Massenomics Podcast - Ep 509 The Best Of 2025 The Best Equipment Gym And Content

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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Social media, website, everything. Massonomics. Welcome back, everyone. Episode 9 of Season 2 of the Massonomics podcast, a.k.a. episode 509. recorded live from the corners of the decodas. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy.

We've got a banger of an episode here for 509. We're going to talk about some numbers from 2025. Well, just some, I guess, not just numbers, more of like a 2025 recap of sorts. And also some of our favorites of the year. Yeah. Some of the highest performers of the year. Just a little look back.

Some interesting favorites and stuff like that. Some stats. What more to do when a year like 2025 comes to a close than to recap it. You know, closing time, closing all the doors. Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings and that's what I've always said. Yep. Well, the other thing that I've always said is check out Texas PowerBars. Texas PowerBars.com.

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I don't know. Fantasy football is over for the week or for the year. Let's get the recap. Where are we standing on everything? You're not going to believe it. And now, still, back-to-back champion of the Massonomics Fantasy Football League, Chris Marks. This isn't working. The Aberdeen Central Golden Eagles.

This isn't working when we have contests and the same guys keep winning them over and over. It's really ruining the surprise factor here. Yeah, he somehow won this year finishing best out of 24 Massonomics fantasy football teams. he won again with the best most points scored for the year, I think best record, and he swept his way through the playoffs. So he just knows fantasy football then, huh? It's hard to argue.

One year, you call it an accident. Two years, shame on me. Won't get shamed again. Okay. Wow, that's, and it wasn't even like he just snuck in and somehow, like, it was domination the whole way through. Yeah, he was the best all year. all year.

All right. Anyone, sound off in the chat. Could you let me know what four teams got relegated down and what four get to move up to the A League? Because I don't, I've seen it,

but I just, I don't remember all of them all. I don't know if you're making a public display of embarrassment here. If you really didn't know. Well, I can't remember the, okay, so moving down this year, Doddzilla,

Jeff, financial planner, Jeff. Keith. Keith and Jake the snake Moving down Do you know who gets to move up? Do we know who's moving up? I think I saw Jory and

Was in the championship In the loser Loser Bowl championship I can't remember who else is in there But see if the, oh, Big Dr. Jake from State Farm looks like Possibly he's moving up. Oh, Cody, yeah.

So Cody moved up. I think Jory. I don't know. There's four of them that are moving up to the big the big times. Okay. See how they fare in with the big boys. It looks like Big Cody won the B league.

Good. Some people that take this seriously. You got to get the riffraff out of the A league there. I think we finally sorted the wheat from the chaff here. Now everyone can, you know, they're playing with the big dogs now. Yeah. Got to talk to Commissioner Kevin about possibly opening up a C league, though, for 2020 whatever the next year is.

It's what the people want. Yeah. Oh, Big Kurt says he's moving up too. So, yeah, that was our fantasy football update and final fantasy football update for the year. I know everyone's going to be sad about that. So Chris Mark's going to have like a little armory of weaponry at his house at the rate he's going. We've got to get that award ordered. We haven't even done that yet.

So it would be time to get his annual fantasy football award. Annual weapon in the mail. Yeah. Okay. that's fantasy football in a nutshell. Strongest man on earth. I don't know much about this. Yeah.

Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? Yeah. Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? That strongest man on earth is not happening. Is happening. It is happening in 2026.

Not. It is not happening in 2026. Okay. Yeah. So bring me up to speed because I know almost nothing about this other than I saw some mention the Discord. That's everything I know about it. Oh, sounds like you're up to, is up to speed of Ryan now. They haven't released any extended videos with explanation or anything.

I, I haven't seen them if there has been. I was not surprised, though, just based on some things I had seen Brian say. Well, didn't you kind of have a long video afterwards, sort of, yeah, at this even? Yeah, and I think a big part of it is just like the immense stress and pressure on running that and then probably not all that significant of a return. Yeah. You know,

I would guess they're not. It's surprised me. Spent a ton of money and it just, it's probably like, oh, I can go on a trip, film three YouTube videos and make just as much money as I can doing this planning all year.

More money. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, considering your amount of time, it's significantly more money. Right.

