Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 435: Two Time Strongest Man on Earth Trey Mitchell

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

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

If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! side everything massonomics welcome back everyone for an extra special episode 435 of the massonomics podcast we are the lifting podcast about nothing we are marshall and my name is tanner and my name is tommy sometimes i ask myself what would would Huck Finn do again? The straight coat plates are made in the USA. It's been a while since we've recorded. How long do you think it's been, Tommy?

A while. It's been one week since you looked at me. Yeah, it's been about one week. Actually, you're right. It's been about one week since you looked at me. If I remember right, you cocked your head to the side and said you're right. It's been about one week since you've looked at me. If I remember right, you cocked your head to the side and said you're angry. It's all coming back to me. New sound on my board.

I'm pretty proud of it. The board is electric over there. The board's blowing up. The big debate in scenarios is it's been a while. Or it's been one week since you looked at me it's one or the other it's either been a while or it's been a week that bare naked ladies really kicks

and they just don't make them like that anymore do they they don't make them like they used to do it has been one week since you looked at me and this week's episode, it's extra special. We'll get to many of those special reasons. But first, I want to make sure that you all know that this week's episode is brought to you by our good friends at Build Fast Formula,

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of the preview of the preview of the lift hard live easy classic 2025 this week that's that's what this week's episode is a preview show for the back got full circle here baby the cycle continues i wish I had a Lion King button. If there's one thing I know, there's always next week. There's always next. When it comes to the Massanomics podcast, there is always, there literally is always next week. We do have Big Trey Mitchell is going to be joining us a little later this episode.

We do have multiple, multiple topics to get to. Is there anything you're really hankering to lead off with? I could go one of about six ways here. Oh, let me take a quick look. No, I'm not hankering for anything. I'll let you take the lead here. Okay, I just first want to talk about Big Sam's warm-up routine. Okay, good call. Yes, good call.

Because we didn't get a chance to talk about it last week, so I just want to mention this. Big Sam, of course, he was in our chicken bake eat-off, seven straight days of nothing but chicken bake. And then more recently, he competed at the Lift Hard, Live Easy Classic, competing in not only the powerlifting meet, but the strongman meet both. There can't be too many people that have ever done that in their lives. I think he's done it twice.

I've seen a few people do it around in the crew before but that's pretty intense stuff that's pretty hardcore he's moving some weight too he's not yes that's actually worth noting too i think he's i think he squatted like 600 pounds i think he squatted and deadlifted 600 and benched like 3 80 or something like that and i'm thinking maybe at like 230 i don't know sam's big sam's it's around there. It's somewhere in that region. So good. He put up great power lift, really good power lifting numbers,

and then also did, he said 225 on a good day. And then he also did very well in the strongman competition. None of that is the craziest thing I learned. None of that even matters. None of that is the craziest thing that we learned about none of that is the craziest thing that we learned about big Sam over the weekend. So this is real. This is factual. Uh,

you know, some people witnessed him do it in mass dynamics gym. He explained this to me. I, I have to say at first it took me quite some time to understand that he wasn't just messing with me. I'm like, I'm like,

oh, you're really sticking to this gag hard that, uh, this is what you do. And so here it is his warmup for any lift. We'll use the squat as an example, because that's the example he used big Sam. If I have any details wrong, you go ahead and jump in since you're listening live. But, um, if, uh, he, a lot of times does working sets of upper fours, you know, into the 500 pounds, uh, on squat. So say that day, he's going to do working sets at five plates, four 95.

The first squat that he does for the day is with 495 pounds. He loads up all the plates on the bar and does his first set. And that is the first, he doesn't. So to be clear, he doesn't squat the bar. does his first set and that is the first he doesn't so what to be clear he doesn't squat the bar he doesn't squat 135 he doesn't squat 225 he doesn't squat 315 he doesn't squat 405 he walks in loads all the plates on the bar and does his first set or did he say like at 495 that he might do like a set at four plates or am i remembering that wrong even that'd be a big sam but yeah that's he did anything there was one warm-up set if anything at the most he did i do i know he said this that he can't remember the last time that he squatted under 405 under four

plates yeah he's done a squat with less than four he says right here if i'm doing 505 for two sets of five then my first set is 505 god right it's just i feel like things would be popping and exploding and just breaking on me yeah if i'm going for one i'm assuming that eight rp i might hit a 405 for a pause single is that what he's saying and yeah yeah and i suppose that's a gauge as much as anything if you're shooting for a certain RPE for the day. And he said, that's a strong maybe. You don't want to over-exhaust yourself.

Big Sam, make sure I understand. How about on meet day? So we just had meet day Saturday. First lift of the competition is squat. I assume you opened up in the 500 pounds. What did you do in the warm-up room? Did you take anything in the warm-up room? What was your opening attempt?

And did you, okay. take anything in the warm-up room what was your opening attempt and did you okay he opened at 567 all he did in the warm-up room was 405 for a pause squat 405 for one pause and i assumed nothing prior to that just 405 for one pause squad and then he went out and did 567 for his opener nothing for bench opened at 331 deadlift he did 405 for a single because someone else loaded already and then he went and took his opener which i assume was 550 pounds and he said 67 again like this sounds insane and i mean it is insane but he said his reasoning was after they had had kids or their first time whatever it was yeah he was just so short on time that he started cutting out more and more warm-up sets until he realized he just wasn't warming up at all and it didn't affect his lifting so uh good for you man that's incredible

i could see the path of how you could get there based on what you're saying it's like a gateway drug it's like oh i don't gotta just keep taking this farther and farther. I have over the prep of this for this strongman competition and over the last few months, I have actually been doing. I have been spending less time warming up just because some of my workouts were taken so long. I just needed more time for the workout in order for me to even get them done. And I was doing less warm-up things. I just am like, let me take whatever I think is the most bang for my buck warm-up. And like on squat, my ankles were so, you know, particularly my one ankle, I had to get my ankles ready to go.

And then after that, I'm like, I'm just doing, going in the squat position and doing squats and like moving in the exact way that i'm like i'm just doing going in the squat position and doing squats and like moving in the exact way that i'm going to and that was like all i was doing for like squat and deadlift and pretty much anything lower body and that did work for me sometimes i very guilty of this myself get in the trap of doing probably way too many things and not just like getting going i've just my problem has always just been over the years just doing way too many things and not just like getting going. I've just, my problem has always just been over the years, just doing way too many reps, like sets leading up to the thing.

I, that's one thing I have cut down in more recent years. I could, I could be more aggressive with it, but I, I'm just not on that much of a time crunch at the moment. So I'm fine with where I'm at right now. I could see going to how you get down that path though.

Oh yeah, for sure. You know, and you're like, and if legitimately, if you're like, it's fine, then what do you need it for? If you don't need it, what do you need it for? You don't need to do it for the sake of doing it. To walk in and just go right to your work. Like how much time you save right off the bat there? Like 20 minutes.

Oh God. Yeah. Maybe more depending on what you're doing that day, you know? Right. Right. And I'm not saying, I mean, also a more depending on what you're doing that day. Right, right. And I'm not saying, I mean, also a lot of people probably can't do that, whether it's physical or mental or a combination of both. But if you can.

Would you say a lot of people don't have the mental toughness to handle such a feat? Calling everyone out right now. No, I almost think like some of the warmup is more mental, mental than physical. When you're doing a lot of those warmups, it's just like a mental thing that you're just like getting your mind. Oh, I 100% agree. Getting used to how this one feels. This one feels that that's to me what it is more than anything.

Yeah. So that I had to get that out there. That is Sam's warmup routine or lack thereof. I had to tell many, many people about that over the weekend because it's, I've just never heard of it before. I can't recall ever hearing somebody that does that. I mean, you hear of people that don't lift very much weight doing it because it's just, there's like not much to warm up to, you know, but right. And he did tell me that his warm up for strong man was the power lifting me. He was pretty ready to go. He was over exhausted at that point. Yeah, he was overly warm. Yes. Okay, that that so that's my big Sam warm up routine that I teased from last week's episode.

Do you have a can over there? Oh, sweet time. Yes, yes, yes, I do. What are you drinking? Got a little Waterloo on me orange vanilla oh a little waterloo myself not quite orange looks orange though boys over here waterloo peach wow they really look similar is it just the same can yeah someone just scratched out the peach on mine and wrote orange on the marker um i noticed you're wearing the lifting department Massanomics tee. It's a classic. Completely sold out of all sizes, as well as our squats shorts.

Completely sold out of all sizes. Now, those both ripped through on those. What I would tease is coming later this year, we do have, if you liked that stuff which a lot of people did we've got more stuff in the works coming you can scratch those itches yeah big things coming for sure oops did i get any in me that 100 cotton shirt's gonna stay wet a while there now i gotta go through this whole episode looking like a buffoon. Not any different than normal, is it? Tanner's spilling his drink all over himself over here.

Yes, I've had one too many. But you did trim up the beard, though, so you don't got to worry about that. What was the inspiration there? I kind of, my beard was pretty long. It was getting up there with as long as it had been. And I was kind of feeling that post-Lift Hard, Live easy was going to be a good opportunity like change of the seasons kind of yeah i just i think um here's here's my honest thing i think a big really big beard looks cool for competing in strength sports if i'm being honest i think it's and content in general right

and content in general uh yeah like that's kind of it seems stupid um but it you know like there's all the stupid like viking things and none of us are vikings maybe some some people actually are descended from vikings but um it is like you're like like if you're you're pretending you're like some warrior or whatever i don't know that's like an extreme and i don't really think quite like that but there is something there where I'm like, ah, I just want to be, you know, it's like a... Oh, it's no different than a playoff season and people let

their hair go, their facial hair go. It's the whole thing, you know? Yeah. So I had been planning on cutting it after the lift, hard to be seen. Actually, I'm kind of been toying around the idea with a haircut too. If I didn't have to go anywhere, didn't have to schedule it and didn't have to take any time to do it,ying the idea with a haircut too. If I didn't have to go anywhere, didn't have to schedule it and didn't have to take any time to do it,

I would already have a haircut. Like when you say haircut, like how much are we talking here? I'm not sure yet. Oh, I'm not sure. Anywhere between like, uh,

the most, at the very least, the most significant trim I've had ever in, in five years. Okay. You know, I could go with like cutting it to like that right there really like i wouldn't mind if it was just like right like showing shoulder length you don't think that'd be a pain to have it like that length again i this is a pain for my ponytail situation like i need short i need less to work with less length to work with

back there for a while and like it's uh it's just for noon ball and lifting like when i get real sweaty like it's a little okay either that or i would need to be taught like a new method of how i'm putting my hair up i do forget about that though yes Because my hair is so curly that when I do like a bun, it just turns into this giant ball and like, it doesn't go anywhere. It's just, and mine's so straight that it just goes like, and it's still probably hangs down.

Yes. Oh, it hangs. It all hangs straight down from whatever point that it's like, my, my bun, it needs to all be in contact with something to stay. Right.

And I just don't have that mastered. Yeah. Mine at the longest it ever gets is like slightly above shoulder length and it's just never in my way and then like today i'm playing noon ball it gets loose and then it starts like being down here and i am when i play basketball i am drenched in sweat like like my hair is still wet right now from nine hours ago from playing basketball. So I need to address that for a while. Yeah, I can see that. That's the least I would cut it.

The most I even have thoughts of I might just cut it all off and start over. Oh, wow. So I'm not sure about that, but that's been toying with the idea. Wow. I'm not saying I wouldn't let it just, I wouldn't cut it all off and then just not get a haircut again for five years. That could be very possible, but I'm not really sure. Okay, so everyone keep an eye out for Tanner's glam session.

