Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 462: Exploring SoCal's Best Home Gyms: Garage Gym Tour

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

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We're going to get, you're going to get the full rundown on our trip this week. Yep, yep. But first I see you had our last week's episode, episode 461 was our tier list of songs and you had song list follow up. So unsurprisingly, unsurprisingly, just everyone was on board with our picks no controversy I can't believe everyone agreed with all of them. I figured someone would disagree with something Wow, you guys are taste makers. You just know what's good. What's bad? We don't even have to talk about this Everyone I used to feel different

They said I used to feel differently about my opinions, but after hearing you you've convinced me on all of them It's shocking the number of things that I just completely reversed on after Hearing you guys talk about it. No that actually was not quite the case Which is what's to be expected to anytime you're talking about music people have varying opinions funny how that works, isn't it? But there was a few things that were somewhat noteworthy to me I'll say two two really stuck out to me I'll say two, two really stuck out to me from what I heard. I expected a fair number of criticisms, complaints, whatever, but the one, the first item that really stuck out

to me was Big Toby, Big Toby of Arizona, had never heard Tilly Collapse by Eminem, which is kind of crazy. I'm not saying- Never heard of it. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is kind of crazy. That one did surprise me I

guess Sure, but you know maybe maybe he somehow escaped that one okay I'll give him a pass there, but there was one more thing that was just a little crazier to me And that is that somehow big Keith has never heard of Ramstein That is just wild to me that he has never heard of them. I like it, Big Joey did his research. Keith has in fact heard of Ramstein and he has seen them before because he has watched the Triple X.

The action movie, the critically acclaimed action movie Triple X starting Vin Diesel Which features a scene of the Ramstein in the beginning of the movie playing a live concert? I think they're playing fire fray. I isn't that the song I believe they play in that one. That's I think so Yeah, I think so Keith has in fact seen Ramstein whether he wants to admit it or not. He has but Yeah, they're apparently there are people that have not heard of songs that I take as de facto powerlifting songs. Is that crazier to you than not having heard of Till I Collapse? Kind of based on the fact that it's been around, when did Till I Collapse come out?

I'm looking right now. Just the fact that Ramp Scene has to be like, like Duhas has to be like 99, doesn't it? Probably. They are from a different country though. Also, Till I Collapse came out in 2002, so it's not like it's, it's not like it's from, God, I didn't realize that song was actually that old. I mean, it makes sense, but in my brain, that is not a 2002 song.

I don't know, man, I just thought everyone, I remember watching Duhas, the music video on MTV, when I was like 10 years old, you know? out a 2002 song. I don't know man, I just thought everyone, I remember watching Duhas, the music video on MTV when I was like 10 years old, you know? You're right, right. But, and then I asked my wife because she seems to take pride, she takes pride in, okay, Duhas was 97,

so it is still five years older than that. My wife takes pride, she thinks she has a pretty good handle on music, I was trying to see if she had heard of I mean, obviously she knows to like collapse, like obviously, right. But do host. She thought I was making it up. She didn't believe me that that was a song I knew. So. So your wife and Keith both don't know about Ram. Ramstein. Yep.

Keith, I guess you have the same musical knowledge as a woman. You have any like your number one song that we didn't cover that you that you thought oh that it came up You're like, oh we should have had that on there a couple that stuck out to me Someone had one in the discord I forgot what it was now and it was so obvious to me because it gets played a lot too and I can't remember what It was But there was another one Marilyn Manson You know that like beautiful people that whole era there

Yeah, that fits in and that doesn't get played at the gym a lot that gets played in like every powerlifting meet So that was probably an omission that should have been on the list. Well, do you have any that come to my yeah? The number one that sticks out to me is Rob Zombie. Oh Yes, living dead girl Because people would for quite a while people would actually put that song on and then put that song just on repeat So it would it would play for an hour like ten times in a row But you wouldn't know because all of Zombie songs kind of sound the same and you don't true really think about it And after a while you're like wait, have we listened to this six times?

It was wait, or is it more human than a human actually? Maybe I'm wrong. Either one. Yeah, I can't remember. But isn't there, I think there is one. Big Ben said more. So there's one of them though, where the song is like the only one on that playlist or that album when you click on Rob Zombie Enough. So just by default it plays, or is it Dragula?

I don't know. I don't think it's Dragula. I don't know. I don't think it's Dracula. I Can't remember there is might be more human than a human. Yeah more human But yeah, cuz Rob Zombie does play so much that I'm like, yeah That's a very obvious one that we should have had on there. It is got there someone had one other one I do like Rob Zombie though. Someone had one other. I like I like nine-inch nails to just yeah Nine-inch nails was a good one. I just like nine-inch nails. So that would have been a good one I do someone had one though

that is a band that I don't really enjoy that much and that's why I wish I could remember what that was but Yeah, it's too many too many keep track of buck cherry. No, we mentioned buck cherry All right What are you drinking something over there? I hope it's not still water it is I'm hopefully making a Costco run tomorrow. I can get stocked up It's been a bit of a dry spell over here that water looks really still It's very still That water looks like it hasn't moved in the age of

Stagnant there's like flies floating on the top of it. Yeah, it's not even just still ages. It's like stagnant. There's like flies floating on the top of it Yeah, it's more. It's not even just still water. It's stagnant water There's like muck muck and green stuff growing on the top of it. That's how still it is. It's like a big stone lake It's like the James River Well, why you drink that? Pissed what that warm swill water over there? I'll just enjoy this. Oh live on my life like Jerry oh I already know it's gonna be good

Mmm crispy crack I can hear from here. I can hear that across the Dakotas and echoes. Oh, yeah echoes across the plains We did we'll talk about everything we did in California, But we did just to jump ahead to one piece of the story. We did have the last place we ate There that water just specifically the water we got was pretty good I don't know if it was the glass bottle or what it was, but that water was damn refreshing It was like some Mexican sparkling water and it was it was tasty. It's top tier Okay, we got a lot of stuff here Let's jump into what we did Let's do it. We do I need like some intro music to play me in here an intro sound of some kind really

Now I'm ready to talk about our trip that now I'm not ready to talk about it now I feel weird that puts me more in the mindset to talk about my plane ride home but that's a different that's a different thing yeah we'll get to that I guess but too all right chronologically should we start it that way yeah I can't even remember well it's a whirlwind through some of the early stuff it has my my just all overarching thing is it was quite the whirlwind of a trip. It was. And basically everything went according to, there was only one thing that didn't go according to plan, which is fine. You gotta assume that's gonna happen on a trip like this,

but basically everything went as good as it possibly could've. The trip started like always with you coming here, you stay the night of, and we leave at four in the morning. We leave my house at, well, we get up at four in the morning of my time, our time, we leave at like 4. we get up at four in the morning or my time our time we leave it like 430 ish 440 we went to the airport get there okay no big deal you fly into Denver pretty it's also 2 a.m. yes yes so we're starting the trip 2 a.m. California time and because we're so hyped on life of course we're

not sleeping on the plane we got Masonomic stuff to talk about so as we typically anyone was wondering yeah we're not sleeping on the plane. We got massonomic stuff to talk about so as we typically Anyone was wondering yeah, we're not joking when we say Like we have not run out of massonomics to talk about that that conversation started at 4 a.m. And it went For roughly 19 straight hours It didn't end but essentially every spare minute that we had that we weren't do actively doing something in itinerary. We were talking about Yes, yes we were. No sleeping on the plane, none of that. Everyone around us is probably like,

oh my God, we gotta shut up about one of these. How much coffee did these guys drink at 4 a.m.? What are they, what is this business that they're running and why won't they shut the hell up about it? I know for a fact, if I got on a plane and people were that talking that much in the morning, I'd be like, God damn it, why are you doing that? But that's what we do.

Yes it is. Land in Denver, like lately the timing's been pretty good. We usually have about a 30 to 30 minute to one hour layover. So we just get a quick little breakfast in, on our way and we touched out in beautiful, California And I think the first thing we said when we walked out of the airport is it really does feel like we just landed in A different country the weather is nice. It's sunny there's palm trees the cars are clean and new and nice and shiny and You know, it feels a little different than our than our Midwest routes that we have over here

And you know it feels a little different than our than our Midwest routes that we have over here You know and it was um it was the first time I've ever been in, California, too So it was my first taste of California Kelly But we we did get right off the plane we all we did we got our rental car went straight to Okay, actually the rental car the rental car exchange where the guy, what did the guy ask? Or like. It's always funny, this is the best thing about getting a rental car with Massonomics now,

is that at some point in the conversation, you know, they'll kind of ask like what you're doing and everything and we always just say business and sometimes they kind of push on it a little bit, you know, oh, some fun or business and they're like, oh, maybe a little bit of both. I was like, oh, hopefully it's fun business if we play our cards right, or something like that.

