Massenomics Podcast - Ep.134: We Got a Calendar

Episode Date: October 29, 2018

The DeFea brothers co-pilot this episode.  There are some interesting turns, but you're not in for much turbulence... and what's this about the Massenomics guys getting their own 2019 calendar with puppies?

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Massanomics Welcome to Massanomics, the world's strongest podcast. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at Massanomics. Make sure you go visit massanomics.com. There you'll find the rest of our powerful content. While you're there, check out our store and buy yourself some of that sweet Massanomics gear. store and buy yourself some of that sweet mass. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 134 of the massonomics podcast. I'm joined with old flying Ryan say what's up. What's up? Today's a pretty historic day. As far as the massonomics podcast goes, it took 134 episodes,

but this is the first one in history where Tyler or Tanner are not present. This is true. Just the DeFabrios this time around. This has never happened. So we're kind of like flying with the autopilot turned off. Anything could happen. This is true. This could be incredibly dangerous.

I guess we will see. This episode could be 10 minutes. It could be five hours. We don't even know yet. Probably somewhere in the middle of those two, I hope. I mean, there's a good chance, but there's no way of knowing. We've never done this before. How could anyone really know?

I don't know. So, you know, obviously we have a lot to cover today. So much. Where to begin? I think the first would be maybe to discuss what type of musical adventure you're going to this weekend. Oh, okay. Headed off to

beautiful Fargo, North Dakota for a Nelly and Juvenile concert. I'm sure back in the day, Nelly was his tickets were pretty expensive but these are like $35, which I don't know. It's not too bad. What's the venue?

Where is it at? The Fargo Dome, I believe. Seriously? Yeah, which I've been there before, and it was for Jim Gaffigan. So, I mean, maybe it'll be as good as that. I don't know. Where's tickets more or less than Jim Gaffigan's? I think they're honestly about the same.

Yeah? About the same. I think they're honestly about the same. Yeah? About the same. But I was looking, and they got a VIP meet and greet for like $175. Do you get to go back on the bus with them? Yeah, you get to go on the tour with them.

So I don't know. That seemed a little excessive, but I think it'll be good. And then it's Halloween weekend, or the weekend before Halloween, so I've got to have a costume. The plan is to go as Johnny Depp. Like Beverly Hills 90210 Johnny Depp? Yeah. No, like what's eating Gilbert Gray? Just some of his really popular roles, right? Yeah.

Or as the guy from Sleepy Hollow? No, probably just. Or as the guy from Sleepy Hollow. Gabon Crane. Which is really weird because in that movie, he's not, like, that's not even close to, like, the original story. Like, in the original story, he's, like, a school teacher for whatever reason. They had to make him into, like, an inspector or detective, whatever they call it in that movie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they changed a lot of it.

I have not seen that one in so long. And then, like, they make it just way more elaborate than it needs to it's like some witch is like controlling the headless horseman christopher walken yeah naturally because she has a skull so she's like controlling him which i don't know i'm not really sure if that actually makes the movie any more interesting yeah it's just i probably haven't seen that i think since i was in seventh grade. Yeah, and I remember then thinking, oh, this is kind of scary. And there's a lot of blood in that movie. Is there really?

Oh, yeah. It might as well be in black and white because I think the only color you ever see is blood. Really? That's about the only color. None of this is coming back to me at all. But you do remember Christopher Walken. I do remember him. And I didn't even know who he was at the time other than he was that guy.

Yeah. He looks pretty spooky in that movie, though. But, yeah. Dressing up as Johnny Depp on Saturday night. I was going to wear the costume to the concert, but. You don't know if you want to attract that much attention to yourself at an LA concert. The St. Lunatics could be around. Could be confusing to a lot of people.

I bet there will be people dressed up, though. Probably. I don't know how there could be. At least in Nelly costumes or something. Everyone has Band-Aids on their face. Who was the guy that would wear the mask, the Phantom of the Opera, that was like Murphy Lee or whatever? Oh, I don't know. I don't know something.

I think he was like one of the only guys out of the St. Lunatics that had a career. When I say a career career he had like a single and i don't even know what it is so i don't think i've ever heard of him so you're talking about you know it is halloween season here have you been watching uh some real spooky movies lately oh geez yeah a little bit um watched like the conjuring i just really like that movie like i i don't know i probably watch it once or twice a year, but I watched that a couple weeks ago. And then in that same day, watched six episodes of American Horror Story. So I felt like by the end of the day, I needed to watch some Vines or something.

Yeah, something to decompress a little. I felt kind of depressed. I was just like, hmm. Did you say it was the newest season? No, I actually have seen little pieces of it. of depressed like it just like what did you say was the newest season no i actually i've seen little pieces of it but the season that i think we were watching was um cult so it's like it was like right after it's like right after the trump election or whatever it's real that that's like probably one of the one of my favorite seasons like the first one the first season is really

good the second season is really good and then that's probably like right up there with those two. Yeah, I have not seen any of them ever. Oh, really? I'm not really the horror genre guy, though. Actually, the last scary movie I watched was It Follows. That's really good. And I would highly recommend if anyone is into like horror scary movies. Yeah.