Right. But, um, yeah. I, you know, with everything going on. Stuff's kind of expensive.

Not to compare the Lyft Hardly Visi Classic to Strongest Man on Earth, but there are... But let's compare them. Here we go. There are some parallel lines. And I would just say this. I can totally understand it. Yep.

Absolutely. Like I do not fault him for that because I can only imagine the undertaking that goes into that event, you know? I don't know. So yeah, I guess now it's going to be instead of the strongest massonomics on Earth, we're stealing the name, or strongest, strongest man on Earth,

we're stealing the acronym, and it's going to be strongest massanomics on Earth. Is that the plan? It's ours now. It's just our game. We'll just outlast you. It's ours now. You lost it.

We'll be taking that, Brian. Hard to have the name if you don't exist. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I'm not surprised. by that. Yeah, all joke aside, though, I mean, it is suck because, like, it was a big event. And, you know, they obviously put a ton of effort in and made it really cool. But, um, well, it's one of the grand slam events of strong man, essentially.

You know, if you're a strong man, uh, competitor, then you just lost one of your big four events of the year. So, you know, and one of your chances to make money, honestly, like as a competitor. Makes you wonder, though, apparently Giants Live just has it figured out, right? I guess so. Maybe they just have the formula down well enough. Or there's someone just throwing stupid money at it and they don't care that it loses money too, which is also a thing that happens. Yeah, or they have the formula down just well enough and they're just efficient enough that they make just enough money to do it. Like they're not doing as elaborate as stuff as Brian did, right?

Like that was probably part of the problem as he was doing the most elaborate setups possible, which takes just, I mean, when you're basically reinventing every. set up, you know, it's extreme amount. Rogue can get away with that except Rogue, you know. Rogue going to rogue. Yeah. All of Brian has to do is start an equipment company that makes an insane amount of money. Then he can use that to fund the competition. That's all he's got to do.

It's just that easy. That's it. Big news. This is probably the biggest news. Speaking of comparing the lift hard, live easy to Strongest Man on Earth. We ain't going nowhere. We ain't go in nowhere.

We are still going to be back for 2026. We said, so I wonder how many years. Did we start at the same time as Strongest Man on Earth? Probably. Because this will be our fourth. How many times did they run it through? Maybe four, maybe. I don't know.

Might have been only three. So we did outlast. Just another, another Massonomics casualty where we outlasted. last at them. This, the powerlifting meat registration, though, that's the big date that we've got to announce here finally.

Strong man's full. If you're listening to this, you missed out. Strongman is full. Luckily, you can get in on the powerlifting meet. If you're a supporting member, I would say, or a Massanomics gym member to a smaller degree, but if supporting member,

Massonomics gym member, the early registration that opens for just all of you is January 8th, a Thursday at 10 a.m. Western, Northeast, South Dakota time. That's 10 a.m. Central time in layman's terms. You can get signed up if you're a supporting member. And it's going to be through lifting cast is where the sign up is at for that, correct? Yep. Yep.

And we'll have the specific link out for that as that date gets close of where you can, or probably actually the day of, we'll put the link out. Be in the Discord for the people in the know. Yeah. Okay. So here's some specifics now that we kind of buttoned up a lot of these specifics before we were putting the registration date out. So Big C. Poppy wants to know Fed. No fed.

It is no federation. Although results will still be all published in open powerlifting, as they have been in the past. We've already confirmed that. Best overall lift, particularly important for Big C. Poppy, will also be decided by dots. Best lifter. Best overall lifter. Yep. Will be a dots formula.

The judges largely come from USAPL IPF background. I would say the judging is going to be probably, they all come from the USAPL background, but based on our conversations, the judging is going to be maybe slightly more lenient than what a typical USAPL me would be. standard might be. Right.

I mean, it's not to say like the judging would be lenient by any means. No, it'll just be more like what our judging has been like for the last three years. I think it'll be really... I'd say like how your typical power lift you meet is judged. Right. Right. There is a cap of 100 lifters. It's a one day two platform meet.

And big C poppies come in with all the questions. Yes, this is an important thing. So after much deliberation, this is maybe something people aren't used to. We will be using a deadlift bar for the deadlift bar, a Texas deadlift bar. We will be using a power bar for the bench press. Not a big surprise there. It'll be an alico power bar. But on the squat, one change from prior years is we will be using the 29mm power bar for the squat as well.

