Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 291: Spud Inc.

Episode Date: November 1, 2021

Big Marc “Spud” Bartley puts the Spud in Spud Inc. We grilled Spud about how he got started, why he likes yellow, and what his favorite potato chip is… then we boiled him up in overrated underrated.  This was our Halloween episode. It was excellent. Party on! 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/

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If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics. Welcome back, everyone, for episode 291 of the Masanomics podcast, recorded live from western northeast South Dakota. My name is Tanner. Well, my name is Wayne. My name is Tommy.

Yeah, Tommy. Party name is Tommy. Yeah, Tommy. Party on, Tommy. Excellent. We're not worthy. We're not worthy of our sponsor of the Texas Power Bar. Buddy Caps. For anyone that's just listening, this is our speciallloween episode if you're if you're watching you know that but if you're listening which means we went really over the top yep you know a lot of people do deadlifts in costumes for halloween uh not us that's right

the deadlifts and that should be popping off this it will be yeah actually i think that's over but no well by the time this comes out you hit the wave of it but i mean do you think that's over? No, well, by the time this comes out, you hit the wave of it. But I mean, do you think it's just over? No, no. People are over it. There's still way too many people that are going to get really pumped for that. So yeah, I think that that's coming any day now. Okay. Yeah.

So we are dressed as Wayne and Garth for Halloween here. Yeah. We went all out, didn't we? We went crazy. Yeah. Absolutely insane. for halloween here yeah we went all out didn't we we went crazy yeah absolutely insane i was trying to think of uh i guess i already used like all the uh wayne's world quotes that i had saved up party on excellent we're not worthy swing oh yeah there was uh uh one of my favorites is

i forgot how it actually goes for sure but it's something on the lines of like yes that's right actually uh it's millowakay millow, but it's something along the lines of like, yes, that's right. Actually, it's Milwaukee. Milwaukee. It's Galgonquin for the good land. I was not aware. This guy knows how to party when they're talking to Alice Cooper. It's funny.

Anchorman kind of stole that bit. Really? Well, San Diego. Oh, yeah. San Diego. What did he say? It's Spanish for a whale's vagina. Right, right, right.

That is that bit, right? Basically. Were we talking, was that on the podcast that we were, I was talking about the movie where Robert Downey Jr. and the guy from. Well, was that on the podcast or was that when we were eating that night? Pretty sure that's when we were eating,

so we should talk about it. Okay. What's the movie with Robert Downey Jr. and the guy from. Is it Dinner for Schmucks? Is that what it is? No, not that movie. It's where they travel Robert Downey Jr. and the guy from... Is it Dinner for Schmucks? No, not that movie. It's where they travel across the United States.

He's with the guy from The Hangover, the funny guy that has the backpack with the baby on it. Yeah, Zach Galifianakis. Okay, so we had this exact same conversation. We said it all like this, and we said Dinner for Schmucks. Read the ad, Tanner. I'll find it for you. This episode is brought to you by Texas Power Bars.

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visit them at TexasPowerBars.com. All right, Tanner. So I looked it up. The Discord also told us. Due date. Due due date that's the movie due date is train plane trains planes and automobiles or is it planes trains and automobiles whatever that is that is the so we did mention i had not seen that movie actually i've never seen all of either one of those before so i can't say for sure but you did seem to think those were like the exact movies it's steve martin

and who's john um candy or yeah okay john candy are in and steve martin is the straight-laced robert downey jr character and john candy is the zack and they do the exact same shit like they they go driving and one of them falls asleep and like they crash all over the place and then they run out of money but the goofy guy kind of actually tricked the uh straight-laced guy and like actually had his money and it's all i mean it is the same movie i wonder if they actually like admit to that or own up to that. I don't know. I'm curious if anyone else is familiar with this concept, but I'm not, cannot be the first person to have,

I don't recognize this, but I don't think it is the same movie. I just needed to make sure that I got that out there. It was, that was Bernie. That was a bee in my bonnet. Well, I'm glad,

I'm glad you did that. Tanner, we actually do have a lot to cover today. I'm looking at the list right now than just that uh movie comparison thing more than just that single movie comparison okay we actually do have quite a bit to cover today and first we're going to start with a little bit of follow-up um i've been getting ridiculed uh because i have not uh provided my big d hair follow-up ah yeah and yeah. And I can say I have not used it. I have not used the shampoo and conditioner enough times

because it got stuck in my basement. I have actually just used it today for the first time, the shampoo and conditioner. Yeah. And I feel like shampoo and conditioner maybe takes a couple times to really work through the system. Yeah. I was impressed.

I thought it was nice, but what really blew me away was the curl relaxer. Big D. So what do you do with that? You just, I'm assuming, I thought it was nice, but what really blew me away was the curl relaxer. Big D. So what do you do with that? I'm assuming I accidentally lost the card too. So I'm assuming I did this in the right order. I'm assuming you're supposed to use the shampoo and the conditioner in the shower and then the curl relaxer after you come out of the shower.

Hopefully I'm not wrong on that. So did it feel like it relaxed your curls? But it really, at the end, made my hair quite soft and nice. I put just a tiny little bit in and I was very impressed was very impressed a little bit goes a long ways with the curl relaxers you know with a lot of things in life a little bit does go a long way i must have used too much curl relax my curls just relax so and we also have to mention here while we're on the topic of hair that uh people not watching don't know what's going on but tanner's face is drastically different today and it's not because he's wearing a hat yeah don't buy our hats also as long as we're talking hats but yeah I got no

got in a fight with a razor and I lost you definitely yeah you got your ears lowered I got the got my face ears lowered I lowered my face ears all the way off and you said this is the first time that you haven't had any facial hair in. Probably four years. Really? Yeah. Where I haven't had a beard. And when you said that, we were at the gym and you were saying that earlier today. I thought you meant, I thought you were going to say like a year, maybe.

Like in my mind, you've just been clean shaven until a year ago. No, probably. Well, because my daughter that's three and a half, she is still, you you know like a day and a half later she's still a little bit like perplexed by the whole thing by the stranger in the house a little wary or a little uh tentative at least about what it is exactly who i am and what i'm why i replaced the man that used to why are you here what are you doing in my house yeah um so i was doing a little trimming it just got that's how all that's how all disasters yeah a little trimming and it got a little i i don't know if i got carried away but i got a little farther than i would maybe want to and i just said you

know what we're just going we're just taking it all i was like i'm just gonna start fresh i kind of was thinking what is it what does my face look like down there on the surface level anyways? And now that I've seen it, I'm ready to grow the beard back. It's really funny because I definitely have known you way longer without facial hair. Right. And for some reason, like when I saw you today, I thought I don't even remember that guy. Like that guy doesn't even exist in my mind anymore and every once in a while i'll forget you know that like i shaved it uh-huh and then and then i'll run into some well no and then i'll see somebody that i haven't seen yet and they'll have this just like like look on their face and i'm like oh yeah my face it's my face just my face that's startling yeah it's just my face uh it does look really

weird though even just looking at it on the camera here it looks really funny it's i i keep looking at the screen being like what's going on that guy over there yeah it looks weird it looks really weird uh-huh uh and there's just something about that no what, if you've had a beard for a long time and you make that change, it is just like a shockingly weird look. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost facial hair almost does it more than I think facial hair does it more than I think it does more than the hair on your head. It also made like makes me feel like the hair on my head looks different now than when it did. You know, like the whole like it got like really long all the time.

