Massenomics Podcast - Ep.136: Protein Packin' Fast Food

Episode Date: November 12, 2018

We run down our list of ten protein packed menu items from some of the most popular fast food restaurants. These might not all be the healthiest options (might actually be the most unhealthy), but they are high in protein damn it!

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That is correct. 136 of the Massanomics podcast. Your hosts are here, Tanner and Tommy. What's up? So you just got back from a foosball game, is that right? The old foosball, yeah. I did go to a Vikings game this weekend. I've been to six Vikings games over the last probably eight, ten years.

So have you been to U.S. Bank Stadium? I have been to U.S. Bank Stadium before. It is one of the cooler, whether you're a fan of sports football anything just admiring the architecture of it yes it's like it's hard to comprehend even like your brain doesn't see things like that especially where we live i mean your brain doesn't see anything bigger than like a three-story building yeah but um to see something of that size and just the design of it, it's incredible. It is hard. Just like you said, when you're inside, especially the first time you walk in and you look up, looking up, I feel like it just doesn't even make sense.

No, it doesn't. You're like, oh, there's people up there, that thing that peaks up. There's all these shapes and different materials and lights and fire and it's just it's a lot to process yeah you can add a front row seat but yeah this is you know out of all the out of all the pro sports events i've ever been to this one easily takes the cake and uh the the thing that makes it so awesome is the seats that we had and And it's not just like, oh, yeah, we had good seats themselves were 30-yard line, like 10th row, which, I mean, yeah, NFL game, that's pretty awesome seats. But it's what comes with those seats. And in this case, if you ever watch a Vikings game on TV, a lot of times you'll see players coming out of a locker room.

They come out of the locker room, but it looks like they walk into a bar, there's like people there they're giving them high fives and it's like what are they walking through and that is what these seats were like they include this package where you can be right there with the players and if you don't want to watch the game from your seat you can go to ground level and you can stand it's like 10 feet behind the bench and just hang out and chill and like i mean the players are right there. You can hear them talking. It's, it was really awesome. And then the other perk too, is that these tickets also come with all you can eat and all you can drink.

So, you know, to go to a, to go to a sporting event and not be like shelling out 10, 15 bucks for beer to just be like, oh, it's, it's included. Let's do this. And so then with the beer was the beer was free, beer was free. And so, you know we got get there it goes from two hours before the game all during the game to an hour after so like i put down i would have taken advantage of the full thing oh yeah i did i had french toast and sausage i had brisket nachos i had wings i had turkey they had like thanksgiving turkey

at that point had shrimp cocktail. It's like a buffet. You can choose not to even finish it. You're like, yeah, I don't care. They had these, I don't even know, it's like some weird cooked bananas with the French toast. You want these? I'm like, sure.

I took one bite. Those aren't good. But people serve it up to you. Shrimp cocktail. There's just coolers of ice cream bars. When you go to a gas station and you see a cooler of ice cream bars, they had those, but you just took whatever you wanted. So it's like, oh, I'll try

these out. And if you want soda, like Mountain Dew syrup, whatever it is, there's just coolers. You just grab whatever you want out. No one's there to stop you. Oh, brats, hot dogs, got all that. If you want peanuts, popcorn, any of those that um if you want peanuts popcorn any of those things there's just like bars set up with those things and just scoop out what you need like you're at

a bar you know uh so i mean you're taking care of when you go were you full by the time that you left or between the alcohol and the food yeah it was it was it was. Yeah. But I wouldn't have it any other. You're not going to go to that and be like, oh, I really had a lot of self-control today. I didn't go off the rails. Especially when you're not the person that goes there like every weekend, every game. When you're like, this is like a big deal to go to that, you know you're going to take like full advantage of everything. And even the seats, the seats are wider. You have more legroom.

They're padded. The stairs, like normally at a stadium, the stairs are like you're climbing up. It's like, I don't know, was it a three- or four-inch step for each stair? But then you just have that much more room that you're spaced out from everyone. It was really, really awesome. So if you ever go to a Vikings game at U.S. Bank, make sure you get the tickets. It's for the Delta Sky Club or something like that. Just make sure you get those ones.

You're good. You'll have a great time. Whether you care about the Vikings or not, you'll have a great time. Right. Another cool thing here are these shirts that we got. Ooh, yeah. We always love it when we get free stuff. But when it's free stuff from someone you kind of care about yeah

that's even better and this is from uh our friends at the alabama contingency this is uh less keys strength systems shirts uh it's kind of a a heathered a darker heathered gray yep and on the back signature less keys strength system look. The less with the keys hanging from the ass. With the keys. I like it. I like it. And I haven't worn this yet, actually.

These came in the mail like maybe yesterday. Oh, did they? I was saving the unveiling for the podcast. Yeah, you showed up with this box or this bag. I was wondering what we had here. Whenever we get stuff like that, I always like to save the... The unboxing. The unboxing. Yeah, for the podcast. Yep, these are awesome. Yeah, so thank you. we had here whenever we get stuff like that i always like to save the the unboxing yeah for the podcast yeah these are awesome yeah so thank you uh thank you everybody in alabama yeah so less

uh coaches quite a few power lifters down there i don't know if he i'm not sure if he does like online coaching or not i've never really seen that he advertises for online coaching i think it's all basically you know in person uh coaching for the gym members there as far as but it's a lot of people yeah it has a lot a lot of really strong guys too he coaches a lot of really strong guys yes like a lot of 700 plus squats a lot of 700 plus uh deadlifts that perseus and uh legend of the tank i'm not sure what tank's name is i guess for sure but i don't know either it's really strong uh mr bacon and beer bells of course jonathan oldham naturally uh he squatted a pr in his last meet yeah it was like seven seven eleven

seven eleven yep and it looked pretty easy too. And I think something happened on one of his prior attempts. He got called for depth, so he didn't go up quite as much as he would have maybe on his third. So it looked like there was a good 10, 20 more pounds than that in there. Makes it fun for the next meet. It's the Alabama. We call them the Alabama contingency. Because you've got to have a nickname for a group of people, you know. And it just fits so good.

Yeah. So, yeah, those guys are awesome. And that's at what, Diamond K? Yeah, Diamond K Powerlifting CrossFit Irondale is the gym that they're at. So I guess if you're ever in Irondale, Alabama. Is that what it actually is? I think so. Okay.

Pretty sure that's what it is. I don't know if it's just a catchy name for the CrossFit gym. No, I'm just trying to think of the packages that we've sent out there. Actually, I'll be able to tell you. Are you looking at your notebook of everything you've ever sent? Well, Les lives in Trustville,

but I'm pretty sure that some of them It's probably all connected. It's Alabama. It's the South. I don't know how things work down there. With all their crazy accents and such. You know, we never really hear the guys. Do we just hear them yell? I'm curious, like, if they do have that thick Southern accent or not.