That's pretty much how the conversation always goes, and then this is the last thing. Is the email get big a good one? I just think people's reaction has to be, what is get big? He kind of had a smirk on his face. Yeah, because the Masanomics email is getbigat mass an omics comm

Everyone reads that allowed to you and I'm yeah I just can't imagine what people are thinking when they when they see that email address I feel like he thought it was boner pills Yeah, probably and The other note about the rental cars we went this time we got the Toyota rav4 which And the other note about the rental cars, we went, this time we got the Toyota RAV4, which we said multiple times throughout this trip, and never really done it until now, there is not a car that blends into the masses more

than an all black RAV4. The number of times Tanner's like, I don't even know what car we're looking for right now. That's what, thankfully you knew where to go because I would get out there and I'd be like, I completely forgot what we're even driving I don't even know what color it is. I'm like, I think it's darker It's just this tiny crossover in a sea of tiny crossovers. That's I'm like you walk out and it's all that vehicle. It's like

You're in some sort of parallel universe and you walk out and everyone has the exact same Truman show thing where yeah, yeah, everyone's in on the same thing. And that's a RAV4 for you. But it gets you from point A to point B. It was just, it did the job quite well. Oh, yeah. It got us around. We put some miles on that hog over the weekend. She had some get up and go, I'll tell you that much. We put some ponies to the pavement.

But after we landed, we seriously went straight to a gas station where we got caffeine and some crappy gas station food, ate that as quick as we could in the car, started drinking it, and we went to Chad's house, which at this point is, I mean, it's 10 minutes from the airport, it's a few minutes from the gas station.

So we pull up, and of course, it just felt like we were we were in YouTube you pull up and there's Chad's garage door wide open with Chad and Marissa sitting there and it felt like I was on the juggernaut training YouTube channel it was really funny to see that and I mean it was straight to business though, wasn't it? You know, I mean we kind of I mean we Caught yeah caught catching up telling a few stories. Chad's a good storyteller. You did have a few stories for us, yes. We'll save some of those stories for off the show,

I suppose, but he does have some good stories sometimes. But I mean, it wasn't that much of that. And then it's pretty much like, OK, what are we doing? So we did a gym tour video. Gym tour. We had Chad run us through the squat basics, everything you need for a big squat. And Tanner got to run the camera on that one.

So I got to be the model. That's right. We did a video with Marissa, too. Maybe we won't say every single video that we yeah So people yeah, we'll kind of Marissa got a video in two, which is great. And at this point we were doing so good We're actually ahead of schedule and they took us to one of their favorite Mexican restaurants in the area And it was quite delicious something that started with a D. Yeah Number of people that asked I could tell you that's all we could say something that started with a D

And it was next to a buzz coffee and a grocery store. And we got quesadillas there that didn't really like Quasar. And I would not call anything. If if you were to tell me to describe a quesadilla, I would say that is not a quesadilla. That is a taco. But it was damn delicious. Whatever it was. It was. Those ones were tasty.

Those had a unique flavor to them. Yeah. The saucer. I don't know what they I don't know what everything that was going on there, but it was really good. Yeah. It's really, really good. Got done with that. Got some more coffee because I had to keep those caffeine levels up.

At this point, we had had over 12 hours in the day and we were just getting started. Yeah. And we went over to Big David's house. Yeah. Got a little- David's. Yeah. Had a little gym tour. And that was fun. We had never met Big David's house Yeah, got a David's. Yeah had a little gym tour. That was fun. We had never met Big David. So that's how we With all this time meeting another crew member in person is always a good day. Mm-hmm

You never know never know what you're gonna get and David did not disappoint And big Ryan s which David it was one of them one of them one of them. We still aren't sure which and Actually, this calls for a sack segment almost big David had a little present for us The Gordon Lightfoot album Summertime dream is the album name and you say of course Fitzgerald track exactly which was I believe track number two wasn't it yeah track number two I'm side one the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald And this is right up here next to the Creed album that for food sweetie

Creating a real list of Multi platinum I think those are damn near diamond albums up there. They've just got platinum so many times for sure He also he also tried to give us some of those damn Bells of steel stringers. I was like no we can't get away from these bells of steel stringers Wait Tron sent these to you too damn bells of steel stringers sent these to you too? These damn bells of steel stringers.

They haunt us everywhere we go. We go across the country and we still try to end up with bells of steel stringers. Oh man, yeah, those were, that was a pleasant surprise. Shot a video there, that was a quick trip because the day was not done yet and we had our biggest challenge ahead of us yet and that was navigating. Driving from Cyprus to Temecula, Tureen.

So if you're from California, that might mean something to you. If you're not, it probably doesn't mean anything. It mean anything to us. And especially when we always were checking the time at, you know, when we're having our phone call at 10 or 11 a.m. and talking about it and we're looking at the traffic and it's saying, oh, it's like an hour, hour 10.

I was thinking, oh, that's great. And then when it was time to go, I was showing like two hours and 15 minutes, two hours, 20 minutes, something like that. And, oh, I got, oh, had to sneeze there. But that was a trip. We had to, we went through some traffic there and you don't get traffic like that in South Dakota. And that traffic is some pretty intense traffic.

A lot of lanes in there. 70 to 0 to 30 to 0 to back to 70. And that's one minute in. What I said is not texting and driving doesn't need to be a law. It's like if you do it, you're going to crash. Actually, now that you say that, I mean, you said that multiple times and now I think about it.

I don't even really remember hardly seeing signs for that anywhere in California even. Do you? I don't actually remember. There's signs for it everywhere in South Dakota because there's nothing like that. Well, because South Dakota is so tempting. It's like, there's nothing else to do.

Like, driving just fine. But there, you're like But there you're like, I need something to do. But there you are pretty busy. You know, like if you're like looking down at your phone for very, you know when they say like, oh, it only takes a split second to whatever. I'm like, that's true in that situation because the traffic does go from like 80 to a standstill at the Like so unexpectedly, uh-huh

It sure does it's and it just wasn't It took some work. It took some work to get there But but we did eventually make it to Andrew Garrison's house for a nighttime video a very very intimate nighttime one It was a time we got there and not only did we get to shoot a gym tour video He made us meatloaf, which is pretty freakin sweet Yeah, he and his wife so we got to have a home-cooked Temecula dinner that night. Mm-hmm The traditional Temecula meal of meatloaf and it did not disappoint. It was very good mash taters Especially after a long day on the road, you need a home cooked meal.

Yes. Can't always be going for this restaurant stuff, that home cooked meal is what really sucks about. Actually, that was really nice to have that in the mix instead of just restaurant food the whole time. Then after that, we finally got to get, that was it for the night. By the time we got to the hotel,

it was what, like 9.30 p.m., something like that. Yeah, which is a long ass day. It was a very, a day like that. It was like a 19 hour day. It was like a 19 hour day. And we talked about this later on in the trip because we both had the same realization. We never really talked about it much,

but we did come to this conclusion of you are so, so exhausted from this in a different way than you are from Basically anything else it's a different. It's a different type of tired than like working a manual labor job or or like I'll let's say out a crazy hard gym session. You're just tired from it This one is it's like it's one where your brain is so locked in and so dialed in That it's hard to really turn it off at the end of the day You know your body is laying there in a way that it feels like it just can't move anymore,

but your brain is still just firing away nonstop, even though it's not really conscious. And one of the things we mentioned is, like when you're filming these videos, a lot of them are 30 plus minute videos, and you are so focused and dialed in the whole time. Like there's almost nothing in your life where, like, you're so focused.

Like, yeah, my phone phone ringing I can't even Acknowledge it for a split second like not even for like you wouldn't like how many things do you do in your life? Where if your phone was ringing you wouldn't even dream to look at you wouldn't even look no this will wait Yeah, you won't yeah that type of thing every single You can't because that would get your mind so like way out of whack it would like Oh, yeah, it would look yeah It would be you'd be all off and I usually I mean we don't even need to have our phones on us like we Just set them right. I'm worried about it

But it just is that thing that even if it went off and you're like, oh shit my phone's on me You would not even think for a second. It's like no I'm doing this and not only are you doing that Like if you're the one on camera, you're having a conversation and the entire time you're having the conversation You're thinking of the next question and the next question while also listening to the current thing to make sure you're the one on camera, you're having a conversation, and the entire time you're having the conversation, you're thinking of the next question and the next question, while also listening to the current thing to make sure you're there for that. And if you're running the camera, you're thinking of what you think they're gonna say

and where they're gonna be pointed at when, and how to turn so that you can see it good and not be like, there's so many things that your brain is just going so fast the whole time for that. Yeah. Yeah, by the time you're done, it really does feel like you just got done with this 30 minute sprint.