I actually thought for. Well, see, to me, it's the opposite. Okay. Your hair seems shorter now than what I thought for some reason. Yeah. And maybe it's because all the beard in the front just made your brain just goes, there's a lot of hair. Right.

Right. Yeah. There's, it's definitely different though. It like makes the hair. Yeah. Look different. The proportions are all off. It is all off now.

The equation's messed up. Yeah. So the beard's going to come. It'll be a relatively slow process, but what is this episode? Two 91. I don't know. I'm hoping by like two 95.

I'm, you could say that I'm for sure a guy with a beard. That's a month in. Yeah. By 300, you should be a, I'll be back. The guy again.

Yeah. That's two months. By the time we go to the Arnold. Oh yeah. My thing is I'm wondering if I can go from like now into the Arnold without literally doing a single thing because that's when I have a beard that my maintenance is what I do is

not nothing like I just let wherever the hair grows that's where it goes I'd get first of all I can't even grow a beard but if I did that I'd have some major neck issues that I'd have to I get that too but like once the front of it gets long enough. Well, yeah, at that point.

But for me, it would it would take a while to get to that point. Yeah, there'd have to be some serious neck trimming between now and then. But yeah. Wow. All right. So we got the hair thing covered. Yeah, I think we're good on hair. What time we got?

Ten minutes. Boy, Tanner, there's a lot of things here. And I don't even know what one to go with next oh what did you have like uh what was there something on there i can't even remember what we got why don't you fill us in this was a lifting related thing that you mentioned to me a couple weeks ago oh gosh i don't hardly know enough about what is it called what is the title in there it's like the deadlift jerk or whatever that i just put bounce because yeah you were explaining this to me and i did not i was not aware i think it was someone in a strong man competition that i think i don't know if he coined it as the deadlift jerker that was someone

else was was calling it that where he picked the bar up like this was like a max attempt deadlift he couldn't get it i think he attempted it once and then he picked it up like four inches off the ground five six inches eight something like that and then smashed it back down as hard as he could like didn't just drop it but literally forcefully smashed it back down as hard as he could and then it back up, and he caught it on the rebound up, like higher than it was to begin with, and then was able to get the deadlift. And in Strongman, you know, this isn't a powerlifting competition. You know, it's able to be done, I suppose. I don't know that I've seen anyone.

I've never seen anyone do that before. So then it was kind of a meme sort of thing going around on the internet for a while and people doing this deadlift jerk and uh it worked for this guy i think it was maybe even like a pr or he was certainly able to get the weight that he couldn't get without doing this so first of all would you say he's working smarter not harder i guess that's working the system but uh that's not working the system in a way that i would ever want to try that that's begging i'm i'm pretty for an injury like of the mentality that also like all right yeah the rules are made to be like you can play in the rules as long as

you're in the rules but yeah that one does kind of feel like that's going against sort of the nature of the sport i guess some people say it's just moving weight from point a to point b it doesn't matter but that really feels like it's starting to get away from it doesn't it i would i don't care i mean to me it's also just like seems so much more dangerous doesn't it for injury not even from not even yeah that and also just the opportunities to just destroy stuff. Once you start talking heavyweights, right? Yeah. Someone starts slamming down 800 pounds.

That's hard on plates, barbells, the floor. Yeah. Yeah. I don't. That is. Yeah, that is. I like is that actually taking offers? It's just a one and done thing.

I think people are mostly joking about. OK, this guy. I don't know if that was like people were actually taking it to that point of being like, done thing? I think people were mostly joking around about it, but this guy was doing it. I don't know if that was like people were actually taking it to that point of being like, oh yeah, this is how we're going to get more weight now. No, I don't know that it's become a common thing at all that I have seen, but no. But it was a silly thing. It was a silly goose thing for sure. Let's file that in our silly goose folder.

We need to get the sound effect for that one. A goose? Yeah. Get our Canadian goose folder. Another one for the silly goose folder. I'm going to read us an ad, Taylor. This podcast episode is brought to you by The Strength Co. Grant Brogy was born in the late 80s, nearly two decades after, not butter, buddy caps began lifting.

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Massanomics podcast review session? Do we want to do that now? I don't. Did you want to talk about a special Massonomics podcast review session? Do we want to do that now? I don't know if we want to do that now or save that for the end. Okay, we can save that for the end. What about an update on our Massonomics meme contest? That's what, okay. Should we have a little beverage before we go there?

Yes, that's even, that's... Because I'm getting very thirsty. That's the best idea I've heard yet. Tanner, I'm going to need you to suit up for this. Oh, okay. Uh-oh. That's almost out of reach. I to need you to suit up for this. Oh, okay. That's almost out of reach. I might just have to do it old school. Okay.

Might just have to kick it old school. Okay. Well, close them up. Get that brim of that hat nice and low so you're not cheating. Here we go. This is what's in the can. All right. I'm excited for it.

Let me get that the right direction for you, just like so. All right. I'm excited for it. Let me get that the right direction for you. Just like so. All right. I'm excited for this too. Crisp, clean crack. Wow. Okay. Okay. Wow.

That's good. We're not in the uh fruity uh the feels like this one kind of hits different this one hits different i feel like this is a uh cream soda flavored sparkling water that's my initial uh thought i guess i gotta stick with that cream cream soda flavored sparkling water that's what you're going with though let me try one more that's what i'm gonna say why don't you take a look why don't you take a look tanner it is in fact a birthday cake birthday cake ugly flavored sparkling water okay and once you said cream soda i thought yeah that does taste like cream soda yeah it's similar to that though right it is pretty similar i thought for sure birthday cake would be way more disgusting than this

no it's not not too bad actually another ugly uh-huh boy ugly they're the they're the flavor innovators yeah ugly is uh winning me over on their sparkling waters. I'll tell you that. I'm assuming these ones are the more limited runs when it has the can, like the label... Oh, right. Like, stickered on the can. Right. That other one, the 16-ounce Cherry Cokes that we had, Cherry Colas, those were like the actual can was printed.

But this is like a sticker thing. That's good. that's really good yeah i gotta give the uh shout out to big alex a kind of fit kind of fat for uh did he send these no he sent me a picture he said this will stump tanner and i thought wow that flavor makes no sense that's crazy i gotta get that now having it not as crazy as i thought actually pretty decent i don't you think it tastes similar to a cream soda it does which is kind of weird but i definitely get the birthday cake flavor too yes um i'll give it a four i'm good i'm for sure three and a half can i go four i don't i think i I'm going to stick.

I'll go for, I'll go for on this too. Yeah. Not bad for JD powers. Yeah. Good. So you know, it's good.