If I remember right, I don't think Les is actually from. Yeah, I think he's from New York or something. Yeah, so he probably doesn't. But I'm pretty sure some of the other ones do have a pretty good accent. It's just funny because I don't picture that at all. No. But I don't even know, which is the funniest part. It's like I have no idea.

I mean, for all I know, they don't even speak English. Yeah, we wouldn't know. I don't know. Yeah, we wouldn't know. They know how to say, yeah, and let's go, which is all you need to say. What more is there? You know, today is also. Oh, yeah, so thank you.

Thank you, Les. Yeah, thanks, Les. Very important today, Tanner. Did you vote today? I rocked the vote. Did you rock the vote? Yeah. That makes two of us.

Yeah. Two rocking the votes. It's every little bit matters. Should we go over the ins and outs of the South Dakota initiated measures? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what... And potential amendments to the Constitution. No. What was...

There was one... They were almost all uninteresting to me. Yeah. I'm not strongly opinionated about any of it but there's there's one that was interesting about uh tobacco attacks on tobacco where i was just just reading it i was like oh this one's interesting like at least i'm sure there's some people that are strongly opinionated one way or another i'm sure they're just doing what i would guess for the most part most other states have done is just let's keep taxing cigarettes

just keep taking money from people that want to buy cigarettes because those people deserve to not have money i guess seems to be the general consensus that's kind of what it is like because what did say they're already taxed at like 57 yeah but then the crazy and i we don't smoke so i don't even really like i'm not in tune with that stuff at all but then for comparison i remember seeing something like you can go to like i think a pack of cigs is about six bucks in south dakota i don't i think it said you can go to north dakota and get the same one for like 375 or something like that just because they haven't done the crazy keep taxing it thing but yeah who knows

we might have a new governor right now we just we don't even know yet so when do i mean do that i don't know like at the state level do they get them like counted up today or i don't know if you find out the day i feel like you find out the day of yeah tonight probably unless it's super close that's about how much we know yeah yeah i was like i'll start doing some research on this today and i was like whoa like this is a lot tougher to actually find out because these people don't have like big websites and their policies aren't like it's not like a big election when you're doing especially if you go anything but lower than the governor level like the governor level is like okay i'll google i don't know are any of these people really that different i'm assuming just i'm assuming neither one of them are terrible people and

they're both probably competent at their jobs, so does it really make a difference? Especially when you're talking local. I mean, it probably does, but you've got to assume. But to you or I, but this is what I think. It probably makes a difference to someone. Does it really make a difference? Do you think any of them will make, even Governor, do you think in the next few years something will happen that's like i feel like with governor you're just looking at like how much buddy buddy

are they with other people to where they can kind of keep things rolling in their favor but outside of that like when people start talking about like health care initiatives and stuff like you're really gonna you can really reverse what's going on at the federal level. Right. I don't know. And like, I don't follow it closely. If something changes or, or I guess I don't know well enough to know if I'm missing, like if something's not good, if something's adversely affecting me, I'm not thinking that the other person would be making it change differently. me i'm not i just think that the other person would be making it change differently at the state level there's probably something and someone that's way more in tune with us could

probably tell us but i can't think of anything in like the last 10 years that's been like that's actually changed how my life is on a daily basis you know there's been people there's been scandals and stuff of people stealing millions of dollars and things like that but as far as like this guy did it something this guy or gal did something and now my life is just so much better like i'm making more money like a tax like it just seems like it doesn't exist and like if if they want to pass a law that uh we're paying another half of a percent of sales tax and it's affecting massonomics as a business or something like that i don't care like if if that's what the majority of people decide is uh i guess like if that's what's needed

i get okay i think a lot of people are on the principle of like it's a slippery anything yeah tax is always a slippery slope it's the principle like right and yeah it's like because i would generally like be a little against increasing tax. But at the same time, if, if people really feel like that, uh, you know, maybe it's a half of a penny and it helps out teachers or something like that. Okay. We might've stopped my half a penny that's going to garden. Right.

I'm like, all right, I guess. Yeah. It's because at the end of the day, it's not really still affecting me that much. I know. And that's what's so annoying about politics. And someone's going, no, they're going to take your money, and they're getting rich off of it. Which they probably are. I don't know.

That's politics for you. In a nutshell. In an astronomics nutshell. That is literally the most we've ever talked about politics on this. Without going into really any detail. We'll keep it that way. I would say, though, this. Did you have to wait in line very long?

No, not really. I didn't have to wait in line like at all, which was nice. I did see a lot of things on the news of people saying, turnout is crazy waiting in line, but not around here. Nope.

In and out, no problem. Nope. So, now that we've got of that out of the way, should we get to today's main feature? Yep, we better. And if you guys don't know the general outlay of the Massanomics podcast by now, we talk about some stuff that's going on in our lives or the world. And then we follow that up with some more stuff.

That's maybe. Yeah, and then we like to wrap with some more stuff yeah that's maybe stuff yeah and then we then we like to wrap it up with uh something about larry wheels and will this episode be different than the form will it break the format i don't know probably not but you'll have to find out uh but what we're going to talk about we pumped out an article here and i meant to bring it up it was written written by Professor Shanz. He's been on the Massanomics podcast here a few times, a member of Massanomics.

And what did he go through? A list of fast food joints that... Just if you're looking for some protein in a fast food meal, what are your options? Now, we're not saying any of these are healthy. They have protein in a fast food meal what what are your options now we're not saying any of these are healthy they have protein in them but outside of that just like what what comes with you know if you want a meal at a fast food joint with 80 grams of protein what what can you expect to go with that and uh he did uh uh as far as massonomics goes some pretty deep research yeah and he scoured the uh the uh ins and outs of fast food places to come up with some interesting answers for us yeah and it ended up basically being a list he kind of took 10 of the more popular fast food joints and each of those 10

he picked the highest protein uh thing that he could find from their menu. And this wasn't like going with some crazy thing like, oh, ask for five patties. He was pretty much just following what's on the menu. And I know at a lot of places you can ask for some custom things. We kind of stuck with what they're giving you for options.

We'll probably go through each one and we'll say if we've had it and where it ranks on us. But big caveat, like you said, this is not intended to be super healthy. So read the article. There was some confusion on that. This is not a nutrition guide article. This is more like a joke like, oh, you got 80 grams of protein.

You also got six grams of salt. 8,000 calories. So this is just to show like how bad you're kind of getting screwed over on these things. But I would say right now, if you haven't read the article, go online, read it. It's really funny, really entertaining. It is entertaining. And you might find a few things on there that you'll decide you need to be ordering next time you're at one of these places. Or like wonder, you might know why you feel a certain way after you eat some of these things now.

