Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 404: Huck Finn Barbell

Episode Date: January 1, 2024

It’s been a while (Staind) since we’ve had Big Tom “Huck” Finn on the podcast so we had to bring him back for an update. We talk the 2024 Arnold and get to the bottom of the Mt. Rushmore of beer. Build Fast Formula Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10% on your first order! BearFoot Shoes Use code MASS for a free pair of AWEsome wraps! Juggernaut AI Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10%! The Strength Co Get some Go-To Plates! Swiss Link Use code MASS to save 15%! Texas Power Bars Get the Barbell that changed the game!

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If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! Welcome everyone for episode 404. Episode 404, error not found. What? Just kidding. Yeah, just kidding. We are here even though. I'm going to call you the technical guy. Technically a guy. No, no errors.

Never any errors on the MathSomics podcast. So we are up and running for episode 404, the lifting podcast about nothing. Welcome all return listeners. Welcome all new listeners. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy. And I love playing two-hand touch and eating way too much. And the twins! And the twins!

And what twins? After we got off last week, have you watched the commercial yet, Tanner? No. Oh my God. I kind of want to play it right now because it's so mind-blowing that this is a commercial because, I mean, it is pretty badass. It is. What beer was it?

It's for Coors. Coors. And, oh, man. At the Rockies. The whole line. There's a whole campaign of these commercials. Yeah, yeah. Right, right.

I love parties that never end burritos at 4 a.m it's like oh man these are like things that really applied to me when i was 21 my heart these are great um and twins and those twins yeah it always goes back didn't like a lot of them and that like wasn't it like all of them the twins come up like three times and all of them the one it really focuses on football it's like i love quarterbacks eating dirt and it's just like guys just getting hit over and over again um should i should i play should i play this commercial so yeah the coors light twins were a thing then too like those those uh two yeah in one they actually call out a lady by her name. She must be some model. I don't know who she is, though.

Okay. Here, do you want to hear it? Should I play it here, Tanner? Yeah. I don't think there's any way we'll get flagged for this, you know, in the copy. No one remembers that far. No, I don't think YouTube will pick this one up, so I think we're okay. Are you ready for it?

Yeah. I know it doesn't come across the best, but for our listeners, I think this should be okay. Here we go. Okay. I know it doesn't come across the best, but for our listeners, I think this should be okay. Here we go. Okay. That's it right there. I feel like in my mind, I thought I was really overemphasizing the twins. No, you weren't.

Not even doing it enough. They really ham that part of it up. And there's several of these things. And the imagery that goes with it is even better. It's just so 90s looking. But it's amazing reading the comments on YouTube. People are like, oh my God, how did they make this commercial?

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But if you're audio only, that won't distract you. No. Even if you're on YouTube, you're just going to have to live with it. I gave a look. I have just food all over my pants for my kids. But I'm like, hey, no one sees my pants when we record, so we're good. I shipped my pants. For all people, I don't even have pants on when I record this podcast.

I could be completely naked. Happy New Year's, everyone. This is coming out on January 1st, so we made it to 2024. Ringing in the new one. Yeah, and it's, I don't know, I don't have a sound bite for New Year's, but it's a party sort of thing, right? Are you going to go out for New Year's Eve? That'd be Sunday night.

We'll rip it up on Sunday night. Definitely not be going out for New Year's Eve. I wouldn't be against it. I mean, if I could, I probably would. But, yeah, damn. With kids, it's very tough. What happens? Like, bars usually aren't open on Sunday night, right?

No, but they will. They just will be then? Yeah, because there's too much stuff going on. They can't sit that out. Right. So they'll just all be open? Yeah, as far as I know. Okay, okay.

Doesn't matter. None of this matters for my plans that I'm making. No one's coming to us for the New Year's Eve plans. But it wasn't that many years ago. This was a big planning there was a lot of planning going on right now between right between uh all the christmas parties i was going to be going to meeting up with people and then also you got to just roll that right into the next weekend with new year's man it was it was a busy time of year

yeah i do feel like uh it's been a while since uh we've had a good weather update i was hoping you'd say that yeah so did you travel at all for christmas like we could tie christmas into travel i traveled yesterday in about the worst of it, and it was not fun. Not ideal. So, like, what time were you driving around yesterday? I left eastern southeast South Dakota about 9.30 a.m. Okay.

And normally it's just a touch under two hours to get to my hometown, and it took me about two and a half, which doesn't sound too that was a that was a rough two and a half to do it yeah I mean I think there was like one car that I was I was you know the one driving faster like lots of people on the interstate driving 30 miles an hour the speed limit is 80 lots of people driving 30 um some people driving you know 45 50 but uh five for the most part tried to keep it above 50 but there was times where staying above 50 was not doable so yeah yeah it made for a long trip and it wasn't if it wasn't the roads that were getting you it was the completely iced over windshield that you could not keep clean so it's like oh you want to you want to drive home put

like glasses on and smear vaseline over them and that's and now you're going on a on a hundred and some mile trip that's how you drive in the hallway that part really sucked yeah i didn't really do any traveling so i don't know the fun no but like even just being at home i'm like god this weather is horrific uh i don't know because we got a little bit of snow like a decent little bit uh not not a lot but then it was just raining on top of it it's like our backyard has like a crust of it's like snow crusted uh ice crusted snow looks looks odd and then uh cleaning off the driveway today was terrible because it was just slush yeah just pure slush so like the snowblower

can't blow it very far at all if at all and then scooping it is terrible because it weighs so much density its weight is very high so yeah uh i guess old man winter got to us eventually this year didn't he he did but we didn't really get snow like when i left town inside the house you could hear the sleet hitting the house it was so loud and it was coming down so much right and uh it went through stages it felt like hail almost yeah yeah it did and i went through just in that drive yesterday i went through stages of snow rain ice sleet back to snow like it was just constantly changing uh luckily today though when i drove home everything was clear there was no precipitation of any kind and it it made the trip pretty easy the the middle of the road temperature is what's making it like more dangerous almost because it's

uh just floating right around 32 ish where you're never quite sure are things freezing right you know what's going on with all that. Or if it's just super-ass cold, it's just going to be snow. Yeah, you just know. But if it was cold, actually, the amount of snow we would have gotten these past few days would have been insane. Because isn't it like one inch of rain equals like a foot of snow or something like that? Something like that, yeah.

Like where I was at, my parents said supposedly they had gotten like three inches of rain over the past three or four days here, something like that yeah right like where i was at my parents said the supposedly they had gotten like three inches of rain over the past you know three or four days here something like that so that would have been a disastrous blizzard if that actually happened santa brought us snow didn't he yes he did uh did you get any any good uh christmas presents this year um anything i got a few things yeah you know we did just buy a house like a just a touch over a month ago so that kind of took like uh we've been buying shit non on top of buying a house we've been buying a house worth of stuff i mean we're just yeah it was like every day my wife goes to the store and it's like oh we have new stuff here so it's like christmas just feels like a formality at this point like it's not

actually right i mean that's for us obviously for the kids it's a whole different story but um i got a pair but probably probably one of the more uh exciting things as far as surprises go i got a pair of nike dunk shoes which i'd been years since I had a pair of those. So excited to see those. I'm kind of into F1 racing. I got an F1 hoodie as a surprise. I wasn't expecting that. Flying Ryan hooked that one up.

Is it for anyone in particular? It is for Max Verstappen, the number one champion. I thought you were saying it was an F1 hoodie like when Rob Lowe wears an NFL hat to a game. It was not quite of that caliber. No, it was for F1 hoodie like when Rob Lowe wears an NFL hat to a game. It was not quite of that caliber. It was for a particular person. It's like, no, I'm just really in support of F1. Just want all the teams to have fun. Although an F1 hoodie would be a lot less weird than wearing an NFL.

It would for sure because it's like a niche enough sport that you can wear a thing that's like, I'm a fan of this sport in general. And it would be like, yeah thing that's like i'm a fan of this just and it wouldn't seem you'd be like yeah that's yeah worth advertising whereas if you're like i'm just a big fan of the nba shirt or the nfl shirt it's a little more like really you can't pick a team because everyone has a team you know even if you don't have a team you have a team you don't want you can pick so yeah there was actually a guy on this one um otherwise we've talked it looks like an uh like a dirt a local dirt track race no because i actually told ryan i gave him credit i said wow i gotta i gotta give you points here man you picked one that doesn't look like it's a billboard because you can you

know it doesn't have the nascar thing going on where it's like man you just put a thousand logos on a shirt and walked out of the house yeah this one basically just has the guy's uh name and just an outline on the sleeve and then he's number one so there's a one on it and uh then that red bull logo i mean so it's if you didn't know you might just think i'm wearing a red bull hoodie maybe like that's uh sounds like you got a new hoodie so you won't have to be babysitting any coats just one less coat to babysit at the end the one thing I wouldn't be caught dead in in this weather is babysitting a coat. No, no, no. Does it count as babysitting a coat, though, if you never take it off?

Is that babysitting it? It's a form of babysitting it, I suppose. You're still shackled to it in some ways. It's a ball and chain of some sort. Yeah, it's better, but... It's still not quite that freedom you're looking for right otherwise we did uh we are you know yeah christmas is way more about the kids especially now that my boy is old enough that he can be excited about it it was whoa just freaking out

and screaming all the time and and then you know you get them all these presents and it's funny the ones that you think they'll be excited about, they're not as excited. And then the ones that you think are just a thing. That is true. Dude, Hungry Hungry Hippos, do you remember that game? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That was one. Leah saw it in the store, and she's like,

oh, I just remember that from when we were kids. I had to buy it. And I thought, oh, maybe he'll like this. I doubt it, though. Dude, he was obsessed. Hungry Hungry Hippos was blowing his mind. He thought that was, you know, the game last five seconds. And it's, oh, let's doubt it though. Dude, he was obsessed. Hungry, hungry hippos was blowing his mind. He thought that was, you know, the game last five seconds and it's,

Oh, let's do it again. It just went for hours like that. It was, uh, so he loves that game. It is. No,

it's got operation, which that's quite the, uh, nerve. You gotta have, it's also just like, uh, what a game to make you nervous.

Like, let me practice being like, let me practice like really high anxiety you know uh-huh yeah so yeah so that was for the yeah we had kids stuff all that family came we had a good time so that was my christmas what about you tanner what what do you guys do well kind of like that only not the house but we uh my wife had gotten a pickup you know oh yeah that's right pickup here last month so that was kind of like we really like to take care of our big purchases ahead of

the holidays you know it's just yeah so that was kind of the big uh we had already like of course we agreed like that was the christmas present and we wouldn't do things and then we still did some other things but uh the ones like it's my wife's pickup so the great beauty of it is like all the christmas i did get her were like stuff for the pickup so it's a new mahogany steering wheel that i have to put on a new you know horn is it button and steering wheel basically all metal and then there's like wood on the wheel itself or is that yeah it's all billet aluminum yeah the front side of the uh um wheel is mahogany riveted to the the back of it is billet aluminum too it's sweet okay yeah like as far as the steering wheel can go it's probably like as cool of a uh steering wheel as you could picture i would say you know, and then I got her.

Well, I got a new sound system. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The head unit and everything. Yeah. So it's a retro sound, I think, is the brand. So it does look like the original. It looks original, but then it's, you know, it's Bluetooth and digital.

And then there's no speakers in the vehicle as there it is now so i got three like was it because there never was or just they had been removed at some point they'd been removed the original you know the original radio is just an am radio and they're the original speakers are weird old little speak there's two right under the dash like above the radio or under the dash and there'd be like vent holes there where those speakers would be but they're awful yeah um you know i mean i they weren't there so i don't know if this but you can't even like if you had you couldn't even hook modern speakers up to this old radio you'd have to get like different retro speakers to actually even plug but so are like the cavities where the speakers were did like new speakers fit in those spots well so yeah like i've on this particular project i'm working with a sound

guy actually to have them because he's done a few of these before so like that spot there'll be one six by nine in that spot under the dash and then there's these these uh i don't know panels you buy and it doesn't go on the door, but it goes on like that front piece just in front of the door, and there's like a panel that attaches to the inside of the cab on each side. So there'll be a speaker on each side and then one in the center. Is that like a kicker panel or something like that? Yeah, it's on the kicker panel, yes, yes.

So it's just like a kicker panel cover that allows you to put a, I don't know, it's like a four- speaker and on each side or something like that and then you know a guy from high school that has a big box in the back of his chevy cavalier and you're gonna put that and throw that in there uh so it's not uh it's it is not over the top but it is you know it will it does bring you to the modern age at least yeah yeah it'll bring us to the modern age and also like it's, it's a tiny cab, like you don't need a 20-speaker system. Yeah, you're in, like, a three-foot deep by, you know, seven-foot wide box there. You know, it's like you are sitting on all of this.

There's so much room for sound to go in there. Right, right. So that was kind of our main thing was pickup-related stuff. But the coolest thing I got is the most masters thing I got. This is so masters. And I, I love, I was so excited about this thing.

It's when we go to all our kids games and you sit on the bleachers, you know, you're wedged in there. A little seat. I, yeah, I got the seat with the back and I'm really excited about using the seat with the fold out seat with the back for the first time.

I'm like, Oh yeah. I instantly aged like 20 years by owning this like because now when i walk into the game you know you're holding that thing like oh what's wrong with this guy's back he's like he's not that guy must be old holy crap but that will be nice i'm like and it also like builds in a perimeter of your space because it's fairly big. So it's like, yep, this is my bubble. Nobody gets to come within it because there's literally a space taker upper of this area. There's an actual fence here.

Yeah. Yes. So I am super excited about that thing. My oldest kid got an xbox and i haven't played it yet it's the same one that you have but has he played it yet though yeah okay yes yeah i don't know if it hadn't been hooked up yet it's definitely been played okay just uh not he plays uh what is that sea of thieves oh There's a game he likes on there. I don't know if that means anything to any gamers.

I got to. And then, of course, like Fortnite and, you know, Rocket League. Sea of Thieves. Never heard of it, but I do see it here. I don't know if it's popular or not. It seems to be highly rated. Okay. It almost reminded me.

