting it off the floor yeah and then like being like oh it's just too much but like when it just doesn't move what else what do you do you know i'm just like sitting here and you're like do i lean back more do i push look what do i do it just isn't moving right and uh did you make your whole run yeah

you made your whole run yeah what was what was your weight uh 600 and yours was 650 i think and i i made it i didn't i made it pretty fast i won that would you say the reason you were so good at it is because eve had pushed you so far in the gym previously and i don't know about that but it just it didn't feel that i like that event like i could have gone heavier and not like my grip felt like it was locked did this one feel better in the hands than the trap bar in the gym oh god i mean it's still the worst part about the event was the feeling of the fingers yeah like after it's over because even warming up with like 300 pounds when i set it down every, it's still, the worst part about the event was the feeling of the fingers. Yeah. Like after it's over. Because even warming up with like 300 pounds, when I set it down every time, it's like,

okay, can my fingers, are my fingers capable of going straight? Yeah. That's an event too. Like kind of like farmer's carries where like you got one where you can really lay it out and you're fucking done. Yeah. Like, so with, once your grip goes, it's already, it's over for the day. So warming up with it, I was I did a little bit to get moving,

but I was not really planning on pushing my grip because I figured I'd be lucky if I moved it. The grip thing, it's a tricky event because in the middleweight class, the class below me, there was one guy that deadlifted 650 and another guy that deadlifted over 600 pounds, and their frame was 550, but both of those guys couldn't they made like a fourth of the course they just they couldn't and what was happening was they would they they they were strong enough to deadlift yeah they'd get up and they get moving and then the grip would go

yeah and then what you're doing then is they would be deadlifting yeah the one guy deadlifted it like seven times seven times yeah like jesus man like you know winded cranking that much weight off the ground is nasty um then after that we moved to the grand finale of the kegs and bags kegs and bags and it was a straight carry no load um you basically just picked it and moved with 60 feet uh we were in a situation going into it that me, Tanner, Megan, and Keith, basically Tanner would have had to really shit the bed to lose. Keith would have had to win to win. I had to win to win, and Megan had to win to win.

Megan come out and smashed it. She'd been training her sandbag. That was a good event for her. She's been training the sandbag probably more than any of us, you know, for sure. So she'd come out and that was just like putting in work. She just knocked it out. That sandbag was probably lighter than what she trained with a lot of times. It was, yeah.

So then Keith lost the keg a couple of times, and that basically is what... Yeah, the other guys were fast. The other guys were stupid fast. He was in first place coming into that event, but he had no, you know, it was like a point separating all the top three guys. So he basically had to win. Yeah. And those guys come out like stupid fast.

Yeah. Like really, really, really fast. So he would have had to, it would have had to have been flawless, and he had never practiced those implements. No. And then you came out and yours went smooth yeah pretty quick smooth it felt good i picked up the bag right i mean i mean my my pickup on both of them was like a second or less and it just less than a second would you say

you're just like so incredibly fast it's just like if you blinked you missed the whole thing but no like just saying that the i didn't you know because that's where people lose a lot of time you have to waste any time all right and like i just the art the 280 bag i just left it standing straight and just did a bear hug and like immediately was able to take a step you know there was no like i didn't have to lap it yeah like i literally just bear hugged it but the only reason i did that no one else in my weight class anyways had done that but i just knew that i could because i had been doing that with our 280 bag in training so that was kind of an advantage to be able to and the bag was actually similarly constructed it was it was really similar kind of as narrow and tall as ours yeah um it was

good if it would have been one of them fatter bags it would have been weird for us yeah i could if it would have been shorter and fatter i couldn't do probably do the method i wanted to because i have to bend over so far yeah to you know to try and yeah pick it up low enough um and then i went so was dylan first or were you? We were tied. So who went first, though? Oh, you went first. Because we were each two and two.

