Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 434: Our Biggest Meet Ever Full 2024 Recap

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

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If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! Well, well, well. Hello, everyone. We're here for a very special episode 434 of the Massanomics podcast. Of course, it is the Lift Hard, Live Easy Classic Part 2 Hangover episode, where we're all hungover from the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic. That four-day hangover. Yeah, we crawled out of it. We lived to see the other side,

and now we're going to live to tell the tale. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy. Do you still, even after the weekend like this, do you still like quarterbacks eating dirt? I still do. Have your thoughts changed at all? We're just one week closer to them eating dirt.

Just around the corner here. Thank God, huh? Yeah, when does football season start? Is it end of August, first week of September? Yeah, I think it's like 10 and a half months long now. I know. Pretty soon it will just be a full year cycle. Yeah, yes. I know. It's just pretty soon it will just be a full year cycle. Yeah.

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And they did have their booth there this weekend, so we'll touch more on that as we go through this week's episode. I was pretty sad. I picked up a package of 8020 from them. Very happy to have that back in my possession and a dumb call on my part for some reason i believe i set it at the booth when my when my duffel bag was probably 30 feet away i could have just walked over and set it there no idea why i did that and it got lost in the commotion so you know the first thing i did when i got home was order another bag of 80 20 i about need to order a bag because i'm down to one flavor and i like to have a match yeah i like

to have uh i like to have two flavors so i can i never i never said this story now that i've been on the 80 20 train for a while it's been so long since i've taken protein powder i'm not lying like years just i'm just do not remember to take the stuff. I'm so bad at it. And so now they've been on the 80, 20 kick for a little bit. I've been super consistent with it and I like it, but what I was doing at first is cause it's been so long, I don't even have any shaker cups. So I was just pouring it in a cup with water and using a fork to mix it up. And let me tell you, even at its very best mixing it is incredibly poorly mixed and it was one day probably two weeks ago i got a shaker cup and it was actually mind-blowing how well that

that mixed it up compared to a fork oh yeah we uh big mini says that he saw the bag sitting there at our table so i'm guessing he stole it damn it just by the looks of that guy i guessing he stole it. Damn it, Big Mini. Just by the looks of that guy, I bet he stole it, honestly. I've seen that guy in action before. And he didn't have anything going on this weekend. He had nothing but time to start taking things that he had his eye on. So I would watch that guy. And he's really nimble and sneaky, too. You can barely spot that guy moving around.

He's slinking around. You just can't can't keep you just can't pin him down all right this episode is also brought to you by barefoot shoes and i'm holding something here tanner this is the low top canvas black ursus with the gum sole and i freaking love this shoe i know all about that shoe because I've got a pair, too, that I've been wearing every single day since the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic. This is, I believe for you, too, this is our first pair of low tops from them, isn't it? Yep.

Man, this is, I still do like wearing the high tops in the gym, but this is the shoe right here. This thing is freaking amazing. I love it. I've been wearing it. I normally wear the bruin yeah to work oh yeah yeah because it kind of fits it fits the vibe and the aesthetic of my office and uh but i've been wearing books and everything yeah yeah i've been wearing uh wearing

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hearing the sales pitch now and saying i gotta get on that action i did have to go up a half size something to little fyi and i didn't and i did not for this so if that helps you any i wore the exact same size so 50 50 there i feel i feel like my uh these ones feel slightly larger than my uh same size canvas ones oh Oh, really? Yeah. You mean suede ones? Yeah, these ones feel even more roomy to me. If that helps anyone make their decision. Yeah, we just made it really complicated for everyone. It's like the crew

talking about shirt sizing, what they like and prefer. It's like, ah, yes. Everyone has a different opinion don't they they sure do yeah yeah ah wow wow wow wow wow wow if i had one work one word to describe this weekend i would say wow i actually i just sat down here before we started podcasting it just dawned on me i have not even done a meat recap post on Instagram, like showing my lifts. That's just how I just catch up.

My brain is still playing here. Yep. So basically, wow, is what I hear you saying. That is what I'm saying. Wow. Big, big wow. Big wow. Big wow.

It was a really nice weekend. Yes, it was. If we were to simplify this, we're going to say it was nice. People say nice. Like, if you're talking about, like, a good football player, you're like, oh, yeah, he's nice. No, that's, like, something people say now. Like, oh, yeah, he's nice. I'm like, wow, I'm glad nice is now a word that, like, it's like something people say now like oh yeah he's nice i'm like wow i'm glad nice is

now a word that like like it's like a cool it's like cool to call someone nice yeah it still seems kind of weird but yes that's a thing though you like if you when i like the nba stuff i keep up on he's like oh yeah that player's nice that seems like the stupidest thing that i've ever heard the way people are using it all goes for full circle right it does go full circle it really does it's like we ran out of other words we're just we're just back to nice back to the beginning but it means more than just nice used better than it was the first time yeah uh so what's uh should we give the full run are we going to give the rundown i think so there's going to be this might be a bridge a little bit because we do

have i don't want to totally spoil the surprise but we do have like a 30 minute recap youtube video coming out should be tomorrow should be tomorrow uh which it is already out as this comes out as if actually yeah sorry yes it is already out it's just as you can imagine when you have a 30 minute video that means you're watching a ton of footage to get it down to that and thankfully for us uh you know competing on meat day like i got enough going on i didn't film like anything at the at the od at the arena but grant had us covered uh and he had a ton of footage that i had to go through too so it was just a lot of footage to go to go through but uh the edit man when i was going back through it you just forget there's so many things that happen you forget about so much of it and the number of

times where i was laughing out loud just seeing clips it's it's good so make sure you go and make sure you go and watch that video so of that video we also will have a full meat recap video from the two of us to where we go into our meat day deep competing like in detail in detail so we'll probably you know we'll talk about that tonight also but like some of that will be covered compared to what you'll see there too yeah so there'll be more detail on this in YouTube format in some of this. And then there also should probably be an additional highlight video. Yeah, actually, there probably will be. So, yeah, there's a good chance there will be three more videos coming.

Right. So everyone's going to get the full Monty on. Again and again and again. But for me, the weekend started driving to aberdeen we got there on wednesday oh yeah i was like actually i actually lost track of my days already yes i left wednesday morning got there wednesday afternoon and was the first thing we did did we go film the uh welcome to aberdeen video yeah we filmed the welcome to aberdeen video that then came out on Thursday.

So that, as of right now, is the most recent YouTube video outside of the podcast that we've posted is the Welcome to Aberdeen. And we did try to mix that up a little bit from last year. We did mostly different spots and did some new things and similar format, similar vibe. But yeah, similar vibe, but just but mixed it up a little bit to make it its own thing, think for 2024 yep and that was a fun that was a fun video fun that's pretty uh low effort for the most part we just show up and we're like what are we gonna say i don't know point the camera at me and you spit something out it tends to work pretty good uh so we take very few takes on mostly all of those usually on average like one or 1.1 because occasionally we have to we'll say something like oh i should have said that actually let me redo that yeah that's about it uh so that was actually that was basically our wednesday right we didn't really do anything else on wednesday did we

we um we unloaded the booth stuff oh that was god it wasn't wednesday okay yeah so we did a little bit of the booth setup then didn't we we? We actually set up the booth almost completely. Was it the whole thing? Almost completely. Besides the tables? Yeah. So I already had the trailer completely loaded of all the booth stuff, and we took that there, and we set up a lot of the booth on Wednesday.

Which is a good move, getting that done early, made life just one less thing to worry about. And, I mean, we can set up the booth pretty fast now. It's our brains for the most part but it still is only so i mean yes it's like when i say kind of fast i mean like i don't know what did it take an hour and a half maybe two hours uh and you don't have we don't have to think very hard about it you know we're kind of an autopilot it's just not a big mental little tedious things just getting right the backdrop set up and putting all the shirts on hangers and putting everything on the shelves and uh but no surprises there that went smooth

and that really was it about for wednesday then wasn't it yeah i think that was okay so then we hopped we didn't like go out like for a wednesday evening thing or anything like that right we did not but it was fairly it was not early i don't think think, by the time we got done. No, I think I went to my buddy's house where I was staying. I don't think I got there until like 7 o'clock that night or something, 6.30. And Wednesday before you got here, I was prepping my yard. I was like doing the last mow and starting to get tables and chairs, like not out, but like get things down and ready and moved in and so that way on friday it could be ready yeah so it was actually like it i basically spent like 14 hours that day working on that

like that might be a conservative estimate yeah it sort of did end up being a full day but yeah i mean as far as some of the other craziness uh it was a relatively low-key day in the scheme of some of the things. Thursday, though, was the first official day of, like, really, really moving stuff, wasn't it? Yeah. So Thursday, that's when we knew Dave was coming to start unloading his stuff. And Jake was going to be there to start helping move. And so Thursday morning, I can't even remember. What did we do?

We went to the, we went to the ODI early at like seven 30 or eight or something like that to let Dave in and to, uh, Dave was already there. He had just pulled in before me when I got there. Yep. So yeah, we got there right away. We just kind of, I mean, just talked through a couple of things with them really quick, but it was, it was mostly he

backed in and it was like they were they were unloaded right away yeah he was there there's a few helpers that showed up and then yeah by 9 a.m we that's when we were meeting people at the gym to start on to start unloading the gym equipment onto a flatbed trailer and uh it was it was us two and at first was there two it was megan and was anthony helping right away yeah yeah so there's four of us but there was a lot of strength co plates and a lot of calibrated plates that had to go up those stairs which that was i was i was a little nervous because uh not like i can't handle it but you just get worried meat week moving all that stuff like am i gonna put some extra fatigue in my hands my grip whatever it's a lot of stuff well it's a lot of trips because how many pairs of 45s was it 30 30 pairs of 45s and then the full

kilo set which is 450 kilogram kilo set and uh 12 barbells that we the i would just say generally speaking the setup we had this year going to the two platform and also the addition of strongman this is obviously kind of intuitive but there was so much more equipment to move than last year when we had we didn't move barely anything last year i mean what what was it some bars still took 30 30 pairs of 45s and yeah because we still i still outfitted three racks in the warm-up room so i still did move 30 pairs of 45s and all the change plates that go along with it and but half as many bars and then no kilo plates last year yeah and and none of these strongman take apart the ghost combo rack and take that both years yeah the the strongman stuff was an entire second car trailer load because that was

we got done so the first load was we tried to get all the power lifting stuff which like you said was all the weights uh the bars the uh combo rack and like we got done with that i'm like that was we got to the we got to the arena we unloaded it it that. I'm like, that was, or we got to the, we got to the arena. We unloaded it. It was like, Oh, you know what? That was quite a bit of work.

I'm glad that's done. It's like, well, but it's actually really only half done. Cause then we went to go with the strong man stuff. And which is the shield sandbags, multiple sandbags for warming up. The Atlas stones is the big one,

but then it's also like a ton of crash pads yeah the crash pads weren't too it's those Atlas stones up and down the stairs are just tedious because we have this net system where each person takes a corner I can't remember who said it's like we're moving the Ark of the Covenant and that's what it was we all have a corner with a stone in the middle and it's not overly

heavy but it's just kind of annoying and you're going upstairs yeah that took a long time. It sucks. It does. Really, like it does. It sucks. And you pretty much need four people to do that job, too.

And luckily, I mean, we had four with two. Yeah. I've done it with just two people before, but it sucks. Yeah. I would not want to be part of that with two people. No, it sucks. And I mean, I was tired by the time we got oh i was so this is where my anxiety was ramping up a little bit because juggernaut wants you to do for me at least a you know a

really light lift on wednesday and friday and i had to scratch both of those because i'm like i've been on my feet moving non-stop carrying this stuff i'm so sweaty. I'm so tired. I'm not actually sure. All I'm going to do is get under the weight and think this feels so heavy that I think mentally it would have been a lose. And so I like, I had to scratch those, but also that wasn't the best feeling either. Yeah.

That moving that equipment's way more intense of a workout than a little bit of a workout that that has, especially when you've been doing a peak where you're like basically hitting singles and doubles for the last couple weeks uh yeah i mean that was that was a lot of a lot of volume you could say all that moving around so then the whole time dave is setting up the whole time while we're doing this he's getting his setup going so then we come and then we're just setting up basically all day yeah yeah i mean we can't even us it's funny now you say that essentially all day now once we brought that stuff back like what happened like what did we even do i don't even remember now just setting stuff up because then we moved

the booth and we had to finish shutting up our booth and you know because we moved the booth in closer and then we still had to do all the tables and finish. Oh, yeah, tables and chairs. Putting the warm-up room together and the tables and chairs. And it took all day, basically, until we did have a little bit of time before pounders. There was a couple hours, I think, in there where we took a break before the evening pounder session. I do remember going back and just laying down for about an hour and a half just on the floor feeling dead. Yeah, and then I messaged you at one point or you messaged me or something.

I was like, oh, when do you think about going? And it was maybe like 6 or 6.30 that we ended up heading to Pounders. And my God, last year, the picture of us at Pounders, there was like 12 people around a table. And this year, the entire bar was packed with Mastodonics people. You couldn't get a picture because it was the entire restaurant. Like, it actually was. I think that there was five tables in the whole restaurant that weren't us. It was all Mastodonics people, which is great.

And it was fun. And I would also mention these are all paying customers, jolly people that are all having fun. I don't think i saw a single person like complain about anything i mean the food could have taken two hours no one would have said a thing the wait staff some of them were so ornery i don't know why they were so stressed i i'm assuming they were stressed because it was just a big crowd but i i tried to they were trying to break it down for me and i i basically said like yeah we don't care do whatever you guys got to do we do not care how you split us up what you do with tickets any of that stuff just do your thing we're going to be sitting here having fun it does not matter and big mini head

said guess you don't need to work out today that is the joke that people were kept saying george said it in the video i forgot it was so funny yeah big george green he actually got there early enough on thursday that he helped us yeah we got to the strongman by the time we got to the strongman portion we had lost anthony and megan but we had gained george and uh jake and big george brought my last set of york roundhead dumbbells that um it was the 85s that I needed to complete my set. And that was kind of the handoff pair that had gotten passed from a couple of couple of people. It was big Hogan at home. Jim con.

Yes. And I had forgot about this till I watched the video, but there was a little bonus treat in there as well. Yes. Yes. There's a special, well, this will surface.

I think we'll do a whole separate video on the dumbbells at some point in time. So we'll talk about that more of that, that more of that then but george did bring a cool surprise that i think maybe came from hogan at some point yes and for everyone that is what was worried yes the york dumbbell set is now complete so everyone can can relax there yes yes and nobody stole anything from this weekend i've done a full inventory of everything pretty good do don't think anybody even to accidentally take something keith didn't try and walk out with any

of my nine pound uh your crown heads like is that what he's missing or did he just take him no i he just knows that they're the just the hot ticket item that someone might want the nine so um but the the pounders get together was a blast yes it. Yes, it was. You know, that was really fun. And there are so many new crew members here this year. You know, there's a lot of returns from last year, but so many new ones too. So it's like getting to meet a lot of these people for the first time ever in person on Thursday night.

