Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 496: We Toured the Best Home Gyms in New England (& New York)

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

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If you don't follow Massanomics, you all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massonomics. Howdy, everyone? We made it back from the Northeast. We went to the Northeast, and all we have to show for it is this lousy podcast. Episode 496 of the Massonomics podcast, The Lifting Podcast, about nothing recorded live from the corners of the Dakotas.

My name is Tanner, and I'm in the dean. My name is Tommy, and I am in Sufu. The Dean and Sufoo. both represented this week on Massonomics podcast. We are going to recap our adventures through New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. It was a whirlwind of a weekend. I am still trying to recover from it mentally, physically, and most importantly, in a sleep sense. But we're going to bring our A game tonight to go through all of that.

We got a lot to get to. It was a whirlwind. Hopefully Tommy's collecting his notes. as we're starting here because there's a lot. I don't know if I could ever write all that down. Before we get into that, I want to mention Texas power bars. It's the best bit damn barbell out there for power lifting you can find. You get yourself the 29 millimeter seventh, count them.

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That's interesting. We know that they've been around for a long time. Yeah. Are they incorporated? Are they an LLC? I, this might change how I do. NLCs back in 1980. Does Texas even allow that in the first place?

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had us pushing our limits as far as uh not like in a bad way just in like a a physical and mental capability way it was for some long long days between travel gym tours just keeping the energy high keeping the entertainment levels up it's it's tough it is it is it is so much fun but it is its work it was an absolute the trip was an absolute freaking blast it's almost surreal just like all the all the people and all the stuff but uh definitely draining like we got home um three nights ago and i'm still feeling it from the trip a little bit i've been sleeping just the hardest i've slept in so long like two nights ago well two nights ago i went to bed at like 8 p.m.

Last night I went to bed at probably 8.30 and it's because both nights I've just been insanely tired by the time that comes trying to catch up. Let's start from the beginning though rather than it's a better place to start. Strike that, reverse it.

Flip it. So the big surprise, I think we got to frame what the big surprise of this whole trip was, is that we've been saying on the podcast and publicly that this was a northeast trip to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, which it was. That was part of it.

But we did leave one little detail off the front of it. And that was that crazy to call it little when it's that large of a state that we left out. We left out the biggest leg of the trip. And that was that the trip was actually starting in Buffalo, New York. We were going to land at the Cessonys. They were aware of that tour their home gym. And then from there, we're going to make the quick trip over to Rochester and surprise Keith at the no wine cellar. He had no idea about this. His wife was in on the surprise, though,

and she did manage to keep it a secret. And so with that in mind, having to make it to Buffalo, do those two tours, and then go all the way across New York to start the next day, meant that everything had to go correctly for that schedule to hold up. And Buffalo is like the world's biggest airport. So, you know, there's, especially when you're coming from South Dakota, there's like two windows in time to get there and it's about 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. That was kind of how the flights were working. And so if that first flight was off or delayed, we were just kind of like both in panic mode that it would really ruin the whole trip. And we got up at like we always do at 4.3 in the morning.

We're at the Sioux Falls Airport takes off at 6 a.m. just like it was supposed to. And we're like, sweet. We are good to go, baby. we touched down in Chicago, I don't know, a little over an hour later. We've touched down, we go to do-to-do, driving around on the runway, and the guy goes, ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived. Everything is on time. We're actually 20 minutes ahead of schedule, but unfortunately there's an airplane at our gate right now. So we've been told it will be about 30 minutes.

And we're like 30 minutes, that's when our next plane starts boarding because it was a very tight connection. And so we're just sitting, sitting, sitting, and then all of our phones. And by sitting, I'm, I should, you should say, I'm literally freaking out in my mind. Like absolute anxiety out of 20. It's just ramping up by the second year. Crank the anxiety up to a thousand and jam, then bust the knob off with a hammer. Because I'm just getting more anxious by the second. And also, it feels like everything is injuring off of it.

We're nowhere near our gate. I mean, I, I swear this airplane was parked out. in the country because you couldn't see the airport from the direction we were parked. And once he said, okay, we're going to drive to our gate. I swear we drove on the runway for 20 minutes to get to the gate. It was like we went on an actual road trip. And anyways, we're sitting there on the airplane and we're getting notifications that our plane is boarding.

And it's like, dear God, the time is ticking here. We got to go. And we pull up to the gate and they said, hey, just so you know, there's a few people on this flight with trips to Buffalo and like two other places that have a very tight connection. So if you don't need to go, let those people go. And we're like looking, we're doing the math. And it says on the, on the, uh, airport map that our gate is a half hour, our half mile away. And it says it's a 13 minute walk. And we're like, well, we're clearly running. And it's like, okay, if we can run it twice as fast, like, do we make it in seven minutes? Because if

we do, I think we might be okay. And we got our bags and took off running like, well, and First we had to get through the frickin, is it the jet, what do you call the, Oh, yeah, whatever that. And like there's people slow, okay, there's a person in a wheelchair that was not in a hurry. And I get like help not, there wasn't a person that was permanently in a wheelchair. There was an old person that wanted a wheelchair to help get them off the plane. And I'm like, why does that person need to go early? They were not in a hurry.

I get like, and then their, and then their people are walking. that are helping her or him. I don't even know what it was, are walking three wide, taking up the entire freaking thing. And I'm like, you don't have somewhere to be. I get that you're in a wheelchair,

but let's let the people that are in a freaking hurry get going here first before the people that need a wheelchair escort out of here. And that was the other funny part about the people that were in a hurry. We got off the plane with the other people that were in a hurry,

and they couldn't walk any slower. All the people that were in a hurry could not possibly be moving any slower. And we're like, we got to go. Move it. You don't understand, we're in a real hurry. Like I said, the guy in front of me who was up because supposedly he had to go early starts letting people on the plane. Oh, go ahead.

I'm in no hurry. I'm like, you're supposed to only be standing if you're in a hurry. I'm like, excuse me, excuse me, got to go, got to go. He's like, oh, sorry, I didn't know it. I'm like, you didn't know it. They announced it to the entire plane. Do not get up unless you're in a hurry. I would normally, would at all possible prefer to be passive and not have to budge around people.

But I was pressing, I was somewhat pushing people. even. And when we were in that bridge thing, I was like, okay, we got to get by you. Like, it was like, move over now. Yeah. Once we did get out through the, into the thing. It was like, uh, do we need to run? And we just both just took off running. And the third guy with us was like, yeah, we need to run.

Yeah, there was a guy with us in business calls that took off running. And we quickly dropped him. And I never saw him again. So I don't know if he was a victim of the airport or what, but we booked it. There was a couple times we had to do a quick little. walk break to catch her breath because it was a long run it was after sitting for you know a few several hours or not doing anything four 15 it was like didn't eat or drink anything you know it's like oh we'll we'll do that at the airport which so that took that out and we took off running and we get to

the gate and it's like last call anyone else anyone left and the lady said we had like yes yeah she's like oh you had two minutes left as we got on and yeah we were the last two people on the plane. So it was about as tight as it could get. And again, the reason why that is such a big deal is I think if that one missed, if we missed that flight, it looked like we probably wouldn't have gotten to Buffalo until that night, which means Buffalo wouldn't have happened. Buffalo, Rochester, those trips wouldn't have happened. And also, it was the, we did the scene from home alone because that's in O'Hare. Yeah, actually. And we were in that hallway with all the flags. Yeah, that's right. We were.

We thought of that like yesterday. I'm like, wait a second. We ran down that. Yeah, yeah. We lived it. You know, where it's like, run, run, Rudolph. I'm going to make it to town. We did that thing. Yeah, we did. If not for the peloton's, I don't know if we would have ever made it in time. But we did, if it would have been like six months prior with my knee, I wouldn't have been, I never would have been able to, I would have been like, go on

Without me, Tommy, I'm never making it. I'll go delay them at the gate. Because without running, we wouldn't have made it to the gate near. Oh, we both said if it was our families with us, it would have just been like, nope, there's no way. There's no way this is happening. You can't shuttle these kids across the year process. Or if it was just people that didn't exercise at all, you could have been hard. Dude, I had, I told you when we sat down, I had the most insane calf pump of my life.

I've never had that feeling. And I don't know if it was just, I don't know what it was, but yeah, I had a, I had a, I had a crazy pump in my legs once we finally got on the plane yeah all right so then we did make it though and it was a giant relief once we're on there it's just like oh we made it yeah if i mean forget that i've had to go to the bathroom for like two and a half hours and i hate going to the bathroom on airplanes but i will deal with that at the next stop i guess yep we touched out at the airport um buffalo new york believe it or not every single person wears buffalo bills clothing every single person there's no debate about it that's that's what's up there the bill's mafia was real yes it was

uh we got her car they promised us to Chevy Malibu at first and then they took it from our hands and switched it out for a trailblazer i think or uh tracks Chevy tracks put some miles on that hog but uh headed over to the sesnese oh first right off the bat we uh i mean this is just the recurring theme throughout the whole trip man the northeast does not know how to do gas stations if so if If someone from this part of the country introduced a modern gas station, oh, they would just own the world over there. They're not familiar with the convenience sort of aspect of the gas station. The convenience.

I'll actually just say the convenience part in general. They're not familiar with any part of convenience there. You can get gas, but they, if you drop down a Casey's in the smack dam of the northeast somewhere, everyone would be like, oh my God, what is this place? Is this heaven? You mean, this isn't supposed to be shitty? Eddie, I never got it. I got a, I don't know if I say,

apologize to Eddie or just say I understand where he's coming from now. Crew member Eddie, he is a traveling salesman, sales rep of sorts. He spends a lot of time on the road. And I know one time he was talking, he was saying how hard it is to find a bathroom when you're on the road in the Northeast. And I'm like, yeah, you go to the gas station, Eddie. And he's like, no, you don't get it.