The biggest hurdle, though, is i have no interest in going i hate venturing out into the public like i don't want to go to dentist appointments i don't want to go to doctor's appointments i don't want to go to haircut appointments i don't want to go to any of those things and that's what you need to get it done yeah um let's see we gotta we had a shout out recently oh yeah grad gym reviews i was laughing pretty hard i saw the video actually what let's get the name of this video down right here it was tyler thompson has quite the head of hair on him doesn't he oh yeah he does did you did you see in the video when i talked about it he always he always kind of keeps that hidden up behind him so you never

really see it i don't even know if I knew he had long hair. I mean, if you told me to guess, I, he would not come to mind for whatever reason. I just don't picture him as that, but his was like, it kind of reminded me of yours in a way.

And I'm like, I don't even know that might go down to like his ankles. Like it just seemed like it, it just seemed like a never, like if you just, he's like Rapunzel that he could just keep pulling it out of that uh wherever it's at back there he does have a lot back there but uh home gym reviews they had a video come out four days ago as at the time of this recording called the home gym iceberg explained and it's like this meme thing it's kind of almost like a tier list but you know the top of

the iceberg is the most obvious stuff you do in the home gym community and then as you go down if you're looking at this picture of the iceberg each level is you know deeper and deeper into the depths and uh it's supposed to be mostly a funny video and i i mean it was like whatever i was just kind of scrolling through it eating lunch didn't have anything else to watch and then for whatever reason i was about to turn it off. It was at the expert level. It was getting close to the end, I think about the 13-minute mark. And in the expert level, he makes a comment like, you have drink spotters. You have a Massanomics drink spotter for everything. Like, you have drink spotters all over your gym.

So he's throwing that out there. And then a little bit later, he's talking about, like, the glute ham rate. Or you have a reverse hyper. And he goes, even though you have a reverse hyper, you still actually what the hell was even saying? I can't remember now. Something like that. You made some comment on having a reverse hyper to store drinks on, even though you have massonomics drink spotters everywhere to already put drinks on. So it was cool getting a shout out a couple of times on that.

Oh, I loved it. I thought it was great and in case people are wondering does getting a shout out on garage gym reviews in the 13 minute mark of a meme video make your sales blow up no no did you sell some drink spotters yeah a couple that's but not many we've talked about it before probably talked about on the podcast but i don't you know all of all we've gotten good love good shares from a whole bunch of different people over the years with all different levels of following and some were really big followings and all that none of it does that much it's just like cumulatively hopefully it keeps adding up and snowballing and doing something

but nothing on its own like a half of a percent at best. Right. Like nothing has ever like, whoa, this changes at all. Nope. At first, we didn't realize that, and we used to get really excited about every little thing and thinking, yep, this is going to be it, until we realized, like, honestly,

who's the biggest name you could possibly think of? I mean, I'm just trying to think of if The Rock or Arnold. If The Rock was wearing a Masonomics shirt or Arnold in a video, what do you think that would do? I mean, I would almost be surprised if we sold more than like, if one of them had a shirt on, if we sold a couple hundred shirts that day, I'd think, wow, like that's as good as it ever gets.

And I'm skeptical it would do that i am i mean actually i shouldn't even say a couple hundred shirts because there there'd be multiple people that would buy multiple but it's like would you do a hundred orders in that day i don't even think so no i don't think so i don't know if one of them had a video where they said hey check out this Masanomics drink spotter. Slap it on something, put a can in there. We'd probably sell quite a few drink spotters. I think we'd sell quite a few.

Yeah, that could be that. But, I mean, that's a direct shout-out, though. That's a whole different thing. I mean, God, I'd hope they'd do something. There's brands that pay these people tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for a post. But even it kind of goes back to the thought that, you know, the influencer stuff. Sometimes, you know, there's it has to be specific in like to a specific market and

stuff for it to actually even be valuable. Yeah. Just the wide net with a lot of the stuff is worthless. Yeah. What did you have about bags? Is that a quick thing? Oh, I was... Is that B-A?

This is my bag, baby. We kind of solved this one offline, but I was going to tell you, and this actually ties into multiple things here, is I have officially started the bridge block on juggernaut and as part of it it wants you to add some type of carry exercise in oh that's right okay and i wasn't totally sure what my option was going to be there and i thought you know what a cerberus sandbag you know they just sponsored the uh the meat as well

yep cerberus sandbag seems like a good item to add to my home gym and then the dilemma was what weight do i get and we arrived at the 220 pound we talked about this uh we arrived at the 220 pound bag i believe it arrives tomorrow or the next day so i can start mixing some of those into my training here soon so you got to get a little sand and fill her up there is an absolute bad oh yeah am i gonna just lose my mind and go with something besides sand you know it's not a given in this world you mean the dreaded pea gravel for anyone that doesn't know i i have faith that you're gonna stick to the script and go with sand on that one i mean it does say sandbag i didn't i didn't see a pea gravel bag section on the website they don't call it a pea

gravel bag do they we actually talked to ken about that specifically and he said you fill it with sand so and he would know he sells the damn things yeah i thought what did we we're kind of the only two that made sense for either that you know the two that made the most sense for that one or the one size lower which is yeah i think 170 yeah 170 or 180 which felt a bit late and then i'm like 220 is i just never do anything with the sandbags that's where i was like i know i can pick up a 220 like i know that's not a problem but yeah at the end of a workout after i've done all this other stuff uh am i ready for that and what i probably settled on is I don't need to fill it to the very top. Right.

But we'll see. Maybe I will. Well, and you can always use, you know, if you need to throw some pea gravel in there. That's right. I think we determined to weight wise,

pea gravel and sand almost comes out exactly the same. You wouldn't think that, but it did seem to not make much of a difference. What weighs more 50 pounds of sand or 50 pounds of peak gravel? That's right. The old question. Supporting our supporting member segment this week. So this is a relatively new segment of the podcast

where we like to give back to those that give to us, those that give to us being our supporting members. You too can become a supporting member. All you have to do is go to massanomics.com slash join. That's where we have our bevy of options to sign up at. You know, there's almost a level there for any appetite that you might have towards supporting. And it really is the number one way to support the podcast.

I mean, by far, we'd also love you to buy a shirt, buy a drink spot, or buy a pair of shorts, any of that. But really, the number one thing would be becoming a supporting member if you like the show. That really is a huge part of what keeps this going. If we didn't have the supporting membership program, this might still be a thing. Unknown. It would be much more debatable if this is right still a thing right that's not a joke like that no no i'm serious i'm not even sure right now it'd be actually

this could we we could almost make this a state i'm just gonna put this as a pretend i shouldn't say pretend a potential topic of just uh the business of it all because we've been hearing some rumblings about different people in the space. And things are shaking up a little bit, you could say. It's tough out there, honestly. Like the apparel world. It's hard out here for a fitness. That's exactly what I'm thinking. It is tough.

And a lot of our peers experience the same thing. So that's why something like our supporting membership program is so huge for us with everything going on this week big katie she finished first place at our strongman competition in minnesota which qualified her for the amateur arnold so katie we will see you in march in columbus you're going to columbus yeah baby just where everyone wanted to go the east coast uh big daisy competed in powerlifting meet did a 245 kilogram squat 150 kilogram bench 265 kilogram deadlift all pbs pbs because kilos australians baby yeah yep kilos and pbs he's Australian. Kilos and PBs. And our last supporting member

bit from this week, I'm going to try something a little unorthodox. I'm going to try and give someone a very quick call right here. What? What the hell is going on? Yeah, so we'll give this a try. See if we can

hear any sound here can you hear that ringing it's ringing hello oh big cody is that you this is big cody the bird watcher man yeah big cody son of a gun i guess they'll let anyone on here these days. I guess so. Big Cody competed at the Lift Hard, Live Easy Classic last weekend in the Strongman. We got to share the battlefield together, didn't we, Cody? That was great. You were real strong. I thought you were going to win, and somehow you didn't even place.

Cody won. Cody got the mask. What did you do with the hockey mask? Did yours possibly break in transit it broke in transit i just glued it up and now it is hanging on my beer fridge excellent that's a great spot which which one did you get well uh it's like the brown one uh it said 20 lift hard live easy our favorite one i think that was like that one was yeah it was badass yeah that one's really cool. Okay.

So we are calling Big Cody this week. He is the world's strongest bird watcher. Cody, question for you this week. Could you pick your Mount Rushmore of birds? Ooh. Well, I know what everyone wants to hear is that it's just the tits and boobies and hooters. Not bad. But the real Mount Rushmore birds is we've got red-tailed hawks.

They are just overall the best bird. Okay. George Washington. We got ravens. They're the smartest bird. They'll remember your face, so be nice. We got kookaburras. What is that?

A kookaburra, it's a kingfisher out of Australia. But if you ever hear a jungle sound in any movie, it's the kookaburra. Okay. It's like the wah-ah- okay it's like the not not like disturbed uh and then finally uh i'm gonna have to do an interesting one here i'm gonna go with big bird oh from sesame street what kind of bird is big bird i think big bird is technically a canary What kind of bird is Big Bird? I think Big Bird is technically a canary.

That is a big canary. Yeah, but it's got big in the name, so I figured it belongs here. Excellent wild card choice there. Very good. Okay, it looks like you passed the Mount Rushmore game. Fitting you were just in South Dakota, so you're probably doing your homework when you're here. I assume we were only like six hours away from Mount Rushmore, but maybe you've

got binoculars that you normally look through that you could see it from there. It's so flat out there, I can see everything. Okay, right off quick pop quiz, Cody, do you know what our state bird is in South Dakota? Your state bird is the ring-necked pheasant.

Very good. This is not a question. I'm just asking for your help here. Is that bird originally from China? Was that bird brought over? I don't think so. For some reason, I thought I read that it was originally from China. I think people say Chinese ring-necked pheasant. I don't know what that means. That's what I always thought people said that. I don't know why that is. My next question is, I'm

also looking for your help here. I can't confirm this statement, but are we the only state that allows you to shoot its state bird? You know, I'm not sure about that. That be follow up i will find out and i'll post it on the discord okay i thought i'd read that somewhere too that we're the only state that allows you to shoot its own state bird but i could also be wrong there that's that's an interesting did you see any pheasants when you were here i did not have to come back yeah i'm actually kind of surprised you didn't sometimes they're even hanging around my backyard

yeah i i kept my eyes open i did see uh i did see some night hawks which are really cool okay um you could hear those out by the zoo on a saturday night oh that was just uh us partying on the patio that's just the locals having a little fun. We were just hooting and hollering. They also call themselves Nighthawk, too. Did you see the unofficial South Dakota state bird in my backyard, though? What's the unofficial state bird? The mosquito. Oh, yeah. I've met a lot of them.

Yes. Real up close and personal. Excellent. I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, is this number 12? This is number 12. Number 12 for Big Cody on the Hall of Fame card. So that is, he is our most recent inductee into the Hall of Fame.

I think this could be wrong. I think he's number 29 on the list. We'll get him added and we will get your celebratory Hall of Fame cup in the mail to you to California. Woo-hoo. Excellent. Thanks, Big Cody. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Cody.

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And Tanner, our guest has arrived. Are you ready to go? Man, we know how to time shit, don't we? That's good. Yeah. So Big Trey, we're just going to jump right into it. We've got all kinds of good stuff to talk to you about, so we don't want to miss any of it.

We've got to get it all in the recording. All righty, sounds good, buddy. All right, are you back at home in Texas at the home gym? Yes, sir, here at the home gym. Oh, yeah, let's see that. God, that's huge. Nothing but room. Just got to fill it with a bunch of stuff now.

Yeah. We got a lot of questions about the home gym for you, actually, too. But first, I want to say you did just get back from a trip. You were actually here in western northeast South Dakota. Yep. Way up there. We had a trip up there for the Masonomics. Lived heavy, lived easy.