And for people, like, there was over 50 of us there, right? There might have been over 60. Oh, I think easily. Yeah, there might have was over 50 of us there right was there there might have been over oh i think easily yeah there might have been over 60 of us like so that's yeah we are in this bar with over 60 of us in there um i mean the whole bar was mass dynamics people eventually yes yes it was it was all us and everyone got by the time everyone was done with their food then it just turned into all right let's just stand up and stand around all the tables and you know plug this whole place up and block it all so yeah we uh and that's part of their frustration i think because that particular bar is not normally a bar like that right it's a place where you usually go and because everyone's sitting at a table separate from like there aren't people up and like it's not

a real social communal bar like that as we have bars like that that are like that in town a little bit more like a restaurant though or right but i don't know everyone was it's thursday night it's still odd to be that there's nothing right exactly i mean i feel like this is what you'd want like they would have got way more tips than usual people were putting down drinks too so right right but yeah we were there for over three hours maybe four hours even and it was a ton of fun that was the first chance to really catch up with everyone and like you were saying meet a lot of people that we hadn't met before uh yeah it was just like make it was kind of like you're going to college you're just making the rounds like oh are we friends like do we know each other yes that is like people would walk in and be like i think i know who that guy is i think you know i

think that was that or like okay i don't recognize you tell me who you are and you do the whole thing all right let's start with the real name no well actually we recognize most real names because we see the orders come through but sometimes they'd start with the discord name or the instagram name and you just got to go through enough names and eventually one sticks with right right uh so then we're back around to friday morning and at this point it's been two days of non-stop massonomics work sword to but then we're back around to friday which is weigh-ins and uh friday is kind of a day where we're running the booth like because that's when all the lifters uh come in and they kind of get

first first shot at everything that uh we've got you know and we're handing out everyone's meat teas and stuff like that. So it's kind of a booth running day. Yeah, they're not busy with the meat like they can. Right. I mean, it sort of is. Well, people are, you know, getting their rack heights and all that. But as soon as the weigh-in and rack heights are done, it just turns into just a hangout for, I mean, how many other people.

Everything all weekend kind of is a hangout too. Yes, how many other people would you go to a meet where there's a, let's say, what was it, a two-hour wait? No, you would just go weigh in and leave. Everyone else is like, I cannot wait to get out of this line and get out of here. And here it's like, nope, I'm done in the line and now I'm going to sit here for two more hours and just shoot the shit. And that's what everyone does. Yes, it is what everyone does.

But it was fun and we had some new stuff that, you know, we had the meat teas and the silly pints and the meat hat, and then we dropped our squat shorts. So we had some interesting stuff that people were getting to check out for the first time. And we did morning weigh-ins, and then there's afternoon weigh-ins. Afternoon weigh-ins was more of the same, a little smaller, like always. But there were some people that had had some flight issues, and so they were getting in the afternoon.

So it was the same thing, getting to catch up with some people that we hadn't seen yet. And I do got to say really quick, this is my first meet with a 24-hour weigh-in. And man, is it nice not having to mess with rack heights and weigh-ins the morning of a meet. God, there's enough going on already to have to do rack heights, weigh-ins, rules meeting, all of that before even, it feels like you've done a day worth of stuff

and you haven't even got to the lifting part. So it's so nice getting that out of the way. Did you see what Alex just, big Alex, jumped in the Discord? He just busted me on something here. Yes, he did. The lighting, Tanner's lighting is all off. Tanner not only left the overhead light on but no one even called him out on it and he doesn't have his desk lights on either i can't believe it right now

yep he's still messing with him still well now i'm just like completely you are in the dark i did not proceed with the correct order of operations there. There it is. Okay. How's that one? That is better. Just when I think I got the lighting figured out, we go back to our same old tricks. I guess Ryan called it 20 minutes ago,

but also I was in the wrong thread for the first 15 minutes of this, so I was slipping too. Fixed it. Only 27 minutes into the podcast and we got the lighting sorted out. I hope that looks better for everyone that's been watching her along on her YouTube channel. So then what? Friday, right as soon as the evening weigh-ins are done, then it goes to the Massanomics pre-meet party at my house of course where of course where i invite over a couple hundred of my closest friends to my backyard for a little uh uh grill out evening basically uh-huh it started

at i think the official start date was listed at 6 30 i'm sure people got there much earlier i didn't get there till about 7 there's quite quite a few people there before i got there after six i mean there was already putting out the vibe 70 people there before i got there like a little after six i mean there was already putting out the vibe 70 people when when i got there by 6 30 yeah and i got there late and by the time i got there i mean there was a ton of people there so it was yeah it was raging and we had uh pork sandwiches and pizza and a lot of the food got eaten we did have enough food which i didn't know how that was going to play out but there was enough there was some leftover pork most of the pizza got finished and there was i had a lot of beer and stuff like that i guess i had too much because there was

leftovers of that i saw that yeah there wasn't uh enough people just getting blackout drunk the night before the meet i guess no i mean people were definitely hanging out drinking and people did do a lot of a lot of people did bring their own coolers too so that's what that's what they're you know people and that's what people do it's a lot of times people bring their own stuff and also like historically massonomics drinking a crispy boy it's kind of a. So then everyone wants to bring everyone like have something to bring. Oh, some special show to the party to commemorate the occasion, whether that's right. Some sparkling water or some goofy beer we've never heard of or bourbon or whiskey. Like everyone's just an excessive amount of beverages is kind of part of all this trading and swapping of going right.

Liquid's going on. Yeah. And then also Friday night is the fashion show slash contest sort of thing so i saw a lot of interesting unique uh massonomics articles of clothing that yeah it also helped it didn't hurt that disappoint did not hurt that your mother-in-law sewed up a bunch of fresh gear for the weekend too yeah so there's people walking around in all kinds uh where it was like five different massonomic shirts all sewn together into one shirt and

there might have been a lift evil shirt attached to it and a strength co shirt attached to it and a build fast formula and all these massonomics adjacent uh logos all tied in there's some pretty cool stuff like jen got the romper yeah the thing that she was wearing and all kinds of cool stuff. I really liked Big Mo's shirt that he was wearing, which was like a parody of the powerlifting record holder, but it was about scans. Poor man scans. Yeah, there was that.

Yeah, just a bunch of one. Oh, there was some. Ryan had some custom stickers made for the occasion too. Oh, a lot of people brought stickers. I also walked away from the weekend with a lot of stickers and custom things like that made to exchange there's a lot of new stickers up in mass dynamics gym and yeah here's here's ryan's sticker you know his uh i gave blood and also south dakota the mosquito and also i shook hands with danger South Dakota, the Mosquito. And also, I Shook Hands with Danger. That one is hilarious. Yeah.

Yes. I love that. And he had those mailed to my house last second, so those are actually sitting here waiting for him like a couple days before. Friday night also, we did the Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Big Scott Dodds as the first person to hit 15 on the Hall of Fame checklist. So he got his official Hall of Fame members only jacket. Nobody knew exactly what

that was yet. That was the unveiling right at the party. And we presented that to him. I think that that was pretty fun. I assume people got to enjoyed that. I mean, I know Scott did. We talked to him about that. He wore the jacket most of the night and it was hot. I mean, I know Scott did. We talked to him about that. He wore the jacket most of the night, and it was hot out. As far as I know, he hasn't cut the sleeves off yet, but that would be the question. Is he going to cut the sleeves off the jacket? And then we handed out the Hall of Fame cups to everyone that hit.

Yeah, the new ones. And as a part of our supporting members, this whole episode is a supporting our supporting members segment, but the people in the crew that hit 12 in the Hall of Fame were Big Jeff, Big Sam, Big Colton, Big Matthias, Big Lou, Big Grant, Big Kevin, Big Bryce, Big Paul, and Big Mo. And actually Big Ryan, Johnson, Jack, and Ginger actually hit it this weekend too. So there was a pile of people.

I think we're up to 23 as of this minute. But we'll actually see tonight if we can't up that a little more with some help from some of these guys. So we might get a few more in there even just tonight into the Hall of Fame. But Scott Dodd is officially, you can check it out at massanomics.com slash Hall of, actually massanomics.com slash HOF is the page where you can see.

You told me you're working on that. I got to see it for myself here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We got the picture with Scott even. 15 achievements. I love it. 12 achievements.

Yeah, that list is growing. Yeah, that's a grower. Impressive. Anything else about the Friday night party? Bugs? Actually, there was no mosquitoes the entire night. I mean, I didn't notice one for the first three hours. And then I don't know what the time was, but you could have said there was like a five minute window.

It was that they must have like descended from like 945 sky. Yep. It's like it got dark enough finally. And they just came out like and bad. And within just minutes, within like a couple minutes, and everyone left. I mean, no one could tolerate it. It just cleared everyone out in a hurry. Yeah, they descended or like rose from the depths of hell and like in full force.

So it was all of a sudden it was like nothing. None of the pre-spray preparatory work did anything at that point. It was like, nope, there are so many mosquitoes here. Now nothing can stop us. One other thing of note, after that happened, everyone left. We went inside with the strength co. We're friends there. And something that blew my mind,

I'd be curious to get the greater country's opinion on this, is that they were not familiar with a little midwestern delicacy called scotch a ruse or maybe even special k bars depending on uh yeah a lot of people weren't that's yeah i remember that from last year a lot of people because we had them last year so that's why we had just one pan last year and a whole bunch of the people didn't know what that was so that's why we like connor we had three pans of them this year for that reason because so many people didn't know what they were connor's from california grant rd's from california grants from south carolina you know opposite sides of the country here none of them

had had scotcheroos and i'm like okay like if you go to a gathering of people and someone's going to bring something there's like a 99.9 chance that scotcheroos will be at the gathering and connor's like well yeah we have sheet cakes like no this is not a cake these are very different things here like these are little little uh it's like a it's like a butterscotch rice crispy bar with chocolate over the top would be that is that the easiest way to describe it maybe yeah and they're way better than all those other things oh yeah they're great scotchers are like crap oh yeah those guys were just those guys were putting them down they couldn't get enough they took a ziploc bag full of them and i even said for the story because everyone knows someone

that's like makes the best ones you know everyone's got that person like oh they got it down and the ones at your house were amazing they were so good uh i remember when i had roommates one of my roommates uh his mom lived in and in the cities and she made incredible scotch roos and it was like once every six months or so you would just get this package in the mail and it was a pan of them and it would be it would be gone in like 30 minutes like it was just yeah we would just like tear into it and they'd be done because they were so damn good yeah that's the scotch roux i've got i think grant rating giving us portnoy rating on it so i think i'll need to post that just reminded me of it do you have a can over there uh i do but i set it down when i was letting the dog out so it's in the other room so i might go grab that really quick

while you're cracking oh yeah well while tommy's doing that i'll note that we do have a lot of what's in the cans to get to that uh people gave us over the weekend especially friday night but we haven't uh most both both cans are in my possession now so i still have to get uh the half of those all the tommy so that we can have those on the podcast at the same time because we do have at least a handful of beverages special beverages that crew brought but we will get to those in the upcoming weeks as soon as we get together in person i was just saying i've got a whole like at least a handful of cans yeah i saw people just kept throwing them yeah i've kind of got them all in one consolidated in one area. So next time you're here, I can give those to you.

But I've got a bubbly. I have lemon sorbet, which I don't think I've ever had before. Sounds exotic. Yeah. I'm back to the classic Waterloo lemon lime. Good as always. That's interesting that's an interesting one

does it have a sorbet flavor yeah I like it I'll give it a three and a half nothing greater though it's fair this episode of the massonomics podcast is brought to you to us to everyone by the Strength Co. The Strength Co. was obviously there this weekend.

We were just talking about Big Grant, Big D, Big Connor. They all made the trip. We had a blast with them, hanging out with them Friday night, all day Saturday, all day Saturday night. A little bit on Sunday there, too, and they all have made it. I got to even hang out with them. Oh, that was actually Sunday night. Never mind. Yep. Yep. too and they all have made i got to even hang out with them oh yeah that was actually sunday night never mind yep yep and they all have made it back safe and sound to their homelands upstates wherever they are upstates they didn't have a booth yeah they had a booth set up this

year they were selling t-shirts and they made special lift hard live easy collars for the weekend i think those are all sold out they had a few left that they were selling on their website yeah just last i saw maybe there was like two pairs but those might be completely sold out yeah there's it looks like you can get at least one for sure right now okay so check it out on their site uh lift hard live easy ball but barbell collars is what they have so you still there might just be like a couple of pairs left i don't know if there's any left by the time you get there also when you're at the strength.co uh check out their plates i mean that'd be the first thing i'd want

you to look at outside of these colors is they're made in america olympic iron barbell plates they're the best in the business the best there ever has been the best damn plates period yeah they won an award for best plates ever made at the strength.co check them out and this episode is also brought to you by texas power bars uh tanner there was a recent development here i don't know if you saw you're the most recent star of a texas power bars ad i just someone did someone post that tonight in the discord it says yeah it says uh made for elite lifters there you have it buddy caps is calling you and quite the stretch quite the stretch what thread is that in uh what was that in i don't know i just saw oh i see it now it's in yeah yeah yeah yeah three reasons why elite lifters only use Texas power bars.

There's a picture of me dead lifting. And to be fair, you got six plates on the bar here. That's looking good. 600 pounds on that one. So it's got a 600 solid ass pounds. Ben to it. Elite lifter though.

That seems like quite the stretch. You know what? I'll take intermediate to nothing higher. No, no, no. Intermediates do not put six plates on the bar, use figure eight straps, and wear warm pants.

Those are all advanced maneuvers there. Well, that's true. You know if you see someone in warm pants, you're dealing with a certain degree. They didn't accidentally get into that position. There was a lot of intentional. I did get to see quite a few warm pants this weekend, and I really enjoyed it.

There's something about the original blue reband warm pants when you see someone wear those you know it's probably someone that's been around a while it's still amazing does SBD have they ever made a version of warm pants do they have one I don't know I know Cerberus does I saw

quite a few of those around this weekend too so and there's other red ones aren't they quite a few of those around this weekend too. There's other red ones, aren't there? Blue ones. Yeah, they probably make black ones too because Rebend makes black ones. But there's something about blue ones that just...

