Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 278: World Record Skateboard Deadlift with Mikey O'Brien

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

Mikey O’Brien deadlifts 500+ pounds…. on a skateboard. Why? How? Can he do a Jefferson Deadlift on a skateboard too? We get to the bottom of all these hard hitting questions and much more. The Strength Co: https://www.thestrength.co/ Hybrid Performance Method: https://www.hybridperformancemethod.com/ MASS to save 5% on all training & nutrition Fusion Sports Performance: https://www.fusionsp.net/ MASS to save 20% on all FSP supplements Spud Inc: https://www.spud-inc-straps.com/ Texas Power Bars: https://www.texaspowerbars.com/

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

If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! Massanomics! side everything massonomics welcome back everyone to episode 278 of the massonomics podcast the lifting podcast about nothing recorded live from western northeast south dakota my name is tanner and my name is tommy 278 i had to think again for a second on the number on that one, but 278 I think is right here.

Hard to believe. I think that sounds right. There again, I think maybe I said this last week, but some hot weather we've been having, huh? Tanner, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. That's what gets you. I think it's like the combination, really. No, it's just the humidity.

Just the humidity. Straight up the humidity that gets you. Yeah, that's just the humidity. Just the humidity. Straight up the humidity. Yeah, that's what I heard. It hasn't been a dry heat, though, has it? It's been a pretty wicked heat. And also, how about those Olympics? Have you been keeping up on the Olympics? I have.

And actually, we should probably read an ad before we get carried away. Good idea. Very good idea. Today's episode is brought to you by Hybrid Performance Method. Hybrid Performance Method is your solution to strength. No BS training, nutrition, and education for a hybrid athlete. Make sure to check out Hybrid's training and strength coach app. The Hybrid Strength Coach app is here and it's stacked with the most popular hybrid training programs,

coaching videos, exercise demonstrations, and instructional images to ensure your technique is on point. World-class training programs designed by the greatest mind and strength delivered straight to your mobile device. The Hybrid Strength Coach app sets a new standard for the industry, providing a streamlined platform for athletes of all backgrounds and putting the power of the strongest team in your hands the hybrid strength coach program includes access to program specific private discord communities for live access to real-time feedback from your hybrid coaches and when you sign up for any of hybrids training uh the strength coach app their nutrition any of that stuff you can use our discount code tommy that's mass m-a-s-s in all caps

they'll save you five percent for the life of any of those memberships i like that sweet deal there so that's our sponsor but yeah the olympics have you been watching any of the olympics so i have been watching um there's a lot of commercials on during the olympics i don't know if you've watched much but it almost feels like i'm watching commercials and then the olympics are sprinkled in that's and also actually like tv in general but i never watch regular tv so i'm not used to that i think the olympics might be worse than normal you're probably right and and also like for watching sporting events you don't really get to just watch it feels like everything you're watching is like a condensed version of a sporting event like it's like almost if you just watch sportsCenter and they said, well, this is the basketball game.

And you're like, well, I kind of feel like I'm not getting the whole thing. That's what it's felt like to me. Have you watched any of the basketball then? I've watched some three-on-three games. I did not know that three-on-three was an Olympic sport. Why is it? That's also half of the Olympics is just

like, damn, didn't know that was a sport. Why is that a sport? Why is three-on-three basketball an Olympic sport? I don't, is it that's also half of the olympics is just like damn didn't know that was like be like why is that a sport why is three on three basketball an olympic sport i don't is it really popular is it really popular overseas maybe it's really popular for fifth graders traveling the country doing i yeah i did not i had no idea is this the first year of it has it existed before no clue and I don't know so like the you like I'm questioning the talent pool like well the best three on three NBA or the best three on three basketball players would still be you know LeBron James Kevin Durant uh Damian Lillard not calling up the guys from the early 2000s and one mixtapes and be like i'm like the best three on three players would be you would think like you would certainly think when you could make an argument like that there's

other teams out there and stuff like that but no like if you're like you you pick your three on three team your life depends on them winning i'm gonna pick whichever three I'm going to pick Giannis, uh, LeBron and Kevin Durant. Yeah. Like three on three team is so tall and big. Like, like I'm not going to pick these few guys that play together out in New York. I'm like,

no, yeah. Picking NBA players. Like you could argue which NBA players of course, but like, that's my point is I'm like, yeah, that's why I had the conversation with my wife.

I'm just like, so just the three on three teams, is this where they bring up college players like as their pros in this and all these things are things you could probably easily google but it's funner just to be like i don't know and like to speculate and never look into it yeah yeah that's true i watched a little swimming swimming is always interesting in the olympics and it's not interesting in any other time the long races get a little long oh my god i didn't realize how long they were i'm like i did 30 laps i'm like i that's i'm checked out you don't even know because the lapping starts yeah or like the like it's not a tight race anymore so you don't even know like yeah who if this person matters if you're not paying that's i caught the 1500 meter last night i think actually just the first part of it because

once i realized i how long in my mind i'm like i don't know is that up and back a couple times or yeah and then they said like 30 i'm like oh no this is not going to be interesting for that one is it the 200 is just down back down back right i think that's probably 50 i think so okay like that's a pretty tight race the whole way through yeah and like it gets to that is the crazy thing too is that these are the best swimmers in the world and it still is within a half second decides like first through fourth like every time it still feels like shouldn't there be a bigger gap but i guess i guess the the it's that tight of a pattern of that it is it is weird it is crazy that's what it comes down to but yeah so some of the swimming the shorter ones are more exciting gymnastics you know there's all the all the oh she can yeah i guess a lot of other sports if your head's not in

it yeah you just have a bad play gymnastics your head's not in it you just land on your head and die is that what happens there so i i guess i'll give her a pass that's fine with me yeah i don't i mean mental health is is uh pretty serious thing so like i don't i don't i think it's tough for anyone besides an individual to judge but like like, you don't know. Totally. And then, yeah. That goes really with health of any kind, to tell you the truth. But like, outside of the individual, you don't really know. Like, that's the only person that knows what that individual experience is like.

So, you know, that's. Yeah. So I give her a pass there. That doesn't bother me at all. No. Other than that. That's. Also, she, what it, not talking about even just her, but any Olympians,

I don't think that they, I'm not owed something by them for them to do something. I'm like, yeah, go do a good job if you can. Otherwise, like, oh, well. Go do your thing while I'm the most fair weather fan ever could possibly be. Exactly. Oh, you let me down. Just so you know, I will be entertained for the next three minutes. And after that, I won't think about this exactly oh you let me down just so you know i will be entertained for the next three minutes and after that i won't think about this again you let me down i will have completely forgotten about this next month but um next event that's going on yeah

so that i did catch the triathlon a little bit of that okay that'd be cool again endurance things aren't the most exciting thing to watch it's just too long yeah i've seen a little ping pong highlights here and there a little bit of badminton too badminton's kind of crazy because that's a way different uh the way they play badminton's way different than like when you have that one family reunion every 10 years and people are like kind of yeah it's like yeah it's like ping pong though too other one too i think one of the most underrated ones is probably men's volleyball. I haven't seen that on there,

but it's not even like it's the same sport. Right. Compared to what you're used to seeing, like at a recreational or even a high school level. Right. When you have guys that are like six, eight, like basically NBA type players slamming and jumping at that level.