Other note on equipment. An alico power bar. Yeah, that same alico power bar that we're going to bench with is what you'll be squatting with. And both competition platforms will be ER combo racks. Yeah. Is what other important? Still 24 hour way in. So way-ins will start the day before at like 8 a.m.

But other than that, I mean, yeah, it's show up, lift, have fun. Hopefully be done today by like relatively early compared to previous years. Yeah. Powerlifting means going to start at 8 a.m. Yeah, the registration, it opens this. this day for the crew members and we think a lot of the spots will fill up. If you're not a supporting member, you may not get a great shot at it, but if spots are still available,

about a week later, it would open up to the general public. And there will be a waiting list. So if somehow you're listening to this months later and you're like, hey, I want to be a part of that. You can, what's the thing?

We reach out to you, Tanner, send you a DM. We'll get you in touch with the meet director and you can get on the waiting list. And yeah, if you're on the fence, get on the waiting list because, from experience these things do have people drop out. Yeah, and if you're listening to this and you are a supporting member,

do not wait to sign up. Honestly, sign up the day that registration comes out. Because, I mean, I'm not saying that it's going to fill up the day that registration comes out, but it would not be insane for that to be the case either. And if you're on the fence about coming to the Lift Hardly of Easy Classic, as you've seen the strongest man on earth, you never know what year's going to be the last one. So I would not say, nah, I'm waiting for 2027. I'm on the fence.

I'm going to wait. Don't do it. You never know what's going to happen. So I said, oh, you can see a Masonomics at the booth at the Arnold. Well, we're not doing one this year. So you never know when things can go away. Yep. Anything else?

One other thing that I think is kind of fun is that when you do your meet sign up, you do have the option to sign up as a team. So this gives people the option to join some. factions and have it because there will be awards for the best team correct yeah i think that that's we're still kind of ironing out the final details i guess on how that but i mean i think at registration you'll be able to put in your team that you if you're gonna yeah so how to is that how that'll generally work i guess i think so i've never done it before but yeah like you can your team could be any you know yeah whether you have some discord allegiance or something else if you can get a few

people, you can enter in a team name and your team score will be calculated and yeah, the best team will get an award. Yeah. Yeah. So your team could be, uh, the Kentucky crew could be a team. You know, uh, crew England could be a team. The California crew could be a team. It could be subdivided however you want to create that team, right? Yep. Oh, they, see, Poppy wants to know does the team, well obviously the crew will fact that's what actually when we talked amongst ourselves that was one of the first examples we brought up yeah yeah good called big jess uh does the team award count as a checkmark i guess that's to be to be determined as of now i would say no but uh who knows maybe we'll get extra spicy and that would be a chit hall of fame check mark if you never know so plan accordingly uh one other thing i think we mentioned this before but because this meat is unaffiliated that means there will be no fed fee associated so people don't have to worry about paying a federation fee for the... Correct.

The meat fee is going up by about $20 is up $20 from last year, but you save on the no $40 federation fee, so the net cost is a little bit less. Right? Yep. That's it. Oh, the weight classes are the same weight classes we've used in the past where it goes 220, $2.42, $275, 308, superheaval.

heavyweight and 198, 181, whatever those lighter ones are that I do not know for sure. And equipment, there'd be raw, raw with wraps, and then equipped would be one final division. Whatever you want to wear for equipped equipment would be it's just one division there. And then I think there'll be an overall best master's lifters and overall best like junior Yeah, age divisions are junior, masters, and open. There's no sub-juniors, sub-masters, you know, all those ones that come with that. It's just three. Yes.

That's it. We got like seven months to prepare for it still, so we don't know every bit of the tinias detail yet, but we know those details. Yeah. The main takeaway is get signed up because you're going to need to save your spot here. Yes. Okay. Well, we kind of did a sports and books segment, but did you have books? follow-up behind the sports?

Wait, sports. Oh, you're saying the lifting was the sports part? No, the fantasy football. Oh, okay, okay, okay, yeah. Fantasy football is maybe a stretch to the sports segment. I do have another, another, I finish another book. I finished Ready Player 1. It was a fun read.