Classic, too. So have you ever been to South Dakota before? Is this your first time? Yeah, that was my first time. It was nice. I'm a little out at sea there. Yeah, where did you fly into? Did you fly into Aberdeen or did you fly into Sioux Falls or something?

Yeah, I flew into sioux falls and then uh drove up to watertown stayed with uh nathan abbey for the night on thursday and then drove up there to aberdeen on friday for the weigh-ins did you uh did you get to lift that in their home gym at all no didn't really do that like i did uh when we got back we did like just a little hangout just watch a little tv on their gym their gym tv and just stretched did some recovery yeah you know didn't get to try their home gym yeah they've got a pretty sweet setup too yeah they got that little sauna in there yeah yeah yeah that's right's right. That's what that does, too. Yeah.

I was checking out a lot of their equipment, too. Like, you know, that combo rack looked really sweet. Yes. Yeah, they do. That combo rack is nice. And you didn't jump in the sauna, did you? No, like, it's too small for me. I can see that. Yeah, did you? And and you made it in you had a special spot in

the program you were the only color picture in the whole uh program for the lift hard live easy classic this weekend yeah i felt so uh special you know like y'all spend a little you know show a little color my hasty white cheeks yes yes um so yeah we're excited you got to make the south dakota trip uh curious where did you i assume you guys went out to eat a few times where you're here where did you go out to eat did you hit up any local hot spots uh they really were adamant about me trying the taco john's yes did you did you try? I got a couple of breakfast burritos. And? What's your take? What's your takeaway?

Yeah, you know, good white people need tacos. Yeah. You know, it's not a can't even go with Juan. You know, you had to go with John. I mean, that is like the quintessential review there. Great white people, Mexican fast food. Yep. Yeah,essential review there. Great white people, Mexican fast food. Yep.

I tried there. Went to the local Japanese place. Pretty good. Yeah, that place isn't bad. What's that one called? Tokyo, isn't it? Yeah, I think so. That actually is not bad.

Someone else asked about that, and I said, you might ask that it's not too shabby for western northeast South dakota i'm really glad you went to taco john's though i wasn't sure if you had made that stop that's really what i wanted to know so they were correct to send you there yeah it was a you know nathan abbey you know they really wanted me to try it and just like all right all right you know me and a another guy there brian that came from houston so like it's like the texas boys have to try it you know gotta get their review yeah and don't you where you live in texas are you're really close to the border aren't you actually uh or not yeah no okay is it border louis? Is that where you're close to?

I should know. Your pin is in the map in Masonomics Gym, and I just can't even actually remember. Yeah. So if you want to go to Mexico, it's about an eight-hour drive for me. Oh. So are you really close to the Gulf then? Yeah. Like a 30 minutes by the... Okay flies yeah i just have to understand my

geography how far east the the the central health far east central america actually comes out so yeah you're so you'd have to go west quite a ways to get to mexico i suppose yeah west south uh west southwest yeah okay yeah so you are that's right you're close to louisiana so here's my question for you um a lot of people talked about i think you were you were at my house on friday night and we had sprayed quite a bit so they weren't too bad you might not have noticed any but when you're around south dakota at all did you notice much for mosquitoes what was your mosquito takeaway while you were here uh like after the competition we got to the hotel they were trying to get you you know when you were walking into the hotel but it wasn't as bad like earlier this year like they were you know killer

at my house so like i'm you know like two or three doesn't really bother me as much as you know like walking out of the house with shorts on and you just slap your leg and it's just you know like you get five of them on your hands yeah because they're bad where you're from right yeah like it's just a lot of standing water where we where i'm at like kind of swampy so they're they're really bad you know especially this year but you know they can't be really bad with one time when uh me and my dad were in the back in the backwoods sighting our guns for hunting season like we just were getting eaten live even spraying uh bug spray on ourselves like they'll still like land on you and just you

know bother you yeah you know so you're overall not that bad in south dakota then no well everyone was uh more complaining about the heat over there in south that probably didn't doesn't bother you though either what was your take on the heat and humidity or lack thereof yeah it wasn't it wasn't bad at all you know what was it 88 degrees was the high yeah yeah yeah no like i i get back home and just like i'm dying in the heat it's like oh i was i was kind of enjoying you know south dakota nice a little break from the heat yeah um so you didn't feel the urge at all i think i asked you this there but to hop in maybe and do a log press or two during the competition or anything like that no i didn't really want to show up the guys you know they were enjoying it they want to uh dehumanize it whatever right

right yeah coming you could have came in yeah we could add we could have brought in our 500 pound stone and had you do that or something you know yeah yeah i definitely could have gave that a shot you know i would have enjoyed it what do you you got a new stone right at the massonomics you showed me when i was there we do have that one that weighs 454 pounds and i had mentioned nobody had lifted that yet before so yeah yeah you know maybe next time i go up there i'll give it it might have to wait until you're here yeah uh that one i was not going to carry up this up the stairs to bring bring that to the competition that one is going to stay in the gym forever yeah just leave it like if you ever move you're just going to have to leave it there i'm just i'm serious that is or like break it apart

with a sledgehammer and carry it out in pieces because I will not carry that back up the stairs. No, leave it for the next attendance. Yes. It's Big Rock. Yeah. Next event you've got coming up is the Shaw Classic, right? Well, Strongest Man

on Earth, I guess. Strongest Man on Earth you've got coming up. Yeah, Strongest Man on Earth. no august 17th so yeah that's gonna be my next one in three weeks so only three weeks left i saw you just speaking of atlas stones just did it look like a 506 pound atlas stone for a triple is that what that was yeah like uh so after i left uh south dakota i made my way down to missouri to train with my coach uh chad coy and so we were training at a gym in st louis that had a 506 pound stone and that was the biggest one they had. So I did it. Three by three was a 506, which I'm pretty excited about. I got a 550 stone here at my gym that I'm hoping I'll do before the Shaw Classic.

So you'll probably be doing that pretty soon. If there are three weeks out, you'll probably do that within the next week or 10 days or something i suppose something like that yeah give or take yeah see what the coach says uh so event wise i know what we're talking about here one of the events is max stone what what events are you looking forward to most this year at the shaw classic because he has done some really cool stuff before yeah like he brian he uh he likes to do some crazy events you know like a couple of years last couple of years he did a car leg press and just that's scary to get underneath a car but uh so this like, definitely looking forward to the Max Atlas stones. So, the biggest stone he has is 600.

See if I can get maybe two reps with that. Two or three. As many as I need. That'd be awesome. He has a Max Keg Toss, too, for the Max Height over bar. And I haven't done that since 2021 so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do on that event

yeah that one will be cool so what is there a squat or something then too yeah this year we're doing a squat event instead of the leg press he's brought in a squat apparatus he hasn't released

what it's actually going to be like exactly it's like kind of similar to a smith machine where just like it's fixed the path and you just go up and down just pure leg power yeah so maybe it could could be something like at world's strongest man Man, what they've done before, where it's like kegs loaded into a, like each rep it's heavier on a keg squat or something like that along those lines maybe. Yeah, it's similar to that, I think. Okay. Yeah, like I know he's posted some pictures of like some whiskey barrels, which is pretty cool. That might be what then he's he's implementing some uh he's got a tractor that must be a tractor the arm over arm tractor pull right

yeah so that event is called the power medley so he's got some hay beller that uh we're gonna he's turned into a wheelbarrow so he's that got some handles that you pick up and you push that and then you run into get the arm over arm pull that's a rope attached to a big tractor combine and that's what we just pull it as hard as we can so he has that event he always has that event but it's like changed like every year either a frame or a wheelbarrow into arm-over-arm pulls. Just something, a little standard event he likes to do, but give it a little flair, something new every year. Yeah, I'm excited to see it.

He does a good job of putting on a cool show. I assume competing is pretty damn fun at that show, too. Yeah, it's definitely one of the highlights of the year as competition wise he always uh you know treats us like pro athletes pretty much like we're used to treating like you know second hands or whatever but like you know it's like hey you're you're the star of the show but like you know it's uh not this not super fast like other competitions like the giants lives but like you know it's uh not this not super fast like other competitions like the giants lives but like you get enough time to rest in between the events and then warm up warm because he likes to he'll throw in like other events in between our our events or like uh the

the open athletes are like uh he's done arm wrestling too you know in between our to help us uh give us time and keep the crowd entertained yeah what um what would be your next competition then after strongest man on earth uh i got the giants live north american competition the deadlift championships in las vegas at september 28th yeah after that one i'll do giants live glasgow and scotland okay cool have you ever been there before no scotland is definitely on the bucket list yeah cool yeah i wanted to go like just see this see the sights and everything and you know meet the people yeah yeah absolutely that would be very cool because that's in the that's in that's an arena show then in scotland

then too right giants lives they do arena shows so they'll uh pull out a big arena and like fill it with uh you know 30 000 people or so over in the uk they're hoping to pull the same thing here in the states they've done that they've done giants lives a couple of times like a few years before the pandemic but like it was always outside so the crowd wasn't you know super big so hopefully you know having in las vegas the big shows are it'll be able to bring in a big crowd. Yeah, for sure. Do you know what the venue or where they're having it at in Vegas? Orleans, I believe so.

Okay. I mean, is that somewhere on the Strip? Right off the Strip, I've seen. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the Orleans. It's based off of New Orleans. Okay. Will you do any gambling when you're there? No.

I don't do any of that kind of stuff. I gamble playing the sport of strongman. Yeah. That's a good enough gamble. We do have a lot of little gas station casinos in South Dakota, and a lot of people mentioned that, so you didn't hit any of those up when you were here either then, I suppose.

No, I didn't. Abby and Nathan, they took me to their bar, the 19th Hole, and they did a little bit of gambling at their slot machines. Just like, all right, put 20 bucks in yeah i'm not getting any money back yeah there's just something about watching your money disappear like that that's not very rewarding um what percent recovered are you then i think it was the row was it rogue last year where you got injured uh the rogue The rogue invitational last year, I tore my Achilles. So I'd say like 80, 80, 85% back.

Like it's, it'll get tight and like, it's not as strong as it is, but it's like, I know it's not going anywhere. Like at the, at Wolf Strongest Man this this year i did a thousand pound frame uh not frame a thousand pound car walk and you know it's like it was perfectly fine afterwards so it's just right yeah achy every once in a while need need to keep up on the recovery stuff yeah that stuff kind of sucks sometimes though it's annoying to do that stuff you just want to train hard yeah train hard have to deal with recovery wish you know coming back from missouri just like get in get home late and

just like barely recovered tried training this morning and just like you know everything hurts and just wish i could just lift heavy heavy again yeah uh so how about the home gym you're sitting in it right now and i know i asked you when you're here you're you're basically because you had been going to a other gym sometimes but you're basically training out of the home gym all the time as long as you're at home now right yeah like now i'm now i'm here 100 like like i talked a little bit about with my coach like about this the shaw classic uh squats this brian said it's like a smith machine we talked a little bit about with my coach, like about this, the Shaw classic squats is Brian said, it's like a Smith machine. We talked a little bit about maybe going to a commercial gym to use their

Smith's chain, but like, and like, we decided not to, you know, just try and get stronger on the squat, but like, yeah, you know, like just dealing with the normal people and like the bad environments of like commercial gyms just does not do me well. So when you go, like, if you would go to those commercial gyms, like, do people, you know, do you run into a lot of people that know who you are and that you're like one of the top world's strongest man competitors or do most people just not

have a clue? Uh, I would say most people don not have a clue uh i would say most people don't know who i am yeah yeah i prefer but like yeah every once in a while i run into people like that know me you know there's like oh you know trey mitchell yeah it's like you do strong man like uh like last year when i first went to that commercial gym was right after like i shaved my beard so i was like baby faced this guy like are you are you Trey Mitchell and he's like uh no like Trey has a beard like oh sorry like no I am Trey yeah uh-huh it was funny when you were uh here you lifted a couple days in mass dynamics gym the one day you were doing some circus dumbbell press but

one of the regular guys walked in I he's a strongman fan, and I don't think I had told him yet that you were coming. And he was just coming to lift that day because he wasn't competing that weekend. And he walked in and went to send a phone by the radio, and he goes, holy fuck, that's Trey Mitchell. Yeah, it is. Go talk to him. He's cool. But it was just funny seeing it.