Yeah. So kicked off the list at number 10 with Chipotle, and he found the chicken burrito, the basic rundown, 480 calories, 16 gram of fat, 40 gram carbs, 39 gram protein. And that one, Chipotle, Qdoba, a lot of times you can ask, if you really want to go crazy you can ask for another scoop of meat yeah you can almost double your calories there yeah you can that's probably I'm assuming what did that one say like 400 and some calories yeah 480 I'm assuming there's probably

like not sour cream and guac and all that stuff on there and rice but like if you start to really dump those things in you can push that over a thousand calories pretty easy but as far as food quality goes that's probably one of the best on the entire list. I think so. As far as not just consuming straight up garbage. Right. I feel like Chipotle, Qdoba, those places, the ingredients, the chicken looks like chicken. It seems like, yeah.

It seems like, I wish I could make chicken like this at home. Well, you can literally see them making chicken breasts in the back. Yeah, exactly. So the ingredients just seem like real whole foods that you're consuming for the most part. I'm still not advocating that it's the healthiest thing in the world, but I sure like it. Yeah. So this one, I'm more of a Qdoba person than a Chipotle, but I like item number 10. 39 grams of protein.

Not a bad start. No. Not a bad start. So number nine, we're sticking south of the border as long as we're there. We're going to stay down there. Voted number one Mexican restaurant in the United States. In the world, I think. Most authentic.

Yeah. Taco Bell, the XXL stuffed steak burrito. Are you a Taco Bell? Do you eat Taco Bell, Tanner? I, in certain moods, I do not eat it regularly, but I go there a couple times a year because in certain moods, I really crave it. It's just like, I want Mexican food, but I don't want it to be good. I want it to be shitty. Yeah.

Like, that's literally, actually, we have the same, like, sometimes, you know, you'll wake up kind of hung over on a saturday it's like oh we need to get food yeah like i really want like a crunch yeah you list like the real mexican restaurants in town but you're like i need something like crappier something not so like real something that you almost don't even choose yeah it's like more like garbage to like really match my mood right now and that's when taco bell comes into the equation and it's like more like garbage to like really match my mood right now and that's when taco bell comes into the equation and it's so great it is that's exactly how i look at taco bell too and i mean if i was just a complete fat bastard and didn't care at all about anything i guess i'd eat it more often i could just put down chalupas all the time it's

cheap there is a thing though i don't know if you've gone through the drive-thru recently in our town but you can be stuck in that drive-thru anywhere between 10 and 35 minutes. It's a total. I mean, you could brown. You could defrost hamburger in the microwave and brown it faster than that drive-thru takes. It is insane. I've never been in one that slow.

So the XXL Stuffed Steak Burrito, 840 calories, 36 grams of fat, 88 carbs, 40 grams protein. Just a little bit more than the Chipak Burrito, 840 calories, 36 grams of fat, 88 carbs, 40 grams protein. So a little bit more than the Chipotle burrito. And I think it depends on that person that's working that day, how much meat they decide to scoop into that. Your 40 might vary a little bit there on the grams of protein. Yeah. Damn, the fat and carbs are way up in comparison to the proteins, like identical to Chipotle, but the fat and carbs are way up in comparison to the proteins like identical to Chipotle, but the fat and carbs are way up.

So that means you're getting not really any more steak. You're just getting a lot more. Just a lot more calories. And maybe we should talk about some of our favorite highlights from Sean's rounds up here. But he does link to, if you remember a few years back, there was a claim that taco bell's meat was only like 35 percent meat i remember i think it was on like the cobert rapport back in the day they were talking about like yeah it's only 35 percent meat like one of the biggest

ingredients was silica which is like found in beach sand it's like taco bell's meat is more beach sand than it is meat and it like a direct quote from sean's on this i don't even know how that's possible that's like saying the chair i'm sitting in is only 68 percent chair what else is it so yeah can you really trust the protein of a burrito that's only 65 percent burrito yeah right um i i have ordered this once oh i've had it several times. Yeah, and I ordered it once, and I had a really bad experience. There was, like, I ate the first half of it and never had a bite of steak. Really? It was just, like, lettuce and, like, really old tomatoes.

And I was, like, it was making me sick just because. In my experience, the XXL Stomperito is always heavy on, like, beans, rice. Yes. Maybe some cheese and guac. I mean, the least ingredient is the steak in the equation. But, you know, it has its time. What is your favorite menu item from Taco Bell? I do like the Chalupas a lot. Just because it's, as far as I know, the only place you really get things like a Chalupa,

that fry bread, whatever it is. Taco Bell is kind of like the experimental taco kitchen between their Crunchwrap Supremes. What about the... I've never had the Doritos Locos tacos. Never had it before. But I don't like hard shell tacos. I mean, I like them, but I don't like them.

In theory, and talking out loud it makes so complete sense yeah the fact that that exists it's fine though i don't get like super jack for them they're good but i i like the crunch wrap supreme and i like their uh like the steak quesadilla i was gonna say they actually something about their quesadillas they're pretty good which i don't know how i don't know what's yeah to it but yeah, their quesadillas are pretty good. What's number eight on the list? Number eight on the list is the Arby's Half Pound French Dip. Have you had it?

No. Okay. I do like Arby's. I've never had this, though. So it comes in at 740 calories, 35 grams of fat, 52 grams of carbs, and 55 grams of protein. I have had this before arby's usually feels like you're it's one of those places as far as fast food goes where it's like no this isn't like total garbage premium on the low for the low end of fast food it's like it's like a ring up from mcdonald's but it's not in that chipotle level but um i've had it i really like french dips and i was like this passes as a french dip it's acceptable um it's pretty tasty uh the breakdown on the macros is not too bad on this

yeah it's not too out of whack for being like on a huge hoagie right 50 for 55 on the protein and then lower on both carbs and fat yeah you know like out of everything on the list that's probably uh if you're looking at just the ratios that's probably one of the better ones uh-huh and according to sean's he says this is their highest protein sandwich on the menu okay even more than the big roast beef so i which i'm guessing that's probably 52 i do like it i do like the the good old big like that's one of the that's one of the few things you can get at any fast food place where you actually feel like you're getting just solid bites of meat when you bite into it.

But, yeah, that one's a little surprising. He did make a couple comments about the mozzarella sticks. Yeah. He goes, an N-A plus for those fucking mozzarella sticks that taste amazing but are quite possibly the most unhealthy thing on the planet. a greasy fat stick coated in highly processed starches and deep fried hashtag america i do like they're good though a good uh mozzarella stick is so yeah cheese balls mozzarella there's something about those that it's just that they work with everything i think uh number seven is mickey d's the golden arches making their first and maybe only

appearance on this list yep and the item he found with the highest protein the double bacon smokehouse burger now right away okay we'll read off things here yeah 1130 calories 67 grams of fat 64 grams of carbs 70 grams of protein. Now, right away with McDonald's, I feel like there's two types of people. There's the type of people that eat dollar menu McDonald's and the type of people that branch out and try the different things McDonald's has. Have you ever had this burger tanner? No. I have not either.

