Massenomics Podcast - Ep.137: Thor is Competing in Powerlifting

Episode Date: November 19, 2018

The World's Strongest Man, Hafthor Bjornsson, will be competing in his first powerlifting meet in less than one month.  We approach this subject like we approach most others.. with a lot of opinion based speculation.  We also recap some of the results from Slingshot Record Breakers, IPF Open Worlds, and the WPO.

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 here welcome everyone to episode 137 of the massonomics podcast uh your same hosts are here again we're we're back at it some things just never change uh death taxes and the mass episode 137 straight weeks they won't go away no that's an impressive milestone.

That's almost 138 weeks in a row. It's getting dangerously close to that number. Just try and stop us. No, I can't see us stopping. I mean, unless one of us goes on vacation, nothing can stop us. Next week is Thanksgiving, I guess. So if you're listening, when you're listening to this, you've got Thanksgiving coming up soon.

Yeah. What do you got planned? I am heading to the southwest. How far southwest? Phoenix, Arizona. Oh, you're going more southwest than I am, then. We're going like a millennium. No, I'm going to Rapid City, South Dakota.

That's still a little bit of a trip. So when are you leaving? I'm leaving on Friday, I think. think i have to check my itinerary with the whole crew again but i believe it's friday yeah what about you um i think i'm i think we're gonna make a long trip out of it i think probably like uh tuesday evening or okay or wednesday morning and uh but we changed it up this year we We're going to, you know, a lot of times we'll get back Sunday afternoon and evening. And we're like, all right, let's do that differently this year. We're going to leave a day earlier, and then we're going to come back Saturday afternoon.

And have, like, a day to chill, actually. Yeah. Because that's always my biggest gripe. Like, I have fun when we go places and stuff like that, but I hate getting back Sunday late. Yeah. And just to give people some perspective here like we're talking five and a half you got kids it's probably over a six hour drive yeah it's a good six hour drive so it's a six hour drive plus we're crossing time zones

so on the way there it's great because you gain an hour i mean you're time traveling yeah but on the way back on sunday when you just want to home, now you have six hours in the car. You lose another hour. So as far as the clock goes, you're taking at least seven. It starts to be a lot. It does. Yeah, I've been bit hard by the Sunday night. Yeah.

It just feels like the world's against you on that one. But this way, if we even got back Saturday at midnight or something, I don't care because I'm like, oh, that's right. I'm going to go to bed and do whatever I want to tomorrow. That's the way to do it for sure. So you're flying up. We'll be flying. Yep, yep, yep.

Don't want to do the 24-hour drive. That'd be a fun trip. No, I'm excited. I haven't been to Phoenix for a couple years now. Actually, it's outside of the Midwest. I probably have not been to any place more than Phoenix. But, yeah, we've got some family down there so it'll be cool to cool to check in with some people yeah it'll probably be warm there too i would imagine warmer than here at least yeah it wouldn't take

much well you know it's been almost three months since we've probably talked about how cold it is yeah we're right back at it again last year that got to be a good theme uh recurring theme of our our podcast and we're kind of there already and we didn't we didn't let people know right away but um i don't think we talked about it like october what was it like october 3rd or 4th we had our first snowstorm of the year yeah so i mean we're all we already had over a month and a half ago at this point by the time you're hearing this already had our first snowstorm and terrible weather and we had our last snow of like in april it was pretty late yeah so what do we have june july august september we had five yeah snow we had the five snowless months yeah and here we are right back at it yeah so get ready for another seven or so months of us uh talking about the snowstorm months yeah and here we are right back at it yeah so get ready for another seven

or so months of us uh talking about the snowstorms yeah and what what's really added to the uh just me questioning how i'm going to survive it is this year i have a dog and i take my dog for a walk like in the summer it's great yeah the sun's up it's kind of a nice way to start your day you know you take the dog out go for a little walk you know you kind of just feel refreshed right away in the morning now it doesn't even get light until like well daylight savings just happened so it gets light like around what eight ish yeah i think so um but even then you know it's basically dark and pretty soon it will be completely dark in the morning when I get up with the dog. And then if there's any wind at all, it's the worst way to be awake for five minutes and be standing in wind blowing less than 20 degrees.

It is terrible. You never would want to start a day that way. And right now I do it for the dog. I'm just that dedicated to his quality of life. I'm a caretaker like that. See, with our baby, I'd been taking her on walks because it's an easy way to put her to sleep and get her to chill and stuff like that, but that's becoming less of an option for me now. This is not baby-friendly weather.

Not at all. Yeah, actually, someone would probably report you pretty soon. That guy's out freezing that baby again. He's either up to something or he's trying to kill a baby. It's one of the two. I was just thinking, you know how we had gotten some recommendations? We talk about shows that we watch on here sometimes, and someone had recommended 11-22-63.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that one with all the numbers on it. Yeah, yeah. recommended 11 22 63 yeah that one with all the numbers on it yeah yeah yeah then that that uh was a stephen king yeah inspired show on uh that's on hulu a series i think it's an eight episode series and i've watched seven of the eight episodes actually it's taken me since we got that recommendation until now i've made it through seven episodes so it's been oh so you're like taking this slow yeah it's been really really really slow for me to get through it. But it is good. Is it?

It's really interesting. Well, I just assume when the Stephen King name is attached to it, at the very least, it's going to be really interesting. Yeah, it's a guy... There's a time travel element to it, and he goes back... This isn't spoiling anything. I mean, this is what the show's about. The synopsis. element to it and he goes back and this isn't spoiling anything you i mean this is what the show's about yeah he goes back in time and he has to try to uh stop the kennedy assassination

that took place on 11 22 63 yeah i i think it sounds really good it is really good if i had hulu i would watch it yeah it's not on my hulu portion of my life yet and the uh main actor i keep forgetting his name is he You would know who he is. He's like buddies with the guys from Superbad, and he's kind of really goofy and weird. He's in like 123 Hours. Oh, James Franco? Yeah, yeah, there you go.

James Franco is the main. Buddies with the guys from Superbad. I like that. I'm thinking like Jonah Hill. I'm like, well, he is one of the guys. Yeah, yeah. Isn't he buddies with those guys? Yeah, yeah.

They're all in the same stuff together. Was he in the Me Too? Did he – did James Franco get caught in the Me Too? I think he did actually. He got discussed on one of the talk shows. But, I mean, I'd be like, well, of course. Like that guy – It's not totally surprising.

No. But he's pretty good in that show. And, you know, it's not totally surprising no but he's pretty good in that show and it's you know it's not a comedy whatsoever it's a it's a drama and it's yeah he does have a few of those serious roles yeah it's pretty good 123 hours also a serious role yeah i think that's i never saw that one okay yeah it might have been 124 or 122 it might be it could have been any combination of three it might not even be 100 and it's only two or 300 even 124 hours would2. It could have been any combination of three numbers. It might not even be 100 in some way. It could be 200 or 300 even. 124 hours would be a long time.