Right. It's, it's a fast paced game. So that one's always fun too. I watched part of the Olympic weightlifting on my lunch break today. Oh, I haven't caught any of that. It was the 74-kilogram men, so the USA was CJ Cummings, and I watched them do their snatches, and it's a rising bar.

They do rising bar. It's not the round system, and he was pretty early in it. He was the second guy. It was a 145-5 pound snatch attempt the first one he missed it how much 145 kilograms oh 140 kilo okay yeah kilograms yeah and it was the snatch the harder of the two yes so we're talking like 320 ish pounds yeah and he missed the first one the second one he like there was a question they had to review it they called it good but you know you can't lock out yeah you can't press it out at all you know your arms need to be just say an extension and they they kind of ended up giving it to him and then

his third one he missed so i'm like damn that's kind of like not a very fun day he he got one of three and the one he got was like a review even questionable yeah and you could tell he was super pissed yeah damn but it was i just i was like ah cj cummings i actually know who that is yeah and for being in a world that's not that far away from us like oh it is still a world away from us it's still like most people be like oh it's all the same thing and it's like well no if they're kind of adjacent but also it is like miles apart it is miles apart and the the hush over the crowd when they walk up to the bar, I'm like, that is so weird. Like everyone goes death, like deathly silent, like the backstroke of someone golfing or like a tennis.

Yeah. They're like, the crowd goes silent. I never catch weightlifting on TV. I'll have to try and look for it. But yeah, it's, I just, it's not done. The biggest thing that stuck out to me is like the silence. And I'm like, boy, that's hard. it seems like a very formal yeah yeah yeah it's way more formal or like like etiquette like there's this fancy etiquette to olympic weightlifting the

prestige well yeah so i guess that's week one coverage of massonomics stay tuned next week for more really just armchair commentary uh i noticed like the other thing i noticed is the uh bonsai trees sitting behind the people when they talk like who i haven't been on nbc with mike terrico yeah like behind mike terrico bonsai does doesn't your brother have some bonsai trees he probably does yeah those bonsai trees behind him are worth like tens of thousands like bonsai trees like that like because they live like 100 someone i know very little about this but from what i know my wife actually is very into plants so she does kind of know about it and she was explaining a little bit and i think because don't they take a really long time

the size that some of those were i would presumably take like hundreds of years but some of those can sell like at auctions for insane amounts of money and maybe these aren't the particular exactly there but that is true for some bonsai trees yeah right right right well insider states stay tuned for more bonsai i'm watching those bonsai yeah tanner bonsai i think we should get into a can here yeah and this is a what's in the can for sure i'm gonna need you to suit up over there okay suit up barney stinson so i know you i know that you don't like the how i met your mother but i do like to pull out the how i met your mother i know you do every time i'm just kind

of wishing i could do this over my headphones. And every time the headphones have to come off. If I'm going to pick my preferred Neil Patrick Harris, I like to think of him as more of the... Doogie Howser? No, no, the White Castle Neil Patrick Harris. But do you know Doogie Howser? Yeah, the genius doctor child.

That is Neil Patrick Harris, isn't it? I'm pretty sure. Okay. Okay. So we are doing what's in the can here, Tanner. I yeah the genius doctor child that is Neil Patrick Harris isn't it I'm pretty sure okay okay so we are doing what's in the can here Tanner I'm gonna hand it over to you okay I was gonna build it up but you know what skinny it's going to we're just gonna let it see what I will say I've never had this either so this will be a first for both of us it's got a nice crisp crack it certainly does wow whoa whoa oh baby wow it tastes extremely sugary yeah uh if if i didn't know any better i'd say i'm literally licking like drinking uh and uh like fun dip yeah man you know i'm usually braced for like the subtle uh yeah you got a flavor

holy crap face let me i'm trying to just wrap my hand red head around what flavor i would call it other than just like sugar tanner i'm also going to just let you know right now that there is zero sugar in this item i don't know how that's even possible to have i don't know how that is possible man well it's i i'm not lying like describing this to someone like if you take this blind because because that was my concern i was like damn does this thing have like a uh just a pound of sugar with a little bit of water mixed in yeah no zero oh i don't know i would it tastes like a spree or cotton candy or i don't know what i guess like fruit punch or tropical punch or cotton candy or like whatever the most sugary flavors are i don't

know what this is i guess i'll have to look go ahead and take a look tanner let's let's hear you break it down for us oh it's a it's a bang a bang oh this is a hard seltzer bang has entered the hard seltzer game this has alcohol in it five percent alcohol i would not have guessed this had alcohol the overwhelming sugar flavor is just masked out by the alcohol but what is the flavor oh purple kittles what the hell is that i i saw it i'm like purple kittle i have to know what a purple kittle is so is it like purple skittles? That's my best guess. Now when you go back, yeah, it just tastes like straight up candy. And what is it, 5% alcohol by volume? 5% alcohol.

That is just making candy sugar water into booze. And the insane part is there's no sugar or caffeine in this thing. It's Bang. Bang is just known for caffeine, I thought. sugar or caffeine in this thing like it's bang bang is just known for caffeine i thought i mean if you were like 20 years old oh people could just get dangerously ripped out of their things like this like this is alcohol alcohol tastes this this sweet this is this is candy so what do you give this thing tanner i'm just still also shocked it has alcohol in it i cannot taste the alcohol no can't either um what do i give it look it's almost the regular scale almost doesn't

even apply to this thing i gotta say it's not good i wouldn't necessarily get i mean i don't know this flavor i would struggle hard to put two of these yeah i can tell you that oh there is no way in hell i can finish a second one of these it's just like it makes my mouth go like like it's so tart like after every um i give it like a two and a half i guess i've had worse things but like this is is not up there i was thinking right in that three range on the purple Kittles. And these were imported from Ohio. I think Jake Stanley sent them to us. And apparently they are hard to keep on the shelves is what the person in the store bought them. Well, and I can see different flavors, you know, maybe.

And actually, like, if you're looking to get ripped and stuff like that like i could see this just might be the thing yeah yeah so bang is in the game bang mix hard seltzer yeah someone gets interesting you can look in your local liquor store and see if they have these things and i i don't i've had i think at the arnold one, I had part of a bang. Yeah. That's my bang experience. The bang booth is notorious. Yeah.

Yeah. I've never really had one. I've, I've never gotten, I'm also not super into like the energy drink game. I've never had a rain either. I haven't had a rain either. I just, my caffeine,

you know, I'm kind of a coffee cold brew. Yeah. Me too. I like at least coffee. Tanner, do you know who else this show was brought to you by today? Oh. Not Bang.