He was like, wow, this is great. This is going to be a good day. like yeah it is go talk to him he's cool but it was just funny here seeing it and you know he's like wow this is great this is gonna be a good day yeah that was cool most of the guys you know they came up talked to me a little bit here and there yeah yeah anyone getting any secret pointers from you yeah all right i don't think they were too shy to ask about you know any pointers here or there yeah that's fair yeah I don't mind giving advice here and there yeah so your home gym looks absolutely enormous though do you know what the square feet is

yeah it's a 3500 yeah and it's a really tall it's a tall building too right like yeah 16 foot walls I don't know how high the peak is I'm thinking like uh 19 20 feet at the peak like i i did i got the 16 foot wall so i could do like a sandbag toss inside when it's uh rainy and bad weather outside right right so how full is it now it

looks like you still got a lot of extra space yeah uh still definitely gotta fill in a lot more stuff got two squat racks uh got this uh cable machine like a nordic uh late curl bench uh let's see over don't know if you can see it i got a rogue donkey like okay yep yeah just give you a little tour i guess yeah let's check it out let's check it out yeah so there's the nordic curl thing yeah it was good for hamstrings yeah you gotta the big rogue rack six post rack yeah yeah smaller one like this was the first one i got this one off the facebook marketplace i know we talked a lot about that when i was up there with y'all guys yeah yeah i like it when you go to buy it too the guy doesn't know who you are either

you know yeah that happens a lot so like so got the rogue donkey okay yeah this is that's a beast of a leg press i just saw that on your uh instagram yeah power lift like i've been told it's like the best leg press in the world and it's just like damn you know i got it for you got it for 3 000 off a facebook marketplace it's brand new i think it's like 10 000 and the platform enormous yeah the the platform the left and right side they move independently if you want to right you know like it's definitely do yeah that thing is a beast yeah it doesn't like like i've used the elite fts uh bilateral leg press and like yeah when if you have it like a separate legs without the bar in there like it'll once you get like seven eight hundred pounds on it it'll start flexing and make it

harder and for this one like i've had 900 pounds on it and it doesn't move did you pick did you get pick that up in one piece or did you have to did that disassemble very much when you got it no we definitely had to disassemble it mainly because mainly because the guy he put it in like his basement did not have a garage door yeah we had it we had a disassembly just to get it out of the door the door yeah so luckily me and another strongman friend like helped to help take it apart and move it because it weighs like 1100 pounds empty yeah that's what i was gonna say so and he said to get it in his basement he just had like two like little teenage boys just to help him you know put it in there that's impressive what do you got power stairs over there that you built

i'm guessing yeah some uh power stairs i got from sticks and stones out of houston david like he makes some pretty good stuff you know if you want something made out of wood or concrete that's a power stair implement oh yeah yeah yeah so is there power stairs at the shaw classic there must be then you were talking about training power stairs and you've got it there. Yeah, we got a medley where we do fingled fingers. This thing. Oh, damn. This big hole.

We go into the power stairs and the heavy We got two implements of the power stairs and the heavy one is 600 pounds. So on the finger to load the finger, do you just throw chains and stuff in there is that what people do or how do you load how do you change that uh definitely depends like uh when i went to train with brian he has long like galvanized pipe and he just uh shoves it

in there and like puts it puts the basketball in the end to keep it from shooting out when you flip it yeah yeah but this one is uh plate loaded oh oh god fancy that's pretty cool yeah so you put plates in there not a lot of gyms that have a finger inside of it no no i've seen a some hardcore power strongman gyms do that yeah did you you had your stones over there then too i take it yeah i got my atlas stones up to a 550 yeah this one's the 550 right here There you go. Here's my very first Atlas stone. Me and my... Is it round? Kind of. Kind of puck-shaped.

That looks more like the rogue ones that were like the not really Atlas stones that you've done before there. Yeah, those granite ones. Right. That was like me and my dad's we just got a got a bow shoe ball and we cut a hole in it and put it in a hole

yeah just poured concrete through the hole how much does that weigh uh 275 okay okay and you probably quickly realized you're going to need something a little bigger than that yeah well i couldn't pick like uh i made it when i was we made it when i was 18 so oh okay okay so it actually was yeah right right so you actually could use it like i couldn't pick it up at first so like like i was like you know dad is too heavy we need to make a smaller one it's like let's do what you can until you can't pick up all right like all right so yeah just got stronger with that that one and then once i you know could knew i could pick up a really heavy one like we made a bigger one like i bought an actual mold from steve slater and like yeah this one you can see it yeah yeah that was this is my second one and was a 385 and i had

that for all of my amateur career okay yeah what do you got yokes and stuff back or uh uh echo rogue echo bike or something too yeah i got a the concept rower echo bike and the concept uh skier yep cardio corner yeah do you use do you use the cardio corner very often yeah i get a little warm up on the on the echo bike before i start my weight lifting like i tried to when i was up there i tried to use your free runner machine like yeah yeah yeah, yeah. It was so janky. Like I was trying to take a step and just like, you know, threw me off. Yeah. It's there's a, there's a level of skill to it. It takes some, uh, getting used to for sure. Like it just, it, uh, also the track's not very wide. Yeah. I definitely noticed that like, you know,

being a bigger dude. Yes. Yeah. That would be the biggest thing for you. I think it's the width of the width of the you have to keep your like if you even just get a step off a little bit it's easy to get off that track yeah like like i try to find the sweet spot but like once i get like oh like i'm i can i'm not moving like i'm not joking jerking everywhere but like it wanted to make me like sprint like i don't want to sprint i just wanted just for a little walk but just like i know that curve yep yeah it's almost like you get where you're like you can't make it move it's like wanting to like not even go at all and then you get going it's like you can't stop going faster and faster and faster. Yeah. I just want a steady walk. I just want a nice, relaxing, warm-up walk.

Just like... Yes. Yeah, but, you know, it was nice. Got the two yokes. Yep. This was my first one, just a rogue yoke. See all the nasty athletic tape yeah i've seen some stuff yeah yeah i recently just got this uh this one like a friend of mine that he retired he's

started uh downsizing his gym his straw man equipment so i bought about this one texas power concept okay yeah that they made our our south dakota shield uh that we had there was made by texas power concept yeah yeah i know the guy like i've competed with him when he was doing strongman for you know a lot of years really cool dude like he also made these these are farmer's handles oh yeah oh but yeah like uh you remember the old straw man uh yeah yep it's a style if so yeah yeah so i got him to make me these so what are those way empty 200 each yeah okay yeah yeah Very, very heavy duty. So yeah. Can't break them.

Yeah. So we were talking about the heat. So are you, do you have that climate controlled or is it, uh, what's it like there? Uh, uh,

yeah, this is my climate control right here. Oh yeah. Yeah. So does that help a little bit in there, though? Like, does that help a little bit? He's pointing to, he's got like a little, something vented out a window there and then a fan in front of it.

Yeah. Yeah, it's just a little AC unit with a, you know, with a shop fan. It helps if you're sitting in front of it. Right. Not anywhere else. Right. But, yeah, you know, it is more of a placebo effect you know i got the fan going so it's not as hot yes yeah and then on the side over there is that do

you just do you have stall mats for the flooring or what actually is your flooring over there yeah it's just stall mats like i've i went uh it's a little cheaper a little thicker you know help protect the floor yep what was that red machine by your circus dumbbell back there this it's called the power runner it's called oh brian has one of those doesn't he yeah he does like uh like last year when i went to train with him like i saw a guy selling a one on facebook marketplace and i was like asked him about what what he thought about the machine and he said Last year when I went to train with him, like, I saw a guy selling a one-on-Facebook marketplace, and I, like, asked him about what he thought about the machine. And he said, like, it's really good, like, if you're training for, you know, truck pulls,

like, really good for producing that power off the floor and, like, some conditioning for your quads. So, like, it was originally designed for for like help uh power produce power for sprinters so you load up the weight and you just get in it you know just drive your legs like do it for a couple of a couple of reps are like a timed like a minute or whatever yeah and i you know so earlier this year i saw someone selling one and i you know like hopped hopped on it before someone bought it up yeah there can't be a ton of those out there no like well so like last year saw one saw uh saw this one sold went and trained at a gym and uh in houston and they were selling theirs and it's just like all right they'll just pop up like we were talking about this you know we were saying how you were saying

how like the uh the facebook marketplace finds down there are just, I mean, it's just you guys have everything. Yeah, you can just find pretty much anything, whatever. Since the beginning of this year, I saw five or six rogue rhinos on Facebook marketplace. Last week, I saw someone selling a rogue rhino with a rack attached to it. Yeah. The one rack-mounted one with jammer arms. So I saw that, like, saved it, and just like, you know, it's a bit of a drive maybe.

What's the farthest you've traveled so far to pick something up? Well, like, I didn't travel but like i picked i had a friend of mine in uh san antonio pick me up these uh these plates these plates yep yeah yeah you got a lot of them too. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, Jim in San Antonio was selling these $100 a plate, 30. So I got 30 plates. That's a lot of, are those 20 kilogram plates? Yeah, 20 kilos.

Yeah, that is a lot of 20 kilo plates that they had there that they were getting rid of that is a shitload uh what else you got is there anything we hadn't looked at yet there uh i don't think we you know this is bartos log okay yep yeah this is i think a one of a kind it's a it was the boss log that's supposed to be 230 pounds empty, and it's actually 327 pounds. Just a good starting weight. It's a good warm-up weight. I get the shipment, and I see a note in the handle well, and it said like sorry we didn't we didn't wait this until shipping and it was actually turned out heavier than we we thought yeah yeah a little bit a little bit here yeah holy shit and it's just like all right but like you know it's it works so if you

prep if you're gonna if you're training log you're gonna use that log do you have a different log that you'll do anything or do you just uh warm up your shoulders otherwise and then like that's your first log press of the day yeah well yeah i got a log that has that made in shop class like right here yeah i made this one oh nice when i was in high school in shop class we had a we had just a big length of pipe and everybody was cutting off a little bit of little section, like one or two foots to make a tailgate grills. It's just like,

yeah, I'm good. I'm the strong man. You know, I want to, I'll make a, you know, strong man log.

And we had the, like a barbells in the, Oh yeah. Excuse me. We had barbells in our storage closet and just like hey teacher can i have one of those and it's like yeah sure you know and you know made it and i had this one up until 2019 i believe i believe it was 2019 that's when i bought the the bartos log.

Yeah. It looks good for a homemade one, especially in high school. It does. Yeah. I mean, it's a little janky. I mean, it holds. I don't think it'll pass any inspections. No welding inspection tests, yeah.

This section right here here this good welding uh like a friend like a friend of my dad he's a welding instructor for the local tech school and like i just the weld broke i did and so he fixed repaired it like he also made that power stair implement for me yeah he just had a bunch of scrap metal and he just filled it filled that thing up and it just came out 560 pounds that power stair implement i showed you earlier oh that's what that thing weighs jesus yeah uh yeah just what about you talked about um we talked to you about your dumbbells that you're getting. Explain to people what your dumbbell set that you got coming at some point.

And also, where's that going to go? Yeah, like, so I'm getting some Intech Strength custom dumbbells. They're based out of St. Louis, I believe. Yeah, because, yeah. So they're 10 to 300-pound dumbbell set and 10-pound increments. Yeah, so. Up to 300 pounds. So you'll have a set of 300-pound dumbbells.