And then you usually sit for like a minute or two, and they're like, all right, let's do the next one. And then you do it again. And after, if you do like two or three of those back to back, like in one location, it's, I mean, you feel like you put in a day's work by the time you leave that. Yeah, it's mentally, it's really fun,

and we enjoy doing it, but it also is mentally straining to do that, and if you watch us on, well, it's part of the way we do it, we don't cut our videos like in this. Yeah, and that is the other one too, is that, and we could, like if something came up, we would just cut, it wouldn't be a big deal, but the way we do it is to make this sustainable

for us to do these things is we can't spend Ten hours editing a video 20 hours, but we can't even really spend five hours editing a video And so we have to just make the initial run through as smooth and good as possible Right so that way cuts aren't necessary, but that's what requires like 30 minutes of non-stop focus because it's not just like oh Actually now that I think about it stop that cut it here. We're gonna read you know it's like no order I don't like what I said right there. It's like no no we're we're running with this. That's just the way it goes Yeah Yeah, so that but then it is hard to shut it off by the time you get done though, too

You know you're exhausted after a 19 hour day Well, you got to meet all these you have to meet all these cool people or reconnect with old friends that you've met before. And you're just thinking, there's just so many things that took place throughout the day that you're thinking back on. I remember when we're talking about this in the car, I think when we were driving to Andrew's, that there's one point where we're sitting there

eating with Chad and Marissa, you know, just hanging out, having a good time. And I told you My head would have actually exploded in ten years ago You would have said that would happen sometime and it would just be a casual thing Because it was it just felt like we were catching up with old friends like there was never I never a thing ever ten years ago or something like that seemed even remotely possible right And now it does you see and now does seem like that's just a Thursday

in California, that's just how we do it. And then also that like even that first night too, then you're not only thinking out everything you just did, you're also thinking everything you're gonna do the next day, like prepping in your head of like, okay, yep, yep, this should work. And you know, just thinking of ideas for the next series of events. Yeah, just thinking of ideas for the next next series of events

Yeah, that does bring us to the next day though So that would have been Friday morning woke up and we ate at which the funny part of waking up being two hours back And I told you this, you know, we set our alarm for like seven o'clock and we laid in bed until then and I'm telling you I go. Oh Tanner. How often do you sleep until nine o'clock central time? You go, I I don't know if I've done it in the last 10 years. Yeah, I honestly probably haven't actually. So that was the nice part about this trip

is normally when we go on these things, it feels like we're always waking up at six a.m., which six a.m. Eastern time is five our time, you know? So you don't even catch up anywhere, where this one at least had that luxury of being able to to sleep in and Then since we don't have them in the Midwest we got to go to a Carl's jr. Yeah closest thing to her

The only thing we have is hardies So we had to live in high life get that car. Okay. Yeah the local delicacy and do not ever order the local yeah the local delicacy and do not ever order the breakfast burger Maybe the worst decision I've ever made of ordering something at a platter did catch. I don't know what happened I just panicked in order to the breakfast burger when you're in lot sometimes you're at the drive-thru line and some people have no problem just sitting there like just like no no you'll wait on me and everyone behind me will wait on me and I like I don't like to do that. My wife will take her sweet time and I always might come on

It's like I'm trying to decide tickets It's just I don't like to play that game when I'm in a drive-thru line me either But it did unfortunately this time leave lead me to ordering the breakfast burger from Carl's jr. Which don't do that this time lead me to ordering the breakfast burger from Carl's Jr., which don't do that. It's just a burger with a very thin strip of egg on the top of it. And a lot of ketchup. Help it slide down.

Yeah. Then what was our first stop then on that second day? Yeah, I'm trying. Oh, Darko. Oh yeah. Went to Darko's house. Took a short little drive there. And we didn't know, we knew with Darko. Oh, yeah, that's Darko's house Oh short little drive there and we didn't know we knew with Darko's in VA. Ho Yeah, we knew for sure what the one video we wanted to do was the gym

I mean we get the gym tour like we for sure knew we wanted to do a gym tour Outside of that we didn't know what else we wanted to do and we got two other videos that I think are really good out of out of his house and His gym is so striking when you walk into it. Yes. I mean, unlike any gym we've ever been to, just in the sheer amount of color matching, customization. And the smalls.

No gym has the amount of smalls that he does. And by smalls, I mean like the details odds and ends of And obviously he makes a lot of that stuff. So yeah, and he's had the time to really passion of his But it is just we have toured a lot of gyms now at this point in a lot of crazy gyms crazy in different ways But his is certainly unique in its own way where I'm like I have nothing nothing I like Jim. There's a lot of gyms where we go to and even mine It's like why is that there just because that's kind of where I put it. It's like right? Yes, Kim Why it's there? It's like it's there because of this which is connected to this which does this and it's like everything is

This huge tangled web of why it is the way it is and it all makes sense But man, it there is some thought that went into that gym for sure People will be those like those videos we did with him are pretty cool. You know, that's all of them really actually have been cool. Also a common thread of these gyms and almost everyone had the rep open trap bar for some reason, almost like every gym we went to had the rep open trap bar. I think it was Grant's gym, the only one that didn't, or was maybe David's. There was like four gyms we went to that all had the rep,

open trap bar, which was shocking. I'd never seen one in my life, and then I see four in two days. Yep. A lot of that. After Darko's, got some In-N-Out burger. In-N-Out. I've never had that before. I guess it's just like you say, you go in and eat

and then when you're done, you go out. Not if you're in that drive-through line. I never knew why it was called that, but now I get it. Yeah, pretty self-explanatory. We did the whole thing, got the burgers, the shakes, the fries, all of it. It was pretty good. Way better than Hardy's.

Way better than Hardy's. Carl's Jr., too. I think that's my takeaway is, is it the best burger you'll ever have? Probably not. I hope it's not the best burger you'll ever have, but when you consider it's fast food and a double cheeseburger is like $6.20, you're just like, oh, if you're judging on that scale, I'm not really sure what competes with that.

Right. Got done there. Oh, and then to big Efren's house. What a place. Talk about gyms being unique in their own way. Efren's is a whole other horse of a whole different color. You see his online and in pictures and in Brian Shaw's videos. It's actually hard to frame what that place is like through the pictures.

It is, because you get this mental image in your head and you get in And it's like maybe still even more than as crazy as you think it is. It still might be more than that even Yeah, it is and just like seeing the layout of it in person like walking into the darko's like you said, it's a little Like awe inspiring when you see it or whatever it is, but Efren's is totally in a way different way, but it's just like, huh, this place is real. And it's like this all the time.

It's just like this all the time. It just seems like this fake set when you see it online. Right. It's like, well, that's cool, but that's not real. And then you go there and it is real. Theater chairs and all, it's very real. Yes.

And we did a couple videos with Efren there there and you mentioned it earlier, but that feeling Because neither of the videos we did with Efron were short Actually the one we had to cut because the battery we thought before it started like oh I think we both thought like yeah, maybe it'll be 15 minutes and it went Significantly longer than that to the point where we actually had to stop so I could switch the battery because I was not anticipating that. That's almost like never happened before.

But there was at no point in that video where I'm like, oh God, these guys need to wrap this up. It was just, the content was so good. But when we kind of sat down between the first and second one there, that day, you know, after we'd recorded our fourth video for the day going into five, it was like, I kind of need a minute here before we before we and because I was did I was the on camera one for both of those

because just because I know a little bit more, I have a little bit more history with vintage weight, so it makes more sense. So recording those back to back, I'm like, oh, I just need to like, let my mind cool down for a couple minutes before we do this again. Yeah, and I don't blame you at all because it was, at that point, you know, we had cranked out a ton of videos that had been almost two full days at that point,

and yeah, there was just so much good information that was put down. If you're into vintage weights at all, watching those videos, I think even the most hardcore vintage weights fan will take something out of that. Yeah. And like the second one we did, you know, as far as that specific subject matter,

maybe it's gonna be the best video out there that exists on that. I mean, it might be, you could almost say, the definitive guide on that topic. I think so. After Efren's, we did run into our one snafu of the trip though. Yeah. That's where we were scheduled to go to CT Fletcher's.

Yeah, we were keeping on schedule. We said, all right, we've come all this way. Tanner needs to at least see the Pacific Ocean if he's coming all the way to Cali. And Efren said, all right, Cali? It's kind of on the way. Go to the Huntington Beach Pier. Check that out. So we typed that in and then it was on the way there.

Tanner, you were in communications with CT and we got the message that it wasn't gonna work out. Yep, he said he was actually in the horse pistol in the hospital, so he wasn't feeling good. So he had someone else there lined up we could have done something with, but I'm like, well, we kinda, it's either the CT Fletcher experience

or there's no experience at all, in my opinion. Yeah, the magic is having CT on screen there. So, we, as a consolation prize, just stumbled around the Huntington Beach Pier for probably an hour or so, took in the sights and sounds of the ocean. and I don't know, we were probably there for two hours, probably about, weren't we? Was it that long?