Not Bang. Yeah. But the Strength Co. Oh. The Strength Co. operates starting strength affiliate gyms out of Southern California. They have a staff of experienced starting strength coaches that know the best way to develop strength through the barbell movements. Grant, the owner of the Strength Co. is a Marine,

and he is passionate about obtaining quality American products and labor for all aspects of his business. The Strength Co. makes premium, made in America, barbell equipment, including their machined and E-coated plates. These plates are functional, easy to handle, accurate, and made to last a lifetime. The Strength Co. plates have become the go-to choice for all members at massonomics gym check out their plates and all their other made in america equipment online at the strengthco.com that's the strengthco.com tanner i think that makes a pretty

good segue to one of our next talking points which one uh we released a little review oh yes it would be yes we did back-to-back weeks of double video videos on youtube yeah so we did our strength that being first the podcast on on sundays yep but then also we were hitting them on thursdays too we've had back-to-back weeks with the thursday youtube releases we were doing it to them yeah the gym tour if you haven't watched our gym tour yet head over to our youtube subscribe watch the gym tour and then this last week we released the strength co plates official massonomics review so there again head over to our youtube channel subscribe and watch that video we're going to have more videos coming in the future we don't know exactly what and when and

where but I mean. We have a list of, we have a pretty impressive list of ideas. We have a really impressive list of ideas right now, but the plate review video turned out really cool. It did. And that was our first, that's our first time doing like a review, like in that style. So it was, it was fun to do. It was a little bit of a learning experience for us. We learned some things that we think we, how we think we could do some things better and more efficiently in the future

most of the things we learned were for our sake as far as production goes right i think i think the end product turned out pretty nice though i think i agree i feel like it's almost up there with uh quality wise as far as the other channels that do this stuff it would make me want to buy more strength it should it should make people want to buy more Strength Co plates. It should make people want to buy all the Strength Co plates. And, you know, this leads me into something else. Like, we have a sack segment. Oh!

As well. And if you watch the Strength Co review, you might notice that we did not have any 10 pound plates. We actually did have a 10 pound plate, but as a part of our custom 35 pound plate, so now we've got a, he sent a couple of sets of 10 pounders to us. A beauty. Those.

Oh, and a card too. They just look so good. They just look so good. Yes. And here's's the card from grant uh grant told us uh merry christmas tanner do something cool like deadlift 600 pounds come on he knows you're good for more than that tanner tommy have a la croix thank you i will have a la croix right after we finish this bang right after I get this bang purple kiddle down. So we got these 10s from the Strength Co.,

which 10s do not disappoint. Just as good as the 2.5s, 25s, and 45s, in my opinion. We also got a few more 45s now in the collection, too. Do we? Yes. So we have an ever-growing collection of hot damn and which is great because these things have actually become like the go-to plate at massanomics gym you know some people might think it's just a marketing slogan but if you've been down to the gym you would say

damn those are the go-to plate and some of the members uh you know they don't necessarily watch all the youtube or all the podcasts and stuff with them like you got any more of them uh them go-to plates at all they've kind of become the go-to and the ones that don't say it just just know it because the second someone's done with them someone else grabs them yeah they do look great though even the 10s i'm like i just am a fan of the plates yep can't uh can't knock anything in the design here no so check out our review if you want to then uh you watch our review and you say damn i do need some of those plates click the link in the youtube description and go get you some and that's not really a recommendation i mean you you need to

do that you have to do that that's an order it's a requirement just for life that is an order so that was nice how that transitioned into another thing that we had our sack segment i'm still trying to wrap my brain around this bang tanner it's like i keep going back and not knowing quite what's going on i think i'm liking it less it's so crazy the flavor wow um a couple other things that well we had our new drop oh we should probably talk about that a little bit right talk about that we had our new like say do i have this chronologically correct because this is always confusing no matter what because we have not actually dropped it to you in real time as we're recording this. That drop hasn't come out.

It's coming out tomorrow. We're about, we're what, T minus 20 hours from the drop? Yes. Ish. And we're excited. We're always a little antsy, like pre-drop, like, oh, how's it going to go? What are people going to like? What are people not going to like?

Is Instagram going to work? Is the website going to work? Is something else not going to work? Yes, yes. Because all these things can break and have broken. Yep. gonna like is instagram gonna work is the website gonna work is something else not gonna work yes yes because all these things can break and have broken so yep so we're excited to get that drop out tomorrow but as you're hearing this it's already been released as you've already seen the new stuff so we can talk about it freely then actually right correct we can talk about the new drop which was the i have to make sure don't mess it up no i have to make sure yeah i know not because

we also have like the next four drops in the works and done. So I want to say this one was. Let's start with the banners. Yeah, okay, the banners. That's a great place to start. Return of the banners. Return of the banners. We brought back the Curls banner.

This is a limited run again. So once those are sold out, they're gone. So if you do want a Curls banner. You got to get on that. And by the time you're hearing this, it could be too late for that thing. Those could be gone. Those historically have not lasted long. Those will probably come around again at some point in time we're just kind of continuing to occasionally bring those back the other prop maybe even cooler just because it's newer is the crispy boys banner 2.0 the crispy boys banner

original was such a hit. People have always continued to ask, when's the Crispy Boys banner coming back? It was also outlawed. It was also outlawed. So that exact banner will not ever be coming back. But what we do have for you is the Crispy Boys banner 2.0, which is the same size and dimensions of the original Crispy banners.

The cans now have a more Masonomics flair to it. They do. So what cans does it have on it? We have the Lipshit can. the dimensions of the original crispy banners the cans now have a more massonomics flair to it they do so what what cans does it have on we have the lift shit can we have the heavy lager can we have the don't curl in me can the lift hard live easy skull can we also have the um jefferson can yeah that's it's that five that's five okay yep that's if you would have like kept going i would have really been working for that sixth one. Yeah. So that's our banners.

Those are really cool. If that banner is popular, we'll probably order more, but we do have a limited run. And that banner, what's the size of the banner again? Is it 36 by 78? Yeah. I think it's like 30. It's like 30-ish inches tall, maybe 32. It's like 78 wide, isn't it? Yeah. It's like 30 ish inches tall maybe 32 like 78 wide isn't it yeah it's like six feet long it's a really weird it's a really weird ratio very big too it's like and when you

hang it on the wall it's enormous it is enormous and it kind of catches off guard because it's such an odd shape for a manner yes yeah it's great for room where you've got not that much height but a whole bunch of uh width length that you can fit one in. And that is why we made it. That's why we made it. For those hard to reach wall spots. Then we had the new hats that came out, which we would like you to not buy those.

From the people that said, don't buy our hats. Here's some more hats. Here's some new hats. And it's the varsity hat. This is our first new hat style in a what yeah four years we really wanted to give you something new to not buy like for up to now it's just been you're like a new a new carrot to chase after right yes yes yeah so the varsity so we have the massonomics in like there's never been something that says massonomics on your head more than this thing that's true

it screams mass literally screams massonomics on your head massonomics huge white puff stitching across the front of the hat um that's on a slight arch yeah it says massonomics i mean what more do you need and now i was on the black flex fit and we also have the black snapback the new era 950 snapback i'm kind of a snapback guy i like that style snapback a lot i probably need to have you pull one aside for me before uh before they sell out because all these bastards don't listen and you know in this in this weather you wear a hat a few times and all of a sudden you got sweat stains on yeah hat that's true and i'm guessing someone people listen to this too probably have massonomics hats with sweat stains so that's your chance to uh get in on a new one

i found i can't really until i get haircut, I can't really wear hats. Are you in that weird in-between spot? It's just like my head's kind of big to begin with. So then like that snapback with my hair, I have to have it on like the last snap. Oh, yeah. You got to have two snaps for a snapback or you're screwed. Right. And I think I can do it too.