Would this be something you would ever order at McDonald's? I don't go to McDonald's to get the double bacon smokehouse like when i'm going to mcdonald's it's like i'm usually like in not a favorable position in my life like it's like i'm hung over or i'm in a crazy rush or it's the only thing available like it's it's almost like never like i just really want something like that's like doesn't exist in my life for some reason i like a good double cheat the dollar menu double cheeseburger even even the what's the mcchicken or whatever the hell but mcchicken i think yeah the dollar chicken sandwich like that's not bad either i don't even man the chicken nuggets sometimes and those and what i do get there if i'm getting something else i will get a quarter pounder with or a double quarter pounder

and like a lot of times that's what yeah like a lot of times those aren't bad i do really like a big mac too like i don't think you're getting good pro like the breakdown on the big mac isn't great because it's just like two really little like almost non-existent yeah but it tastes good but they do have that flavor profile yeah it's all in check there i i there again if i was just a complete fat bastard and didn't care about anything i could probably eat mcdonald's quite a bit you know just putting down frosties or no no what's what's their frosties is wendy's right that's wendy's uh mcflurry's yeah yeah those aren't too bad either to mix in once in a while but i've never i'm not like the guy that's like

getting the artisan chicken sandwiches and these Smokehouse burgers. It just doesn't seem to make sense to me. But maybe they're really good. But speaking of Wendy's, that reminds me of number six on our list. Number six. Wendy's. I like the name. Wendy's, Dave's, triple.

Two names. Two names. Two names, three burgers. That's how you know it's good. And this thing rings in at 1,090 calories, 72 grams of fat, 43 grams of carbs, and 71 grams of protein. Beating the McDonald's double bacon smokehouse burger by one gram of protein. Less calories, too, so you get a little more bang yeah you are coming out yep a few less calories a lot less carbs i know sean's loves wendy's i've heard

him talk about wendy's a lot where does wendy's fit in in your burger i do think wendy's might have okay i know people are going to say in and out and like maybe five guys i'm not counting those wendy's i'm playing the same place with like a drive-up window like you gotta have a Okay, I know people are going to say In-N-Out and maybe Five Guys and things like that. I'm not counting those. Wendy's, Burger King, McDonald's. I'm playing the same place with a drive-up window. You've got to have a drive-up window to be counted in this equation. I think Wendy's has the best burgers. Yeah.

I don't know of a faster burger. Well, they are square. True. I never thought of it. I think it's the geometry. It's what adds to the flavor there. But Wendy's burgers, to me, are the best. I feel like they're slightly greased. But Wendy's burgers, to me, are the best.

I feel like they're slightly greasy. I think they're probably the best, too. The meat seems a little bit more like meat sometimes than McDonald's. It seems the most like meat out of all of them. But they also seem really greasy to me sometimes where it's just like just – I would say, yeah, sometimes the buns are kind of slicked out. I don't know. It's really, really good. My favorite thing on the menu is the

son of Baconator. And you might say, well, that's not the full-size Baconator. That's the smaller one. You're not getting as much meat there. But the reason I like it is the proportion of meat to bun to bacon.

It all works together so much better. In harmony? It is very in harmony. Whereas just the straight-up Baconator, the proportions on those things are not – they're not in harmony like the other one is. And so I love the Son of Baconator. It's one of my favorite fast food burgers. What about just – so you'd put Wendy's above Burger King and McDonald's

both yes and then which of those two would you McDonald's or Burger King yeah probably McDonald's just because I couldn't tell you the last time I ate Burger King who so does go there so that's what I feel like but my wife loves and I didn, Burger King has kind of like this weird menu that I didn't even know about. Like they have like, uh, like fried cheesy potatoes, which are pretty good. Didn't know those existed. Like a lot of them have, and McDonald's probably does this too, but like iced, like Coke and things like that, which she thinks is really good.

Like, oh, it's a hot day. Let's get like a, through the drive-thru and get whatever they have there. She thinks it's really good. Like, oh, it's a hot day. Let's get through the drive-thru and get whatever they have there. And then chicken fries, which seems to be, to me, kids' food. But my wife and her friends love chicken fries. So that's who eats there, I guess.

Just recently, I was sick for a long time. I didn't eat for two days straight. And when I was finally coming out of it, nothing was sounding good. And I was like, I really want fast food mozzarella sticks and a shake. My wife was helping me. I was like, where has mozzarella sticks? We had determined that Burger King does. We got to the drive-thru. I didn't even know they had mozzarella sticks.

This was the only thing that I wanted was these two items. It was the only thing that I could think of in the world that sounded good. We that you know yeah that sounded good we got there and they're like oh sorry we don't have mozzarella sticks and then they ever i don't know for sure i don't we didn't get to the bottom of that uh so then i i was literally i was like sighed out loud and i was like ah you don't know and then we saw they had chicken fingers and i was was like, oh, I could eat chicken fingers. I wanted the farthest thing from actual food. Real food didn't sound good. I needed stuff like that.

Like starter food. Yeah, and I was like, oh, I guess I could do the chicken fingers and a shake, and we ordered that. And they're like, oh, actually, our shake machine is down right now. And I was like, that's it. We're leaving. We left. Because I was like, that's it. We're leaving. So you just left. We left. Because I was going to say, I had never had a Burger King shake in my entire life until probably two or three months ago when my wife was getting chicken fries.

And I was like, yeah, let's do a shake here. And I don't even remember what I got. And I was like, whoa, that was way better than I was expecting. So, yeah, their shakes aren't bad. Yeah. I don't really eat a lot of shakes, though, so I don't know on the scale of shakes where it sits. But speaking of Burger King. Well, do we need to talk anything else about Wendy's?

Do we cover that? So it is a triple. We have 71 grams of protein, so we finally broke the 70 gram Mark. Yeah. Um, Sean's loves it. He says, I refuse to say anything negative about Wendy's because of my bias,

except that the entire Wendy's menu outside of their burgers and Frosty's is terrible. I like that. They have chili. I was going to say, see their chili is good. And actually they used to have a salad that came with chili and you dump the chili on the

salad that was pretty good too i like that thing the baja salad i don't know if they have it anymore or not but number five sitting in the middle of the list is our dear old friend burger king king with the triple whopper sandwich with cheese and this comes in at a whopping 1220 calories 82 grams of fat 50 grams of carbs and 71 grams of protein again um so we're tying wendy's on protein but we're it's really beating wendy's out in the calories department with about uh about 200 about 150 50 more yeah um and what's what's Sean's got to say about it? In other words, this burger is 60% fat, just for a nice visual. 82 grams of fat is approximately equal to 16 teaspoons of oil.

I mean, I have no idea why this country has an obesity problem. And I'm just going to assume his conversion rate is correct there yeah 16 grams 16 teaspoons of oil sounds insane so like when you're eating that i mean the patties might as well just be oil because that's all that's like yeah so much it would just be solid oil basically oh burger king what what uh we're about halfway through the list uh what would we think about taking a brief break? A brief break from all this food? Yeah.