I feel like it was, by the time we parked the car, walked all the way out there, stood around and said, what do we do now? Yeah, let the wind hit us in the face for a while. We talked to Grant and Big Connor might have been around so we were looking into that if we could go up over to his house because it was real close and to do a gym tour and that didn't work out so then we eventually said well should we just go back and eat and Grant gave us a recommendation that night for eating and it was a super polo.

Yes, the polo was super Some of the best polo I've had it was really good though just straight up just Grilling chicken away. I mean it was like you went to someone's backyard grill they just had chicken ready to go and you give them money and you take it and Well, what's the you saw you've seen Breaking Bad, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah isn't in there isn't it like is it pollo hermano? Okay, maybe that's what it was I couldn't remember I thought about that after the fact I'm like isn't this like the Breaking Bad Wasn't it called something like that? Yeah, los pollo los pollo hermanos was yeah, okay Breaking bad, but you're you can order like a whole chicken or a half a chicken or whatever there and it was it was freaking good That was one of I don't know maybe at the end of a rank each rank our top meal of the trip

But that one was a good one. Yeah doubt Definitely not a place food had drove by and either of us picked Without knowing the recommendation. That's for sure. Oh Yeah, no, there's no way we would I mean mean, we wouldn't have even found the place, you know? No. Oh, and then after that, we got to see Big Mofo. Yep, and then Big Mofo made the trip down, or from whatever direction.

The karaoke bar. I don't know what direction he's at, but yeah, he made, where did we go, is that place called? It was an Irish pub of sorts. Can't remember the name of it. It's like dirty or duddy or- Dusty or dirty with a U. Yeah, dirty, dirty something.

Dirty Harry. Dirty Nellies. Oh, there we go. Big mofo's listening live actually. Yeah, Dirty Nellies. And there was some of the worst karaoke going on. not I mean not in the sense that they were singing bad But just the most terrible song choices. That's what I told Leah. I said some of the worst karaoke She goes you've heard good karaoke. I'm like no I expect all karaoke to be bad, but this was exceptionally bad

It was exceptionally bad because the song sucked not even the way they sing them I'm just like it was so I couldn't could you even think of the name or artist of one song only songs that I can even Remember from that whole time was the lady when we left was singing let it go from the frozen sound Well, that was actually horrific and I thought I mean I was like almost comically bad You're gonna pick this because you might actually be a decent singer Probably the worst singer I've ever heard do karaoke. She was just doing the drunk and yell the whole time. It was terrible. Right, that was horrifically bad,

but the other ones were just so bad. I mean, there was like some older guys that were decent singers. There was just 70 year old guys singing their 70 year old guy songs. They were picking like, I wish I could even remember. It's like a few artists I know the names of, but I'm like, I couldn't tell you.

There was singing like sweet melodies from the 60s, you know, it was not even like cool No, they were popular songs at all. It was I don't even I don't even know. I said multiple times We're roughly five songs in we said we don't know any of these songs yet. What is going on here? Yeah, random sad songs is all that it was Yeah, but catching up with Big that it was. Yeah. Yeah. But catching up with Big Mofo was always good. Hadn't seen him since the patio at the zoo about eight months ago. So good to know he made it out of there alive.

Yeah. We got, we, so it meant we got to check off another California crew member off of our visit checklist when we were there too, which is cool. Then what, last day? Last day was Saturday, so we woke up. We grabbed breakfast. That rooster cafe or something. Oh, that was good.

That was really good, actually. That was a good spot. For one, being left to our own devices, we really picked that up pretty pretty well pretty happy with that Excellent cup of coffee there. Mm-hmm Good cup of coffee good food and then we headed off to the strength Co. Yeah, straight Co We did a big grant just like we perfectly coincidentally timed it that he's uh, you know I'm like active orders getting ready for deployment, and he just happened to get 24 hours off

that coincided with us being there. So we got to go meet up with him at the Strength Co. and Big D and Big Connor and Tippy Top and the whole crew. And we did a gym tour there, a gym tour video. We did a tour of Grant's 94 Chevy. There was a class going on that wrapped up We did a tour of Grant's 94 Chevy. We, there was a class going on that wrapped up while we were getting there and yeah, we did strength call stuff, right?

It was okay. Okay. Yeah, it was fun though. Just anytime seeing, anytime we get to see those guys, it's so fun. You know, Big D and Baby showed up. It is funny, we see Grant like five times a year. Oh, I see Grant more than people I consider very good friends I grew up with.

Long time friends. Like local good friends. And it's like, no, I don't see my local friends as much as I see Grant and Connor and D. You know, whether it's the East Coast, the West Coast, somewhere in the Midwest, I just see each other a lot like we just saw them in North Carolina. So months ago in the last 10 minutes in South Dakota in the last 10 months, we've seen them in Ohio before we've seen them in at the Arnold. Yeah.

South Ohio, South Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Carolina, whatever. And California. I've seen four times in 10 months. Yeah. I have a lot of people I can say all over the country, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Carolina, whatever. And California. I've seen four times in 10 months. Yeah, I have a lot of people I can say. All over the country. Like close, as in proximity to me, friends. And yeah, I haven't seen them four times in 10 months. Yeah. And then they took us to a special little market.

Yeah, was it called market or Mercado or something? I can't remember what it was called. That was really good though. I think it was El Bano Market. Was it? No, I'm just. Oh, that's pretty good that Tanner's actually confident it is.

No, I think that's toilet, isn't it? El Bano, isn't that the bathroom? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. No, and that place, there was like several places you could pick to eat from there and That we got those top those there was like a Mexican sandwich, but the tacos that came with it were really good Yeah, those were top-notch And then of course grant and Big D and Big Connor were there

And what the hell that place was called? I don't remember. And by the time we finished there, we had to dart to the airport to get our car turned back in and catch our flight, get through security. Of course, the security line was long. When we got there, we were on a tight schedule, or at least somewhat long.

It wasn't short or quick. And then I swear to God, right when we were up, we never talked about this right when it was our turn to go up. Then they just let like five people in through the side gate. I'm like, what is going on? And then they're like, there was like one gal that they did. And then she's like, oh yeah, you come into I'm like, oh fuck, let's let the whole fucking airport in. Everyone, short cut right here. Yeah. Like we've only been waiting in this line for 15 minutes

and it's finally our turn next. Like, yeah, let everyone in. Cause like the machine, like the, cause the TSA pre-check line got turned around because their machine quit working so then they were in our line. Yeah, it was, everyone's like, oh, that airport's so fast to get through.

And that was one of the longer airport lines I've had in recent memory Yeah Yes, but we did make it just well we gonna be in a little time to spare I think once we even got security and got in there, but we got on our plane in our Took us to Denver Really short connection there too, and when we left Denver, that might have been the roughest plane ride

that I've ever been on. I had a few of them before that have made my stomach turn a little bit, but this one, I was sitting there, I was like, whoa, I'm gonna get whiplash from getting just like beaten around like an egg, like you're inside of a mixing bowl in there. There was a lot of turbulence, a lot, and it probably didn't help that.

That was like insane turbulence though, where I was like, holy crap, we're going to rattle this plane apart. And it probably didn't help. He was like smashing it around. Yes, we were in basically the very back of the plane. I think there's one row behind us. I think that that also makes it rougher. Um, I also had the unfortunate, um, chance of sitting next to someone that was quite large, uh, which meant that I couldn't actually sit, sit appropriately in my chair. I had to be off kilter at a very odd angle, uh, which luckily the flight from Denver to Sioux falls is like an hour and 15 minutes.

If that would have been much longer I would have been in trouble because that Was the largest person I've ever sat next to on a flight ever and I'm looking at Tanner And he's sitting next to like a five-year-old and it could not be more opposite Yeah, like literally like a five-year-old and then what we said Oh, do you like dinosaurs and yeah, then my god cave and I'm like god damn it was your guy there when we got there did he come out? No, he was one of the last people on the plane. You had to watch. I'm just watching Yeah, just sit there do no don't don't there's like three seats behind me

I'm like I could be any one of those three and he wasn't any one of the three and it was so not good So then did he sit down first and kind of establish his position then before you could? Well, no, I had to get up so he could sit, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then the armrest was gone and just half of my seat and it was very, I mean, thank God. I never really.

Thank God I was not on the window side. I don't know how, but I never even really noticed it until you said something. If I was on the window side, it would have been, well, yeah, if I was on the window side it would have been well Yeah, if I was on the window side, I just it would have been awful I don't know if I actually could have done it thankfully I had the aisle to at least let me like have a taste of freedom, but It was not an enjoyable flight. I loved it to the Guy that was on the way inside of yours when there was like halfway through that hour long flight.