I guess I might have that wrong. Really, it could be any amount of time. You were talking about getting a new device, though, a personal device. So Tanner and I both, you know, I will say straight, like, I'm a bit of a tech fan. Like, I watch a lot of, like, it's just exciting to see, like, the new stuff people are coming. Everyone likes new stuff. But I'm, when I say a fan, I'm almost purely just a fan because more than a fan, I'm also cheap. Right, right.

And there's probably a lot of people out there. It's hard to be, like, a fan of tech and also cheap. It's nearly impossible. And that's why you have the latest iPhone 6. And that is why I've been with the latest iPhone 6 since the day it came out. If you think you're cheap, I use a Palm Pilot. Actually, Palm came out with a new device just like the last week. It's supposed to be – it seems really bizarre, and I have to look into it more.

But from what I saw, i think it's supposed to be like a companion phone for when you don't have your phone i don't really follow at all like i like to me that's kind of what watches do a little bit right now but at least the watch that like you can just wear that on your wrist yeah but if you have a if you still have to carry a block around what are we are you familiar with the palm pilot oh yeah yeah i remember that yeah we had one of those did you really i don't know what the use of it really even to this like it never got used for and it had like the stylus built in yeah you know yeah which was probably a little ahead of its time yeah in some ways but um so yeah i'm a little bit of a fan of tech like i like the cool new shiny stuff i never get it um i'm also like a mac guy you know like

i run my own graphic design business i've been like a mac guy you know like i run my own graphic design business i've been using a mac for 10 plus years i enjoy macs um i like iphones like i just i know the ecosystem really good i know the ins and outs of the programs like i'm very comfortable with where i'm at the stuff's reliable it works good if you like windows i totally get that too it's whatever you want to do but yeah finally after yeah over four years now with the iPhone 6. The latest iPhone 6. The latest iPhone 6. It was just enough was enough.

I couldn't take loading. Things as simple as like, let's get the camera app going. And sometimes it'll work instantly and you're good. Other times, you'll just tap the camera and it might come on it might not you might wait a while it might crash it might crash like that's really annoying and so i got to the point where i noticed i just was like screw it not even taking photos anymore so i just wasn't even using taking photos with my my camera at all snapchat had basically become useless and that one's probably more on snapchat than anyone else i think that's probably them maybe not investing in keeping up with the older stuff it's probably hard to do to

keep up with everything they want to do but snapchat i don't even bother with we were both talking about this you can press that video button and it's just gonna go and sit and sit and then pretty much guaranteed as soon as whatever you wanted to see is done happening then it will start to work. It's pretty much ruined Snapchat for me because the one thing I would use Snapchat for is if I'm driving through town and say I see Larry out working. Larry from the gym, he's out doing construction, and I'm like, oh, I want to get him. And then I got my phone up, and I'm holding it and driving by, and I'm like, and it didn't work.

My options are go around the block or just don't care, and don't care is a lot easier here. So, yeah, Snapchat was pretty much the point it wouldn't be used. And then the one that – those are both you can be like, well, whatever, social media, pictures. But then the one that got really annoying too, and I didn't – I thought I was the only one until right before you said you had this problem too. Podcasts will not work over Wi-Fi. I have two different podcast apps, just the Apple Podcast app and then Overcast, which is my preferred podcast app. Neither one will work with podcasts unless I'm on data. And you said the same thing.

We have Wi-Fi on. You hit plan a podcast. It'll play the first five to ten seconds. It quits. You can scrub ahead, fast forward, nothing happens just nothing switch that data starts burning just starts downloading instantly and you're good and i don't know what that is i assumed i was the only one that had that happen to you so i didn't even bother to research it but when you said that so maybe there is some workaround out there but the fact that it happens like that in two different apps is really, really weird.

Yeah. So I'm excited to maybe enjoy just the normal things in life again. Just the function of it, like just basic utility. Enjoy those normal first-world things again. Plus, is there the screen and the – I just went with the XR because, like I said, being cheap, I will buy the new one because, you know, for me, I know I'm going to hang on to an iPhone for four years.

Four years. That's pretty standard. The last one I had was a 4S4. Actually, I might have had that one for three years. That's what I had before this, too. We're on the same path here. Actually, I know that you got this sick slightly before me because we were on a driving trip somewhere, and you had it, and I was like, oh.

I'm trying to think of where we would have been going, but yeah, I do remember talking to you about it. I think we were going to a bachelor party or something like that. Yeah, I think it was probably your bachelor party. Yeah, because that would have been like in, oh, no, that was in May, though. I just know we were on a trip together, because I remember talking to you about it and trying to sell you online. It's way better having a bigger screen. And here we are sitting like, oh, these things suck. That's how it goes though, man.

But, yeah, I mean, I went with the XR. You know, they have the XS and the XS Max. But I just have a little bit of a hard time shelling out $1,000 plus for a phone. Like that's a lot of money and i also wanted more storage because i kind of like the idea of like my phone being like a complete archive of everything that i can just grab whenever i want and so for me i'm at like 58 gigs of my 64 used and so with the 10r i could go to 128 gigs for 800 and some people are probably saying that's an insane amount of money to spend but you probably also spend money on things that i think are really dumb like you probably have a

thirty five thousand dollar truck which i would never ever do right right well and you made a good point too it's everyone has their phone on them all the time how many things in your life do you have on you all the time yeah and just there is a thing like a mental weight where you know that every time i reach into my pocket if i try to do anything with snapchat i'm just gonna get frustrated and like you carry around that burden all the or like i want to take a picture and it might not work yeah and like you just always have that nagging in the back of your head like oh this would be really cool it's not even worth doing anything about because it's not gonna work and so just to clear out that fatigue and then also in the back of your head like, oh, this would be really cool, it's not even worth doing anything about because it's not going to work.

And so just to clear out that fatigue and then also in the morning be like, oh, I'm making my breakfast. Let's check out a podcast. Oh, yeah, that might not work either. And so that's when I'm just like, ah, let's go to the new one here. Well, and like for me personally, it makes more sense for me to invest more in a phone than it does even a desktop computer.

Yeah, because people probably don't understand how much Mathsonomics content is produced on an iPhone. On a phone than it does even a desktop computer. Yeah, because people probably don't understand how much Mathsonomics content is produced on an iPhone. On a phone, yeah. We're not saying videos. We're saying almost every meme you've ever seen, almost every versus you've ever seen, those are produced on a Mac laptop. Those are produced on an iPhone.