We'll let that settle for a little bit. We'll keep you in suspense on the top four on the list here. Top four, bottom four, depending on how you want to look at it. Depending on what your shame's at. But we've got ourselves a stat of the week this week from the Open Powerlifting crew. So let me get that pulled up here. Okay, this is the Open Powerlifting stat of the week on the Massanomics podcast. This week we are looking at their database,

all of the lifters who have ever totaled over 1,000 kilograms. 2,200 pounds. 2,205, yep. 2,205, okay. and this is raw and or wrapped raw and wrapped i guess not indoor that doesn't actually make sense there but raw and wrapped um there are 202 entries in their database of 1000 kilograms or more but that is including if, say, Andre Milanovic did it. Oh, has eight of them. Yeah, he'll be in there eight times. So there's 202 of them.

So 202 performances exist. Yes, that have gone 1,000 kilograms or more. And this was as of October 31st. Okay. That's very interesting already. But the number of individuals. So there's 202 entries. Yeah.

But the number of people. I'm going to say, I want to take a guess. 50? That's pretty, you're in the right ballpark that it's a way lower number of people. It's 73 individuals. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's still even a little surprising that 73 people have totaled 2,200.

2,205, yeah. total 22.5 yeah um of the 202 entries that were over that uh that number 144 of them were in wraps and 58 were in sleeves and that's kind of probably you know you'd assume more of them are wraps and sleeves yep um the youngest person to ever total 1000,000 kilograms. Is that just changed this week? Right. When they gave us the stat as of October 31st originally, it was Luke Richardson who did it in. Is he from Great Britain? Yeah.

He totaled 1,000.5 on October 13th, so that would have been Great Britain's national qualifier for the IPF world, the qualifier for the IPF world the qualifier for that Luke did that sleeved obviously in the IPF affiliate in drug tested federation at least

he was exactly 21 years and 3 months and 24 days old when he got his total but since they even gave us the stat that Andrew Andrew House days old when he got his total but since they even gave us the stat that andrew yeah uh andrew house house yeah he is under 21 years old he is and he broke the 1000 kilogram mark so he's now the youngest who have ever done it um let's see i think they got there kind of differently as far as their lifts go too, though. Yeah. I want to say he had a really big squat.

That. Andrew House. Yeah, I'm sure he did. And then I think his deadlift was around like. 8.32, I think is what he got. Oh, it was that high? Oh. Actually, they let him take a fourth.

Oh, they did. That he got 8.32, but that doesn't count towards your total. Yep, yep. Because I want to say, I thought it was like in the high sevens or something it could have been because his fourth was actually an 832 that he got pretty well okay but it doesn't it's it didn't contribute to his total okay but he got to do that because he was setting some junior world record or something uh the average age of people who have totaled over a thousand kilograms what do you think the average age of them is? 34.

That's pretty close, 30.6. Yeah, just takes time for the most part. Yep. And then just a couple other numbers looking at individuals that have totaled 1,100 kilograms or more, which what does that come out to in pounds? Another, that'd be another 200 that'd be like over 2400 yeah so really getting up there uh only nine have ever hit i was gonna say has there been

10 even but yeah nine is of those nine there's been a total of 19 times that it's been done yeah 19 it's been done 19 times by nine different people and of those 19 times that it's been done. Yeah. 19. It's been done 19 times by nine different people. And of those 19 times, guess who's done it the most. Oh, yeah. Six times. Yeah.

Petrus three times, Eric Lillibridge three times, the youngest to ever do it. Lillibridge. Yeah. Eric Lillibridge was 25 years old when he did it, which that's pretty crazy too. Yeah.

You would also assume though that that's probably gonna fall sometime in the next few years yeah all of those were wrapped besides ray williams he's the only one in that group that has done it in sleeves which shows like how impressive that is yeah probably the only one in that group that's been drug tested well and i was gonna say also drug tested at least but we all not and he's probably what's there besides him one maybe two others that walk their squats out too i mean just to add to that everyone else is probably going out on a bottle lift uh uh brandon allen did he get 2400 on that oh yeah yeah he did just now or just just at Big Dogs. Does Monachev walk his own?

I think he might. I think he might, but I'm not sure. But I think he might. I mean, I can't recall watching him. Yeah. Well, I mean, we watched him in person, I guess. Was he walking those out? He didn't have a monolith operator for 135 for some reason. So that's the stat of the week, basically.

It's a lengthy stat of the week, and there's a lot of good info in this, but that's some of the cooler pieces of it. But it was funny. They had sent this to me on October 31st and not more than, like, two days later. That's usually how that goes, though. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, there's a record? Yep, not relevant anymore.

Right. It's good stat, though. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, there's a record? Yep, not relevant anymore. Right. That's good stuff, though. That is. I like that. Thank you, Open Powerlifting. Yeah. If you want to, you can support them through their website by sending them an email or a DM on Instagram.

They can put you to work getting numbers pumped into that database so we can find out. there's any other one. Anybody else out there doing 2,200 plus that somehow has slipped through the cracks? I bet there's probably not. I would assume probably not. But you know what? If you found that person, that'd be pretty cool. Otherwise, yeah, you can buy a T-shirt, support them, or give them a follow on Instagram.

See what they're doing. Keep up with everything they got going on. So thank you, Open Powerlifting. Yep, thanks, guys. All right. Back to the task at hand. Back to the task at hand, counting all these calories. Number four, the Hardys, or Carl's Jr., depending on where you live.

Where is Carl's Jr., West Coast? or Carl's Jr., depending on where you live. Yeah. Where is Carl's Jr.? West Coast? I think it's just like, doesn't Florida have Carl's Jr. too or not? I don't know. I mean, I know for sure it's like, yeah, Southwest, West Coast is Carl's Jr., but I kind of just assumed everywhere outside of the Midwest it was Carl's Jr.

I could be totally wrong on that, though. I'd be curious to know why that is. It seems really like in this day and age to have to keep branding for two different things outside of that. Everything else is the same. It seems like it would suck, but whatever. The Hardee's two-third pound monster thick burger, calories 1,390 grams of fat, 53 grams of carbs, and 76 grams of protein. 90 grams of fat, 53 grams of carbs, and 76 grams of protein. Also, fun fact, 3,140 milligrams of sodium.

That's 3.1 grams of sodium in case you want the decimal place moved there. So the sodium was so high on this one that Sean felt he needed to include that as one of the major included along with the macros. Yeah, he goes on to say that this might as well are i'll just i'll just read it a little bit here is a burger that is not even trying to hide the fact that it is a gluttonous monstrosity the name is literally monster thick burger they may as well just shorten it to the coronary because not only does this shit sandwich have 90 grams of fat it has an artery artery expanding 3,140 milligrams of sodium. So forget the pump from nitric oxide supplements.

This burger will increase your blood volume so much, you'll feel like you have maple syrup pumping through your veins. So, I mean, he summed it up pretty good right there. Have you had this exact sandwich? I have not had this exact sandwich. I know I have had a Monster Thick Burger before. Yeah, me too, but I don't know that I've had this exact one. I don't think I've had this exact sandwich? I have not had this exact sandwich. I know I have had a Monster Thief burger before. Yeah, me too, but I don't know that I've had this exact one. I don't think I've had this one.