That's not how it works over there. and after I've been there, I get it. Like, I think the first two gas stations we both went to, both had signs that said no public restroom, which if you're in the Midwest and you have a gas station with no public restroom, you might as well not even have a gas station at that point. People aren't going to give you any business.

No, there's not going to come there. If you made the little convenience story area as terrible and small and shitty as those are, no one also you would be out of business. Oh, yeah. I'm going to go to the good one that's like 50 feet down the road. Oh, are we super old? Is it super dirty?

Is there no food items? Is there no selection of anything? Check, check. Yes, all of the above. No public bathroom. Also that. It's like, that's basically every gas station in the Northeast, which is crazy. But that's all they all.

Does it also look like it was made 75 years ago? Yes, all that. As long as our other critiques of the Northeast, that was the main one. I think the other one was our cell phones rarely work. I mean, to be fair, we're on a small network called Verizon. so they might not have nationwide coverage. But, yeah, just phones don't work in the Northeast. I mean, we're not in time.

I will always give people a break in rural areas where it seems like there's no civilization. Well, they shouldn't work where we, where I live. That's what I would just consider cities and they just straight up don't work. No bars. Like we're trying to, this happened probably three or four times. We're going to leave someone's house. We're sitting there in front of their house. So we put in the next destination and just the phones can't pull it up.

And so we're like, well, I guess we'll start driving, hope we go the right way and eventually it will catch it. And that's, that happened multiple times. I don't know why that what the reasoning is. I can't imagine it's like that for everyone that lives there because it would be hard to use your. Does Verizon put them on a different plan when they live, when they see you're a local? I don't know. That's what I'm like almost wondering. It has to be something like that almost because it doesn't make any sense that the coverage can be that bad.

I don't know. I've also heard that in bigger, this is just me hearing things on the internet, like in bigger cities, people or in certain areas, people make a much bigger deal about cell phone towers being around. And so part of,

that's put partly B.I service sucks because it's like here, it's like, oh, put a cell phone tower wherever you want. That's just how it goes. Yeah. Those are really the only two negatives of the whole trip was the,

uh, convenience stores, not all that convenient. And the, uh, the people and everything else went awesome. Yeah. Yes, it did.

So, okay, yeah, we make it to the Cessneys. Yeah, we hit up a gas station finally. We make it to their house like true, true Buffalo hosts. They had Buffalo wings and pizza waiting for us. And that was what we needed. First time we had eaten in like nine hours of being awake. And yeah, they hit just right. And went down to their gym.

sweet basement gym isn't it yes it is i didn't really because they trained somewhere else a lot so i see their videos training somewhere else so i i got to say i didn't realize they had as much of a home gym set up as they do i didn't either i same thing like i always what's the what's the gym they go to why can't i think what that's called um i'm not sure it starts with z doesn't it yeah and they're on the certified training facility map also yes i can't think what it is but when i picture them training i picture asylum yeah is it zes anal's asylum or something but yeah um i i always picture videos photos of them lifting there and i know i have seen things at their house but that's not what my brain goes to instantly

and when we went down there what's so impressive is i did not realize how uh handy DIY craftsman skills that matt has and he has made some really cool stuff to accommodate their conjugate lifestyle that they live and it was it was really cool to hear him explain how and why he made all the things that he did. Yeah, nothing on accident. And what is it? Quigon. Yeah.

Yeah, Quigon Gym, right? Quigon Gym. Yeah. And also, we're not talking about, like, things made a wood. Like, most things, he's welded together to make them premium. Like, it's a lot of stuff. He's like, oh, I just kind of made that, you know, it's not the best that I look at it. I'm like, yeah, it is actually, like, really good.

Oh, this is just so overbuilt and heavy duty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, really cool stuff. And they had multiple racks in their gym. I mean, we won't get into it too much because, you know, there's a full tour coming out. But multiple racks.

They had that really cool forearm developer thing that they made. I was thinking about that the day, but I'm like, that is really sweet. I like that machine. Yeah, that was, that was good. I'm trying to think of what. Oh, just like the custom mono attachments that he made for the rack. Those are really cool, the showing us the straps, you know, the safety strap system that he made for the rack too. Just really cool stuff that not really commercial.

available like there are kind of things but that's what's so cool about these is seeing how people um get resourceful to make the gym accommodate their style of training yeah and so when we go into a place we got we shoot the video well actually you chat with everyone because you don't just run in and be like all right shoot the video that's weird so you chat with everyone you shoot the video then we have to like get photos for um the thumbnail and we have to shoot an intro of the video and then get a photo for Instagram and do all this stuff. And then get some B-roll for the intro. Yeah, get some B-roll.

And then by the time we're done, you get to chat for a few more minutes. And every time it's pretty much like, we got to get out of here. You know, like not because we want to. Every time we could stay for hours more. Oh, every one of these. Every single place. We could stay the entire day. Every one of them, it would be so easy to do.

Like, it wouldn't take any effort. Yeah. Like, we're never like, never are we like, okay, we all said everything we have to say. we'll go now it's always like we're literally telling stories on the way out we're like okay the hard line is here like we have to go we we've passed it by 10 minutes already um but we have to go and that's typically how it actually ends and i do think we we did actually end up we being about 10 15 minutes past what we had scheduled out we did we might have been close to a half hour late even i think leave it right right so then the next stop was the total surprise of the trip that nobody

no, well, Big Keese. A select few. A wife. Big Stephanie knew that we were in on it. But Keith himself did not know. We were headed to Rochester, which is a couple hour drive down the road. We showed up there in the afternoon. Was it like 45 minutes? Oh, something like that.

Yeah, it wasn't too far to get to Keith. And we got there and we had successfully still made it. So Keith did not know we're there. He didn't see us walk up or anything like that. So the first time he saw us is when, We knocked on the door and he came to answer it and we were standing outside of his door, which was a very fun moment to have a surprise.

Yeah, you know, it was, it's so fun to just get to surprise someone like that. Totally catch him off guard. Yeah. He just laughed like, you fuckers. Yeah, that was, and then, uh, got to hang out there. We toured the no wine cellar.

Uh, we've, obviously, we've seen the no wine cellar a whole bunch in pictures and videos and stuff before, but nothing ever does justice as being in a place. No, it doesn't. And actually, that was maybe my biggest takeaway is this trip more than any of them. Basically every gym we went into, my thought was, oh, it's even bigger than I thought. That was pretty much every gym. And I don't know if it's a basement thing that does that or what, but because basically

every gym we went to was a basement gym too. But yeah, every single gym was like, wow, actually bigger than I even thought seen it online. And Keese was no exception. His was even bigger. I mean, honestly, it looks even better in person. Like it was so cool. You know, he obviously has it at any, at any moments noticed, totally picture ready and, like, cleaned up and ready to go.

You know, the gym was, the gym was awesome. And, yeah, we had a really good gym tour there. And it was cool to finally see the place. We looked at this garage also. Yeah, I got to check out the garage. banner and I put a tiny miniature hidden penis on there that I'll have to find someday and said no penises got to use his basement toilet his new toilet got to break it in and oh did we break it in and then we got to do blobs and I don't know if you know this you got the 80 pound blobs there's a rich

history of blobs and I'm a big history guy over here and you have always liked the history of And doing the blobs, it's been a, you know, the gym had blobs, and they're all unmarked, right? They're unmarked. So I just never knew. Is that the technical term? Am I saying that right? No, that would be a not, that would be a different term almost because you'd say they're the York side.

Oh, the York side. Okay, there you go. That's right. Yes, yes. So you'd say they're the York side, not the numbered side. Yes, yes, obviously, of course. And as someone that knows the history, I'm sure you know that. Right.

Yeah, sometimes I play dumb, so everyone else doesn't. feel bad for asking um and the gym ones though is like i don't know this one's kind of big it's easier to lift this one's way bigger it's hard to lift and that i never knew and keith has the the actual numbers the weight on all of his number side yes you actually know what they are and so he set him up on the bench and did them and went through them all very easily until the 80 and it's like i could just keep breaking the ground with it over and over but i couldn't get it and it was pissing me off i don't know i probably tried it for five or ten minutes i couldn't do it Could not do it.

I know you'd like halfway get it a lot of the time. Yeah, well, because I could always just feel it. You know, grip is like, when you got it, you got it. You know, it's locked in. And I could just always feel it sliding a little bit. So finally, I had to call it quits. And then I watched you do it. And I'm like, oh, there is a technique to this.

You got done. I walked over the 80, did it the first time. Popped it right up. And then I think I did it three more times. So there is just a little bit of technique that I was unaware of. And we were trying to explain the technique to you, but you hadn't really seen anyone do it. Yeah.

So I just still didn't. I just needed to see it. And then it all clicked instantly. And that felt like quite the accomplishment getting that. You know what that reminded me of? It put, it was on the level to me of when we were flipping the 45s at Jujis and catching them. And like the 35 was a challenge.