And some of you probably don't even understand how that's possible. Trust us, it is. So that's what I mean. Like, I use this for a lot of stuff that we do here, and we have a desktop Mac at home. But a lot of times, honestly, at home, it's more convenient for me to be, even if I were at home and I want to do something, like, just with kids and stuff like that, it's easier for me to just be where i'm at like where i'm at and use my phone yeah hop on the phone and i become so used to using this like i have an ipad and stuff too but i don't even use that because i just it's just easier for me to use this one thing and that

is the thing it's like you start to like when you really start to take these devices and make them your own like you put apps on them that a lot of people don't use because they work for your workflow and you get them you get you start to get things to do the way you want to use it yeah and unless you take the time to do that across all things like yeah your your phone is the easiest way to do it yeah um you know really when i think about it though four years on a phone like that's pretty dang good you know if you are any type of like my dad probably anyone's parents, most people's parents, they're basically like calling, texting, and maybe using the web browser. Like that's what they use their phone. Like they don't need like anything.

But you start to push like the limits and not even the limits, but you just start to do things that are a little more intensive as far as, you know, the demands on the processor and the RAM and all that stuff. A little nicer phone is kind of good to have. Yep. And also that's just the trend of the price and phone like you $800 even maybe five years ago would have seemed really expensive and at this point now it's like more like an average but even the six i think the six the price on it when it came out was like 700 or 750 but that was in the days of subsidized phones when you paid 200 bucks yeah and the carrier you know technically paid for the rest right which they say you know it was tied into the carrier you know technically paid for the rest

right which they say you know it was tied into the plan anyways so you end up paying for it so i guess it's kind of a wash i think yeah yeah so next week i'll report how my new phone on the 10r yeah i can we don't have to start looking see how long i can look at it i can put the bug in your ear they do make it in red so so you can get Massanomics red right off the bat. The thing is, there's a cover always goes on.

Well, but you can get the clear back to really accentuate the look. There's a lot of ways around this, Tanner. The biggest one, though, is going to be giving up

the headphone jack. Ooh, I don't like that. Headphone jack is going away. I do not like that. I forgot. I forgot. So the charger is going away. I do not like that. I forgot. And then, so the charger is different? No, charger is the same.

The charger is the same. There's just no headphone jack there. I don't like that. I understand the things are, I don't like Bluetooth-like stuff that well. Well, because that's the other one that if you're cheap and you haven't invested in all this new crap, Bluetooth doesn't work that good. No. Like cheap ones, they're just like... They don't work that well. No, they don't.

It's always searching for them. They're always dead. The battery's sucking them. So that one's going to kind of suck. You can get the adapter. There's a few guys that have it in the gym. It is annoying. I guess I don't...

The biggest one for me is headphones with that because the only place I'm regularly plugging my phone in to listen to it is in my car. Because I don't have Bluetooth audio in my car. I can do Bluetooth calls. I can't do Bluetooth audio because I drive a 2009 and I'm not from the future yet. I think my 2003 Buick has Bluetooth. I think they were really ahead of their time with the Bluetooth spec, if I remember correctly. That's a Buick for you.

Yep. That's just innovation. But that one, I will just have the adapter just permanently on my car. Yeah. Outside of that, I don't really plug into many things. The gym. But they do have one of the adapters there. And the gym one is Bluetooth.

And the gym has Bluetooth. And actually, some of the guys do use that already. So I guess I'll just add that to one of the devices. Yeah. But that's about it you know headphones we do my wife has a pair of bluetooth headphones so see i use this for headphones sometimes like what or earbuds you know if i'm out like going for a walk like i was talking about i just and i don't i'm not a huge fan of wearing headphones in general so i will a lot of times if i'm wearing a coat or something i'll just put it in my pocket with the speaker up so it's blasting into my face well that's what I do all

you know every morning as I'm listening to you know I'm always doing that I just have it in the kitchen and yeah wherever it's going and we have actually several bluetooth speakers in the house and I just prefer not to even plug into them I just like this volume level is good enough I'm fine with it so

that's our tech review this week. You know, thanks for listening. If you guys want to know anything else, you know, iPad pros, new Macs. We did politics last week.

Yeah. Tech this week. Tech this week. What else? What else? Oh, makeup and beauty tips are pretty popular. I'd like to get into

religion one of these weeks do that too yeah we love that one out yeah oh conspiracy theories are always you can't we can't run through politics and religion and then leave out conspiracy theories have you ever watched like some of the 9-11 conspiracy theory shows don't even get me started i've seen your base you know your loose change those ones. I kind of feel like that's required viewing in the American culture of things. It's be, you know, get the,

uh, get the skepticism radar up, but that is a dark hole. You can go down. And I don't think a lot of people have the best ability at deciphering what could be or isn't possible. It's, I agree.

That that's always a good one. Go to a bar with some buddies that are big conspiracy theories and just watch your fun level go all the way down it's the best way to ruin a night so yeah go invite that conspiracy theory friend out you'll have a you'll have a great time should we uh talk about something that has to do with lifting here now for a little bit too good yes i don't know if i'm not really positive that's why anyone's listening or if they prefer i think a lot of people prefer when we talk about shows that we like and uh i think so do you do you listen to audiobooks ever i can never remember if

i asked you this see i've been that has been i can say counting audio i'm going to count audiobooks as reading a book this year i have read more books than i have probably in the previous 10 years combined so where do you get audiobooks i do i do audible it's like 15 bucks a month so you get one credit with that and then if you wanted if you want to get more you can i think get credits at like a discounted rate or something but i think you don't realize there's a lot of audiobooks are eight plus hours and that's quite a bit of listening that is so you know it's usually not a one setting thing no no no no there's a lot of audio books are eight plus hours, and that's quite a bit of listening. That is. It's usually not a one-setting thing.

No, no, no, no, no. I've listened to a few that are like three hours or less. Yeah. But, yeah, especially once you get the ones that are over like 10, 12 hours, you kind of feel like you're in it for the long haul. You do get a little bit of a sense of accomplishment when you're done with it, too. I'm doing – right now this will be – I like to listen to a lot of business-oriented ones, just to get some ideas going, get some more conversation in.

But I am listening to Shoe Dog. It's the Phil Knight book. Are you familiar with who that is or what that is? Phil Knight as in Nike? Yes, yeah, yeah. It's like his kind of memoir of starting Nike and everything. Not completely a business book. It's more just kind of his life story Nike and everything. Not completely a business book. It's more just kind of his life story.

I'm a few hours into it right now. It's pretty interesting. There's a lot that I didn't really have any clue with how they did it with Nike. What about, is it the waffle iron? I'm not that far yet, but I'm pretty sure that is part of it. Right now, I'm just at the part. Because I didn't realize that. Do you know what Onitsuka Tigers are?

I don't think so. It's kind of like, I believe they're kind of tied in with Asics. I haven't done a ton of research on this yet. But you know what? I'm just going to look since we're right here. What did you say the name of it is? Onitsuka Tiger. Yeah.