Ugly. It's good. Ugly. Ain't so ugly. Is it? They know what they're doing over there. It's so ugly after all. So where are we going to review the well what is from so i guess we are currently in the midst in the middle of the massonomics meme contest we are in the heat of battle right now

you can say i guess we we don't necessarily need to get into every meme that's been made because a we're not going to podcast for five hours yeah yeah and b will have will i suppose next week that's what next week's episode will be and go over the winners and stuff but uh it is worth mentioning that there's been a ton of memes being made i would say like the sheer volume of them is staggering yes you just have to so you just have to go to Instagram, go to hashtag MathSynomics meme, and just explore the tag because it goes on. It's like its own feed. It just goes on and on and on and on. Grant texted me today even and said, man, there is so many.

And if you really want to see them all, that's the only way you can do it is by searching by the hashtag. But it's hard to even be like, okay, where did I leave off to make sure that i know that is the challenge it's just you gotta almost have to like everyone it's like oh i haven't liked this one so this must be you um and some really good ones you know i there's some really really good ones like we were i was laying on the couch and just repeatedly laughing out loud. And my wife goes, will you quit doing that? And I'm like,

no, I can't, I can't stop. It's too funny. There's too much funny stuff in here. It reminds me of the meme somebody made about when you told me about middle class fancy and you're like, it's you over like trying to sleep.

And then it's me over there, like giggling about, uh, about middle class fancy. And that is kind of what it was like. I mean, you really weren't like trying to sleep that. No wasn't like you're like but it was pretty accurate but god there's a lot of there's just a lot of good stuff there and you never know what direction

these things are going to go when we do them memes are like a box of chocolates they really are but we've seen everything from massonomics things lifting things some lifting apparel massonomics apparel things to tommy and tanner things to south dakota things so it's been a very diverse uh you know what's been lacking i was thinking trying to think of areas where i things that i haven't seen people meme yet that i kind of giving the Discord people a little inside treat here. Yeah, since they're listening live. And if you want to be able to listen live to a portion of the Mastonomics podcast each week,

all you have to do is go over to mastonomics.com. You say, you know what's been missing? Big Matt writes, leans forward. What was I saying? In order to get on the Discord, all you have to do is become a supporting member. You can go over to our shop and do that. We've got a few different levels of supporting membership.

Thankfully for you, all of those membership levels will get you into the Mastonomics Discord, and you can be a part of the community there. And there's a discount code that goes along with that, but it can save you a little bit on one of your purchases there. So that's cool beans, but get on the discord. But the topic should, should we turn the discord off now?

Before I reveal this fair, we want to actually let know. And maybe this will spark you. And if you have any areas that you've seen that we, that haven't been memed all that much yet, but I was thinking, I don't think this go around. I've seen anything of Aberdeen magazine and I would really like to see

Aberdeen magazine and them being tagged in it. I would like to see them tagged in the memes. There was a, okay. I almost want to say this off air just okay tanner i'm gonna turn our microphones down for one second just because i don't want people to hear this because i don't know if this is in the discord or if we talked about this so i just have to everyone bear with us for one second while i turn our microphones off

okay the idea i think was in the discord so yeah um but the should i say that yeah yeah someone and i laughed very hard at this someone had mentioned that the winning person should be able to get a submission as an ad into the aberdeen magazine yeah and that made me laugh very very hard because it's so stupid uh that does remind me though we announced the prizes the official prizes got announced today so the grand prize winner of the mass dynamics mean contest will win a pair of limited very limited edition the strength co 35 pound plates it's a pair it's not one it's not you're gonna get a pair um not gonna elaborate much more on those 35-pound plates,

but you know that you'll be getting a pair of strength coat 35-pound plates. You'll be the every home gym owner in America will be jealous of you. Yes. And what more could you want? And then some of the runner-up prizes. You're going to have your choice of some of the Frankenstein Masonomics tees. You got where it's like half and half, a curl shirt and a raw power shirt, up prizes you're going to have your choice of some of the frankenstein massonomics teas you got where it's like half and half a curl shirt and a raw power shirt or the bench heavy or the gym

half and half or the lift um or there's some uh original massonomics artwork that's out there there are tunes by skinny idiot studios i want to make it clear matt we just the it was mentioned as a joke that the ad would go into the every night we're not saying we're doing that i don't want anyone to think that's what we're doing or are we you can never say never but i'm not we're not saying that that is a prize but it would be very very funny so who knows yeah um the last so we're talking about the art the frank Frankenstein shirts, and then there was one other thing I forgot to mention as a possible runner-up prize choice is us calling you for the Massonomics podcast and you reading the Texas Power Bars ad

for the podcast. Good to put your stamp on that little timeline. That's a choice that you have out of the runner-up prizes. I would assume that's probably the choice that people that don't follow the podcast would want it to. Yeah. Can I call in and read that?

These things all have a monetary value, but I'll go with the reading and add on the podcast. Yeah. Okay. So that's kind of the prizes. Um, keep sending them in. We don't know exactly how many winners there's going to be.

There's going to be the one grand prize winner. that's going to win the very limited edition plates the 35 pound strength co plates um and then a number of runners up that are going to have their choice and if you're after one of the shirts you know those are in certain sizes you have to pick there the artwork it'll be first come first serve and then the calling for the te Power Bars, if we've got to do that over a few episodes, you'll just get on the list and we'll call you so you can read the ad live on the podcast. Yes. And the beauty of the contest really was that there was unlimited entries.

Yes. And people love to take advantage of that unlimited entries because, yeah, the content goes for days. It does. Yeah, we should probably quit talking about that because we will talk about a very in-depth next week but i'm i'm really looking for we're only on wednesday i'm really looking forward to what the rest of the week has in store for us on that thing tanner would you like me to tell you about something else or or do we want to wait a couple minutes? Yeah. Are we going into, well, should we hint at the product that we have coming?

Yeah, we should talk about that just a little bit. Just before we get carried away here. We should mention that. We have a very, I don't know, what would you say about it? It's very revolutionary. Yeah, revolutionary. Never before seen.

Way outside the mass dynamics box. It's made out of steel. Yeah's cool just like superman it's not a man though or super not a person yeah besides that it is made out of steel was superman a man i is a human or is he dancer? But let's see. This will come out on the 1st of November-ish. And this new product of ours will be coming to market on November 4th, 2021. Yep. It'll be released in all its glory.

And I'm excited for it. I hope. I mean, it pops. I hope the drop pops. I hope it does, too. And this will be the drop pops i hope it does too it's been and this will be oh the only this will be this product will be on its own it's in a big drop this is this drop is for the product yep uh it's been many many months in the making lots of r&d yeah that's research and development for people that are up on the oh i needed to know

engineering terms i don't know what we were talking about, so that's good. Yeah, we'll be able to talk about that more next week, too, about what went into it. I think there'll be some interesting discussion that we can have on that and the ups and downs, the highs and lows and all that. But yeah, be on the lookout for that this week. If you're listening to this, the week that comes out next week for anyone that's listening to this live, but November 4th, you said thursday november 4th thursday november 4th it's going down it's going down you know what else is going down oh boy uh hybrid hybrid

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in the ad uh five percent off for the lifetime of that membership for the nutrition training anything that hybrids got over there mass thank you hybrid thank you hybrid oh man get this guy well get this guy a birthday cake flavored water now that we're on the subject all right oh we need your little your little dongle there yeah if you know what i mean that's what she said as the actor said to the bishop get that little dongle in case people were wondering uh oh maybe that was before we started last week. We were complaining about our cords.