I kept struggling with it. And then the 45, I got it on like my first or second try. Yeah. And that's just fun when you do those dumb little things like that. But, um, yeah,

that was a good time. ate a lot of, uh, pepperoni pizza rolls or what was the, uh, What do they call those? Pepperoni. Oh,

dang it. It wasn't pizza roll, but I ate a lot of them. Maybe is it just a pepperoni roll? Maybe that's what it was. Yeah. They were good, though. Yeah, got to see the cats,

got to see the whole gym. It was an awesome experience. It was really fun. We got on the road from there. Was it dark by the time we left? Yes, it was very much, yes. Because I don't think we left until, like, almost 8 o'clock when our initial plan i think was to leave by like 530 or something yeah we were

out we were about 30 minutes late getting there and we were like two and a half hours late leaving just because we stayed around and bullshitted for a lot yeah but that was the one day we could do it you know like yeah because it just meant we were going to be driving in the car later it wasn't breaking any other schedule and yeah we hit the road and it was actually as far as driving goes there was no crazy weather, there was no rain. I mean, the interstate at first was slightly busier leaving Buffalo, but even that cleared out a little bit after a while, and it was pretty smooth sailing.

They could drive so late that eventually not people just aren't out driving at that late of an hour. Yeah, because I think we got to our hotel finally. It was what, like 1130, 1145. Yep. You know, we did about four-ish hours of driving, I think, right around there. Yeah, yeah. So we were like south of Albany by the time we finally stopped somewhere. It was sort of in the middle of nowhere too

But yeah We also didn't Still not sure how this pans out eventually But we didn't pay for any tolls But we sure went through a lot of them In the rental car So I'm not sure when we get that And what it looks like

I actually forgot about that There was multiple times like oh we should pay this thing Check it on our phone It's like oh damn don't know the license plate number Well we'll get that And then we never would do it And then we'd get back in the car I actually totally forgot about that again

So, yeah, there'll be some bill. I don't know. I think Enterprise will pay that probably. Oh, yeah. I'm sure they just were like, oh, we got you covered. Yeah, you're fine. Yeah, that's not our problem.

Yeah, toll roads. That was future us's problem to worry about. Yeah. Toll roads, huh? Am I right? I could do without toll roads, to be honest. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. Coming from a system where there aren't toll roads,

I prefer not toll roads. You made the comment. even one point in time, which I kind of agree with, when for out-of-staters and stuff, like, it's like hostile towards them. You don't, you don't get how the system works. It's so confusing. It's, like, wherever we're at in Ohio or California, oh, I think it was Ohio when we hit a toll road, you just got to a gate at the end and you just paid a fee.

It was like, all right, I get it. There's a toll on this road. I pay it before you let me go. That's fair. You got me. All the other ones, I don't know, there's signs for text this, call this, do this um but yeah we didn't do that because we didn't know our license plate order in the vehicle so and we just really didn't want to deal with it yeah so that probably charges three times as much

for yeah it'll probably be hundreds of dollars at this point i mean it's borderline predatory i'm sure that's how they plan on making a certain amount of their money's like let's just actually make this confusing to out-of-staters especially people who don't have toll roads and they will subsidize the rest of them because they'll just pay so much more yes yes but anyway Anyways, if we got up the next morning to go to Brian Cappellman's. You know the other thing I'll say about hotels, though? This is just... Oh, God.

When you're checking in at midnight after a really long night, what you want to do is just get in your hotel room. You want to say this. One room, please. And they'll get... They say, a thousand dollars, because it's always too much. And you go, here's my card. And you want them to swipe it and say, here's your room key.

See you later. And it could not be farther from that whole thing. the amount someone here has probably worked at a hotel before the amount of clicking and clacking that goes on back there with no questions even being asked like there's not like what there's no feedback coming from us it's just clicking and clacking away on the computer and I'm like what is going on they're not you clicking and clacking back there the longest piece of buying something online is if you have to enter in your address they don't enter in a billing address for you at a hotel so what are they just typing and

and clicking away on, it's crazy. Like the process, both of these, and granted, it probably isn't like the most all-star employees working the midnight shift at these hotels in the middle of nowhere. Let me assure you, it is not. But, I mean, they could not be any slower the way they're doing. I mean, I think the one checking took maybe a little over 10 minutes. It just didn't make any sense.

Eventually, I just left. I had to go to the car. I couldn't stand there anymore. Does it mix it? What are you drinking anything over there? Oh, God. Yes, I am actually. What do you got there?

Something from New York? Kirkland Pamplemoose. Actually, great for him. I believe it's what they call it. I got a little New York import. It's called a Rambler. It imported all the way from Texas to New York. And then back to South Dakota again.

Oh, yeah. That hits the spot. Oh, yeah. It hits the spot real good. So then we woke up the next morning. and we're on our way to B. Cops House. Yep. And we were in upstate New York.

We were, oh, talk about that view going across the Hudson River, huh, Tanner? The Hudson River at about 8 a.m. with the fog. And the sunrise. That hit. And then the changing leaves in the back. That was a view, man. That was pretty sweet. That's the, it was cool.

Because we're going across there. I'm like, wow, this is like something out of a. poem right here like I don't know what that means but you're right yeah that was pretty sweet and we were definitely in the woods on this one we were

it felt like we had left civilization behind even kind of for our standards it felt it felt pretty isolated out there yeah and pulled up cell phone service yeah cell phone service was not in our favor but Brian had some delicious local handcrafted sandwiches

ready to go for us oh yeah that really hit the spot. He had even had coffee for us too. And Brian, just like pretty much all the others, we probably did 45 minutes of chit-chatting before we had to be like, no, no, we have to get this tour started

because we're just talking a lot. Before we know, we're going to be here and it'll be time to go and we will have not recorded anything. I know, and I could have kept going. Brian has great stories. He's got lots of questions too. And it was a great time.

But yeah, the tour started. We had no idea what to expect with his home gym. He definitely downplayed it. He said, you know, it's like a, I think what did he tell you, Tanner? He has a pretty simple home gym, nothing too crazy. He might have been understating that, just a touch. Right. And we hadn't seen any pictures, so we did not know exactly what to expect,

but it also was a sweet home gym of, like, filled with Sorenx equipment. Very nice home gym. It's also a very cool tour. And his, along with a lot of them on this trip, you know, it is a gym tour, but our philosophy is that it's a bit of a podcasting gym tour where we're walking around the gym recording a podcast. And with him a lot, we're chatting about his fitness journey and like how the home gym culture has kind of shaped his journey over the last couple of years.

We're looking at the equipment too, but it's also like it's just conversation as we're going. And I think they're all kind of developed more and more into that as we go. too. They are. And this is probably the most we'd done that because we'd had a few, I don't know if you want to say personalities or noteworthy people that's like, yeah, they got cool equipment and they have things to say about these and that's fun and that's the reason we're here. But they also have lots of cool insights and just stories on experiences in life. And we probably hit on those in these tours more than we ever have on any other video. I told you at one point, I remember I was filming, I'm like, this is just a podcast.

that's literally what this is just a podcast that's taken place with an interview and there just happens to be some jimmy equipment that we go back to between uh segments and topics and as me the guy filming it watching it through the camera i'm like oh i'm having a great time i could watch this all day this is this is awesome brian's wrapped up we were out of there pretty much right on time i think yeah i mean we right on time to the last minute yeah yeah we were we were like sticking exactly to the schedule at that point. They're like the map's not working and we're trying to get out of there because we've got to get going and it's like, I think it's this direction and we just start driving until we

eventually get somewhere that we can get a map. And then it was on to Connecticut, getting out of New York and headed to Connecticut to go do Big Evans, right? Evans and Sponnie's. Yep, Big Evans. And same thing there. We got to his place and it was funny. I think his daughter answered the door

and it's us two standing there and she seemed confused like what are you guys doing here? I can't remember if you said is Evan or is your dad here? And she's like, yeah. And then goes and gets him in. Yeah, Evan greeted us in and same thing there.

We set up shop in the kitchen, talked for a little while, got caught up on things. And before we made our way, down to the basement and man Evan has a vibe in his basement maybe more so than almost any gym we've been to like it's it really does feel like

this is what an old school bodybuilder would have for and I'm not saying that he's an old school bodybuilder but I'm saying he's kind of decorated it in that way with he put wood paneling on the walls and he has just a collection of uh magazines pictures from Jay Cutler to people from like the 60s just with like a piece of tape on the wall holding them up and it's just

such a vibe down there was so cool yeah and then like these hand curated machines that he's like you know the interesting thing here is actually we get wrapped up in this home gym equipment community where it's like oh you got to have the whatever brand leg extension leg curl because it's the stretch and stuff like that and he's like so on a whole different level that he he's not talking about that stuff he's talking about the old commercial equipment that he's like no you got to have the body fitness this machine you got to have the Sybex hack squat you got to have this Icarian yeah whatever you know and that's and it's because he trained at some of the best bodybuilding gyms you would assume he's probably used about every piece of

equipment that there was and he's like nope these were the ones that always felt best for me these are the ones that I like the most. These are the ones that made me feel good. And so these are the pieces I looked for. And that's what he's got in his basement, Jim. I'm excited for all the tours. That one, there was something about that one, just like the look of his basement and the way it went and stuff.

When we got done, I'm like, I just think people are going to love this. I know. Like this tour, I was just like, I think people are going to be like, this is all, you know, that I just feel like people will be as excited watching it as we were making it kind of. And it's, I don't know why. Why, but it's a different gym.

I don't know if we've ever been to a gym that has that many commercial pieces in it. Right. You know, like. But it's not big still. No, I know. Like, and he has them between, I'm just thinking like the hack squat, the leg press, the calf raise, the calf raise extension, leg curl. Yep. Half of a cable crossover.

Mm-hmm. The peck deck, chest fly, rear delt. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what was the one like the Humble? Angelin Squad in the other room. Yeah.