Did you ever play Red? What is it? Red Dead Revolver? I didn didn't but i i mean i know what the game is it reminded me kind of almost of that only pirates piratey uh yeah yeah i've never heard of this ever okay i was curious if you had but again i'm not really the gamer guy so yeah kind of the wrong person yeah red dead red dead redemption i don't even i think that red dead redemption is like one of the more popular games probably like ever, and I didn't even know the name of it, so that kind of shows my gaming knowledge. I would like to play Madden on it.

I don't have it, but I would actually like to play a whole bunch of games on it, but I just not exactly sure when it is that I would do that. Yeah. You need to, because with that one, you know, you can only get the digital versions a lot of times around holidays and stuff like the Xbox store.

We'll just have certain games that are like 90% off. And so it's like, here's 10 games that are all $10 or less. Like there's a few games I bought for $3. I'm like, ah, I played that game on the original or Xbox three 60, like 10 years ago. It's only $3. I should probably buy it just to have it in case I get bored someday. And yeah, so far I haven't been bored someday yet, but if I ever do get bored, I do have those games sitting ready to go. So do you have the game pass? I did. Cause I think that one, when you, when you buy it, does it come with a year?

It comes with something, some period of time. Yeah. And there was that actually, no, it comes with, I think a few months. And then I remember when I bought mine, uh, there was, cause it was around black Friday. There was some black Friday promotion where it was through target or somewhere. Like if you bought a three month card, you got like three months free. So I ended up buying six months. I got like six months free. So I had Game Pass for like a year, and now I don't have it. So now I just buy a game when I want a game because I don't play enough to justify having Game Pass. So what does the Game Pass do?

It's basically like Netflix of games. You just log in, and here's the entire – you have an account, so here's the entire catalog. Play whatever you want, as much as you want. And then as soon as your subscription runs out you're cut off from accesses so yeah if you want to play a bunch of games that's a great way to do that but the thing is is yeah as soon as your subscription ends like you don't have your games anymore right right so there's ups and downs to that you know like if you do like to play a lot you know buying like three or four 60 plus dollar games every month gives a lot of money, especially if you're only going to play them for a few months and then quit.

So that way, it's a great way to try stuff out. But yeah, if you're going to play something more long-term, probably want to buy it then. I just don't know shit about gaming and gaming systems. Dude, I don't either, though. There's so much going on. Like, it's so much. I mean, I know I i sound a thousand when i say this but it is so much more complicated than like 15 years ago oh the the concept of a game

where you can just turn on and play it like mario you know like that's just gone that just doesn't exist right the number of games are because i'm such a casual gamer that i just want to like turn on play like mario hit save and be done and it's like nope you need to start an account you need to build a character that's you need to watch 20 minutes of cut scenes before we can start yeah I don't like all the accounts yes now that you have the cut scenes now you need to do 20 minutes of training okay and then uh yeah it just goes on and on but yes and then every system has its or every game and every developer has their own account too right yeah it's I hate that part I do not like that that's the part that i dislike

like even with setting it up i'm like i don't want to register for all this shit like just to be able to like no no no no i don't like it i do not like oh you haven't played this game for three weeks oh there's a 50 gigabyte update that needs to apply and that's going to take 20 minutes to download and another 20 minutes to install so you wanted to play quick for an hour yeah actually that entire hour is spent updating the game so try again tomorrow so like stuff like that is so annoying yeah that's uh there is i mean there's pros and cons of it all but like there is something about like playing super nintendo and you just put the game in i know that's like in 12 seconds yes you can't just be a casual person anymore like it right you just you can't do it there's always that's what that's what like uh weeds me out of

being involved at all though yeah like that makes it so i'm like well i can't even get involved a little bit because or you can be like me and just play like old racing games that they haven't made updates for for a couple years and they just don't have updates so you don't really but then you then you haven't turned your xbox on in three months and your xbox needs to update so then that takes like 30 minutes and then it needs to restart and install and do all this and it's like oh yeah my xbox that i haven't played now takes an hour to get to the point where can be right again i did uh i did have some tiger meat over oh. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Usually I always get my hands on some tiger meat,

and damn, was it good. Was it? I do think the best vehicle for eating tiger meat is the club cracker, not the saltine cracker. I was curious if you were going to say that. I think the club cracker is the superior cracker always, though, isn't it? Could you ever pick saltine? Well, if I'm soup.

Yeah. Soup saltine is the right cracker. Yeah. Because it's just so almost non-existent. But otherwise, the club cracker for eating is always the better choice. Yeah. I can't think of any example other than soup. Yeah.

But a club cracker would not be good for soup. I mean, you could pick worse things for sure. Right, right. I mean, if I'm going with saltines 51% of the time, yeah, club's getting it 49%. It's like barely edging out on that one. Yeah. For tiger meat, absolutely the club cracker. Like, the saltine's okay, but the club cracker is a lot better far far more premium cracker definitely but there but that being said ritz would not be

the right cracker no no no no that would not either tiger meat like that would be not and i don't know what the difference is but there's a very big difference i think club crackers have more of that buttery flavor. They're very buttery. And their texture is a little better than Ritz too. Yeah. I think. I don't eat enough Ritz crackers though to know.

I just remember the last time I had Ritz crackers, I was surprised how not good they actually were. When you get used to club crackers, you kind of just assume that's how crackers are. And the Ritz are just not. So club crackers are just the best crackers i mean they are if you're gonna go with uh kind of a plain ish cracker you know it doesn't have any flavoring and other things like that going on it's the superior choice right i don't disagree i think

that that's pretty much spot on did you uh watch any holiday movies this year, Tanner? I watched Home Alone and Home Alone 2, and my kindergarten daughter thought the scenes with the robbers getting beat up in Home Alone were hilarious. So I was so happy, but then when we went to watch Home Alone 2, there's so much lead up to it. There is.

She's like, when is, she kept asking when is. When does the ass whooping happen? When does the attempted murder happen? But Home Alone and Home Alone 2 are awesome Christmas movies. We watched, we got the kids, so the family was in town. We got the kids put to bed on what night was that friday night and i came out and my father-in-law was watching home alone 2 was just on tv and kind of laughing and uh someone said let's go watch it on the nice tv let's go watch a movie downstairs

and i'm like yeah okay so i head down there and i'm like we got home alone 2 it's on disney or something yeah so i pulled it up i'm like all right we're just gonna start this over we're gonna watch home alone 2 right now yeah and i started up i did not realize i have not seen that movie in probably over 10 years the second one like i've even caught clips of the second one you know normally it seems like the first one's on quite a bit yeah um man the whole thing of the second one was just kind of lost on me and i was the biggest surprise about the whole thing, though, was like you said, I'm thinking,

when does he beat these guys up? That is way at the end of the movie. They really make you wait for that one. Yes, yes. And that's like, those are the big payoff scenes of the Home Alone. It is, yeah. It's the climax.

Yeah. But what I thought was funny, though, in Home Alone, the second one, they are in Chicago, going to the Chicago airport man we were just there like two months ago and it is funny how almost exactly the same that looked to me I'm not sure if you paid much attention that no I really didn't uh so many of those I'm pretty sure this is the exact hall that Tanner and I walked down right we were getting off our airplane but uh yeah just whole chunks of that look exactly the same, have not changed at all.

Right. Oh, that's funny. Did you have a can over there? I do. What do you got? I'm hitting the peach Waterloo once again. It's just too damn good. Okay. Peach Waterloo. That's what you had last last week i got something a little different this week

i got orange cream bubbly an orange we had that one i don't know i bet it's gonna be familiar but i don't really remember seeing that can. Oh, that's a pretty crispy crack. Yeah, that's good. Orange cream bubbly. I'd say that's a four all day. That's without me even knowing. Yeah, that's a solid four. That's easy solid four. Yeah, that's good.

That's tasty. Did you watch any other Christmas movies besides the Home Alone classics? That was the only, yeah, that was really the only one we got through. There was a few that we kind of started, but, you know, with kids, keeping attention spans was a little tricky. So, yeah, Home Alone 2 was the only one that really got. Watched a decent amount of football, but that's. Oh, you know, actually, Tanner, this is this will come out.

We better put our college football playoff picks in right now. Oh, people wait all year for this. I'm taking SDSU. That is I didn't I didn't specify. So, OK, we'll start with the FCS then. SDSU. When do they play, actually? That might be, like, not this upcoming weekend,

but the one after that, maybe. I'm checking that out right now. FCS championship is... Come on, let me see, let me see. If only Google just actually told you when the championship was make life easy uh oh january 7th so we're a touch early on that one i guess we can come back to that next week i'm gonna pick sdsu with that one too though yeah uh but fbs tanner yeah what do we got so we got uh michigan alabama for the rose bowl yes that is correct i'll go the wolverines i guess number one i guess i'm picking the favorite but just to not pick alabama i suppose yeah i don't want to pick alabama i'd love to see them lose

i'm not really a michigan fan but i i'm more of a Michigan fan than an Alabama fan. So, yeah, I'd pick Michigan in that game as well. The more interesting one that has several Mastodonics ties here is the number two Washington versus number three Texas. This one of particular interest for both of us. I'm obviously picking Washington. I've got to go with my former coach, This one of particular interest for both of us. I'm obviously picking Washington. Me too. I've got to go with my former coach, the college football coach of the year.

This is also not hyperbole or something made up. That was my coach at the University of Sioux Falls almost 20 years ago. And even more so, he's from where, Tommy? So we're talking about the head coach of Washington, Kalen DeBoer. He is a Milbank, South Dakota native, which is where I'm from. I'd like to think we're probably maybe on the Mount Rushmore

people to ever come from Milbank. Kalen DeBoer, that guy from that guy from massonomics we're just really up at the up at the peak of what's ever been achieved actually also there's the the guy that invented tommy john underwear he's also from millbank so we're probably three of the four that are on the the massonomics of are the mount rushmore of millbank maybe there's something cheese related well there's a lot of cheese related stuff in milling too but no one cares about that that's that's not that's no one cares about that one um so yeah kaylin deborah because of that i've have you watched any washington football games this year not really oh i've watched so many of them because i want to i want to cheer for this and uh they have a lot

of close games but they got the thing where they always figure out a way to win it and that's what a good team is right that's right that's what a good team is, right? That's right. That's what a good coach gets you. And he is the coach of the year, right? Yeah, he did win that award. I think I thought I saw something like his all-time head coach, his all-time record as a head coach is something like 100 and something in 10 or something like that.

It's just nuts. Talk about climbing up the ladder too. Dude, yeah, he has. I mean, he actually, like, I wonder what's going to happen. He's well, he's got the number two program in the country right now, but you know, Michigan, Alabama, Texas, two, three of the biggest other programs out there. None of them are in need of a coach right now,

but I'm just wondering like who the next like top 10 all time schools that needs a coach. Like they're going to be calling this guy. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, at this point, what's your next move? It's either a Big Ten or an SEC school? Yeah, it's to coach Texas, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State. Yeah, I don't know what else you would pick.

And all those schools seem to be kind of set at that moment. Right, right, right. And, yeah, outside of those, though, why would you want to go to Texas A&M and rebuild that thing, whatever they got going on? You know, why would you want to do that when you already have accomplished what you have? So, yeah, I mean, it's been pretty amazing

watching what he's accomplished in a relatively short period of time. Him win there, huh? Yeah, so I really want to see him win that game. So that would make it Washington, Michigan in the finals. I'd love to see. I want to see him win that game so that would make it washington michigan in the finals i i'd love to see i want to see washington washington for sure yeah washington all day oh this is sports and book segment and i do have a second half of this then do you okay uh i have just to be clear our guest he went to he wouldn't be signing it under the name Bob, would he? Or is that actually Bob? Let's see.

Because Bob is in the waiting room, and I never know. That could be. I bet that that's him, actually. So we should probably wrap this up pretty much then. Okay, probably. And bring him on. And then we find out, we let him in, it's actually Bob from Texas, and we're like, damn it bob well how does it work if people join on later do they have to request like that oh you're because you let people in as like i let everyone

in yeah everyone you're always letting people in um so bob i don't know if that's it oh he just said okay trying to get logged in i'll ask him him, are you Bob? I like Keith's comment. He says, no way, that's Huck. And I'm debating, I'm trying to decide if he wanted punctuation, saying no way, that's Huck, or no way that that is Huck. Or no way that's Huck. I don't know what you mean, Keith. It's a punctuation there.

Book segment, quick as we're wrapping that up, though. I did get a end of the year here, end of the year wrap up. I did get a tally on my wife's number of books read in 2023. Oh, boy. Any idea on what the number of books my wife read in 2023? Well, I'm really torn because she had a baby, which means you want to keep your activity level somewhat lower. I would say she said over the last month or so, Because she had a baby, which means you want to keep your activity level somewhat lower.

I would say she said over the last month or so, she really hasn't been able to read near as many books as she wants. I was going to say. But don't let that mislead you like it did me. That's why I'm so torn because you have a little more personal time, but at the same time, you don't. So I really don't know what way to spin that one. I'll say 220 books. Well, on the Kindle app alone, which is strictly reading books and doesn't include her Libby app, which is the library book she reads and doesn't include her Audible books that she listens to,

she hit 485 read books. And when adding in the Libby and the audible listen books she figured the number was about 550 so that's like a book and a half a day though like how long are these books you read like the bernstein bears over and over no uh i said i i had this exact conversation today I'm like that doesn't math and I'm like and so what I found out she reads books literally 10 times faster than I do because she'll say she'll be like so she'll say and she said the average length of the book she reads is probably about 300 pages you know three to four hundred pages and she said that'll take about three and three or three and a half hours of reading so she can she reads 300 page you know she reads 100 pages an hour right and i'm like i probably read like 25 pages an hour if i'm reading so much more

enjoyable so yeah that you get so much done through books yes but then her point to that was like well you're good at lifting because you do it all the time she's like i'm good at reading because i read all the time i read every day so i read way she's like i read way faster now than i did like yes three years ago when she started like really getting into reading and i could totally see that i really want to talk about this more but huck finn is here okay yeah we should uh not forget to talk about this more, but Huck Finn is here. Okay, yeah. We should not forget to talk about this because I do have way more questions. And after Huck Finn, we better do supporting our supporting members and ad reads and then talk more about that.