He's like, yeah, sorry to be that guy. No, he wasn't even like that. He's like, hey guys, I'm a. He phrased it really weird. It was so weird. I'm gonna need to go to the bathroom pretty soon. I'm like, okay, like now? Well, sometime in the next 10 minutes.

Well, let's just do it now, man. What are we waiting for? All right, keep us posted or like. And that was kind of a process. Let's just do it now, man. What do we wait for? All right, keep us posted or like what? And that was kind of a process. Yeah, it was, it was quite the flight. Luckily it was. I don't think the guy next to you was excited

about having to get up and stand around. His lungs were not excited either. I can tell you that. They were working. Was he out of breath? Oh, God, yeah. It would be so... Okay, I'm not trying to do any shaming or anything, but it's just reinforced me that it would be tough to live like that.

That would not be enjoyable. Well, also, it kind of screws things up for people depending on your plane seat. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Like for other passengers, that kind of sucks sometimes. Yeah. But we made it home.

We did. And you had home. You had an easy ride home once we landed. Much easier than normal. I just had to head over to, my family was in Sioux Falls. My son had a basketball tournament in Sioux Falls that day so we were staying in a hotel. So I just had to hop over to the hotel room

and try not to wake all the little kids up by the time I got there. That was the hardest part. Oh, were they sleeping by then? Yes. Yeah, all three of the little kids were sleeping. So it was like after nine by the time I got there. Cause my plane didn't land until like 8.30 in Sioux Falls.

My in-laws were in town. So my kids and the whole family, they were all at the ice skating rink. And so they went just right by the airport. So they actually picked me up. You left, and they were probably there five minutes later. And they picked me up, which I was like, oh, this is pretty late for my kids right now.

By the time we got home, I'm settled into bed and everything. It was getting close to 10 o'clock. Do you want to hear a little before we continue? Do you want to hear a little supporting our supporting members? Yes, yes, I do. OK, this is a relatively new segment of the Massonomics podcast where we give that back to those that give to us by becoming supporting members.

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discount code, besides you getting on the discord, besides you getting early info on drops, besides you getting to sign up for our powerlifting meet, all that stuff is we, we give back on the podcast like this, this week. Looks like Jake, the snake is hosting the MWC Classic powerlifting competition again in Brookings at the Wellness Center. That's going to be on March 1st, 2025. It's like a big Eddie and big Alex had a competitor to the Arnold as far as that goes on that timeline. Yeah, that's Arnold Weekend, isn't it? Yeah.

Big Eddie and big Alex had a crew meetup and lift together. Looks like it was in Big Eddie's corn fed gym. And scants was sort of their big Tommy with the one arm hit a 405 pound bench press PR. And then big Nathan Green was this week's guest on unpaid and underrated. So make sure to go give that a listen if you haven't. We talked about the strength Co how were they are visiting. Sweet part about the strength Co is believe it or not, they have an entire gym full of strength Co plates there. And we got to handle them there. Just like in South in California,

just as they are in South Dakota, the strength co plates were smooth, easy to grip black e coated I imagine, by the looks of the classes they're getting used there all the time and they still looked basically brand new. They also had some of the strength co bumpers there in the gym and you can check out both their iron plates and their Olympic bumpers at the strength.co right here. Bumpers at the strength.co Right here Then

The ultimate surprise This is what I want to hear about I haven't we haven't got to talk about this yet the ultimate surprise when I got home Not like I was tired from this trip or anything, I got home Sunday morning. And I was so tired. By the time we got home. Oh my God. It was a level of fatigue.

I mean, it's kind of compared to the Arnold, but the Arnold's also more of a marathon. It doesn't quite hit the same way, but it was still, I was, I was wiped. You had to jump ahead. Sunday evening, I sat down, like for the first time at 7 p.m., like I got my PJs on at 7 p.m. and was like, oh, maybe gonna turn something

on the TV or something. And I'm like, I am so tired, I am going to bed now. So I was sleeping by 7.15 p.m. And I didn't wake I always get up at 6 So I slept from 7 15 p.m. To 6 a.m Non-stop I didn't wake up once or 11 hours and I've like never essentially never done that Ever and I woke up at 6 and I'm like I am so tired still I'm like I could have if my alarm wouldn't gone off. I would have slept for like two more hours Probably I would have slept for I'm pretty sure I would have slept for 13 straight hours

Cuz I like when I went to bed at 715 it wasn't like oh, okay Let me know I'm really read a little bit I was like I was like, I was like, like passed out instantly. And this was at seven o'clock. And so I don't know if the time, maybe the time, uh, time difference. Those probably working against us a little bit, but I think it is just the, just action of the weekend. How the way we do that. Uh, but to go back in time a little bit, when I got back.

Oh yeah, yeah. Sunday, was that Sunday? Well, we first saw hints of the Saturday night when we were landing. Yes, yeah, Huck Finn, Big Boss Man, Bryce Perfect Little Sweetie, and Lou Nutter all spent the night in Masanomics gym on Saturday night when we had both gotten to Sioux Falls.

So they brought air mattresses and then Lou and Bryce slept on the crash pad, the strongman crash pad. They were, they were out at night. They went to loggers in the zoo. They closed on the bar and then they were awake drinking in the gym until 4 a.m Oh, they actually stayed up that late. Yeah, they're up drinking until 4 a.m. And then the first

Sunday morning gym goers came in between 6 30 and 7 a.m. The surprise Also the the the footage of Lou snoring at 430, that echoed through the gym. That was a loud snore. And when I say they slept in the gym, like they all, they like, Finn had blankets and blow up mattresses.

There was two blow up mattresses in there. Boss man had one. And when the gym crew got there in the morning, the lifters, they turned the music on and were there lifting and they all those guys stayed In bed for like a hour or two while there was there people there lift In bed in crash pad Yeah so

then Huck Finn left us a bottle of his, of their, let's get stupid vodka. He signed that. So that's now on the trophy shelf. And then he signed one of the banners, Huck Finn slept here February 1st, 2025. That's good. What banner did he sign? Ah, the, the lift banner that's above the table.

And in true Huck Finn fashion, every time he would tell the story or talk about it, the amount of time that he had stayed in Mass Dynamics Gym would just get longer and longer. I noticed that too. The number kept growing. The first person to stay in Mass Summit was Jim for 48 hours. Yep. Yep. That's what it stretched to.

And I we shot a Jim Dewar video for his YouTube channel. Bossman recorded us. That actually came out already. I came out. I got through like it was at dinner tonight. I was trying to watch it. I got through about half of it. So I'm still still working So we did that and at one point I think they were considering staying one more night Oh, really? No, you don't want you're not gonna want to do that get Also, I'm way too tired too

So so then I got back home at maybe like three and had a ton of stuff to do, not surprisingly. Yeah, that was way more eventful than my Sunday. I don't even think. Yeah, yeah, I didn't have any obligations like that. So it was smooth sailing. But I'd gotten a lot of messages from the regular gym goers of like, oh, what's going on here? Yeah. Something's different.

So I just walk around them. Yeah. That's a like make it work. Oh, it is. That was the Huck Finn visit to Western Northeast South Dakota on the tail end of our California trip. When it rains, it pours with stuff going on around here, I swear it.

Yeah, so make sure you do go YouTube, look for the Huckfinn Barbell YouTube channel, and you can find the Massonomics. Find the Massonomics tour out there. Where you can call us home gym nerds and stuff like that. Something else I would mention is, now that we've done more and more gym tours. Well, here's two things. This isn't what I was starting off to say, but we've talked about this.

I do think by the time this comes out, there's we did like seven more gym tours and we have a lot of plans for the rest of the year to do a whole bunch more. We are going to be as far as YouTube content goes, I already think ours are the best, and we, in short order, if we don't already, are gonna have the most. Like, nobody else are gonna be better, or more quantity, or more comprehensive,

or like a larger variety than us. Like, nobody's. Or even entertaining. I mean, we've now at the point and this is the truth We just tell people just basically think of this as a podcast that we're walking through your gym doing and that's yeah That's what it is Mmm, and it works really well and we've got a formula down that I think is pretty fun And I think everyone will enjoy when these video get come out and I do think for people that don't even know maybe there's you

Know gonna be some people out there over the next few months that don't know Mastinomics quite as well, but they may come to know us from just gym tours and then they feed into the whole rest of this after the gym tour thing. That's my hope. Well, should we kick the live listeners out?