Yes. And a set of 290 and a set of 280 and a set of 270 all the way down yeah yeah all the way down to 10 you know a lot of dumbbells only done 30 pair it's only 30 pairs uh yeah but the total weight on those would be crazy so where do you know where you're going to put those then when you yeah i'm gonna put them along this wall okay yeah like uh he called me up and he's like how much space do you have for the dumbbells and it's just like where you're gonna put them and he's like uh about 38 feet and he's like well it's probably gonna take 38 feet to fit them all because they're so heavy like uh he had to make he had to make his own custom racks for them. Like, he couldn't find anybody to, you know, that makes some to hold them.

Right. Hold all the dumbbells. Yeah, those 300s are going to look massive. And a lot of those, actually, like all the ones over 200, those biggest 10 pairs or so are going to be enormous. Yeah, I'm hoping so like eventually maybe you know he says like they're strong enough that i can overhead press them and drop them and that won't break but like you know i don't know if maybe one day i'll be able to bench press you know right you know a goal in life yeah yes so what's on your wish list now so you've got a lot of stuff

in there but you still do have room so like what would be if something what what would you be looking for to pop up on facebook marketplace that you would love to add to it or what would be on the hit list uh definitely want to get a belt squat like i like the rogue rhino because it's more compact yeah but like maybe some like something else like a cable like i've tried a pit shark and i just don't like how the how it just angles down i like how a cable goes straight up and down uh like uh the the hammer strength uh mid-row like i would love to have one of them i've seen a couple of them pop up and it just never pulled the trigger before they they get balled up right then yeah the all the hammer strength row back machines are sweet you know we have the iso low

row or whatever that's called and like it's used all the time you know yeah that one and like the lap pull down was the like the the z shape to handle yep i would definitely like those two yeah uh let's see for a pressing one i really like uh the rogers uh pendulum the rogers athletics uh machines like brian has like all of their stuff okay are they plate loaded then or yeah plate loaded like you can't go like there's i haven't seen much uh much uh selectorized that go super heavy right right there is a like a like a after i bought that uh leg press the power lift they have a lot of good uh selectorized machines and they have a they have a leg extension leg curl that instead of like a seated leg curl you can turn

the pad to where it turns into a prone leg curl and their selectorized goes up to 300 pounds and just like that'll be sweet yeah um yeah the gym's looking pretty sweet so do you let people come train with you do you have many people that come in and train very often with you no no one really no one really has any training partners like i have i talked to one guy that he wants a he's a another client of my coach chad coy and like he's coming down this weekend to try out the the conan's wheel that i have but yeah don't really have that many training partners you know in my area yeah so do you live in like where you're at are you inside a town are you in the country or where you know where are you out there yeah i'm on you know town like right outside the statements I like it

when we were here we had another guy Big Dylan that was here this weekend too his pin on the map is almost right next to your pin on the map and he said he was talking to you and asked you where you're from and you must have said the name of the bigger

town I don't know whatever it is and he goes no where you're really from you know like what's the because you probably usually assume people don't know um yeah you know so you name off the bigger town and he actually is right from there too so he actually does know yeah yeah he came up and talked to me and just like yeah you know it was like where are you from there's like oh you know the big you know big town he's like no you're not you're from so-and-so it's like yeah like okay you know i know because i'm from that town right yeah you know you gotta go to south dakota to meet people from your hometown basically yeah it's just like you know where are you trained this and that like oh i trained in my garage you know like Yeah, he's got a good setup too.

Big Trey, we got a little overrated, underrated for you. I don't know if you remember. It's probably been like three years since Trey's been on, hasn't it, Tommy? It's been a long time. Actually, that's a good question. It might be close to that. Yeah, it's been forever. Was it in 21?

I'm lucky. Yeah august 15th 2021 yeah almost three years exactly yeah wow it has been a while then hasn't it okay so you might not even remember so we got overrated underrated a little we got a big big tray set of uh topics here handpicked for you you can uh you can say whatever you want about them, but you just can't ride the line. You've got to, you've got to really decide on each one if they're overrated or underrated. All right. All right. So, Oh, also when you're at the Arnold at our booth this year, you didn't lose a row or one of those red rogue record breaker shirts.

Did you? I might've just left it because you know if i did you know because i have one and i don't know who's a record breaker no and i don't know who's it was but i've been wearing it so i'll keep it warm for you if it is yours i don't know like i got so many t-shirts i'll you know just leave them around like at world strong's fan this year like i i just kept two like the qualifier in the heat the qualifier in the finals uh t-shirts and gave the rest to the fans yeah yeah that's cool um okay so overrated underrated first one overrated or underrated big thicket national preserve in texas oh it's not it's underrated at least it's a national preserve

in our state so of course it's uh one of the best uh in the like there's a there's fauna there that only grows in that in that area so like there's people people from all over the country come and study it so like more people need to know about the big thicket preserve so what is the big thicket like what's the is it uh like swamps or what i don't actually even know what i what i'd be we should be picturing when you're there yeah it's more swampy area yeah that's what you know but basically what our area ours our area is more swampy and like low lands but like we do that. We're kind of a mix.

The Big Thicket is kind of a mix between the swampy and the piney woods. Okay. A lot of thicket is just thick woods, so that's what the Big Thicket is. Yeah. You described this, or you told us a little bit about it before. For some reason in my mind, I was not expecting swamp at all. And I'm looking at some of the pictures here. This surprises me.

So when I see, like, water like this and swamp, like, my brain starts thinking Florida. Like, do you guys have gators at all? Does that exist over there? Yeah, we'll get the alligators, too. Really? Yeah. You know, we got, you We got alligators, a lot of mosquitoes

is our state's part. So underrated. Next time we're there, we got to see the big thing at National Preserve, Tommy. First time we're there. Put it on the list. The rock. What? Okay, next one. Overrated or underrated? Tommy. I know. First time I put on the list. Yeah. The rock. What? Yeah.

Uh, okay. Next one. Overrated or underrated throwing events and strong man. Uh, uh, you gotta be, let's see.

Connect toss throwing is, uh, uh, I don't know. It's pretty popular popular so i can't say it you know it's not overrated like uh i like throwing events right you're good at throwing them for people who don't know trying to like go overrated like uh you know it's like it's not that great underrated it's like oh more people need to know about it

like definitely like uh like two years ago was it two years ago we had the we had a stone toss that's definitely overrated that was not overrated. That was not a cool one. That was not a cool event. I only know one guy that really likes it, my buddy Thomas Evans. And he's like, oh, we need to bring that event back. And everyone else is like, no, let's not. So what are you thinking, though, on throwing events in general let's see let's see let's go with uh underrated because like you definitely like strongman where

we got to be more explosive than like uh other strength athletes so you gotta be able to move around like strongman is strength athletics so you got to be strong and athletic yeah so it's definitely underrated that more it needs to be in more competitions okay that's good uh overrated or underrated texas roadhouse oh you had this uh on my last show i remember oh we did oh yeah did? Yeah. Okay, well, we're repeating it, but I guess we thought the same thing back then. Okay. So I'm going to say the same thing. It's overrated, but the food portions are too small. You've got to have bigger portions for me to think it's better.

Yeah, that's fair. It's good. Yeah, that's fair. It's probably... Physics are good. Oh, yeah. It's probably because since that time, Tanner and I at that point in time had never had Texas Roadhouse, and we've had it now,

so we got new perspective on it. This is probably why it came up again. Yeah. What do y'all think? Where did we have that at? On the way to the arnold we stopped at one okay this year yeah um i was really hungry that day and it did hit the spot i know that yeah and for us i mean as far as fast cat fast casual places go like compared to an applebee's or a chili's i thought texas roadhouse was way better than both of those oh it's definitely

better than those ones yes yeah you know miles ahead of those. Oh, it's definitely better than those ones. Yes. Miles ahead of those guys. Right, right, right. Okay. It's just like, I mean, good food just like the portions are too small. Like I usually get the steak tips either over rice or with mashed potatoes.

Yeah. Okay. Last one here. Most important one that's worth all the marbles so overrated or underrated futurama underrated more people need to watch it you know yeah yeah why is this uh coming up we just heard you might be a futurama guy i might have watched uh quite a bit of episodes uh i haven't seen very much future i mean i know about it and i kind of know some of the characters and i've definitely seen some episodes but i haven't seen a lot of them yeah i don't have a ton of i mean i there's a lot of people that love it i've maybe seen just

a handful of episodes of my life is although uh I don't know like it was they always had the you know the marathons on oh yeah always on tv yes there was a while you couldn't miss them but I just never caught them so do you like it over the other you know like uh adult cartoons where it's like i'd say maybe like uh family guy and i don't know what are the other simpsons you know or even south park or right american dad or whatever else fits in there i think i i think i would say so it's like uh is that you know the jokes are like uh more like smarter like you would say like you gotta actually like know some stuff to catch the jokes right like like i actually seen like the the writers were you know like doctors and stuff of physics and mathematics okay i feel like i need to watch more futurama science to you know catch some of the jokes

right yeah how about uh i've never really watched this one have you ever watched rick and morty i know a lot of people like that too i never really got into like the voice is just like rick is always burping and just like Morty is just like a whiny little, you know, just like, it's kind of like they're always screaming is what it sounds like to me. Like they're always screaming and just like, shut up.

You don't have to scream the entire time. Okay. So Futurama underrated. I got to put it on my watch list and check it out again. And it's been a while since I've seen it. So yeah, they have some really good episodes, especially Amazonia.

Is that where we should start? Yeah, maybe like there might be some like references that you would need to watch some earlier shows. I don't know. They're mostly self-contained. Okay. Okay. That's good to

know but yeah that might be you know what you might be thinking why i like it so much okay uh good news it looks like you passed overrated underrated so congratulations that's two uh two time strongest man on earth champion and now two-time overrated underrated champion nice i'll put that on my resume uh do we need to send oh actually i got it right here do we need to send you um uh a framed copy of of this oh i'll put i'll put that up in the gym somewhere. Yeah. Get a stand up box for it.

Yes. Yes. Now you're talking. Awesome. Well, Big Trey, we appreciate you coming on. This was fun getting to catch up. We'll be cheering for you for Strongest Man on Earth here in just a few weeks. I suppose it won't be that long until you're making the trip, uh, trip up there again.

So, uh, like I said, we'll be cheering, cheering you on. I hope, uh, we hope to see you do well this year.

Yeah. Thank you so much. Uh, thanks for having me. What, um, I want to see you, uh,

beat those guys in the heaviest stone too. That's what I'm looking forward to the most. That'll be the best part. Thank you. Awesome. All right. Thanks a lot. Yeah. That'll be the best part. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks a lot, Trey. Yeah, thanks for making the trip up here, too. Good to see you.

It was good to see you and hang out. Yeah, it was fun. You know, definitely enjoyed it. Awesome. Well, good luck. We'll talk to you later. Thank you. See you.

All right, see you. All right. Cool beans. Cool beans. Cool beans. Big Trey. Yep. Big ticket. big tray yeah not sure if that works there but we'll go with it it doesn't i should say i'm not sure if it works there but it doesn't not work there does it ever does that ever not work does that that ever completely not work? I think the Barenaked Ladies are pretty universal.

They kind of span time and genres. Yeah. I actually think that you are 100% correct on that. Let's see. What was bags again? We talked about it. Sandbags. Oh, God, yeah, that's right. Okay.