Yeah. So I went first, and Keg went fine, got the bag picked fine, and it was moving fine. Everything was moving fast. I would have smashed it. I mean, I had 30 seconds left, and i was two feet away from the finish line but i simply could not hang on to the bag anymore like it started coming out and there was nothing left and i lost the bag and it lays over on its side like a foot short of the finish line literally like 12 inches yeah but you can't drag it and not only that i don't know if i

could have because after all of that you know you're carrying the keg you're running back you're carrying the bag which you can't breathe and so if i would have dropped that bag halfway through it wouldn't have been a problem but i'm all the way at the end i laid it all out there and then i'm totally fucking smashed and i gotta pull 280 pound bag off the floor yep and carry it and i spent all but like four seconds that was left on the clock so probably about 30 seconds about 30 seconds for sure just laying there trying to heave the fucking thing up and just couldn't do it couldn't move it couldn't do it and i finally i got it up moving and just like humped with the thing just dove across the line like it was a dive and i was so bummed out because i had trained that event a lot and like

you know i do a lot with the bags and it really fucking pissed me off it was just a you know it was just just lost the bag running with it um so put dylan who had never worked with the bags probably at all in a situation where he couldn't fuck up though still yeah he still had you still finished i still finished so he had to finish yeah and there was probably still maybe like five seconds yeah short yeah um dylan comes out keg goes fine but still he's moving a little slow um gets the bag he was way winded he really really took him a long time to pick up the bag like like he just i think he just stood over it and looked at it for five to ten seconds before. Like, just thinking, like, how do I pick this up? So I was watching it, and I don't like rooting against a guy.

So I'm just laying there still in, like, a pile. Like, fuck. And I'm watching, and he's taking more time and more time. And I'm like, maybe he's not going to get it. You know, I wasn't like, please drop it. But I was like, maybe he's just not going to get it. I was wondering when he was looking at the bank for so long. I like man this is taking some time like it's he's not gonna like like this is gonna be close now i also did not want to win off of just like no you just fucked

up like i wouldn't have wanted to win that way either but like then he grabbed the bag and he started moving and it was slow but he kept going yeah but the they were they gave the clock thing and i was like it's close he ended up finishing about four or five seconds faster really that was it so if i wouldn't have spent 30 seconds fucking around trying to move that bag i would i would have had it but uh but that was kind of one of those things i mean i totally shit the bed on it so you kind of leave an opportunity like that on the table it is it is their job to come in and take advantage of it you know yeah he did a good job like once he had the bag picked up it was locked it you know like it was like it wasn't going anywhere no no like once he started moving with it i was not concerned that he was going to drop it the only question

was was he going to move fast enough to get there right um and he definitely did. So in the end, Megan won first place in the middleweight. Middleweight women's. Did Ryan place? I don't know if Ryan placed. No, he was just outside of it. Keith got third. He was very close to first. He finished real hot.

Keith and Ryan both did excellent on the, what the hell? Oh, the Conan's Wheel. Yeah, the finished real hot. You know, he, he, Keith, Keith and Ryan both did excellent on the, uh, what the hell? Oh, the Conan's wheel. Yeah. The Conan's wheel. Uh, really good. Like they crushed it. They went around, like around, like Keith almost made two times. So they got first and second in that.

They both did well in that event. And yeah, I think Keith ended in third. And so Megan got first in the middleweight women's. You got first in the heavyweights. And I got second in the super heavy. So all in all, it was a strong showing. Well, I guess we could probably at least address the deal now. I mean, also, so we were there.

Dylan came down. We've competed with Dylan at pretty much every strongman competition we've done. Yeah, he's always there. He's always there in Huron. He's always there at the one we do, the one we put on. So I've competed against him at our event, at Huron's, and at this one. I did at least one year. So I have like four or five times.

Yeah, so Dylan's a pretty familiar face. His family's very familiar. They're always there. or five times you know yeah so so dylan's pretty familiar face um his family's very familiar they're they're always there uh dylan's dad is always there and he's always been really really friendly really nice to us uh you know big shane sat with dylan's old man during uh during the competition in huron and said big shane doesn't sit with anybody big shane does not sit with just anybody that dick and he and he said he said dylan's dad like knew everybody's name and knew who was good at what and uh really really had a good time and uh but uh Dylan's dad and Darwin's his name is

that correct I think so yeah um was actually killed in the car accident about two weeks after that event after this event so um it's really real sad deal for Dylan and his family. So we just wanted to extend our condolences from the Masonomics family. So keep the Knutson's in your thoughts and prayers if you could. Yeah, for sure. So he'll be missed. We enjoyed having him on the sidelines cheering everybody on and all that. And even when you look back at a lot of the pictures we have, he's in the background of every single one of them.

On the gym wall more than anyone else. Because literally in almost every picture on the wall of the gym from a strongman competition, you can see him sitting in the back. And he was a good-sized guy, so you see him right away. It's like, oh, there's Dylan's dad. So I think the one we have is we have the big poster of Big Ross doing the farmer's candles. Yeah. So basically there's two people in focus. Yeah.