Yes, without a second thought, even there. Finally, sick and tired of those live listeners. And the thing I was going to say about the gym tour thing, though, when we're out doing these gym tours and we're posting like stories on Instagram and, you know, everyone's picking up that we're saying California, we get all these requests of like hey You should come to my gym. You should come to my gym Anyone with my job within an eight hour area or more right and like sending requests

We we do a pretty tight pattern because we want to get a lot of places in a short amount of time and actually I do like people reaching out and saying hey You should come to my gym But if anyone listening wants to know the real hacks of how you get us to. How you get the greatest chance of us going to your gym is number one, being a supporting member, like, like we literally, when we were making this trip, we pulled out our list of supporting members and look up at who the address is, go to California and start looking at right.

Look at the address, let's go to California and start looking at towns. And also we want to support the people that are like supporting us also. I mean, we just did the segment, but like we're far more inclined to wanna do something with people that are supporting Mastodonics. And it's also like a cheat of addresses. Right, right, because we don't wanna just do gym tours

with anyone in the world that has a gym It's nice. It makes it so easy when we walk into David or Andrew or Darko or Efren or anyone that we visit here grant you right They already get it like we don't have to explain anything to them and they really get it also where it's like they know We have built-in jokes that we can do with them Just because we already know that they know the joke, in jokes that we can do with them just because we already know that they know the joke. You know, there's no awkwardness about it. Uh, so being supporting members is number one thing. A number two,

this is just like a further hack and a pitch for it honestly is becoming a certified training facility through mass dynamics because there literally is a map. So we've referenced that multiple times, just even the last two months in reference to home gym tour plans. So if you are on the certified training facility map, I will tell you, there is a far greater chance that we will also, because it's cool when you do a tour and they're already a certified training facility, which there was like three of those, I think that we did on this trip.

So A, that's just cool, but B, even more importantly, there is a map that we can then look at. So if we're going to do a trip in a certain area, we can pull up the map. And then once you're a certified training member, so once you have a certified training facility, you're one of the lucky ones that gets a gym tour, then that gets to go on your pins.

So then you're really sitting high on life. Well, that's like an added reason why we like to do it then even too, because then it just makes the map look even cooler because we have all these videos of certified training facility people on there. So those are my biggest suggestions. Like if you're reaching out and wanting us to do one, a, we've got to be coming to your area first, but if we see an area on the map that has a whole bunch of certified training facilities,

we're way more likely to make that one of our priorities to get to that area, just because it gives us a bunch of options. And if you want to take advantage of this, both of these are in our store, or you can go to massonomics.com slash join, or massonomics.com slash certified, and you can find out more details on both of those.

And one of the things this isn't to say that we'd never do it, but say for example, you are one of the 75,000 people that follows us on Instagram and you're sure we're doing a bunch of cool home gym tours and you reach out to us and say, Oh, it'd be cool if you'd come to her mind. And I look it up and you're not a certified training facility. I'm like, well, you don't have to be. Let me see, are they a supporting member? And it's like, oh, they're not a supporting member. But they don't really, they don't have to be. Like, we could still do it.

But that's already two things off the list that had either of those been yes, I'm immediately like. Also, you've never bought anything from us before. Then it's like, well, I don't really even like massonomics. That's what I was going to say. You never purchased something from us. That's then it's like, well, I don't really even like mathematics. That's why I was gonna say, you never purchased something from us. That's why I'm like, basically no.

Yeah, your chance is slim at that point. Like the answer is almost no. You're right, it is, and why wouldn't it be? Like of course it is gonna be, like that's obvious for the reasons, but that's a thing that actually happens where I'm like, no, we're not gonna prioritize people we don't know that also don't support us. Especially when it's someone we don't even know either.

Right. We don't know you, you've never bought anything from us, you've never done anything related to massonomics. It's going to be a hard sell because we don't even know, I mean for all we know you don't even like having fun so it's just hard for us to even go there. Right. Anything else on that that's just kind of what you call it on that?

No, I think that's good general advice for people as far as all that goes. Yeah. All right. And what do we have here, an hour? Got a few random things here. Yeah, you go first. Yeah, you go through whatever.

I do have an anecdote that I wanna share also. Well, I wanna hear. Not related to our trip. Okay, I wanna hear this anecdote that I want to share also well not related to our trip Okay, I want to hear this anecdote you got my okay All right, I want to see I'm gonna paint a picture for you. Oh here we go So you're in a town like Aberdeen. Let's just say you are in Aberdeen. Okay, I can picture it already in Northeast, South Dakota you know the flow of Aberdeen, you know the ins and outs of towns and CD under Belly, yeahen, you know the ins and outs of towns and CD under belly Yep, I know it all and

Much like all towns. We have a whole bunch of convenience stores see stores. I'm gonna call them. That's what that's Common nomenclatures you have a C store, which is essentially a gas station that also has the thing that you go inside and you can buy your white monsters or your that also has the thing that you go inside and you can buy your white monsters or your Just pretty much any gas station. It is right your blow pop sucker or whatever it is. The kids are into these Shitty food you need to get by yeah And then you you know you have some of these on the outside of town or like when we're on a trip you're driving You catch these ones on the interstate and stuff like that you go in there And I always really understand the ones on the edge of town

or these places that like you're saying like the truck stops, like the loves and places like a truck stop. Yeah. Yeah. Or even in Aberdeen's case, say the one by your old house on. Oh, well, there's two there. You know, there's two there by my old house. Well, yeah, there is two there now, actually. But they're both a good case.

Like that's one of the main arteries coming into town. And you'd like people coming in like a truck driver or anyone traveling. They're like coming through town. Right. Right. Yeah. And that's good. We can go in here and maybe get like some shitty food to while we're at it. What's throwing me off? And I've like some of these I've never even been there before. Like I drive by it literally 10 times a week and I just don't go in because I have no need. I just, I'm just getting your house. Like I don't. Yeah. And your house is right there. Right. I'm not, I rare like in Aberdeen, the town that

I live in, I almost never go inside any of the convenience stores because I'm not sure what it is that I would buy in there. First ofhmm. Yeah. First of all, like, that's my biggest thing. I don't know what I would buy in there. So then it's these lit... these kind of big C stores in the middle of town, like, not on major roads. So, like, when I'm on the corner of... I mean, a major road, but on the corner of 8th and 2nd,

there's a really big one there like north of the North McDonald's and it's recently remodeled or at least yeah remodeled sometime in the last ten years that one last time that's the one we'd probably stop at the most by Rolthaus yeah yeah so that what that one is my specific example I went in there for the first time I'm like I haven't been inside the last time I was in here it was completely different oh yeah we always buy beer. That's where we'd always buy beer at. Yeah. And it was very tiny and shitty before, you know, there was nothing there.

And when I went into it this time, I'm like, you could, they had produce, they had straight up, like you could buy onions, tomatoes. There was a giant, at first I was like, where's the beer, there's no beer out here, and I'm like, oh, they have a giant, dedicated beer cave cooler. And I'm like, it was the size of a small grocery store. Kind of just was a small grocery store, the whole thing was. And I'm like, and I'm looking at the prices,

and some stuff is okay, actually. Sometimes gas stations have like weird prices on milk, sometimes where it's like almost cheaper than the grocery store. Yeah, yeah, that isn't an uncommon thing to see. Right, but for the most part, I was looking at prices and like this produce and stuff, and I'm like, who the hell in Aberdeen,

nobody walks anywhere, first of all. Yeah, so I can tell you already what's going on there is, because I lived on that side of town. It was I don't have it It's like okay drive all the way to Kessler's which is the next closest grocery store or right when we're grilling burgers And we don't have Kraft singles and we don't have onion So you would go in there we would yeah, it's like you pay the like that one I'm talking yeah like that's the exact use case that we would do is like alright we will pay that price because it saves us 15 to 20 minutes of driving across town and doing this stuff

But in any other scenario, no, it's like no you do not want to do that well, and I guess that doesn't apply to me because I because I it's like Not as far for me to get to the groceries to the groceries, right? But also that thing Well, it makes more sense for you because you're having to travel just to even get there. Because I was gonna say from that, Sea-Saur to the grocery store to like Kessler's

is still only like a eight minute drive. Maybe five more minutes, yeah, to get to Kessler's. But if you're already driving, you know, 10 minutes to get to that Sea-Saur. Yeah, and then by the time you park the car, walk into the store, go to the back corner of the store to get the cheese Walk all the way up good way right like it does save you 15 minutes at least But that is yes cases like yeah, ideally you wouldn't need to but every once in a while