That bags kept throwing, i just kept picturing something completely not sandbag related it is uh sort of a dumb word in our that's right right here uh i will read an ad which will transition or here i'm going to say something and it's also going to be the ad here so i want to talk about juggernaut ai you can check out at juggernautai.app you have to sign up on the website that's where you can use discount code massonomics it saves you 10 for the lifetime of that membership at juggernautai.app so don't sign up through the app on your phone sign up through the website and tommy said he just started his bridge block after competing in the powerlifting meet last weekend now he's on a bridge block here i too am back on juggernaut ai and started a bridge block i have two days done of my first week let's talk more about that let's get these ads done and talk

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i started mine and boy okay so for people that don't know so we're going to talk juggernaut here for a moment um after you're done with your meat in juggernaut you put in your numbers you do all that stuff it kind of asks you how you thought your training block went at least in my case because i just got done with the meat so right you enter your meat results how you thought it went you know how you thought the program went you know ask you some questions and then it asks you you know what do you want to do next and the the bridge block is their option i mean i'm assuming the name comes from it's like it bridges between two different training blocks so instead of by default juggernaut has a hypertrophy block that then builds into a strength block that then builds into a peaking block. And when I say, I should say phase because there's blocks that go

on and on for each of those. But if you want to mix it up a little, you can throw a bridge block in the middle there. And so I had, I set up a six week bridge block and I had my first workout. Bridge blocks are more focused on being athletic and just general fitness. And I did my first bridge block workout yesterday. And Oh my God, that thing kicked my ass so hard. I have not sweat like that from my workout. Not, I was very hot and sweaty at the meet for squats, but as far as just putting in the work, man, I was, uh, I wasn't breathing that hard, but my heart rate was up. It was a battle. How about you, Tanner?

Yeah, so I've done two days. I'm on a four-day-per-week training split. And the first day was tough. It was an SBD sort of. Yes, that's what I had, SBD. Variations for for all of them and then a carry at the end of it and i really am like trying to stick to the timer that's the thing about the bridge block too it's all time yes that's yes i'm sticking really close to the timer and i got that full workout done in an hour that's with you know you know it's actually said an hour and five minutes when i got done and i was soaked oh

yeah for you know and i but i'm like that's what i'm enjoying about it though i guess i would say is it just is completely different what like that timer is fast oh my god so okay so yeah for example and i'm not sure what yours was but my day started with pause squats so i had it was uh 20 i was at 25 reps or 26 total reps um but it was on a 90 second timer and it's up to you i mean i think it says three to six reps per set is what it recommends and i just took it at the maximum i did you know six uh six reps per set and on a 90 second timer did you get done with the first one like i'm feeling good second one you're like oh yeah this is a workout and just like those last couple you're like oh baby this is getting way harder than it should be yeah i get it with those short rest it does get increasingly hard and i've like i don't know you can approach

it different ways but i do try on the timer a A lot of times I try to be doing my next set because you can game it to where you're like, okay, it says to go, now I'll go start to get ready. Yes, I've done it both ways because it gives you a 30-second warning, a 10-second warning, and a start now. And that 10-second warning, I'm usually like, okay, I need to be starting to get ready to lift.

And that's how I approach it too. The 10-second warning is when I'm actually approaching the okay, I need to be like starting to get ready to. And that's how I approach. Yeah. That's how I approach it too. Is like the 10 second warning is when I'm actually approaching the barbell and getting ready. So start your next set is like, I'm usually starting the lift within a few seconds. Uh, by the end I had this, I was finally waiting until like, all right, begin your next set. Now I'm like, now I will walk to the barbell because I am tired. because I am tired. Day two, which I did yesterday,

is a lot of exercises in one day, a lot more exercises in one day than I'm normally used to. So I do do some supersetting at the end of that. And I also pick, at the end of that, I pick easy exercises because I am just doing, like, at that point, I'm doing dumbbell lat raises you know tricep push downs and like i am picking the easy things because i'm like no that's enough enough you know i can do put more work in but it needs to be easy at this point otherwise it's just too much for me right because we are talking like you're on like eight or nine exercises like it's

a lot and it's not very many sets of any of that stuff but it's just a lot to do especially when you haven't been training that way like that's the other thing is right you know i'm coming off of a peak where i'm doing sets of one and two and three and i've been doing that for the last month because it's a peak and now to jump into this it's just you get a lot of work done in a pretty short and i mean i still finished that it was definitely it was longer than my first week so my first day it might have been like an hour 20 or something like that on that on my day two of that which i mean it's an hour and 20 of pretty hard there's not much time sitting around that that's for sure uh yeah by the end i was starting to get i only had like one set of like, of curls or

not one set. I had three sets of curls at the end. And by the, by the time I was done with those, I was actually putting the weights away. It felt like my biceps were starting to cramp, which I've never had that feeling before. I was just, I was depleted. I mean, I had nothing left. I was, I was feeling it. Um, one other note I would make on it is this is just, it's meaningless, but maybe for interesting discussion is when you lift for the week, you know, you think of it in weeks generally, most people do. You don't have to. There's ways to think about it differently where you say, like,

I train every other day and days of the week are kind of irrelevant. Or, you know, you could say I train two days day and days of the week are kind of irrelevant or I you know you could say I train two days in a row and one day off and then days of the week really aren't relevant because you're just you know you shoot for that it doesn't really matter but a lot of people think in days of the week and over the last uh probably at least year plus I've changed something where so I typically train four days per day. That's what I do on juggernaut. And that's what I usually do.

Otherwise, assuming I'm able to train, you know, assuming there's not a weird week when I can't do that, but that's what I normally shoot for. And I've changed something where I, um, what,

okay. It was, what's the first day of the week that you train? Well, usually like what days of the week does your training start with? If it's, if in a perfect world, in a perfect world, what, okay. Was what's the first day of the week that you train? Well, usually like what days of the week does your training start with? If it's, if in a perfect world, Monday, right. Right. And that's probably what most people do, right? Like in a perfect world, Monday. Yeah. Yeah. And I I've changed mine and I have to actually manipulate juggernaut to do this, where I start

my training week on Sunday because Sunday is a day that I usually get to go to the gym, not during my lunch hour of work. And I really like, uh, starting the week off with like my time that I'm going to be able to usually dedicate the most, right. Like a really good quality session. Right. Right. Rather than having that be my fourth training day of the week. Cause that would be the alternative. You know, I could, it doesn't really matter. I don't even know why i do this for sure i mean other than the reasons just explained here and i don't think it really matters because for most people they would consider if they're going to train on sunday that's their last training day of the week and it really is just i mean really what we're talking about here is day one two three and four is really right i

mean right because that's a question people always get in juggernaut. They're like, Oh, I pick three days a week and it has me Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or whatever. Does it mess it up? If I go Tuesday, Thursday, and like, no, it doesn't matter at all. Like my, I'll have one week where I go Monday, Wednesday, Friday, the next week I might go Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, the next week I might go Monday, Thursday, Friday. Like my weeks are never consistent. And I wish they were, but unfortunately that's like I can't. It just doesn't work for my life that way. What you're saying is right that we're really just talking about training days,

one, two, three, or four, or five, or however many training days, and you're just doing those in the order of the suggested. I live three days a week, so I have training days one, two, and three. And I don't care. I mean, yes, in a perfect world, those fall about a day apart. But sometimes that's not how it works. But when you're setting Juggernaut up, you do have to pick the days of the week that you like to train. Yeah, it actually does make you pick the days of the week.

And the reason I know, because, okay, I say, ideally I want to train Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. and those are my four sunday monday wednesday friday and in that order for me and when i do that and set it up and i say my first training day of the block is it's sunday today and it doesn't let you say no it well it does but what it does is it puts you on a, it's not even a bridge block day. It's like, this is your preparatory day before the block really starts. And then the block starts the next day on Monday. It's like, gives you this one extra day because it's, it's like thinking you can't start on Sunday.

So I just changed my training days. Right. I just changed all my training days instead of Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I just say Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. But I actually do them on Sunday, Monday, you know, ideally, and it changes. But it's exactly what you said. I just think of it as training days one, two, three, four. But it does not want to let you think that you – cause Sunday is not the start of the week.

Yeah. That is interesting. You know, Sunday is the end of the week. Right. It's a freaking weekend, baby. Yeah.

About to have me some fun. So I just thought that that, so I had to somewhat manipulate it just for, for it to let me really talk about, send that into Chad, tell him, uh, yeah,

well, I don't think that's a, a juggernaut a problem that's a me problem thinking that i start my training yeah maybe that's a week on a sunday you're starting your week on the wrong day right when nobody thinks that sunday is my week starts on a saturday right which you could make i could actually wrap my head around that case though too you're like oh i because i train weekend you Or it just also depends on your work schedule, too. Some people's week probably starts on a Wednesday.

Right. So someone might say, I want my training week to start on a Saturday because Saturday and Sunday are going to be my two definitive days that I know I get to train. You're going to just pick one up or pick one or two up during the week. Right. Yeah. So I'm curious what most people think of as their first training day of the week right yeah yeah so i'm curious what most people think of as their first training day of the

week although it's just this weird thing the more you think about it it's even like oh we're just really talking about see and i what are we even talking about i don't even think of it that way i just think of it right training days one two three and you know like that's i given up on thinking of it as a day so long ago because it's just, you just never want to that way. Yeah. And mine is often different anyways. It's just, I always think of it in the perfect scenario.

I'm going to train Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Yeah. But that might even, you know, might happen 50% of the time or,

you know, something like that. Oh, so that's that. what do we got there we've got a couple more topics we've got um uh okay one teaser here this will be uh i think we'll talk about this more in depth next week yeah yeah i have recently started tracking my food. I downloaded Macrofactor and I have not done any food tracking since probably when was the first powerlifting meet we did, Tanner? Was that 2016, 2015? Might have been 2015.

So 2015. So almost 10 years ago was like the last time I actually tracked anything. And even then I wasn't doing a very good job of tracking it. I've been doing a very, very pretty strict job of it here the last about a week now and I have a lot of thoughts. So we will talk about that much more in depth next week, but a little teaser what's to come. Oh, one thing here.

I do have a follow-up to what you just said there, but also I was looking you up in open powerlifting. Oh, you're going to have to message them. They got you in as Tommy to face to what you just said there, but also I was looking you up in open powerlifting. Oh, you're going to, you're going to have to message them. They got you in as Tommy to face. Now you're in there twice. I did see that. I want to look at your,

your, your whole history all in one, not, I know. I know. And they do, you can file the thing because that does happen. Yeah.

Did you see though? Let me look and see if this has been changed. Yeah, they didn't, they only had one platform in there for but it's not even one platform because like larry's in there too but he wasn't oh okay so it's not one i guess actually larry might larry might have been on my platform yeah larry was on my platform so you think it's just platform one yeah because like matthias isn't on here and he won you know

best lifter and he's not right and this does appear to be about half you know there's 40 some lifters on this list so yeah yeah i did still missing a platform i want to see that just because i want to see everyone i know that's i kept checking open powerlifting daily waiting for we're talking about the results of the meet here um i just wanted to see where everyone ended up because i just didn't see on the day of and uh yeah the meat is in there but it is only about half the lifters so we'll have to be on the lookout for the other half yeah but so for the tracking when you did it and it was 2015 was that first meet so when you did it back in 2015 was it my fitness pal that was the one yes i mean that was there anything else that's what we all used that's what everyone in the world was

so different then right i don't remember anything other than i don't either i don't either i don't remember anything else uh so yeah i mean that was what i used i don't even know if there was anything the things that existed at the time so macro factor that's the one you're using right now so you've you're all set up and are you using it right now like today did you use it i've logged every item outside of like some condiments i've logged every single thing i've eaten it for the last week already okay actually with the food scale and everything too so like these are exact of like some condiments i've logged every single thing i've eaten it for the last week already okay actually with a food scale and everything too so like these are exact exact weights and so what do you what do you put in it for your goals like are you saying what you want to do yeah it

asks you if you want to lose weight gain weight maintain and as of right now i'm weighing about 214 i just put maintain because in my mind um i've just recently i mean this last three months have been the first time i've even paid attention to like protein levels in a very long time um i think i can do a lot of optimizing that maintaining without having to bulk right now so yeah um so what does it tell you then uh what does it want you to do then is it giving you the is it giving you your that your macros your goal it doesn't want you to do anything it wants it wants to let you do kind of whatever you want and that's so what what what the way it guides you is based off of what you tell it and so for me it was you know enter your age weight all of that like me, it was, you know, enter your age, weight, all of that,

like your estimated body fat, which, you know, luckily we did an in-body scan. So I had a rough idea there. And then it asks like your activity level as far as steps. And then it asks a question about like, you know, your experience or what your level of with cardio is, you know, if you're doing any cardio and then also with, which is like none for me. And then also if you're doing like weightlifting, what your level is there of experience. And, um, so you put those in and then you had asked you what your goal is and it, and then it asks you like for protein, I'd ask you if you have any, well, and actually maybe we, um, actually maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause we do want to talk about this in more detail. Cause I'll start going and then and it'll be and i do have a lot of questions because i'm purely curious about

myself like uh should i be trying this so maybe that's just the teaser we'll continue this uh good call good call i would i would start going too deep there well that's it i'm like i i have a lot i actually have a lot of genuine questions that i want to uh find out about how that how it works because i too have not used anything since my fitness pal 10 years ago i will say there have been still have on my phone a few things one weekend that are pretty eye-opening to me that is okay that is for sure all right good well i'm excited to talk about more of that next week then actually uh we're going to talk about these uh apparel businesses or do you want to talk about the Olympics?