Maybe, I don't know if I did enjoy it. I have a few things I could pick apart with it, but without like getting into spoilers or anything. If you're into like sci-fi or like 80s pop culture at all, I think it's a book that you would like, or any person would like that's into those things. Obviously it's a movie. I haven't seen the movie yet because, of course, but yeah, if you want a fun read, I can recommend it. Ready Player 1. And who's that by? Oh, God, what's his name? Is it like Clive or is it old what's his name? Let's see.

It is by Oh, God. Ernest McLean. Ernest Klein. There you go. Not Klein. Ernest Klein. There it is.

Yep. It was coming to me. Yep. I just, not much I need to talk about this, but I did just finish Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. Officially, it's completely finished. So we're on to book two.

Okay. Book two is just popping, going crazy. We've been going to, are you familiar at all with the Red Rooster? It's little. Mr. Northeast South Dakota to hang out. Very familiar with it. Yeah, we've been going to the Red Rooster and reading some Harry Potter

last couple nights. A little change of scenery. Yeah, I get a change of scenery. Sometimes you got enough kids, you got to get a little change of scenery. I don't even know if you got to have enough kids to do that. We were going to go to the library, and I was getting a little pushback

that we've been going to the library too much lately, which we probably have been. So I'm like, where else could we go right now? And I'm like, I wonder about the, a red rooster situation is. Are they open that late, really? Yeah, they're open until seven. Really?

So actually the last two nights, we've closed it down the last two nights. I just would have assumed they closed it like three in the afternoon or something. That's what you, I'm like, I'm certainly not getting a coffee there at 6 p.m. Oh, okay. Yeah, a little western,

anyone that knows western northeast, South Dakota will be familiar with the red rooster. Oh, Keith wanted a red rising update. I, towards the end of that third book, and it's really good, but I just haven't had, I haven't got at it much lately. I'm going to get there soon, but it's good. I keep thinking if that's going to be next on my list, but it's just the hesitation of starting like a six book series or whatever that. That's, yeah, totally. That's the only thing that's keeping me.

I just want to cover a wide base right now, and a six book series is just going to keep pulling me back in it. No, if you get into that, you're going to get stuck. You're going to be stuck bogged down in it for a while. Yeah, I think I'll keep knocking off the one off. It's really good, though. Oh, I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it, but I've got to keep expanding my horizons before I drill down too much. Yeah, that's fair.

I was in Florida for over Christmas. I spent Christmas in Florida. I've got to say, as someone that lives in the northern plains, northern Midwest, Christmas does not feel the same. Doesn't hit the same. It does not hit the same. When it's 80 degrees, I feel a little sorry that one day out of the year, I feel a little sorry that they have to have all that beautiful weather.

That when all their days are the same, they're just, you don't get that pay off that it's all. Yeah. And it just didn't really quite feel like Christmas to me, not being. Just felt like a poser down there. Yeah. It really, it really wasn't. That does, have you ever been somewhere really warm for Christmas? Not like over Christmas.

It's been over Thanksgiving. We've been in Phoenix a few times. Yeah, never over Christmas, though. That's like we're out on the beach in the ocean on Christmas. And I'm like, this does not even seem like Christmas. It feels like cheating. It's not, it's not supposed to go. Yeah.

I'm not even saying as a positive. I don't think it's a positive. I think it's not, that's not what Christmas is. That would be a weird if that's what I grew up as what Christmas was. I mean, it just dawned on my boy this year. that are like, oh, Christmas is tomorrow. He's like, but there's no snow. And I'm like, well, sometimes there's no snow on Christmas.

And he just couldn't wrap his head around the fact that there was no snow on Christmas, you know, let alone there's people that just have no snow ever. Don't get winter at all. We're almost, there's like just a couple, there's a few drifts of snow left in western northeast South Dakota. But it kind of, you know, where it looks like more dreary than it does. When we, what day was it? We left, we went to my parents' house on, or it was like a day or two after Christmas. And I mean, the grass was like straight up green here.

It's like, yeah. And then we did get a little bit of snow, but it's pretty much all gone again today. And I mean, you would just think it's a spring day. You know, the temperature has been in like the 30s and 40s and. Right. Unseasonably warm right now. When we got back from, we got back on Sunday night. And all I had was the Massonomics Camel windbreaker.