We but there must be a ton of like my thing was like how does this even work? How is there so much and who is buying all of this crap in here like all the candy bars and stuff? I'm like they are you buying this? Oh, yeah, but also I think I think you forget how much shit people mostly buy Well, that's kind of what I ended up. I'm like, but there must be people going in that like That shop they're just Daily like that. They just go there like five people five days a week. I don't think that that's I think people in the neighborhood that are probably like oh yep I'll just stop by there and grab

this on my way from work or whatever because it is an ordeal. I don't consider see stores in that like I'm like ah this doesn't fit into our shopping habits apparently but no it's the last obviously does to a lot of people though I think it does well, I think you also don't realize how terrible most people eat Yeah, cuz they also have like like inside this thing there's also basically a restaurant, too It's like like a made-to-order short cook shorter cook almost in there But just of like the worst possible stuff uh-huh one of. One of the last times we came back from Minneapolis,

made a stop at several gas stations along the way. And I remember it did strike me multiple times that just the crap people were buying, whether it's like three bags of chips and two candy bars and an energy drink. Yeah. Like, is that all for you, man? Because that's like, really bad for him. It's not good. I can tell you, I would actually be sick to my stomach. My stomach wouldn't be

able to handle that. I would be all I'd be in trouble if I put that down. Yeah. Well, not I don't eat like that on a road trip even. But I almost get it when people are on a road trip. You're like, I, I just gotta get something and they buy crap from a community. But that's where I'm like, how does this one in the middle of town have all this stuff? And like, who's coming in to buy like a stack of Slim Jims,

a bag of chips, two candy, like I'm like, in the middle of town, you're not even out, you're not even like driving on a trip. That's where the locals go. That's what they actually must be though. Yeah, I think it is. I think it is. It's it's right there. And a lot of those like that one has a ton of apartments, you know, a block or two away. So, you know,

within within a quarter of a mile, I mean, there's by Aberdeen standards, a dense population. And I could also get like back to one of my original points too, nobody walks. Well, no, no, especially this time of year. Right, so they're already getting in their car and driving, so I'm like, just go to the grocery store. Yeah, in the best case scenario,

it's a time saver for people, and in the worst case scenario, it's just buying crap. Which is the more common answer. I get it more in a city city to yeah There you're people do walk everywhere. You're like, well, I don't even own a car I just you know I just got to go to the local thing because I just need groceries and that's what I do and that's how I get them I'm like nobody there's not people walking down the street carrying groceries in Aberdeen, South Dakota, not even in the summer. Sometimes I think when you see him, like there's a 80% chance it's someone with a severe like, condition until that's like almost every person you see walking

out, like exchange students that don't have right. Oh true Asia. Yeah Yeah, which is a Usually you can see a group of them walking but northern is also four blocks away at that point So it's not really like they're walking that far right Yeah, it's how it goes See stars quite the racket But also someone tell me I mean I guess they just do it as marketing why the milk is cheap sometimes I think that's what it is get people in the door

It's usually weird brand of milk though. You're like What is this guy Johnny's good-ass milk roll the dice on this one That you Johnny's good-ass milk Roll the dice on this one Like where are you sourcing this milk from like like I go to all the grocery stores they all have the same For some reason in your gas station you have us this odd brand of milk where did that come from? Good as Isn't that true though like it is some brand come from Isn't that true though like it is some brand

Yeah Like I've never heard of the brand and it's really cheap. I just I have I'm skeptical before I take your word for it That this is milk, but we were gonna make French toast But we were gonna make French toast When you're when you're when you really need something you can't afford to be too picky yeah Johnny's good-ass milk Okay, I had I had something show up today I the I am now the proud him update Jim update Well, I am now the proud owner of a pair of rep ins and I have nothing to report because I haven't got to open I'm yet. Unfortunately, so do they come in two boxes actually came in three I only got the 80 pound set because I'm not muscle man that could use hundred and hundred twenty pound dumbbells I was fine with 80s and

so it comes with it looks like each box is like the handle the cradle and some of the weights and Then I have just one extra box of weights So I don't know I'm assuming that gets distributed evenly between the two handles So it ended up being two boxers spare parts Maybe maybe they sent me more than what they were supposed to they get me that oh you're from massonomics Yeah, you sent us a lot of customers. We better pay this one forward. So, you know where you're gonna put them then um For the time being I mean they can go anywhere they'll have more permanent home in the next few months here as I get things figured out, but

I'm excited to have some more dumbbell action in the mix because nothing wrong with the words Are you gonna are you gonna downsize your existing dumbbell collection? Actually? Yeah, I am going to probably in a week or so I'm gonna have a fair number of things that I'm gonna put on marketplace be getting rid of the the gungnir's That loadable dumbbell handle I have all those one pound plates and actually we're saying you might put some of them on crew marketplace Yeah, I'll probably probably put them on the the discord here Probably next week along with the 45s 25s and 35 extra plates that I have because haven't touched any of those so Clear out some of that stuff Free up some cash which obviously has to go funnel it back into the gym. You know, it's just, well, yeah, you can't take already existing money out of the pot.

It's in the pot already. I can't pull the money out. It's once it's in the pot. It stays in the pot. Yes. Everyone that owns like a gym knows that it's just the way it goes. Yeah. So that's pulling money out of it to like put back into the general fund. Doing this to make money. I'm doing it to stay put back into the general fund doing this to make money I'm doing it to stay healthy, which means the money has got to stay in the pot Right. So yeah, there will definitely be some things whether it's a week or two weeks But sometime soon here once I go out there and take pictures. There'll be a bunch of random things appearing on

Discord probably first and then Marketplace of if things make they don't get snatched up through and along the lines of marketplace There was one that I'm not sure if you saw this item, but there was one item. I was really I was measuring Was really debating and I just ultimately as of right now had to decide no because of the space factor Which one was it someone had the not much that comes up that either I don't see or Paul or Bryce or Paul sent it To me. It was the rogue it was the rogue Abrams GHR. Oh, I didn't see it and They wanted 500 for it, which that's not bad in Sioux falls here, which also makes it very tempting We know the seller at all or no, I didn't know him but it's new at 750

I don't even know what shipping is on something like that. It's so damn big I don't even want to know it probably is a lot coming from rogue, too and I'm like, oh, this is kind of You could argue one of the machines. I'm missing would be like a lower body thing of some kind here and It's There are several exercises you can do out of it You can't do a couple you can commonly do at least a couple different things Yeah, and that was that is one of my machines I would always use at either massonomics or any of the gyms

I went to that was one of the few that I would always go to and you know that that's a quality one And that's a quality one, too It's really nice and I got 500 probably locally. You could probably knock off about 50 to 100 bucks pretty fast. If you're like, I'll be there right now. But it's just, you do know you're going to have that gym fund money of the things. That's the thing. I'm not even worried about just paying it forward. Just like taking it in advance on it.

So it's basically free is the other part of it to consider here. So, you know, it doesn't even cost me money, but the footprint of it is almost exactly, now this is not, there's no way this is a coincidence. The footprint is almost exactly the size of a stall mat. Right? That was very intentional, right? Yeah, yeah.

But Calvin, I was looking at my gym like, oh, there's not really a free horse stall mat. And there's not really a spot to just add a horse stall mat Right now either well, you could always add a horse. I could add a horse stall mat I don't know if I can add a machine that takes up an entire horse stall mat on top of it It is the issue and that's just ultimately what it came down to is. I just don't really have Because by the time that thing goes in you also also gotta leave, it's not just the machine, you need to leave a little room around it too.

And I'm like, God, by the time I do that, I've just have given up to ever parking my car in the garage again, because I've just gone all in on the home gym thing, and I'm just, probably someday I'll do that, but I'm not ready, just not quite ready to make that movie yet. So for the time being, I guess I have to let it go and get and get I hope we don't that doesn't become the one that got away That's I start thinking that's the game you play with yourselves like oh, it's too good of a deal to not do it

But like but but then you're like, I don't even know I didn't want to take Like it wasn't even a machine I'm seeking out and like I guess as far as the real As far as retail goes I'm saving 250 like not that that's nothing but it's also not like it's a freaking rhino for like 500 bucks like if it was a rhino for 500 I'd really be like, oh I Actually don't think you can afford to not do that one, you know, like that would be a much deeper conversation then Okay, save a couple hundred bucks on but what if you would sell you the GHD for 250 start to have my attention a little more now yeah yeah that it was just the side it was the size that's what it came down to if I had a little more space that could go in there and and I could finally get strong

but I guess until then I'll just remain weak Could be the missing piece other marketplace finds that Paul sent me about once a month He does send me a listing for a vibrating plate of some kind They're roughly a hundred years old, but he always always sends me one of those and so I maybe we just I just got to suck it up and get one Someday for the gym and make that one lady happy So I did get my monthly vibrating plate sent to me and as a timely one also this week He did send me an autographed guitar by who who was the guitar autographed by five finger death punch Yeah, I saw that too is like 500

bucks or something very timely find on that one so obviously I bought that with the gym fun because couldn't let that one go well that's a gym decoration right there I mean how often does that come up in South Dakota probably this is like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity yeah you really really can't afford the opportunity cost of letting that one go. I don't even know what the price would be on that. I got the, we've had the reloaded Arsenal lever row in the gym now. Yeah, what are the reviews? What are the reviews saying here?