We got new cords. So if you notice a revolution. Crystal clear audio, like you can hear the inside of Tanner's throat when he starts coughing. It's because the cords are all new. I got that dad gum tickle in my throat. Well, should we get him on the horn?

Someone made that an email. Because I always say get him on the horn someone made that an email because I always say get him on the horn we haven't mentioned who we're even getting on the horn but it'll be a surprise for when he answers you know the discord still on have you hit oh we better better say bye

discord ah they almost tricked us this all right tried to get us again didn't they they didn't get to find out who we had either no that's true okay I guess they gotta wait hello

big spud is that you possibly who's calling me this late I'm very old Hello? Big Spud, is that you? Possibly. Who's calling me this late? I'm very old. I'm very, very old. Why are you calling me? What's going on?

It's, of course, Tanner and Tommy. What's up, Spud? What's happening, dude? What's going on with you? Not too much. We're excited to get you on the podcast, even if we had to keep you up a couple hours past your normal bedtime. It's way past my bedtime, man. I'm already in the bed.

I've got one of those beds. I got my little sheet on. My bed's propped up, so I'm ready. Let's do it. Perfect. Yeah, we're excited to get you on. Obviously, Spud Inc. has been a sponsor of the massonomics podcast for a long time we and a supporter even longer than that that's true that's true um and we that is still very very true

we got a scare and we uh you know we actually use a bunch of your products regularly in our gym and we talk about it quite a bit uh back when the bow tie first came out. I remember we, we did something on that. It might've been the first spud ink thing that we did. And I don't know, that's been, I think Donnie Thompson shared something like last week. Was it five years? I don't know if it was five years that that's been out. If that sounds right to you, Mark.

That is very, That is very close. Yeah, so we've got to go back and forth for quite a while, but excited to get you on the podcast now. Yeah, no doubt, man. I appreciate you having me on. You know, I've been listening to it for a long time.

I'm getting the usual. I like you guys. you're okay in my book yeah well go ahead well we just want to ask that we've got several questions for you about the business and stuff like that but i guess the first one would be like if you could tell us even just some sort of the origin story or how it first came about or what your first product was or, uh, how the business first started. Oh, wow.

Um, well, you know, back in, you know, back in the city, way, way, way back in 1998. Okay. I think it was, I think it was, um, was um i was training at don's gym which i you know which i later bought and um you know back there doing some shitty ass squats you know some close stance stuff and you know it was like 404 55 or something like that and you know i'm sitting there uh doing a set and i'm kind of like you you know what? Trying not to puke and, you know, doors open and hanging out. And he walks by and says, hey, you want a power lift? And I was like, sure, why not?

So from then on out, we're power lifting together. And, you know, back then it was a road where, you know, not a lot of people were traveling that road and obviously it was way back yonder where the internet was just starting and all that yep so um started the the the seeds were being sown then um so as it went along all all i'm beginning to care about was powerlifting. So I bought a gym just so I could powerlift, just so I could practice all the things that I did, you know, training-wise, you know, without, you know, making it my real job. So as we went along, you know, the process, you know, we got bigger and bigger and bigger. And there weren't really any products back then. So there's a couple of things that we had in the gym, long ab strap, some of the sled stuff, you know, all these things. There are a couple of things here and there.

And so, you know, we were using those personally. And, you know, like I said, as I went along, I bought the gym in 2002. And then about 2006, you know, I was like, you know what? I'm going to see about, you know, making these products. So I started making, you know, I approached Dave Tate and said, Dave, you know, what do you think about me making these products? He said, if you make them, I'll sell them. And so right then and there, I decided to start the Sputnik line. And we had five or six products coming out of there.

We had the belt squat belt. We had the sled strap. We had the upper body strap. The long ab strap and the short ab strap were really the beginnings because nobody had any kind of good shit back then at all. So 2006 was really the origin story of Spuddy making products. And so those products are the ones you made in 2006 for the ab straps. Are those still the same pretty much construction that you do today?

Yeah. Everything's pretty much exactly the same. Very little tweaking on it. So just nailed it right off the bat. Just, just, you know, it's like me, real, real boring and easy. But you know, as the evolution went along you know we just uh all the products that we created obviously you know they're for a purpose and you know they're very specific and of course you know i never wanted to put out anything unless unless it was something that was going gonna last somebody forever and um you know and they're gonna be able to get full use out of it i hate making products that just you know don't aren't just aren't quite right and or they're off just a little bit you know we always

strove to make great products that did exactly what they were supposed to do you know and to be honest you know when i started making them i was like i was like damn we make them so damn good you know eventually nobody's gonna be able to buy them because they already have them right nobody's gonna want anymore because they're so good right i mean we still have i still have the original deadlift straps you know because in 2006 you know everybody had the i'm not gonna name any brands because they all get jacked up, but, you know, it could say, could be in your mind. That might be a way to say it. But everybody strapped a pop and left them right. And, you know, we were the first ones to really put out good straps that just, you know, didn't break, didn't wear, you know, and, you know,

basically it's, you know, you're married to that strap and you weren't ever going to break it or get rid of it so it was like an old lady you know so when you said at the beginning you know talk to Dave and you said he said you make it I'll sell it at the beginning were you selling

through your own website or were you mostly just selling it to other people that were selling it or did you start kind of both at the same time i started both at the same time um you know back then i don't know if you ever remember front page no oh like microsoft front page is that yeah that was our first website i talked to susan i was like, hey, we really need a website. She's like, I don't know what to do. I was like, well, just make it happen. And of course, I walk away and go do some other shit.

It was always the deal. OK, look, I need you to do this, this, and this. And I'm going to go over here and sit down and train this person or whatever. And so there's plenty of stories like that as far as the straps then were you made i mean do you have someone else manufacture them or do you guys do that stuff how does that process work now we have we have a couple people that manufacture them you know it's involved in the uh probably it's got three people making stuff for us now okay so but yeah it was just a very very humble beginnings you know you just go get a few products made you go pick it up and of course

everybody's everybody's everybody works at these places this is in the beginning they're like what the fuck are you guys doing yeah you know and it, hey, just give me my box and I'm going to get out of here, dude. Did you think though in the beginning that the strap material that you guys use, it's used in everything. Did you think it would last as long as it did?

Yeah. Because it's just rock solid. I'm sorry. You want a more complicated answer? No, I just didn't know what you were going to say. I don't know. We'll put this together. Who knows how long it'll last or if you knew it would be that durable.