I think you've got to get to like... I will intentionally wear the blue ones because of the statement because it's like... It's the look, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It's just the way some things have to go together, and it's warm pants that are blue. It's like I've always said,

it takes a warm pants and a cool mind, and that'll get you a lot of places. It's like my strength coat plates are made in the USA, and my warm pants are blue. Just two things I can always count on. Yes. Okay, but back to this Texas power bars ad here. Tanner is the newest face of their marketing campaign,

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So a nice little addition, especially for people that are buying in bulk just another way that texas power bars is passing the legend on to you so if you want to get in on the action head it over to texaspowerbars.com and buy what are our favorite bars and the bars we used exclusively in the lift hard live easy classic to meet yeah um wrap that party up by well the last of them were out of here before 11 i was laying in my bed sometime by 11 something on friday night and i got a real solid uh bit of sleep until about 3 30 and when i couldn't sleep anymore okay that's it i'm ready to go for the day that's what i wanted to ask you because we didn't actually talk about this uh i will say know, every other meet we've done

has been a minimum, or every other meet I've done has been a minimum of three hours travel, maximum of six and a half, seven hours travel. So technically this one was also three hours of travel for me, but it was the fact that I was staying at my in-laws made it feel like I was staying at home. And I will say that normally going into a meet, my anxiety levels are sky high. Like I'm just crazy nervous. This one,

I was not nervous. I was just really freaking excited. And I had a little bit of trouble falling asleep, but it didn't take me too long. And it was the same thing for me. I woke up about three and I'm like, oh God, here we go. go but i just closed my eyes i lay there and i fell asleep again and i actually just woke up on my own about 10 minutes before my alarm went off so as far as sleep before a meet goes that was almost as good as it's ever gone for me yeah i can say i couldn't i've probably never been i couldn't i this isn't a point of pride i was not nervous about the competing one bit it was almost like the very like i kept forgetting that i even was going to be competing because i have so many other things that i'm worried and anxious about

that the competing is like an afterthought at that point i'm like oh yeah that's right that's i guess i get to do that tomorrow i was yeah i was that was only a that was only positive vibes where i'm like oh yeah that's going to be fun you know like i'm like oh yeah that part's going to be sweet um and i did for me it was different too because i didn't i waited nobody i didn't even know i was going to compete until that morning right a spot opened up right it's just the way it was worked out so it was just meant so i guess obviously it wasn't a big uh you know it wasn't a source of anxiety for me because i hadn't been training for it and you know i was able to just hop in at the very just they just asked you so like it was the first time it even crossed your mind right so that you know makes

it easier because i just didn't even have time to think about it. Exactly. So that's different for me. You know, you knew you were going to. I knew I'd been prepping for this. Yeah. And I was assuming I wouldn't. You had already just decided it wasn't going to happen. Yes. But no, it was more like I would lay there and be like, oh, yeah.

Just thinking about all the day's events and just like what can I worry myself over that only worries you at 3.30 a.m. And then at like 9 a.m. you're like, why am I worried? That was a demon thing. But it's just a different feeling when you're half asleep or when you're half laying in bed. It totally is. Or something hits you and you're like, oh, my God, this is going to end the world. where something hits you and you're like oh my god this is going to end the world and then you're like when you think more rationally about it when you're fully awake you're like it's not that big of a deal either way is it you know nope it never is it never is but that's not what it feels like

at the time oh and so yeah so we get to the meet right is that or is that where we're at? Yeah. We get to the meet. I pretty much showed up, said what's up, listened to the rules meeting and then it was just about time to start warming up. And won't go super in depth, but

I will say for squats, I was really hot. Like maybe the hottest and sweatiest i've ever been getting ready for a lift in my entire life partly because we got a little behind in warm-ups so they were going a little faster than what it normally would like you feel like you didn't start early enough yeah we didn't even start warming up until the first flight at the first flight at the first flight was already going before i had even touched a bar so you know right right right but also squats take a while you know i think it was taking close to like 15 minutes per flight so we

still had 45 minutes but didn't really because we were doing the every other platform thing and so we didn't really know how fast that was going to go for sure right and later on in the day it was like yeah we got the timing figured out i didn't worry about it at all but right away i was a little on edge like uh how fast is this gonna go right and i didn't say anything about this but i i think it was just the anxiety of like wanting to get out and compete you know cause it's been six years. This is my first meet in six years. It is exactly that. It was on like Tuesday. I was walking into the house and I just felt I'd been up all day. I hadn't lifted in 24 hours. And I just felt this weird thing in like my back glute area. And I'm like, this is it. Here it is. The lifting's done the whole thing. I'm like, this is where it gets bad. And that was in the back of my mind. It was all I could think about for the next three straight days. Like just

like, when is this going to tweak and hurt bad? And then we had to move that equipment. I could not stop thinking about it. And I, what was really weird is when very occasionally, like if I feel a tightness or something, my back, I can lay on my stomach and I can lift my legs up behind me. And I did it with, it's always my right side that bugs me. I did it with my left side, nothing. I lifted my right side up and I had a pop in like my hip flexor and my glute at the exact same time. They like both cracked and instantly I'm like, Whoa, like something, something changed there. And it was almost like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and whether, whether it did anything or not,

I've never, ever had that happen where it popped in both spots like that before. And so I don't know if just something was just sitting a little tight and I just got it. And then after that, I was still a little on edge, but I thought I was in the clear. And by the time we got to warming up for squats, I didn't have a thought in my mind about my back at all. It was like, no, it's go time.

I wasn't thinking about that one bit yeah so and i i gotta say even just watching with the six platform warm-up room is a lot going on like there is a lot going on with six people and then two lines of people getting going out for a you know so you your full flight of six people's all warming up and then the current flight is all like right in there in between you and the curtain they're all like lined up getting ready to go there is i mean it i think i mean you were in it so you know better than me i don't but i think there's enough room there for everyone to maneuver but there's just a lot of stuff like when you look down the line there is a lot of people moving and getting stuff ready like that. It's actually funny that you say that because it never really dawned on me because I just, even somehow, I don't know how I settled on the rack.

I've actually for squats settled on the rack I settled on because we're all close to the same height. You know, the guys that I was with. But I didn't, I wasn't even really looking around paying attention. I was just kind of in my zone. Everyone's in their own zone. I actually never felt once that I was like cramped or tight on space. Like there was clearly a lot of people around, but I never in my head thought like, Whoa, this is too much. I actually, it's fun to be like, Hey, your turn, your turn, your turn. Like I forget that.

It's like a fun training. Oh, it is almost. It's like, Nope, I'm after this guy. It's your turn right now. And yeah, like, Oh, what do you want a quarter or you know like yeah it's it's it is cool it is fun like that um the two platforms i think actually ran really well we had we so we're a little bit nervous about how that was going to go that went well i would say even just like recapping the whole power lifting meet time wise it maybe took like 30 minutes longer to an a bit longer than we were planning well but there was a decent break yeah and that was with the 20 minute breaks too right right um so actually like on a time scale it ran really well to get almost 90 lifters through squat bench and deadlift is kind of crazy how well it worked yeah i think gino wasn't there because for anyone that doesn't know this is a

little bit old news by this time but you know microsoft or the entire world or what i don't know i guess i'm not exactly sure who what you categorize it as i was so far removed from anything in six days i don't even know i don't know exactly what happened i think it was crowd strike wasn't it crowd strike yeah there you go so the world uh world crashed and that affected he was going to be flying in that day, and it was just impossible. We were trying to get flights to Sioux Falls or to Fargo and get him to drive, and there was just nothing.

He tried. He stayed at the airport for a long time and a little bit bummed about that, but no time to sit around and be all that bummed about it. There's just too much going on. Yeah, it's like, well, that's out of our control. On to the next thing, and awesome enough, the Minnesota Department of Lifter Safety, one of those guys, I guess I don't know what his name is.

I can't remember his name now either. Wears the cowboy hat, big guy, and he did a great job. He came out firing from the beginning, and I'm like, oh, fuck, we're fine here. We were in the back room talking about it, announcing. It was like that morning right before he's going to get going. And we were talking about who's going to announce like, oh,

you know, Tanner did a little bit last year. Dave did a little bit. They'll get it figured out. And that guy comes on the mic and he's like, all right, like just fired up. And someone's like,

God, Tanner's not going to have a voice in the next 10 minutes if he keeps this up. And then we go around the corner and it was the other guy but uh yeah he did great like he he kept it moving you can tell he's done it before then they said like oh yeah he does announcing that meets he can he can step in just again the minnesota department of lifter safety those guys just they know what's going on just another thing even though that they're doing well and um before i've i guess i would say this where i'm gonna forget to

mention a lot of people that had important roles and everything that went on here because it took it but it takes a village thing is very true in this case it takes a entire fucking village of people to make this work the way it does so like dave and katie running the power lifting jake running the strong man uh someone like zach coming in to sing the national anthem, which Zach is an incredible singer, crew member, big Zach, local to Aberdeen, and he rocked it. I got to watch up close and personal and was taking video of him, and I'm like, oh, yeah, that just sets the tone for the day.

It does. Where people come out and they're like, holy shit, that's awesome. You just get trained as an American that before a big sporting event, if there a good national anthem you're like now it's go time that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck and you're like okay shit yeah not like let's roll now i'm like that i wasn't ready now i'm ready now it's time to go yes um but what I was going to say, Big Mini in the live chat right now, for anyone that saw his setup or watched the live stream at all would know what I'm talking about, but oh my God, did he take what we would call a live stream from last year

and up, you know, they're not even comparable. It's hard to put into words how great of a job he did at the live stream for people that i mean you got to see this really so go to our youtube channel and then when you're on there um because it does save these you have to go to the live tab and actually i'm checking right now just to make sure i don't say this incorrectly uh so you go to the massonomics youtube channel we're there and i'm on the desktop right now you go to live there's a tab for live and you'll see the literally classic stream from last year but then you'll see two different uh four hour and a five hour stream for this year and they look amazing they look so good he has i didn't even like three cameras set up he was

filming both platforms he had a mobile camera that he was walking around with at times he had all these transitions so there was things that he had already pre-built i've i was going back to watch my lifts in here because that was the other thing that's great is my lifts now live in here forever so i can go back and reference this video and the more i watched it because i'm just like looking for myself but the more i was watching the video the more i was realizing these details like oh every time the camera switches the screen tells you if it's platform one or platform two so immediately you know where you're at he has every single person's name pops up I still don't completely know how he I don't know if that's like some integration with open power lift I don't even I didn't even ask how he did this but like

I just clicked the spot in the video platform one Jake Herber age 28 sleeves open class and then there's also the cutout from the open power lifting screen where i can see the exact weight like it's all there and then they have like cool transitions and animations on it like just the more you watch it the more details you realize like oh yeah this is actually super watchable and super professional and this year he had the live stream announcer piped into the audio yes or the the the announcer we were just talking about it that audio was you know on the live stream on youtube which obviously adds to it a lot and i guess what i would say is what the minnesota department of lifter safety is to the spotting and loading big mini is that to the live stream like for as important as

they are to that and it working well and being like and when you see that spotting and loading you're like oh my god that's what this is that's what can happen when someone does this really well that's like when big mini taking over the live stream this year where it's like, well, now we can't not have him do that. Oh, God, I know. Like anything not him doing that is a big downgrade. And what's wild is there's a lot of big meets every year that charge people for their live streams, and they're worse than this. I think mini, and again, I know he's listening, but if he wants to, I think he's got the ability to ability to he could go do that a whole bunch of the big bucks for these things and showing up right right yeah and that was one we that's actually the most like hands-off thing of the entire weekend and

maybe the biggest surprise because he's just like yeah i like to stream stuff i'll do it for you guys and not that last year's was bad whatever it is it'll be better than this right like last year's was bad. Whatever it is, it'll be better than this. Right. Like last year's was fine. Last year's is totally standard meat stream. Just exactly what you'd expect. Nothing crazy. And it's like anything is better than that.

So yep, our hands are washed of this. Do whatever you want, man. And basically the communication was like, hey, can you send me a couple of these logos, these graphics, sent those things. That was it. And then he showed up on meat day with his computer, three monitors cameras and uh yeah the whole thing worked like we didn't do a thing it was amazing it really was um so i mean i guess squats went through what was your top squat uh my top squat 474 yep that was a little bit again well, this will be more of an in-depth video.

But it was really easy. It was way too easy. Like I watch it and I'm like, oh, that's too easy. I actually think if you measured the bar speed, that might have been, I think they might have gotten faster as they went, all three of them. Yeah, I do think your third squat was faster than your second squat.

I also think you probably could have squatted 500 pounds. I think I could have too. And so I did make one little mistake. This was part of just being caught up in the moment is I put in the numbers. I put the numbers in my phone. Juggernaut was kind of out of the picture on this because I was so, I was just so far ahead of where Juggernaut wanted me to be. Part was the knee sleeves and part was me just sort of sandbagging my numbers a little bit in there.

And in my phone, I wrote down 474 as like the low end. And then I wrote down like what's the next jumps like 480 and 484 for the next two and I'm looking at that number before I go lift I hit my second attempt smoke it and like in my head was just yeah 474 was the number like that's where we're going on the third attempt I didn't even I just I didn't think long enough and hard enough about pushing that harder but uh I'm about 80 confident 400 or 500 was there on that day. Maybe, maybe even more.

It was, it was way too fast. So that's the first time in my life I've ever got done with a lift and been like, I definitely left like a lot of weight. Not like I left 10 pounds out there. Like I left, I don't know,

30 pounds, maybe more out there. I think so. I think that's safe to say. I think 500 would have been a one that you would have got and still would have been like maybe i could have done more but this one it's like oh yes i could have done significantly more than that and again so i i do need to say this though like this whole thing was just like my i just needed to get back to the platform you

know like it was just about feeling good well it's what you want like getting all your like you know like and and i did push a little more later on the meat but like this whole thing was just about feeling good. Well, it's what you want. That's all I want. And I did push a little more later on in the meet, but this whole thing was just, I was going into this thinking, if I hit a 1,200 total, I'm totally happy with that. Also, 475 is still more than you've squatted in a long time. It's more than I've squatted in a long time. I don't know if I've ever,

I mean, that's up there for this body weight. I weighed in at 211. Both of my squats that are bigger than that know, I weighed in at 211. Both of my squats that are bigger than that were when I weighed in closer to 220, 225. So it might be a body weight PR, honestly, for where I'm at there. And that was, I just was, I wanted to get into this meet and feel good about things.

I hadn't been, I had a three month prep here. I hadn't been killing myself in the weight room. I just wanted to keep everything feeling good. And I just need to keep that momentum going in through the meet too. So. Yeah. And then, uh, any notes, I mean, it transitioned to bench press, obviously. And transitioned fast. Like meats do. Yeah. It transitions fast to the point where like, you don't even, you just forget about it. You're like, I don't even need to, I just go to the

bench. I don't even need to warm up. We're just ready to go here. You're like, yeah, you're pretty primed after, uh, going through max squats attempts yeah and i was riding a pretty i was riding a pretty good high after squats i was like feeling really strong and with the idea in my head like i need to push this and so also with bench then the idea here was my second attempt my planned second attempt 330 would be a meat pr so i was like if i can hit that number i don't even care what the next one is i just want that damn meat pr and that's for sure and that's at a much lighter body weight than the last time a few times and uh warm-up was feeling great on bench I had a ton of confidence going in I'm like basically if I could hit my first one I think I'm as long as the first one feels good I'm gonna be okay

and Ross the old bench master came out of the shadows to to watch me through he's like he could smell the bench presses coming from a mile away. And he's like, Ross, I hadn't seen you all day. Let me help. Let me provide my services. He's start benching and he's just there. I know what I'm needed. Yeah. Like a bloodhound. He heard, he knew someone was benching and he sniffed him out and Ross is at my side. And I told him, I go, Hey, can you film these? Cause I didn't also have anyone's filming me for squat, which kind of messed me up too. I think if I maybe would have seen them, I would have changed my perspective. But Ross filmed my first one for 315,

and it moved really fast. It was just like my left arm just like did kind of a weird thing. I had seen that one. And Ross was like, oh, yeah, you just got to get that tight. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I do got to get that tight. I'm going to take care of that. So we went for 330 on the second, and it moved just as good as a 315.