They have to be connected to Asics. Oh, I recognize that. Unless Asics bought them out now. But yeah, I mean mean they are ace it's the asics logo yeah um that is how nike started is how that uh phil knight somehow you know he got kind of there's a lot to it but he gets kind of hooked up with these guys in japan and then starts selling their shoes in america as blue ribbon sports okay and that's what starts the whole shoe business and then i haven't got to it yet but i'm pretty sure there's like a falling out or some type of dispute and so he makes his

own shoe company which is that nike at that point yeah but what did that ever do not much really take off to that yeah freaking colin kaepernick ruining the whole world now so thanks a lot nike but yeah good read oh so now we've covered books now should we get to lifting yeah now we'll touch on lifting briefly um kind of an exciting announcement this actually this might have been two weeks ago we're a little behind this is a little behind but it won't stop us we got so caught up in something last week our fast food i think yeah yeah that way we forgot to break this to you guys so i'm sure no one has been on Instagram and no one has seen this, but Thor will be competing in a powerlifting meet.

Yeah. December 15th, I think, is that right? December 15th. December 15th. Which is only a month away right now. Which when I first put the message out, I hadn't realized how soon this is coming. Uh-huh.

But it's only a month away. That means he probably only has, has, as we sit here today, a couple more weeks of heavy training. He's got to be hitting D-load pretty soon. With the type of weight he's moving, you're not taking that right up to the meet. No. So I would imagine by the end of November here, he's going to be done with any of his heavy training.

That is only a couple weeks, so that is not very long at all. No. The meet's going to be in Iceland. I don't know if it's, like, at his gym or somewhere else maybe. That is nice, though, for him, the first meet, being pretty much a home meet, you know. Yeah. That makes things easy.

They announced it's a WRPF meet, and I think karel serchev is going to be there is he and i don't know if he's benching maybe or just going to be there i i would be really cool if he was benching it what would be awesome is if they uh competed against each other that would be even better but i don't think the i don't think that's the plan but that would would be really, really cool to see those two compete against each other. But I don't think they are. So WRPF meet a few things. He won't be able to wear straps on the deadlift. That's a new thing for him.

I can't recall seeing him do many deadlifts prior to this that he was not wearing straps. I can't either. I guess, what's your predictions on his end of each individual numbers and we'll add it up for the total because my okay is this what he will attempt or what he will actually get well you could break it down of what you think he'll attempt like i think i think loaded okay see i don't keep up with his bench training like i don't think there's that much of it. No, but he's so strong.

Like, he should bench over 600, right? I don't think he will. You don't think so? Just based on what I've seen. I mean, I'm not here to bet against Thor. He'll be right around it, though, won't he? I don't think he's going to load up 675. No, my thought is that he's going to bench over 550, I would say, pretty much for sure.

But I don't think he's going to bench 600. But I might be in the minority of that. I will go against you at that. I think he's going to be very close to it. Yeah. Yeah, I think he's going to be right around 600. So you're thinking his third attempt bench will be about 600? I think at some point he's going to have very close to 600 on the bar.

Yeah. Squat, we should probably go into the correct order here. Right, right. Squat. Do you know, are they walking these out? WRPF, they use a monolith, don't they? No, they can use a monolith. I don't think that the squat or the walkout is a limiting factor for him either, though.

I don't think so either. I think for him, out of all the other stuff he's doing, walking out a squat is just like, yeah, whatever. But he does seem to push his squat training pretty good. I think he'll go over 1,000. So 1,000, would you say? We'll go a little ambitious on this. We'll say 1030. I think he has a low 1,000 squat out there.

Whether he gets it or not, I'm not sure. But I think he will get over 1,000. So you think his third one, he'd be going for over 1,000 squat out there. Whether he gets it or not, I'm not sure. But I think he will get over 1,000. So you think his third one, he'd be going for over 1,000? Yeah. And then you said 600, so he's at about 1,630. And then deadlifts. Deadlift. So we know he has the strength for deadlift.

Did you see him? He posted a deadlift today. No, I did not see that one yet. 8.37. I think he did it for two sets of two. Uh-huh. And it didn't look like I wasn't blown away. Was he using straps on that?

No. Okay. So it was like competition. Yeah, he did it at a competition. And I wasn't blown. I wasn't like, oh, dang, he could rep that out. But he also, I don't think, especially at those heavier weights, there's people that I would say look more explosive on the deadlift.

He is even, I mean, all of his deadlifts, there's definitely like the lily bridges. It's like boom, boom, boom, and then it slows down in a hurry. But I would say he's a little more steady the whole way through. It'd be really cool to see him get 900. I think that's definitely in his game plan to probably make a run for 900. Yeah, I think so too. I don't think he's going to be like a strong man that can deadlift.

What do you do on the elephant bar? 10, 37 or whatever? Yeah, yeah. I don't think he's going to do that and then be like, oh, yeah, and I can only do 850 on a powerlifting standard. Right. So I'd love to see 900 to 950. That'd be really cool.

950, I mean, you're talking world record now. Yeah. So that's probably not going to happen. So if you said 900, so what's your number? Will you say 900? So if I said 9, I mean, if he got 9, he'd be at a 2,500 total. Yeah, 25. I think it's pretty safe to say that unless something crazy happens,

he will have the biggest first meet of all time. I think that's probably a guarantee. I think that's safe to say. Yeah, we might have to double check with our friends at Open Powerlifting on that. Who else was in their first ever meet? I wonder if there's any 2,000 totals in their first meet. That one, I would believe that. I mean, it's still got to be only a few people, but I would believe it.

Dan Bell. Did he have? I think his – because I'm just thinking our rookie cards. JP Price is like a 16, 1700. Dan Green, 1500. Dan Bell might be about 2000. Taylor Willem is the lowest. Yeah.

675 pounds. Yep. In his defense, he was what? A freshman in high school? Yeah, weighed 120 pounds. Yeah. And looked like – But that also means

that he has has the biggest total gained over 1300 pounds on this total yeah that's really good impressive but dan bell might be about the highest one i've seen out of any of those that we've done andy huang was pretty high he was like 18 close to 1900 larry wheels i think was 16, 17 something like that Dan Bell's the highest one I can think of though but yeah I mean Thor will blow that out of the water I don't think anyone's I don't know who else could have

no it wouldn't take he wouldn't even have to have his best day to have a 2400 total I don't think I think that's fairly safe to say. Yeah. And who – how many 2,400 total guys would we say? Is there like 15 of them?

We talked about this not that long ago. Nine. Nine of them. Okay. Nine for 19 total. And I don't think any of those guys, their first meet was their 2,400 meet. No, no way. Not even close.

So he can have that record to his name at the very least i think uh i'm gonna say he's gonna squat like 950 i think that's what i think he's gonna squat about 950 and i think he's gonna bench like 550 and then try for more on his third and miss it like i feel like so i think he's gonna like end up with like five 50. So what's that? Nine 50 and five 1500. Yeah. 1500. And then I think he's going to deadlift a little bit over 900.