Okay. But it's not comfortable. It's like, because my head's fairly big to begin with. But normally I could wear a hat. That's what I always, I'm pretty sure on those snapbacks, I have's fairly big to begin with, but normally I could wear a hat. That's what I was. I'm pretty sure on those snapbacks, I have a fairly big head and I have a lot of hair too. I'm pretty sure I go on those snapbacks to two,

maybe three snaps, but yeah, it's still, there's not, there's not a ton of room there. And even the flex fit, I kind of have the same problem with my headband. Sometimes it wants to like slide up my hair.

Like my hair is very straight and like, yeah, like smooth, sleek and shiny. It is like, it is like slippery shiny like that. So it just like slides up off of my hair. Yeah.

We'll have to get some, some grippy things to put on there or a strap to put a strap. So it down on your chin. Yeah. Yeah. Chin strap. And then the shirts, the new tees we came out with. The Power Hungry Tee.

The Power Hungry Tee. Black tea. Black tea in the mix, but it's a different style for us. It is. How do you describe the Power Hungry Tee? We got the demon going crazy on food. Yeah, he's got a big steak that he's ripping into. Steak, like a turkey leg.

Yeah, giant turkey leg. Some pizza, because you got to have the pizza. He's got like the Masonomics tattoo on the side of his head. There's a weight plate in there. Yeah, his plate is a weight plate. Yeah, he's got horns coming out of his shoulders. Yes. So, yeah, that's a...

Certainly different than something we've done before. So excited to see how that one's turning out. Yep, really curious to see how that one goes. And then we have the Pin Up. The Pin Up Girl. Yeah, the Pin Up Girl tee, which is on a heather canvas red tee. We've never used this color before.

It's kind of a lighter heather red or... Slightly different than our other red tees. Yeah, it's a little bit different. We're going to just see how many different shades of red we can get going on our shirts and on the front left chest it's just got the little Masonomics script and like the

font that goes with the shirt and on the back it's the pinup girl we got our pinup girl sewing up a pair of crispy cold boys yes and I think it's pretty cool art Masonomics beers and babes what more could you ask that's the that's all you need right that's the dream

so that's the drop hopefully it went really good i'm excited for it yeah um hopefully like we like we said before hopefully we've sold out of everything by now right hopefully hopefully because i mean let's be i really need that money i gotta got a lot of bets going on the olympics here so that's true table tennis do they call it table tennis or ping pong i don't remember for sure okay do they call it football or football yeah um that reminds me tommy this show is brought to you by Texas power bar oh did you know that I do now okay buddy cap started his first how did you know that you just told me it's an Austin Powers yeah yeah yeah buddy caps first started lifting weights in the late 60s

power lifting in the mid 70s at that time he was working for Image Barbell building gym equipment. Around 1976, a local machine shop started making Olympic bars for them, calling it the Image Bar. In 1977, Image Barbell became Champion Barbell. It was then that Buddy started looking at the bars with an intent of changing them for the better. In 1979, Buddy bought his first lathe to begin addressing the known issues.

What do you think were the known issues exactly? Oh, probably easier to make a list of what they actually got right. If we knew Buddy, he had a list of the known issues. It was a laundry list of issues. In 1980, his passion, drive, and purpose now had a greater mission. Buddy set out on his own to make what he believed

was the greatest bar he'd ever seen and trained with, and the Texas Power Bar was born. It was strong as a house with the best airing, and it was maintenance-free. Hundreds of state, national, international, world, and massonomics powerlifting records and skateboard records have been and continue to be set and broken on the Texas Power Bar. To learn more, visit them at TexasPowerBars.com. Tanner, I can't wait for the day we actually have buddy caps on this podcast. We can really, it's like, go straight to the source.

I've put the feelers out on that. I'll tell you that. I know. That's why I said I can't wait for the day. Now we need to get this guy. Like, I know we're going to have him on Sunday. It's just when. It'll be fun.

I know that. It's going to be a lot of fun. But now, we'll get our guest on the line. Hello? Hey, is this Big Mikey? Oh, yes, it is. All right. Do you prefer Big Mikey? Mikey's just fine, but if you want to throw Big on there, that's fine.

We kind of have to. It's a formality at this time, yeah. So, Big Mikey, you are on the Monomics podcast with tanner tommy how's it going yeah good how are you guys going we're doing great thanks for having me on yeah we're we're excited to get you get you on here so it's uh mikey o'brien i think that's right your last name's O'Brien too. You got the full name correct? Yeah, that's right. Okay. And just so everyone knows from the get-go, what's your handle on Instagram? It's Mikey maybe me, as in like it might be me, but it definitely is.

Okay. So, Mikey, I'm just going to for, for people that don't know who you are yet, or haven't seen you before on Instagram, I'm going to describe how, uh, and what we saw about you that we thought was really interesting. And it's been, uh, even kind of recently, it seems like maybe it's really taken off. We've really seen a lot of your videos that you've been putting out where you combine skateboarding and lifting like America's two favorite pastimes. Yeah. Yeah.

And you've done some really cool stuff. You've done a great job of combining those two. And it was just so interesting. We thought we had to get you on to talk about it. Um, how long has it been going on for? I mean, what,

how long ago was your first skateboarding lifting video um adding the skateboard in was was just like the other week ago that's pretty okay so so that's a new development yeah i figured if you know i can't be the strongest with the weights or the best with the skateboards. Maybe I'm just good enough on both. I can impress a couple people. But you don't need to downplay your strength, though, because you are strong. Have you ever done a powerlifting meet? No, I haven't.

Okay, but you have. I mean, is your gym at your house? Yeah, in my garage. So your gym lifts are big, though. I don't know for sure what your lifts are big though you have i don't know for sure what your lifts are but i mean you have well over a 500 pound deadlift that's for sure yeah um i don't know with uh i'm a real i'm a big fan of powerlifting all the strength sports but i don't know if um i don't know if I'd have the drive like to really compete in something.

And also because I've I've competed in wrestling my whole life. Like this is kind of the first time I haven't like been attached to something else. So maybe in the future. Yeah. So where did you get the you? I mean, you've you've had some other interesting lifting videos prior to this too. You've certainly been doing some wild lift. It's kind of in the same vein as, oh, some of it you could say is kind of a little taste of jujimufu.

Or some of it you could say it's a little bit of maybe like a Huck Finn. Huck Finn is maybe in there. Or who's the WWE wrestler? You'll know the name. Bugenhagen. Yeah yeah yeah what is it rick or yeah right yeah eric boogan yeah eric eric there you go yeah currently going by rick boogs right right right so yeah they're definitely two probably my biggest inspiration uh juji and the boogs okay and then who would be the other what about the skateboard there there's kind of one other main skateboard lifting account that we're yeah uh yeah um yeah he's actually friends with my brother is a really big skateboarder

and um yeah like they know each other and i guess, I've seen some of his stuff like doing a, doing an Ollie with a 135 pounds on the back. And that went like viral for him. And then I guess my brother just like tagging him and some of my stuff. And then he started following me and people seem to put that connection together. Yeah. So who's, who's stronger, you or him? I can't say for sure, but I would have to probably give me the hand on that. But he definitely has better skateboarding.

That's what's going to be my next question. Who's the better skater then at that point? Yeah. Yeah, he's got that. skater then at that point yeah yeah yeah he's got that but so do you uh believe that you have the world record for the heaviest deadlift on a skateboard as far as what you know so for now i'm claiming that for now because um i searched around i found like a 405 but it wasn't it they had 405, but it wasn't, they had mats going on.