And so now I'm like, yes, bench PR in the bag house money yeah i'm like i'm going for it like i juggernaut wanted my third attempt to be like 340 whatever the kilo is and i thought in my head that feels ambitious but i'm like you know what i downplayed it too much on squat my second attempt bench felt great i'm going for it go out there and i watched the video the first like six seven inches off my chest it just flew and then i hit the wall and it was stuck so too much there i don't feel bad about that at all because you say if anything if i would have got my third attempt the next maximum you left one step off of the table mostly left five pounds on the table i don't even feel bad about that and And I got a PR. Like I just, right.

I was feeling, I had no regrets there. I, I felt great about it. I was, I was totally happy with that. Totally fine. Uh,

I gotta, I gotta sneeze over here. Um, yeah. And were you lifting with Grant in the warmup? Yeah. And so at this point now, Grant,

Grant had hopped in. So then it was fun benching with Grant because, uh, I don't actually know if we've ever worked out together. So we're doing our bench warm-ups together. Yeah, it was fun. It was just like you're just chatting and having a good old. And it's also funny. I think of other meets, how much it used to be like, nope, headphones are in.

I'm in the zone. And like the warm-up room the whole time, I'm not saying like joking around and laughing, but I didn't have music on at all until it was a temp time i put them on at a temp time just to kind of like block out some of the noise a little bit because there was a lot of commotion but that was it i just and even then i usually didn't put him on until like two guys before my attempt like okay just give me like a minute to two minutes here to get in my zone and that was it otherwise i didn't even use music the entire weekend where before that was always such a huge part of the meet for me strong yes strong man's a little like i didn't even consider it strong man is a little different because it's like power

lifting is more rigid and what's going on and you know the timing and the flow and stuff like that and strong man is just different in the sense that like you almost can't be hanging out jamming like because you're gonna like miss and like you kind of you actually need to know what other people are doing because it's right it's important for what you're like you you have to walk like in a powerlifting you don't give a shit you're not out there like oh this guy just did five more pounds now i'm upping it like none of us are thinking about it in that term. No, this isn't a national or a world level event here. We're just like strong man. Strong man is a competition against the people you're going against.

Like that is the whole thing. So you're like, I'm like, I'm always watching what's going on. Cause I, you're, you want to know about numbers and like what you need to be shooting for and that sort of thing.

And you just can't, there's really no time to be able to like, like it doesn't work that way. right right yeah so and that was that was the fun part so we got to bench with grant and it was funny he goes well i'm here i might as well do push pull so all of a sudden grant signed up for deadlift which was awesome because all right we get to live together again and uh deadlift warm-up like yeah i was feeling great i was feeling really good uh the heaviest attempt i'd taken in training was 465 i was thinking okay i'm gonna pull for whatever 1300 is 1300 end up being basically 500 is the number i needed to pull my first attempt was like 455 felt really good. Second attempt for 75, which would be a PR.

I mean like a meat. All right. Prep PR. I mean, first time I've hit that in for real six years, like my last week would have been last time I touched that weight. So hit 435 again, felt great. Dylan was hyping me up. He's like, Oh man, that moves so fast. You got to be careful. The whip at the top might get you not words people typically say to me, but it was, uh, it was moving good. So it's like, yeah, 500 is the number let's give it a go. And, uh, I watched the playback of this like a thousand times and I don't know if you have, I for sure, I, I for sure gave up on it. I a hundred percent did. Um, that was the first time I can say in all of this training that I've had that I've really started to feel just that, that strain in my back. And I'm not saying like a hurt strain,

but like, you know, when you're like straining hard, like an RP actual 10 lift, that was the first time I've had that feeling in any of my, I should say in benches or in deadlift or squat. And I felt it in my head. It felt like I was fighting it for three seconds. And I'm like, yep. Don't like that feeling. And, uh, I, I had to give up. I just, I'm just not used to, uh, I just don't have that confidence to take that on yet because I hadn't trained like that at all. So right. Or where your back might like move position, right. So like you're not keeping a perfectly neutral spine, which every max deadlift I've ever had in my life, I don't keep a perfectly neutral spine. Like it's a max deadlift. There's a point in time there where that goes out the window. Like it's not what you want to be training

like all the time, but you almost train like that knowing that like it's going to be there. A day might come when that go, you know, when that, uh, get sacrificed a little bit. And so, so part of that is, and Dylan told me, he's like, Oh, you're going to be mad when you watch that the bar was still moving up when you missed it. And like when I look, I think I quit. I think it was at my knees. And I don't know if I've ever failed a deadlift at my knees. Usually if I fail it, it's four inches off the floor. But yeah, I mean, it's just part of that's confidence.

And I just didn't train that way. And that's, again, totally fine. I feel pretty damn good saying that. You know, if I can keep stringing some good blocks together, that I think next year I could have a pretty rock-solid total if I can keep this momentum going. Right. So overall, it was a really good day.

Yeah, I think my total ended up being like 12.72 or something like that. You know, what's that, 28 pounds short of what my goal was. But again, totally happy with the performance with the total wasn't far from 13 25 though too actually it's like you know like i mean it's easy to say shit like that it is like me and not being you i look at it and i say that i'm like it actually really wasn't far from 13 25 yeah i mean i thought that for a second and in years past when i've missed third attempts i've played that game with myself i'm like oh i left 10 there I left 15 there and like I thought for a second like yeah probably left 25 on deadlift and or on bench and it you know deadlift yeah

our squat yes sorry squat and probably like 30 pounds on the squat yeah and so then it's like yeah you're at 13 25 with my best total ever being like 14 10. And it's like, I do the math and you break that out. And it's like, Oh, I'm still at like nine, my strongest ever. I'm like 92% of the way there, whatever it is.

And right. Add a lighter body. I'm just, there's a ton of things you can complain about. And I'm so, I was so happy with the day. I was just like, I,

yeah. Hitting that last deadlift is always a great feeling, but I can totally live with that. I had a great time. And then I'm like, you know what? The work's done. I get to just watch these guys go lift heavy weights and have some fun now in what were you in flight b or flight c okay b and we were going to call a few

people this episode just to get like really short quick uh down and dirty from people there maybe a handful uh what do you think about calling one of them now? Yep. All right. So this is somebody that competed in powerlifting also. We're going to try and get Big Ryan, Big Iowa Ryan on the phone. And I don't know if you caught what he was doing, but we got a little chat with him about something.

Okay. All right. Good. He did compete in powerlifting also here so big Ryan you old son of a gun is that you it is just the guy we've been looking for all night

big Ryan first and foremost I believe officially now with your sound on your voice on the podcast, is that 12 checked off the list for you on the hall of fame card? That is, that means 12. Ah, welcome. Welcome to the brother slash sisterhood. We can finally start telling you about all the inside secrets that only those in the hall of fame get to know about, you know, injury prevention, you thought this was a secret community that now there's like a secret, secret community that you get to find out about.

Ryan, I was just trying to tell Tanner, I'm not sure if he caught this, but do you want to tell Tanner your, your bench technique for the meat? Reverse grip. Yeah. So what's the story on that? How long had you been planning on the reverse grip bench press? I was trying to get, well, with my shoulder, I was trying to get regular grip for a while. Just wasn't working.

I was using, like, a camera bar. Just on a whim, I tried reverse grip a couple times. Didn't really work. And then, like, third time it clicked. And then I've been doing it for, like, a month or two. So how did it play out? I clicked and then I've been doing it for like a month or two. So, so, uh, how,

how did it play out? Like, do you feel, feel like you hit decent numbers after switching to the reverse grip? Um, yeah, I did. I got,

I got a, like 15 pound bunch PR. Oh, nice. Yeah. So are you doing the thing that, um, who do we talk?

Who do we talk about? Yeah, that Jimmy Kolb talked about where you actually put it between your pinky and your ring finger, the barbell? I'm not sure about that. I kind of just put my little finger on the rings. Yeah. And just kind of grip it. Okay.

So would you say it's more of a grip it and rip it of the yeah okay no you must not be doing it because you would know it's like very weird you actually like rest the ball like it's like a talent put your for reverse yeah the talent grip so your pinky is actually like on the other side of the bar it feels like really awkward so you probably probably aren't doing that then i would guess no no and i didn't i didn't know you were doing that ryan i was i don't know where i was standing i looked over and my brain like short-circuited because i thought your arms were there was something severely wrong with them before i realized oh he is reverse gripping like that is wild uh where you were the only reverse gripper at the meet i assume right yeah a lot of people were kind of surprised by that did you did you brief the uh jut the judges

or spotters and loaders before you went out there like hey i'm going to be reverse gripping this no i just jump right in don't let that so just scare them just throw them all off be like yeah let's get these people for a loop. That's right. That's good. And you did what push-pull? Yeah, I was planning to do just bench, but they still had me for full power, so I just did deadlifts as well. Yeah. Awesome.

Well, it was good to have you lifting there. Sad day, though. You were certainly a frontrunner for the most injured award, and it turns out you did not win most injured this year uh were you are you still bitter about not winning most injured uh a little bit you know you got once in the past so tanner you were there he did file a protest with the judges but it was overruled so i didn't want to tell you that there was a whole process okay uh so yeah you didn't get most injured but there's always next year with it being there on meat day that's right uh excellent well uh good job ryan

good job on the reverse grip what about uh what was your favorite part of the what was your favorite part of the weekend uh just kind of meeting everybody. This is my first meet ever, so it was a good experience. Oh, it was actually your first meet ever? Yes. I probably had the same conversation with you at some point, but I for sure thought you had done a couple before. I would say also you might have been the only person to get your photo at Wiley Beach,

so respect your props for that, actually stopping at all the locations that we put in the Aberdeen tour video. Also, you may have had the best custom stickers. There's a lot of people with custom stickers. You know, I'm just going to say you had the best custom stickers. Even my father-in-law was really impressed by the mosquito one. Somehow he got one of those and he's like, I can't believe you guys made these. These are great.

I go, we didn't make them. A guy from Iowa did. And it just, he couldn't comprehend that someone else could make a sticker that good well done Ryan we'll get you that Hall of Fame cup coming soon then too all right sounds good good work Ryan see you man see ya thanks

I'm gonna I'm gonna save them all they're all gonna get one big cool beans at the end here that's fair should we call one more? Yeah. Here, quick. We got kind of two in the powerlifting scene and two in the strongman,

so maybe we'll talk about the shift of the day a little bit after this and then come back to a couple more calls. Does that make sense? Mm-hmm. Okay, next we're going to try Big Murph. See if our phone will dial all the way out to the east coast here. I feel like the wire is the wire ringtone.

The theme song, the wire is going to put the ring back. Gentlemen. Big Murph, is that you? It is. Long time no see. It's kind of weird. Usually that's true, and now it is like oh no we just all these people are probably sick of talking to us but instead we're going to call them late on a

weeknight anyways uh the important important point for anyone that doesn't know murph is the champion of the weekend she won female best overall lifter of the meet so how does it feel it feels pretty damn good was that ever a thought in your mind going into the weekend no not really did you know before so you get the cha you got the championship belt you and uh matthias got the two championship belts did you know prior to announcing it had you figured it out or anyone figured it out or like sitting there for awards had you kind of figured it out by then or not no big jen was kind of insisting before the meet even started that i was going to get the boat and i was like oh man i don't know there's all these youngins yeah and i was

like yeah i don't know and then during the meet not on my mind like at all i just i was gonna hit what i was gonna hit no matter what anyone else was doing so um didn't pay attention and then afterwards big jen was like i think you got it i was like yeah i was like i don't know and then we were just having fun playing with the keypads and weren't really paying attention. So it was pretty cool. What did they say to you the first day you showed back up at work and you were wearing it?

Well, I was teleworking the next couple of days. I haven't taken it into the office, but I do plan on taking it in, and the security guards are definitely going to be like, what the hell is in your bag you were as required of course wearing it at the zoo on saturday night and i wore it to the airport i buckled it into the seat next to me on the plane we took good care of it it is a really cool award to get like they look really badass like it is really fun i I think. Yeah, we definitely had a lot of fun. A couple people were taking pictures with it and I was

keeping an eye on them the whole time. Well, congratulations. We're excited that you won that. Also, does this make 12 on your Hall of Fame checklist than your voice being on the Massanomics podcast? It does. Thank you, guys. You are in the Hall of Fame now officially we will have your hall of fame

cup coming to you soon um congratulations it's an exclusive club as i was telling ryan we will start telling you the inside inside secrets that not even jen or any of the other members could have been filling you in on yet and also oh my god do I even want to know? I'm just making it up. There's one final thing though. You are going to get an invoice for shipping and handling. It's like 300 bucks. Once you pay that, then you'll get the container. That sounds about right.

So you're a... Oh, go ahead. I was just going to say, what a week. Oh yeah, so you're a two-time veteran of the lift hard live easy classic now you're the grand champion this year what what uh what what's your favorite memory from this year do you think um i think some of the like hotel fireside chats were just a just a good time at the fairfield i was kind of jealous of those pictures that i saw

you know tanner and i aren't fairfield guys we have to stay at regular houses like normal people yeah that is part of what's really cool i think though that um outside of like what we need to do for like setting up and like running things we could almost be just not even be around. And like, I'm saying this as a positive, no one would really care. They'd be like, Oh, we don't really need you idiots. Oh, they're just, Oh, everyone's over having fun again. No real cool guys. Right. So that, I think that's a big positive though that everyone gets along that well. Yeah. I think we were,

there was like a time when we were hanging out in the hot tub and we were like, ah, poor Tanner and Tommy. I was sweating my balls off for like five straight days, but, uh, uh,

it is worth noting. I don't think I've said it on this episode yet though. I did wear the same pair of shorts for four straight days, only taking them off to sleep and never washing them so they were pretty right by the end of the weekend oh poor mary yeah she actually didn't really have to see me that much so she probably lucked out but i don't know what happened to those they might they might have just gotten thrown out i hope not though. Squat shorts. Yeah. So congratulations. It was awesome seeing you again.

We're like we told you the night of or the day of we're really glad that you were the big winner this year. That was cool and I like that you had Megan like do this official transfer over of the belt even though there is a new belt but you each get to keep your belt but it was a cool look.

Yeah. No that was another exciting part was like it was a cool look yeah no that was another exciting part was that she was so excited that i won and i was so excited to see her do lifted stones i like lost my voice screaming for her it was just a really cool uh like little bond that we had afterwards of just being excited for each other it was cool it was really fun and those keith heads at the strongman were really awesome too you mentioned that too before i forget those were really fun and it's fun because it's half of a keith head you know i don't know who ended up with those but at some point we realized that a couple of us we were all taking the selfies with them yes of like

having the keith head bomb bomb us. And then we were showing each other pictures like, oh, I did that too. Awesome. Well, congratulations. We will see you. I don't know.

Who knows what event we'll see yet. I mean, you're already at 12 now, but you might want to keep checking things off. So maybe we'll see you at the Arnold Sports

Festival. We'll see what see what things bring us this year. We shall see. All right. All right. Congrats. Thanks, guys.