I'd say is like, I think like nine 25. So 24, 25. Yeah. So that's what I think. I think he's going to miss a couple, a couple of third. I think he's going to hit all those squats. He's going to miss his third deadlift in his third bench. third i think he's gonna hit all those squats and i think he's gonna miss his third deadlift in his third bench the thing i just where this gets confusing or where it gets a little tricky

is that i think he's coming into a powerlifting meet with a little different approach than the average person and is he coming in trying to pr every lift like oh yeah like like most of us would be trying to do yeah i don't know if he is like, cause I don't know if that's in his best interest to be bomb, to be missing lifts. Right. Like, I think it looks better for the strong man to like do, you know, a nine 75 squat and people be like, Oh, that was so easy. He left so much out and it's his first meet.

Like, yeah. Like, I feel like that's better for the conversation. You're right. Then for him to like hit nine 65 and be like, Ooh, that was a little slow. Oh, he's going 1025. And totally miss it. So I think he's going to kind of come in with that approach of he's got his image he's got to protect a little bit. And I believe that errs on the side of making lifts look easy rather than.

So you would say maybe more conservative attempt selection then? Maybe. So that already goes against what I picked against earlier? On the squat, maybe. On the squat. Probably on the deadlift. I think about 900 is a relatively conservative third attempt for him. And also with that one, though, I do feel like people are going to be a little disappointed if they don't see him go for at least 900.

I think people think he's going to deadlift like 1,000 pounds. I think people do too, which I'm not saying he's i think he's good for it at some point in his life but i don't i mean in a full meet i don't know if yeah i don't know if a full meet but i also would say though as conditioned as a as a person that's watched the arnold several times i'm in as good of a position to speak on this as anyone are you any more fatigued from three squat and three bench attempts than you are from like a what they're 1600 pound yoke carry and all that stuff i think less yeah so he should i think going into deadlifts feel just as good as he probably better than he does any other day well he's used

to when he deadlifts in a competition he's always already done it's usually two or three days into an event he's already done six plus events the biggest difference is that he has straps yeah and it's on a rate you know a bar it's on a regular bar like that's going to have a factor in it too but i think that the straps are a bigger factor than the bar because any other debt like we talk about big dogs the deciding factor for almost everyone there is grip when it comes to the final attempt deadlifts i could still i could see where we could go out in total like 23 50 and i wouldn't even i wouldn't be i wouldn't be like oh that's so so far below my expectation i could see that happening

and and then and then i could see people being like man i thought he was gonna well and then all the powerlifting people say look yeah he's yeah, he's not that strong. But also, he hasn't trained. Best ever. Like, he literally has not been training for this sport. Yeah. And he comes in, and his first time puts up one of the best totals of all time. Actually, I put it on our Instagram poll a while ago. I said, I picked 2,400 as the over-under number.

And about 75% of the people voted that they thought he'd go over 2,400. So, at least our audience has faith in him. Yep, three-fourths. But I still – I personally think 2,400 is more like a 50-50 over-under where – Yeah, I think – Like I think 2,400 is a pretty fair line in the sand where he could – Yep. Because that's the one like you miss – if he does do, you know, like a 50- plus pound jump on

his third attempt squat he does miss that that number gets a lot harder to hit all of a sudden for sure yeah or like if he get i don't know his depth always looks fine to me but like if he just cuts one high i think they're probably i think judging is going to be in his favor yeah i assume there's some you know there's something in it for Kirill in bringing this there. Yeah, I think he's going to have a lot of the – he's definitely – he has the home team on his side. But I do – compared to a lot of power lifters, his technical proficiency I would say is better. I think it's – like I've never seen a lift of his. You see him walk out all of his squats. He takes his time.

They all look to depth for how massive he is. I don't know. You see there's other powerlifters that for sure have way more issues with depth and training than he does. Yeah. Bench, I mean, he has videos pausing. Yeah. And then. See, bench is where I believe, believe like if he really was into powerlifting

and training he would probably have a lot bigger bench than what he's gonna have but he doesn't train bench and there's just not top singles like it's not advantageous for yeah there's not advantageous for him to be loading up 600 plus on the bench right for his strongman training right he's better off you know training his overhead press and those things and so it's almost like his bench power is just residual from the other things. Right. I'll be excited to see it, though. Yeah.

So it is coming really fast. Only a month out. Yeah. He did those 837 by 2. I know the other day he squatted 8 plus for a couple reps. I do think he does have this going in his favor, too. I'm not completely sure who his coach is for powerlifting. It's Australian strength coach, yeah.

I do think he's going to come in with more of a game plan than most people, too, though. Yeah, for sure. Like, I think powerlifters are notorious for, like, either abandoning the game plan or not having a good one because they think they know what they're doing. Yeah. Whereas I think he will have. Yeah, I think the numbers will be pretty you know there's gonna be it's gonna be very calculated just like his diet and everything too you know he's nothing is accidental right it's all very intentional very premeditated like he's thinking of these things and i'm sure they probably

already have the game plan for his numbers i bet they do and they're just gonna see how these next couple weeks go and if they have to make any minor tweaks, they might, and then reevaluate even on the day of. But I don't think they have any surprises. No. I just hope he's fully healthy, like, leading into it. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to see it's like, oh, yeah, he had a minor peck. Had a bad hamstring.

Yeah, or had a minor peck strain going in, so he has to take it down and take 400-pound bench attempts instead of whatever he thought he was going to go for. Right. Yeah, hopefully he can put together the perfect prep here and yeah it'd be awesome to see him go in and hit 2500 yeah it would be as a fan of the sport i'd love to see that yes what i still really want to see him do is go and compete at big dogs like i'd like to see that too if it could well and if he has a good meet here you know maybe why not yeah i guess depending on where it falls with his world's strongest and there's still there is money to be won there.

I mean, it's not, even compared to some of the Strongman competitions, it's decent money. It's not as much quite as the winner of the Arnold. I was going to say even the U.S. Open, but that probably will never work just where it falls with Strongman stuff. Being in April, May. World's Strongest Man is usually in May, isn't it? Yeah. Right around there. And the Arnold's in March. Yeah know it's just like yeah that's i feel like that's asking for an

injury right yeah yeah that would be so that one probably won't happen but yeah big dogs would probably be the next most logical yep one for him to jump on so we'll see to be determined exciting times ahead also in in other meets, Reebok record breakers. Sorry, not Reebok record breakers. But it was Slingshock record breakers, and then it was presented by Reebok. There was Reebok still in the... They must not have been the premier sponsor.