Okay, then I'm going to start kicking people off here then. Okay. Should I do an ad read while we're doing this? Oh, yeah, you might as well do an ad. Okay. I want to make sure to tell everyone to check out Juggernaut AI for their training. It's the training that Tommy and I both use. I'm around people in Mass Dynamics Gym every day that continue to use this.

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It makes it so it's only like $30 a month, so you almost can't afford not to do it. But when you sign up, make sure you go to the web browser. It's juggernautai.app, and that's where you can sign up and use discount code MASSANOMICS. Thanks, Juggernaut AI. You've got a roaring fireplace going on behind you there. I thought you'd have a big boss man

with the Yuletide log back there. I was gonna but then that's only like 15 minutes long. I wanted to get that on there. I don't know. I'm using some kind of Jacoby stick here. Are we live? We're live.

We are live. Are you kidding me? We're live on the Mass Comics podcast. You're live with us. This big Huck Finn. Yeah. Oh, shit. I'm not ready for this yet, buddy.

I'm trying to still work out the logistics. Just in case you're wondering, you can swear on this thing, too. You stupid cocksuckers. We are live. i'm sitting in the uh the bar not the barn i'm sitting in the shop inside of karen's corner drinking uh fireball whiskey and diet pepper so uh karen's corner is not in the same building as your gym, or it is? No, this is the shop out here. Oh, see. I always shop like where she screen prints over there.

Oh, so is that attached to your house? No, no, no, no. So the house is up a path through the woods that way. And then the barn is directly the other way. So the gym is in the barn, and this is the shop. So the shop's where Karen does all the work. Yeah, this is

the shop, the bar, and then the shipping's directly on the other side of me. But the other house, it was in the house. So we had a three-car garage, and everything was in that garage. And then the shed was out back. So the screen printer thing was over there then too.

Yeah, the screen printer thing was over where? Well, it was just when you flipped the camera around, it was just over in the same building you're in. So how many stall garages is that? Or how many stalls is that? Well, this is a lot bigger. This is probably, I don't know, close to 2,000 square foot, the shop.

Damn, yeah, you got some room there. The gym's probably 1,800. So you got all kinds of buildings there. It's a little compound. Yeah, this compound is on about nine and a half acres, something I didn't think I'd ever get. And it's fucking i even drank at every single spot and we haven't this property yet and i've been here for three years

now so it's pretty fucking wild out here a little bit bigger than the shed but i still love the shed dude the shed was awesome yeah oh that's that's like everything like it's uh it's always nice when it gets better but it's uh it's good to have good memories humble beginnings stuff too yeah man i've never seen you guys on a telephone like this before it's fucking weird where are you at where are you at why are you in a blue room i got one of those fancy lights that makes the whole room blue uh it looks doesn't look the best on zoom but when we go to edit it it looks pretty good and and we're you're in there you're in the shop i'm in the room with with all the t-shirts and you know where it's it's this is in the basement of my house it's uh kind of like a spare bedroom where uh where we keep all the it's just shelves all the way around

me of uh t-shirts and stuff now why don't you why why you guys split up? I don't get that. What happened? Kind of like Mark Bell and the other guys. Yeah, big disagreement, big argument. This town wasn't big enough for the two of us. Had to keep it together for the kids, though. Keep the Masonomics together. Yeah, I knew there was something behind that. I thought you guys were breaking up. One guy's moving to North Dakota, the other one to South Dakota or something.

No, we're both in South Dakota still, but we did, it was a challenge because we've been doing the podcast for a long time and we'd always been in the same spot, so it did take us a little messing around to figure out how to do it where it still feels the same. And it took us a couple weeks and we were pretty nervous about it there for a while and it wasn't really working. And we finally got it down right where it just feels normal now. We both just have like a full-on studio in our house where we hit record.

Like what you see on Zoom, this isn't the camera we use. We have another camera behind us that's actually recording us. Yeah, so we got a lot going on. Who's doing all this work? Yeah, so we have four cameras going right now. We both have two cameras on us. But you'll see it. When we take your feed, we record this, we put it on.

It makes a pretty decent video when it's done then. Oh, shit. I'm going to be on? You're on video. I should have got shirtless or something, man. It's a little cold out here. I got the old flannel on. Is that a Huck Finn barbell flannel that you can buy?

Oh, yeah. This is the denim patch flannel right there. We're taking notes right now on everything we need to come out with soon, so we've got to see what else. What else do you got coming in the works here? Oh, we've got some. I can't tell you. They're going to steal it.

We've got something big coming January 1st. I'll let you know that right now. Well, this comes out on January 1st, so maybe you want to advertise it, actually. Oh, it does. Yeah. Well, you know, January 1st, there's a lot of bullshit motivation

out there, so there's going to be a lot of new people coming to the gym and wanting to be motivated, and I got a whole little setup behind that. Motivation is for pussies, and then a whole video coming behind all that shit.

What are you drinking? This is a bubbly. Bubbly? What, champagne? No, it's sparkling water. You know, when you were on Table Talk, how many beers did you drink when you were there? Like 14 or 15. Insane and out.

When we showed up, did Dave have beers for you there or not? Uh, he brought, I think he did bring me a case of beer, but I hit my own cooler. You had your cooler. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. When we showed up, Dave, Dave had like three or four different cases of these for us to

drink while we were out there. That's awesome. How many did you drink? 15? I did. I, cause then he's got his cooler of, you drink? 15? I did. Because then he's got his cooler of, you know, rains and monsters and all that stuff, too. And then he had, like, these big Fiji waters.

I probably drank, like, a gallon and a half worth of liquid while we were sitting there. You don't realize it, though. You just start talking to him, and you're just drinking and drinking. Yeah. Well, yeah, I know. You're telling me. I went through 15 fucking beers.

I was fucking hammered by the time we were done with that show. Good thing the white George Foreman was with me to drive me. I couldn't have drove. There's no way. I'd have to sleep in the gym. That is fun being there and doing table talk with him, though. That is a pretty cool experience. Yeah, the gym is awesome.

It is. You know, I bought stuff from that guy when it first came out when I was in high school. And read those articles. Yeah, it came out when I was in high school. And read those articles. It's funny when you're in the gym, it's hard to even tell what you're looking at because there's just so much stuff. How many bars does he have?

We walked around and talked to him about the bars and he was trying to find a couple to show us. He couldn't even find them. They couldn't be found in there. The same amount of bars. Yeah, the gym is awesome. And a great bathroom facility there as well. It is.

Yeah, top-notch bathroom. Good setup. Yeah, we drove around that little town all over. We didn't know what the – we both had to take a shit, and we didn't know what the bathroom scenario was going to be there. We figured it would be some one-stall little shitty bathroom right in the middle of the gym and we didn't we didn't want to go both go blow it up right before we're on the podcast before the podcast so we we ended up stopping at like four places and finally got to mcdonald's and took

both took dumps there and then we got there like oh my god you had like the cadillac of bathrooms right inside of this gym. I was very impressed with the bathrooms. And then the back where they have all their shit, you know, all their inventory. So talking about your shirts, you got a new one coming out here. What we were wondering, since this is wrapping up 2023, do you know what shirt was your best seller in 2023? The best-selling shirt was probably the your best seller in 2023 uh the best selling shirt was probably the testicle shirt in 2023 i mean that shirt would not stop selling did he had a couple big rounds was it 2023 when he got called out or when it was figured out is it was that this past year already

yeah i think it was towards the beginning of the year because then i replayed one of the videos um that i had and it got like a couple million views and then the shirt sales just took off again like even more than the first time yeah that's right so the second time it sold even better and uh when we first made the shirt i didn't think it was gonna sell because it said you know testicles and pussy on it but it sold like a motherfucker so that was by far i would i think our best seller this this past year for sure okay testicle t-shirt yeah what about you got that one at the art oh that was our best maybe the best selling one of the year that one did pretty good it was one that looked like the schlitz schlitz load only i said squats that one did pretty well i don't know if there's

definitively uh number one yeah this year was probably the most, it was spread around. Like every year we usually have like one that's easily the front runner. And this year it was spread out way more. Yeah. You guys have a good, uh, like the massonomics, the logo stuff a lot too. I don't on your sweatshirts and shit. Yeah. It's, it's hard. It's, uh, we've talked about it before. It's, uh, there's a lot of people selling stuff, stuff out there, you know, like, uh, you know, five years ago,

there probably wasn't as many people that were selling t-shirts and had a company and stuff. But now it seems like, you know, everyone, they're all over the place. You know, it doesn't get any easier as the years go on. I don't think. No, it definitely gets tougher. And to come up with new ideas, constantly fuck not only new ideas for videos, for t-shirts, for fucking supplements, everything. When I first started, I'm like, we got an okay buy. Let's get stupid.

I remember thinking, man, what are we going to do? I think that's it. Hopefully these sell for a long time because I don't know anything else. Build the chest came out and it all kept going. I just keep getting dumber. And Pappy keeps thinking of ideas and I steal't know anything else. Bill DeChest came out and kept going. I just keep getting dumber, and Pappy keeps thinking of ideas, and I steal his ideas. Or I say something real stupid. So are you going to have a booth at the Arnold again?

Yeah, I don't know if Karen got the booth yet or not. I'm not really sure. I know we're having a booth for sure, but I don't know if she got it. I think she did. Maybe she didn't i know she got a hotel room the day after i thought she did after the after the arnold okay any any plans then i mean you set it up similar to last year you know how you had the tv going with uh uh the highlight videos rolling and stuff what do you what's yeah i think the highlight reel is good but i think i need the line to kind of come meet me instead i was just like out and people are just coming some people are for the booth they just come to me you know so if i can get them through

the booth a little bit maybe buy something more right right yeah they just made it to me and took pictures and kind of i see how uh like matt benson and some people are doing it around us are you even are you guys they they had a line and they see you. Then they talk to you and stuff. But mine was just, I'm out here just going nuts the whole time in a hallway. Yeah, you were partying in the hall. Yeah, so everyone's just chilling in the hallway

the whole time, right? Yeah. So nobody's kind of like going by the booth first. Like years before, they kind of had to go by the booth and I had a big line. Instead, it was just a big clusterfuck out in the middle of nowhere. So I think that kind of hurt us just a little bit yeah if they come stand and they're standing talking to you on the other side of the table at the booth or whatever it is

yeah after a while they start to think oh i suppose i better buy it you know i should be right if i just chill and then just leave yeah yeah we need to do stuff more like that i think would be better we'd have a little bit better sales than last year. That's the only thing I would change, something like that. Yeah, that's a good idea. I'd really like to get the Brother Olympics going. Yeah, you've talked about that before. God, I think it would be great.

Just how I did the chicken wing thing. We'd have a chicken wing eating contest with the guy with the shirt off. Pappy on a bicycle drinking 24 beers um i don't know before a certain amount of time in four hours uh just really random stupid beats of strength is what i thought i thought that like five years ago and just never have done it so maybe this year could pappy drink 24 beers while uh like in four hours riding a bike something like that that'd be tough um there's one man that could do it. It'd be him. He did drink 24 beers.

That's the record. Before noon, he started at 8 o'clock. So that was on his day off, and I think he was up all night when he did that. And then started at 8 in the morning. So I think he worked the third shift, started drinking at 8 in the morning, drank 24 before noon. We didn't even know what we counted, and that was the record. So that's the unofficial record right now. People kept it and failed it my friends and is that is was this pbr what was he drinking at this time at the time that was past the ribbon

yes before he switched to miller light so it's even harder yeah you know and he's 70 well now i mean he didn't do it recently but now he's's 71. And, yeah, you saw he rode his bike 71 miles, did 710 push-ups or something, and tried to drink 71 beers, which he never finishes the beers, obviously, because he'd be dead. But, I mean, he's drinking beer from, like, 4 or 5 in the morning whenever he starts that all day long. It's like he doesn't stop drinking beer. He just never makes it to 77 beers.

Right, right. What do you think the Arnold, you know, your booth or our booth besides, but just the Arnold in general in 2024, what do you think it's going to be like compared to the last couple years? Well, I heard that the Olympia was a lot better this year. So if that was better, then the fucking Arnold will probably be better. You know, kind of judge it off those, the X-Bows. So I think, you know,

last year was a lot better showing than the year before with people. And I think it'll be even better. I think it you know last year was a lot better showing the year before uh with people and i think it'll be even better i think it'll be back to normal kind of this year you know yeah covet or whatever the hell that was going on before and then you know i think arnold schwarzenegger said something that's kind of in the past now so yeah people people get fired up about stuff for a while and and then they're like, oh, yeah, everyone's moved on. Okay, we can go back to cashing in on this again. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I think it's going to be great.

The animal cage is back, and I think that'll help bring more powerlifters back to the Arnold and shit. Yeah, we're excited about the cage being back, too. I think it helps it make it feel more like the arnold we always talk about you know we went several years but it seemed like in like the year before covid in like 2019 it had just gotten so insane like when you had that hallway how that would just get completely packed insane yeah that was awesome that was the best year ever that's i think so too i'm really curious to see if we get close to that. There was years or stretches, it felt like you were just printing money. People were just handing money to you nonstop. It was insane.

Well, there's so many people. It was just literally like nut to butt, wall to wall people everywhere. Like you could not. Like that aisle we were both in, we were across from each other. You know, people would get stuck there and just literally couldn't get out of it. I couldn't even see you guys. Yeah. Yeah, there's so many people. I couldn't see i couldn't see you guys yeah your booth was 20 feet away i mean if we wanted to go to you and take a half hour to get you yeah it's fucking that was crazy so hopefully it's more like that this year right because he

like last this last year is good there's a lot i mean there's still a lot of people there but it never felt like that it's never like no oh I can't get across to you. You know, like there's never, never anything like that. No. Yeah. That you're in. It couldn't even, I couldn't go to the bathroom. I couldn't go to the bathroom because it was,

I went and got back to my booth like two hours. So I always had to pee at the booth all the time. And I'm drinking, you know, 30 beers at least during that timeframe. And I got a fucking piss at least six times. So, yeah.