Congrats. Have a good night. See you. Bye. All right. There's two new Hall of Famers right there. Checking them off. What a coincidence that they were both almost into the Hall of Fame

and that call got them there. Their numbers are growing. God, the Hall of Fame is getting deep, though. Yeah, after tonight we may be getting close to 30, actually, which is kind of a cool thing to see people making it in there because it's not easily done. There's a lot of people that, like a lot of these people that have been very into mass economics,

that it's an uphill battle getting into there so it's um it's cool seeing more and more make it a lot of them this weekend of course with the lift hardly visa classic but what do we figure power lifting wrapped up by about 3 p.m i i think power lifting was done before that i think the strongman started at three didn't it maybe it started yeah i think powerlifting was actually done by like 230 or something i i think it was done before two i think okay maybe it was i think it was done before two and then there was about it i think it ended up being a 45 minute to hour changeover um to get all the strongman's i in my mind powerlifting was done slightly before two and uh or sorry sorry sorry what was our initials the schedule? Did we put two start time for the strong man? Yeah.

Powerlifting finished about 2.30, 2.45. Yeah. And then Keith said strong man was going by about 3.30. So there was about 30 or 45 minute change over there. So yeah. There you go. Yeah. So it did.

Powerlifting went about 45 minutes longer than what we had hoped for i mean it's within the window yeah it was within it's within a reasonable window like that's you're never gonna plan that much more close than that but in a perfect world i would say that would have got done at two if we're saying an absolutely yeah to go things as fast as possible yeah and then uh um yeah then at this point i was pretty much just kicking back watching the show and relaxing yeah and i think that's what most of the power lifters were doing right and you know there hadn't been awards yet so a lot of beers going around yeah did you have a brewski that i had a brewski but i was still just i'd sweated so much that i was trying to put some gatorades down because I was playing the long game.

I had to get to the zoo that night. I also need to get some food in me. I drank like over four or five days. I drank like 40 Gatorades. I'm not exaggerating either. Like, and I was not eating that much food because I just was so busy and like not actually like I didn't eat. I ate, uh, from the pickled pig on Saturday.

I ate cause I knew I needed to eat some food. I ate my big breakfast on Saturday morning. I ate a sandwich and like protein balls from the pickled pig, like about at noon or like at 1130 and I didn't eat the rest of the day. Yeah. Cause I was going to get food at this. Actually I didn't eat. I was going to get food at the zoo. Actually, I didn't eat. I was going to get food at the zoo, but I was just not hungry,

and by that time I was literally slamming beers because I wanted to do so bad. I was curious what you did for dinner, actually. I did not eat, which is something I would never do. And by the time Mary had asked me a couple times, oh, should we get food here? I'm like, yeah, give me whatever. I literally was not going to invest 30 seconds of time into it. I'm like, if you're getting something, get me literally anything.

I couldn't care less. I just probably should eat something. And by the time she finally did it, they were like, oh, yeah, we're not serving food anymore. And I'm like, I don't give a shit. Somehow I'm not hungry. I didn't eat until 2 in the morning. We'll get to

that when we went to mcdonald's drive-thru that is a late one yeah so i but i what i had was 40 gatorades where i'm like there and like what you've even commented before a few times where after water after a while the bottled water just doesn't stick it's just runs right through you you're just pissing on non-stop so you it's like you need the Gatorade to make it stick. Yes. The, I was, I mean,

I probably had like a thousand grams of sugar. And also you had so many of those little ones that you packed, you know, which is a one drink. Yes. This is a drink. You just open it and slam it. And you're like,

yep. Done. Yep. And sometimes you should kind of like that. Cause you're just like, you have to grab another one to then actually have a little bit more thirst quenching. Yeah, it felt like I was just putting those things down all weekend. Because they're basically like Gatorade shooters.

They are. It's just like, whoop, done. Quick 22 grams of sugar or whatever is in there. Bump those levels up. Yeah. So then strongman kicked off by like three so i missed unfortunately you know deadlifts are the coolest part about a powerlifting got the flames going not a deadlifter it's just fun and people are getting getting wild and it's just the coolest part visually to watch but we were warming up and doing our rules meeting and stuff.

So at that point I was, I had gotten full battle rattle on and full battle rattle for strong man is sweaty inside of like, I, when you're covered in it, when I, so I'm wearing warm pants, nice,

like getting ready for, uh, getting ready for the log press. I'm wearing warm pants, knee sleeves, elbow sleeves, uh, a grip shirt my soft

belt you know which is actually two layers of basically yeah yeah uh wrist wraps like you're covered like you're walking around just covered in stuff so i was i was sweating like uh you know somebody in somewhere that's what they sweat quite a bit you know depending on how the saying goes sweaty person yeah so i was uh covered in sweat but i actually felt So they sweat quite a bit, you know, depending on how the saying goes. Sweaty person. Yeah. So I was covered in sweat, but I actually felt not that bad. I was like after like four days of just running myself absolutely fucking ragged. And then like a day of not eating and, you know, being busy the day. Not doing what you would normally do if you were competing. Like you'd just be like babying yourself.

Kind of like the list of things you shouldn't do in the final stages of a prep doing all those things to be fair you didn't know you were going to be doing this though so that's true literally i actually didn't even know the morning of it was just mere seconds jake said hey we could use one more guy in this like we just did the numbers we crunched the numbers oh i accidentally threw my duffel bag in when I was at the gym earlier, so this does work out. And I'm like, I do have some of this stuff around, so sure, yeah. I'll give it a shot. Big Alex asked what full battle rattle. He knows what full battle rattle means. I guess that's a military term.

That's an Army term. That's when you're getting all your full gear on, and Biglex knows what full battle rattle is actually but i like to use that term in strongman because it gets ridiculous at a certain point you're like all the things things you're wearing um it was it was hot in there by the afternoon and we knew that you know just as far as the meat goes in general maybe we touch more on this but we knew the temperature would be, just as far as the meat goes in general, maybe we'll touch more on this, but we knew that temperature would be a concern.

There's no secret after last year. And we did have quite a few more large fans this year. I don't know if it helped very much. I mean, if you're close to one of them. If I'm being honest about that. Yeah, I mean, if you're standing literally in front of one, you know, you'd like to think that there is a little more air moving wherever you are. But I don't know if it helps that much.

I mean, I would rather have the fans than not have the fans. I'd stand in front of one. We had the ones that, you know, were on the pedestal actually right by us by squatting. I'm standing in front of it. I'm thinking, I'm totally cooled down. I'm doing great. And the second I walk away, I'm like, nope, I'm blazing hot and I can't stop sweating. Yeah.

So that is like the, the fans you just, you have in there. So people can at least like rotate in front of them and like get in front of them. And hopefully for the people in the stands, you know, depending on where you're sitting there,

we're getting some air movement. Um, that is a hurdle that we have that doesn't have an easy answer for, you know, unfortunately, um, as far as the lifting goes in the Strongman, I'm not going to get into like absolutely every minute detail of all of mine

because we'll have a video on that. But log press was first. It was a max log press event. That event, you know, so I'm in the competition, but I'm also simultaneously thinking about seven other things because I'm thinking about the show and how it looks to the people. You know, I'm also thinking from the promoter standpoint of you. I'm like the max log event takes a little too long because of, you know, the format we're trying to achieve just because everyone gets the three attempts. And it just I'm not saying it takes too long.

It is long. Yeah, that's just anything. Anything when people are getting multiple attempts because I got to have'm not saying it takes too long. It is long. Yeah. It is kind of a long event. Anything when people are getting multiple attempts, because I got to have time between the attempts too. You don't just go back to back to back. So it's just the nature of an event like that. Yes. Yes. It is just kind of the way that that goes. But I enjoyed it. Actually.

The one thing I would say about me personally on the log is I did, you could jump in wherever you want to. This is the first thing I'm like, what's Tanner doing? Like normally when I think of you, I think of Tanner with very calculated attempts and it was like, it wasn't your first attempt. It was a little like a, so I jumped in at two 40, which should be easy for me. I mean, it was in training. I probably for at least that event event I underestimated my fatigue of like

four days of busting my balls and like well that was my first thought because just I saw you go up there and I was like yeah this will this will like he will throw this into the air like that being said it wasn't even like I felt weak I didn't feel weak what I felt was dizzy really dizzy and that I know that that has a tendency to happen to me on log press. And it really happens to me when we did the log press outdoors in 2018 at the strong man, I looked up for the first time and I'm like, Oh my God, I'm going to fall down and die. That Brown County fair one. I'll never forget. Cause I think it was a perfectly clear day. You look up and it's just pure nothingness. And I remember that I've like,

I've never felt this feeling. Cause when you're in the gym, you look up, it's just pure nothingness. And I remember that I've like, I've never felt this feeling. Cause when you're in the gym, you look up, you see the ceiling, you got an anchor point. And, uh, that was,

yeah, seeing, seeing, or I, I totally understand where you're coming from there as someone with basically no experience. So, so that is what happened to me as a two 40 should have been pretty

easy. Um, and I cleaned it really easily and I got it to the rack position. And before I even pressed it, I was like, Oh my God, I feel my body feels like jello, like immediately like jello, because I was, I felt like I was, you know, when you do like, like a, almost like a cartoon swaying, like that's what I felt like. I wasn't literally literally doing like that but that's kind of what was up there yeah i had the wobbles really bad but um uh so i went to press it and it ended up being quite the fight to lock out the press and in watching it in hindsight it's just like a couple seconds you know it's like not it's never as long as you think in your head, but I swear to God in the moment, I felt like 100 thoughts went through my head in that.

Like, like I thought so many things in the amount of time that I was trying to lock that one out because in the way the competition was set up, if you missed a lift, you're out of the competition. So that would mean I'm zeroing that event and taking zero points on the very first event. And I'm like, this is going to be an almost impossible hole to dig myself. And that's all like what I'm describing.

I felt like I had every one of those thoughts in the moment while I had that log halfway above my head. And I felt like I ultimately resided on the thought that like, I have to get this or I am fucked. Like, I'm like, if I don't get this, it's embarrassing. It's the, you know, it really, nobody cares, but I'm thinking about it just, you know, the way everyone thinks about themselves. I'm like, this is embarrassing. I'm fucked. There's no coming back from this. And also I'm thinking you get 60 seconds, but also I'm thinking if I don't lock this out,

I'm never getting it on another attempt because I'm already just so mentally beat up. Just from those couple split seconds, I'm like, I have officially like mentally, if I don't get this, I'm going to be no coming back from this. Like I already knew there's no chance I'm not getting this log if I don't get it right now. So I did get it locked out and our judges that we had from Edgar's house of pain, I'll say this great judges in the sense that they were really strict and there was going to be nobody that got a lift. And you're going to say, maybe it was a lift. Every lift that was gotten was earned and earned uh-huh and 100 like nobody was going to give them any shit either you know like uh so big jason was you know he was running

our lane and he you had to lock things out definitively or else you are not getting a down command and i do i pretty positive nobody's going to give that guy hell either if uh he doesn't say what you want you know what you think he should so I actually thought the judge especially as you know me being one of the guys in charge of massonomics and being very conscious I never want any like I won't would never want something to be like oh what's that call he got so I loved the way he was judging in the sense that like no this is going to be strict as strict as hell for everyone so i think that that's that's a great way to approach strongman judging in general i think because then they're just removed at the gray area yeah i think i think most people picked up on that

pretty fast that oh yeah yes there's a there's going to be no debate as to whether you got this lift or not yeah so i got that 240 i came back and then did 260 and i the my first try at that i pressed it up way faster and i just like at the lockout i just um lost my balance again like i it moved weight like it actually surprised me how much easier it was like way easier than 240 was and then because of just having a little bit of the dizziness, though, I think I just couldn't lock it out. So then I set it down and reset. I'm like, I got plenty of time here.

Just give this one more go. And I knew the way things were playing out that I'd be in a pretty good spot if I got that one because not only did I struggle with the log or at least do not great for myself for what I thought a lot of people were not doing well for themselves a lot of the numbers were coming down that's what I noticed too it wasn't like people just blowing up the log like lifter after lifter everyone was kind of fighting with it a lot of people were uh struggling with you know this isn't probably universally but I just from conversation with other guys a lot of

people had that same experience probably i came back and i got 260 on the second try i did it but i felt it in my in my elbow as i was locking out the 260 i something popped in my elbow and i was like fuck but i still got it so I and after like those struggles I didn't even try 280 I was like especially after my elbow did whatever it did at the time I'm like I don't know what that is but I got 260 didn't try 280 uh Tyler the star the star of the log press though was Tyler Thompson in the super heavyweight he gave 400 a run and I was certainly cheering for him as loud as I could for that. You know, I wanted to see that 400 really bad. 400 is just so insane.

Yeah. That, um, that that's impressive. You know, Tyler's a big man. Uh, and it was just cool watching him go after 400. I wish you would have loved to see him got it, but it was so fun to watch. Yeah. Log-wise, otherwise, you know,

there's a few others over 300 pounds. That was good to see. Big Seth and the Novice did an attempt, I think it might have been at 240, where he almost died. I know. It almost crashed down onto his head and i literally said out loud to whoever i was with i'm like there is no fucking way someone is going to be able to get this lift

after that happening and he got the lift on a second attempt i'm like that's one of the more impressive things i ever seen because he literally almost just like collapsed into a a ball and crushed to death by the log. Yes. After a really big struggle, and then he still came back and got the lift. Yeah, I feel like someone put in the Discord somewhere a screenshot of the worst possible moment on that.

And when you see the screenshot, you're like, oh yeah, that guy died for sure. But somehow came back and hit it. Yeah, so that takes balls. So that was the log lift then we did what was that um the deadlift was after the log and those shields that edgar house of pain brought were really cool those were really cool i didn't know how you guys i didn't know that was gonna happen and so when i saw those uh i was wondering well what what took place here where do these come

from yeah it was a cool made for it we for it. I had seen them in video. You know, Jake, when that was the plan, he had sent me videos of them being used in other competitions before. I'm like, yeah, those are really cool. And then the other lane, theirs was on really cool custom metal wagon wheels. So I just thought, as far as a spectacle, I was really happy the way that that deadlift looked. And then, like, we were on a platform, too, which I think also just makes it kind of look.

It just makes it bigger again. Yeah. It makes it. Yeah. That's a great word. It just makes it bigger. So I thought those were awesome. I got really a big Toby went out first in our group and he got 16 reps and I'm like, fuck.

Yeah. Because I thought I could do fairly well in deadlift but i'd never done 16 reps and i'm like fuck i cannot do 16 reps is like my first thought when he i'm like fucking bastard that was what i'm thinking uh that was what going through my head but there was a lot of people that did a lot of reps in all the classes i think right uh yeah that was again one of those events where you're watching it as a spectator, and you're like, is that heavy enough? Because it seems like people are just ripping these things. Right. You know, that's always the weird thing with Strongman,

or what's weird, because, like, every event, like, almost no one is, like, good at every event. So, like, you'll have two people crush two events, and then they'll go to the next one and get, like, last or second to last. And that's just the nature of the beast. But it always messes you up when you see, because like when you went up there,

it literally looked like you were playing. I mean, we say it, it was the Sunday paper for you. Like it looked like it was just bouncing off the ground and you were just like. And it did feel like that. Oh, it looked, it looked. And I did, it did not feel like that in training. And I was training just like a half inch lower in training in training you know i was intentionally like slightly harder all the time

but i don't know it's i just credit that to the environment oh yeah for sure i don't even really know like your first 10 reps i'm like i think tanner could do 30 like if he wanted to is how it looked that's it felt shockingly easy as honestly like even to myself i'm like i don't really know what's going on is the weight wrong on the bar because it felt it just felt really easy and like i could go really fast and i don't i think it was just the environment you know being with all the all the dudes and having the crowd and your deadlift was i mean your deadlift training looked like it was going as good as it ever could it went good but i just hadn't expected it was going to go that.