There's Ross and then there's Dylan's dad there just grinning ear to ear. So he'll be missed. We really enjoyed having him around. So we extend our condolences to the Knudsen's. On a totally, this is basically impossible to segue from. We've never talked about anything serious before. This is the only time we've talked about anything serious. So I do want to, we're just going to,

since we're not going to run into anything of more significance, I've been looking up a few things lately and I've been trying to, uh, do we want to know what you've been looking up? Is this like, well, no, I, I've been looking at lots of things, but this is a few things that I've been looking up. I've been trying to put together a, maybe a recurring piece of some, some five-star reviews of some really, really terrible fitness equipment that's out there. So terribly apparently really effective okay according to these people so this week's is on the shake weight um i have two five-star reviews on the shake weight and i'm gonna go with the first one for you guys here um obviously everyone knows what the shake weight is. I assume it's the jack off dumbbell.

Um, it's the dumbbell that just has springs in it that you just shake. It's a joke. I hope, I hope that nobody out there has ever seriously, like none of our listeners have ever bought the, I really, I really hope none of our listeners have bought the shake weight, but like lots of people have. You know what I mean? There's a lot of commercials on TV. I can't imagine you're doing that unless you're selling something.

Yeah, for sure. So this one is a five-star review, and I wanted to find some people who the Shake Weight has really impacted their fitness. And this is from Eden Isaac, and he says, capital letters, Great Workout. He said, and he says, capital letters, great workout. He said, so many people make fun of this weight, but anyone who has tried it even once knows that this is a serious workout tool. If you're dedicated and stick with it,

you'll see results so quickly. I love the Shake Weight and don't regret buying it for even a second. I don't use it as often as I should, but even skipping days, I still see results. Imagine if I did it every single day. So, Eden, I'm going to go on a limb and say that maybe you are a serious workout tool. So, what do you guys think? Is that real?

See, that one almost seems kind of real because it's not so elaborate i think it's real yeah it's hard for me to to believe that i have a hard time but i went through a lot of them and i had to settle on some that maybe there were also a lot of people who were like actually i was pretty impressed five stars but i'm gonna leave five stars for like it wasn't it wasn't like a total piece of shit. I figured it would be a complete joke, but it's a whatever. Five stars. Unless it's our podcast. It wasn't broken when it arrived, so five stars.

Yeah, shipping was fast through Prime, so five stars. And now this one I don't think is very serious, but I do like it. This is from P928GTS1. I'm assuming that he must be a junior. Anyway, so he says, better than five-hour energy. Whoa, we're really laying down the product.

He says, this is the best billy club ever. Five exclamation points. No one expects to get hit with a shake weight, but holy crap, it lays them out flat with a head-churning thump. This is the must-have article for those impromptu, gotta-knock-them-out-for-a-long-while sessions. Nothing gets a child support check out a deadbeat dad quicker than a, in quotes, no-you-didn't-wallop-to-the-cranium. Five stars. sport check out a deadbeat dad quicker than a in quotes no you didn't wallop to the cranium five stars what do you guys think the shapeway would actually do like if you use that what what would that i would the purpose really be so it's a foot would work your forearm i could see how you

could maybe get a little older yeah the thing is it's a dumbbell so you would think that you would use it like a dumbbell yeah like some pressing. But they don't. They just hold it and shake it back and forth. So it would make your shoulder... If you did this, your shoulder would hurt. I would think you'd get a mild arm pump from it. At the very least, you're moving your arm. And then maybe you come inside and you go... Did you ever see the South Park episode?

Yeah, yeah. My favorite part about that South Park episode was, if you haven't seen it, you need to watch it, but the Shake Weight basically becomes, was it Stan's dad's wife? I think so, yeah. Is it Sharon? Yeah. It becomes Sharon's emotional affair with it

because it talks. So this one is like, he sits there, but my favorite part about it was she starts to confide in the shake weight and then she shakes it and it spits water out and gives her cab fare to get home but uh but every time she'll come in she'll turn it on and he'll be like like every time your wife would come home you'd be like tell me again about the women who you do not like the women that you work with the The women you work with who you do not like. So every time Megan comes home and is complaining about God knows what,

my answer is always, oh, you should tell me again about the women who you don't like. I'd love to hear it. Speaking of five stars, Tanner, have you checked the old iTunes? No, I will pop it up. I just have this gut feeling that we're going to be sorely disappointed. Well, if you're listening to this, statistically speaking, you probably haven't left us a fucking review because I see the numbers. Yeah, basically less than one in 100 people leave reviews one in 500 maybe one in 500 so you could

be in the top one percent too yeah you contributed yeah to it get on that elite level maybe i haven't looked yet maybe there's a bunch of them there's not one there's not even one like because there's 10 or no there's not one the last one is still the newest one, but I'm going to read one old one that we haven't. Let's see. I'll read two. Better than cereal. I love the hilarious banter. Cereal is a type of breakfast food, if you guys aren't familiar with that at all. Is that that, or was that supposed to be the podcast? It was spelled with an S.