And you have not seen It Follows, you have to watch that. I love that movie. I've only seen it once. have to watch that i love that movie i've only seen it not it not it the clown movie this is not it right this is it follows yeah and it's kind of like i would say it's sort of it's sort of like an 80s like slasher kind of kind of has that feel but it's the way they the way they go about like the monster whatever is i don't know it's really cool and it's a different concept yeah it's not yeah it's not just like you're straight up just like oh scary guy coming at you like they really mess with like the timing and like just the suspense of it all so yeah that was a good one yeah but that's about as much horror as i ever do yeah but american horror story you haven't you've never

watched the first season no none of them and now there's like the different seasons are kind of like connecting so it's pretty cool it's coming full circle yeah but i wouldn't really even i None of them. And now there's, like, the different seasons are kind of, like, connecting. So it's pretty cool. It's coming full circle. Yeah. But I wouldn't really even, I don't know. I wouldn't really consider that, like, a horror. It's more of, like, a drama with horror elements.

Yeah. Which. Yeah, some thriller parts. Right. I do. Yeah. But good show. Very good show.

I've also been, well, it is, so October, three years ago, I is so October three years ago I think it was three years ago now first season of Making a Murderer came out wasn't that in October and now

yeah I didn't watch it until I think I watched it like like December I watched it so far after you guys it was right around

Christmas time yeah and I remember you guys watching it and I waited and I actually wasn't going to watch it because you guys had told me so much about it. But then finally one day I was bored, and I'm like, dang, this is really good, really entertaining.

And now season two is out, and I think it's only been out for four days. I think it was out last weekend or maybe even the weekend before that. So I've gotten through six episodes. How many is there? Ten? Ten again. Okay, yeah. And I would say if you're a fan of the first one, you know what to expect.

It's more of the same. It is interesting. It could probably be about half as long. Yeah, that is my thing is it seemed like it kind of like – The first one, I never really thought the first one drug on really. I mean, there's a lot of ground to cover and they spent a lot of time in court. I felt like it lost a lot of steam after the halfway point. if anything it just starts to get depressing it's like oh another bad thing happened to them another bad thing happened another bad thing and so it starts to almost just

get like tough to deal with but there was always in my mind it felt it kept my attention the whole time and season two there's not as much going on you know season two basically has to cover what three years yeah where season one had to cover her 20 yeah but i feel like from what i've seen the second season it's more of like it's going back like into the case just because of so much notoriety and like media attention yeah yeah it does some of that but there's also there is like the cool thing is like kind of the new theories and things that you didn't know about at all from the first one that they're digging up so that's that's my favorite part of it but yeah there's other parts like i don't even

really care about the family dynamic as much i just want to be like let's see the new evidence and i don't think anything crazy happens because obviously it would have been in the news if it did so so is brendan dassey still in jail so i thought he was out he was getting out i thought he i actually thought he was out until watching this thing and at least where i'm at in it the state shut down him getting out so he is still in so unless something crazy happens in here again i'm they probably just tricked him again yeah it doesn't take much not far from it um but then i for some reason i've been plowing through tv shows lately. I think it's because. Well, that I was going to bring this up.

I remember when they first started making those Netflix original shows and I was like, I'm not watching any of these because they all look so bad. And then I watched Making a Murder and that was like the first one where I was like, okay, these are actually pretty good and very well done. Yeah. as well like documentary or you know otherwise like the other one that i saw was that um what's the one called with the guy where he robs the bank with the bomb oh the uh evil genius yeah that was really good too yeah that's only four episodes yeah that was like yeah that was like quick and to the most to the point to the end it kind of drug on a little bit but yeah that one was really good too but uh one of the other shows just because so like what i've done is i used to like at night and i think most people probably do this

would just chill on the couch and just whatever's on tv yeah and just like and probably social media and just let social media just be like a two and a half three hour thing mix of social media and tv you know like you're just like that's like your way of just like lounging. And I've kind of like replaced that with like, oh no, I got a list of shows I have to watch because I'm the worst person in the world at actually getting through them. That just feels a little more like meaningful too.

Instead of just mindlessly watching like, oh, it's a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond or whatever. And it was like the same thing. It's like, oh, I could, and I also think a lot of people could do this. I could literally turn on The Office every night and watch it for like two hours. Yeah.

And there were nights like were weeks that would go by. We're just like, just put The Office on. That's kind of my go to. And it's so nice to like have in the background. Yeah. That's like my background. Or like if I'm, I don't know, like, oh, I'm going to take a nap. I'm like laying on the couch.

I'll just put on The Office. Like I was like, I've seen, a nap I'm like laying on the couch I'll just be in the office like I've seen you know I've seen everything some people do golf some people do NASCAR some people do Andy Griffith yeah that's a good one too

yeah it'll put you to sleep you know put you right out newer generations do the office like a light but uh so one of the other shows

recently got through well I did True Detective season 2 what did you think did not like it even close to as Season 2. What did you think? Did not like it even close to as much as Season 1. Did you think it was at least okay, though? It was entertaining.