I mean, because I do think, like, had there been a mark out there of, like, 23, I think I could have done 24. I think so, too. I think, you know, like, I think, you know, I'm just making up numbers. But, like, I could have done more than I did, but it was just. Then it was also playing a game. There's still, you know, a couple people to go or something that I'm like, well, what do I'm like well what do I

you know do I what I'm quitting here is it at a number that I'm going to still get beat on because then that sucks too but also like I can't kill myself because there's still two really hard events to go as well or like Tim is a great example of what you're saying he won the last two events he

just scratched the deadlift because he's like my back kind of hurts and and if I do well, I'll get like one or two of those. So he didn't even, like that's the weird parody. It is. Where he's like the best at the other events, but like then this event that you think there's carryover between all of it, he's like, no, I'm so not good at that event right now,

I'm not even going to do it, which is actually kind of a smart strategy. Yeah. Oh, maybe. You know, in hindsight, it's really tricky to know, good at that event right now I'm not even going to do it which is actually kind of a smart strategy yeah all things wait oh maybe you know and in hindsight it's really tricky to know but yeah yeah that's but I agree with what you're saying it's weird how

some of the events for some of the people or you talk about the last event which was stones we get to that like people were doing like 40 of them yes I mean yeah and we'll get to that but yeah that's a perfect example. So yeah, I guess deadlift though.

Anything else noteworthy on that? No, there was no, I mean, that was the most fun thing for me personally was the deadlift. And I just felt like I could hear the crowd, uh, hear the crowd and stuff. And it was just really fun.

I felt like that was the most, uh, pumped up. I've been lifting in, I don't know very rarely have ever been that excited and i could i mean i could tell like you you could the way it was moving and it was obvious that you were pumped up and you were feeling it i'm like i think tanner could do a million of these like there's nothing that's what i felt like i mean

when it got done i i'm not saying i wasn't tired but i you know if i had a reason i think i could have done like 25 i don't even know like you gotta go out and do that again in a couple minutes okay yeah let's go uh one other thing this is really funny i forgot on the log press i think it might have been my second one because i'd already messed up at least one and i heard a woman from the bleachers i don't know who it was but she yelled i was about ready to before go start say, you have to stop holding back. And it was loud. And it was like at a point where I could hear nothing else but that. And I swear to God, it threw me off so much because it was like funny to me.

And I'm at a moment and I'm trying to be so in the zone. And I just like, it caught me. It just, it was just like, I wanted to burst out laughing in that moment like that you you have to stop holding back and uh I just I just thought that that was I just I'm not sure who that was the timing of that I loved the time I'm like oh god as someone that likes to say stupid things like I really appreciate the that comment and the timing of it um you have to stop holding back like ah yes this is someone that's in on the joke uh then the shield carry which the shield was the mystery all weekend right that was the mystery and

everyone got to see it was the south dakota shield of course and i don't know what everyone's take on the shield was it's a bitch uh that shield's kind of a bitch this is if i can give the most abridged version of it is yeah it looked pretty hard until you saw tim go and you're like why is that so freaking easy and then he was sprinting he just picked it up and just took off running and it was like what the hell is but, but that is Tim. Like that is Tim with strongman stuff is the ones he's good at. He is so good at it. And I just, I mean,

it was, it, I'm, I can't even think of what to compare it to. It was like, he was grabbing groceries out of the car. I was like, I gotta get in the house quick with these.

And he just went around. I better, I better run fast. He just went around and around and around. It was, it didn't even look like he was doing the same event as anyone else on that one. Yeah.

And the shield, as I hope, it made for awesome pictures. I see Big Sam. I think that's such a cool picture when you see someone gritting it out, holding the shield, the shape like South Dakota. With the Masonomics seal on the front. That's everything that I had kind of pictured and hoped that it could be. That's what that did turn into, that I'm like, I love the look of that.

The shield, some of the real, also the spotters and loaders in general on Strongman, they did an awesome job, and that job sucks. Yes. That job sucks. They were dragging stall mats around all day. And then Big Brad, I i think is the one that primarily got tasked with the pad man for the shield which is an that's uh impossible job like he did awesome he did and that is just that is the worst most stressful job that is worse than

doing the event i was watching that one i was sitting next to paul and bryce and it was pretty quickly into that event we're watching and i think it was paul and bryce and it was pretty quickly into that event we're watching and i think it was paul's like oh my god that is the worst job a person could ever have you're on edge constantly yeah and then bryce it's like shortly later he's like wow i just can't get over how bad that job would suck like we just couldn't overstate how how terrible it looked to do that yes um he did awesome though like all good credit to him then there's people like me that do like i gave him no communication like was there a legit concern that the shield would break like completely unknown okay you know this is a completely custom fabricated thing and we're

dropping it on a three-quarter inch rubber stall mat which it just has nothing but concrete underneath of it and you know like when i did it it's weighs 250 pounds and i just dropped like just i didn't do this on purpose i was my goal was to be the most careful with this because i'm i have the you know well i've just dropped it face know I'm like well everyone's got a freak a free pass now that's what I was like like I literally was just disgusted with myself when I did that though too but I don't I

just like the lights went out and I'm just like like because I was going good I needed to make it just to the end of my run to tie Tim and that's what I wanted to do just because it's like I'm always thinking like what looks Tim. And that's what I wanted to do just because it's like, I'm always thinking like what looks cool for the, you know, what's going to be fun and exciting for people.

And I'm like, okay, I think I can just grid out making the end of this last half down there. And it just, I wouldn't say my grip slipped. I just like everything slipped. Like my body was like, yeah, I don't even know what i would say gave i was like my whole my whole everything gave and uh i told brad i'm like oh yeah sorry about he said damn it brad why did you do that like brad you bastard this is all your fault but the shield did survive right i mean the shield made it through all the events yeah it's a little

uh we gotta minorly fix a couple things on that to for it to be in full service again if if that is something that needs to be used again i mean it's mostly going to be a dust collector for the short term anyways so yeah it's just fine and it survived through the event and that's all i really cared about after that i'm like well we'll straighten the rest out later but it made it through the event which I was really happy and it looked cool yeah there were some people that were on the pain train get it you know where you're like people gritting out every inch of a step and from a strategy point it's it's interesting to see some people try to reposition it and you know take it to your knees and that i cannot do that because once i you know getting back going with that thing is going to be impossible for me i know and also everyone grabbed it differently like so many people like everyone

had their hands in different spots i still to this day i'm not positive what i would tell people the right thing to do it also depends on your body size and proportions too like it's right yeah like i don't know if anyone really did it like the way i did it like i don't know that anyone quite did the same thing i did because i have one arm that was just like underneath of it and then i'm not even really touching it with my hand um but then so I'd kind of dinged up my, I guess, is my brachialis on the log press. And I was very aware of that. And then on the shield, I guess my brachialis and my bicep, which are right next to each other, were just like so flared up from that. that like it felt like i had the pump in my tendon almost where i'm like god why does my tendon feel like it's like a rubber band that's like it's like a three-quarter inch thick rubber band right now that's just like on fire it just felt really bad when i cooled down a little from the shield

i'm like that feels really bad right now know, something in there is not quite right. Anything else on the shield, though? We probably don't want to. No, yeah, those are my takeaways. Yeah, and then we moved on to the stone, which the stone battle was absolutely crazy, especially the women's class. The women's class and the big but new men's novice class was absolutely insane.

Yeah, it's one of those where you see max reps. We've seen this before in previous ones we've had. Is it max reps five or is max reps 55? And for some people it was 55 or whatever that number was. It was a really big number. Chris Mark. Yeah, Chris Mark went crazy on that. The man with two names and then also Seth to

pass him up at the end there. That was just insane. I mean Colton actually did a lot of reps in that one too. Keith did too. Everyone in the novice, actually everyone in the big but new novice class did really well on all the events. Keith I know was his first strongman and I

guess I can't remember if I talked to him specifically about it but I think he kind of did well on all the events i know i guess he didn't get as much as he wanted on the log like a lot of people did but um the other ones i'm guessing he did quite well on the shield even he was like very slow and steady and that 220 pound shield that they're doing is not light no like that was only 30 pounds less than what we were doing and that thing freaking sucks um and then the women megan and lacy had a crazy battle on the stones too going like 30 some also and then in the big men class tim was a league above everyone else honestly toby did really toby did really well and then tim was a like just

watching him do everyone you're like this is not hard at all the same thing it was i was sitting next to at this point now i had moved over to some of the minnesota department of lifter safety guys who were sitting there actually right behind him and i can't remember who said it they go oh this skinny guy we'll see how this goes and i'm like oh just you wait and then after the same thing the very first rep like oh god like you just know you're in for a long ride when you see tim basically just underhand it right over the bar like there's nothing to it it's like it's like picking up a softball for him just whoop some of keith posted a picture of big chris i assume today wherever he's at his forums are

still hurting uh from the look of that uh uh it was fun everyone getting all tackied up and walking around just covered in tacky before the stones stone event i put on way more tacky than i ever had i would imagine those stones have a lot of tacky on them after those events yeah um i was the last to get to come in on stones because i was i because whatever the order works and i did five and on every one my arm was hurting increasingly worse and uh and tim might have been yeah tim might have been getting faster on each one for all i could tell and he was up to like 17 and like by the time i did like my second or literally by my second or third one i was realizing okay there's literally no chance of me doing anything in this because what i'm really

thinking is like this is really lame and anticlimactic if i just quit giving me the second tim started going i was instantly having major flashbacks of Tim and Brad going out on the circus dumbbell for, I mean, an hour it felt like. It was just an absolute just marathon. Yeah. So the way my arm was hurting, I didn't think

I was going to catch Toby on his 10, and then I'm realizing I'm not going to, like, Tim is, nothing will stop him. I'm like, I'm not going to like Tim is nothing will stop him. And I'm like, I'm like, I'm probably doing everyone a favor if I just stop here at five and like I don't get hurt and Tim can stop. Do stop this madness. And so that was the end. And I think we're the last ones done. And then it was over.

Then it was like full on cleanup mode. Then it felt like the day was actually starting. It was, that was the worst part of the whole weekend. I was just like, no, I think we got done at 6 PM. Yeah.

And I, in my head, I'm just like, yep, there's no way this is all getting out of here tonight. There's just, we've gone too long. Everyone's done.

Everyone's hot. Everyone's tired. Yep. But if awards are going to take another hour, yep, this stuff is going to, we're going to be messing with this tomorrow morning. And you were dead set. I was like, no, this is going back. And we're loading stuff up.

You're like, I'm taking all the, and I mean, it was awesome. Like the number of people that were like, yeah, we're going to the gym. Like you guys bailed out and just started unloading stuff. And, uh, yeah, And yeah, I was between, I was not doing anything that hard, but I was also running around like with my head cut off between awards and the booth

and just everyone asking me questions. I mean, it was just like, it felt like it was a thousand things going on at once. Yeah, it was a madhouse. We should, we did have a couple others to call. Oh yes, yes.

I guess to wrap up the strongman, I will get, let's try Big Brad here. See if we can get Big Bradad on the horn actually just uh as long as we're talking about the brad pad a call from aberdeen can only mean one thing uh brad pad brad the pad brad the pad in the flesh i don't know if you heard us talking, Brad, if you were listening live. I think maybe it looks like we were trying to give you your due on having the hardest job of the weekend, I think. Yeah, I was unaware of what I was getting myself into.

I was curious of how you even got suckered into that job. Yeah, how exactly did you end up being the guy with the pad? Because there was about a handful of you that it could have been. Did you take the initiative? Did somebody hand it to you? Did you know what you were getting into? What was the exact moment in time when you became the pad man? Yeah, so I think Jake did it himself the first time,

and then I was just happily sitting next to him, and he handed it to me, and I figured, well, he just wanted me to hold this, and then I then became Brad the pad at that moment. Sam wants to know if you got to take the pad home with you. I did. I did not get to take the pad home, but I'm thinking about buying one and just like, you know, Alison comes home from work, just throw it at her, you know, in case she drops.

Did you really get an advertisement from Belzo steel for crash pads like the day later oh yeah yeah literally i'm sitting at the uh i'm sitting at the airport and like my first sponsored ad is bells of steel crash pads yeah the same one i was throwing at you guys do you uh have you like woken up in chills that night like think it like like night thinking that you're getting chased by the shield and that you need to get the pad underneath of it? It's a bad recurring nightmare. I've had some dreams. Oh, yeah. The event has definitely been in my dreams.

Other funny comment. I think I told you this at the zoo, Brad. I was sitting with Paul and Bryce while this was going on and they're like, you had one of those neck fans on and I think everyone thought you had headphones on and they had made the comment, oh maybe he could hear the guys better if he took his headphones off because

they were getting the neck fan confused. Yeah, no, just the Allison gave me her neck fan that she wears when she goes to my Highland Games events because it's usually hotter than hell out there. So, yeah, it did help a little bit. Not much, but a little. Well, just want to say you did do really well.

That is a really difficult job, and you did a great job. So, congratulations on, I would say, being being the unsung hero but really i think everyone knows how shitty it was and is trying to sing the praises of how well you did i appreciate i did actually watch that event back today while i was lifting down there in the uh in the gym and you know what it wasn't as bad as i remember it and we we got it we we got the pad in there you know most of the time and we got better as it went on. We learned from our mistakes and we learned to communicate better. If there's a next time, I think we'll have it down to a science.

There's always a next time. I think Tron and I said that next time we're just going to do the power lifting because it seems less stressful. Yeah. It's just being, just do it. A full day of competing is less, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Do you think you will compete next year?

Yeah, I think. If there is next year, I guess we haven't covered that, but assuming there would be. Assuming there would be, I do plan on getting my first powerlifting meet in. So we're just going to send it, assuming my master's joints can keep doing it. We'll send it. Hey, there's all kinds of old dudes in on this.

Nobody's really old. No one's old when everyone's old. It'd actually be funny to know what the average age of competitors was. It's old. It's older than that than your typical powerlifting meet i think you know there's a like uh tommy you and i as mid to even me getting in later 30s we are not old there yeah i'm actually at a normal powerlifting meet you would be and there you're almost like in the middle caleb was probably the youngest guy in my actually no there

was one guy that was like 18, but in my flight of 15, there was like this young guy. I think he was like 18. And then Caleb and he's like 24. And by a lot of standards, 24 is not exactly young either at a powerlifting meet. But in this case it was. Yeah.

Keith asked about the strong man. And Dodzilla would have been the oldest strong man, actually, that we have this year. He's in his mid forties. And then Toby's also in his forties.s and then toby's also in his 40s and then big keith keith are you 40 or just close to 40 you're almost 40 yeah 39 um well brad great job honestly you you really did do a great job and i appreciate you doing that job because it's

fucking terrible so good job i appreciate the love guys i appreciate and is this number 12 on your hall of fame card yo this is number 12 we had to make sure you got uh to number 12 after doing that job so i appreciate you giving me the layup welcome to the hall of fame oh man i i've never been more excited in my entire life all right right. Thanks, Brad. Thanks, Brad. Thanks, guys. See you. Okay. Should we get another one more of the strong men on the horn here? Load them up. We've got one more number already.