And I don't want to, when I meet these guys i don't want to uh disappoint them like you know i came here to see huck finn and huck finn's fashion you know like i gotta be up i gotta be at 12 i gotta be fucking drinking beer and having a good time which i always do but after that first day man it's hard just the first day because you get so fucked up i'm so fucked up the first day i go back to my hotel room uh sometimes i would go out at night sometimes i wouldn't i crash i didn't wake up and no care to be hit me we gotta go we gotta go i'm like i don't want to go anywhere like the last day i'm like i don't even want to be anymore just leave me the fuck yeah that's that's what i was gonna say that's there's one day you walk by and i think you said that you're like it is very beginning of the morning,

probably Sunday morning or something. You're like, I don't want to be Huck Finn anymore today. Oh, man. But after I get a couple beers in me, the wheels start loosening up again. I'm fine. Yeah, it's an hour later where you see chugging beers and throwing them. You're like, here we go. Well, that one day he had Duffin, man, on that Sunday morning.

I haven't had a drink of beer since Thursday. I mean, drinking heavily, um, and no mood to do any type of physical activity. And then he has me run around. I'm glad they didn't like pull every muscle in my body that time. That tag event. When you were,

you were, didn't you, you laid out for that. I mean, you were, you were dying. Yeah. I'm a showman.

I had to do it. You know, I knew if I was going to do it, I had to do it right. So, you know, I acted like an idiot. Um, I landed on my head at one point. I mean, yes, I had to do it you know I knew if I was going to do it but I had to do it right so you know I acted like an idiot um I landed on my head at one point I mean yes I did go all out and uh that's a good thing I didn't get more hurt than I was you know yeah yeah that was a good

start to my Sunday holy shit you guys let's get stupid you and Tom you just uh did 200th episode not too long ago huh oh man yeah we man. Yeah, we called you, right? That turned out good. I could not hear. Like, I listened to it, you know, when you guys, after it came out, and you could hear me, like, you could hear me playing his day on there, but when I was on the phone talking to you guys, it sounded like you were over in the other corner

and the phone was in one corner. I'm like, I couldn't tell who was talking or what was going on, but, uh, Oh my God. That was a work. That was the craziest time ever. I love the lamp lighter. I got, I mean, you got to have really good connections to get a live event in there. It's never happened. Never. So, you know, I got friends in low places and we

decide to have the 200th episode in the lamplighter double l otto il best spot ever so tell what is the lamplighter for anyone that doesn't doesn't know the lamplighter is a strip joint in uh lasalle county which is sal county in illinois is has more alcohol strip joints gambling illegal gambling like it's like the wild west uh county in the state of illinois and this is where this is at not too far from where i live and the double l has been there since like 1950 or something i mean my dad went there when he was like 18 right so it's been there forever usually it just changed recently it's had lawn furniture for chairs and tables for 70 years. There's not really a stage.

There's no pole. There's no DJ. There's no lights. There is a lot of old men sitting at a square bar drinking old draft beer and not even looking at the women. Most of the women are a little on the heavy side. And it's fully nude while you're talking to you uh one lady had her butthole spread wide open pretty close to me and tom's face it was very hard to concentrate yeah i mean it was just wild and we came in there obviously i've been drinking already before the show started to get prepped um but we came in there obviously i've been drinking already before the show started to get prepped um but we came in there we set up a table you know like the arnold for you watch we brought

all our stuff our banners i brought lights i brought uh the board we brought cameras i mean everything and uh it's it was just one of the wildest stupidest i mean i wish we got a video but the video didn't turn out too well something that happened so we couldn't post it um but it was it was everything i thought it'd be in more i mean it's it's something if you're ever in lasalle what is it no ottawa il lasalle county um in illinois you gotta stop there it's just uh it's a landmark you know how do they not have a uh pole they just got a pole in two years ago so there is a pole there now but there is no DJ there's no lights I mean is there music they have to they used to have to

play the jukebox we'd have to pay for them to play if you want them to dance you'd play jukebox now they use their phone still no DJ um yeah yeah it's so when you guys lined that up what did like the owner was he was he like i don't know about this or is he like sure sounds great you know yeah so i get the owner's number and i said yeah this hook's in i got the show right um just want to go over a couple things maybe we could do like you know uh a cheap drink or something for the because i'm gonna bring in at least 50 people right right and he's like well i gotta go to darts can you call me tomorrow the guy's like 60 i'm like yeah i'll call you tomorrow i'm still trying to line this up it's like tuesday night or something like a show saturday so i call the next day and uh it's like yeah do whatever you

want uh just don't record the girls uh and please don't speak uh bad about the place and that's it i'm like are you kidding me speak bad about the place i've been bringing people here for the last 10 years you know i'm your number one fan yeah like i said after the show was done um he really appreciates that anytime you guys want to come back you guys are definitely welcome back yeah because when our people left, there was like two people left. Oh, we're recording episode 201 next week. We'll see you then.

Yeah, that's what I told Tom. I said, we should come here every week, brother. It's the best show ever. And I kept saying, like, this is awesome. This is the greatest show of all time. Like, I must have said that 35 times on the show. This is awesome. So he didn't care about you guys recording your show. He just didn't that 35 times on the show yeah this is awesome so he didn't care about you guys recording your show he just didn't want any camera on the on the ladies yeah well that

was it and uh no pappy was there um we brought a big crowd uh pappy was immediately say cowboy cam was there with his fiance dixie um pappy went to the stage, and the girls immediately went all around Pappy, and everybody gave him money. And I'm pretty sure Pappy caught a disease that night. I mean, it was wild. His head was getting bounced off. But in true professional fashion, his glasses and his hat were still on. His body never moved.

He's drinking a beer. He puts it down the girl's right in his face. He reaches back, grabs the beer, takes a sip, puts it right back down. I wish I had that on tape. It was one of the funniest. I was laughing so hard. I was crying. It was so funny.

And he's like, son, I got to go now. I've got to clean this off my face before your mother smells it. And I got to go home. And then off he went into the night. Do you? So that's the Let's Get Stupid podcast are you doing the huck finn barbell podcast then too uh oh yeah yeah we do the huck finn barbell pack podcast um you know it's been all right it's hard to do two podcasts yeah that's what i was gonna ask like how how is it trying to do two that's brutal well the whole thing i'm trying to do is trying to i thought at's brutal well the whole thing i'm trying to do is

trying to i thought at the beginning of the year i could do some more video content and i thought let me just do my own show make like 30 minutes and just have some stupid shit so i can keep uploading at least one and then another video a week to grow my channel but it didn't turn out too good the cameras kept fucking up and uh you know i'm kind of an idiot. It takes me a long time to learn shit. We had a lot of videos. Some of it, in the beginning, it was working good. Then the camera was dying. Then the audio.

All kinds of stuff happened. That's kind of why I started it. I don't know. I'm going to keep it going. I'm doing it once a month now, once every couple of weeks. That's why I wanted to get all these lights in here and kind of get it better but i should talk to you guys about video you guys got four cameras we do have you know we sort of figured out for what we're doing yeah right right um but you do let's get stupid as new every you

guys basically don't miss a week every Wednesday we haven't missed a week in four years right right you know like maybe we missed one week because of a snowstorm but uh yeah no it's either I drive to his house three drives out here every other week yeah and uh we do we do uh yeah that takes quite a bit of dedication to make that happen for that long oh god yeah man I mean all the shit I mean me and callous both you know we both got three girls family businesses regular jobs um you know and all kinds of other shit on the table so for us to do that every wednesday i can't believe we're still doing it well and you guys you live isn't it like a 30 minute drive or something like how far it was it's an hour now yeah an hour so yeah it's more it's not like you're just going across the street i'm out in the middle of nowhere yeah the worst part then is when you get done and then you've got an hour to drive home

if you're at his place and you get done then i gotta go to prison in the morning it's like 11 30 at night and i gotta go back to prison tomorrow morning you know yeah so yeah that's that's the shitty part dude so you guys got it down man uh i mean it sounds good it looks. It looks good. Yeah, it's the same thing, though. It's, you know, like we do that. We record one night every week. And I don't normally stay up that. Yeah, we were stuff. So, yeah, it's.

And by the time we get done and then, like, getting files done, it's like, no, you stay up. You're up till, like, 11 midnight every time we do this. And, you know, up early the next day. And it's got to go on every single week like it's like we don't take a break so it's like every single week you figure it out and it's just it's actually crazy to think that we you can we've made it work that long you know that they well you guys been around forever and you guys have had a lot of more uh people on your show a lot more guests and guests are they're fucking a harder, especially for us because we don't know what time sometimes we can get to places

or what's going on, or maybe we do it a Thursday or Tuesday instead of Wednesday. So sometimes it's a lot harder to get us, like, yes, we don't know, white guys like Dan Bell and some other guys, Sam. Those guys come on any time. You just call them up. But to hammer down a guest if you don't know who he is, yeah's a yeah that's a lot harder and a lot more you have to be ready 9 15 like today um you know you're ready yeah i wasn't ready but you guys are ready yeah so that's a lot that's a lot tougher i saw you had uh the kicker on the other day yeah did you see that had you seen that guy's videos he

went kind of viral like the week before he was uh squatting 585 have you seen that guy's videos? He went kind of viral the week before. He was squatting 585. Have you seen how strong he is? Did you see his other numbers, though? How strong he actually is? Have you seen his deadlift? No, what was his deadlift? 770 for a double. Listen, I think that guy might be drug tested next week.

770 for a double? I only did that for a single. That was in my prime. And didn't he bench?. $770 for a double? I only did that for a single. That was in my prime. Was it like $450 for a double? No, I think his bench is right around $400. He was hoping to do a little over $400 for a double. Those are still damn good numbers.

Yeah. He's like $642.35 or something like that, isn't he? He's not all that4", 235 or something like that, isn't he? Yeah. You know, he's not all that heavy. Like, it's crazy. He's as strong as he is. He's kind of a freak. Yeah, my favorite punter was a kicker.

It was that Genachowski. That guy was a real man. Was that the Raiders guy? Yeah. Yeah, he was fucking drunk, nuts, fight people and shit. He was my favorite kicker ever. I liked the one grammatica that, like, tore his knee celebrating. Yeah, Martin Gramatica, nuts, fight people and shit. He was my favorite kicker ever. I liked the one grammatica that tore his knee celebrating. Yeah, Martin Gramatica or whatever he jumped up.

Yeah, that was hilarious. Who do you guys root for out there? Do you guys watch football in North Dakota, South Dakota? Vikings. Most people are Vikings fans. Yeah, Vikings, but then you get some Packers, some Bears. The west side of the state likes the Broncos. Yeah, the west side of the state is a lot more Broncos fans, I guess.

It's mostly Vikings around here. Yeah. I don't mind the Vikings that much. I mean, compared to the Packers. I fucking hate the Packers. Unless you're a Packers fan, everyone hates the Packers, though. That's the thing. I'm a Buccaneers fan.

You've got to cheer for Coe Keeft. Oh, that's 100%. There's a couple of Elfas on the Buccaneers, so that's what I've been couple alphas on the buccaneers so that's what i've been cheering for these guys are good they got uh you know you got co-keefed on that team um he caught a touchdown pass uh a couple guys i guess the packers too yeah oh yeah that's right yeah yeah you got that tristan worst on the team that tackle he's fucking awesome and a stud and a beer drinker um you got that other guy, Luke Getke. He's an alpha.

He's a guard. So, yeah, that's 100% who I'm cheering for. I'm so sick of the damn Bears. Every year, it's like Groundhog's Day. We go through quarterbacks, and we go through coaches. Nobody works. I mean, it's got to be the owners. I don't know.

The Vikings have their own history of being a tough team to be a fan of. At least you guys have championships to your name. Watching the Vikings-Bears game this year was just like watching two teams that neither one of them wanted to win. It was just... No. Yeah, no, the Bears are the worst franchise. I mean, the Chicago

Bears are like the biggest franchise, the original franchise in the NFL. And they're in Chicago. It's one of the biggest cities in the fucking country, the world. And then you got this shit team. mean come on man yeah the girl that lady's gonna die and they're not gonna have a winner you know the guy that owns a team right now lives next to my dad the pappy he lives in a town like a smaller town 60 miles west of chicago and that's the owner or that's one of the mccaskies the owner you know the lady's son

okay yeah the lady yeah that's what yeah virginia mccasky's son who runs the team lives by pappy and has lived there for a long time and he like umpires little league baseball games in the summer like why is this guy not in halen's hall working on the Bears? He's out in Sycamore, IL. Umpire Little League baseball games, you know? Yeah. Yeah, Pappy's yelled at him a few times. We've got to get you to come to western northeast South Dakota in July this year. July 20th.

I know it's – July 20th. Put it on your calendar. Yeah, so I don't think we're leaving early this year. Like last year, I was on a family trip, and that was like my only vacation, like big block of vacation of the year. So I'm hoping, I'm going to write that down, if I can make it out there at least two days, you know, like what is it,

Saturday or Sunday? Saturday. Well, people are here basically Thursday through Sunday, but Saturday is the meet. So I'd probably drive down on a Friday night late and then stay until Monday morning or something. We told – I mentioned it to Callis and Cam, and anyone we can get to come, we'd be happy to have.

Also, what you should – you should talk to Karen, too. We did have – last year there was four or five booths. It might sound crazy, but if you're driving, it wouldn't be the craziest thing to set up a booth when you're here. Well, yeah, and that's my clientele, too. It is. It would. Yeah, 100%.

You'd do great. A lot of the Masonomics guys, a lot of crossover there. Oh, there's a ton, yes. There's a bunch of people doing our meet that are big Huck Finn barbell fans. Yeah, we should come out there. Me and Karen should come out there. I got the trailer. I got the Manhart trailer.

You guys seen that, right? Yeah, yeah. You guys see what I drive to the event in? Yeah, the old Huck Finn Manhart trailer. Get that fucking hopping. Get it down there. Look at that new truck. Lou Nutter and Keith Honeycutt, both Big Huck Finn

barbell fans. They were both in the meet last year. Lou Nutter is hilarious. That motherfucker drove here for the fucking 200th episode all the way from Omaha to Nebraska. He won. He was the furthest one that arrived at my house drinking. Immediately we got out of his vehicle.

We went to the gym. I did an arm workout. He squatted in there shortly before we left to the lamplighter. Then he proceeded to drink with us all night long. Then he passed out in my living room.