Hardee's isn't on my regular list for places to go to. I do enjoy Hardee's breakfast. I think Hardee's has good breakfast. Cinnamon raisin biscuits are kind of a nice little treat, and I just think that their other breakfast portions are pretty good in comparison to some other places. When I was a little kid, Hardy served hot dogs just in like a styrofoam container. My wife has told me that, and I did not believe her.

I used to go – I mean, I remember being probably five, and it came in a styrofoam, like a little pea yellow styrofoam container that you flip open, and there was like a hot dog in there and like a hot bun. You know, I think that's the problem nowadays is not enough fast food places serve hot dogs. Like let's take the cheapest, shittiest meat and probably make it even worse and like charge people money for it. They're onto something there.

I can't believe they got rid of it. Real surprise. Number three on the list, Tanner. The Subway 12-inch Bacon Ranch. Kind of surprising to see Subway in, you know, this. A little bit, yeah. Especially when you look at the breakdown of this. 1,220 calories, 60 grams of fat, 94 grams of carbs, 76 grams of fat 94 grams of carbs 76 grams of protein and you people like to think

subway as maybe a slightly healthier alternative to fast food or at least at one point in time that was we've gone on to debunk that yeah i know we've had our uh sean's has written an article about that but when you look at the macro macros it breaks down it's basically the same as these enormous burgers yeah you're eating a whole loaf of bread so that was the funny comment he made something about how you you're lit when you get that you're just eating an entire loaf of bread it's uh you know i bet with this one if you really wanted to pump up the protein you could because now they have the deluxe option, you know, where you can get extra scoops of meat. So it seems like, and maybe the bacon and ranch is still the number one way to get the protein,

but it seems like if you did the steak and cheese and did the deluxe where you're getting the extra scoops of meat, you almost might be able to pump that over 76 grams of protein, but maybe not. I don't know. Yeah, good amount of protein, though, 76 grams. But the key point on don't know yeah good amount of protein though 76 gram but the the key point on subway is nothing wrong with that just like everything else on this list if you like to eat that stuff i mean i eat all that stuff from on occasion but just don't believe that it

don't believe that you're having something healthier than these other options you know it's like i mean even comparing it to the Monster Thick Burger. I don't have a sodium breakdown, but calories are identical. Your fat is – the Monster Thick Burger has more fat, which the name is literally Monster Thick Burger. It would be weird if it didn't. But it's just a tradeoff in carbs. But, yeah, the Monster Thick Burger has 53 grams of carbs,

where Subway has 94, almost twice as many carbs, because you're eating a loaf of bread. So it's kind of just – and they both have the same amount of protein. So it's just – you know? Yeah. I want to see Hardee's come out with a marketing plan, like directing themselves as being healthy fast food. Yeah, we're the same. Number two. This gets into kind of a fun, interesting one.

This is a little more regional. Yeah, this is kind of regional. So for people outside of, I think, directly like the upper Midwest, you might not know about this, we have something called Taco John's. Yeah. And whereas pretty much everyone's familiar with what Taco Bell is and what they do, Taco John's is a little different because it's more like you'll find it in small towns. Like Taco Bell is not going in a small town anywhere.

Like Taco John's you can find out in all these small Midwestern towns. They'll have a Taco John's. What Taco John's is really known for is their potato olays. And it's just the little i think what you get with the grocery store where they call the potato crowns okay it's tots you know tots are the tots are the the round you know ones where crowns are the flat like circles i just i mean around here you just like think of them as potato olay yeah you can buy a bag of them in the store they're pretty sure it's potato crowns is what they go by

um but that's what that's what their sides are for their meals. You get a burrito, and then instead of French fries, you're not getting fries with a burrito. You're getting potato olés. Or you get three tacos with potato olés. If you really want to take that flavor to the next level, you get a cup of nacho cheese with it, or you can do sour cream or guac. You've got to do the nacho cheese, though.

For sure. It is essential. And they are good it's good and do you feel like this might not even be accurate but i feel like it's the at least the perception of taco john's in quality is like a step up from it seems like it yeah i've had some suspect meals at both but for some reason in my brain i just think of and maybe maybe it's just marketing and branding, but it just seems like, oh, this place is a little better quality. It's maybe a little cleaner or you just think it's cleaner.

Maybe slightly more real-ish meat. Maybe it's like 70% meat instead of 38%. Don't most Taco Bells that you're in feel dirty? Oh, yeah. Isn't that the dirtiest restaurant on this list? There's shredded cheese on the this list like there's like shredded cheese on the floor and there's definitely like smashed potato lays on the

floor there's always a shortage of help when or like and everyone's working is like 16 or or is not in the best spot right now so they're just here kind of in a transition stage it's um so taco john's is a little bit above that, I think. Actually, you know what? I don't know if you just told people to close their eyes if they would know what we were talking about there. It could be either one. It could be either one. So they have a really interesting thing.

So the menu item here is called the Taco John's six-pack and a pound. Six-pack? Is that alcohol? No, it's not alcohol. The six-pack and a pound six pack is that alcohol no it's not alcohol the six pack and a pound is six tacos you can do hard shell or soft shell or you can even mix them if you want but the main thing is you're getting six tacos and you're getting a pound of potato olays which usually means two full-size like cups however they serve them yeah two full-size things of those are potato lays um it's a lot of food it is the the tacos six tacos it's not too hard to put down six tacos but food

tacos are not a lot you know no but uh just a pound of potato lay starts to be a lot of potato lays after a while um and the stats on this thing are pretty amazing calorie count 2870 so we're well above yeah the the previous things 150 grams of fat 303 grams of carbs 81 grams of protein and 7870 milligrams of sodium almost eight whole grams of sodium in this sucker um the the the protein is barely higher than the previous items on the list but the fat and carbs are astronomically higher than the previous items on the list like yeah like it's it's like it's in a league of its own this thing is like its own monster yeah um and sean sean's like sums it up pretty good here he says a deplorable 150 grams of fat followed by 303 grams of carbs and a disappointing 81 81 grams of protein are some of those fucked macro ratios i've seen for a meal

nearly eclipsing 3 000 calories and i mean that that says it right there. Yep. That exceeds three days worth of daily sodium intake. So if you're really worried about your sodium levels, you just eat this and you're good for three days. You don't even got to worry about it. Potato olays have a lot of seasoning on them. Just imagine the salt on a pound of potato olays. He says, I'm surprised this meal doesn't come with a warning label. May cause excessive fluid retention.

May cause edema. I don't even know what that is. May render your fingers worthless. Swollen sausages. But 81 grams of protein is 81 grams of protein. Got to do it. And yeah, that is. Have you had the six pack in a pound before?