So it wasn't fully off the ground. Cause I think that's the hard part. It's like, it's like a deficit. Yeah. I'm, I'm sure a lot of people could beat it, but I don't know.

So what is, what is your, what's your record for, uh, on the skateboard? Yep. I did, um,

five 25. So do you, cause like when you watch the video like do you think like damn my ankle could just snap right through my leg if i'm not careful here i mean that's another part of it like my trucks while i'm doing it are like they're they're pretty loose like i'm sure i could tighten them up and it would be like a lot easier but i just couldn't bring myself to do that cheating's not a lot yeah yeah it would just be frowned upon like if so um i don't know i'm pretty comfortable standing on a skateboard and i i just i did a lot of warm-ups it and I was like, all right, like if, if something goes wrong, I'll just drop it. But everything seems to be working out. Yeah.

How, how like on that five 25 deadlift and like, do you have to, do you feel like you have to lift it really slowly? Almost like a tempo lift, like in order to balance like i mean the balance has to be the hardest part right yeah it's it's kind of weird because like like right now my dead i would say my deadlift strength isn't like anywhere close to like my best or like but something about being on the board like my mind is so focused on so many other things. Like, all right, I just landed the trick before it. Like, I don't want to mess this up.

I got to make sure the wheels aren't moving. My weight's like right in the middle of my foot. Like I'm thinking of so many other things that like it just starts moving. Like I'm not getting it. I think that's the trick. You just got to like for for people that overthink you, you just got to give you so many other things to worry about that you can't overthink it now.

You can't really even think about that. Yeah, like I'm overthinking so many other things that like the weight's just got to get moving. Like there's no option. Yeah. Do you ever worry about, like I know it's probably hard to do

because your feet are on, like over the bolts, but like do you ever worry about your board actually breaking? Yeah, i was thinking about that the other day like i wonder what what the actual max weight could even be on a skateboard because what because you watch like i used to be into skateboarding when i was younger and i remember like you would see videos like when people go down like a big set of stairs it's like they'd pretty much land on bolts and their board would still like explode in half somehow like so it's possible right yeah yeah i'm sure it could break but also like i wonder if you got like i don't know the average

size of a skater maybe like 150 pound guy yeah flying downstairs like that's probably a lot of force in itself probably true right so what's the what's the mikey preferred skateboard uh that would have to be um alien workshop that's the um company my brother is on sponsored by so i just get boards from him okay okay who's uh who's all it does because like forever was wasn't was danny way on alien workshop like way back in the day was that Okay, okay. Who's all... Because, like, forever. Was Danny Way on Alien Workshop, like, way back in the day? Was that... Am I remembering that right? Danny Way.

I believe Danny Way was on Plan B. Okay, okay. I could be wrong. I'm not the greatest with memory on that. Yeah, it's been long enough that I can't remember who was all on Alien Workshop. Yeah. So your brother's probably a better skater than you, but is he strong as you?

He's not as strong, but I think he could be if he wanted to. I think he's a little more genetically gifted. There's opportunity to do a double skateboard deadlift. Yeah, forget doubles on vert. You guys could do like some doubles like gym lifts yeah yeah i mean like like he's he doesn't lift at all you know like no no weight training no anything and i was in the garage one day doing like a set of front squats with 275 i was just doing like sets of 10 like getting a pump and he came out

there like in his work jeans he's like 150 pounds skater and he cranked out the same set of 10 and I'm like geez like yes like front squats aren't yeah I heard the natural one like yeah like I feel like it's not normal for just an untrained guy no like a small yeah it's kind of weird but damn so have you guys how long have you guys been skating then uh our whole life's like he's older than me by a couple years and i just kind of followed his suit and i branched off a little like he kept going with it i kind of took a break and focused on wrestling and then now that that's over i just kind of jumped back on it and been skating with him again because you you clearly got the skills i mean you're throwing

out like tray flips and hard flips like it's nothing like so yeah it's uh you it's weird to see a guy that has strength that can also skateboard because i feel like that's not what you typically see yeah i think um i mean i was pretty good like when I was really young, like when I was like 10 and 11. Like I would say I was like really good for my age and then I kind of stopped a little after that. And then when I picked it back up, I just, I'm kind of maintaining that level and now maybe a little better now.

But yeah, that's definitely the draw, I guess. Cause the skaters watch it. They can't understand the lifting. They can't understand the skating. Well, the comparison again to the, uh,

the Wrecking Ball. So he had, I think the video that really went viral for him, like you said, it was the one where he had one 135 on his back and he does what uh i think he just always just doesn't all right and you know i would be the first to say i would fall over if i look at a skateboard but he he didn't make it look easy like it was like it was uh it was challenging for him to do that ollie with the 135 i've seen you do stuff that's quite a bit crazier because

you have you have a kickflip with 135 don't you yeah i just did the kickflip the other day without that's probably this it doesn't look the craziest but that was probably the hardest and scariest thing for me oh was that a one try thing or did that take a few tries no that that was like so i warmed up at the bar and um just doing the bar and a kickflip like my brain is like in two different spots like i gotta kind of like totally unfocus the bar and just look at my feet but i just made like super little jumps like five pound increments like over and over and over okay until like eventually i was at the 135 and that one probably took like 10 tries to land it clean i kept land a couple sketchy uh lands almost blowouts it makes sense that that's how

you'd progress it though yeah i hadn't really thought of that like yeah like you would start off with like you're not just gonna throw 135 on and be like here we go yeah because like if i'm squatting i'll throw a 135 on the course. But I don't know. I think if I threw a 135 on, there's no way I'd be able to do it. I was like percentage-based warming up. Right, right. That is funny to think about. Well, I mean, you're maxing out.

That's what I mean. That's a max out. You don't just throw on your max. I might have been able to get a couple more pounds but i don't know yeah i mean for now 135 achieves the look yeah yeah i feel like if it's not a plate like it it's not gonna really make a difference to people's up well but what i'm getting at there is you you know you've kind of got the what we've determined as the uh world record deadlift on the skateboard but also your

your other stuff i think you've kind of passed him up the students become the teacher or the teachers become the students so to speak don't you think like it seems like you can do a little bit more with the lifting and the skateboarding now than he can with uh weck yeah uh yeah maybe but Weck? Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Maybe on the board lift a little more. He's still got the skating probably by a good margin. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, he can have that title. Okay. What's the hardest thing you've done then?