Well, we started getting the products made in the late... We got them made for ourselves. It was like 1998 and 1999 by the time we started making them. We still had all those products. And, you know, none of the stitching was giving. They would fade out a little bit because of the dye and the material. But other than that, it's, you know, there was nothing breaking on, which, you know, led me to go, well, you know, eventually everybody had, you know, once you sell led me to go well you know eventually everybody

had you know once you once you sell a few of them you know everybody's gonna have one they're never gonna they're never gonna even know the thing so yeah um but that you know that that also led to you know back then we were we were always doing you know we were doing some strongman stuff we're doing some powerlifting stuff you know we you know we did a whole bunch of different things so there was always there was always something where you would see something happen on TV or World's Strongest Man or something like that. You go, oh, we can make a strap do this, this, and this, and this. So there was always that, not just powerlifting sport,

but all these other sports as well football basketball baseball all those things so there were just so many sports that you know you would see you would see somebody using something that was like we can make something a whole lot better than that typically we did so along those lines you know talking about all the different products you guys do have like it if if someone hasn't gotten to Spudding, they should go to your website and really see you guys have an impressive number of uses for straps. I think it would blow most people's minds away

that the number of ideas you guys have came up with to use straps for. It's really crazy. Do you ever think we've thought of it all, there's nothing left to do, or is there still ideas out there? Oh, there's many more ideas out there. That was one of the key things about training is,

and anybody who's trained with me will tell you, it's like, I hate doing the same shit over and over again. And you've got all your auxiliary work and all your, your extra volume shit, you're doing your back and your arms and all that shit. So, you know, I just hated doing the same thing, each workout. And, you know, back then I was training a lot of people too. So, um, it was always just this giant experimental lab. So I was always doing something to myself or to the people training

with me or to the clients I was training at the time. So it was just, it was that, that really, honestly, that was the best part of it was that experimenting and, well, you know, let me get a strap and let me see if I can do some back on the reverse hyper. Well, that's a cool idea. You know, I could do some overhead triceps and French presses with an upper body strap, you know, using the reverse hyper. So, and it wasn't limited just to the strap stuff. I mean, you know, back then, every piece of equipment in my gym probably had five or six different uses. You know, we used to have like a hammer a hammer leg extension so what i make out of it i started doing you know uh jms off the floor

or i do rdls with the the leg extension machine so i was always experimenting with everything and of course you know you got all these straps around you so you just throw a strap on there and see how something feels yeah so it's just the constant experimentation with with all these different things and you know it's really you can make so many different exercises out of out of all these straps it's just so so out of all everything you've made then all these different products is there anything any one that sticks out to you as like your favorite thing that you guys have ever come up with or your favorite thing you guys sell geez that's a hard one right there dude i mean i've you know obviously we made like 12 different versions of the belt squat right yeah we just released the sweater vest which is the

front squat harness slash belt squat combo i love that one okay so yeah that's one of my favorites um i always find myself just going to uh just you know the basics a lot i mean i can't really say one's my absolute favorite yeah but you know I'm always trying to come up with something a little bit better. That's cool. So are you the main guy coming up with products? I mean, do you got other people that

you bounce stuff off of a lot of? I mean, does the buck stop with you usually and that's where the stuff is coming from? It was always a combination. Dale used to work for me. You guys remember Dale really well. He had a little girl and he was upstate.

But it was always he had a concept, I had a concept, somebody had a concept, and we would bounce all those things off each other. So it was never any one person. It was either a combination of people or an idea we got thrown out there and kind of formed itself. But now, right now, basically I'm doing all the creation process right now. And that's reinvigorated me as far as make it fun again with all these different products I got coming out. Have you ever had, you know, I'm sure you've come up with like probably thousands of ideas over the years,

but have you ever had an idea that you thought was really good and then you kind of got into testing and messing with it and you're like, no, this is a terrible idea. Oh shit, dude. thought was really good and then you kind of got into testing and messing with it you're like no this is a terrible idea oh shit dude no there's probably for it for every one that comes out there's probably five or six okay dozen bombs and yeah you try it you try it and you know you're like oh man shit that just the idea sounded awesome in your brain and then you know the translation it just never really quite felt right or worked out right so yeah i probably say there's at least five fails for every good one okay that's so it's not just us huh no fuck no dude look if you're if you ain't failing

you ain't trying hard enough that's part of the process, but the process, obviously after that, you know, even with the, even with the fails, you know, you end up, you end up, you never know where a fail is going to lead to as far as another, another,

another product or something else. So, you know, there's always, there's always some kind of, there's always something to get out of something. Right. Um,

the name of the company, Spud Inc., and obviously your nickname, Spud, I assume it was your nickname, and that's where the company name came from. But where did that name come from originally? Why are you Spud? Spud Webb. Okay. So when I was 12 years old, my father was in the service. And we ended up down here in Sumter at Shaw Air Force Base.

And, you know, when I first moved in the neighborhood, it was one of those neighborhoods where, you know, there was always some kind of sport going on. So you got wiffle ball, you got street ball, you got nerf ball, you got obviously basketball, baseball. I mean, we just, there was always some kind of, there was always some kind of sport going on. And I think at the time, you know, the chiropractor on the corner, you know, he had a basketball goal and he didn't, he never really said anything, but, you know, we never really asked. He just let us play basketball at his place.

And, you know, we just kind of showed up at about five or six kids or you know sometimes ten be out there playing ball all day long but um obviously obviously i did not have the jumping skills in spud web but what i sure as it was run around and foul the hell out of you step on your feet you know so i was i was okay defensive guy but you know that's really yeah so they started calling me spud web and you know and after a while the web got dropped and it was just since i was about 12 so since about 12 years old and you know my friend never thought that was gonna never never gonna stick because that's just one of your nicknames you get growing up and half the time you get it because you know like you get it because you're drunk or drinking beers or something yeah so it's always the antics of spud or whatever you know um but uh you know i just

after that i was like yeah it's like a little bit older i was like you know what are we gonna call it and since it's my nickname i was like well fuck it we'll just call it? Since it was my nickname, I was like, well, fuck it. We'll just call it Spud Inc., man. It was unique, and there was nothing like it. So that's what happened. Yeah, that's cool. I actually think in my high school, they used to call it Magnum Spud. So web got dropped, and Magnum Spud got added. And in my high school, you can see where I wrote Magnum Spud.

That's back when I had hair. It was bleach blonde hair and it had cowlicks like John Madden. Literally that kind of wavy cowlicks like john madden okay yeah literally that kind of wavy cowlick yeah so and uh you know that's back when you had the gq haircut and it's the mullet now but back back back then it was gq so you part it in the middle and you cut you know everything was cut and he had long hair in the back. Magnum stud, yes. That's a good story. You retail a lot of your stuff.