Oh, I've ordered lots of them. It's been a while since I've tried to do one on my own. I think I've only tried to do it on my own maybe once or twice um this is usually for me i keep saying this these are like hungover foods for me and this is one that it's like get us to get me through a drive-thru i'm just gonna split it with someone yeah you know like that's it's enough to hold me over for a while and makes care of any cravings I might be having. But you should not be trying to eat one of these on your own. It was something in high school we'd go and do that, and it was fun to go and eat. Well, because on certain days of the week, they'd be really cheap.

I want to say when we were in high school, I think on Taco Tuesday or something, you get a six-pack and a pound for like six or seven bucks. Yeah, which is a lot of food. It was 3,000 calories for like $6. That is quite a bit of food. But I think now they're getting closer to like nine or ten, aren't they? Probably. By the time you put your nacho cheese in there,

you've got to get a drink with this thing too. You're not doing this to like be – I mean, you're doing this to go all out. So you're going to get like a large Mountain Dew or something. So, yeah, Taco John's. Sweet little place. South of the border. And finally, number one on the list. This one surprised me a little bit.

This one? I didn't know where. Like surprise you? This almost surprised me in a good way. This surprised me in a lot of ways. Kind of like in a, oh, that's it? Yeah. Yeah, kind of like in a, oh, that's it?

Yeah. I was expecting, after that almost 3,000 calorie monstrosity, I was expecting to see somebody have a burger with ice cream dumped on it that I somehow didn't know about. But at number one, we have a Little Caesars pepperoni pizza. $5, hot and ready. You know, Little Caesars, there's a lot to talk about yeah we'll get rated calories 2240 so we're down a decent ways for taco john's 88 grams of fat 248 grams of carbs still less carbs than the six pack in a pound still less yeah by about 60 grams yeah and a whopping 104 grams of protein that one really shocked me that really surprised me like that is where's all is i mean just from

the cheese and the i don't know and then to go with that they have 4320 milligrams of sodium so still high in the sodium but not as much as the... Yeah, not like the six-pack at a pound. But if you would have told me that a pepperoni pizza would have 104 grams of protein, I'd be like, no way. That's not possible. Because those pepperonis, is there four ounces of meat on those? Yeah, there's no meat. There's no meat there, really.

It has to be just the cheese and the bread somehow all right yeah i don't know how some the sauce is not i don't know how tomato sauce is protein in it but um i don't maybe that's the thing like maybe pizza just has more protein in it than i always thought yeah i at least in this case or whatever little caesars is doing theirs has a lot of protein in it what little caesars is doing, theirs has a lot of protein in it. Little Caesars is doing something. Well, at some point, see, this is the interesting thing is somehow Little Caesars buys materials from people, trucks them to their store, pays someone to make it, puts it in a box, has marketing campaigns, and then sells you a pizza for $5 and still makes money?

They've got to be getting these materials for pennies, right? What other business? It's insane. It is. $5. It is. And you can tell it's a lower quality pizza than Pizza Hut or Domino's. You can tell a difference yep but when it's fresh it's still good when it's fresh it's it's good like it's i i wouldn't be surprised if

some people say i prefer little caesars yeah i think it's a different pizza yeah um it's not my favorite but like bad pizza like bad pizza has to be really bad pizza, and I don't think this is really bad pizza. No, and I'm a person I really like that if you decide you want it, you just drive up, and it is handed to you. It's just there. There is some value to me in that. It's gratification. As far as pizza goes, that's not a common thing. No.

Usually you're waiting for either an oven to heat or you're calling and then waiting for someone to bring it to you or you got to go get it like there's a little bit of a delivery issue with pizza right um but we'll read what he has here um he says taking on the top spot on our list is also perhaps the most economical choice for anyone on a budget like six freaking bucks for almost an entire day worth of calories hard to go wrong with that price for over 100 grams of protein. The fat and sodium content of this pizza is nearly half that of Taco John's six-pack and a pound. Plus, who the hell doesn't like pizza? Much like Julius Caesar himself, Little Caesar's Pizza reigns supreme over the land of high-protein fast food. I really like this.

It's just because I, you know, probably once a month I go get one of these and I eat the whole thing. Like there's no way around it. Sometimes I tell myself I'm not going to eat the whole thing. But you don't want to like let it. It's never as good when you reheat it. No, Little Caesars is much worse when you reheat it. Compared to the other.

The reheating process on Little Caesars exposes their cheap ingredients. Whatever is in there that it's designed to be heated up once and only once. And outside of that, all the preservatives and stuff holding it together break down after the first. There's some chemical reaction. The preservatives break down, and it has just ruined itself. I swear to God there is something like that because I like most pizza reheated, but not that.

It's bad. I completely agree. And I used to do this too. We'd get done with squats on Friday night, and it was just like something about Friday. It's like, yeah, the weekend's over. Squats are done. Favorite lift. Just riding this high.

I'm like, I'm going to go get a Little Caesars pizza. And you'd get it. You'd be like, yeah, it yeah it's right there you go home just sit down with the box and just start eating and like the first four pieces like this is awesome yeah and then like that fifth one you kind of hit the ah and then like if you're really going for six then it for me it was like oh this is really turned into work and then like I might think about number seven, but I usually was like six to seven was it. And then shortly after that, it's like you've come to your senses like, oh, what have I done? That was not the right move. My numbers on that is I always eat six.

I go through six, and I'm like, oh, this is great. I'm loving it. And I get done with the sixth, and every time there's two left, and I'm like, oh, this is great. I'm loving it. And I get done with the sixth and every time there's two left and I'm like, I feel good right now and I could stop and like I'd be really fine. Like there'd be no problems here. But then I'm like, what am I going to do with those two pieces of. Yeah, you can't just waste pizza. No, and I'm like, and it is still tasting all right, but I know I'm going to feel like shit after I eat the last two and then I do it and I feel like shit. And here we are.

And then I don't get it for another month. Yep, I know exactly how you feel. So that is our list of fast food with the most protein. Sean's did give us a little bonus item in this list, and that bonus item is the ultimate chocolate shake large ultimate chocolate shake and uh this is from arby's and it comes in at 970 calories 31 grams of fat not too much fat 158 grams of carbs and 140 grams of sugar and uh sean says in my fast food research i came across some interesting and bizarre items.

One in particular made me stop and take notice. This shake from Arby's. 1,000 calories, 31 grams of fat, and a coma-inducing 140 grams of sugar. My pancreas literally shrieked when I read that. With a serving weight of almost 700 grams, this is one and a half pounds of actual diabetes in a cup. And, hey, it's shake. That's a lot of sugar. That is a lot of sugar.

What's a can of pop have, like, 30 grams? Like a can of Mountain Dew or Pepsi or something like that? Maybe it's, I don't even know. I don't drink it all that much. Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew. A 20 ounce bottle of Mountain Dew has 290 calories

from sugar. Come on. Give me some grams here. They're trying to beat around the bush here. Okay. Mountain Dew. Quit telling me the grams. Or quit telling me the calories from sugar.