Already ready. Let's see here. That job, I just can't understate. I would have a lot of anxiety doing that. Yeah, that'd be a tough one. Now, I'm hoping that this here isn't a really big international call because we're actually going to be calling one of the Davids. Oh, yeah.

So I'm hoping that he's through the royal palace before it kills him. Yeah, I'm hoping he's not in the UK here or something with the king. Oh. Big David, is that you? Yeah, this is me. Who's this? Calling from Aberdeen at 8.30pm. Oh, you don't worry, but we actually we noticed you might have lost a couple belongings here. This is the

Aberdeen City lost and found. We were checking and we found some spare beans on toast. Any idea who those belong to? And a Union Jack. Those could be mine. Yeah, those could be mine. The joke's on you. This is a British number, so you're roaming. I was just...

Yeah, I don't like that. This is going to be an expensive call isn't it absolutely Big David so you did compete in the Strongman we actually got to compete together right along in the same class which I thought was a lot of fun I've never gotten to compete with a British person before we did it was a big

surprise yeah biggest surprise of the day to see one of the hosts or both of the hosts competing but one of the hosts competing in Strongman. Yeah, especially like so last minute with no preparation. Yeah, yeah, you just jumped in last second. It was awesome. You did well, of course.

I think the most impressive moment to me, one of the things I really liked and enjoyed seeing of the whole weekend is you on the deadlift attempting it two or three times, it not budging, and you like getting pissed or maybe not pissed, what you can tell me, but coming back to it and then getting a successful rep at that point. Yeah, yeah, so I know you mentioned Big Tim skipping this event, and that was actually my plan too, even the week before 405 hadn't moved. So I kind of threw my toys out the pram, the stroller, whatever, and I didn't bring my deadlift socks and I didn't bring my straps. I'm like, I'm just going to skip that event like big teams plan uh and then i got to the event and you know the the the buzz and the excitement and and just wanting to maybe maybe put on a little bit of

a show uh i thought i'd give it a shot it was a good show yeah seeing someone to get that when it's when it's obvious you know when it's it's tough, that's the type of thing that makes for a good show. Yeah, so I'm really pleased I did it. Thanks to Victoria for lending me straps because, like I said, I didn't have mine. But, yeah, it was fun and it was really the crowd and just the atmosphere that did that. Yeah, that's cool.

Tommy, I told David a couple times, I didn't realize he's taller in person than what I thought. I think I said that to him too, I believe. Okay. Kind of a tall guy over there. I guess that's a compliment, I guess. Yeah, that was part of the fun thing. I may have been on another similarly themed podcast earlier today.

One of my... One of my sister podcasts, yeah. The only other podcast. One of my main feedbacks, I mean, you guys in person, I know most of you, I know most of your faces, I know most of your personalities, I most of your you know personalities i guess uh but seeing some of the you know especially the more extreme body types that there are in a lifting adjacent uh group yeah uh was definitely fun yeah tommy was definitely thick thicker a little thicker than he looks on on screen uh in real life um, and a few others for sure. But yeah.

I really like the phrase in extreme body types. That's a nice way of saying the way we all want to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was actually a little bit disappointed. I mean, I've actually seen Big Trey in person before a couple times. But after seeing Big Tyler early in the day Big Trey walking in wasn't super

impressive sorry Trey but Tyler is a huge man Tyler's bigger than Trey like just to put right like Tyler is a large man yeah

absolutely what was your, what was your favorite part of the weekend? Uh, your first time here at the lift hard, live easy classic. Yeah, I think, I think, uh, I mean, competing was certainly, uh, the most, the most, uh, exciting, uh, the most fun, but just, you know, walking into pounders, walking into your house, walking into the OD and, and seeing people in person for the first time, but, but knowing them right. Already knowing them. It just,

it was just a really fun, fun group and a fun, a fun way to spend a weekend. Yeah. It is a really fun. And if you think about it really weird, all these people, like even like even you know so all the people i've met i met like half of them a year before but then this year again there's still another half that i'm like i know who they are and i've probably listened to them talk for two hours on another podcast even and probably watched their memes and their four years right and like I actually know this person,

but have yet never talked to them in my life. It is a weird thing. Like, it doesn't feel weird, but if I think about it, it is a weird, not typical scenario. Yeah. Yeah, and you can really just jump, you know, into this small talk.

Right, just go right into the joke. We don't have time for the, like, pleasantries. Let's just get to the fun stuff. Yeah, yeah. It's definitely strange when you think about it, but it feels really natural. So that was awesome. I'm pumped you made the trip.

I loved bragging about having an English competitor this year. So we have to, next year, I'm really hoping we get having an English competitor this year. Next year, I'm really hoping we get maybe an Australian competitor or how we can continue to increase our geographic footprint on this. Yeah, glad I could help. Yes, excellent. Well done in the Strongman also, too.

It was fun competing with you and watching. Thank you, and well done to you wherever you ended up finishing. Not on the podium. I knew I wasn't there, so I didn't even stay for the awards ceremony. I was so mad about making it. I'm like, I don't want to hang out with these guys anymore. Screw these guys. Yes.

Does this make 11 for you? Are you one shy over the Hall of Fame? This makes 11, so yeah, I guess this weekend I'm doing the backlog. Okay. Well, finish it up so we can get you that Hall of Fame cup. I'll work on it. All right. Thanks, Big David.

Thanks, Big David. Sounds good. Thanks, guys. Tommy, I got one more number here because I think it's one more power lifter just to we'll see any of his

it was a first timer so I kind of do like hearing from the first timers to hear what their take away was you know these old veterans kind of know what to expect but we're going to try and give Big Andrew a ring here. Hello? Ah, Big Andrew, is that you? Yeah, I thought this was a big cigar guy giving me a call here.

For anyone that doesn't know, I'm a pretty big cigar guy these days. I think we all know now. There's also about nine clips of you saying that as well, Taren. I had to cut some of them out because it was just said so many times. I sort of remember that. Sometimes you let the cigars go straight to your head. Big Andrew, first time here in Western Northeast South Dakota, first time in the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic.

You competed full power. Was it your first powerlifting meet ever? It was my first powerlifting meet ever. So what I would ask you is, you know what, I hear Crew and some others making this comment sometimes, like maybe there's a thought like, I wouldn't want that to be my first powerlifting meet. What would your take on this being your first powerlifting meet be?

Oh, yeah. It was great. This is exactly what I would want for my first powerlifting meet. Even though I had some failures, it still was a big win, I would say. You said some failures. Which did some of the i would say um you said some failures so like which did some of the lifts not go as you intended and some did yeah we just won't talk about bench we'll say that we'll say that uh my road for next year is the road to redemption let's call it that you know that's sometimes that's all right to have something to keep you going exactly yeah yeah um yeah that's fun though

i do i but i agree with obviously of course i agree though like i think that this is kind of the perfect first meet for someone because i mean i don't know i guess you haven't done the warm-up room thing and stuff andrew were fellow flight deck one okay you were flight deck one flight deck one flight b guys yeah we pretty much warmed up on every lift together didn't we yeah we did yeah and that was somewhat surreal so you had to deal with this guy all day i'm like arnold and i'm just sabotaging everyone i'm hiding their towels oh you didn't see tommy messing with your the bench? Oh, yeah, after you left, I had to raise all the weights. Remember that we were not fully aware that we were using a squat bar

until Tanner came over. Oh, no. Dylan said he's like, yeah, that's a squat bar. I can't get that. I'm like, ah, yes, it is. That was like my first victory of the day. I'm like, okay, things can feel a That was like my first victory of the day. I'm like, okay, things can feel a little,

I guess, I guess that means everything. Yeah. Everything was a little heavier. That's fine. Yeah. So you're obviously a California guy. What,

what was your favorite part about the trip? Maybe aside from the competing, then what was your, what, what did, what did you enjoy? I would say getting to meet everybody and hanging out uh one of the things that i think was the most special was getting you know going into the actual gym uh like i said before it just from the moment i walked in it just felt very like at home i guess it was just

like it wasn't weird or anything just like all right you know let's just lift yeah and that's what i would want it to be like like that's exactly what i would hope that it's like for everyone that comes but it's like yeah i already like we just talked about it with david i already i already know these guys and i already know this place like i've seen enough stuff and heard enough stuff. Like you said, that's what I would like it to feel like for everyone. That they're like, this is a place for me. Even though I haven't actually been here before, it sure seems like I have. Yeah, it definitely did feel like that. It was awesome. You were in the pretty late night

zoo crew then too on Saturday night night weren't you yeah yeah yeah we we closed that place down it got it got pretty hot and heavy in the patio towards the patio was just oh yeah place yeah yeah people were popping their clothes off. Yeah, there was. Big Caleb was doing strip teases for everyone back there. Yeah, that's true. A couple of big cigar guys out there just living the high life. The cigars were just – I smoked multiple cigars on Saturday night. I smoked cumulatively more cigar on Saturday night than the rest of my life combined.

Oh, gosh. I had my first one in like 20 years. I think I can go another 20 years. Sounds like you're kind of a big cigar guy now. That's what you start saying, and the next thing you know, you're having 10 in a day. One thing, it's funny. Like, I talked to my wife, like, review days after here, like, the experiences. And I'm curious, like, oh, who'd you get to talk to?

Like, because she likes meeting everyone, you know. And she's like, oh, like David, for example. She's like, yeah, I got to talk to David for a while. He was really nice. And I'm just starting, just people kind of my mind, just grilling her of people that I know she'd find interesting and stuff. And I'm like, oh, did you get to talk to Kevin much? You know, he works for NASA and helps at the Arnold's and stuff.

And she's like, oh no, I feel like I didn't, but barely get to talk to him. And I'm like, oh, that's a bummer. He's cool. And then I'm like, oh, what about big Andrew from California? He does a cool stuff. And I, you know, you're not does cool stuff. What's your job title? I know that you're not a geologist. That's not correct.

I'm an archaeologist. I'm like, oh, really interesting. Did you get to talk to him about archaeology or anything like that? She's like, no, I didn't. Then she's bummed about it. Now you're probably on her hit list for next year. No? Okay. Me and Andrew in Big Mofo

were talking a lot about the Warped Tour and early 2000s punk music. I had a lot of fun doing that. That's cool. That's fun. Those are the things that are just really cool. We are obviously super pumped you made it. Is this number 12 on the Hall of Fame checklist?

12 will be this Sunday. Okay, yeah. When I hit my two years this Sunday. So as long as my credit card doesn't get canceled. I'm going to be watching it pretty closely to make sure you don't try and pull a fast one and decline that payment just beforehand.

Assuming that will be then, congratulations on the Hall of Fame. Well done. Thank you. I'm very happy that I have beaten MoFo. He's listening live right now, so he's probably cursing at a screen as we speak. Awesome. We obviously appreciate

you coming. It was a lot of fun. I appreciate you guys putting it on. It was wonderful. of fun. Yeah, I appreciate you guys putting it on. It was wonderful. Thank you. All right, we'll see you next time we see you. Thanks, McGandry. All right, thanks. All right, bye.

That's the last one, Tommy. Worldwide cool beans there. Cool beans for everyone all around. I mean, we could call 1,000 people and stuff, but I just wanted to call a thousand people and stuff but yeah I just wanted to get a little candid stuff from some of the people that were there but that did bring us to

Saturday we made it to the zoo actually we're talking about the cleanup I picked up the last trailer the fucking Jake will be listening somewhere also also first of all i gotta say everyone that helped oh god load stuff up at the end of it i'm so appreciative of it

because it sucks so much and it is like an enormous burden that i'm just like so worried about like it's just like the last thing you want to how am i how are we going to get all this equipment back into the gym you know connor and grant step up help so much uh anthony uh anthony's brother tron and zach i i mean i know there's a ton of other people yeah kendall kendall is another one i need to mention there those guys helping me with equipment i can't put a price. So helpful. Like I just would have been, would have been just so totally fucked without those guys. So I really am thankful for that because that,

that is a bitch too. That was like two and a half hours of just working really fricking hard, like just hard shitty work. And I'm just, you know, we loaded my, uh, scams posted a picture of my pickup yeah

and it was loaded to the nuts yeah she was uh talk about low and slow that trip to the gym on that was low we had a lot of equipment on there and it was not strapped down the way it probably should be so it was uh just improvise very cautious trip but um that sucks that sucks and i know you were there kind of facilitating everything because there was still a ton of stuff to be done you know i'm just we're just like the equipment is still just one piece of the puzzle at that point honestly you know there's an entire arena there was our booth tables chairs booths all our massonomics everywhere just you think you're done with the massonomics store mobile version when we have a booth like that like i mean it is like the fulfillment center on wheels that we have to get then back to my house yeah there was a lot there was a lot going

on it was busy and luckily i'm sure you know there's a lot of people helping there thank christ there was like i was never also very long because dave is uh tearing down the rest of his stuff yeah so we got everything and then the last thing was uh zach and jake and you guys got my trailer out of there and jake i think went on hook it from zach's car and it broke the i was using a cinder block as a jack stand basically for the trailer and it snapped it and you know the trailer was down all the way to the like in the mud into the mud basically and i went i was like i really just want to get this trailer out of here because then everything's gone from the od and i would just i want it at home also because it's got all of our

massonomics belongings sitting in it so i don't really want it you know it's like races night at the fairgrounds right just like strange people i'm like i just want this at home where i feel good about it and the way you load a trailer like that typically to like for making sure it all fits is you put everything towards the front and like that's what we usually always do and i i not not even having to look at the trailer i already know what it looks like in the trailer like the hit it's all in the front uh-huh and i go to try and pick that up once you know get i brought a new block to put it on and i go to try to pick it up and i'm like i cannot budge this right now like i cannot do it and i tried it

another time i'm like oh fuck i just it might as well this might weigh 10 000 pounds like it might as well and like i was just about ready to leave for the night and i'm like one more try i am going to like give this like i'm like i got one more try and i'm even thinking i know i'm a strong guy i just did a bunch of strong stuff. I can do this. I can pick this fucking thing up out of the mud just one time and get this home tonight. And I'm not lying. I took everything I had. It was an RPE 10 trailer pickup and I got it up onto the block.

And I was like that, like for as good as I felt during the deadlift, I was like, that is my crowning achievement for the night is getting this up out of the mud and onto this jack stand so i can get out of here tonight when i went to your house the next day and you're like oh yeah i loaded up the truck i thought for sure the first thing we're gonna do is drive out to the od and load that thing onto the hitch and you're like no i got it i i was in shock when you said that that's that was the

strongest thing i did that weekend i promised that like that and then so i got done i think i got home at like 8 30 p.m and i took the fastest shower of my life and i had tech called mary you know like 30 minutes before i'm like hey i should be back soon if i get this trailer you be ready because i want to go i want to be there now i want to be there 30 minutes ago you know i i don't want to miss another second, and I still hadn't had a beer. I had not had a second to drink a beer, and I'm like, I want a beer bad, really bad. So a quick one, and then what time did you get to the zoo? I think I got there at 9.