What was the one like the humbler? What was that thing? Do you remember? Oh, yeah. That's another thing that's worth mentioning, actually, that piece of machine. You'll watch the tour and you'll get all the background that he gives us on it. And I'm looking at it. And, you know, this is a machine from like the 90s and is like, oh, these are highly sought after.

You know, they don't make these anymore. Everyone wants them because the way you hit your back. And I'm looking at it. I'm like, that is the humble. Yep. It's just an older commercial version. I mean, the humbler is commercial, but it's just an older 90s commercial version of the Arsenal, what do they call? The lat, the lap, whatever, the row, whatever. I'm like, oh, yeah, there again, they already had that exact thing made, didn't they? This was already figured out. Everyone just takes the idea and just tweaks it a little bit as time goes on. Yeah. Should we do certified training facility and supporting our supporting, our supporting, members? Yeah, yeah, let's hop into that here. Okay. First of all, in supporting our supporting

members, this is a relatively newer segment to the podcast where we give back to those that give us. As we speak, I have packed up, I still have about 100 envelopes, gifts left to go to get packed up. They're going out for this supporting mail. By the time this episode comes out, my hope is that some people have started to receive theirs in the mail. I'm waiting until they're all done to send them all out at the same time. so it's not the staggered approach. And hopefully those are hitting people's mailboxes by the time this episode is released. For sure, the week of this episode, people should be getting them if you're, they get

I'm very curious to see, because this is the largest mailing we've ever done by far. We'll see how many get lost or get sent back and people that did have the wrong addresses and stuff like that. So we'll see. but that mailer is going out. So thank you to everyone that got signed up before the line in the sand. We do have already some other really cool stuff

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Big Kyle, Kais and DIY hit 100,000 subs on YouTube and got his play button. That is an accomplishment, man. That's pretty sweet. Big Jose, no way, variety. Went eight for nine, totaling seven, four. 47.5 kilograms at 92 kilograms. He got first place in his IPF meat

and set an Ohio State IPF deadlift record at 300 kilograms. Big Darko celebrated his three years of business anniversary. Big Joe Guns competed at the USAPL Fall Festival of Power first place in the 75 kilogram class went 7 for 9 with a 522 and a half KG total. Big Bup Mike. competed at the showdown at the pit, Strongman.

He competed in the open 105 kilogram class, got a PR in the Viking Press Farmers Carry, and the 18-inch deadlift. Big Kareem finished a high rocks race. Big Lisa got fourth in the 275 open Strongman show that he competed in. Big macho competed in his Iron Man race, but did not finish due to injury, but we're still supporting you.

You're still a supporting member, and no one can take that away from you no matter what. Big Derek. Big Derek was also on a northeast tour, coinciding with our northeast tour. He was visiting several crew members' locations, and we were just like a few steps behind him most of the time. He was warming him up for us.

Yeah, and this week's guest on Unpaid and Underrated was Big Man Who Parks in Jim, Big MW Pig, Big Jason, go give Unpaid and Underrated a Listen, our Brattie, ratty little sister podcast and now a certified training facility of the week we just went and toured about two handfuls worth of gyms in the northeast where should we go to do a little virtual tour from our certified training facility map a lot of people after i would mention a lot of people because of our tour DMing now like oh when can you come to my gym my gym my first question is are you a certified training facility because that is the number one way that we find

gyms to tour in real life it's also the number one way we find gyms to tour on this certified training facility up the week so you're not going to get either more than likely if you're not a certified training facility and that's just the fact that's not like i mean yes it's us trying to get you to sell something but literally it is when we organize these trips we do it based on the certified training facility map and then work around that so if you're not a certified training facility then what the heck you waiting for. But now, I stumbled across one the other day that kind of caught my attention here, Tanner. All right, great.

I like it already. A little geography lesson. I'd never looked at this this closely. We're going to look at a little place for the sake of easiness here. I'm going to say, go to Cincinnati, Ohio. I did not realize that Cincinnati is basically Kentucky. It is on the river. Pretty close, huh?

And the border is Kentucky. One side's Ohio. One side's Kentucky. and just what looks like on the map southeast Cincinnati, which is actually Kentucky, there's a little place called the pit. Have you seen this? You heard about this.

Oh, the pit. I found it. The pit. Okay. You got the first photo pulled up here. Yes, I do. All right. Right out of the gate,

I've got to say the aesthetics of this place are impressive. It is a good-looking, I believe this is a basement gym, right? Looks like it to me. I can tell because he daisy-chained those lights on the ceiling. He certainly has. So he's got a very well-lit basement. It looks like the floor looks very similar to Brandon's, doesn't it?

It does. It looks like a rolled fleck flooring for sure. And it's a very good, clean look there. He's got a six-post rack with the Drink Spotter XL proudly on display he has it's kind of interesting here do you see on the front of that rack it looks like he has some type of prime adjustable arm thing do you see those on the top of it like oh yeah on the top i don't know what that situation is yeah because there's a pop like a pop pin of sorts to move those in position and then he has those prime like rotator handles on that so that's pretty cool

yeah i mean the whole rack looks really nice got a lot of plates on there uh behind there i don't know uses that as like a deadlift platform because there's another layer of stall mats there of mats there that's what it looks like it could be I think yeah then I can see some adjustable dumbbells looks like the weapons are back there on a cart some other spin lock dumbbells of some kind

it's got double dumbbells adjustable dumbbell stations he's dedicated to it I can see a wall control wall it's kind of hidden right now we'll probably see more of that later there is in the background more there's some different machines maybe you'll look at the next photo. Maybe it'll show us more of that. Yes, there is one machine.

I think there's like a leg machine, leg extension, leg curl, something like that. But then the next photo we have, this guy, he's got a rep functional trainer, a plate loaded functional trainer. I forget what they actually call these when it's standalone versus in the rack versus all that. So that's plate loaded or is it a,

does it have stacks and you can add? Oh, maybe there's stacks. Oh, yeah, there is stacks and weight horns on there. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even notice that at first. You're right. And then he's got, I think that's the Pegasus seat there So you could do lap pull downs probably on that same thing possibly

That's a pretty fancy functional trainer That is, there's enough distance between them Yeah, it has some storage in there So yeah, it's not, it doesn't, Maybe it's just the wide angle of the camera But it looks like it's spaced out a little more than your standard rack set up If you wanted to buy one of those from rep Or any of the equipment we're talking about here at all

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it keeps us motivated to keep doing the things that we do. Oh, yes, it does. Next angle, he's got some bar storage. It looks like we got a red Syracote bar there. We've got a Mars bar. Some type of, I think the Cadillac bar maybe. Cadillac bar. I see a certified training facility flag.

There's a Temple of Gaines banner, and it looks like the Temple of Gaines multi-flight there. You see that? The multi-flight. So would that also be the Temple of Gaines leg extension leg curl? It definitely could be. It would not surprise me. But it does have, it does have,

it looks like red aluminum pulleys. So it's not a Titan one. Yeah, might put the Titan one, which you got to try it at home gymcon. That is a nice piece, isn't it? Yep. It's a sweet piece.

He's got that. There's a bench of some kind, a adjustable bench of some kind sitting here. What do we got on the next one? Yeah, this next one then shows, I'm assuming what's his deadlift area. We got a chalk bowl.

We got the rogue. what's it the 26ers Yep the 26ers And yep there they are There's some different The dumbbells are there There's another flat bench The wall control

A lot of wall control panels Tons of attachments A whole mirror set up You don't see a ton of mirrors In the basement gyms What's hypertro fit? Don't know Because he's got the double

You know the bookend banners there Yeah I don't know what that is. Are those the Berea lights that are daisy chains? I think those ones are the Berea lights. I mean, they're the same style of it if they're not. Are those red things hanging from the wall control daisy chains? Oh, yeah, there is some daisy.

No. Is that a daisy chain or a slingshot? I can't tell. Oh, it could be a slingshot, too. Yeah, it's just, the picture's just far enough away that it's hard to tell what's actually there. I'm going to say they're daisy chains. Yeah, saw a lot of daisy chains on our trip out east, that's for sure.

That's what we did. I think just what every gym had them. They just about did, actually. Everyone had daisy chains. Yep. You know, the last thing I was wondering about the pit is, do you think you could get strong there? Oh, hell yeah. Get strong as hell in the pit.

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Should I kick these looky-lose out of here? Oh, yes, please. Get rid of these last stragglers. They hung around. been here since the friggin' pre-show. Get them out of here. Yeah. So we're at...

Save something for the show show when this episode comes out. Yeah. We're at Evans. In case people are wondering, he still is just jacked out of his mind. Forearms are just insanely large and... I know. I mean, I'm not going to limit it to just his forearms. I'll kind of say everything.

Yeah. Yeah. He's just... The forearms are the one thing that you could see that were out from underneath of his clothing, probably. Yeah. he is jacked it's funny he has all these little projects he very much likes to work on things have a project tinker on something and he has a lot of different things that he showed us and oh yeah it's cool all the all the little hobbies he's got going on he's got some really cool stuff he makes

that i want like those bags i'm like yeah i want one of those bags those are freaking sweet yeah the bags the uh the mailbox restoration yeah the garden boxes he's just he's got a lot of stuff and it's all very interesting. We got out of there pretty much on time, and then we had to drive through busy Connecticut traffic to get to Gluck's house. Yeah. And I think we mostly made it there on time, right, though?