Is it the 135 kickflip on your back? Or what's the hardest out of all of them that you've tried so that one was probably that one is more like it's not hard like physically it's like more scary and like i'm just trying to be really technical so like i'm not slipping out with weight on my back but i'll say the hardest physically might be like the first one i ever did with the um i call it the triple decker bus lift with the um straight bar deadlift safety bar in the back and then the weight dip uh-huh yeah yeah because like i've done i've done a lot more with the trap bar than that i think that one

was only like 550 total weight but something about like the straight bar and the plate in between your waist like the plates banging against the bar and you got to kind of half curl it over it and that one might have been the physically hardest. That is one that looks pretty ridiculous too when you look at it because there's a lot going on there. Well, it's hard to even think in your head what that weight feels like because you're feeling the weight in all the different areas at the same time. Yeah, it's really strange. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to find around that.

yeah it's hard to find around recently i've been um i've been trying to load like any possible way i could load myself up to lift a thousand pounds and that yeah that hasn't been going well i had like 400 i had like 400 pounds hanging off of uh the chain around my waist. And it's like, once you stand up with that, like trying to waddle around with that, it feels like you're getting pulled to the earth. Basically it was like a dip belt. You had that on. Yeah. It's like a,

but I kind of had to customize it because the chain snapped. I had like, I have like a thick, like 10 pound chain on. So I'm counting out in the way too. But yeah. So what do you have planned? Like, do you have uh anything planned that you're gonna try next anything in the works oh i got a couple ideas but i i found out it's kind of like the first idea is the one that will get popular like even if i beat it with weight it's kind of just the

first one that people are like whoa what's going on there yeah but yeah i've been thinking a couple things with like backflip or something i was thinking like maybe if i can hit like a a backflip one-handed football catch over a bar into a one-handed deadlift i think that's my next that's pretty good that is a good one i think that's good yeah hopefully no one steals that first yeah well now the talk is the number of people that listen to this i can do backflips is very very limited yes yeah i don't like it's not not everyone's listening and racing to their uh that's the idea got it. Getting their little sister to throw them footballs.

Quite honestly, coming up with ideas isn't the hard part here. It's the execution of any of these that's the difference maker. No, that'd be cool. We'll be excited to watch some of that to see how it goes. Yeah, I mean, some of

these reps, the warm-up and like the walkouts are just like uh it's just like not right like it feels like you're not doing something right yeah like by the time i i wrap up the dip belt i'm waddling stepping over the bar backwards and it's like a two minute rep like the video would be like four minutes long and my heart rate's at like 180 i did one rep yeah so it's not the heart the easiest thing to warm up for do you think there's a way for you to incorporate a skateboard and the jefferson deadlift together yeah i definitely do um i was messing around with it the other day like um i was also messing with zurchers on the board but that totally doesn't work

because like something about well i was doing it like bringing it to your knees first and then shooting like your arms under you yeah yeah right and something about once the weight of the bar is on your knees and only your feet are supporting like it there's like a fulcrum and your feet just shoot right out so it doesn't work yeah i was messing around the um with the jefferson the board is like a little small so it's like tight oh yeah yeah oh you can't you can't stand that wide yeah yeah maybe if i had a long board or something right that would be yeah yeah you're gonna have to get new equipment just to be able to facilitate more of these things yeah heavy duty long boards they equip jefferson lift yeah yes uh. Big Mikey, we've got a little game that we like to play with every guest.

It's called Overrated to Underrated, and we've got a special set of topics for you, and if you're down to play, we'll get rolling. The only thing you've got to remember is that you do have to decide on Overrated or Underrated on each one. You can't ride the line. All right, for sure. I'm ready. All right, great. Topic number one, Overrated or Underrated on each one you can't ride the line all right for sure i'm ready all right great topic number one overrated or underrated tony hawk pro skater

see that's i mean that definitely gets respect but um i guess i'll just have to say underrated because the level i would put the pedestal i would put that on would probably be so high that it's just got to be underrated. What is your best Tony Hawk pro skater game? What number? Um, out of the originals, maybe two or three, but I've been playing the, um, the, the the remake of one and two like the remastered i'm pretty good at that i have not hit the remasters yeah very nice it's very nice so underrated on thps yeah i'd say underrated okay get more okay all rightrated or underrated? The hack deadlift. Oh, that's highly underrated. And for anyone that doesn't

know, it's the behind the back deadlift. Yeah, I think that I would have to put that possibly my favorite lift. It's something about everyone claims it's blowing your back out, but I swear you can bend over as hard as you can. Something about that weight being in the back, it's not about like everyone claims it's blowing your back out but like i swear you can

bend over as hard as you can something about that weight being in the back it's like once you find the form it's like the it's the ultimate lift can you lift more through a hack deadlift than you could a regular any other form of deadlift or oh yeah much more in the heck i was yeah i can like i i guess i'm maybe like quad dominant and I can really like grind off the floor with the hack one like yeah I think I think I could I think I get an 800 pound hacks yeah that's a big number okay overrated or underrated Thrasher? Thrasher, see, this is a weird one because Thrasher is sweet,

but a lot of people just use their shirts or their symbols and stuff. What they actually do like putting their video parts out and like um showing skaters is cool but i think people people people who shouldn't be wearing their stuff are wearing it a little too often maybe but um maybe overrated for the general population for what they think it is yeah i i feel like that is a hard one because yeah i mean like they do a ton for the skate yeah like i yeah like i think it's sweet but the way i guess most people are looking at it is they got they got their thrasher shirt at zoomies and they're rocking yeah on the boardwalk it's screen printed on.

Yeah. Okay. We know you're a wrestler, a college wrestler. Yeah. Overrated or underrated? Headlocks. Headlocks? That

had to be underrated because I feel like everyone's doing that as a kid. That's the best move. It's the go-to. Yeah, I was like, yeah, I'll get you the headlock. Yeah, but then everyone starts telling you, oh, it doesn't work. It's not going to work when you're older.

But really, if you get a nice enough setup and you crack that, I mean, that's the end of the match. There's a reason it debilitates you when you're a little kid. It's still like a little bit, like it's still kind of like, ah! Yeah, I mean, it might be a little harder

to get, but once you get it, it's still the ultimate big brother move. It is the ultimate big brother move. Alright. Great news, Mikey, you is the ultimate big brother move. All right. Great news, Mikey. You passed overrated and underrated. We can safely say you really passed today.

You won. Oh, thank you. Do you know what score I passed with, or is this just pass-fail? Well, the actual score, to get technical, is two cool beans. It is a pass fail. You either get the cool beans or you don't. So yeah, you get the two,

your official score is two cool beans to the positive. All right, cool. I'll take that. Do you, I, one other thing I was thinking before we wrap it up, do you follow big boy,

big SC boy at all? Yeah, he's the man. Yeah. Talk about some crazy skateboarding especially from just his size that's like the most awkward body type you'll ever see on a board yeah i would i first saw him do that little heel flip which like got him back into it i guess and i'll that's the last person i would expect to be on a board but I think it's sweet and the balls that

when he dropped in on that I don't know how big that Tony Hawk's vert ran oh my god that fall was brutal though like a guy like that hitting the ground that was scary to watch because you can just tell he's just not leaning his weight right but

he went for it so you gotta commend him yeah that takes balls to stand at the top of that and do that give you like some ptsd like seeing a ramp ever again yeah no that's awesome so where uh what's shoot out your handle and anywhere else anyone should find you do you have do you use tiktok too i guess that's the other thing we usually on instagram so that's what we watch but maybe maybe you're putting this out on tiktok too no i don't use tiktok good choice yeah instagram gets his own for me um instagram handle is mikey maybe me and um i have a youtube too which is pretty much just the same, just like shorts and lists or like I'll put like a training compilation together. I like editing those, but that's just Mikey O'Brien.