You sell it on your site, but like we were talking, even with Lead FTS selling it there, you wholesale to probably quite a few other companies and you work with some pretty big companies, I'm guessing. You're right. companies I'm guessing thinking about like yeah I'm thinking about a company like I don't know are there any that you

work with that are big enough that they're a pain in the ass to you ever sometimes like like what about a company like Rogue Fitness for example that's that's somehow what about a company like rogue fitness, for example? Somehow I knew that was going to come out. Actually, you know, actually,

rogue is pretty easy to deal with. Okay. You know, obviously, you know, they have their systems and like everybody else, they have all their systems in place. And, you know, I don't really, you know, obviously I't really, you know, obviously I'm not going to bad mouth anybody because they buy my shit, but the products sell themselves. And, um, I don't really,

I don't really have any, any real issues with, uh, too many retailers. I mean, it's just minor stuff. I mean, that's just part of business. And then you're putting out

that many products and, you know, and that type of volume, you know, you're just going to have issues here and there, but you know, nothing to rogues easy to deal with. Okay. I thought maybe you'd give us some dirt on them or something like that. No, I can't do that.

Not really. there's no dirt that's just business you're gonna have ups and downs and shit overall I can't complain at all Spud we do have this little game we like to play uh called overrated underrated we play it with every guest and we prepared a special uh spud

set of topics for you so it's just we'll fire them off to you and it's just your job to decide whether they're overrated or underrated and you can elaborate on that as much as little or as little as you want but you just can't ride the line you have to pick either overrated or underrated and you can elaborate on that as much as little or as little as you want, but you just can't ride the line. You have to pick either overrated or underrated for each one. Overrated or underrated. All right. So over,

over, over under, if you're ready, we'll fire them over to you. Okay. All right. Overrated or underrated spuds McKenzie. Oh,

underrated. And, uh, spuds McKenzie oh underrated and Spuds McKenzie for anyone that doesn't know is like the Budweiser dog I think and Mark it's about drinking man yeah it's always underrated you gotta

have more drinking I didn't know that was the name of the dog until Tanner told me right before this. That was news to me. Are you old enough to remember any of the Spuds McKenzie ads or anything like that? I think so. That was the primo high school

party days, man. That's a little before both of our times, so we didn't actually get to experience it. Just a little bit, yeah. Okay. Just a little bit. All right. So next one, we kind of touched on this already, actually,

but overrated or underrated, Spud Webb. Oh, man, underrated. Got your nickname from the guy, right? Right, that's damn right. It can't know he doesn't he's got his five fucking six and dunking the shit out of a ball i mean come on it is pretty crazy even yeah like with all the crazy stuff you can find on the internet nowadays yeah you can still go back and watch that and it is pretty mind-blowing still.

It's just amazing, that picture. He's up in the air dunking the ball and you're like, holy crap. The distance from his feet to the ground, that's really crazy. It's like, what is going on here? Pretty much his height. It would hurt for me just to like,

if I was up hanging on something and someone said, all right, let go. You got to fall down from that far. I'd be like, are you kidding me? No. I won't recover from this. I'm up in the air. No, leave me alone.

Okay, so underrated on Spudweb. Okay. Now, we don't know exactly what your music tastes are here, but we've picked kind of an interesting one. So overrated or underrated the song Yellow by Coldplay? Overrated. That's probably a pretty good answer, I think. Gross.

While we're on the subject where did no no no reference to my the color of my shit either which i assume that's why you picked it right yeah yeah yeah where did uh where did where did the yellow come from for spud uh there weren't any options back then. So you had yellow or orange. Um, I mean, they, they, you know, you can get like the material you're saying. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh, so, so typically it would come in, it would come in yellow or orange.

And, um, if you wanted anything, if you wanted something different, you'd have to order a truckload of it. Um, and back then we, you know, we were just getting started and we were you know we didn't have the kind of money for it so um yellow it was and you know it became a the unique color for us as far as everybody recognizes yeah even to this day no one really goes with yellow like you guys still kind of have that spot carved out yep yellow and black well what uh so what were people using this material for like the many the people you went to to make this stuff what were they using it for what were the some of the other other industries they're using it for do you know uh that it was all yellow

or all orange like what mostly it's a it's a sling material so. So they would use it to make slings for picking up things. So picking up boats and yachts and hauling nuclear material is just another example. I mean, there's always that kind of rigging and sling material. And so, and of course, you know, it had to be rated for thousands and thousands of pounds, which is, you know, also one of the unique selling points is nobody really makes a product like we do as far as, you know, how much it will hold. Yeah. And, and that's also reasons like, you know,

us puny humans can never break that kind of shit because it's just rated to do a bunch of things that, you know, we can never surpass. We can sure try. And as you know, I've broken a lot of things and torn a lot of things. It's not from lack of effort, put it that way. Your body's breaking before the straps, though.

I'm fit to do that. I just need to make a bionic strap for everybody to use later on when everything is completely broken. There we go. That's the next big thing. Okay. Next one for overrated and underrated, and this is the last one. The last one's kind of always

the most important one. It's usually worth all the marbles. I'm scared. Should I have a drum roll? Yeah, have a drum roll. Overrated or underrated? Potato chips. Maybe they're underrated. Are you...

Okay, when it comes to potato chips, are you the... I just read it. Was that really the last question? Yeah, that's the last one. The last one's usually the dumbest question. You gotta be shitting. Potato chips? Okay, spud.

Yeah. It was either that or like russet potatoes. Okay. When I was actually picking the name, I was actually doing searches. And, you know, I did think at one time there might have been some kind of name conflict because there's several spud eggs, you know, out there in the potato states. Idaho and stuff, I suppose. Yes, out there where they grow a lot of potatoes. But yes, but obviously there's no

problems with that but knock on wood anyway they're not too worried about your your corner you've carved out in the lifting community coming for their chips they sell a lot more potato chips yes

than I will ever have than I ever will for straps. They might use them to pick up some potatoes, but whatever. What's your go-to potato chip flavor? Shit, dude. I like the sea salt ones myself. Sea salt is pretty good. How about you, Tommy? I mean, original is pretty tough to beat, just straight up.

But I guess, yeah, I do also like the sea salt or like the salt and vinegar are also pretty good too. I'm not a big chip guy if I was to go. My favorite is probably dill pickle. Oh, really? Yeah, that's a wild card choice. Dill pickle chips. Yeah, I guess that would a wild card choice. Dill pickle chips. Yeah. I guess that would be wild card.

I'd go a lot before I get to dill pickle. Obviously, there's a lot of damn flavors to choose from. Yeah. A dill pickle I would not have went with. Yeah, no, that's the wild card choice. Something Tommy and I were talking about early too,

is, um, you guys, uh, we'll have a lot of fun with, you know, some of the marketing videos or product videos that you guys make. Um,

is that something that you've always enjoyed doing or where does the, um, you know, inspiration for some of that stuff come from? Typically it's usually like, hey, the video guy's coming today. Do we have any ideas? Most of the silly stuff comes from my terrible brain.