Yeah, I think we were, actually, I think we were like 15, 20 minutes early even. Okay, yeah. Yeah, we even stopped for lunch at five guys. That's like the only time of the whole trip we really stopped at a restaurant, at a restaurant the entire way, wasn't it? Yeah, we did eat burrito.

place that's not Quito. Oh, yeah. That was Chipotle at the very end of the night. Yeah. But that's, we're moving. So like everyone's I was giving us these recommendations for local eateries that are so good. And the way we plan our trip is no, we plan it with, if best case scenario, we have about a 15, 20 minute window, which means that for the most part, you're just stuck to going to whatever's on the interstate and quick. We did absolutely see a drug deal in the back of the five guys parking lot. Oh, God, yeah. Yes, I mean, it was, to be fair, it was like a building over from five guys,

one that was much more rundown and sketchy looking. But, yeah, neither person looked like they were in there. Best state of mind. And there was cash being exchanged for some sort of form of goods. For some type of tiny item over like a dumpster. I like to think it was like literally on top of a dumpster. Yeah. Well, at first of all that they were digging garbage all the things.

I'm like, why don't you hide that even just slightly better? Like, they weren't even looking at us driving. I'm like, we could easily be a cop car. You know, just hide that a little bit. Like, go around that, like, it was just so in the open. So we got to Glucks and, and I'm just trying to think of it was. We got the tour of his whole compound. You know, so I'm just like, I'm just thinking through everything.

Again, his gym is actually even way bigger than I, I know it's big. So it's new. But typically in YouTube, they're kind of only shooting from like one or two angles. Certain angles. Yeah, the equipment's kind of up against a wall. You know, it's not in the middle of the gym. It's usually in a corner or closer to a wall. And I really never got the impression for how big his gym actually.

I mean, it's huge. It's a ton of, I mean, you could just, you could put probably half a mathematics gym or more in that thing. Yeah. It's probably a couple thousand square feet. I mean, he knows, I'm sure. But I would think it's the turf inside of there is really cool. Yeah. It all does seem very big, very new, very nice.

You know, he's got taking extra, because it's also his recording studio, it's extra care taken with the lighting, lighting, flooring, sound even, pretty much all of that stuff. He kind of has fine-tuned for his recording situation there. Also, the most racks we've, ever seen in the gym, right? A lot of racks in there. Right?

Didn't he have... The Maxim magazine? Did he have four racks set up? Is that how many? There was four racks set up in the gym, yeah. Which is funny. That's more racks that Massonomics gym has, you know? That's true.

That is actually true. Then some of the cooler stuff we toured the back, his storage area, which is, you know, he had a collection of awesome vintage weight. He's like a sneaky vintage weight collector, you know? Yeah. Doesn't really put that. out there. And he's just,

a great collection of vintage weight. He's got, you know, a really good collection of vintage weights. Some of them he's starting to get on. He's just in the process of getting them on display, actually. But like, right now they're all stuffed in the back. And we start looking on a weight tree, like it's no big deal. Yeah, I'm like, you've got some really nice vintage weights back here. Like, not just kind of good vintage weights.

You've got, you've got the good stuff back here. Yeah, it was really cool. I mean, you could honestly say, though, his entire storage room is the good stuff of just other stuff too. Like, it's funny that, you know, that storage room, which that's what it is, it's just where he keeps extras, spares, or other things. A lot of home gym owners would be like, yeah, I'll just take anything from here. Like, this is all the good stuff.

True, it is all good stuff. Anything else about us to, you know, we sat and glas, us Gluck and Winnie sat and chatted for a long time, talk about talking shop, you know, it's fun stuff. You don't get to really, they're always busy, we're always busy. so whenever we do see each other, it's always just like really short. You know, you're right, actually. I never really thought about that

is that every time we do run into each other, which isn't often. But it's like, nope, we're all here for work stuff. So good to see you, good to see you. We'll say something quick. And then we both got work to do. Right. So it's probably the longest we've ever got to talk to them

in person about anything, which is really fun. I mean, I know it's beneficial for us. I'm guessing it probably is for them a little bit too because you don't get to have those conversations all that often. So that was really cool. And then that was our third stop of the day. Our third tour of the day, but that wasn't all.

Saturday was an action-pack day. We actually had to go to our fourth tour of the day, get on the road to our third state, which is Rhode Island for none of the basement Brandon's gym. And by the time we got there, it was dark before we even went in. Yeah. It was maybe like 7.30 p.m. by the time we got there, I think. Yeah, 738, something like that.

And this was, so we realized, I mean, we were pumped to be there. It was very, very exciting. But this is where we were really pushing our limits of four gym tours in a day and that much travel is that gets to be. And also when you're following up with what the day we had the day before, it was, that's pushing the limits of what's possible. Yeah, that pushed it. I had a little white monster that, like the citizens had given me,

I had a little bit of that at 7 p.m. just because I need to a little, you know, I can't, I was starting to get pretty tired by that time. And that's like, you can't record YouTube videos, good ones when you're like dragging ass. That's not an option, really. Especially with Brandon's, where you know you got a lot of, a lot of ground to cover in there. And Brandon's is definitely bigger to me in person. Yes. In every way. Like his, his actually probably surprised me the most, how much bigger it felt

because that one really surprised me because you do just see certain angles and you never see in all the gyms. you see this side or that side or this corner or that corner, but you never see it also with the middle in mind. Yeah. So you don't really know how big the space in between is. Right, right. And also, you know, because it is power lifting,

it's like, well, yeah, this is the deadlift area. This is the squatting area. And like you just kind of see those three areas. So like to actually move around in the space, it's just a way different feeling. His also is very much a wow factor when you go in it between. It is. The flooring, the lighting, the color-matched Stormtrooper white vibe.

It's just like there's no detail that's overlooked in that white-to-white gym. No, it is really, it's a one-of-a-kind also in its way where it's like, no, I've never really seen anything quite like that. And it's all the good stuff. Like there's nothing in there that's all the really good stuff. No, there's nothing in there that's, oh, yeah, I mean, this is fine. But yeah, make it work. You definitely want to upgrade that. someday it's like i don't know what you could upgrade in here there's nothing that you could upgrade

it's so good any upgrade would sort of be a lateral movement at a certain point where it's like maybe something's better about it but something's probably worse too yeah i mean yeah so much of that is just the best of the best basically every piece has been customized for branding or colorways the brandon naked squatters all over everything uh that one's cool of course i've talked about it when we've had them on, but we talk about it in the tour. But 15 years ago, I was watching his YouTube channel. I know. And as someone that Masonomics didn't even exist to us yet,

we were, you know, it was just someone that was going to the gym lifting, kind of doing powerlifting. And he was a YouTube celebrity that I, you know, I liked watching his YouTube on the internet. And then you're like, oh, 12 years later, you're going to be there in his basement doing a gym tour with him. because he's your buddy at this point. Because we both just never knew when to quit.

He's got the same recipe for success that we found over the years is just never quit. You can go back and look. I'll never forget. It was the first power lift meet we ever did, Tanner. What year was that? 2014? 15, something like that.

It was just you and me. We made the trip all the way across South Dakota to the Black Hills. And you've made a little vlog out of it of the meat day experience. And I think Brandon left the comment of it was just like good job guys or something like that yeah and i remember that was the craziest thing in the world that you know 50 10 years ago 11 years ago that he left a comment on a youtube video that was so mind-blowing at the time and you know decade later we're we're at his house so it's it's funny how things can go yeah we finished up there and then we drove still uh we drove until almost midnight

we went north towards massachusetts we got into massachusetts in Massachusetts, we got on the west side of Boston and tried to find a hotel that did not cost $500 because the Patriots had a game on Sunday morning and we were coming in on Saturday night. So we were trying to find someplace that was not insanely expensive. We did actually find a holiday and express that was pretty reasonable. Yeah, just the old go-to is your days in, your,

or sorry, not days in, your holiday in, your, what's it, the Hamptons, those ones like that, that you can usually count on just a certain level of consistency, usually in that $150, maybe up to $200 range, we're all showing up as $350, $400, $420, like so insanely expensive, which isn't what exactly what we're trying to spend on a night on this. We're like, oh, we can just drive like 20 miles to the west

and all of a sudden the prices drop by more than half. So, yeah, we drove just a touch more. again waited i don't know 20 minutes something for the desk front desk lady to click clack away before we could be granted our key just clicking and clacking back there just clacking away on that it was funny because you we walk in yeah this is what usually you do we look around online until we find a place that seems like yep that's the one and then we just walk up to the desk and we go hey can we get a room and uh i think we walked up and you go uh uh Yeah, do you guys have any rooms?

And she goes, yeah, you go, okay, we'll take one of those. And she goes, okay. So, yeah, we do have one king bed. And you're like, how about something with two beds? Oh, yeah, I can look for those two. I guess there was some misunderstanding about the way you said it. She thought we were looking for a single. Well, I said it kind of funny.

I mean, I did say like, well, she said something about having rooms. I'm like, yep, we'll take one of those. I thought it was kind of, you know, like, we'll take one. Yeah, and she took that as one bed. Right. Then it's like, oh, no, yeah, we have double queens too. It's like, that's actually what we want here. And then half hour later, after she got done typing, we had a room key.

Nobody knows why it takes that long. Drop a line in the comments of why the hell. Let me know why, either serious or funny, why you think it takes so long, what they're doing back there. I think they're playing snake on the car on the air on the commuter. I think that that's what's going on. But it was midnight again once we got settled it or once we got into our hotel room. It was midnight again, actually.