Is that that or was that supposed to be the podcast? It was spelled with an S. I may also be a bit biased, but I really think this podcast is awesome. I love all the Masonomic stuff from the website to the clothing to the videos. Everything these guys do is strong. Man, who left that review? They really bought into the system. Who left them? That one was from Dr. Stone.

Oh, man. I bet he's pretty cool to hang out with. He sounds like I like that review. He's probably also tall and attractive and wears cool hats and isn't trying to hide a hairline issue underneath him. Well, guys, you definitely need to step up your iTunes review game for sure. I don't know what more we can ask of you. Quite frankly, it makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah. Yeah. It's insulting. It's been a year and you guys have been, like, I'm looking at that and I'm reading through those reviews and I'm certain that not a one of those is from my mother, who I know listens to this podcast. But we said that, you said that last week. So maybe.

Maybe by next. Between the time that this comes out. Maybe with the delay, you guys are going to get your shit together. So maybe now she's writing her second review. Yeah, she's like, darn it, I keep writing these reviews every week. But if you're still listening to this, whoever you may be, and you haven't left us a review, we don't really ask for money. This is going to be our recurring segment at the end of it.

It's where we just bitch at you. It's where we just bitch about not getting that. The end of our next review is going to be our recurring segment at the end of it the end of our next review is going to be I really enjoy the podcast except for 10 minutes where they complain about how nobody leaves reviews or at the very least if writing a review really is just outside of your scope of capabilities

you could just say find a friend that might like this podcast and show them how to download or subscribe and let the gift keep on giving find a friend that might like this podcast and show them how to download or subscribe. And then just, you know, let the gift keep on giving to that person. It really is the gift.

Like it keeps on giving every single week. Like you subscribe once and like, it's a tremendous gift. What have I signed up for? It's like one of the, have you guys ever signed up for any of those things where you get like a box of something? I haven't,

but my old roommates used to like, well, for what, what types of things? Like I've never done that. They had a subscription service. box of something. I haven't, but my old roommates used to. For what? What types of things? I've never done that before. They had a subscription service. Is it called game? Was it like weed tools? No, not that exciting.

Game crate or gate. It was something like that. You got this black box in the mail once a month and it would have collectible video game figurine, a t-shirt of some kind, just stuff like that. And then I guess the way it works is like some of them, you know, let's just say there's 10,000 people subscribed to the service, like 1% of boxes would have this one really valuable

thing in it. 5% would have this thing in it. So like you could, you do have this thing. And the one that you get every time doesn't have that. Yeah, pretty much. It's only 1% of the time. You just see on Instagram. Oh, damn.

Some people get really cool stuff, and I got this cup. No, they did actually, to be fair, they did the video game Doom. I did see they got a really cool cup for the video game Doom. I was pretty impressed with it. Okay. In my house, we do subscribe to the dollar shave club okay but it's actually my wife that subscribes to the dollar shave club because their razors are superior so it's a pretty good deal then isn't it cheaper too yeah it is but it gets the point now because like because i don't shave yeah really

ever and um and so she uses it to shave her legs yeah but they send like a five pack every five or maybe like two five packs so you got a shitload of razors so now i've got enough to where i'm like kind of thinking about canceling for like six months yeah yeah but it's so stupid cheap it's like five bucks a month or something like that i've never done any you can't afford to not have it that's big like in the fitness thing there's all these a lot of them mark bell was on there's like strength crate or something like that and they have this shit where they have like five different tiers and so they're like really i didn't even know a month for one all the way up to like 90 bucks a month what but what about just buying what you actually

want well that's what i think about it and like but i suppose it's a way to maybe try it. I know one of the things they had for this one was it came with the spud ink, the farmer's handle strap carry thing. I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. But what if you didn't want that? Yeah. And then you spent $80 and you got this thing that you don't want and a few other things that you may want. Most things are consumables, and there might be a cool pair of socks and then like a big thing and if the big

thing is a miss with you fuck i'd be so mad it's just like if i literally had too much money like where i was like god i don't know what to do with all this money that i've got i would probably subscribe just like oh what did someone surprise me with my money with this month? That's probably the only circumstance which I would do. If I had an amount of money where I'm just like, gosh,

I don't even know what to do with it anymore. I would like to have surprises sent to me that I paid for. I can see how like at a certain point in your life, if you could like contribute

a thousand dollars to monthly subscriptions, it's just like every month, like what did people send me? Like it would start to get pretty fun, you know. Especially if you're like lonely and don't actually have friends. Yeah, yeah.