Okay. Yeah, that's it. Awesome. Is there anyone out there that you really would like to, that if you got a follow from, you'd be like, oh shit. Yeah, that's awesome. But I mean, you're like, I think Bugenhagen and some of those other... Bud Jeffries. I don't know if you know who Bud Jeffries is,

but we saw he's following you, too. He followed me from the first video, the triple-decker. And that's the guy that has a knack for crazy lifts. Right, right. Yeah, it's cool because all the people that I think I like the most, some of them have followed me i guess

the one would be um juji mufu that would be cool to get his butt yeah yeah boogenhagen martinez lisi's father yeah we saw that's a big one yeah romark his cameraman that was cool bud jeffries yeah you're getting the respect building that list awesome so did you is there oh yeah you said Juju okay would be the one no that's cool and you said one more time it's Mikey maybe

Mikey may be me okay Mikey may be me on Instagram awesome well we appreciate it that's good stuff thanks for having me thank you bye stream. Awesome. Well, we appreciate it. That's good stuff. Thanks for having me. Thanks, Mikey. Thank you. Bye. Well, Tanner, time to dish

out those beans. We already said it. Cool beans. Cool beans. There they are. He got the cool beans. Usually they don't know ahead of time about the cool beans. He did ask. He was an inquiring mind. Yeah, he did ask, to be fair. That is cool beans that is he's i'm excited to see what else he does i'm interested by that like i i mean we even have the conversation

sometimes when people do the wacky lifting stuff at this point i'm like okay i get it i've you know or like it's just like those have literally been done before right people like that that's just been done over and over but with him like when he like does the thing where he's dead lifting 500 and some pounds on the skateboard i'm like damn that isn't that is nuts that's uncharted territory that is nuts also this 800 pound hack hack deadlift has got me uh interesting have you ever tried a hack no obviously we're the jefferson deadlift guys just it always looked like the most awkward lift ever to me and it is like what he said where it's like that looks dangerous because you have to bend over but um i've never tried one i haven't either and i guess we would be a little bit of hypocritical though if we're the jefferson deadlift guys and we're like you can't do a hack deadlift yeah you can't it's you got to pick one or the other right that's true i mean for certainly from our point of view you get one or the other

other people can have yeah there isn't always we only ever will be one true deadlift and yeah that's the jefferson deadlift yeah so i'll be excited for that jefferson deadlift that he pulls out on the skateboard yeah i'm pumped for that thing yeah all right that's cool um oh we got an ad to read right over here do you do you want to do it to him oh i would love to okay let me get my ad machine loaded up here real good bada bing bada boom today's show is brought to you by spud ink and the one ply elbow sleeves you've ever heard of those tanner i have those i. I have those too. Yeah. The Sputnik Elbow Sleeves are designed for lifters.

All right, you're talking my language. Sign me up. Made from a breathable nylon that won't get smelly like your old neoprene sleeves. Yep, now that goes. And with the same innovative loops as their top-selling knee sleeves, these elbow sleeves are a must-have for anyone who likes to train heavy. Available in about six different sizes. You know, they got one that's going to fit you. Size for everyone, it sounds like.

Absolutely. And also, if you're curious about these, you can really dig through the Massanomics archives. There is a video somewhere about them. That's true. It's deep. That's true. It's in the archives, but we have reviewed these things way back in the day. That's a good point.

And when I say reviewed them, I mean we just have some videos i think there's an article yeah yeah that's there's a written review yeah yeah there we go way back in the day yeah i forgot about that uh you can check out the spud ink one ply elbow sleeves online at spud dash ink dash straps.com good stuff thank you spitting Tommy did you see that the Eddie and Thor fight is no longer on I have seen that yes Eddie tore his bicep throwing a

punch and sparring which to me when I first heard that I'm like that seems crazy but people did I did see some people say that like when you box with like incorrect form and stuff like that is kind of something that can happen i don't remember the reasoning or if it was just haters so it's not like a total freak accident kind of no like it's kind of is something that

happens when you're pretty deep in the boxing world now right oh i know i am basically a boxing expert at this point i like once you saw that there was the evan cardone garrett fear undercard you've just been really i really got into that's what really got me into it um we made that meme and i think a lot of people didn't pick up on i think most people didn't because it was so subtle yeah what we're talking about is tanner took the poster and whoever the middle it would be like j Josh bridges and, uh, somebody else, Tanner, Tanner changed the faces and put Cardone fear.

And for sure, half the people that saw that did not pick up on that. Well, someone even said like, Oh, I got my tickets. Uh, uh,

Matt Vincent had said that. I'm like, I don't think he actually noticed the, yeah. Oh. And to be fair, it was really subtle. It was subtle.

And there's a lot of text on that poster, that's why it was beautiful that's what was beautiful about that was how subtle it was yeah but so eddie will not be fighting thor now the way i understand it they're still trying to go on with the fights and find someone different for thor to fight um some people like it's obviously uh your mind goes to it the marius puginowski thing if they could figure out a way to make that happen fans strength sort fans that would be sweet yeah like for as far as i'm concerned though how old is i think marius must be must have been fairly young when he did it but yeah he mart mart still he's got yeah he's got to be 20 years older than him almost you would think because he's got to be like at least in his mid he's got to be 20 years older than him, almost. You would think. He's got to be at least in his mid-40s, doesn't he?

Yeah, he's got to be at least 15 years older. I think Marius would have to be getting close to 50, right? Because Thor is 30-something. And I would just believe that Marius is about 15 years older. That's just the hardest name to spell out ever. Really? He's only 44 years old. I would have guessed closer to 50.

I mean, there may be like a 10-year age gap. Well, if we had to look. Because I was thinking Hafthor's about, I don't know, like your age maybe? Or maybe mine. Hafthor Bjornsson is 32 years old. Okay. Same age years old. Okay. Same age as me. Yep.

You also have a very similar physical build too. So that's true. That's true. That's sometimes it's hard to recognize the difference. Just the accent. You wait for one of them to talk and you're like, okay, yeah,

that's the other one. Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be interesting just to see who they fight. And also it's kind of like the whole thing. I'm like, I was just excited for it to be over. Dog and pony show.

Honestly, like I was like getting another level of complexity. Right. Right. So I'm like, Oh God, now are these two? Like,

I just want it to be over between these two. Oh yeah. So like now it's like, now it's not over. Yeah. Is it going to get scheduled again in a year and a half out? And out and it's another yeah that will be the real question yeah what do they what do they do with this because you know they're both like well we got too much money sitting here for us to pass this opportunity up right i mean they made the fake beef two years ago now

right all this going on right with and with everything going on. Yeah. They really, they made it this far now to have this happen. Yeah, they have to schedule a fight at some point. Right, right. That's kind of depressing to me that it will continue to be a thing for so long. But I suppose it would have just been the rematch anyways. Yeah, true. Yeah. Now this just puts the rematch out another couple years.