So here's the thing. If you guys have not seen True Detective Season 1, to me it is easily my top three TV shows of all time. And I guess maybe to give you some perspective on what I consider a really good TV show like that, that and breaking bad are actually probably tied for my top two. I just, I just think, I don't know. They're both really good in their own respect, but like true detective is great because it's,

what is it? 10 episodes, eight, eight episodes. So it's like eight hours. And the last episode is like an hour and a half, but it's just, it just feels like you're watching like an eight hour.

It's a one season. It's just, it's one story. There isn't really, there really isn't any part where you're watching an eight-hour movie. It's one season. It's one story, eight episodes. There really isn't any part where you're like, oh, they just added that to fill up time. Yeah, so I was coming in with really high hopes, and that's just kind of one you're going to be disappointed whenever that happens. But season two started, and there was a lot to process.

It wasn't as good as season one. They just tried to do way too much. They do, and I think that's kind of like, I don, there was a lot to process. It just, it wasn't as good as season one. No. They just tried to do way too much. They do. And I think that's kind of like, I don't know if going into it, they're like, I don't know how we're going to top the first season. So let's just do more, which that's not always better. But I don't know. I just try to think of it as its own show because I mean, it's, it really is.

It has nothing to do, nothing to do with the first season. And, but yeah, they have more characters and you you just go wait like into their families and everything and it just kind of it I would say it just doesn't have much focus yeah it's compared yeah there's just a lot there's a lot that's really all there's to it but then after that one hoping for something a little better, followed it up with The Night Of on HBO. Yeah, I've heard that. And that's really, really good, quick synopsis. This is this guy picks up. He's actually trying to go to a party.

His dad's a cab driver, so he takes his dad's cab to try and get to this party because he didn't have his own car. While he's at – Is this pre-Uber? It must have been. I think it's like four or five years old so i mean but it would have been like right before that right um but while he's on the way there he kind of gets lost he stops for a second this girl hops in the car thinking it's a cab and she's gonna he's gonna take her somewhere he thinks she's like attractive so he's like okay

well i'll just drive you around then um ends up going home with her, spends the night. The next morning he wakes up, and she is, like, brutally murdered in the bed. And he doesn't remember anything to do with it, and he doesn't think he has anything to do with it. So now he's like, I got to get out of here. Like, this doesn't look good for me at all. Because he panics, freaks out, and then obviously, because it's a TV show, he's going to get caught.

And so, I mean, that's all in the first it's a TV show, he's going to get caught. Yeah. And so, I mean, that's all in the first episode. And so then the other seven episodes are what happens. And that one was really entertaining. I liked that a lot. That was a good one. Yeah, I've heard good things about that. So after that, after the little HBO kick, I'm back to Netflix making a murderer.

Yeah. And I did like it. I think it was three years ago this time. Tanner had some snaps. It was making an arm murderer when they were, I think him and Ross were in the gym doing an arm workout. Oh yeah. Yep.

God, throwback. Wow. Yeah. So, uh, anything exciting in the world of, uh,

Instagram these days? You know, you really turned me on to, uh, one channel that casey fry if that if i could make one recommendation oh yeah for one single video it would be his video for dancing dancing to electricity i just think so funny and he has like a stupid number of videos where he's just dancing around. Yeah.

I don't know. He definitely has some type of background. I was going to say, because he has videos where he's like dancing. It's like, oh, like you're not like there's people that dance like stupidly, but it's like you're like really good, but you're also dancing like an idiot. Yeah, he's like hamming it up a little bit, but he's like definitely done some dancing of some kind. He is an entertainer. He is an entertainer. definitely done some dancing of some kind he is an entertainer he is an entertainer and like a really a really wide variety of um like monologues too yeah i like i like the one where it's like uh because i think him and nick colletti live together now oh really because i think because

i know nick colletti and getter live together for a really long time and then nick colletti's like i just want to go do my own thing which i'm assuming is just make stupid videos and not be getter's friend you know and then like yeah so he moved in i think that him and that casey fry guy live together because they always have videos in that like really shitty looking backyard of theirs with that basketball oh okay yeah yeah and that one he has that one video casey fry where he's like uh he like has a british accent and he's like pacing back and forth like yes calling out somebody in the crowd to play soccer. I don't even know what he's talking about. And none of the things make any sense at all.

I don't think he probably doesn't know either, but it's just funny. Yeah. Good videos, good pictures with really good captions, too. Wow, how did you come up with that? So original. So original. Yeah. really good captions too like just wow how did you come up with that so original yeah um we got anything anything in the world of lifting this week anything exciting at all like personal personal i'd personal and or otherwise like oh otherwise i'm like just starting to like just ramp it up from global domination absolutely not like

just like lifting again like squat bench and deadlift because i think that started like two weeks ago because i just could not do i could like bench and that was about it like my lower back was just not working right so this seems to be like a back epidemic going around that's yeah the bacchiatomy doctors i need a bacchiatomy yeah like because it's like me you but you've i mean you've had that problem before i think yeah but and it's already actually we talked about last week and even from last week it's really starting to come around all of a sudden yeah because for me it was just like after the strongman it was like like deadlifting. I was like, well, that makes sense because this is pretty heavy and whatever. And then I remember like being here and I could barely even bend over to like grab a beer.