This is great windbreaker. Awesome windbreaker. Not great for negative 25 below wind chill when your car dies and you have to jump. Because that's not even babysitting a coat at that point. Like at that point the colts kind of babysitting you.

That would have been one time I would have enjoyed babysitting a coat because it was the coldest I can remember being in a recent memory because I've the least prepared I've been for the cold in a really long time. And oh my God, I felt like I was going to

like that's how cold it was. Every once in a while in South Dakota, it's not an exaggeration when you say that. People like, oh no, it's not like, oh my God, I was 100 degrees out. It was so hot. It's like, no, it was extremely dangerous. Yeah.

Like I was like, in just seconds, my hands were like, I'm like, if you have to touch anything, you're in trouble instantly. Yeah, that's how cold it was when we got back. So, but then it's like kind of nice again. Yeah. Just a few days later.

So, when you were gone, it looked like maybe you hit up some gyms, Tanner? Oh, great. I'm glad you brought that up. Completely forgot. Yeah, I went to Jordan Wong's gym in Northport, Florida, which is showcase strength and fitness. In Northport, I had messaged Jordan like the day before. And I was like, hey, are you going to be at the gym tomorrow? And we've talked before he knows I come to that area.

Yeah, we talked to him on the podcast the one time. You're like, yeah, I'm going to come sometime. Yeah, and he's like, oh, crap, are you here? I'm like, yeah, I'm just like 15 minutes away. I'm going to come tomorrow. Oh, it is that close, actually. Yeah. Oh, it's a 15-minute drive from where we stay.

Yeah. It's like, it's the adjacent. It's like we're in Port Charlotte and he's in Northport. But it's all the same. It's the same. Yeah. And went there and he was there training people like a madman. This was the day after Christmas.

He was just, he was a factory. It was like, you know, I don't know if he was on a 30-minute rotation, but he was just like, cranking them through. Yeah, so the gym is awesome. I put out a video, you know, showing some of the machines. Yeah, it looks like there's a lot of really cool machines in there. Yeah, it's got a great powerlifting set up with, you know, like four deadlift platforms, a bunch of combo racks, dumbbells, all that stuff.

But what blew my mind about it is his collection of machines and not just like all of one brand. He really has like a curated collection of all these machines like, no, this is the best machine for this. at least in someone's opinion, in Jordan's opinion or in like a lot of people's opinion actually. Yeah, no, like the ones you showed on, I feel like I've heard people talk about all of these. That's the Nautilus pullover or what, what's that,

is that what that's what that's what's that onealus pullover. Yeah, that one like the Sivex Hacks Squad. Like we heard people talk about that. That's the one that Evan Sentipani had in his basement. He had some cool Atlantis pieces that Dr. Mike talked about when we were at his gym in his house. He had this awesome paramount overhead seated tricep extension. Oh yeah.

That one is really cool. I'd never seen it before. It was freaking sweet. Really? That machine was cool. He has the dinabody power press, which is the standing chest press. Yeah. Plate loaded.

Loved it. I trained upper body and I legitimately used most of these machines like the pull over, the dinabody, that tricep one. like I actually did my sets and reps on those machines. I really liked that Dina Body standing chest press too. Uh-huh. Just like more machines than you. I couldn't even process what they all were.

Yeah, I would have never guessed they had that many machines in there when you're making that video. He had a Panada, uh, decline chest or low chest press. Yep. He had a prime fitness incline one. I got to say, I tried like five different brands. of all high-end chest press machines he has there, the prime was my least favorite out of the group.

Interesting. Like it was definitively my least favorite out of the ones I, for any one specific reason? Yeah, a couple things. A, part of it, user, user ignorance on the three weight horns. Yeah, that's just like, I just can't figure out what the hell. There's a learning curve there, whether you admit it or not, like there is. And that is.

on me, but the other part of it, it, I kind of would maybe sometimes tend to make fun of people that talk about the stretch and it not being a big enough stretch. But realistically, like where it was, where it's dead stop when that was, where it couldn't go any lower, I would have liked to have gone like six inches,

like a lot deeper than that. Like, I felt like I was almost doing a- Larger than a lot of people going in there too. Right. And I kind of felt like I was doing like I had to get up and look and be like, is there like a safety catch on here that I am not releasing to get this to go deeper?