That's true. Yeah, it extends the whole thing. And if they split that one, then there's the grudge match to really settle it right that's true so we're really buckling in for like five years of this thing it's like the early 2020s are going to be consumed by honestly like i think that this is i don't know i who who am i to judge but i could see it the whole thing fizzling and not too you know after a while like people I think are going to get their fix of the uh novelty thing yeah like the the celebrity boxing thing yeah that wouldn't surprise me yeah but we'll only time will tell they'll move on to something else celebrity tennis matches or something yeah the other thing in strongman news was that

at giants live iron bibby broke the axle clean and press record he did i think it was a 217 kilogram axle like 479 pounds i actually did write it down so I could even just check instead of guessing 217 kilograms 479 pounds okay and you we watched the video here again and the pressing is the press part is so easy it actually looks weird how easy that part of it is like he definitely has to work for the clean a little bit yeah that clean is is not is not like a breeze like the press is like he doesn't even you know you'd think most people after cleaning it they'd be like okay now let's get this right he's just like wherever whatever weird place his arms are and he's like damn things on my chest let's get it off of here and then he's just like and it's just a strict press it is it so how does that guy not have 500

plus in there right i would i think he's probably done stuff like that in training even before so it would probably just be a matter of time watching that though it seems like the limiting factor is the clean right now yeah an iron baby is huge i saw something they measured his arm yeah because his upper arms are weird like they are weirdly large i mean the whole guy's yeah he is weirdly large but his upper arms almost look like they look very very cartoonish in a weird way and like i think they said they measured either like 26 or 27 inches around oh really yeah yeah damn and i call i there was something colin bryce was measuring them and they're like i don't know 27 inches give or take an inch what was that some weird english measurement like no and it was funny you could hear him like, I don't know, 27 inches, give or take an inch. Well, was that some weird English measurement?

No, and it was funny. You could hear him talk. He's like, no, do it in inches. Damn, yeah, those are some big arms. Yeah. Really big arms. Insane. He looks weird.

He's so big like that. He looks odd. That's the price you got to pay if you want to be able to strict press 500 pounds, I guess. Yeah, I guess so i think that was a long time coming for him to break it that's what it seems like he he's been in the discussion for uh log press and strict press records forever now it feels like yeah uh that so that was our strongman news for the week then got a little strongman in on this really really

hitting all of them we have we hit the skateboarding world uh this is probably the deepest we've don't did deepest we've dived yeah is that right deep dive deep diving over here now i'm actually getting torn are we diving deep or are we taking do we go up for to 10 000 or do we dive deep are we below the surface or up high in the clouds i don't know but we looked at skateboarding we looked at olympic lifting we looked at i mean we kind of talked power lifting we talked strong man you know we talked boxing talked at all yeah god the amount of sports we cover in this show too we're like this we're like a sports center we're like the center for sports i think there's something there.

There could be. We could look into that. We're on to something. Yeah. Da-na-na. Da-na-na. Hey, that's kind of catchy. Oh, yeah.

I hope that's not taken yet. Hope that copyright doesn't pick up on that. All right. Today's show, Tommy, I did want to tell you about one other sponsor that we had for this show. It's brought to you by fusion sport performance supplements do you know what's in your supplements yes okay uh good you that makes mean you use fusion sports performance supplements because if you do you'll always know what's in your supplements fusion sp prides itself on being fully transparent never using proprietary blends and always providing its customers with top quality products actually a guy in the one of the gym members the other day was asking me

where he about some employees asking me about supplements and he goes hey you guys have a sponsor for the podcast right so it's supplements i'm like yeah fusion sp.net is where you'll find that and you can use discount code mass and they'll save you a huge 20 off on your order and he goes okay that's the ad okay now can you just talk to me can you be a human being and not do your podcast thing and you said thank you for listening thank you you can follow us on instagram at massonomics and you'd be like um i go to your gym i just asked you a question dude uh nobody's asking about uh pre-workout and i said yeah they've got the two options they've got the uh uh mad titan and the super soldier and i told them him the mad Titan is not for me.

That is too intense for me. There's a little bit too much stimulation in that one. But if that's what you're into, I do know some guys that that's more up their alley of what they want. So that's for you. I said, if, if not,

if you're more like me, the super soldier pre-workout would be your go-to choice. And then I also hit him again with make sure to use discount code mass to save a huge 20 and he said uh stop doing that again i have to repeat myself yes so that's at fusion sp.net get their whey protein they got favorite number one selling flavor is chocolate of some sort then they got the healing factor post-workout also so get over to fusion sp.net and get those use code mass m-a-s-s so we had our drop that was the big thing again to touch on the drop make sure to go to our site and uh snag those items right yeah go buy them up especially hats and banners

if there's anything left by this point um it's probably not going to be there long so this would be your last call for alcohol on those. And hopefully the shirts are all sold out too. That'd be cool. That'd be better. That'd be cool. So stay tuned on that. We've also got other stuff we didn't even get to this week, so next week.

I guess we'll have to tune in next week. I guess we'll have to do another one next week. You know what they say, if you don't get in the first 278 tries, you'll get it on the 279th. That is what they say. Wouldn't it be funny if that was a saying? That the same that okay it's definitely the same like us on facebook subscribe on youtube really do subscribe on youtube if you're a listener to this and you never have subscribed on youtube

get over to our youtube channel we are going to continue to pump out new cool stuff on there so subscribe and ring the bell get in on the race for first comment. That is absolutely insane at this point. That's not an understatement either. Yeah, like the first comment race has just gotten wild. It's become a monster. So good luck. Like try to make the top 10.

I dare you. That's an accomplishment at this point, let alone winning. Winning is just like a fluke at this point. It is. YouTube's like, I don't know. We got to give it to someone. There's being like five-way ties down to the second like we're trying to spend all this research and development doing machine learning to recommend videos and we have to try and figure out who has the first comment here it's using up all our priorities

give us a five-star review on apple podcasts do we have any time for reviews oh there's always time for reviews i had a couple reviews ready as long as we're talking about it here so review number one is five stars which is good and this is from jen with one n she says listening to this podcast is like getting a key that gains you access to the largest inside joke in the world the mr rogers and bob ross like soothing voices of tommy and tanner are a warm hug from your grandma that will have you coming back for more every week so go ahead push play and join in the laughs with these two guys from western northeast south dakota you won't be disappointed five stars oh that's very well written yes next one is from big beck so his title is what is this my boyfriend is

always listening to this podcast that sounds like it's hosted by bob's burgers he keeps giving me crappy sparkling water and telling me to guess the flavor keeps asking me if things are over or underrated and tell me if i can have my druthers and I have no idea what it means yes very good last one for today five stars from Mr. Schnute says what exactly are druthers is western northeast South Dakota actually a place does Dan Bell have the most adorable laugh in all of powerlifting if you have found yourself asking these questions, then look no further. This podcast likely won't answer any of them, but boy, is it piping hot. Part lifting podcast about nothing, part fever dream.

Mastonomics is the four and a half JD Power & Associates, extremely medium-sized podcast you've been looking for. If you've come to learn something about absolutely nothing, you've come to the wrong place. I like that. If you've come to learn nothing, or if you've come to learn something about absolutely nothing you've come to the wrong place i like that if you've come to learn nothing or if you've come to learn something about absolutely nothing you've come to the wrong place i also like the fever dream part yeah like you're just all sweaty and you're not sure what's happening that's massonomics yeah a lot

of good massonomics references in that one those were all those are all really good uh good views and then you can sign up to become a supporting member. I would even say they brought the heat on those things. They came locked and loaded. I know that. They did that. They came locked and loaded. Absolutely.

Tommy, where do they find you on Instagram? You can find me at Tomahawk underscore D. You can find me at Tanner underscore Bear. Just make sure to follow us at Massonomics. Also on TikTok. And YouTube. Yes, and YouTube yes and YouTube see ya