And I was like, something is not right. Like I've been sore before, but it just feels like my body is not working correctly. And then tried to lift after that. And it was like a few weeks after that. And then tried to lift after that, and it was like a few weeks after that, like my first week on a program, like my sets were like 475, two sets of five on deadlift, which by the second set, I had used straps and the belt, which that's like not a good sign for me,

and they did not feel good at all. And then like the week after that, I was like, oh, I'll try 315 for a couple sets. Couldn't even do that. And then it just went down, down, down after that until I was like, I just have to quit deadlifting for a while. And then went to the chiropractor a few different times. And I think my back was just so out just gradually. Just from maxing out every single day? Every week.

That's what you have to do. No, it was just, yeah, things were just not working right. So I just did that. And now, just like two weeks ago like finally started squatting and deadlifting again so i was like okay i'm just gonna start at 315 on deadlift for like my working sets like two sets of five and then every week i'm just gonna add 10 pounds until until you get to a thousand until like because you can just literally you can literally do that for as long as you can. It's called linear progression.

Not linear regression. No, exactly. So I just started doing that, and everything's been going pretty well. Then same with squats. Just started like 225, like five sets of five, and just added 10 pounds every week. Just trying to get used to some type of lifting routine again. I mean, everything feels fine. Like I feel sore, which is weird.

Cause that's not heavy at all, but yeah. Haven't lifted much. Yeah. Since the summer. So yeah. Let me, it comes back in a hurry though.

Oh yeah. I'm not, I'm not too worried about it. So PRS are just a day away. That's right. Sun's always shining um about you well same old same old yeah yeah yeah there's nothing to report on my end yeah i mean things are getting better though it's it try and hook grip again which i think this is my

second go around really you have tried before yeah and i think i got like the most ever did was like maybe 495 hook grip oh you did actually a lot i feel like a lot of people when they say they're gonna try it they don't even get really past the three plate mark like four four is probably like the limit wait right which then it's just like you could probably do that double overhand so you're you're you might not really even be seen you probably don't even have any kind of technique or like feeling for how it should how it should really even feel at you probably don't even have any kind of technique or like feeling for how it should how it should really even feel at that point you know yeah which i don't really know

because i mean probably a pinch and that's it yeah like oh that hurts which it does hurt it's not good it's horrible yeah but yeah that's about oh you know i totally forgot about this, actually. What? So, Massonomics partook in a little festivity this weekend. I should probably reword that. I was thinking about that when I was driving here. I was like, wow, that was weird. There was a... Tanner... We'll probably have to ask Tanner again when he's back on the show.

How it got started. I don't really know the details of this. It was one of the things where I just literally didn't ask questions. No, I think. And I kind of almost want to ask more questions to really find out the who's wise and what's of this. But apparently Tanner was approached by some local photographers in town about wanting to do a, wanting to get the guys from the gym to take photos for a calendar.

Yeah. And it's like, okay, I don't know completely what that's about, but we'll find out. And so the, and I already am going to mess this up because it's not the humane society, but it's like the local pet rescue, something. Yeah, pet rescue thing. Yeah. So they – I think they have like – they like try to like foster home like dogs.

Which I didn't even know that was a thing, that people foster home dogs. I had heard of it. I didn't – I had no idea it was a thing in Aberdeen. But these people, they wanted to – as a fundraiser, they want to do a calendar with their dogs, which makes sense. People love pictures of dogs and dogs are super cute so yeah that should sell but then the next idea was to uh get the guys of massonomics in with the dogs which could be okay interesting yeah whatever and at first i thought oh yeah maybe

we'll do something kind of stupid and so we just it's just like yeah we'll get 12 guys we'll show up so tanner basically, we have 12 guys. We're going to got to be here at this time. They're going to take these photos. They're going to be dogs there. So I'm like, oh, sweet. I'll grab some Masonomics teas, show up to this place, whatever. And they start asking for like, okay, who's going to be January, February, March.

And we're like kind of joking like, oh yeah, Mr. March, all these things. And they just kind of keep asking random ones. And I wasn't volunteering for any of them yet. So finally, they're like, who is going to be March? And I said, oh, I can do March. Or no, no, it was May, I think. Yep. They said, who's going to do May?