And, yeah, so I just, the weight horns is my own thing because I did, because the other thing, the other stupid part, the strength curve, well, I was like, oh, this just seems too easy at certain parts of it where I'm like, I don't have this honed in and that's my own, that would take some figuring out. But just the, I would want it to go much deeper.

Yeah. And especially as I was comparing it to all these other ones, side by side, that one just didn't go deep. I feel like there was a garage gym reviews video where Coop was like showing off his garage gym. And he had that comment on their like chest press machine that because I think he had some hack for how he gets around that or something because I think he talked about that same thing with it. Yeah, I suppose if you could like make the pad, you know, much deep, much thicker or something. if he did something to the bench somehow or like yeah yeah i can't remember what he did it would definitely be a fair criticism that i'm like i'm surprised someone didn't notice you know consider

this when they were making it even but yeah um yeah really awesome gym though it it it you know he had like four monoliths in there i think also too um it had a mass so it's big though like it's a big yeah what i would say is it certainly has a massanomic gym vibe to it. It's quite a bit bigger. It has way more machines and way more people.

I was like, my God, I haven't been in a gym recently when there's this many people working out. Yeah. Where I was just like, this is still odd, even though this is like 100% my vibe of a gym. But I'm like, wow, there's just like people everywhere. Well, it's just lifted.

What's going on? Yeah. He also had a Jacob's Ladder. Oh, for real? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you put that in the video. Yes. Yeah. The Jacobs Ladder, as heard on episode 508.

Yeah. As seen in the F tier. A Jacobs Ladder. So I put that in the video just as a nugget from. I think you commented even where you're like, foreshadowing this week's podcast episode. Yeah, that's right. I totally forgot about that.

Yeah. The Jacobs Ladder. Really awesome, Jim. There was a couple lifting in there that you could tell from a mile away that they were power lifters. and I was there doing my benching. And I was somewhat curious if anyone would know about Massina, if I would run into someone there because it would be not crazy.

And they did. And he's like, oh, when do you kind of come out with the kind of fat shirt again? You know, he said that to me when I was sitting in a little bit. He's been around a little while if you know that one. Yeah. He's like, my girlfriend stole it from me. Ah, my guy, a tale is old as time. Yep.

That one is an all-time classic. If we've heard it once, we've heard it a thousand times. Yeah, so that was Showcase Strength and Fitness If you're ever in Southwest Florida In Northport area Look up Big Jordan

And get yourself a day pass At SSF Did you also go to a planet fitness or not? Oh yeah, I did go to a planet fitness too Yeah Okay, yeah, that's a whole other side tangent I forgot about that We went to the planet fitness like two days

Oh, I killed my light stretching my leg out here and I killed my one of my side lights. Get this. A lot of strobing over there. Let me try my, let me try my hand instead of my. Oh, he's going under the desk.

Going to do a little light surgery. I think that's better. I think his lights around. Oh, more flashing. He's back. I fixed it. Okay. I fixed it. Okay.

So the planet fitness, yeah, we went there a couple days prior. I'm not sure when the last time I would have even been in a platinum. I don't think I've ever been to one before, actually. I think I have been, but maybe this was my first time. I don't even know for sure. It was absolutely enormous. Yeah.

I'm not joking. There had to have been 70 treadmills in there and 70 ellipticals. And like 10 stepmills. I mean, there was definitely like 150 pieces of cardio equipment. Like I was like, this is insane. It's the bread and butter. You know, that's what gets people in the door. Yes.

And the weight area, they had a bunch of machines. The machines were not bad. A bunch of selectorized machines. Like any specific brand or? I don't remember what it was now. Like nothing that stood out to me. And then they had two plate loaded leg presses, which I'm like, why do you have those?

Like, because there, so nothing was plate loaded except for. The two leg presses and then three Smith machines. I mean, that's kind of how, like, no one has a selectorized leg press, do they? No, I guess no. I guess not. I just thought it's even weird that they even have a leg press almost. I just think that's it. Well, I guess there are selectorized leg presses.