Join some wine and food clubs, some underwear clubs, some socks. If you're lonely and friendless like the three of us. I also do enjoy that feeling though. Like if I'll have like a mad rash of online purchases. When it all. And then like even if it's little things like i i would encourage everybody to spend like 50 bucks a month on things that are less than ten dollars from amazon from amazon and just like you'll forget if you if

you do it enough you'll be like every that feeling when something is at your doorstep and you forgot what you ordered is my favorite first world problem to be like oh what is this yeah that's uh that's a tremendous feeling at my house though it's uh not ever for you well well when it's it always i put my wife's name on the shipping thing because that's just what's in there yeah so when something comes and the opposite of the fact she has to go through that where she's like oh what was it that i got she like opens it up she's like the total disappointment it's a freaking lifting straps another case of fucking chalk like she'll get mad about it like well then and then you have to answer for the money you're spending on it too there yeah because

now if it just showed up in your name and there was no disappointment from her about it maybe there'd be a little less pushback from like the fuck tanner yeah but when it's in like she also has to go through the rejection of not getting like yeah i thought i was getting something this asshole needs to stop spending money on this shit um do you guys have anything else we needed to get out today? Don't think so. That's about all I have. We have a few things we need to ask of you now that we're done yelling at you about the iTunes reviews. If you listened to us last week,

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that wasn't made by Rogue. Really good interviews, really high quality stuff. It's really funny. A wide variety. Wide variety of people we interviewed. The most popular people at the world. And based on YouTube standards, not very many people are watching it, have seen them yet.

Based on most standards, not very many people have seen them. So we spent an awful lot of time and money putting that stuff together so that you can check it out so if you haven't checked them out go to youtube check them out if you were to tell someone that they just had to watch one which one would you tell them to watch bill kazmaier because we've seen you we've all seen them all now you know we live them and then bill kazmaier's is really good michael hearns is really nice even though the the roundup of everyone is just very entertaining yeah that would probably be the you know, we live them and then we go. Kaz Myers is really good. Michael Hearns is really, even the, the, the roundup of everyone is just very entertaining.

Yeah. That would probably be the one, but aside from that, then yeah, Kaz Myers is pretty good. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to give you two hashtags here and I'm not going to spoil the content here,

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You'll dig them. What else we got? Facebook. Likes on Facebook. Follow us on Facebook. The like-follow ratio is weird. Have you noticed that? Now there is nine people, nine of you, who follow Masonomics.

But don't like the page. But don't like it. Oh, really? I haven't noticed. Yeah, like there's a weird thing. Which is some pretty scandalous shit where you're like, I don't want anybody to Oh, really? I haven't... Which is some pretty scandalous shit. Where you're like, I don't want anybody to know that I'm into this.

But I'm into this. Which is weird. So I'm guessing it's the three of us is all of our side girlfriends, probably. Yeah, there's nine. So anyway, make sure you're not one of those nine. Make sure you actually like the page. But if you want to just follow it, you might as well do that too.

We don't do Twitter. No way. So the website, go to massanomics.com, check out the store. We also have a bunch of articles and whatnot out there. We have our sweet recap of the top 10 CrossFit Games finisher. That's a very professional-looking piece. Brilliant in-depth journalism from us on that one and um go to the store while you're there we got the lift shirt um i don't know if i have this

pulled up we've showed it to you a hundred times but it's pretty much the hottest shit that's out there today definitely um if you don't have one if you don't have one get one for sure this is this is your reminder i've had lots of people ask me about buying them who then haven't bought them. This is your reminder now. Go and get it now. It's awesome. And then, yeah, so as far as the three of us go, you can get a hold of us on Instagram. I'm Tyler.

You can get me at Tyler F. and Stone. That's Tyler EFFINstone. Tommy? You can find me on Instagram at Tomahawk underscore D. And Tanner. The Massanomics Instagram at Masanomics. And that's the way I heard it. And that's the way.

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