Passed out in the living room and they got up early and took back off to Nebraska. That guy was an animal. Big Lou. My girls were like, who is that lion that's at the house, man? Just call him Lion. That's who he is. That's a lion.

I love that hair. Obviously, we're from South Dakota, so we know about Mount Rushmore. Oh, yeah. We're bigger Mount Rushmore guys. What would be your – what's Huck Finn's Mount Rushmore of beers so if you put four kinds of beer to make up your Mount Rushmore of beers

what's going to be on there well it's got to be Miller Lite because that's what I drink that's got to be one of them so that's like George Washington that's shit somebody didn't charge your phone my phone just went off um so i go miller light pass through ribbon those are definitely two because i was the

first beer i drank pass my old man drank pass forever and then the next two would probably be difficult though man i think there'd only be two on my Mount Rushmore. Those are my two favorite beers. I don't know what the other two would be. Nothing like – I mean, Tito's would be one, but that's not a beer. I drink a lot of Tito's. Yeah.

We didn't know if you had like any from the past, Old Milwaukee or something like those old beers. Oh, I might put Old Milwaukee on there. My grandpa – Old Milwaukee and Old South. The Beast. Probably those two. Old South, okay. I drank those a little bit when I was younger because

Grandpa Finn drank Old Milwaukee and then my Uncle Nino would drink Old Style and then we'd go to the Cubs games and that's all I would drink every time because that's like a staple at the Cubs games is Old Style. I don't know Old Style. I'm not sure I've ever had one. Old Style is awesome. You guys

gotta have one. Here's a guy down here. Once all that Budweiser stuff happens, a lot of people went to old style light. Or no, old Milwaukee light everybody went to. Not old style light. Old Milwaukee light. I didn't even know they still made that. I didn't know they made that. I think you can get 30 racks of it, can't you?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's got that going for it. Oh, yeah. It's like a blue can instead of a red can. Yeah. That got pretty popular around this area once that budweiser stuff went bush light bush light i'd say over like the last five or ten years has gotten so popular at least around here i don't know if it's like that there but oh yeah it's

because the country stuff you know yeah right the core right more blue collar yeah they do the cans they do the corn cans here for illinois right i don't know what they do out there yeah but when i'm out there or something. No, they got the corn. No, it's a corn one too. But when I was, uh,

when I was like in college, it was like Bush light was just one of the cheat. It was like Keystone and Bush light were the exact same. I knew way more people, way more people drink Keystone than Bush. Like in my opinion at that time. And that flipped somewhere in the last 10 years. I don't see anyone drink Keystone light.

Hardly. No, you don't ever see him. He drinks stones anymore. No, I don't ever see me drink Stones anymore. No, I drank a lot of those too a long time ago. A 30 of Stones. A 30 rack of Stones? You were set. You show up with a few of those. I think I drank a 30 rack of those

one time in my dorm room in McElroy College. I fell on the stairs after a football game and I couldn't get my cowboy boot off the next morning. My ankle was so swelling up. Thanks to Keystone. Keystone Light. Keystone. If you're really feeling crazy, you could get keystone ice which was like the black stone which is like what more no way and there was there yeah i know what you're talking about there was ice house you guys on regular

that was the red cans what was all like what like keystone diesel just like keystone heavy yeah it was a red can instead of blue. Yeah. I don't remember that one. I remember Ice House. Yeah. And my mother-in-law still drinks Ice House. Like I went to her house and we didn't have beer on ice or something.

We drove like 10 hours. She lives in Tennessee. We pull in and they're sitting on their porch. And I'm like, hey, you guys got any cold beer? And they're like, yeah, here, reach in there, grab one. I reach in, it's fucking Ice House. I'm like, who the hell is drinking Ice house you know and then uh grandma barbell's drinking fucking ice house so i'm bringing 10 ice houses then like a fucking quarter or no half bottle of ketos after that and then i was out in the woods howling in the woods and everything it

didn't end up good i ended up fucking with doritos out in the woods sleeping so yeah do not mess with ice house boys all right that was a good mount okay your in-laws are from did you say tennessee right don't you guys is that where you guys go okay are you guys tennessee football fans too yeah i am do you know where the tennessee head football coach is from uh that new guy i do not know i know the head the offensive offensive coordinator for Nebraska, which is by you guys, is from where my in-laws are from. My father-in-law knows him very well, and he coached down there.

But, no, I don't know where that guy's from. Don't tell me South Dakota. He is from the headquarters, Aberdeen. Yeah, right here. He's done great down there. He is from the headquarters, Aberdeen. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Right here. Yep.

He's done great down there. Last year, they had a hell of a team, man. They beat Alabama and all that. That was awesome. Yeah, they were ranked top five. Were they five or six at one point? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, they were all having cigars in the locker room when they beat Alabama. No, that was awesome. Yeah, yeah. Kenny Chesney in there and fucking Pete Manning. Yeah, yeah, that's right. No, you'll know about, you know, Washington, what is it, Washington University, the Huskies, they're lighting it up this year.

You know, you see that coach, one coach of the year for college football. Have you followed that at all, Washington? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that, yeah, the Huskies. Yeah, that coach is from basically our hometown, too. Jesus Christ. All the good coaches are coming out of fucking South Dakota. All Northeast South Dakota.

And FCS, right? Yeah, the Jackrabbits. Yeah, like the old 1AA. Yeah, yeah. Old subdivision. SDSU is about South Dakota State University is about ready to win their back-to-back second year in a row. It's like the football camp of the world over here.

Yeah, who knew that, dude? I didn't think anything was out there besides Masonomics. Well, that's most of it. There's all this football going on out there. SDSU is a pretty legit football program. Oh, they are. No, they're good. You know what their last loss was to Iowa in in uh what was that like two years ago right right you know they

could they would play with a lot of the big 10 you know yeah i think so yeah i think so yeah some of those big 10 schools are pretty weak there are some you know yeah like maryland and rodker i don't know some of these schools i don't even know how they're in it. Illinois has got to bounce back. We're going to bounce back. The best team in Illinois, the best college team in Illinois is North Central, who won the Division III title last year and should have won it this year and lost in the last second play. They're from Naperville.

But the second best team was probably Northern Illinois. NIU, if you ever heard of it. NIU. Yeah, yeah. The chip studs come out of there. We've got this game we play with every guest. We've played it with you before. Overrated, underrated.

We've got a special Huck Finn set of overrated, underrated topics. Oh, good, good, good. So all you've got to do is decide if each one's overrated, underrated. You can't ride the line, though. You've got to pick. Okay. Overrated or underrated? Costco.'t ride the line, though. You got to pick. Okay. Overrated or underrated. Costco.

Underrated. Costco. Oh, dude. Costco. I've never been to a Costco. Oh, this is a good story. I've never been to a Costco in my life. And I see you guys talking about these Costco fucking chicken logs or something.

So, me, I go out Christmas shopping on Monday last week. And my old man wanted to go. and then my mom wanted to go. So I go and pick him up, and we drive. We're driving towards the suburbs, and in St. Charles, there's a Costco. And I'd never been to one, and I knew Pappy had a cart. So I said, hey, take me in there. I'd never been in there. I heard there was some cheap protein shakes in there, like ready-to-drink ones.

Take me in there, and I want to get a case. Just look around. I've never been in one. So we went in there and, uh, well, I'm walking around with my mom and dad. And then I started getting recognized. They're like, people are coming up and shaking my hand. How come in barbell? And they talk.

And then my dad goes, you know what, son, that guy thinks you're a real loser. He thinks you still with your mom and dad probably makes all the stupid videos in my basement. That was my first experience at a costco and the place was awesome um i i didn't want to leave i mean all i bought was protein shakes but i did go over to the counter after you pay for the stuff and i saw that chicken vlog thing you guys talked about chicken bake you gotta get one next time hot dog for $1.50 yeah so yeah i never got anything i was tempted but i didn't get it but i did check it out because just because you guys get the chicken bake you gotta try the chicken next trip yeah so i i didn't know about what's the deal on the

protein shakes what's so are they everyone likes those or what you said there's a limit of like two per customer or what the hell is the deal yeah they got like the fair life or something protein ready to drink protein shakes man they taste really good like chocolate milk but you can only have you can only buy two of them that is yeah the one in saint by us is only i think limit two yeah they do a lot of their stuff they put limits on it so you don't clear them out like when you a lot of times on the price tag you'll see it says limit x number per customer yeah those are they're good fucking protein shakes and they're easy a lot of times i go on the road at work and uh i always throw in a couple uh protein shakes because uh fuck i don't know how long it could be on the road for like 24 hours uh you know at prison in case something

goes awry you know if i'm on the road somebody's in the hospital or something you know so i need extra food so those are always good yeah i didn't know you know the last time we were there tanner was for that massonomics video and jake was buying the pure protein bars and it's the box of 24 and it's like 20 dollars you know you're in a gas station a protein bar or something yeah these things are a dollar a piece that's that's what i've been doing lately that's a nice way to yeah to get those in oh yeah they got a lot of good finds at casco man no i say underrated that's first time i've ever been there and i fucking loved it i like that people think you're live with your parents they're taking you to grocery shopping i know and then like another person another person came up

like shortly after that oh man just shaking his head and my mom and dad are just staring i didn't know what to say it is so funny like yeah i feel like a real loser around you know they think i live with my parents is near you know almost christmas uh and then we went to another store right after that uh what was it uh bass pro shops right and i run into this husband and wife that i work with and i don't know him too well right and they're like what are you doing in here and i'm with my mom and dad and we're by Santa Claus. And I'm like, I'm going to see Santa Claus. We go every year.

And then Pappy goes, he still believes. He still believes. So, yeah, it was a wild trip with my parents for Christmas shopping. Overrated or underrated, Randy Couture. Underrated, man. Randy Couture is awesome. Love that guy. Every year, two years in a row, we did a video together at the Arnold. Every year I've seen him, could be a nicer guy. Likes to have a good time. His girlfriend liked to have a good time. Man, just a good dude. First time I met him, he didn't know who I was at all. And I asked him to pull my hair off, which I had a ponytail,

horse glued into the back of my head. I said, no, it's just fake. Because I said, can you rip it off for a video? And he doesn't ask. Another question, he asked that. He's like, huh? And I said, yeah. And he didn't ask.

Boom, ripped it right off. And it fucking hurt like hell, man. I don't know if you remember that. Holy shit, dude. And then he was sitting next to Ed Cohen the next day at the Hall of Fame banquet or something, and he was talking about it. He goes, oh, yeah, that's Huck Finn. I know that guy.

He's a fucking idiot. And then we meet him. I saw him again the following year. And then I said, yeah, Randy, we got to do another video together. What do you want to do? He said, how about you choke me out? He goes, well, if you sit in a seat, I can do it. And I said, yeah, it's Huck Finn.

I'm about to get choked up at UC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. Boom, it puts me out. Did you go lights out? Oh, yeah, 100%. I've only been choked out twice. Randy Couture, UFC Hall of Famer, and Ryan Bader, who is a Bellator heavyweight champion. Yeah.

I was going to have Bader punch me in the face, but he wouldn't do it. That was the first, you know, when I was down there with the Heat Man guys. Yeah. That was like five, six years ago. But, yeah, that was funny as fuck. Yeah, when I got choked out that time, I didn't know I was out. I thought we were still practicing because we practiced.

I deadlifted like 500 pounds on the mat. And after I did it, they choked me out with uh cb dolloway was there too usc fighter and uh i got up and i'm looking around i thought we're we still practicing he's like dude you just got choked out you got a deadlift to go huh and i'm just laughing because i didn't know i was out that time it was funnier fuck who who do you think uh you know you you've got some kind of semi-famous you you know, some famous people that follow you and stuff there. You know, you've talked about like, doesn't one of the Trump sons follow you on Instagram? Yeah, Donald Trump Jr. does.

Yeah. Yeah. Junior follows me on Instagram. I couldn't believe it. That was hilarious. Right. Yeah. He's like some of the American stuff, you know, like the boat video and stuff he likes.

Right. Right. Which that's kind of funny. Who do you think is the most famous person that you've seen that either follows you or has ever messaged or reached out about anything before? To me, the most famous person would be Stone Cold Steve Austin, for sure. I text him once in a while back and forth and he'll send me some dms and messages and funny shit and then to like be at his house and drink his beer that was probably the most surreal craziest experience of all time um you know when i was a kid in high school

steve austin was my hero i mean that was everything he was like 15 or whatever man steve austin and i've been around quite a few more famous people or celebrities and i'm never nervous around them but when i seen steve austin walk into that window through that door and i'm like holy fuck that's him with that stupid you know that walker bms walk yeah and i'm like oh he's like you're the only motherfucker who relates my podcast but he turns around and walks and i'm like oh shit want me to do push-ups yeah let's go come on but no he could have been a nicer guy either one of the best guys ever real like a real person you know not like um i mean the guy's made millions and millions of dollars he didn't act

like it at all at all um he's from texas and and he's just a fucking hell-raising roughneck so yeah he was awesome. I'm trying to think. Well, Donald Trump Jr., that guy's pretty famous. That might be the most famous guy, to be honest, that follows me. A lot of athletes, a lot of wrestlers. But, yeah, I would say Steve Austin is probably the most famous. But, yeah, that Donald Trump Jr. is funny as fuck fuck maybe i'll be at mar-a-lago sometime uh working out with donald trump

i like how trump always goes to ufc events too because he gets a big pop you know yeah he always like walks out with uh with a kid rock you know he has his own entrance too sits in the front row uh it's funnier now uh overrated talk about a show yeah overrated underrated clint black oh underrated man um man i listened to uh clint black so much uh his greatest hits right back in 2002 three uh hundred times i remember uh song number eight was uh like the rain one of my favorite songs. That's a good song. What is that one line from the song? Isn't it funny how the melodies bring back the memories?