You went first, right? Yeah, so I'm like, oh, I can do May. And they're like, oh, you're up first. I was like, oh, okay, I guess. Yeah, whatever. Well, it kind of makes sense. Like, okay, this dog is ready. This dog is ready this

dog is going to be this month so you're going now i was like oh like the dog wants i don't know how i don't know whatever the owners probably had stuff to do right so yeah okay i may i'll go first all right so what do you guys want me to do like uh just uh stand here with the dog or well um actually we're gonna have the dog uh sitting with you so we want you to kneel on the ground okay um like i have different colored shirts in my car i had a green massanomics shirt on well this will blend in with the background should i change my shirt yeah i'm like yeah i this it's green like didn't even change my shirt oh we just kind of assumed you wouldn't wear one immediately i felt like I was in a sticky situation.

Well, I mean, since you already have your shirt off, you might as well take your pants off. Because now I know how people get taken advantage of in these modeling situations. It's like, well, we just kind of assumed that that article of clothing wouldn't be on. Hey, come on, man. We got a calendar to make.

Are you going to take your clothes off or not? The dog doesn't have a shirt on. So then I was oh well and then of course because 10 other guys are like oh yeah take your shirt off i start getting peer pressured into it so the first photo is i go and sit with this black lab and even the owner was like oh kind of didn't really know about the no shirt thing yeah it's like yeah that makes two of us man and uh like right now i'm not heavy by any means you know i'm walking around at about about 210 these days which is a little on the lighter end for me i wouldn't say that's like calendar photo shoot ready by any means though like that's uh well i could definitely dial it in uh dial in the whole physique a little tighter if I knew I had a photo shoot going on.

Right. I mean, nobody was really ready for it. And that is where I feel like the flaw was in this thing is whether it's the hunks and howls or whatever they thought they were calling it was when you sign guys up from a powerlifting gym, that's usually not where you're getting the best physiques. Like you're catching a lot of guys like caught somewhere between a bulk and a cut. Oh, no. And have been in that state for a very long time. What did they say that one time? Like Tanner, like, oh, yeah, take your shirt off.

Like, I don't know if you want to see that. No, we want to see your muscles. Well, there's a lot of other stuff there too. What did you say? Like, well, there's a lot of other stuff there what did you say like well there's a lot of fat and muscles you'd honestly be surprised how much you can push both yeah it was jenner goes well there's a lot of both i'm like yeah you'd honestly be surprised how much you can do both at the same time and uh yeah i would say outside of grace that no one looks calendar ready no yeah i mean if we had like 12 of him then i'd be like yeah the calendar will look great but that's probably what they were

thinking too yeah like huh well maybe we'll try a different gym next year that's probably probably what it was so now i'm really curious um I just feel like a few of the pictures I see, a few of the photos I saw, at least the guys posing, I don't know if that's going to help sell any calendars. I don't know. Every time I'd open the door, I'd at least have a little giggle. I signed up. They're like, who's going to be in December? I'm like, oh, Larry, you have to be December.

That would be so cool. And then I opened the door, and I just see Larry just sitting there Indian style with this dog on a little sled in front of him. And Larry has a little Santa hat on. I'm like, okay. All right. And there was a lot of that. Clayton with his mustache just laying down on the ground with an Easter basket and a little puppy. What was it not Snickers?

Snickers, yeah. Clayton and Snickers. And so that's where just looking at like the target, like who is going to buy this calendar? Are guys going to buy it? Men are not going to buy a calendar with other men in it. No. I would assume. I shouldn't say they're not going to. Your average man isn't going to buy a calendar with other men in it. No. I would assume. I shouldn't say they're not going to.

Your average man isn't going to. Probably wouldn't want to. Yeah. And, like, kids aren't going to want this calendar. No. God. I don't want to be. Yeah.

So kids aren't going to want this calendar. So I would also assume when we say kids, females between the ages of like 18 and 30 aren't going to want this calendar either. So now people that are going to want this calendar are women between the ages of like 30 and 70, maybe. That probably like dogs. That also want to support rescue efforts for dogs it's a very

niche market but yeah i mean that's kind of what you got to play too so there could be some really really i mean it could be there will be some really interesting photos floating around up there eventually yeah i'm just thinking about that now guys with dogs and they may or may not have shirts on and not be physique calendar ready. I mean, what does that really mean anyway? We have always joked around that there needs to be a men of massonomics calendar. So we're glad that actually kind of happened. It wasn't even by our own doing. It happened.

Someone else really did the work for us. We kind of just showed up and got to rag on each other for, you know, like an hour or so while people took photos. Man, they're going to be really interesting when those photos come out. Yeah, that's a good one. And I'm curious, like, it could be really cool if they totally went over the top with it, you know, like old school where they have like our face like faded, like watermarked into the background, you know, like into the clouds. Because, I mean, we're like full on on like the cheesy backdrops and everything. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. But I don't know if they'll push it that far. It goes right back to the thing of, actually, that's probably the biggest kicker with this is I really want to see, like, who is buying this. You know, we have our educated guests in, but maybe we'll get surprised. They'll be handing them out at the elementary schools. Stay in school, kids. This could be you if it doesn't.