Yeah, they were still in there, though. Did you watch it? No, I saw it was a free live stream and at one point in time i pulled i didn't watch it at all either no i uh actually pulled it up once and i hadn't realized the time zone difference of the times and it still wasn't starting for 30 minutes and then i got busy doing other stuff and never never went back to it i don't even really know if there was i don't think there was maybe as much record-breaking as they would have hoped for at the meet. Not very many, I don't think. Like in years past.

Like, Kaler Wollum, he was there last year, wasn't he? That was kind of probably the big story from it. And I want to say, like, two or three years ago, Jesse Norris was there. I think Steffi Cohen's been there before. Yeah, so there's been some people putting up really big totals. It seems like that just wasn't quite the case this year. Dan Bell competed there this year and i think he didn't do i saw him like a 575 yeah he's happy with his bench like that's

a pretty good bench yeah i think he only that's pretty good bench for anyone but right i think he ended up with only like a 905 squat which would be way under his expectation i'm sure yeah and i don't know what the what did uh... Who is... Like, what federation is that under, even? That is SPF. It is, okay. Southern Powerlifting Federation. I don't know what... Yeah, that seems to be the one that Mark Bell

is always kind of associated with, isn't it? It seems to be a little bit, I would say, looser on the rulebook than USPA. Than, like, a USPA, yeah. I think both people would agree with that. But I also think USPA has that reputation as being the toughest one, non-IPF. Because this one, you know, like Ed Cohn's always the judge.

Yeah, you get the judges that are also recording. Yeah. It's like, that doesn't look good for any sport, you know. Yeah. So Dan didn't quite have the meat he wanted, I don't think. Someone that did have a pretty good meat was Herbie the Love Bug. I did see that. I can't remember his numbers.

I think he had like an eight-something deadlift. Yeah, a pretty big one there. We could jump into big lifts because there was one of the girls. I got her numbers in big lifts that she competed there as Christy Hawkins. of the girls i got her numbers in big lifts that she competed there is christy hawkins and she in 165 women christy hawkins she set a world record in everything yeah at the meet like in literally every category uh what did she squat 529 squat and this is in sleeves. She broke the world record. Yeah, 529 squat, a 331 bench, and a 557 deadlift for a 1418 total. All of those four were world records. And she also has the squat in sleeves world record

and the total in sleeves world record. So she literally has every 165 woman's world record. You mean wraps, right? Yes, yes. Because this is sleeves. She also has the wraps world record and the total in wraps world record. Yeah, that's domination right there. That's pretty much canon.

You can't. Is there anywhere else, any other classes where that exists? It's almost always that if you have the deadlift record, you are not setting either the bench or the squat yeah like that's almost like a rule you know i'm sure that that can't i don't not in men's at least i'm thinking about men's and i can't picture where that well uh no no no i don't know who that would be because the best deadlifters well that's what i was gonna say yuri belkin what records you know he's got deadlift record but probably not the squad or the bench i would he definitely has deadlift in total yeah

deadlift in total there's there's just there's so many bench specialists for guys and larry you know has some total records but i don't know that i don't know what individual records he wouldn't have a squat he could possibly have a bench and deadlift at his weight class yeah i don't even know if he does or not, though. We could hop on open powerlifting, but we're just going to keep assuming on this one. We like to. One of the more interesting attempts, I remember you telling me about this, and I was a little surprised, was Julius Maddox.

Yeah, at Rebock Record, or Slingshot Record Breakers. I even heard Mark Bell accidentally call call it reebok record breakers uh which is funny because he's the one paying the sponsor and to him the free plug uh yeah julius maddox who is an enormous man i think he's about 6 3 4 25 is what he weighs in at and his opening attempt bench he's a bent just doing only, and he went in as his opening attempt at 716 pounds. Which, if you don't keep up with things, it's a big bench. It's not a bad bench. It's actually the third heaviest, makes him the third heaviest bencher of all time,

only behind Cherchev and Spoto at 722. Well, but what about Mendy? His is a 715 oh it is 715 oh okay yeah oh scott mendelsohn has the 715 bench so this puts so that was the goal that was the okay interesting um so his opener is 716 in my opinion i i think i even said this to you going into it as like i think he's gonna get that based on how I saw him train, and I don't think he's going to get anything after that. Yep. And that is exactly what he did.

Yeah, that was exactly what you told me, and that was how it happened. Because he did like 630 for a set of five and 645 for some doubles, and he did 705 when we were at the cage at the Arnold this year. So I knew he was in the ballpark, but I was like, he's not going to go. the cage at the Arnold this year. So I knew he was in the ballpark, but I was like, he's not going to go. He's not going to do 716 and then 725 and then 740. Like I couldn't picture him doing three. Three basically world record attempts.

Back to back to back. Like that seems like poor attempt selection. But he did get it, and it looked hard. Which it should be, 7.16. Yeah, he locked one arm out a little bit slower than the other. It was a little bit lopsided there for a while, but it looked like a good rep to me. And he kind of said he did that without even really peaking for the meet.

Really? He just kind of trained. Well, start peaking here. Yeah. Well, that is his goal is to get the world record bench and then he's going to go full power he said so what would the world record bench actually be then i think it's 738 or whatever 730 something like that well i mean at Well, I mean, at this level, 23 pounds, what's that, like 2% better? Like, come on, just try 2% harder.

Well, they always say the last 25 pounds is the easiest. That's what I like to say. I think at the top of your game, that rule applies more than ever. That's when someone gets that 500-pound squat, they just hit their 500-pound PR, and then they say road to 600. That last 100 pounds is always the easiest. It is. I mean, you might as well actually skip that and just say road to 700

because it's locked up. It's guaranteed. It gets so much easier. It gets exponentially easier to gain more weight as you go. You work to build this base, and your base is so good that everything goes into autopilot from there on out. It's so easy to keep getting stronger once you start to get stronger yeah he should be benching 800 at no time i think pretty easily i would think nothing to worry about there

uh and we are in our big lift segment yeah yeah sorry sorry yeah we didn't make that super clear maybe the big lifts music didn't play today but we are into big lifts we're fully in big lifts but uh that that covered most of the Reebok record breakers big lifts. Or slingshot record breakers big lifts. Reebok is loving the free advertising. All that free Massanomics podcast airtime. Blaine Sumner. What was it?

Like IPF Classic Worlds? Open Worlds. Open Worlds, yeah. Which is their single fly. He benched 915. Looked pretty Worlds. Yeah, which is their single-ply. He benched 915, looked pretty good. So that was the new world record, which he probably chipped that by whatever increment he could take that. It was like 914, I suppose, before. He went for 937, and when you watch it, it's a good lift.