That's one of my favorite lines ever. No, I like Clint Black a lot. I haven't listened to him that much lately, but I listen to a lot of Clint Black. A lot of beers or drink in a bar to Clint Black. I've got a good Clint Black story. So one time, this was at least a decade ago, maybe more than that, Clint Black came and played here in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

You made out with him. I wish. Breaking news. Clint Black. He's got it on video. It's our YouTube video next week. Oh man, that's going to have millions of downloads, brother. Millions of hits. I didn't realize any of this at the

time. It was like a little concert in a hotel convention center thing. It was stage set up and it was an acoustic concert, so it was just like him playing acoustic guitar and nothing else. Those are the best. That's like a real personal event. It was just him

sitting there on a stool supposed to just be acoustic but he wanted it dead quiet in there and i was you know in my 20s you know we're all we're all drunk like just we were just there to party and you know clip back oh this is gonna be great we're at a concert and it's mostly just like rows of uh folding chairs you know there's maybe like 40 rows of folding chairs. You know, there's maybe like 40 rows of folding chairs. And we're over the whole time like standing. We don't want to sit, like sit down like at this. You're partying. You know, you want to be up, walking around, talking.

And we're standing over on the sides where the bars are at the whole time. And more than one time, the first time it caught us so off guard, we were in a group of maybe 50 people like all the drunk yeah you know college age kids or you know people in their 20s that are partying he stopped like dead in the middle of a song and like over like the speaker over the microphone was like uh can you guys over there like keep it down we're trying to have like i'm trying to perform here and i was i don't like that at all it's like um what like he literally like he might have been playing singing like the rain and like stopped in the middle of it to tell us to tell us to shut up while he's

while he's performing no like this is a concert you know like that's what people are here for i was in a kind of a similar situation but it was with merle haggard and it was in a little auditorium at merle and we're going nuts merle haggard did not give a shit at all and we're sitting like second row i'm interrupting them and shit we're all drunk there's like 10 of us in the second row some old guy was getting mad at one of my fat buddies there's almost a fight in the corner i mean it was the best time ever so yeah that's uh i don't like to hear that about Flint Black. I will erase every song off my playlist.

Not good. I take back everything I said. Yeah, that's not good. Okay. Last one, overrated or underrated, most important one. Overrated or underrated, being better. Oh, being better is way overrated, man. You know one overrated underrated being better i'll be better it's way overrated man you know what i you know what i always said right be bad be the baddest motherfucker in the room drop the weights yell be a bad motherfucker don't why would you want

to be better be bad being bad always wins so yeah be better fuck that shit uh still one of my favorite episodes yeah that that week that that that what i mean i know it's a joke now and stuff but what callus was pissed was oh callus callus was really uh mad uh and i didn't realize he was that mad until the following week because i got i was kind of mad like like, Oh, I'm doing this be better stuff. Right. Which I don't give a fuck. He was already doing something else. Well, whatever he does, you know you know, I always want to do well, but then he starts all this be better stuff. And then I started making fun of him and it was great for the podcast.

But I'm like, you know what? You know, it'd be hilarious. I come out with beat bad. I'm beat bad shirt I'm gonna have a whole post about how you should be bad and all this and I came out with it the day or the night before he dropped his brand new beat and that was the greatest joke of all time and Cal did not think that was funny the next day he's like

no I actually took offense to that time that was not that funny are you kidding me that was fucking hilarious dude we came out with beat-bad shirts go fuck yourself callous because i said go fuck yourself at the end of that show or something yeah you came out go fuck yourself stickers i mean it was great dude so yeah that was good content though you're right it was it was funny because you could tell though that you were just laughing so much about it and you weren't picking up that he that he was not enjoying what you were doing he was not enjoying it at all and then like the next week i had to come to his house and it's uh you know i come downstairs and i'm in his house now we're

like hardly talking then we get on air and fucking start fucking airing the grievances again it was hilarious oh man that was good shit man go fuck yourself callous so be better yeah be bad man be a bad motherfucker we sold a lot of be bad t-shirts because of that too yeah uh good you passed overrated underrated yeah i figured i would pass that i got a couple questions for you guys oh all right here we go first off these are the questions I ask. What do you say? I can't really tell you, but these are my interview questions for something. But now I've brought them on to the podcast.

You might have already heard these questions, so I've brought them on a few podcasts. What do you bench? Here's a question. This is actually a good question. Tommy and I have talked about this before. If someone asks you, what do you bench? Do you say your best bench you've ever had before?

Your best bench you've ever had in competition? Or what you think you could go bench today if you laid down on a bench? I always say today, and then I ask them, well, what do you want? My best bench I've ever done? Right. Which would be a touch and go. Yep. My number has to compete. It depends. If you're asking, I'm talking My best bench I've ever done, which would be a touch and go. Might never ask the competent.

It depends. If you're asking, talking to like a powerlifter, yes, that would be correct. But usually normal people just want to know like your gym bench or what you currently bench. So currently I'm close to 500. I'm somewhere in the fours. I built up to around a 400-pound incline bench, which I was pushing pretty good for the last couple months or so but yeah i usually say what i currently bench um or my best bench right that's i usually

if it's someone that doesn't know that i know barely even goes to the gym doesn't know the difference i'll just tell my best so my answer that my best ever touch and go in the gym is 475 if it was a power lifter then i tell my best in competition is like 462 or whatever that one is. Yeah. But if you ask me today, it's probably more like 400 pounds. Yeah. But if it's someone that I know, just some guy that just recognizes you're

big and wants to know how much you bench, I'll just tell him four 75. It's my best ever. I'll go with that. Somebody asked you, what do you bet? So I'll talk to me. I can bet you 500 pounds. You piece of shit. No, I never got to the, I never got to the 500. So I couldn't buy that shirt or anything when he got, I remember when Cam finally benched it, we gave it to him. It was one of the, to me, that was one of the more prouder moments of my whole life. Like almost as good as when I benched 500 for the first time in competition.

That night in the Jack and Homeless shelter, which was only around for four months due to us moving, but Cam finally hit it. I was like, holy fuck. When Cam first started training with me, he was barely benching 400 pounds or something. Then for him to bench 500. He's strong. Yeah, he is. He's getting real strong um he's he's been

out benching me here and that's not good i told cam this is a few years ago before i tore my second pet tenant off the bone um i mean i would just play around with like crazy weights like whatever he did i'd like you know you do whatever you wanted to within reason i'd have my fucking legs up in the air i'd be blindfolded just fucking with him you know, do whatever you want to within reason. I'd have my fucking legs up in the air. I'd be blindfolded. Just fuck with him, you know? And I remember telling him, if you ever bench for me, I'd fucking quit cam. You'll never bench for me.

And now cam's benching more than me. It's not good. Um, he had 500 on a fat bar out here the other day. It was, you know, and he's not even in cotton, like training. He's nothing. He's just off season. Just fucking around out here. So, um, I think he's going to have a big meet.

He pulled, like, 800 the other day. He's squatting around 800 at least, too. So, if he could put together, like, 8-plus, what was it, 16, 21. He thinks he could do 22. So, he wants to go 275. He's, like, 5'7", 275 pounds. I mean, he can't breathe as it is so but i think he can do it i mean if all his numbers hit he could hit uh 2200 um at this meet march they're doing yeah my uh my uh best best bench ever for me

touch and go in the gym 350 competition i'm gonna'm going to have to see that. You got that on tape? Oh, yeah. What was that in the background? Oh, my dog. I got a dog back here. That was a dog. I didn't know what that was. 350 in the gym, competition like 323, whatever the kilo is, and then right now probably

about 315-ish. How did you two guys meet? When we're going to the local YMCA, Lifton, and there's just only so many guys in there, like at a place like that in Aberdeen. Yeah, of course. And, you know, I watch someone and you're like, you both recognize like, oh, yeah, this guy actually knows what he's doing.

Right. You know, like this guy's actually like. Like actually benching, squatting, deadlifting. Right, right. So it doesn't take very long for all those people to find each other. I'm about to squat. Could you give me a squat spot real close?

This is kind of my max. I'll get real in, real snug. Yep. And then you guys became best friends after that? Yep. I knew it. The rest is history. All right.

What's your favorite movie? this history all right what's your favorite movie for for years my top two were pulp fiction and the good the bad and the ugly those are my top two for a really long time i didn't understand pulp fiction that was all that was above my head good the man ugly though i like that yeah what about you tanner i'm gonna go with uh yeah shawshank redemption i think is still my one i mean i've seen it a thousand times but yeah yeah you're the hardest hardest screw to ever take a turn at shawshank that's that is what the first question off air uh steve austin asked me was about prison and one of his favorite movies was shawshank redemption yeah so i can't really talk about on the podcast but yeah here's you know's, you know, what's going on.

If it's comedy, though, I might say Dumb and Dumber. Dumber Dumber is my all-time favorite, 100%. I watched that probably a million times when I was a kid. We talk about Dumb and Dumber a lot on here. And I was thinking of, like, what my favorite, you know, what I would say for comedies. And I think it's Dumb and Dumber, honestly. It might be my favorite. Austin Powers is up there too, though.

I like Old School a lot too. We talk about Will Ferrell a lot. Old School is probably my favorite Will Ferrell movie. Yeah, it might be. I think I like that better than Step Brothers. I like that too. When I was a kid, it was Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds,

and Dumb and Dumber on repeat. Those three. Later on, I liked Billy Madison. I liked Tommy Boy. I loved Chris Farley. It's kind of the same movie. It's the same movie. Chris Farley was another one of my heroes. I remember when he died, I was walking in art class

and my art teacher told me. It was 1996 or 7 or 8. I don't know one of those years but yeah that was a sad day what's your favorite food tell me what you got on that one that's a tough one i i always struggle because i could say pizza steak or tacos and it's kind of kind of depend on my mood but yeah pizza steak are my favorite yeah i would probably say uh really good steak like we had uh over christmas one of our meals was beef wellington which is like a uh i can't remember what cut that is but all it is is like that's something wrapped it's's almost, I think it's tenderloin. It's tenderloin.

Yeah. So I actually don't remember. Beef well, but just really good steak would be up there. Used to be pizza for me, but I've just got, I've just probably had too much over the years, and I don't, it's not up there, but I like. You just can't get sick of it, though. I like, like. You can't, dude.

You know how many pizzas I've had in my life? Holy fuck, dude. A Jack's Pizza once a week minimum. I mean, that's a once a week. What's your Jack had in my life? Holy fuck, dude. A Jack's pizza once a week, minimal. I mean, that's a once a week. What's your Jack's go-to? What flavor do you get for Jack's? I always get, I always get pepperoni, but I always add to it. Yeah.

I always, I always doctor it up. You know, usually like right now I'm going to kick where I put a lot of hot Jardinier on it. You know what that stuff is? No. Oh, you guys aren't from Chicago. So hot Jardinier goes on Italian beef here. So you guys know what Italian beef is?

Not really. Oh, man. Portillo is Italian beef. Is that – It sends something out to you. So is that – would that have like peppers, like grilled peppers and stuff on it then or what? No, no.

It's got like – so you got Italian beef on this kind of bread, almost like a sub, but better bread than that. Then they dip it into the juice, and then they put mozzarella. I had to look. So hot jardiniere, that's like the peppers kind of, right? Yes, like jalapeno peppers and stuff. It's like a mixture. It's got a little oil on it.

It's like pickles or something. Oh, it's awesome, man. And I'll put that on my pizza now, and I love it. Oh, okay. I can see how that'd be good. Yeah, yeah. I like that. I'm going to have to do that one.

That does sound good. I always use the pizzazz. You guys got pizzazz out there, right? Oh, yeah. It's been years since I've had a pizzazz pizza, though. I think the pizzazz was sitting right out here. I've got several pizzazz. I've got one right here. Here's a topper pizzazz right here.

Want to know something funny about pizzazz? I think this is the way the story went. We had Pete Rubish on our podcast a few years back. Oh, he's from Wisconsin. Yeah. Yeah. And he was talking. Pete likes frozen pizza better than he likes any restaurant pizza.

He loves frozen pizza. And we talked to him a long time about frozen pizza. And Dan Bell listened to that episode. And I'm pretty sure Dan Bell ordered a Pizazz and had it mailed to pete after our episode did he yeah he didn't have a pizzazz no no i forgot and dan sent him one yeah that's awesome i love that bell order pizzazz i gifted a lot of pizzazz as well that's a really good gift go to local farm and fleet pick yourself it would be kind of a funny gift to give someone now like they're like oh fucking pizzazz i think uh one of my buddies he was jurassic gave tom callous a pizzazz for like his wedding gift or something i don't remember what it was

well like 20 years ago a pizzazz was like there's always these like real popular little yeah for a while it was like the pizzazz everyone's like oh yeah you just put it on there it just spins around it cooks it seems like you only have them in the midwest because everybody from like out west like california or other other places uh not where i'm from they always what is that thing like jujimufu has messaged me like every time i show he's like what the fuck is that what that robot's going to take over your house. Get out of your house now. It's a pizzazz, man. You've never heard of a pizzazz?

Man, in college, like 10, 15 years ago, whenever that was, everybody had those things in their college houses. Every college house had a pizzazz. You could cook a lot of stuff on a pizzazz, actually. I cooked a lot of shit drunk on that thing. I woke up to the thing spinning with like random items on the pizzazz. That's the good thing,

because it won't burn your house up because it shuts off. Instead of up because it's just off. Instead of the oven, the oven stays on. You pass out drunk. What I remember before pizzazzes, so it wasn't when I was very old, but a lot of people had a separate little oven. You obviously had your oven, but people bought this pizza oven. I'm like, what the hell is the point of the separate tiny oven?

Like the pizza corner oven or whatever the hell it was? Yeah the hell's the point of the separate tiny corner oven or whatever the hell yeah it's like the pizza corner oven a lot of places would have a lot of people would have that in their garages around here right the old pizza oven they had that little miniature thing right it was like stainless steel or something you know i'm like ours would have that yeah a lot of bars have that yeah yeah like pizza corner that's north dakota isn't it that's valley city north dakota is where pizza corners out of so that's why Dakota, isn't it? That's Valley City, North Dakota is where Pizza Corner is out of. So that's why we all, yeah. Yeah. I love frozen pizza, but you guys probably don't got that good of pizza in North Dakota,

like Chicago and New York. I mean, that's good pizza areas. Yeah, we don't know what you guys would eat. We are not known for that, I don't think. Yeah. No, because I've gone across, I've gone even Southern Illinois, and I remember weighing in like in Peoria and looking for a good pizza, and I'm like, you guys got anything down here?