And then Sunday morning we were up early six something o'clock again because we had three tours on Sunday. Did a little hotel breakfast action. Not a long drive, like just like maybe a 20 minute drive to Jose. garage gym and garage gym slash surf shop for Jose is a surfer I had met Jose at home gym con you'd never met Jose

and he of the tour did he have the most I don't know not basics is the wrong word but just like his like his was the smallest footprint yeah it was probably like the simplest gym out of all. Yeah, it was the smallest footprint of everyone.

Yeah, because we saw some pretty elaborate setups on this trip. Right. But his is also an interesting one in the mix because because of what he's doing where he still parks two vehicles in his two stall garage, you get to see how he does that and still has a gym with everything you need, actually. Like, he's not skimping on things. You know, between rack benches, barbells, deadlift area, dumbbells, like, he's got it all there. He has just as much stuff, if not more, than what I have in my home gym.

Right. And what's cool about his, too, is surfing is an actual hobby of his. I didn't realize you can surf in the Boston area over there. And so a lot of his training is based around, you know, staying fit and healthy enough to surf when the time comes. And he's got some specific tools and some specific equipment in the way he uses stuff to actually cater to that for training for that. It was pretty sweet, actually.

Yep, it was really cool. I also had a sweet Lego collection A really good Lego collection The Millennium Falcon The enormous one that probably weighs like 50 pounds A lot of pieces The actual assembly book for it is Something like a thousand days

He also has a Peloton he was holding out on us Oh yeah that's right Yes Sneaky Peloton owner over there Yep So we got done at his place And then we made the trip over to Big Mats

Friendly Neighborhood Lifter Chris I was like I was like wait I'm thinking of his last name which yeah yeah yeah Matt but

right it starts like that yeah I'm sorry big Chris's and oh god just talk about memorable experiences man Chris just I mean

from the hospitality to the gym to the living easy room man he it did not disappoint actually we had no idea what to expect really and oh what a what a crazy place huh one other thing i just thought about jose the common thread of things like you even mentioned what you're just like we were talking and i'm like yeah jose is the guy that did this sent us this invented this you know like in the mass time community like oh it's like i never even met this guy before but i know him for all these things things that he's done in the massonomics community for example there you know i had never met

jose like my my only impression of him is it's a guy that tanner said he ran into ho ran into at home gym con and he was really nice guy and besides that i'm like okay well yeah that's it that's all i know and then as time goes on he's oh yeah i'm the guy who did the statistical probabilities of you guys wearing the same t-shirts right oh yeah i remember that talked about on the podcast oh i'm the guy that asked the question of when you're counting sets do you a set of 10 do you do you you You do it two sets of five, one set of ten, you know, some other combination, which has been a recurring theme lately. He was that guy. Wasn't there one other thing?

He sent us some terrible jalapeno sparkling water. Yes, that's right. And I'm like, oh my God, I've actually had, not only have you shaped some of the content of this show, some of the discussion points, you've even sent us things in the past. And once you can finally put a face to all of it, it all just makes so much more sense all of a sudden. You know, you can connect the dots. But until then it was just, I don't know, some abstract person out there was doing these things. And then back to Chris's, we're pulling up. He lives up a really steep driveway.

And you made the comment when we're going up there. Like, oh, it feels like we're pulling up to like Batman's layer or something. That's exactly what I said to this. And it turns out we were. Yes. We got there. And it was so great. I mean, you put it, you put it, you made a post on Instagram.

of it because we got there and he goes hey guys let me we'll get down to the gym where we live hard but let me show you where we live easy and we go to his upstairs and we have no idea this existed oh no clue and I'm just when you walk in he has all these original original like comic book cells comic book pages that he is collected over the years and I'm thinking oh damn this is really cool and it's going up the stairs I really think yeah just up the stairs just up the stairway I'm like oh yeah showing us how he decorated the stairway this is pretty sweet like it's got all this all this Batman stuff on it

and I'm like which this is a really cool story which was novel and cool like that alone had me impressed and then we got upstairs and my mind exploded it was I literally I think I'm recording it and I'm like oh my God you know it's like shocking when you don't know what you're walking into the collection of action figures figurines

comic books comic books arcades I don't know did he have 12 arcades up there something like that I mean it was an arc it was literally Literally an arcade. Yeah. Like, it was so cool. Just,

just the collection of everything up there. I mean, I think you've made the comment. Like, yeah, this is pretty much maxed out. There's just not room for anything else. No,

I mean, you could have sat up there all day and still not even gone through a fifth, a tenth of what's there. It's, I would have liked to just played the games. Oh, God.

Yeah. Like, we didn't get to play any of the games. All these classics, like for me, you know, he has like Street Fighter, Marvelverse Cat.

Marvel versus Capcom to like just all these classic fighting arcade games god there was and I actually hard for me to even focus on a single thing like I couldn't really like name you what any one thing in there was no because there's so like you couldn't really like so much to look at you're just like marveling at the endlessness of it like and you can't appreciate an individual thing because you're just taking in the whole picture you know you don't you don't notice the individual parts. No. You know,

you'd have to be there way longer to start to look at that. He had a, I'd never seen this before. There's basically an arcade video, uh, pinball machine.

It was super cool. Like when he was showing us it. Yeah. I just had never seen one of those in my life. I'm like, oh, this actually makes sense. Like this is a thing,

but that, even that never, never knew it existed. It was really, it was really cool. Yeah. Yeah. So that was,

that was fun. And then, you know we got the gym tour started he also has an unfinished basement so he has almost unlimited room to dump stuff into and he has a lot of what's interesting about his setup is because um you know he does compete you know he's compete in power a few meets he's just recently did a figure show and he was in prep for another figure show in just a couple weeks here I think right was it two three weeks out something like that yeah and you know he'll go and And he had quite a few machines, but he'll get, he's not afraid to, you know,

order a machine off of Timu or Alibaba or whatever, a cheap machine. I say cheap, like, you know, as in just not expensive, alternative options. Yeah, kind of getting a no-name thing and being like, yeah, I'll get this. And if this helps me do what I need to do, I don't care that it's not commercial grade because it suits his needs. And so he has a lot of functionality that he's getting out of his gym because he has all of these different machines that enable him to do lifts that you wouldn't normally. normally be able to do in a in a just typical home gym setup you know some of maybe like the

largest number of machines that we've seen in a gym almost i mean it was just tons of them in there yeah i mean i don't know did you have 10 maybe maybe probably at something like that yeah you had like three different racks you know some we tried some out and messed around with us that we did some on video even trying them out and um are we talking about the thing that he made for us the thing that uh you know the design um maybe we'll unveil that on a bigger thing right because he made something unique for us was maybe the best piece of fan submitted massanomics artwork ever right in all the years of us doing this but but we might actually you know he wants us to do it and I think we probably we might

actually sell something of this and uh yeah you know give him credit and that it's created by him yeah maybe we should just wait on that one because there there is more there so maybe Yeah, stay tuned for the little piece of collab artwork. It was really cool, like of all this cool stuff we're seeing. Then he busts this out. And I'm like, oh, wow. Then Big Derek, big Boston Derek came. We had talked to him, letting him we're going to be in the area.

So he came to hang out to it once the tour was finished. So that was also really cool. He had never met. They hadn't met before. So his more local crew able to hook, you know, meet up. So it was fun. And then his wife, Emily, made brunch for us, lunch for us. God, it was so good.

It was so good. These burritos. Okay, they were really just so insanely good. And we got done eat and they're like, do you want us to pack one up for the road? And in my mind, I'm like, this is too good to not eat another one of these. So yes, pack me up another one.

And they go, oh, there was two left. We threw one in there for you too, Tanner. And we got in the car. I'm about 30 seconds into the car. Yeah, we should we bust out. Yeah, we bust them out. And Tanner, I think you go, God, like this should be in a restaurant. It's that good.

I agree. This is amazing. I don't even know it was just like a breakfast burrito, you know, with bacon, but, man, she had some special seasonings or something in there because that thing was, that thing was made to perfection. They had all the macro factor macros of everything ready to for the, for everything that we ate, which was pretty cool. Yeah, so that was a great stop, great experience.

Can we also say on the way there, remember when you go, man, we're pretty close to his house. look how old that cemetery looks you know the gravestones are shaped like regular ones but nowadays i don't know a gravestone is i don't know a couple inches thick yeah maybe even eight inches thick and these things look like just i don't know an inch or too thick it looks like you like punch through them if you wanted it's like god that's got to be old and then there's a church and it says like established 16 or 1680 or something like that and everyone has these stories all these places because everything over there is so old in our part of the country 1900 is old, you know, like that's, unless you're talking Native American something, it's like

1900 and then it's just, nothing survived pre that because it just gets destroyed. But, like, everyone has a story like, oh yeah, George Washington was at the neighbor's house and George Washington was over here. Like, there's so many. Evan did have a George Washington story and so did Jose. Jose's in Concord. So that's actually a pretty historical. Well, and that's, I mean, Chris had the same thing. Didn't he say, like, Oh, yeah, the Continental Army, they were just down the road here. Like, everyone has a George Washington story, which is, I guess, yeah, it's just so different than what we're used to here, you know.

Yeah. So, yeah, everything's just so old and there's, there's so much history, obviously, in that part of the country, but to be there is a whole different thing. And let me tell you, Tommy would not stop about the history. When it comes to the history, I'm all ears. then on the road for our final tour back to Connecticut to tour Waffle Iron Gym and they really flipped the script on us

after surprising Keith with the gym tour so we pulled up to Waffle Iron Gym we walked up to the house and I'm like I think the garage door just closed like it was just closing as we walk up I'm like, starting to think, are we in the wrong place? Like, why would they be, like, closing the door on us? And there's a bunch of cars there.