And the judges also thought it was a good lift. But then, I don't know how this works it goes to it went to the jury somehow the jury looked at it said he lifted his head overruled it and it was no longer considered a good lift uh i believe the ipf is the only federation that has the head rule pretty much every other federation as long as your shoulders and butts stay on the bench you can do whatever yeah i don't i don't know that there is any other other ones where your head has to stay down yeah so and he lost it like if he has hair i don't know if he loses that yeah like he's probably good but uh the fact that he's

bald maybe makes it a little easier to spot for the minute amount that it moves yeah uh so yeah that got overturned but he's definitely good for it. It looked, I don't know, it didn't look any different to me than, like, his 915. The interesting comment that I saw on the topics, and Blaine replied to it, someone said, like, Blaine, when your back is that big, how do you keep your head on the bench? And I think his response was, I'm trying to figure that out too, which he has a point. Like, there comes a point where in lifting,

when you're as massive as these guys are, like, it's the sport of powerlifting isn't doing you favors. Right. Like it is way more advantageous to be small like in some of these things. Like you get – I think you get more out of things, you know. Yeah. The bench, when you're little, the bench covers way more of your back. Like that's one where if you're a skinny person – that's like you and me getting to use the fat pad. Yeah.

Oh, man. Like this thing is so much room. And we don't have the world's biggest backs by any means. Right. Like in compare. And I can only imagine what it's like with these guys, you know, to use the narrower IPF bench versus the. Yeah, especially someone like Blaine, who is as wide as like a Coke machine. Yeah.

Like you're bouncing on there and then he has to keep his heels down. And he's wearing a shirt he's wearing a shirt like yeah it's it's tough uh another well we'll say we'll save that one for a minute uh friend of the podcast bonica brown yeah also lifting at uh ipf open worlds yep bubbly power lifter yeah correct uh 701 single ply squat it's a good squat yeah and uh i don't know if you saw it or not but her squat in single ply looks just like uh a raw squat yeah it doesn't there's almost no difference just like oh yep i just throw the suit on and yeah and when i watch that i like that makes you know i really it's easy to really respect single ply when you see someone squat like that.

And she squatted it deep, too, where I'm like, oh, man, she really smoked that. It just looks like a squat when you watch it. She knows what she's doing. Yeah, yeah. And she's good at what she does. Yes, which is a world record, and I'm sure she's had a total world record, too. And speaking of world record squats, the final one on the list here we've talked about this guy before this year already yeah dave hoff squatted one two three four 1234 pounds i

wonder if that's why he chose that number it has to be i don't think it was a world record oh it wasn't i think he probably had a total world record. Oh, okay. Is that what it was? Maybe, but, I mean, it's up. It's, like, top. Yeah, it's got to be right in the area. But did you see it, Tanner? I did. Marshall, whatever, Marshall something from Fargo. He's a multi-ply lifter, and he posted a video of it from the front.

Like, he was there? Yeah, he was there lifting. Where was the meet at? It was WPO. It's like this thing they brought back that used to be at the Arnold. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Donnie Thompson. Yeah, yeah.

So that's what this is. Like they're kind of trying to like get a research. Yeah, resurrect it. And, you know, so it's like there. I say there like, you know, multiply, you know, it's like there i say they're like you know multiply you know west side kind of guys and stuff it's like their super bowl i suppose or their biggest biggest event of the year so i think it's you know it's a big deal for them to even lift in that but uh yeah i saw a video of it from the front and

it's what you'd expect yeah i don't know like i guess i just don't appreciate it enough i'm not really sure what to say about it i just it's just not what i'm used to yeah so it's and we just i don't we also don't have the perspective on it right we've never done it no right i don't know i don't i like that's literally it i don't know yeah it doesn't look like the squats that i'm used to watching. It's like an entirely different movement. Like, yeah, the bar is going down, but they're in completely different gear than what we're used to. Like, it's a completely different setup. It's in a monolith.

They have a width that is just way outside of what anyone would squat with a rod. And, like, none of those things are right or wrong. They're just all together added up to be, like, a completely different beast than what we have any opinion on yeah or don't we have what we have any insight on i should say we have an opinion we don't have any insight on it though um so yeah he did a 1234 squat yeah and i don't remember what his total was and everything but i guess he won wpo i think you i think you want some money a few few thousand bucks. Well, good. Yeah. It's all about the Benjamins.

Prize money is always good. We're already getting down there on time. Do we stat of the week? Stat of the week. Yeah, we could do a stat of the week, actually, for the stat of the week. So all you people that have been waiting all episode for the stat of the week, you can hear this and then finally quit listening now. Sometimes we mix it in towards the middle, towards the beginning, uh today we're gonna keep you busted out here towards the end and um what i'm what it's gonna be this week is actually we posted this on uh instagram earlier this week

but of the 12 men's weight classes and powerlifting seven of the world record deadlifts come from the wrpf that did get amended later the guys that opened powerlifting looked of the world record deadlifts come from the wrpf that did get amended later the guys at open powerlifting looked and there was one correction that they had to make and it actually turns out to be six of the 12 world records no no so they said six fifty percent of men's deadlift world records come from the wrpf yeah and they did add one bit of information to that here just today that i i want to find um because kaylor willem asked the question kind of asked it to us but then i redirected to open power lifting he said i'm guessing that uh meat that he lifted in there was the most 900 pound deadlifts in any meat ever and what open power lifting said is uh they got their

team to find the the info out on that and um that wrpf worlds is that that's the meet that they're at has the most 900 pound deadlifts in a single meet ever with five wow uh the second most ever was boss of bosses four which had three so 900 plus deadlift when they say that are they counting like multiple attempts like like if you read those three 900 pound deadlifts does that count as three or is it are they saying final like individual i think just individual okay i'm not yeah because i mean like well it has to be because yuri and kayalar both take at least two 900 deadlifts each, right? Right, I think so. Because they both have, like, probably, like, a 903 and then, like, a 920 or 930, whatever.

Yep. Yeah, that's interesting. And I think that one actually had a lot of discussion on it, the fact that 50% of the world's deadlift records come from the WRPL. Right. It's interesting. Like, it brings the debate the debate in like is there crazy whippy bar they're super wide plates that who knows what those things are like right is that the reason for these lifts that's kind of the that's kind of like that's kind of what it's hinting at it's not saying that's the reason but what i asked kaylor too is i think you could look at it two ways is it because of those plates in the bar?

Is that why people are deadlifting 900? Or are they just really getting the top talent? Yeah. Are the top talented deadlifters drawn to those plates? Yeah, to those meats and to those plates and to those bars? And that's what Kaler kind of said. He said all the people there deadlifting over 900 pounds are basically 900-pound deadlifters anyways. But he does say that he thinks he got –

It does have an effect. Yeah, he says he could deadlift a little bit more because of that setup. And he doesn't necessarily say, like, the whole thing is just easier. Like, he does say there are some – There's some parts of it that could be harder, too, that if you get, like, misgrooved or if you uh uh jerk you know if you if it's not like a steady pull you don't say the whip is a real factor yeah that it could actually throw you off or be a hindrance for some people so i'm curious are any of those lifts out of the wrpf are any of those conventional i don't know i don't think so i don't think they are

either because there's that there's there's there't think they are either. Because there's that. There's Kaler. There's Uri. There's that lighter Russian guy that I can't even think of his name. Those guys I know for a fact all pull like that lighter. I cannot think of his name. But I think he either pulls high 800s or low 900. There's three other guys. I don't even know who they are.