Okay, so we probably got there about the same time. And what made me feel a little better, I thought I was so, so late. And when I was walking up, me, Ryan, and Caleb actually went together. My wife had been there for like two hours. She got there like 7 or 7.30. She was just there chilling. But I was walking by. So was there people there at 7 and stuff?

No, no. She called. She's like, we're the only, there's literally no one else here. We're the only ones here. And then like an hour later, it's the same thing. I feel like people went earlier last year. Well, I think because we were done. Well, it got done earlier.

Yeah. But I was thinking I was very late until we parked in the parking lot by the zoo and we're walking up by dempsey's and i looked and everyone was still eating at dempsey's and i thought okay i'm sitting just fine so we got there at about probably the a good we must have walked in at almost the same time as each other right and it was a fun night oh yeah i had so much fun it was a blast going to a bar i mean first of all it's the zoo and i think the last time i was there was probably last year for this definitely was for me you know every person in there and you're just bouncing from person to person and it just gets more crazy as it goes i didn't have my voice my voice was completely gone

i couldn't even yeah like though actually that might be the worst i didn't have my voice my voice was completely gone i couldn't even yeah like though actually that might be the worst i've ever lost my voice in my life i'm listening back to the clips and it's like painful listening to me talk yeah i probably was in the same boat i was just trying to tell everyone thanks because i was so appreciative i'm just i'm feeling so happy at the end of that night and just like so glad that everyone was there it's just that's the type of thing you're like ah this could never end i know somehow that would be the sit here and drink forever just keep this party going forever oh there's just so many dumb things that happen at the texas powerbomb texas powerbomb shots and dylan we were down at the shot bar and dylan paid the dj to play slow

ride oh yeah and it was so much fun dude i, I have so many clips of that, of us just free. Actually, there were so many clips of that. And then we have a picture of the 12 shots lined up, and all it is is my arm sticking out, and everyone's clinging in together. And then it gets to Matt, and Matt has his singlet on on the dance floor. Yes, Matt wore a singlet.

The more I watch more of the clips, the stupider it gets, because there's so much going on all the time. It was a blast. Also, other notes, I'm just looking at Sam. Big Sam did do the strongman and the powerlifting both, which is insane. I am going to make a note of this. It's too much to talk about in this episode. I'm making a note right now.

But to be continued next week's episode i want to talk about sam's warm-up warm-up routine i'm adding that right now to asana we will be discussing sam's warm-up routine which is that that is a mad man is just stay tuned everyone's going to want to hear about how big sam warms up for lifting yep i can't miss that otherwise anything else on the zoo party eventually everyone ends up on the just stay tuned. Everyone's going to want to hear about how big Sam warms up for lifting. Yep. I can almost that. Otherwise the zoo party, eventually everyone ends up on the patio because you know, you can smoke cigars,

whatever. All us cigar guys got together on the patio. I probably spent, I was probably 50, 50 the whole night. We'd be out on the patio for a half hour, come in for a half hour, go up.

I mean, we kept bouncing back, but there was one point where when later on in the night when i walked up to the patio and the entire patio was just smoke it was just it was always out there was well and then dylan comes with his drawstring bag they never even dawned on me that he has this backpack on all night right i don't even think like oh what's going on there and all of a sudden it's like the moment he was waiting for that thing comes out and a jar of cigars, just there's cigars going everywhere. All of a sudden the grand crew Royale was going wild.

Oh, that was fun. What a night. Yeah. Uh, too many, too many fun memories to have already halfway forgotten about that even actually, I think I'll be excited to see some of the footage on YouTube. Give you a little recap, a little mental refresher. And, uh, like I said,

we had our, we got, uh, my wife and I got an Uber or a Lyft back and we made them go through McDonald's drive through. So we should have gotten two McGriddles and, um, having not eaten for 14 hours at that point,

that'll do it. They were about what I needed. And then Sunday morning you came over and we unloaded the trailer. Yep. Of the, the mass dynamics booth trailer. And then, uh,

I stopped at the gym barefoot actually brought me those shoes at the gym. Cause I did kind of didn't have time or forgot about it at the, so the bear, uh, Shelby and Ryan were down at the gym, a whole bunch of people down at the gym on sunday doing strongman and hanging out and lifting yeah i was i saw the videos it looked like everyone was having it was a packed house it looked like everyone was having a good time

unfortunately there was a birthday party i had to get back to sioux falls for so unfortunately i missed out on some of the fun but and then the uh, for the people flying home, the nightmarish travel. God, it just was, uh, I can only imagine. So bad. Some people,

there's a few people that they're getting more time out of everyone's control, but like what a terrible coincidence of timing. We didn't talk about though. Like if that, if that glitch had happened a day earlier, that basically would have wiped out. We would have been screwed. Yeah.

We would have been totally screwed. Big Sam said he spent 72 hours extra in Aberdeen and 54 hours in Minneapolis. Or maybe 72 hours. 72 hours in Aberdeen total. Yeah, in Aberdeen, but also spent 54 hours in Minneapolis. And not Minneapolis, the Minneapolis airport.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh. That's brutal. That sucks. That's kind of the weekend in a nutshell right i mean as yeah much of a nutshell as over two hours is yeah not really a nutshell it was i mean but it's there's just so much that we could talk about for four more hours easy right right between the videos and everything else coming out you'll uh you'll you'll get more of a feel for it it was

so much fun though well and big keith's question which this is always this is the question if there's a we'll follow up question it's actually amazing we have not even said one thing to tell about this yet have we like completely true statement right now tommy and i have not discussed for a second the possibility of the lh le3 and i do like that moniker for it but the possibility of the LHLE3. And I do like that moniker for it, but the Lift Hard Live Easy 3, we have not talked about it at all. I don't know how prepared I am to talk that much about it.

There's something about being like, well, this one doesn't even really feel like it's done yet. How can I talk about the next one? Right. I mean, if you're going to pin me down and make me tell you one thing or another, doesn't even really feel like it's done yet how could i talk about the next one right i mean if you're gonna pin me down and make me tell you one thing or another i mean yeah we're pro like i just i don't know how we can not do it i know but like if i'm being completely honest also here's part of what my concern starts to become about it year one was awesome

who brought on all these crew it was great year two even better it's bigger we bring in more crew um a bunch of people are here for their second time for the first but i have some thought like do we ever get to a point where everyone's like ah i guess i did it already yeah or i've done two or three times right i'm good taking a year or two and i mean there's always people like there's enough people globally or you know there's all the couple there's all area and like you just see all these people that like in the crew that comment oh gosh i still couldn't get there this year next year is the year so there's you know there's going to be as many new people as there

was this year or and there's probably that many new people next year rotating in and out right and there's also people like big eddie that didn't make it this year but does he make it next year so it's like oh he's back and then like yeah that's just i mean there probably always is a stream of people that can make it work but i said it's the it's the classic thing of just you think how do you ever outdo something like how do you just always outdo something you know the the strongman classic that we did at the fair, obviously a much smaller scale than this, but at the time it didn't feel like it. At the time it felt like this thing that we're growing, but it kind of got to the point where I just thought,

nothing left for us on that. Also what happened there is the people we had to go through from logistics made life hell. Like they just made things worse and worse. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, mean i guess we gotta do it and like it is also like the funnest weekend of my life you know it is awesome it is so much i this is not a complaint because it's like i you know i kind of live for it in a way but

just being real it is so much work it is just like i can't even describe the amount of work it's it's the number of almost unbearable the amount of work hours in stuff before i've done anything and then actually it's like whoo that's done and i'm like oh no i'm up till like 11 30 last night editing video and it's like that's also never really done also we have videos to talk about this for the next three weeks like this isn't actually done for another month still but it is like and it's a huge deal for our company and for it is yes and and everyone's so appreciative of it of it but i mean also just there again from a selfish point of view it's so much fun for myself personally too you know it'd be like i would i would feel like i'm missing out on this thing personally even outside of massonomics because Cause I'm just like, and I swear to God, I made a meme about it.

But the other day it's like, I'm out mowing my yard again. And I'm like, Oh, it feels kind of boring around here. Not knowing like 200 of my good buddies. Aren't all going to come hang out with me. Like, cause like all summer, like I'm kind of thinking about that. It's like a thing in the back of my mind where I'm like, yeah, soon it's, you know, just around the corner, Everyone's going to come. It's going to be so much fun.

I can't wait. And then when it's over, it's like, oh. Back to normal life. Yeah. That's like kind of miss all of that now too. So it's actually weird. There's a lot of thoughts and things, just a number of thoughts in every direction on that. Yeah. It's,

I feel like between doing this and the Arnold a few times now, my brain is mentally prepared more for what happens after you're done. Like the first time we did this and also the first time we did the Arnold, it's like, how does anything in life ever top that? And you're like, well, just wait the next year.

We'll top that. And the next year we'll top that. And yeah, it's just, you're just riding such a high that when you're when it's done it's just like the wind is out from your sails and it's just like oh how do i just back to normal life i guess he said need to hire movers for that next year i honestly don't think there's any price you could pay like you would have to pay people so much money, like an actual moving company,

like to do all, to take all that, like out, like, like the Atlas stones, for example, they'd be like, uh,

yeah, no, like we're not doing that. Yeah. There is no, you know, some of that stuff is almost not a job that you can hire people to do well part of the problem with some of that too is that at the end of the day you still sort of need to be telling

people where yes things go a little bit but things yeah you kind of have to direct traffic yeah some of that stuff and i just relies on people helping too like there's no way to if if people don't help then then none of it works. You know, like, without all the people that are willing to help, then the whole thing crumbles, honestly. Yes, yes, it does. I got a lot of, I talked about all the cans. We got a lot of cans to get to in the future weeks.

I also just have a couple things because they're sitting right in front of me. weeks i also just have a couple things because they're sitting right in front of me um big quinn cunningham gave me this uh arapapo county sheriff's office coin oh that's cool so i've got that that's cool this is absolutely insane uh tron oh yes got this book this was originally This is originally printed in 1879, and it is by William Blakey. This is a, you know, a reproduct—you know, this is not— It's a reprint. —original printed, but I'll put this up so you can hopefully see it. But the title of the book is—I've got to read this again. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So. He found this book, and hopefully you can read this again. How to get strong and how to stay.

So he found this book and he can, hopefully he can read it there. How to get strong and how to stay. So written in 1879, essentially the 1879 version of how to get strong, how to stay strong and how to use your strength. That is nuts. When I saw that at your house. Nothing we've ever done is original,

is it? No, nothing is. When I saw it at your house I just could not believe it yeah just time is a flat circle right I haven't read it yet he said he read some of it I actually am wanting to read I do

want to see what it's actually even about no he told he gave me a little synopsis of what he thought and I just can't remember no but like one of the chapters forearm work He gave me a little synopsis of what he thought, and I just can't remember now. But like one of the chapters, forearm work. Exercises for the triceps muscle. It actually is an exercise book. To strengthen and develop the hand.

To enlarge and strengthen the front of the chest. To broaden and deepen the chest itself. Daily work for children. Exercises for young men. Exercise for women. Exercise for businessmen. exercises for young men exercise for women exercise for businessmen uh daily exercise for consumptives i don't know what that term means something racist i don't know one of the according to amazon it's one of the first ever books written on the subject of training

for strength maybe we maybe we both need to read this and do a book a book review i must have in your physical culture library yeah interesting how to get strong and how to stay so so thank you tron also just digging this up but the name of this is just i love it yeah that is crazy and the fact that it looks that old too yeah i love it. Yeah, that is good. It's crazy. And the fact that it looks that old, too. Yeah, I love it. Got other things here, all the stickers we talked about and all that stuff. Quick note, we talked about Murph winning best female lifter. Big Matthias Cash won best male lifter.

And then for the mask awards, Big Tyler Thompson won the mass trophy big cody won one of the mass uh big lacy won one of the masks and then big seth won one of the uh special mass and then the wooden plate coveted wooden plate awards help me out here strongest couple was ryan and leah anderson yep um silliest goose was ryan johnson jacked and ginger yep seth won uh best package jess ryan's choice we'll save that for last because what's the other one there's one other one right uh most injured most injured quinn cunningham right hip replacement surgery stole that one out from underneath of ryan correct and then the most coveted award of the weekend brian's choice award went to big chest sesney and i missed all of that but i assume those

people were excited everyone every one of those because they're just such wild card awards everyone's caught off guard nobody knows that that. Like when it's you, you're like, Oh, it's me. What did I do to get this? You know, it's a,

yeah. So it was like Katie reading those off or Dave or you. I presented those. I present. Okay. They're like, Oh dude, do your thing.

Yeah. Yeah. That was fun. That one. I would have liked to have seen that, but that was, it might be on the live stream. Maybe I get to,

can go look at that still. Oh, actually I never never even thought to look i don't know if any of that is yeah what else anything else on the lift hard live easy classic weekend oh i mean there's definitely other things but it's just hard to remember everything because it's such a wild crazy and fun weekend well this episode was brought to us by our fine friends over at juggernaut ai you can check them out at juggernaut ai.app it was the programming that tommy used to bring that a lot of people yeah a lot of people that were using right uh and you used it to bring yourself back to the platform after a six-year hiatus and hitting numbers that you haven't touched in six years if anything your squat had gone so well that it actually did go to,

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my mom really looks forward to this weekend. Also she'd probably be mad at me if we didn't do this again in the future. So just another person to add to the list. Just more added pressure needing to make this a fun weekend. Yes. Oh, no. Look at Scant's picture. Oh, Scant.

You hound dog, you. Yeah. At the zoo. what a fun picture though like isn't that like if you describe that picture out loud uh scantz standing there he's looking up and uh your mom and your aunt are both giving him kisses on the cheek which is hilarious at the zoo yes and he's got his lip silkies on. Yeah. That's good. Excellent. That's it. It was awesome. I guess there's no real way to thank everyone. Yeah.

Just, again, thank you to everyone that competed, visited, spectated, bought stuff, supported in any way. It was an incredible weekend. I'm still trying to catch up. Oh, I'm so tired. I just can't. trying to catch up. Oh, I'm so tired. I just can't. I can't get caught up. I'm so tired.

I'm like that every day. Like I'm that tired all the time. Yeah. I guess that's just what I'm like now. I was born tired. Molded by it. First time I wasn't tired from the Lifty Harden ABG Classic.

I was a man. By that time, it was blinding. That's what I feel like, though, honestly. It's crazy. I know. I am so glad that everyone came. I'm glad that it really makes it feel nice when everyone comes together.

I know. When everyone comes together all at the same time, that just makes you feel good. It doesn't get any better than that. Then everyone comes together all at the same time, that just makes you feel good. It doesn't get any better than that. Then everyone coming all at once. Check out Mass Dynamics YouTube. We've got more content coming out. There should be some fun videos on that.

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snapback hats, which the hats are awesome. Yeah. I love, like those hats just look cool, people wearing those around. And then we have, like, four pairs of our squats shorts left, so you're probably screwed on those. Sold like hotcakes.

Yeah. Is that kind of all the stuff, Tommy? I think so. Yeah, we could talk about it for five hours, but we're both, we just can't do that. No. We can't do it. We could, but we can't. We could talk about it for five hours, but we're both we just can't do that. We could, but we can't. We can't. So, Tommy, where do they find you at? You can find me at Tomahawk underscore D.

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