And then usually what happens is it's a lot of improv. So once we get going, it's like, let's do this and this and this and this and just make something silly and funny. You guys do that a lot too. We respect that a lot. That's your stick. You know, it is. I imagine you've felt this way before, but sometimes do you feel kind of dumb when you're trying to do,

you know, when you're on the camera, whether you're trying to do something silly or serious or whatever it is, but like you kind of have like, I'm such an idiot here, you know, like do you ever get that feeling? All the time. If you don't have that feeling then you're not doing it right but it's just

fun and using the spontaneity when we're filming the videos I know I know I got it when I when the camera guy starts laughing yeah you're like that's not just us. Because he's very straight up. He's a good guy, but he's just very straight and proper.

To catch him to relax in a moment and just laugh at something because it's so silly, that. That, that, that, that's when you know, you got it. Just having a silly goose time. Right. And that's what I have to tell them when I name these products, it's always,

it's always something just to, ah, yeah, there is some good names. Yeah. The naming Booker strap. Yeah. So not,

not only are the products, uh, inventive and creative, but the names also have a life of their own too. What's, what's, what's that process like? You you know it's another thing it just kind of happens you know um you know like well the hooker straps for sure it's like

that was one of the you know it usually just pops right in my head it usually obviously it's some kind of uh reference sexually or you know some kind of joke or some type some type of joke that uh you know everybody says but you know just kind of everybody always laughs about no matter how corny it is and and and but they also remember that and that and that's part of the process too is you know i always like to make stuff that people remember and you know remember. If they find a good product and they get a good laugh out at the same time, what's wrong with all that?

After all, don't take shit so seriously. I don't want to sell products and not have any fun doing it. Obviously, when you're lifting, there's always that shit talking you know, when you're, when you're lifting, there's always that shit talking. If you're not shit talking while you're lifting, then you're not having any fun with something.

Right. There's a lot of shit talking, you know, there's a lot of places, there's a lot of places where that shit talking goes. How did it end up over here? Everybody's chipping in, but yeah,

I mean, I like the name process, and typically, I don't really think about it too much. It just kind of pops right in my head, and it's usually something absurd, and once I say it out loud, I look for the expressions on people's faces.

I know when I got it. So it's like the handy straps. We're going to shoot a video for that. That's a pretty easy one there. You're already there, right? See? That was easy. Speaks for a nice old-fashioned handy. There you go. Now you're winning.

Good old-fashioned. Good old-fashioned, please. And I don't mean the drink. That's right. Right, right. Well, Spud, that was awesome. We're glad we got to get you on here finally and talk to you about some stuff

and probably most importantly get your take on potato chips. Yeah. You didn't catch me off guard a little bit on that. That's always the goal. What was that? The purpose? Yeah. Yeah.

So, so dill pickle. No. How about barbecue? No. I like jalapeno. Jalapeno is also a go-to that's okay but usually that's uh doritos you know jalapeno doritos oh doritos are a whole other ball yeah yeah that's uh yeah but you know i'm talking about you start drinking and

you know late at night you know no actions. So you're getting three for that. Well, let's show my age here. But you stop at a convenience store and get three or four dollar hot dogs and then you get a bag full of jalapeno nachos and, you know, eat until your lips are burning on fire. And the roof of your mouth is like, you know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah. I've never got this three hot dogs for a dollar yeah i don't know that sounds like i've never seen that deal but yeah oh that was that was the shit you know like you're out you walk into like a qt or something you see all those hot dogs and

sausage dogs and all that shit rolling well you'd have when you walked in like the 7-eleven or whatever store you're walking into they have like the little time machine. Those hot dogs have been there all day long. The little rotisserie hot dog thing. Right. When you went out partying, they're like, that sounds really good. Let me get that.

Of course, you know. It's worse than Taco Bell, though. Yeah. The repayment turns next day worse than Taco Bell, though. The repayment terms next day are worse than Taco Bell. I don't know if anyone's ever been hungrier, though, than when you're really drunk and haven't eaten for quite a while. Once two o'clock hits, you're like, oh my God, I'm so hungry. Yeah, you can't get any hungrier.

You just got shot down in flames by every girl in the fucking bar. All of a sudden, I'm really hungry. Let's go to the convenience store and buy like 10 hot dogs and go home and just chow out. The trick around here for a while for us was, you know, it gets so cold in the wintertime. There's a gas station on the way home. You can get the hot dogs, put them in the sleeves of your jacket to keep you warm while you're walking. Then when you get home, not only were you warmer,

but you also have hot dogs to eat too. It's kind of a win-win. Well, I thought you were going to put them someplace else. You can put a few in your jacket. Keep me warm! Keep me warm! I'm not going to stop you from doing anything hey you know whatever floats your boat man

just make sure you take care of those hot dogs okay no we do appreciate getting you on spot this is good stuff yeah great thank you for having me man I had a lot of fun we keep reading Okay. No, we do appreciate getting you on, Spud. This is good stuff. Yeah, great. Thank you for having me, man. I had a lot of fun.

Well, we keep reading our Spud Inc. ad every week here and hopefully send some people your way. Well, I appreciate it, man. You guys have a bunch of unique shirts and clothing line, and you guys give me a laugh, too, with all the things you come up with you know because hell half of the damn things like the bush beer miller light and all that shit you know those are all the things i grew up drinking you know yep because because that's because that's all you had the money for right yeah yep right so but you guys keep doing great things you're doing as well and um we're gonna shoot some videos probably in a couple weeks so um we'll so we'll start putting those back out

and we'll see where we'll see what happens awesome we'll be on the lookout for it alright fellas thank you very much thanks bud have a great day cool beans cool beans

two cool spud beans two extra crispy spud beans served up cold not like a gas station hot dog nothing like a nothing like a warm gas station hot dog so we finally got the spudding story yeah. Yep. Learned a lot there. Yellow, I guess, because it was just because that's what it was. Yellow or orange. I think yellow was the right choice there. What a different world we would have been in if. Orange and black. Yeah. They're the Halloween company year round.

No, yellow and black. Yeah. They made the right move. I think so. But maybe if they had gone orange and black. We'd say yellow. That's not a good color. Who would have picked that?

Yeah. Of course it's orange and black. Yeah. Well, I'm still going to say they made the right choice. Yeah. black we'd say yellow that's a that's not a good pick of course it's orange and black yeah well i'm still gonna say they made the right choice yeah not a fan of cold play though apparently not apparently not what do you think of cold play um they're clearly talented i just there's so few songs of theirs that ever really did anything for me. I mean, I can see why people like them. I can see why.

I just, they're not like. Not your particular couple of teams. I think maybe even Spotify, I could have swore they had something new come out recently. Okay. I didn't click on it. You know, I didn't need to hear it. No, it wouldn't be my go-to music. Yeah. So, Tanner, I think we should read a little Spud ink ad here okay all right let's um this ad

was inspired by our conversation all right this episode is brought to you by spud ink and the sweater vest slash belt squat vest oh the sweater vest is a long time idea that spud has been wanting to perfect spud ink was the first innovator of the belt squat belt in the early 2000s, making one that was comfortable and long-lasting. The belt squat became a mainstay in many training regimens over the next two decades and became the gold standard of belt squat belts. But with time always moving ahead, they pioneered the front squat harness to simulate the exercise for the belt

squat machines. The front squat harness taxes the entire abdominals and pretty much the entire front side of the body along with the normal squat machines. The front squat harness taxes the entire abdominals and pretty much the entire front side of the body along with the normal leg development. Boy, I should really not lose my spot when I'm reading, huh? Easier said than done. One of the biggest issues with the belt squat is the digging in on the hips and legs.