But there's clearly workout stuff around. So it's like, well, we're not in the wrong place, but maybe someone didn't hear us coming and they closed the door on accident. And then we're, like, looking at different entry doors, like, where are we supposed to go in? And we can't see anyone around. And we're kind of standing in front of the garage door. And I'm, like, going to start knocking on the garage door.

And just right about that time, it starts to open up. and it got about halfway open and I'm like, okay, I realize they're doing the scantz reveal thing. They're in a garage door reveal. He's like doing the wafel iron's going to do the scantz thing. And it's not until it's open completely. And I'm staring right at them for like a couple,

like at least a solid second. And I'm like, oh my God, it is scantz. They're not doing a scantz reveal. This is a scantz reveal. Like, you know, like this is Scantz. And that was the funnest little secret that they had on us.

I knew how Keithfield felt to get surprised, you know. Kind of did then at that point. I'm like, oh, yeah, you are just like in shock. You're like, what's going on right now? I know. How are you here? Scantz, how far over drive was this? Oh, it was only eight hours.

It's like, I'm retired. Yeah, only eight hours. What did you come here for? Just to surprise you guys. I got to say it was totally worth it. Oh, it was good. It was good. It was, that moment was really worth it where it was like, oh, my God, that, what a good, and they, they did it perfectly with the garage door opening.

Like, you couldn't have done it better. Yeah. Yeah, so Steve Scantz was there. Steve had his training crew there. And, man, we had sort of an idea in our mind of what this gym was, and it was just on a whole level. It was like that times 10. I know. I mean, some times 10.

I feel like we've said this now multiple times. but some of the just most unique variety of equipment we've ever seen. I know we've said that and you're like, how can they all be unique? And I'm like, I don't know. They just are. They are. I'm telling you.

No two places are even remotely, like out of the nine places we went, I don't think any two of them are even comparable to each other at all. No, actually. It's. Okay, Stevens, absolutely nothing compares to that. Chris's. Nothing.

Never been anything that compares to that. Evans. Nothing compares to that. Glucks, that is a one-of-a-kind thing for obvious reasons. Brandons? Nothing is like that. See, let's see where else. The no-wine cellar.

Okay, so maybe you'd say the no-wine cellar and the Cessnees are the closest to because they're both basic gyms, I guess. But Cessonies have all the stuff that Matt made, and it's all geared towards. Well, it's the most conjugate-style gym we've ever been to. Right. As a home gym we've been to in any training. Yeah, not even close. And then Keith, though, Keith has like a.

a pretty impressive variety of vintage stuff that you don't typically see, especially with all the yorks. And like the amount of weight that Keith has in his team is just wild. And then he also has a garage. Right. And Keith's gym is set up to accommodate groups coming in there. Like that's right.

Most of these gyms aren't or don't do that. Yeah. All these different benches. And then he has all the photos of the people that have been there over the years too, which is another cool touch that you don't see in many of these gyms. So they just all have their own unique thing going on. And, yeah, it's for the sake of, yeah, we have the spot in our home to work out. They all go about it so differently.

Yeah, so steep, Waffle Irons. Basically, I mean, in short, he has a garage gym. He has a basement gym. He has an outdoor gym and half gyms in between all of those spaces. It's like Waffle Irons Fun House. It's actually the better way to think of it. It's Waffle Irons Funhouse. And that gets you closer than saying,

Waffleier gym. Yes. You got to see the tour, honestly. Like, there's no, I don't even know what amount of describing we could do that would really do any of that justice. There's conjugate stuff. There's Kaiser Air Machine stuff. There's a power runner.

There's jump training. There's sprinting devices. Stuff that I just probably will never see in another home gym tour ever. It's probably one of the widest variety of training. types we've seen in a gym before. He has a 15 foot upright standard in the backyard. He has a 40-yard sprint track. He has a dodge ball arena.

Four different weights of shot puts. Yeah, yeah. A javelin, a pole vault. A pole vault mats. Like everything you need to do with track and field meet. It was good. It just kept feeling like, okay. I think I've got my head wrapped around this.

And then you go to the next one. It's like, oh, no, no, no, I don't have my head. after on this. Something we worked on over the trip that we've started to do different. I don't know that that many videos have come out where we do it, where we do different intros where there's the video, but then we actually have this somewhat stage or somewhat scripted intro that we do. I wouldn't say scripted is the right word.

We kind of come out with it after we record the video. We come up with what the intro is going to be. And some of them are really fun that we did on this trip. And my favorite might be Woff Iron Jim's intro. This is really good. By the time the edit gets applied to it, it's going to be perfect. It's freaking funny. You know, Gluck's was good because it was pretty original, too.

People are going to like Gluck's intro. It starts out feeling like you're in a Gluck video for sure. Some of them are more standard, I guess, but I guess it'll be fun in the future what we can figure out how to, you know, do those differently for different people. But Waffle Iron Jim intro is really fun, I think. I guess it is. There's some good cameo in that one, too. So that one will be pretty sweet. So we finished up there at a drive to the airport.

We actually got to the airport with a lit, not tons of time to spare, but we weren't rushed at all. Yeah, enough to sit down and eat some food for a minute before we hopped on the plane. Then got home, we connected in Minneapolis, landed in Sioux Falls at 11 p.m. I'll just say this. I'm not going to give anything away, but we got done at steves and it's like oh we did it we did the whole trip we definitely pushed ourselves to the limit we know that doing four trips four gym tours and that amount of travel in a day is that like that is the limit you can do four in a day but preferably it would be less travel yeah and it was like

finally we can just turn it all off we can check out two tours 10 videos two and a half days we flew a thousand miles there we drove 1,000 miles did we drive a thousand miles we drove a thousand miles touring we're in four different states you know we probably drove in the car for 10 hours we went to bed at midnight every day we got up by 6 a.m. at the latest every day and here's the other thing you do not realize it think about the last time you went into someone's house for the first time some some of you a stranger oh not a stranger but just someone you've never been to their house before like some people listening to this you might say I don't know I haven't been to a new person's house in years like and that's not that weird honestly

You might say, depending on where you live. In their house, not literally like you are a guest in their house. You're using their bathroom. You're probably, you may be eating some food there. You're going into multiple rooms in their house. It's not like you like sent some high at the front door and they said, oh, come in for a second and stand here. Like, you're hanging out. And think about like the last time you went to someone's house and did that.

And now think about the tie last time you did that to nine different people's houses. And it's just, it's such a wild thing. But anyways, what I'm trying to say is it's just the most overwhelming. in craziest week, not week, two and a half days, so draining. Mentally.

We're going to the airport. It's awesome. Oh, it is. It is. It is. It's not to sound complaining. It's like,

it does drain you. Like it takes a lot out of you. Yes. And we're on the way to the airport. It's like, oh, just finally the brain. We did it. The YouTube.

It's almost like we did it. Yep. We did everything. Like we did it all. We can just kind of check out for a little bit here. And I don't know. We're sitting in the airport waiting to get on the first plane and a certain text comes in like, hey, you're ready for the next opportunity?

Here it is. And let's just say, it is pretty big. Maybe one of the biggest opportunities we've had. And it was dropped in front of us. And it was like, wow, okay. So we thought we were done and we're 45 minutes in and we're not even done. And I'm not even lying. We were, this isn't the way it's playing out, but we were like, do we get home on Sunday and

turn around and fly back out on like fly somewhere else on like Thursday like are we going on another trip in like four days and that was that's about what it was that was discussed for a moment even it was like not just we're like I think we that's what we have to do and it's like we're also dealing in an arena that we're not particularly as a custom to and stuff and yeah this will all make more sense in the future we can't really we just literally can't talk about it yet, but it's like the thing of a movie where like, ah, you did the job, good, good job, you can take a load off, relax

a little. And it's like, it's like, the movie's like a lethal weapon. It's like the end of a lethal weapon movie. And it's, uh, they're just so setting up for an obvious sequel. Like, well, the sequel's gonna be crazy. Then it's, uh, who's the black guy from a lethal weapon? Is it?

Oh, I can't think he was. Uh, yes. Yes. Right. And it's like, yeah, and like, and then they like, He calls Danny Glover, and he's like, oh, man, I'm getting too old for this shit. And then he's like, back up out. He literally just sat down on the couch like 30 seconds ago with his, uh, except for us, the couch is the airport to go home because we haven't got home yet. And it's like, holy shit, we're doing like we're going again.

And it's exciting, exciting opportunities. Well, that's what we said. It's like, man, well, we're slowly realizing. we came to after this trip is so that basically brings us the end of the trip i mean we'll touch on tanner's drive home here in a second but but basically our takeaway was so massanomics is kind of at the point where it's just actually something every single month every single month some months there's multiple things and i'm not saying a thing of like i'll make a youtube video i'm saying it's basically to the point where every week yeah like that already happens

every week i mean we're youtube and the podcast are just things that are going to happen every single week and that's not even like we also have a secret trip next week that we're going on like true and that was the thing too trying to arrange the next thing we're like well we already we have various trips coming up that like yeah we already have a trip uh nine days from now that we're leaving on again right and then right kind of now have something the next month and something that it's like no there's just something every month in addition to a new drop every month. Oh, no, this is just in addition to everything we've been doing forever. Like, now there's all, there's basically a massonomics meet up every single month is what it's

turning into or a trip we're doing. And then we also realized, yeah, if we actually, actually had regular hourly jobs where you punched in and were on the clock and you would, it's like, actually massonomics just would, it would not be a thing. Like it would, it just wouldn't work. It's at the point now where it just demands more and more and more and more all the time. And it's like, Oh, we got done with the meat, like, oh, who can take a break. And it's like, no, we're planning this trip. Oh, and by the way, Black Friday's coming up, which is the biggest time of the year for all of our merchandise stuff, where you've got to have all this stuff ready to go.