Just a warning of what's to come. Don't lift weights. Don't join a gym with 30 other guys. It could be your downfall. It could be the last mistake you'll ever make. But the guy that does go to the gym a lot and doesn't seem to have any downfalls is Larry Wheels. And normally we have a little segment on this show called, you know,

lifts of the big lifts lifts of the week where we like to talk about what's been happening and slowly that's kind of to me has transformed into what's larry doing this week larry's pr of the week city and um because it is another week another week has gone by since the last podcast that means that larry has not one but two prs this week. Oh, yeah. Yep. Because you had one up there, and then I was like, well, what about this one?

Yeah. Today. And, I mean, just why not? Like, I think we're going on a month, over a month now, of Massanomics reporting Larry PRs every single week. Right. And this week being no exception, the first one he had was 775 on uh on the squat for a set of three and for larry i think his caption said huge pr and um that wasn't in sleeves i think it was all right that wasn't in wraps it was just in sleeves and 70 75 for a set of three is always big uh i'm sorry for a set

of five is always big uh there are guys out there'm sorry, for a set of five, is always big. There are guys out there that squat more, but Larry, that's probably his worst lift of them all. Yeah, I'd say so. I mean, when your worst lift is 775 for a set of five and squat, you're so far ahead of everyone else. But, yeah, that was like, yeah, okay, yeah, he hit his PR for the week. Larry's doing good. And then was it just today?

Yeah, I mean, it was posted today. It could have been older than that. We'll say very, very recently. He had 6.05 for a set of three on bench. Right. And that's crazy. Like a set of three? I don't know.

that's crazy. Like a set of three. I don't know. Like that one's getting into really, really, really exclusive territory. I don't know. Like anytime you, like you see somebody even benching over 600.

I know that's the thing. Cause like, like, okay. Seven 75 squat, seven 75 squat. Like, yeah,

that's huge. But also you can go on Instagram and hop around and you'll find those. They're out there. I don't know. Outside of like kiro like yeah like maybe that lw the machine right um but i don't know who else is even even capable of that right now there's probably one or two guys that i'm missing but so that brings us to a grand total of like four yeah i would say there's but i don't know who's gonna do that unless you're benching like 700 plus oh you'd have to be i think he tried to do didn't he try to do like 696 or something like about a month ago

and i don't even remember it was really really close so i mean that just makes you think like yeah he probably will be able to bench at least close to 700 in a full meet. And it's, it's gotta be like in the next year, like assuming no major injuries happen, it would be shocking if he wasn't benching 700 plus in the next year. Right. Which he, I mean, he did have like those, like wraps around his elbows, which, yeah. And I don't know how, I've never wrapped my elbows. I don't know. I've never even worn elbows And I don't know how. I've never wrapped my elbows.

I don't know. I've never even worn elbows. I don't know how much they assist. I could see. I mean. He was also wearing glasses too. That could be something there. I've also never worn glasses.

So maybe that's what I'm missing out on. Don't do it. But yeah, that did not. It did not. Do you ever lift with your glasses on? I have before. I feel like you don't see people lifting glasses very often. Like Steve Gentile does a lot.

And out of all the sports you could do in glasses, when I say sports, I mean that pretty loosely. But lifting seems like it would be the easiest thing to do in glasses. Yeah, I mean it really is. And I'm saying this as a person that has never had a pair of glasses. Yeah, I just feel like with deadlifting, they would just fly off my face. Like when you're going down with the bar. I feel like they would just go whoop.

Yeah, I suppose. But if you get them strapped really tight to the back of your head. If you had some straps on, because you gave her the old strap on, you'd probably be good. What's it? Froggies or whatever?

Are those the straps? What are the straps called? Oh, um... Jubs. Jubs, yeah. Right? No, are those the straps? What are the straps called? Jubs. Jubs, yeah. Are those the shorts? I don't know. I know what you mean, though. You get them at Walmart. It's kind of like

a summer neoprene. I was just there the other day and they had I've never even seen them at Walmart. It's the neoprene strap for your glasses. When you're on the beach or the boat having a good time, you can just tip your glasses right off your face. Sipping on some Michelob Ultras.

You know, some crispy cold boys. Just put out the vibe with those things. But no, I, oh, God, that's like the last thing I don't like doing anything like that with glasses on. Not comfortable. But Larry Wheels can do it, so don't listen to me. He tends to be the exception over the rule though. That is very true. That is very true.

Yeah. I mean, he's, he, what is he lives in LA now, which makes sense. Yeah. I wonder how the LA life is going.

Cause I watched, he had like some, he's like doing, I don't know if he, I don't know. I think he was doing vlogs or something before, but he had like a video of his apartment, which looks really nice. Does it?

Yeah. What's the stadium, basketball stadium? Staples Center. Yeah, he looked out the window. He lives in the Staples Center? He lives inside of it on the basketball court. No, he looked down, and it was like just, yeah. So now you know exactly where he lives.

We could go visit at any time. Yep. Open for business. But, I mean, all that money, I mean, he made from powerlifting. So, and only powerlifting. It's just $19.99 at a time he made his fortune. I wonder how much money he's made from those programs. Oh, I would guess thousands easy.