I want to know the grams. Oh, the internet is just letting us down. Whenever we're in a hurry to find something, that's when... Okay, this says, this guy, whether they're right or not, we'll take their word for it. 20-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew has 77 grams of sugar. Oh, okay, and a one-liter bottle has 124 grams of sugar. So a one-liter bottle of pop still isn't as much.

So a liter of Dew doesn't even get you to the amount of sugar in the shake. And I feel like Mountain Dew doesn't have the most sugar out of it. I feel like it does. You know what? Let's get to the bottom of this quick. Mountain Dew, I just feel like you're just drinking syrup. Well, this is saying

fizzy drinks and cream grams of sugar per 100 milliliters. Number one on this list here is Old Jamaica Ginger Beer Extra Fiery. Ah, yes. Which sounds like it's totally made up. After that is Rockstar Punched Guava, Old Jamaica Ginger Beer,

and then Mountain Dew. So Mountain Dew is up there. Oh, that is the UK's most sugary drink. So maybe in the US their levels are a little different. So that's our list of protein menu items. Yeah, if you run across that online actually looking for nutritional advice, I feel sorry for you. And I think some people have actually thought that that was supposed to be helpful.

It was not. It was meant to be funny. It's fun. And it's fun to laugh at and see like, oh, this is the stuff that people are actually ordering. Yes. Yeah, it was entertaining. I had fun reading through that

makes me want a little cedar little caesar's pizza again and then wash it down with a shake or maybe a six pack and a pound yeah wash down a pizza with a six pack i'm hungry yeah but do check that article out on our website it's our most recently posted article so you'll kind of find it at the top of our list yeah it's a good one we didn't read everything in there there's there's some other things in there that'll make you laugh guaranteed for sure for sure um kind of run run out of time here channer but do we have a couple more things we want to cover really quick maybe should we uh do our fastest growing segment in all of podcasting? Yeah.

Since we're already at the hour mark, maybe we'll do that and then save the rest for you guys. We don't want to get all of the topics covered. That way you guys won't have anything to listen to the next time. So we'll save something. But, you know, towards the end of the podcast, everyone's dying to know what's Larry been up to. Everyone wants to know what's in Big Lifts, who's in Big Lifts,

and most specifically, what did Larry do? Exactly. Because nobody else – this is how people find out what Larry did. They wait for the Mastodonics podcast and listen to it a week later and find out. They can't keep up with all the stuff Larry's putting out all the time. So, yeah, they have to hear from us. What did Larry do this week, Tanner? Larry did something.

When we were kind of talking about this, we said, what is Larry going to do? We were kind of wondering, what is Larry going to do? And I did throw out that I wonder if he's going to do some heavier squats. And I said, like, maybe he's going to do do like an 800 for uh something like that for reps but he didn't do that he even exceeded my he just went with the straight up pr yeah he went uh i think the first pr he hit was it like 8 55 or 8 75 or something like that mid mid mid to upper eights and that wasn't enough so he put on 900 and squatted 900 in sleeves, right? I believe so, yeah. The 900 looked pretty good.

Looked pretty good. Depth was – Yeah, the 900 looked better than the lighter one. He hit better depth on the 900. I could be getting a mixed round too, but – Yeah. He hit pretty decent depth on 900. So the question there is if Larry can bench over 650 to meet and squat 900,

would he be maybe the one? At least if he doesn't sleeves, he'd probably be the only person to do that, right? 900 squat. Squat and like 650 or bigger bench. Yeah. Yeah. JP Price is 1,006. But has he done any meets and sleeves, though?

I think so. Oh, has he? Okay. Yeah. He would be up. I know he's a big subtotal guy because he's – I know he's done 1,000 plus and 600 plus. But, you know, probably not 650, but but above 600 he'd be up there in that but like larry now and then and then a 900 deadlift that's theoretically i mean gym lifts we're talking but well even if he i mean it's at some point it's not crazy for larry to go

nine seven nine yeah like that's that's not like completely off in the distance. Right, right. And that would put him at 2,500. No, 9.79. Yeah, that's – yeah, 9.79. Yeah, 2,500, yeah. So that'd be really cool to see. He'd be right in the neighborhood of the world record total.

If he progresses like he has over the last year, a year from now, that would be possible. Right, because we're not naive to the point of thinking that he's going to go into a powerlifting meet right now and do 9-7-9. No. You know, just because he's in that area on his gym lifts. Because there is a difference in Larry's gym lifting, what he's doing. Especially with those weights, too, like to put them all together in a day. Right.

Like, if he can continue the progress he has has which also is almost impossible at this point but he still seems to be doing is pring more than anyone you know that's why it's like if he can keep that progress up it seems possible yeah like he could go to big dogs yeah and like really really put up a fight in sleeves it sure seems like it i i was just thinking what he could do right now even you know thinking uh a little more conservatively um i think even if he did 850 squat 625 bench and 850 deadlift that's 2325 and those numbers seem definitely yeah like that right he'd be he could be assuming he's not gonna get called on depth or anything like that like that seems possible for me like it'd be a really

good day but that seems possible and that's it in like the 275 weight class yeah he's pretty strong yeah he is i was i was shocked by the 900 pound squat squat, though. I was too. I was not expecting that. Yeah, because it seems like it was, what, a year or two years ago? Was it two years ago at the U.S. Open? He fell with, like, 700-something. If he gets to the point where he's consistent, you know, he's – Well, even if he is just like all these other, like, monsters that are squatting, you know, 1,000 in reps. Yeah.

Like, that's a whole different ballgame all of a sudden. Right. So, who knows what Larry will do. Yeah. Like, that's a whole different ball game all of a sudden. Right. So, who knows what Larry will do. Yeah. What do you think for this next week in big lifts?

Next week? I got to feel like it's got to be some type of rep PR for squats, right? Yeah. He can't just do one squat PR

and then move on, right? I still think he's going to do a heavy bench here soon. Yeah, that's... Like a heavy single bench. He's probably due for one of those too. Yeah.

I don't know. I'm excited to see whatever it is. We'll see. I like it. Just keep hitting me with them. And then also, we do have one other person in big lifts this week. Yeah. Stacey Burr just competed here this weekend, and she put up...

We have the squat listed. She actually set an all-time world record total for her weight, but she set a record on the squat for 546 pounds, which that's pretty crazy. That's a lot. Yeah. And I think she was, her third attempt deadlift, she had it above the knees. Had she got that, that would have given her the highest wilks of all time,

men or women. Yeah, so she went for it yeah wasn't quite there but again that's not a reach for her either yeah you know that's uh you know crazy to think if you're going that for that then you are kind of i mean you if you have the not that everyone goes by wilks and that everyone thinks it's a perfect system but if you're going for that then you're in the running for the best power lifter you know that that's out there yeah so yeah super impressive stuff yeah welcome to big lift stacy burr yeah should we wrap it up at that we probably should yeah we got too much good stuff but we'll save some for next time. We can go on for days. We'll do our wrap-up here. We haven't really talked much about the Massanomics merch today.

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