You've got to have like three months of stuff in one month pretty much. Yeah, and the content thing never stops. And also, by the way, don't forget to keep working out too. It's just unlimited things. And Massonomics is going well is why that's the happening. Yeah, and that, yes, like these are all happening. Massonomics are going really well right now. That's why all these things are happening.

It's just like everything is clicking, firing on all cylinders. It's not like, oh, God, what's the next thing going to be? We got to try. What are we even going to do? Yeah, we got to figure out here. It's like, we know exactly what we need to do, just more of what we're doing.

And those opportunities keep coming up too. Yeah, the gym tour thing in general, I think with these ones hitting between now and then the year, plus what's coming up, I just think it's going to explode a little bit. We talk about how many gym tours do we have, officially filmed that are just sitting waiting to go. Is it like 13 or 14 right now?

Yeah. That we are actually just sitting on at this point. Right. Like 14 in the lineup. Right. They need to be edited, but 14 have been filmed waiting to be published. And a handful more that are just right at the tip of our fingers now

that we're probably going to get pretty soon also. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're absolutely right. There could be a month from now where we could, yep just increase that number even more i'll also tell you if there was any doubt before nobody does home gym tours like we do at this point after this last round of them comes out i'm

like no we fine-tuned some more things on the formula we got a few other i you know a few other pieces of the puzzle that we piece together and i just i'm confident that our we're the home gym tour guys and that's just the way that it is now sure seems like it I mean, I'll say, I don't think it's, I don't think we're bragging to say this, that there's just no one with more, more contacts and connections in the industry as far as our little circle goes than us. It's, we've been doing this for 10 plus years. Like we get, right, you know, 10 plus years of lifting buddies, home gym buddies,

strong man buddies, YouTube, but, I mean, we've just been doing so many things for so long that we have all these people in, like, yeah, there might be some people with Massonomics people that we've become buddies. That's what I'm saying, just the certified gym thing. Like we have just, it feels like this unlimited rolodex of people that we can get in contact with a vast network of individuals that are just available at any point in time if we need them to be, which is awesome. Isn't it weird too that everyone's always nice? Oh, we said that multiple times. You know, statistically, we should get to go to one of these and be like, oh, God, that guy's a fucking weird all like, oh, that sucks.

And that never happens. It never happens. Every time we drive away and you're like, oh, great gym tour. that's like it's like every single one we leave you're like oh that's going to be a good one too and it's not even just that it's like oh what a cool guy just so nice like that's usually take away and like people are now starting to

present us with varieties of sparkling water food snacks like be more of the items like people people almost arrive with like a gift basket for us damn near at this point right it's just it's so fun it's really cool we do have like

an endless supply of them too i know it's like as long as people are going to stay interested and keep support and what we'll do and we'll keep doing it yes uh right even if it takes us a week to finally figure out what the hell's going on in our lives again after we get back so yeah so we land in sue falls then this whole thing wrapping it up uh what 11 11 11 right around 11 i think and you got to hit the road and drive three hours back to every yeah i got to the dean pulled up at my house at the dean just before 2 a.m. And my God, was thy tired. Was that hard staying awake towards the end?

It wasn't towards the end. It was about in the middle. Really? There was a stretch from from Watertown to Summit that I wasn't even sleeping. You know, I wasn't like, you know, in danger of falling asleep. I literally was just going insane from sleep deprivation. I think where I'm just like. And there's also.

I'm like, I don't, like, I'm actively looking with my eyes peeled, and I'm like, I just see lights and blurs. And it was actually, it was a freaking 2001 space odyssey. That's the problem, though. Like, there's, what am I even like, I'm like, is that car five feet in front of me or five miles in front of me? That's the problem. There's no, there's nothing to look at. You know, like, you might go.

Once you get past Brookings at that time of night, you might go 45 minutes and not see a single car on your side of the interstate and you might only have one or two go by on the other side. Like there's just nothing to look at. I did pop a Zin in. I have my one package of Zin's break in case of emergency. I actually didn't even buy them. Adam from the gym gave them to me well over here.

They're pretty old at this point. It's just my emergency. I don't even know if they have. Probably not good anymore. Yeah, I don't know if they even have any efficacy left in them. and they're only two milligram, which I think is about the smallest, you know, the lightest dose one you can get. But I put that in, and I don't think it did a thing.

And maybe it doesn't have any juice left in it. Yeah, but I'm like, it definitely didn't, did not help me at that point. Should I have had some horse stall matamonia ready to go. That's actually not a terrible idea. Because that's almost what you need. It's just a pure shock to the system. He's kicked in the face while you're trying. And I, what happened is I did get a little jolt.

Like nothing bad happened. but I just had one of those moments where I'm like, oh, there's a car and like it scared me. It was way far away, but it just scared the shit out of me because I just had this moment where I was like looking at it and not realizing what it was and then I realized it was a car. And then I was like, it just really, really scared me. And then I'm like had this little adrenaline rush for the rest, you know, that got me through the rest of the time. Yeah.

But there was like a 30 minute stretch in there where I'm like, I am going in, you know, insane from this trip. And it wasn't just because it was late that night. It was because it was like the fourth night of driving until after midnight. Like we'd be driving and sometimes you're like, the lines are all just so blurry. Or they all just, the dotted lines are turned into solid lines. Like everything's not making any. That's what I kept telling you.

I'm like, everything's converging like while I'm trying to stay awake. Keep you company. I'm like, oh, the dot, the dash lines, the solid lines. I don't even know what's happening anymore. I can't focus. Doesn't it remind you kind of like of 2000? It's just a mix of. Just lines and light sensations.

It's, yeah, a lot to process. But made it back and now we're back in the saddle and ready for the next one when it happens. And we kind of, it's looking like we're targeting the next one, but it's kind of a secret as of now.

So stay tuned. Really, I mean, we're targeting like the next three. We've got ideas. We've got a lot of ideas, of future stuff just like I said we've got no shortage of ideas no shortage of ideas for stuff

to do I would say if you like what we got going on between YouTube the podcast I suppose Instagram comment everything else make sure you become a supporting member if you're not already like if you enjoy the stuff

the supporting member we talked about it with many people that we visited too like how important the supporting membership program is to Massonomics it is mostly what keeps massonomics going at this point is the supporting membership program that the certified training facility program so check that out if you haven't go look at the map get yourself on the map if you want us to do a home gym tour you can DM me and i'm not against you DMing us or emailing us and letting us know that but the i'll tell you the first thing i check when i get those is are they a certified

training facility, are there a supporting member? If both of those are no, the chances of doing your gym tour are almost zero. I'll just say this, you better have done something very noteworthy in the strength and fitness space if you want us to show up to your house. If you're, right, if you're not one of those, like you better have a name that people recognize because we've had options to go to other places and ultimately we say, no, we want to go to certified training facilities. That's what that's reporting members. Yeah, you know, like they get it. They know what's going on here. Yep. yep um so that that's your first homework if you want one like be those things through then you reach out

and you have both of those and we can get to your area there's a pretty high likelihood where you know it's not a guarantee that we get we certainly weren't able to do ones on this trip that we wanted to that were in the area but uh some of those places it won't be our last time ever in those areas either just because there's so many places within there but we literally couldn't have packed another one into that there would be actually impossible yeah the uh the showmanship would have went downhill a lot. So certified training facility, the last thing is we do talk a lot

about a lot of equipment in all these gym tours. We do some equipment reviews as well and we've added a lot of affiliate and discount codes and those are all on our affiliate page. Click through those, even if it's Amazon,

you know, rep fitness, Bells of Steel, Rogue. I mean, just to give you an idea here if you're like, oh, affiliates. What type of affiliates do you guys have? What type of codes? Yeah, it's the, it's the, it's the,

usual sponsors of course that you hear in the podcast but there's rogue fitness rep fitness PRX bells of steel temple of gains freedom fitness amazon i mean pretty much anywhere you would need to get equipment for your gym we got a code for it so don't be afraid to use that it definitely helps us out keeping this whole thing going and our newest this just in our newest sponsor of the podcast elite ftsch check them out at elite ftsd duck com when we're on this tour that i saw the elite ft s s s yoke bar like seven times probably i wafflier and jim had two of them you did one set up for jam press bar i love that so you can use discount code mass 10 at elite fts dot com it'll save you 10% on most

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something to that effect, right? Yeah, if you made it this far and you couldn't figure that out. There you go. Buffalo, New England? Well, was it when we're talking to Chris? And he's like, you guys are in Buffalo. As far as I'm concerned, that's just the Midwest. Right.

We're calling in New England, at least for the case of our tour. Yeah. Yeah. We'll group them all together. We do have several other things on the list, but I'm wondering, do we just save all that stuff from this? I think so. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's save all that. We got a lot to table so we can get to that next week. Next week's already shaping up to be jam-packed the way it's looking. It is. Okay. Tommy, anything else we need to cover this week then at all? I mean, we definitely forgot something, but...

We forgot something. That gets the most, for the most part, gets it across. Yeah, thanks everyone that makes the tours possible that supports in any way and helps make these trips possible for Massonomics. Tommy, where do they find you at? Can find me at Tomahawk underscore D. You can follow me in the dean. You can follow me at Tanner underscore Baird,

but most importantly, just make sure to follow Massonomics at Massonomics. And go watch those YouTube videos. See ya.