Oh, yeah. If not tens of thousands. Oh, I would say even more than that. Yeah. Yeah, you have to. It's just like doing the math, though, on here. 20 times. Let's just, well, if you start moving out zeros, what he sold.

I guess if he sold 1,000 of them, that'd be $20,000. Yeah. And he's definitely sold 1,000 of them. Oh, easily. Yeah, you put that into perspective. It's like, oh, yeah. I would say he's made at least sold 1,000 of them. Oh, easily. Yeah, you put that into perspective. It's like, oh, yeah. I would say he's made at least $200,000 from that. You think so?

I bet. You think he's sold 10,000 of those? Maybe. How many followers does he have? Does he have a little over half a million? I cannot remember. Check. I think he's like.

I would say he's around 400,000 followers. I think I'm pretty sure I looked the. Check. I think he's like... What's he looking right now? I would say he's around 400,000 followers. I think... I'm pretty sure I looked the other day. For some reason, I thought he was over 500,000. Larry Shuck or Larry Wheels. Oh, yeah. That's what the problem was. You're thinking of that guy.

535,000. 535. So, it's probably a safe bet that if you haven't heard of... If you don't follow Larry on Instagram, you're probably not buying his program. Right. Because I don't even know how you would even know that exists outside of that. No kidding. But, yeah, if one in a thousand people bought him, that'd be $500.

Yeah. He sold 500 of them. That's $10,000. $10,000, yeah. Which, I mean, I would assume he's made at least that much money from it which in the grand scheme of things it's not a ton of money but it's also a lot of money to make from doing like i think he made the spreadsheet once i was gonna say that's a very passive income it's not like he's checking in with all these people and like yeah you also

have to assume though that he's not advertising it all the time. If he's not selling them, like if people literally were just not buying it, what do you think he would have moved on to the next thing or changed it up? True. I mean, it's in literally all of it. It's in every single one.

So you got to just assume that he is kind of, I mean, selling a few programs a day at the very least. Well, it's enough to live across the street from the Staples Center. That's right. He's onto something there. If you saw anything enough for $19.99, you could live there too.

I wonder when the last time he had an actual job is. I bet never. Really? I bet he's never had a job. How do you think he's made his money then this whole time? I don't know. I feel like three years ago he was known for being strong, but it was nowhere near what this is.

Probably lived with his mom. I guess. Do you remember that? Do you ever watch that Animal video where they're interviewing him? And I don't know. Maybe he was with Kevin Oak, or maybe he was just by himself. But it was like he was like eight. Like it had to have been like right around like 18.

Like he was probably like 18 or maybe 19. And it was like they're asking him about. they went to the gym with them and then lifting is like obviously really strong and then i asked him about like future plans he's like oh when i'm whatever this age i'm gonna join the military oh really yeah so like so that took a turn then that obviously didn't happen but i don't know know. I mean, I just don't know. I don't know. I mean, I guess when you're him, though, you have so many eyes on you, he can probably just literally make his living just being him at this point. Oh, yeah, that's what I, like, he'd be an idiot not to go to L.A.

because, I mean, it's like, okay. Well, and then it's like like whatever he's always at Zoo Culture so yeah like Bradley gives him the handoff on the 605 it's like that's like that's just being around him it's like yeah Bradley Martin just makes his living doing Bradley Martin things right like I still follow him on YouTube but he doesn't really put out a ton of stuff do you uh have you listened to any of his podcasts? A little bit. Not really, though. The culture cast. Is that what it's called?

Yeah. I think that Mason Cervantes guy more or less kind of is the actual like when you want to say the showrunner, like the like the host. Oh, see, I went through on YouTube the other day and watched a few of them. And it was just him. Oh, really? OK. I was saying the ones that I saw. It seemed like he was kind of more.

I saw he had no jumper on his. Oh, really? Okay. I was going to say, the ones that I saw, it seemed like he was kind of more. Because I saw he had no jumper on his. Oh, Adam 22. Yeah. Yeah. He had him. Him and his girlfriend were on his. And then he had, bro science, Dom. Dom Mazzetti.

Yeah. He had him on the other day, too. Actually, he doesn't do that. I mean, I think in the last, like, several months, he's done, like, five or six. He doesn't do a whole lot. I guess if there's some, like, the last one that I remember's done like five or six he doesn't do a whole lot yeah i i guess if there's some like the last one that i remember watching was like steve gentile and who was the other guy i don't know just it was like oh two power lifters i'll watch this and that was the

last one that i kind of watched yeah that's what i actually didn't even know he did a podcast i thought maybe you told me one time and i completely forgot about it and then somehow i don't know it was on instagram or YouTube, whatever. Right. I just ran across that. He had them and I'm like, Oh,

is this just him? And that's when I just, I literally had to just scrub through for a few seconds just to see like what it was about. I'm like, Oh yeah, he is actually like talking about stuff outside of just, actually from what I could tell, he didn't talk about lifting at all on him.

Yeah. But I guess it depends on the guests too, probably. Right. That is very true. Any other podcasts you've been listening to? Not really. No, on the podcast?