What are people saying? I want to know. Well, you know, I'm wondering if maybe I'm not, the feedback I get isn't the most, the best feedback, because I don't know if anyone's, everyone's maybe afraid to tell me something bad. You know, like. You're not getting the candid reaction. Right, because maybe people aren't like,

oh, I thought that thing kind of sucked, because they know I just bought this. Yeah, yeah, it's good, Tanner, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Because what I was gonna say is that it seems like it's all been really really positive reviews And I certainly see people using it all the time of course It's new so people are gonna do that

But I kind of do have the feeling that it's gonna be a machine that gets used all the time I think it will be because that was even you know when we were at Los Campiones That was one of them that really stuck out as this does seem Los Campiones, that was one of them that really stuck out as this does seem like it has a bit of a novelty to it, but also it just is really well built and functions and moves in the way you'd want it to functional. I think, yeah, I've used it twice now, you know, for two workouts for like actually sets and reps and it's good. Good.

It's a good addition. I'm glad I have no regrets about getting that and also like the way that we weaseled it in and made it fit I really like it looks like now when you look at that spot It's just like a perfect alley of machines when you walk down that way every time we get something new Whenever I think we don't have any more room. I just like at this point I'm like no we'll just get it and I'll figure it out and This just works. Well, and then when you look at this point, I'm like, nope, we'll just get it, and I'll figure it out, and then it'll be like, nope, this just works this way. And then when you look at the old videos, you think,

God, the gym was so empty. What was all that space for? That's right, but that was very worth it. That's what certainly wouldn't be at the price and specific nature of it. It wouldn't be something I would recommend at most home gyms, but for Masanomics Gym, it was the right addition.

I feel like it was the right use of those funds. Good, good, and I think the other one, I think you've told me this, I mean, the Smith machine's still getting used and used. I mean, yeah, I use the Smith machine quite frequently, so I don't even care if other people are using it because I've been, I use it as like my secondary overhead or secondary press.

I do, what I use it for is either incline chest pressing, which I really like for that, or seated overhead. The Larry, I'll call it. Ryan was showing me his juggernaut program He uses it all the time. I think he uses it for one to two movements a day. Yeah He has like box RDLs that he have like hip thrusts on that thing He had seated over it like he had so many things that he uses the Smith machine for and he was saying how much he actually Likes it. It is a very versatile piece of equipment actually. You know, it turns out people were onto something

when they built those things all those years ago. I guess so, I guess so. And I haven't really seen anyone do anything where I'm like, oh, you just changed your programming now. So you just like only bench in the Smith machine. All right, they've got all, they've left free weights behind. Right, I haven't seen anyone go down that rabbit hole.

I feel like everyone's using it for a really good purpose, too. A good accessory of some good. Yeah, so that's a win also, I think. Mm-hmm. Oh, let's see. There's other gym stuff, but we'll get to that later or another time. I do want to mention Juggernaut AI.

We're out there with the man himself this weekend, Mr. Chad Wisley-Smith. We talk quite a bit about Juggernaut AI and a lot about how it's been working so well for Tommy, a lot about how it's been working well for a ton of people that Chad interacts with that are on that app. You could use it too.

But heading over to juggernautai.app, that's where you sign up. Through the web browser, that's where you can use discount code Mastinomics. It saves you 10% for the lifetime of your membership. It ends up costing about $30 a month after you use our discount code. And I guess what I say,

I kind of believe there's a lot of different training programs that'll work for most people if you actually just like work at them pretty hard and kind of pay attention to your diet nutrition as long as they make some sort of sense. They're not just complete asinine programming that sucks. This is decent programming. You work pretty hard. It's probably going to work, especially if you're in like the beginner intermediate phase of training. But what this does is gives you a very defined path. It's one of my favorites I guess of all the different things that I think

will work. This is one of my favorite things that'll work and I've seen it work really well for a lot of people especially if you're into power lifting or just trying to improve strength on your squat bench and deadlift. So check them out at juggernautai. dot app this episode is also brought to you by barefoot shoes If you head on over to barefoot dot store, you can check out our favorite barefoot shoes on the market right now Been rockin the Ursus low top in black canvas with a gum sole tanner Looking extra stylish on our trip to California this weekend. He had the brand spanking new Ursus v2s Several people asked about them too and around their and several people were they were inquiring

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of our California trip. We do have a lot of other trips coming up this year. We're going to be headed. The Arnold is literally just around the corner at this point. It is. I mean, the Arnold is what like from today, actually today, today is Tuesday on one to three weeks from today. I'll be headed to suit three weeks right now I'll be headed to Sioux Falls

get up the following Morning and get going I think I was counting my check my county my February Sometimes when I Feel like I can't get anything done from work My other job another calendar and I'm like, okay. Well, we missed two days last week from Assonomics Okay, I work five days this week Next week things go according to plan. I'll work five days the week after that. We had planned a little family vacation

So I'll only work two days that week Then we leave for the Arnold the next week, which means I only work for two days that week. So as of right now I have four, five, nine. February's basically shot. As of right now, if everything goes perfect, I have 12 working days left in February, and it is February 4th right now. So that's always a good feeling. Well, February's a short month, though, so.

Yeah, it's just, you know, those two days that you don't get just really ruins the whole month right there Yeah, I would just chalk February up to basically you know what you're right. I'm just gonna go play with those repons for a few days Come back to work stuff. Yeah tomorrow morning. Just wake up when you feel like it hop out Set the repons up get a workout in The work will get done when it gets done. It's not my problem. Treat yourself.

Yeah, going back to work after a trip like this is also always a thing. Oh, there's just so much shit. You just need to spend the first four hours catching up on everything that's been neglected for the last two days. The sweet part is too, I go into work and I'm like, oh yeah, I really need to catch up on everything that's been neglected for the last two days. The sweet part is, too, I go into work and I'm like, Oh, yeah, I really need to catch up on this stuff.

And then 17 different people come into my office all like with another thing. And another problem. Yeah. I'm like, OK, leave me alone. I have hours worth of stuff that I need to get through here. And you're just piling it up. You know, it's like it is when it rains it pours People can sense blood in the water. They're just like attack the shark starts circling Yes certified training facility to round three by the time you're hearing this it already came out and it's probably sold out

I think I think we're gonna Should come out tomorrow February 5th, and I think it'll probably sell out tomorrow on February 5th for our third Probably if for some reason it doesn't like you're hearing this on a Sunday Yeah, or like Monday morning check into it Maybe with her so and if there's any just buy it right then because there's a good chance There's almost done. Yeah, and if it does sell out that fast, which there again, when we ordered the third round, I wasn't yet convinced that it would sell out immediately, and now as it has approached based on the interest,

I'm kind of thinking it will sell out almost immediately. If that's what happens, we're probably gonna do a fourth round of it. So if it is sold out, get on the website, you can sign up for back and stock email notifications. And if you happen to sign up for back in stock email notifications on the other rounds, but you still missed out, you can sign up again.

Eventually, our supply will get caught up with the demand at some point in time, you'll be able to get one. Sometimes, we don't know when that is. It could be 2026, we don't even really know. Someday, the slow movers will be able to get one But it isn't gonna be this time again They'll still it is gonna be like that you're gonna have to get on at the day of not anytime soon No

Anything else we need to hit on before we Let's shut this one down for a week about it. I Think that is about it. So do make sure to check out our YouTube channel We actually our video that came out this last week was our Rundown our review of the Alibaba dumbbell for tear racks and mass. Yeah, lots of good videos good engagement and content Our conversation around that video a lot of good conversation on that video I so please check that out even if you're not interested in those racks themselves there's kind of a bigger overarching topic of discussion there about

You know say supporting made in America companies versus supporting something like an Alibaba I'm not even gonna say a knockoff because I don't think that that's what I don't think from a proprietary standpoint There's anything proprietary Sheldon yeah, I don't think it's a standpoint there's anything proprietary about that. So I don't think it's a knockoff. I think it's a cheaper alternative, cheap alternative, honestly. What's what's, um, what are your thoughts on that? Leave a note in the comments. What's more ethical buying something from a foreign company or buying something

used where you don't support any company? I mean, if we do have a minute, we should talk about that because we have talked about that. And if we don't now, it'll probably just get old news and we won't talk about it again. Well, we can put it on the list, though. We could talk about it next week. OK.

Maybe we should talk about it next week, actually, then. OK. Maybe that could be like a title topic, even if we thought about it hard enough. Yeah. I'm writing that down. I think that's worth a longer conversation. OK, let's do that.

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