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We really ate crow on that one. Yes, we did. Put our foot in our mouth, didn't we? Okay. I wanted to talk about a podcast review. Oh. Actually, first, let me read a few podcasts. Well, I'm going to read a few podcast reviews.

Okay. This is review time. Yeah, this is an interesting review segment, though. First one, Sparkling Nonsense, five out of five stars from J.K. Powers. If you would love the smooth voices and knockoff humor of the hypothetical offspring of Seth MacFarlane and Archer,

this is absolutely the podcast for you. J.K JK Powers. So we're the hypothetical offspring of Seth McFarlane and Archer. I'm curious how they got to that. I don't know. That is interesting. There's much worse offspring

than it categorizes. I'll take that. Been called a lot worse. Okay. Next one. Five out of five starts again here. An excellent podcast to. That's the title is an excellent podcast too.

And then the description is listen to at 1.25. Time speed. All right. So funny thing they did there. An excellent podcast to listen to at 1.25 times speed that's good that's from d 2099 is that big d possibly maybe getting creative yes with the title next one is from ecm 73 97 something about a hot something about a hat box i'd go so far to say it's one of the top four podcasts from western northeast south dakota this next one here is also five stars it's titled beer best lifting podcast

this side of the lake deer do you know what lake deer is i do not i was hoping you would when they crack sparkling water, we crack beer. Slainte. What's, or what do you, is that like salute? Oh, I don't know. I've definitely seen that word before. I don't know how to pronounce that. S-L-A-I-N-T-E.

It means health in Irish. Okay. There we go. Okay. And that's from the fellows at big maths okay so those were our keyed up reviews that i had one more interesting review here though this is a special review edition special review we have the first ever written review that was not a five star the nerve of some people they hit us with the three stars it was three actually uh three stars i thought it was four nope three stars this is uh from october 13th Name is Danny Grizzly. Let me repeat that. Danny Grizzly.

D-A-N-N-Y-G-R-I-Z-Z-L-Y. I'm going to look something up on Instagram quick. Okay, follow. This is... I think it might be Danny.theGrizzly. Danny D-Lock would maybe be his name. I don't know if this person could be. Could be. Could be Danny.theGrizzly, Mr. Giving Us Not a Five-Star Review.

Three stars. His title is Timestamp. Three out of five stars. Wish y'all would give timestamps to skip the beginning and go straight to the interview kind of boring wow go straight to the interview comma kind of boring well thing is if you listen to one episode you kind of pick up on the fact that the interview starts at like 30 minutes every single time within a minute or so that's like the one of

the only things we do consistently it's funny like to me wish y'all would give time stamps plural to skip to the beginning and go straight it's almost like this guy listen has listened to multiple episodes if not like it continues to listen it hasn't picked up on that and it's like and he's like ah all that talking is kind of boring just like tell me the timestamp i'm like why would you even listen to our podcast if you if you like uh why would you like you could come for one you saw a guest but and you're like oh that's kind of boring why is he continuing to listen because it's obviously like that well and that's like i also like if i think someone's boring i don't want to listen to

them talk to really anyone no matter how true like if i think someone's boring i don't want to listen to them talk to really anyone no matter how true like if i if there's someone i find interesting but i see on youtube or a podcast or having an interview with someone that i don't really care about i usually don't even bother to listen to it it's like well how many different things does that person really talk about and then i got to hear the other person be a part of it too but maybe we're not that but well we're only three star boring we're not that boring. Well, we're only three-star boring. We're not zero-star boring. Yeah, we still get good. We did get three stars, which is also interesting. But it's just kind of like, yeah, kind of boring.

It is funny that it goes back to the thing of, I get when someone hates something, leaving a zero-star review, especially podcasts, because leaving a review is not easy to do. And leaving a five-star review, I get, because you liked it a lot. But you felt compelled enough and leaving a five-star review i get because like you liked it a lot but like you felt compelled enough to leave a three-star review is still funny to think about for yeah and obviously there's millions of people that leave three-star reviews all the time it's just funny to think that those people actually do exist it is um i think it's like an important milestone milestone a threshold thing kind of that we've reaching enough people that we were getting people that

just don't get mass. Right. Right. That they're like, doesn't interest them. They don't know about it. And like, but yet that's the paradox that they're still like listening enough that like

enough episodes that like, yeah, I got to leave it, leave a review on that. Uh, and I would also note no time stamps that's a strict policy around here no time stamps until the day we start leaving time stamps we will never ever leave time stamps mark my words this is setting up for a future meme when we uh

there will never ever be time but whenever someone in youtube says hey time stamp or they'll a lot of times people will do like 32 minutes and six seconds indicating when Chris Duffin interview started or whatever it was. And my response is always in all caps, no timestamps. So that's a stiff. Just put a kibosh to that. That's a stiff policy. Let's get out in front of this one right away.

As I always say, no timestamps. But it's really weird if you're listening to, like it's what you were just describing like would i see a podcast guest what is there a guest i would see on a podcast that i don't like that i'm like ah yes i have to listen to that but i'm just gonna just give me like i guess i don't want to listen to those other people talk i guess if you're just a mega fan of that person like i'm yeah i don't really fan out that hard for anyone in the world so like that's i don't guess i don't have to have

that problem but right right yeah so i guess it's possible anything's possible anything's possible kevin garnett uh so yeah three out of five stars from dann Grizzly. And on Instagram, I think it's Danny.theGrizzly. Hypothetically speaking. Yeah, yeah. If I could just do a little research there. Danny Grizzly. Danny Grizzly. This episode is also brought to you by Fusion Sports Performance Supplements.

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Excuse me, sir. This is a grocery store, and no matter where you check out, you say that messonomic sent you so yeah i tried that at the dmv i was like ah yes and i'd also like to use discount code mass to save 20 how did you know that worked here for 30 years and no one's said about uh i was wondering do you guys have a military or senior discount it's like i was wondering do you guys have a military or senior discount? I was wondering, do you guys have a mass discount, 20% off? I don't see it posted, but I'm pretty sure you have one, like at the Pizza Ranch.

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That could be it too. Do we have anything else burning this week that we needed to get to? Or is that... Burning. Pretty much... God, that's probably everything. Should we look at the old rundown one more time quick? Make sure we didn't miss anything.

Yeah. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I think we probably got it all yeah i think so too um that was a really good episode i would even go so far as to say it was excellent excellent i would maybe go as far to say it was cool beans it was cool beans yeah but i But I was saying it was excellent. Excellent, excellent. Okay, I see, I see. Excellent. Shwing! Tommy, where do they find you?

You can find me at Tomahawk underscore D. You can follow me at Tanner underscore Baird. Just make sure to follow Mathsonomics at Mathsonomics and don't buy our hats. We're not worthy.