They tell me it's one place. It's, like, the worst pizza I ever had. So once you kind of get out of the, I don't know, 100-mile radius of Chicago, the pizza gets worse. Or, like, I've been to Tennessee, and I go eat pizza down there. I'm like, hey, where do you guys get pizza at, you know? Gas station? What?

This was before, like, Casey's had pizza. Casey's pizza ain't bad. I eat Casey's pizza quite a bit, but like a local, like, you know, fucking, I don't know, marathon or something, they got a lady down there cooking pizza. Like, this is a good pizza? What the fuck? I don't think I could ever move somewhere that didn't have good pizza. It's my favorite food.

So, you know, pizza's great. And it's good for powerlifting. I knew that at a young age. Powerlifter came in when I was in high school and said, what do you eat? He says, Dom know, pizza's great. And it's good for powerlifting. I knew that at a young age. Powerlifter came in when I was in high school and said, what do you eat? He says, Domino's pizza. I said, all right, that's what I'm going to start eating, Domino's pizza. That was my Friday routine.

Get done with squats, go get a Little Caesars, crush that thing. Oh, Little Caesars. Come on, that's terrible pizza, man. That's the best we've got in South Dakota, Little Caesars. That's our nice pizza. So much jacks. I'd rather have a floppy, or what do they call it, a floppy piece of shit. That was the best, man, when a Dakota. Little Caesars. That's our nice pizza. What do they call it? A floppy piece of shit. That was the best, man.

When a martial arts sports guy said that. Yeah. This floppy piece of shit. What's your favorite song? Oh, fuck. You can name one or two. Don't name three, though. I guess I'll go Garth Brooks, Friends in Low Places.

That's a good one. I play that a lot. That's probably my favorite song. Mostly just because going to it live a couple times. I just so damn love it. I've seen Garth live once. He is good. I saw him in Vegas once.

Drunk. That has me. Going to that live a couple times probably has me hooked as my favorite because I just associate the song with the screaming. He has really good lives. Drunken in person. But that's a hard question that'd be hard for me that's that's the best answer i can come up with this what about time this has been the hardest question so far oh man i mean years ago i would have said something by john frusciante he's the guitarist

from the red hot chili peppers i was like so into him for a long time the only thing i know about red hot chili peppers that guy was naked sweet oh they're always naked they had the socks that guy and then under the bridge i used to listen one song in high school before football games right now i can't remember what it was you think what'd you say uh well their guitarist though had like his own thing so i was really into the guitarist for a while his songs his name is john frusciante like but i'd have a hard time answering that right now top favorite song all time that's come on man that's a hard question that is a really hard one though to put on the jukebox well see that's the thing though like your favorite song might not be the song you put on the jukebox either though um mine i i would say mine would probably be uh country boy can survive hank

jr or family tradition that gets played at every finn wedding 35 times there's been a lot of uh like wives that aren't related to the fins like other cousins of mine they don't appreciate that at all uh one time the dj would refuse to play and i almost beat the shit out of him until he played it that was a wild story but yeah those would be mine what now tommy what did you say the red hot chili pepper guy flea well the flea was the bassist i like the electrical the electric guitarist like i was big into his thing um but i don't i wouldn't pick i probably wouldn't say that anymore though you know if i had to pick a song. I was going to guess Kenny G for you. Well, that was a whole different life there. That was a whole different thing.

On tour with him. Yeah. God. If you told me I had to pick based on a mood, I could probably give you a better answer. But to say my number one best song of all time? That's the hardest question. That's a bad answer, Tommy.

I mean, come on. Tanner gave one right away. Well, I'm lucky I thought of that one. Otherwise, I was struggling, but that one did pop into me. What was your wedding song? Well, my wedding song, that's not my favorite song of all time.

That's like a wedding song. Who picked it out? You or your wife? My wife picked the wedding song out. What was it? It was Van Morrison. i can't think of what the hell it's called brown eyed girl not brown eyed girl though um see and i don't that's the thing i don't even i don't even know what really you don't remember your wedding song man your

wife better not be listening no she she can be very upset i wouldn't remember the song either come on um tanner you remember yours yeah ours is actually garth brooks also it's um just say garth brooks to everything it's too easy yeah that's an easy answer uh but what song is it it's oh well it's not tell me the dance no no not the dance um oh uh how about uh that one where the guy where the mob gets in the semi and runs it right to the fucking hotel or the hotel wall it's not that one or uh uh he's got a couple interesting uh interesting is that papa love mama is that the one yeah that's it yeah yeah but then mom i had there was a dad that went through it. The mom that was having sex with her.

There's a couple interesting music videos that he has, actually, that are kind of funny. Shit, I can't remember what song. I was pretty drunk that day and night, so that's hard to. Oh, yeah. Mine was Dixie Lane Delight by Alabama. I thought that was Cam's. Cam's? Oh, that could be Cam's.

Cam's got a lot of... I sang Dixie when I died. I think that's going to be maybe that one. Dwight Yoakam, which Pappy wants me to sing at his funeral, which I agreed to. That's how they do it in Dixie. That's another one.

What's that other Dixie song? Hank Williams' year's got one. There's like 10 Dixie song Hank Williams years got one there's like 10 Dixie songs which will be played during Cam's wedding next year on repeat I got three more questions they're going to get really hard now that was hard to wait to this name the two major mountain ranges in the United States

mountain ranges Rockies and Wait to this. All right. All right. Oh, shit. All right. Name the two major mountains in the United States. You said mountain ranges? Yes. Rockies. Rockies and Appalachian. Appalachian. Man, you guys are smart. Jesus, I didn't know you guys were going to be that smart. I've asked these questions before to, like, we have people over, people I don't really

know. We haven't seen a mountain before even either. We just heard about them. I don't know if you've been to South Dakota, but we don't have those. The one my wife's friend said, what the fuck's out there? Mount Rushmore. Black Hills. The Black Hills, really.

All right. Now, both of you can't answer this, so I'm going to say, Tanner, you answer this one. What's eight times seven? 56. Oh, man. Five, six, seven, eight. That's how I remember that one. Tanner's the numbers guy.

You picked the wrong one there. All right. Well, Tommy, this last one's for you. Now this is going to be the hardest one. Oh, boy. Name the five Great Lakes. The five Great Lakes. Okay.

Erie, Superior, Huron, Michigan. Ah, the fifth one um erie superior here on michigan i mean you can phone a friend there's one on the other line i go with homes yeah homes yeah it's not on the real is it yeah you got it okay you motherfuckers are a lot smarter I thought I was gonna say Ontario but I thought that that seemed wrong I do not remember the reason I can remember that is because of homes though so that's that's uh all right otherwise

I wouldn't know that one yeah no that's how I remembered it too so yeah those are my interview questions so you guys passed. We got the job. A couple slip-ups. I mean, especially the song. Man, that was kind of bad. Who's your favorite wrestler? Stone Cold is up there for me.

Yeah, Stone Cold's up there. That's a bonus question. My thing is when I was growing up, I was actually more of a WCW guy than I was uh WWF the NWO yeah so then then you do go no NWO but I wasn't a Hollywood or Hulk Hogan that big a fan I did I did like Ric Flair uh quite a bit and he's become even cooler like it as we get older it's just big time his name is cooler and cooler you know um but i kind of liked like kevin nash uh and uh yeah big sexy you kind of look like kevin nash yeah i guess kind of now exactly yeah i kind of look like kevin nash kind of like kevin nash and scott and scott hall i like those guys oh yeah pulse dead now he was yeah died. He was looking pretty rough before he died there.

Yeah, the Outsiders was awesome. That's when I kind of watched wrestling again. I watched it like when I was a kid through the Hogan era. And then I didn't really watch it much for a couple years. And then the NWO and when Hogan went to WCW, man, reeled me back in big time all the way through. You know, the Stone Cold, all that stuff. So, yeah.

I've hung out with Hogan's son a lot. He's a fan of mine. I've hung out with him a couple times, and I want to get down there to see Hogan. That would be good. Down in Florida. Yeah, he's down in Tampa there. Yeah. Go hit up Coquit and hit up Hogan.

It would be a great trip, you know. You know who's a guy that always scared me that I thought would have been real scary? It was Chris Benoit. Like, he, I mean. Oh, come on. Of course you'd say that he killed his whole family i know but like even before that right he is scary i know 20 he murdered his whole family even before that it's like that seems predictable if you just looked at that guy in his mannerisms like he seemed crazy yeah he did yeah yeah he ended up uh yeah kill his whole family so you were correct man the guy that murdered everyone yeah that guy i just had a feeling he was gonna murder everybody

tommy who is yours though so i liked you know like the like the showmanship and everything of like D-Generation X and NWO and all that. But when it came to the actual wrestling, I always liked the guys that were like flipping around and doing the craziest stuff. Like Rey Mysterio Jr. Oh, like Rey Mysterio, the Hardy Boys, like Rob Van Dam. I hated those guys. I loved those guys. They were just going insane. I did like Rob Van Dam, though.

Yeah, yeah. He did that to me in Rock Well, I like Van Dam. He did that to me in Rockford, Illinois backstage one time. I said, Tom, motherfucking fan. And he laughed and did the RVD thing to me. So yeah, he was a good dude. I liked him. And then always the Undertaker was like always up there in my family too.

Undertaker was good. He still is. I just had to watch him. Have you seen on YouTube? They have a reaction video of the Undertaker and Mankind their health hell in the cell match together oh no i hadn't seen it but i remember watching it live in pappy's living room when i was dude you know 15 or whatever that came out it was so great he talks about it like they're they're both like oh here we go man they had never i don't think they'd ever watched it together and they're talking about it

and he's saying how like a lot of that they didn't't really have planned. They just went for it, you know? And then he's saying like, that was like the first match in North America where they like brought out thumbtacks. You know, he's giving him the chokeslam through the thumbtacks. And they said they get done with the match and Undertaker or Mick Foley goes up to Undertaker

and he goes, oh man, I wish we got to do the thumbtacks. He's like, dude, I slammed him through the thumbtacks like three times. That is awesome. I love that got to do the thumbtacks. He's like, dude, I slammed him three times. I loved it when he was in the corner and his tooth was in his nose. And he said, the first time I watched it, I was so embarrassed. I thought I had a big booger

hanging out. And then I realized it was my tooth. It was fucking awesome, man. He's fucking great. That was one of the best matches ever in the history of wrestling. Still, you watch that to this day, and it doesn't seem real. It doesn't seem possible. I remember when he's coming back off the stretcher.

I'm like, what the fuck? This is not wrestling. This is real. This is not fake. It's real to me, damn it. I mean, if you think wrestling's fake, watch that match. Yeah. No, they said he was supposed to slam him on top of the cage like six times

before we're supposed to break, and it broke after one slam like they had no idea what was gonna happen no that was that was awesome i remember watching that uh yeah live in pappy's living room with a bunch of idiots um yeah i watch all those pappy had a he had this mysterious box you know and uh we got to watch a lot of those channels yeah yeah then we had the spice channel the playboy channel yeah spice little skin a man mentally challenged guy took our controls we lost our controls one day and uh we couldn't find him and we were over at his house and i said hey those are our controls well he thought if he took our controls he could get the there's our controls oh shit man what a great time to be alive that man that was awesome

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There was probably we're about to run out of minutes here anyway. So we're just going to say our pleasantries to wrap that up anyways. Well, also, well, we'll pretend to be like, oh, well at the arnold then yep we'll see you there okay bye oh yeah yeah there it is you finished the whole thing up for us there we go yeah there that's it uh i'll also mention supporting our supporting members while we're thinking here just see if it comes back on uh This is a relatively new segment of the podcast where we give back to the people that give to us. They give to us in the way of supporting membership. You can sign up too. We'd love to have you join. Go to massanomics.com slash join. That's where you can find out more about our different supporting membership options.

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for free. We do free mailings to the crew and everyone that's a supporting member at that point in time will get in on it. So if you are thinking about signing up, now would be the time, so you make sure to get in on that. There will be a line on the sand eventually where people no longer can get in after it, so make sure to get signed up. And then each week we give back to a few of them.

So number one on my list this week is Big Carp. He was the guest on Unpaid and Underrated, and that's who we stole the Mount Rushmore segment from. So Big Carp was the inspiration of the Mount Rushmore segment and who better to be the Mount Rushmore segment guys than the Massanomics podcast guys from South Dakota. So

of course that's us. And then just to shout out a couple other people that were recent joiners to the crew. Thank you to Big Brian, Large Colton, Enormous Luke, Giant Jason, Big Anthony, Big Daniel, Big Ike, Big Ron, and Big Dalton all joining up here recently.

So thank you to all of our supporting members. Tell a friend. Grow that number. Yes, yes, please. to all of our supporting members. Tell a friend. Grow that number. Yes. Yes. Please. Well, he's not coming in. I don't think so. I think we've lost him.

That's fine. We'll pour one out for him. Yeah. We'll pour old style. Old Milwaukee is what ended up reverting. What was the other kind, though? Old style? I got to see this. Is that?

It reminds me of, like, 40s, maybe. Did 40s come in? Yeah, it looks a lot like the old Milwaukee. I think that's why I'm getting mixed up. If you Google it, it just has kind of that shield logo, which old Milwaukee, I think, does the same thing. Maybe not. Half of them have that, really. They kind of sort of do, but, yeah, I don't think I've ever the same thing. Maybe not. Half of them have that really.

They kind of sort of do. But yeah, I don't think I've ever had an old style though. I have not. I think it's safe to say I've not. Have you ever had an old Milwaukee? That I have. It's not something I would purposely get. A couple is all.

Ever had a Schlitz? TBR is... I don't think so. I don't think I have either. That one's actually kind of hard to find. Yeah, I don't think I've actually had that. I've seen it being drunk before, but I've never personally had it. Yeah.

The follow-up on books, someone said... You know, my initial thought is like how could you ever read that many but as we talk about it more and more that's part of how is like she literally like by the math can read them probably five times faster than i can right okay so okay so yes and i had follow-up questions so my one follow-up question was okay does she do the majority of the reading on on the kindle Is that what she's typically reading on? No, a majority of the reading she does on her phone. See, that is insane to me.