I don't even know. And some of those guys did just do deadlift only. The record, that 6 out of 12 includes deadlift only or push-pull. When it comes to the world record, they also include fourth attempts too, though, don't they? Yeah. That doesn't count in the total, but I think it counts for the individual lift. Yeah, I think you're probably right. And that is another unique thing is that WRPF does offer fourth attempts on deadlift.

Yeah. So that could be where you are seeing some more, whereas other lifts, you know, people do rock their third deadlift, you're just done for the day. Here you do get that chance to kind of take the victory lap and really see what you got. So at WRPF Worlds, there was five 900-plus deadlifts. At Big Dogs, one, two, and three. Do you know how many 900-plus deadlifts at big dogs one two and three do you know how many 900 plus deadlifts there's been

across all well this year was there one zero oh there was zero this year there was multiple attempts but yeah zero one it's zero there's never been a night but wow that's interesting those guys never been a yeah wow because that's interesting yeah those guys just

i mean they're going through a lot like yeah they're putting up a world record total but right um damn that's surprising yeah and it's not for a lack of 900 pound deadlifts being attempted no and it's and i think part of it is the speed of you know the that meat it's just one flight of you know tennis guys so you're running through pretty quickly. By the time you get to deadlift, you might be more tired than in a normal meet. That is really shocking. I would have guessed for sure that big dogs would have had one

900-pound deadlift. They're all like those really big squatters. All those guys that are squatting close to 1,000. Or more. That's actually the fact of the week right there yeah that's pretty cool all those little tidbits rolled up into one uh open power lifting just sprinkled all over it cool well thank you open power lifting you guys did it again uh we are almost out of time here do we have a review we want to go through? Yeah, we do have one review that needed to be read here.

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Very limited, and it was also in a similar blue. This is the first time we've ever done the lift in a – In any color besides blue. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, this will be a first in several ways. And that one is a crew neck. Yep. So that is our one crew neck outfit.

And you might be complaining, no, I want a hoodie. Well, the lift logo doesn't fit on those. It's too big. So you look at your sweatshirt, there's a hoodie pocket. The logo would go over. It doesn't work that way. So we couldn't give it to you on those. Yeah.

So the Lyft logo is not going to probably ever appear on a hoodie. No. Like, it's just not. And someone's probably thinking, well, I know someone that can print it. Well, we don't want it over the pocket. We don't want that. We have a certain look. But it does look pretty sweet on the crew neck.

It does, yes. And the gray looks pretty cool, I think, too. Yep, for sure. Actually, gunmetal heather. Yep. So now some of you out there are butthurt because you don't want a crew neck. Well, we don't stop there. Back on the bench, short topic, we're releasing that in a heathered blue hoodie with this bench heavy logo.

And this will be the first hoodie in the history of Massanomics. Yes, that's true. So that's pretty exciting. A lot of people have been asking about hoodies for a while. And we sat on that way too long, so we're bringing you with a hoodie. Yes. But there's one more thing. There's's more don't go yet yeah well how do you follow up with the first massonomics hoodie you follow it up with the first massonomics zip hoodie uh and it's not zip is it yeah we have

a zip one too don't we no we don't have a zip one sorry we follow it up with the first with with the second massonomics hoodie but it's the first camo Mastanomics hoodie. Yes, exactly. A camo zip. It's the same thing. Guys, we talked about a lot of things here. I can't keep them all straight. They just need to get here so I can see them.

But, yeah, I'm glad you can set me straight there, Ted. We have a camo hoodie, and this is an all-new design. Never before released. Never before released. Never before released. And this is the Masonomics Eagle. It's a bit of a – it's just kind of your good – you just have to wait and see it. We call it our Eagle logo. Yeah, it's got a bit of a military vibe to it, kind of that old-school cool look.

It's just got kind of a tough look to it. I'm pretty excited about that it's not beverage inspired so so some of you might be upset by that yeah but also if some of you might be excited you might be excited about that and it is camo if you're like hey one of these guys ever going to do something that doesn't have to do with beer here it is this one but you can and it is camo inspired which seems to be the other thing we like to do too. I mean, and then the final thing is we spent a lot of time looking for good sweatshirts. These are the best sweatshirts. I would say they're the best sweatshirts.

They are. Like, no lie, you probably have a sweatshirt from some company in the world right now. You probably bought a sweatshirt from this company before in your life, and you don't even realize it. Like, this is the sweatshirt company. Like, this is the premier sweatshirt from this company before in your life, and you don't even realize it. This is the sweatshirt company. This is the premier sweatshirt company. So the fit is perfect, just the quality, their fleece line, they're super nice. So I'm really excited about these things. Yep, I am.

I want to get one to start wearing it myself. You know, for eight months of winter. Maybe get two even. Let's put them on both at the same time. Maybe a hoodie over the crew neck. Yeah, now we're talking. The hardest part is probably going to be able to pick your favorite, I would think. It will be.

So you'll have to get all three to really find out. Yeah. Brian from Omaha, Benzel. Yep. They call crew necks nudies. Really? I've never heard that. Instead of hoodies like with an n in the front you know i've never heard that yeah because he saw that we were coming out with

hoodies and he was like what about the uh for the nudie crowd ah i didn't know what he meant i didn't see that i didn't know what he meant by that i think because they they really like crewnecks they do okay i like crewneck and for lifting i kind of feel like crewnecks are a little like you don't have that hood in your way when you're benching or when you're squatting. But hoodies are pretty stylish. Also functional. There's a hood on them. And the pocket.

And the pocket. So, again, we have all of our bases covered. You guys are set. So order them up. We're excited to see how our big launch party goes on them. Yeah. But what about the drop party? Oh. No, okay. how our big launch party goes on them. Yeah, but what about the drop party? Oh, no, okay.

That was our launch party. I would say also when you're listening to this, Thanksgiving is coming up within a few days. Watch for our Thanksgiving Black Friday deals. We do have Black Friday deals this year. They're going to be good, too. I don't want to give them away yet because we probably have i don't know if we would have posted about it by this time or not but

there's going to be some there we'll just say there could be a little extra a little extra coin going back into your pocket like a and the keyword being here a little extra little coin so you know everyone knows the shtick on our lift shorts, but just be on the lookout. There could be a big deal coming your way. You're not a billionaire. They might be affordable to you now. Keep your eyes peeled on that one. Other than that, I think you guys know all the places,

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