Maybe, maybe the apparel business thing we can save for next week. Cause we could talk. Let's save that then. Yeah. Let's save that then. So have you caught, what have you been watching on the Olympic front? Yeah.

Have you caught any of them at all? Yes. I kind of pop, we pop it on our main or our living area TV. Usually in the evening, I just pop on whatever's on. Gives the prime time. Yeah, and my daughters love watching the gymnastics.

Oh, yeah. So that's been fun. Swimming kind of interests me, usually. Watching a little bit of the swimming interests me. Three-on-three basketball was on tonight. Oh, really? I didn't even know that was a... Yeah, Jimmer Ferdet is on the men's team. Oh, really? And Haley Van Lith is on the women's team. Oh, really? I didn't even know that was a... Yeah, Jimmer Ferdet is on the men's team.

Oh, really? And Haley Van Lith is on the women's team. Oh, okay. So there kind of is some star power with the 3-on-3. Because Jimmer Ferdet, he doesn't play in the NBA, does he? There's no NBA players on the... Okay, that's what I was going to ask. Are pros out on the 3-by-3?

On the female one, there's WNBA players. Oh, there are. Interesting. But there is no... One of the men is one of Brent Berry's kids, too, but also didn't play in the NBA. But Jimmer Furnette is on the team, so that makes it kind of interesting, obviously.

Was he BYU, or where did he... Yeah, and he had that March Madness run that was pretty... He took the world by storm, actually, for a year. And then in the NBA, I think he got drafted by the Kings and never impressed and maybe never got a shot or a combination of both. You know, some of those players like that, it's like,

if you never really get a shot, you don't ever really know. Or if like you have a few shots and you're just like a dud and they're like, yep, we tried that and that was it. Right. And it's like, well, were they though? Or like, did they just need. Like how many guys guys get like like seasons to try and make this work right right right um but that three on three was kind of interesting uh the men's basketball i mean i'm loving that you know because i haven't actually caught any of that yet that's the one thing i

haven't seen anything of i watched uh who did they oh they played joker so uh i watched i didn't get to watch a lot well i don't even know who watches what i don't even know what's live usually i try not to even pay attention i know i try to yeah same thing i want to be sort of surprised when i see right prime time is just a recap but right but the men's basketball is freaking awesome because it's lebron steph curry kevin durant everyone else on the same team and they're trying like it's not like an all-star game like these guys are playing like two like these guys are playing serious basketball was it last night or two nights ago was kd he was like 21 21 points in the first half like five for five threes like yeah yeah i think it's the first time in his career he's done that.

Seeing these guys all play together and actually playing, you know, is really cool. You know, if you're a basketball fan, if you don't care about basketball, you might just like it just like you like any of it. But it is really cool basketball to watch. Although a lot of their teams are really good. Like basketball is an international sport now like when they play serbia all the starters are like nba players you know it's

well even like okay the home team france you look at them it's like okay they have gobert they have wemby wemby yeah i don't know there's probably probably like three other guys that are on nba rosters that you just don't really know you do realize like when you see that just pretty much the canadian team has a ton of nba stars i know like it's just pretty much any random team you look at you're like this country who's from there then you look at the roster and they're like oh there's like one star and then like a few other names i've heard of so yeah there are some role players organized yeah that that is when you realize how international the game basketball really is and actually cool to a massonomics tieback is south

sudan who i think they won their first game yep uh jacob ross is one of the strength coaches for south sudan so he's there with south sudan and they're kind of a big topic of discussion uh right now well did they in like the whatever the preliminary plays yeah they lost by one to us to the u.s actually the u.s might play south sudan tomorrow okay i think tomorrow afternoon so yes they did almost beat him i mean they have no business beating the u.s team um like that shared country doesn't have an indoor court so right then jake i've heard actually well uh jacob does talk about it a decent bit on uh let's get stupid so we I know

we both heard that too and yeah it's it's pretty cool I mean it's it's really cool I'm dominating talking about the basketball but what else gymnastics swimming some volleyball tennis was on tennis does not captivate my attention yeah tennis is a

little less exciting to me because there's just tennis on TV all the time anyways it just feels exactly like that yeah it doesn't feel like different in any way where these other ones it's different because either one you don't see it on tv or it's like matchups that you don't normally see or the stakes just feel higher where it's like i don't know the stakes tennis stakes might feel lower that kind of does you know like i don't know they don't really give a shit about this in the tennis world is is winning a gold medal, like, more prestigious than, like, one of the. The U.S. Open.

One of the majors or whatever they call them, you know. No. I don't know. That's what I just assumed. It's not. Half the guys don't even do it. Right. I've.

So last night was the men's Olympics or the men's gymnastics. And I had a lot of fun watching that. Like, those guys are. Those guys are jacked for sure. That's exactly what I said. I'm like, these dudes are jacked. And how much, it's kind of wild how much of men's gymnastics, I mean, yes, your whole body has to be very strong,

but how much of their just everything they do revolves around walking on their hands. You know, it's like everything is just like so upper body focused. And those guys have massive arms and massive upper body they have huge arms they do arms and shoulders yeah and then the all the memes going around of the guy that came in you know the pommel horse expert that comes in at the very end to did you see him i didn't see that no no there's was he a gymnast or was he's a gymnast and it's so weird i i had the exact same reaction so you see all these guys you know the stars they have like these huge delts and like these big biceps.

It's like most power lifters look like their arms aren't that big, you know? Right. Right. And then there's this guy and he, I think he's set by his own words, called himself a dork. He just has these glasses and he goes out there and it's like,

dude, your arms. I said, this is exactly what I'm like, what is this guy doing? He doesn't even look like he like lifts weights. He doesn't look like he'd do anything. And he's just the pommel horse ringer.

They just bring him in to do the pommel horse, which you have to be really strong to do. And so that's the whole thing is he goes. And so like last night we're watching it on prime time. I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't realize the men hadn't won a medal since 2008. So it's been a long, a long drought for them in the pommel horse.

No, in the team, in the team in okay and so like all the guys are going and they're just having like miracle run after miracle run they're sticking landings non-stop like they're just getting like jacked out of their mind yeah and it's just the the last event of the whole thing is the pommel horse and the last guy to go is the pommel horse expert he's the only that's the only event does. And everyone else is like psyched out of their mind. You know, they're doing all the events and he's just sitting in the corner with his glasses on.

And it's like his turn to go up. You know, he's not really getting into anything. And they're like, if he, if he can nail this, if he doesn't have any disasters here, Team America is going to be on the podium for the first time since 2008. And he goes out and like and he has his big glasses, and right before he goes, he takes them off,

and then he's squinting so hard. You're like, this guy can't even see. How's he going to go on the pommel horse? And he goes out there, and he's just whipping himself around, doing the whole thing, comes down, and then he's like, yeah. And then they grab him, and he's trying to get his glasses back on, and they're throwing him in the air because they know, all right, he did what he needed to do you know he's the he's the relief pitcher

he came in and saved the day and uh that got him on the that got him on the so there's all these memes now of like superman of like him taking his glasses off and be like oh no that's not me you know so that was a cool story to see and uh it is also with the olympics you know i'm i'm a minnesota sports fan which kind of like dooms me to just like a life of disappointment. You know, like we're never really on the winning team. Whereas when it comes to Olympics, it's like, yeah, we're America. We're on the winning team here. Like I can take some real American pride into this one.

Like, yeah, we're the good guys. We're going to beat all you guys here. Yeah, that's true so i have been i have been loving the olympics that's good i like it it's um almost every whatever's on is probably entertaining oh yeah and i'm like tonight was the women's i'm pretty sure i saw they won a gold medal just because like that gets on social media so much but so i missed that i'll probably watch that tomorrow or something and then uh boxing was on one time i was watching oh really does anyone didn't interest me that much and that does anyone i know i think the boxers are like the yeah right right it is and that's probably

part of why it's less track and field is the one i'm i mean really excited for just because right those guys are kind of the premier event yeah it's hard gymnastics and track i mean gymnastics is a big one though too like i feel like everyone likes the gymnastics i watch gymnastics though and i think i don't know is there actually a harder sport than the top tier gymnastics i mean you don't have i just think of the pressure how much the how much the pressure is on you know like these people have been this is four years and everything had to go perfect to qualify like five steps along the way to even make the team here and then you make the team and like there's basically no redo or like oh i just had a like a bad yeah you better

hope you don't take one tiny extra little step the stakes are just so high like you can't have a bad event or one you're completely out of the running for that event, or maybe your team's out of it too. And yeah, the stakes are just so high. It's so technical. It's so specialized. It's a very impressive sport. It is.

Any other ones you're looking forward to that we didn't talk about track and field for sure, obviously. Yeah, I mean, that's the big one I'm most excited for now is track and field. Now that gymnastics, I think, is mostly... Or maybe they have individuals coming up here, so there might be some more gymnastics, but... I like seeing Anthony Edwards in the crowd to watch whatever.

Like table tennis and all those things. Yeah, all the star... Like people that are legitimate star athletes. And they're just being fans. Right. And that's, I mean, that's USA men's basketball. Like when it comes to Olympics, what other events are people that are like superstars

outside of the Olympics? Ooh. Maybe track stars. Occasional, yeah. You're starting to see a little more crossover with some track track and sim like you know simone miles about as big as it's there but that really is just because of the olympics like what else do they even like right yeah watching like it's not like a regular season where people are also fans right it's like no

people are really big fans of her every four years. Yeah. I mean, you could, like, there's skateboarding, and there's some people, like, if you're into that, like, those people have some really big followings, and, like, they are always putting stuff out. But, again, that's such a different sport that it's almost doesn't carry over. Yeah. I mean, the NBA people have to be about the biggest names in any Olympics.

I mean, there's a reason you put LeBron James holding the... I mean, because every other Olympian out there for the Americas is excited to, like, they want to say hi to LeBron James. Oh, I loved all the memes of, like, LeBron James crossing the Delaware, you know, but he's just so stupid. Those are good. Those are funny. Yeah, how much longer does it go?

Like, is there a few more weeks of this? I think we got two weeks, isn't it? Okay. Like 16 days or 14 days altogether. Yeah, there's a lot there. Gives us something to pay attention to. Oh, yeah. Distract us from all the politics stuff, am I right?