That is actually insane to me. Because I was going to ask, okay, if it's on the Kindle then, is she doing anything to make the font bigger and she reads faster that way? But phone, you just have so little room to do anything. Yeah, it's on her phone. And the other thing too which makes it possible and i probably talked about this last time we did it but i haven't seen my wife watch anything on a tv show or movie people don't know this but your your wife is amish

so she's not allowed to do those things like i I, over the course of, just say the last year, for example, I've maybe gotten her to watch like two movies with me. Like over the last year, in the last year, I wouldn't be surprised. Like what's not an over-exaggeration? Like in a month? Well, I'm kind of a movie. I'm guessing she's, that doesn't sound crazy to me.

Well, I'm guessing she's what, between television and movies over in the last calendar year, watched like 15 to 20 hours of television. That's pretty crazy. Right. And does she, and does she spend, you know,

we're, we're, we're got massonomic stuff going on. So we consume a fair amount of social media. Is she consuming much social media? No, you know, we're, we're got massonomic stuff going on. So we consume a fair amount of social media. Is she consuming much social media? No. I mean, she, she has, she has like tick tock to look at sometimes or like Instagram reels. She'll look at, you know, she's not active on any social media in any way.

Less than a half hour a day of social media. Right. Yeah. Like she'll not even open that stuff quite a bit and also like she a lot of she reads when she's in bed a lot like when she's like like so she'll spend like like the whole time we've been doing this she's probably been reading yeah you know that's what i kind of wish i could do that it's just i'm so tired by the end of the day i just fall asleep i can't even movies i can't even like watch movies at the end of the day because i fall asleep no and i want i have every intention of watching them and i can't i can't read or watch movies or even watch youtube on my phone all of it the only

thing i can really do is youtube because the videos are typically short enough that you're not or there's just enough yeah changing of what's going on that that's what i always figure that they're oh it's like oh there's a 10 minute video and i'll be like two minutes in like i'll be fairly alert at the start of it and like by like minute three i'm like well i must i'm sleeping i always like that's a that's like a trick well you've you've said firsthand that you get surprised how fast i can fall asleep oh you're the you have a's a superpower. It is almost like a power that sometimes I surprise myself with like this past weekend. I'm like, okay. Uh, we had like, it was like Saturday night. Everyone was going to bed for the night. I'm like, you know what?

It's nine 30. I'm the only one up. Let's do a little car YouTube. And I started up and there's like a 50 minute documentary on a certain car. I'm like, I think I could actually get through like half of this. Like I can watch 25 minutes of this. And all of a sudden I open my eyes and the documentary is 40 minutes in. I'm like, where did I even fall? I don't even know when I fell asleep. So then it's the fun game of like rewinding, like where, how far did I actually make it into this? I made it like six minutes in and then I woke up at the 45 minute mark. So. Yeah. So do you like go back to rewatch that that so in that case I'm like well I'm just gonna figure out where I'm at and then once I figured out where I was at

I kind of got hooked in again then and I had a little power nap so then I felt refreshed so then I ended up watching about 20 minutes but I did still have to call it quits yeah I've been looking uh maybe someone out there can refer me because I've uh to find and I've Googled and found or just like searched and found some I want a podcast that's like pretty specific to like C10 trucks and there's a bunch of them but I want a good recommendation because I found like just the first one I found and I started listening to it, and I'm like, I actually had this really funny revelation that I'm like, oh, my God, this is what happens when people stumble upon our podcast, and we've been doing this for, like, 80 years.

And they're like, what the fuck is this? Where do I jump in at? Because they're, like, talking, like, this was, I found an episode from, like, 2020, because I really liked the title of it. And they were talking about how they're six years in and like going on all this stuff. And I'm like, Oh my God, I just want to hear about like the content, damn it. Timestamps you said, right? But I'm like, I swear to God, this was like the mass economics podcast of C10 trucks.

And I looked and I'm'm like how popular is this and it has like a thousand like a couple thousand reviews and you know it's like definitely a very popular podcast and i'm like oh yeah this is exactly what people feel like falling into an alternate universe all of a sudden it's like the whole start tyler and tony And they live in North Dakota. Yes. Yes. So if someone knows of like a good, but I don't,

you know, there's also different genres because some could be very mechanic heavy and some could be like, you know, I can't. So yeah, the, the automobile auto you to our, I guess I should just say car world was like the last hobby that I kind of

came into blindly. And that was one thing that I've noticed is, okay, do you want someone that's talking about the engineering side of things? Do you want someone that's just talking about that? Yeah. That's what I was thinking. Do you want,

yeah. Do you want the person that's going engineering specific? Do you want the person that's just talking about having fun, you know, driving your car around? Do you want someone that's like giving the history lesson of how the designers came to this and made it and everything like there's each there's channels that do a little bit of all of it there's channels that go really hard into one of those and don't touch the other ones and you got and then there's also of those channels there's also people that

take a more serious approach to the engineering side. And there's people that do a funny approach to the engineering side. And there's, so you got to find like the brand that whoever's brand speaks to you. And it can take honestly years to find that. And that's what, and like this one really was the massonomics version of that, where I like, they're just,

or maybe like a little surface level of all of it, you know? And I'm like, well, like a little surface level of all of it, you know? And I'm like, well, cause what I really want is almost like the at home mechanic podcast. Oh, but, but not of all vehicles. I want it specific to like, it's as specific to my, you know,

I want like the at home mechanic of C10 pickups, especially 67 to 72, but like, you can only narrow it down so far yeah before they run out of content right right right so but that if anyone has any any good recommendations it's almost like uh car talk only i want it about these pickups and that is funny you say car talk. Out of all of the stuff, I still have never really listened. I've maybe listened to an hour of car talk in my entire life. Yeah. I think it's pretty, I mean, obviously it's good in the way that the proof is in the pudding.

Yeah. Had to be around that long. Right. And I actually, so then my overall takeaway is I got overwhelmed and I just kind of backed out of all of it and I'm like yeah I don't need a new podcast genre I guess I can't yeah yeah you know I was just like I how deep do I need to go in this rabbit hole to either find out there's there's even more I want or that I hit a dead end you know do I invest 20 hours to find out this was the right path or the wrong path right right yeah yeah that and I just that's probably what happens like to half the people

that stumble upon the massomics podcast isn't it but they're like i can't how hard do i can't sort out what's going like what there's all like where you're just like there's so much going on here i could never figure out what's going on i don't have the time to get caught up on any of this 400 let me just find a podcast that's just starting. It'll be easier for everyone. That's kind of what I, and that's actually what happened to me. But then I'm, that's not a very good advertisement for massonomics then,

because if you're coming in new, you're like overwhelmed with it. And you're just like, yeah, I just will stay out of it. We need to start over. Here we go. Starting a new brand.

Well, cause then it too, I'm like, I don't want to, then what do I do'm like i don't want to then what do i do because i don't want to go back to the beginning and listen like 2014 of like oh well but the current event i guess by that same logical i've done this with people where i find if i'm going to say on the car on the car genre of people that i know from either seeing their name brought up or just seeing see hearing other people talk brought up or just seeing, see, hearing other

people talk about them or just always seeing them come up in search results that they are clearly one of the big names in the space. You go look, they have a thousand plus videos. And then what you do is you do the thing that I hope people do for us is they click on the ones that they understand the names that stick out to them. And they're like, okay, I want to see your version of this review or this person's interview. And you're like, okay, I want to see your version of this review or this person's interview. And you're like, okay, I've watched a few of those. I get what you're doing. Now I'll start to like spread out into things that I don't care as much about

because I'm just interested in your flavor of how you do it. I mean, that's the dream is that something like that happens. Yeah, yeah. That's what hopefully happens with mass economics. I mean, there are people. People tell us like there are people that do that. You know, they get that in through whoever it is. And then they say, I'll do a little more digging.

And next thing you know, you're in a discord. It's always a funny feeling. Well, it's always a funny feeling to me, though, that there's like someone out there. This episode is probably the first episode that they're listening to. Oh, Huffman Barbell. I love that guy. And I've never heard of Masonomics. That really feels like a stretch. Oh, Huffman Barbell? I love that guy, and I've never heard of Masonomics. That really feels like a stretch.

Oh, Huffman Barbell? Okay, he's talking to these Masonomics guys again. All right, I'd better at least give them some due this time. Right, right, right. Okay, here we go. Yeah. All right. All right.

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That'll save you 15%. Thank you, SwissLink. Any big New Year's resolutions this year tommy i was going to ask you that first i guess my first new year's resolution would be to uh figure out what my favorite song of all time is that is one of the hardest questions that anyone that's a tough question i've i it's hard to say a song yeah Yeah. A song because to me, a movie is also a hard question to answer. I just don't have strong, really super strong opinions on like a one. That's I, I struggle with if you tell me to do favorites a lot.

I clearly you can listen to that. I struggle with favorites. I'm just going to give you things that are in my top favorites. But the song one is especially hard for me because songs are so mood dependent that there's a lot that like oh i love this song but there's certain times where i'm like i don't know this doesn't really do it like i was so into just partying music forever and it's like yes this is great but there's a lot of times where i like don't want to listen well you wouldn't maybe say that's your favorite all-time song and that's what it's like well but also like these are like more kind oftime song. Yeah, and that's what it's like. But also, these are more kind of superficial,

just amp-up songs. It's not doing anything deep and meaningful, but doesn't need to do that. Right. And then it's like, well, but also, my favorite song, if I'm going to go with something deep and meaningful, like, I don't know.

When I think favorite song, I'm thinking that's maybe the only song I'll get to listen to ever if we're going to put constraints on it. Would that want to be the only song I ever want to listen to? I don't think I'd want to pick that one either. So that's where that gets really,

really tough for me as I hyperanalyze overanalyze it. Um, yep. But new year's resolutions, that was the original question. No, I don't really have one. Uh,

I guess my, the biggest routine I have at new year's now is we have a couple of businesses. I always enjoy doing the year in review for the actual numbers of the business. Yep. Seeing how that works out. Usually we have a, I mean, there's no surprises, but usually once you do a little deeper dive for the whole year, you see some trends that maybe you weren't aware of as they were happening and it solidifies things that actually didn't happen. Like you have things in actual numbers. So I always enjoyed doing that.

But that's not really a resolution. That's just maybe more planning. I had to say, I guess I don't actually, I don't do resolutions. I think we're probably both on record for many years of saying that. I don't do that. But if you were to say like,

Oh, am I going to try and do something different in the coming year? Not really. Not really. Probably the biggest shift is just now having two kids and now that they're both pretty soon, you know, my son's three, my daughter's like almost one and a half

and she's starting to kind of say words. And so like things are going to change a ton in 2024 when she actually just starts straight up talking with us. And so then it's like, oh, damn, I got two kids here that are both talking and conscious and aware of what's going on. Like when they're not babies. Yeah, like we don't have like a little tiny kid and then a baby that's just like there.

Like we have like two kids now uh that's gonna be uh a big change and i'm looking forward to it but yeah that's kind of it for my my 2024 what about you tanner you know resolutions i don't i just when i want to start doing something i would never wait for the new year you know it's like i know that's when i strike when the iron this yeah right like i'd so i so i would never have one because i never i'm not i don't hold on to any good uh things i want to start implementing then i'm like okay i'm gonna keep this into my back pocket for the last nine months oh man it's gonna be good good, though. Because, I mean, like, my things that changed were, like, having another child. And then over 2023, at the end of it now, I'm, like, we've certainly talked more than enough about is, like, being a little bit more of a mechanic guy.

So I'm wanting to learn more, you know, expand my knowledge so I can do more stuff and uh which i already have a lot but i'd like to just take that you know five more levels deep you're gonna open western northeast south dakota customs where you're like adding all types of crazy shit to people's trucks up they didn't ask for that definitely would not be the progression there like i heard you like grilling we added this griller to your C10 truck, baby. We added this big green egg attachment to your C10 truck. We heard you like eating eight eggs every morning. So we got a frying pan with bacon. Hey, we put this chicken coop in your truck.

Now you have 50 chickens with you at all times. Oh, thanks, man. I guess. That show, Pimp My Ride, is soimp my ride is so stupid yeah like the vehicles they made were so stupid they were terrible yeah they were the worst but that was a really popular show i think it was like just the first time that people were trying the concept of just out there reality shows and it was just so out there the concept was so crazy that people like well what the and the guys clearly building it clearly had skills you know so like oh if you take skills it was almost like a nathan for you

concept like take something and then just do it the wrong way and that's what you get you know what would be a hilarious instagram account if it was pimp my ride where are they now and it just documented any all these vehicles what what they look like now because i bet they're all trash yeah there's several like they're all in pieces like none of that stuff was like yes there has to be i've seen there's several youtube videos that talks about like what was going on with all that i've never actually taken the time to watch them because i didn't care enough but there's been several people that yes have gone down the rabbit hole what the hell was going on with all of that yeah but i just picture the the you know none of that was built with a long-term craftsmanship approach.

Like it all probably within the next six months was all like, Oh great. My 12 inch flat screen is like fell down and like, you put a fish tank in my car? Kind of sucks, man. Yeah. Like it stinks.

It's dirty. Uh, it's splashed everywhere. I couldn't take care of my car and I gotta take care of fish. Yes. dirty uh it splashed everywhere i couldn't take all the electricals ruined fish yes uh all those shows were popular yes they were if i had to think though i just this came to mind if i had to think of a dumb really if you said you had to say you had a new year's resolution it would be yeah to watch more movies that's that's uh just a dumb goal that i kind of got started on a couple weeks ago but i could see i could see myself actually sticking that one through so i'm gonna see if i can watch

a few more movies this year i would definitely like to read more but that's not i'm not gonna make that a thing because it's not even realistic i know this i have next year's not gonna be my year to uh read more like i just you know what now that i have a less than one year old now yes yes so like that's not gonna happen so i'm not even i don't want i also don't want to lie to myself and tell myself i'm gonna do things that uh yeah i if i i'm i would like to in 2024 to read like get like three books read i'd be pretty happy about that you know don't need to do 500 i want to do like three and i would feel i'd be like all right i got Don't need to do 500. I want to do like three. And I would be like, all right, I got through a few here. That's one every few months.

That's making progress. That's reading some pages. That's it. Should we wrap this biatch up? I think we better bring her on home. And the twins. Twins. Tommy, where do they find you at?

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