You moved on to other mediums? No. Just Kindles? Kindle books? No, I haven't read a book in... I think the last book I read was No Country for Old Men. Have you ever seen that movie? Oh, yeah.

That movie and the book is super good. That's probably one of my favorite books. But that was like two years ago. I forgot how to read since then. I think so. I don't know. I'm too scared to try again. Just been gaming.

Oh, the gaming world. uh it's a pretty exciting time i've heard from several people right now yeah i well the new call of duty just came out which that is like the first call of duty game that i've even thought about buying since like modern warfare 2 or whatever that one was or world well maybe world at war was the last one that i actually that when we were like in high school or whatever probably that was like the first one that like was like modern warfare yeah that was i think the last that or world at war was the last one that i remember buying and after that just like oh so this is the same thing every year and it is but this one has a battle royale mode so which is a huge trend right now just 100 player multiplayer which it is 100 is fortnite 100 player yep oh it is i thought it was like 64 for some reason yeah

so but i would say that out of all the battle royale games like fortnite pub g and then call of duty um black ops 4 those are definitely the biggest ones and i haven't played call of duty but it looks it looks really fun i just wish they would come out with like a mode or like the gamers like the battle royale mode for 20 it's like i don't want to play the story mode and i don't want to play the 16 player multiplayer either so it's like yeah you just get roped into buying the whole thing yeah so and i would imagine that's what most people are buying it for oh definitely yeah because that's well they're they're smart to do that because that's just the trend in gaming right now is

put a battle royale mode on it like so i don't know but and then uh i've also heard a lot of people talking about red Dead Redemption 2. Yeah, which that is. Did you ever play the first one? I did. Well, I played Red Dead Revolver on the PlayStation 2. Oh, yeah, yeah. I forgot about that.

A long time ago, but I haven't really played any of the other ones since. But that was rumored to have a Battle Royale mode at launch also. Really? Yeah, because that was like probably six months ago i mean it could be cool but i just didn't know pub g train we're like just taking off and it's like hey people are gonna play it you might as well make it like yeah might be kind of crappy and it's kind of more like that game is like like a grand theft auto yeah so i don't think like with the third person like kind of like auto auto aim thing like

i don't know how well that would translate into a hundred player battle royale isn't that what fortnite is though not auto aim oh i just like just third person yeah yeah like that's not there's like yeah i don't know but um i don't know and then i but i've heard that they're gonna that it might be coming out like later in the months coming, the Battle Royale mode. So who knows? But that's just strange to me to think about that. That's just such a trend right now.

And who knows how long it's going to last? Because, I mean, this whole 16-player, whatever, multiplayer thing was just so big for so long. It'll soon be the next rock band everyone will hate it yeah i don't even they still make those i don't well that's what's weird too it's like how do there's at it's at the point now where there are like we grew up with like guitar hero and rock band like that was like that was coming out that was coming out we were like the target the prime buyers for like high school kids with nothing to do just playing those games non-stop and then like into college

like rock band came out so it's like you have all these friends that just need stupid things to spend money on together yeah yeah have no money but somehow manage to spend you know 200 on a video game and like we'd play that for a stupid amount of time and now it just like completely fell out of popularity and it's the point where it's been close to 10 years since those games have really had any notoriety so it's at the point where there's definitely kids now that have never played those oh oh yeah you know and they were entertaining games definitely you could you could make a lot of arguments for if you're going to spend that much time playing a pretend instrument, you might as well learn to play a real one.

But you could make that argument with anything with video games, though. If you're going to jump on turtles, you might as well do it in real life. Exactly. But yeah, so it's crazy just to think that like that. It seems like at some point it's going to come full circle and be super popular again again i don't know i don't know how it could be people like pretending they're doing something real yeah absolutely yeah so it's all one big game of pretend i mean you remember the game crazy taxi it's like who the hell i do i have a taxi cab let's make it into a fun game everybody wants to play it now and we'll have two songs by The Offspring as the soundtrack.

Yep. And I'm an Uber driver. Yep. Playing The Offspring for two Offspring songs. It was all because of Crazy Taxi. Well, do we have anything else? I don't think so. We've covered the entire world of Masonomics.

I guess we should say we have to hope a speedy recovery for tanner he's oh he's got a little fever he's he's got sick he's got a fever and cowbell is not even curing this one it's yeah yeah he's been sick like off and on for over a week now i thought maybe he was coming out of it and then it sounds like today is maybe the worst it's been well yeah i got i got a snap from him last night, and it was like a 100-degree fever. Time to catch a pun. Jax. Oh, I think it was like 102-degree or 103-degree, wasn't it?

YouTube channel or whatever. Yeah. It was elevated. I haven't been sick like that in a long time. It hit me hard twice this winter, this past winter. The diarrhea? All of it. All of it. It was just

I was pretty sure that's what dying felt like. Actually, no, I don't think some people die that painful. It was I was hurting hard, but here I am today. Stronger man. Better for it. So, yeah, we'll I am today, stronger man. Better for it. Yep.

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