Well, yeah, I mean, the F1 season is actually about as exciting as it's ever been now in case uh people they're on they're on summer break now but it's actually worth watching again now if is it in the beginning so it's in the is that mean mid-year or mid-year summer break has officially started so they're like uh 13 14 races in and uh the red bull verstappen guy that's just winning the red bull max verstoppen dominance has been stopped it is now oh it is now almost anyone's game any week why what brought him down to the same level as everyone else you could say i don't know enough of it for sure but um other people

just it's just takes long because he's the only name i know yeah like i feel like he's lewis hamilton maybe you know him but uh maybe heard the name but everyone i hear the other like he's famous yeah i mean he won last year he won 23 of 24 races and then okay he won like the first six of this year and a lot of them weren't even close but yeah i mean supposedly what's happening is just other people's car development because they're always developing their cars because what brand of car does he drive though or what's that what brand what make of car does he drive so max verstappen's red bull okay um and then now like mercedes is finally competitive again mclaren's competitive again ferrari red bull is the kind of like are the manufacturer of the car like honda was providing their engines and then honda like backed out and so now like

red bull makes their own engines too which is kind of why doesn't red bull make a uh they are so they are going to be doing that they should yeah they're gonna make like a hyper car you know like a three million dollar car with like 200 people be there probably be a bunch of people that would love to spend that much money on that car. I'm assuming because their car designer, his name is Adrian Newey. He's known as the most legendary car designer in the history of F1. He's designed more season-winning cars than anyone. He is the designer behind this road car that you can buy. I don't know. It would be interesting to see.

Also, the brand name does mean so much. At the end of the day if people are going to spend three million dollars do they want to spend three million on a red car that says red bull or a car that says ferrari and like ferrari's a safe bet everybody probably wants but some people probably does like it's not a guarantee but i'm sure they're big enough that they can make it work well and if it's a rare rare enough and if also they are the best like in if like that matters too that people are like no they're the bet like they're doing it the best i saw a thing so there's

have you ever heard of this car it's called the rimac nevera no so it is like the it's like the the most high-end car well it's electric so that's the thing that's hurting it's an electric car but it is the most high-end electric car you can buy. It's like, I think it's three or $4 million. They only made like 100. So is it nicer than like a Chevy Volt? It's like a Volt times two. But like Rimac, they're part of like the whole Volkswagen group,

like Audi, Lamborghini, like they are the pinnacle of engineering of what can be done. It is the absolute fastest car you can buy. Like it does everything. As far as specs go, it can be done. It is the absolute fastest car you can buy. Like it does everything. As far as specs go, it's the best. It's the best there is. Right, right.

And they had released a thing saying like they've only managed to sell like 50 of them because it's electric. And like the people that are buying these like, yeah, we'd rather not have a super crazy electric car. We just because how what do you think the retail is on it? It's several million. I'll tell you right now it's uh it's uh uh yeah start i mean this says it starts around 2.2 million it goes up to 3 million depending on the trip and everything but so super high end i mean there's not a ton of people in the world that are buying these cars but right there and everyone that says is like yeah i mean this is the pinnacle of what a car can do but at the end of the day it's electric and so just that

level of people like nah we'd rather have the the whatever crazy limited edition thing for ferrari or mclaren or he's doing and also like obviously two or three million dollars for a car is absolutely an insane price but just kind of guessing how much money these people have right if you're only selling 100 you're probably still just losing tons of money you know probably and that's the thing you know they're part of volkswagen so it's like all right they're part of the biggest auto group in the world so like this is kind of like r&d that bleeds into what the other ones are doing but yeah it's it's an interesting interesting world so the but they're just the other cars are they're figuring out how to yeah yeah the other cars are finally competitive

so that that's where uh it's now anyone's game kind of any week you know certain tracks are better suited to other cars but i don't obviously know about racing but in nascar isn't there like restrictor plates that they do something yeah things are restricted i don't obviously know about racing, but in NASCAR, isn't there like restrictor plates that they do something? Yeah. Things are restricted. I don't know a ton about NASCAR, but I think, isn't that on like the really big tracks that stop like at Daytona to stop

them from going 240 miles an hour or whatever. Is there anything in F1 that's like, like where it's like, you can't do this to your car. Well, yeah, I mean, that's,

that's what the sport of F1 is. It's read the rule book and come up with every creative way to break the rules. Yeah, right, right. And then until they make it through. Yeah. But, I mean, like in F1, though, where it's different than NASCAR is, like, you do need a car that can make really fast turns and do these things. So, yeah, I mean, like, they have to have cars that have high levels of like

aerodynamics and you know downforce in the corners and like the more downforce you have the more that affects top speed and so like they set cars up different all the time but they are playing more of a balancing act than what nascar does and they still have a big rule book though too where it's like everything has to fit within well actually and even even uh this week uh the winner uh for mercedes uh he got done with the race drove a pretty incredible race made it to the end he was getting attacked right at the end by some guys he held him off wins the race wins first place his first win of the season uh then they go to inspections and his car was like two and a half kilos underweight dq'd lost the lost the win so everyone moved up one spot on the podium then so yeah it is fairly strict but i wonder like the purpose of some of those rules like that for

example well so like that's an advantage and makes it faster why don't you just want to be like yeah let's let them be faster and i actually don't know why how they come to terms with like what the minimum weight is because there is a minimum weight and like with him i guess what happened is like they were putting on because like i said they're always in these development levels they were putting on like a parts package that was new for this week and they decided no actually that parts package is not we want and maybe didn't get all of the parts old parts back on and. And so, you know, we're talking five pounds. Like they missed one little thing here and there's five pounds missing. Are the drivers small?

Oh yeah. And they all have to weigh. Like are the drivers like five, five or? Yeah. I mean, the one, the Japanese driver, Yuki Tsunoda is like, when you see pictures of him, he might be five foot tall is all. Okay. He's very tiny.

But I mean, all the drivers are very, very lean. I mean, they're very, they they're skinny they do look somewhat athletic um but yeah they're all very lean and i don't know what the rules on this are either but when they're done with the race the first thing they do is they have to go over to a scale and a person weighs them and i'm not totally sure what the rules are on that but there is the weight is a very important factor in the whole thing right right no f1 in the olympics though no f1 is there any motorized vehicle uh probably the closest you get competition in the olympics probably the closest you get as a bike right but nothing motorized i don't think there's anything motorized in the olympics is there yeah i don't think so i don't think any winter or otherwise there's nothing with

a motor on it right yeah nope I don't think so I I as a person that enjoys racing watching racing and enjoys Olympic sports I don't think that racing is a good fit for you don't think it has a home no I mean at the end of the day racing is always just uh whether people want to admit it it's so much just dependent on money like how much money right can you throw in a problem and uh that's i'm not sure that's what about what about actually um i actually my thought today is does three-on-three basketball need to be like what like we're like no let's let's take a sport and be like no now we'll play the sport with half as many people and that's a different sport and also that like no one really plays competitively either you know like you played basketball your whole life like did you

ever have like long well there is three on three tournaments yeah but like it's like a dumb one off thing though right it's not like you were prepping for a three on three three on three is a common yeah it's a common thing but no one like practices like no you don't periods of time with their three on three team no that's that is true like and i'm just like why do we need the same why do we need the same sport but like here's we're we're also going to compete it to see who's the best when we only play with three on the you know that is because i was going to say well tennis has doubles but that actually is a version of tennis that people play. You know, like that is an actual recognize, like the NBA doesn't have a three on three league that plays

before the NBA game. Yeah. I guess that's an interesting comparison, but it's not though. It's still different. Um, what about skateboarding in the Olympics? What do you think about that? I think it's kind of funny. I think even a lot of the people in skateboarding think it's funny. Uh, one thing I I couldn't figure out. It seems odd to me that that's an Olympic sport. It does seem odd, but at the same time, I guess, actually, this is something I was talking to my wife about, is gymnastics.

For being such a big sport and all this, at the end of the day, it's completely dependent on judges' scores. I know. And powerlifting is like. Like, when I watch it, I don't even understand like when i watch it i don't even know what it's i guess it's interesting because they're doing crazy stuff but you're like i'll watch them back i don't know there's something it was good apparently i like to think that i may be like a step above being the dumbest person about gymnastics like last night

they're talking like okay one step is a tenth point deduction or like if you do a big step that's three tenths of a point and they're like all right on this dismount you want to look if their chest is parallel with the ground when they land like you're looking at a deduction there i'm like oh okay like those are objective things i can see how you can do those not like i kind of like like the dumb contest eights all the time right like there is some objective criteria here but at the end of the day it's so crazy because powerlifting can't even decide if their judges know what the hell they're talking about and that's for like the simplest thing in the world when then you have this just crazy stuff going on and then like the judges play it back and then they're like i think they're also saying

and the judges are watching this in real time they don't get to see a replay to score any of this that's like figure skating and two and then yeah which is i want to be like who are these judges what are they doing like are they ever because the announcers aren't very harsh on them either like they'll right like oh that's a good i only heard him say once so like oh wow uh his routine yesterday was better or his routine today is better than yesterday and he got a worse score that was a tough one and then they move on like they don't like dwell on the judges thing very long which surprises me there's a decent bit of those sports that are like that but i mean so skateboarding is the same way too and i'm not sure what the criteria is isn't it yeah yeah and i'm not sure

what the criteria is for how they do that but apparently they've settled on a system that people seem to be okay with because it is big names doing the skateboarding it's it's not like they just have amateurs or people you've never heard of who is like the best skateboarder i mean the one that always sticks out to me is niger houston he's been doing it like forever like there's i remember when i was big into skateboarding he was on uh pretty sure his element was the team and he was like a little kid that had dreadlocks like down to his knees i mean he was probably like a third grader he was basically a pro for them already and now i mean he's just like the best contest skater in the world but i think he got the silver medal it said so i'm not sure who beat him but okay i mean consistent one like for sure though he has been skateboarding since i mean since he could walk but he's been pro since probably

elementary school and that was over 20 years ago so he's been at it a very long time in a sport that tends to have issues with people with drug, alcohol, or other addiction issues and they have a hard time sticking in it super long. He's managed to do it. I guess commentary that Olympics have some odd sports in them is nothing novel. No, it's really not, actually.

But when you actually watch them think some about them it's like no it's kind of odd yeah i would say i guess the one thing skateboarding has going for it though is i mean there's not a lot of sports in the summer olympics that i would say more people have can relate to in one way or another like there's not really people that have never stepped on a skateboard there's a lot of sports that in the summer olympics that people have never done or never have and will never do like actually you know what the closest one to me of like feeling like i don't know if this totally makes sense it's the horse ones yeah i'm just like equestrian at the end of the day isn't this like you gotta buy a really nice ass horse like these horses

cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars don't they yeah it's like borderline um transitioning to what we're talking about with sports sport you know contests with motors yeah like that that's kind of how i feel about it like right and this is my totally uneducated opinion on how horses go but uh the little bit i know about horses is horses are insanely expensive once you start getting to horses that like win contests and prizes and shit like that yes right. Right? Like, I mean, hundreds of thousands of dollars is not. If probably millions in some cases, I would guess, like in the right blood, you know, whatever, sire, siren.

I've seen Seabiscuit before. Their horse terminology. Yeah. Five hands and ten furloughs or whatever they go by. War Admiral. It was a lot of hands uh sea biscuit oh does that wrap up the 2024 i think that wraps up olympic talk for this week okay uh probably wraps us up all together this week i would love everyone to come uh check out

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That's just a blast. I dare someone to watch that and not think that this is even if you weren't at it to not think this has to be the most fun good ass time strength event that exists like there is not i just don't know that there's one in the world there's bigger ones there's ones with bigger lifters and there's stuff like that but i don't think there's one that's more fun also there can't be any there's no i'd an it I don't think there's one that's more fun. Also, is there any that provide an itinerary for an entire weekend of activities?

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