Like, yeah, the why they have a, you know, they're just not. Oh, yeah, they're just not exactly the shape you think of a leg press. They're usually more horizontal. Yeah. Right. It's like the one thing, though, that like guys that don't squat, they just load up, you know, a ton of plates on the leg press and then do like quarter reps and call it a day. Yeah.

And so it was like I got a great workout in there. You know, I did, I did the stair mill because I'm like, oh, sweet. Just talking about this. And I'm like, yeah, this is great cardio. S tier for sure. We were right. I just confirmed we were correct. St.

cardio, absolutely. They had like kind of a jungle gym area that had all kinds of pull up bars. and like rock you could do pull-ups on like rock climbing handles and dips it is kind of like a body weight lifting area kind of like a calisthenics area sort of yeah it was kind of cool and then they had this really hokey it was like a separate corner that was probably a thousand square feet or two fifteen hundred you know it wasn't small and it's just like these machines in a circle and the walls were painted a different color and it was like this is like the 30 minute workout area where it must be you go like

Do a little circuit. Yeah, it's like the circuit. I could just picture like some people just come every day and they go to the 30 minute workout area and hit a set or two on each one and call it a day. There was like a calf machine there that I used that I actually really liked. They had a bicep preacher curl machine that was cool.

Jack and I lifted. Did they actually have squat racks though? No, just three. Just Smith machines. Really? Wow. That's where they were large, Like, if they had squat racks and benches, which they also didn't have benches at barbells.

Really? You couldn't just bench there? Maybe there was like one or two. I mean, if there was an oddly, yes, it was an oddly small number of them. Wow. Interesting. And there was people monkeying around in the Smith machines the entire time.

If I had wanted to use one of them, it would have been nearly impossible to get one. Yeah, it's a hot commodity. also the people that like walk around it's so weird like the people that just bop around and go to the machines it's I don't like the culture of like not knowing if you are allowed to use a machine oh god I know someone else stealing it I know because some people get pissed about it too I know I know like people aren't just cool and normal about it where like at massomics someone's using something it's like oh oh just wait 10 seconds until you're done and then use it myself yeah and like like

You're not going to yell at me if I start to use it when... Or some guys literally are outside the gym and you sit out of machines. Like, I'm on that thing. It's like, no, you're over there. Yes. But overall, pretty good, insanely large. Nice locker room, too. They had the lung alarm thing there.

Does anyone ever actually use this for anything? Well, if you're working there, you can't. When there's no barbells to actually hit the. ground anywhere. Well, that's it. There's nothing you could even lunk off about. I don't even know what you would lunk on. Yeah.

It wouldn't be where I would choose to get a membership, but you could certainly get a lift in there and a pinch outside of. You were starting your fitness journey. As long as you didn't want to, you know, squat or deadlift or all or use the Smith machine. Yeah. You don't want to do like any of the main movements. You're good to go. It works on like, hey, I'm on vacation and I kind of want to get some blood pumping today because I haven't been doing shit for a couple days.

As far as that goes, not bad. Yeah. Yeah, okay, it makes sense. I can see it. Yeah. Also, what's this little thing on your wrist I've seen pop up here, Tanner? What's going on there? Oh, this old thing?

What the hell is that? Never seen that on here before. I'm glad you brought that up too. I'm wearing a Apple watch. Yeah. And I got this as a gift. I really don't know. how much of what I would use this for outside of it being a watch though up to this point.

Well, you're doing it. I mean, you can do some fitness tracking with it, you know? Yeah. Some sleep tracking too. And I'm like, I don't really want to wear this when I sleep. Just because I prefer to not to. Yeah. The fitness tracking stuff, my phone is usually always in my pocket.

Right. I kind of know my steps. And like my point is like the information on fitness. tracking beyond the steps. I just can't, I haven't found anything that I really care about that much. Okay. Okay. Like if it's telling me my standing hours and, you know, the time I spent extra.

Like at a certain point, it brings up like something in general, like what do I need to know these? Like my sleep metrics even, for example, I know if I slept good or slept like shit. I don't really need something. I know it's never enough. Yeah. Yeah. I am curious about step count. but I already kind of have that data.

Uh-huh. I'm not shitting on it. It's really cool. That's always what my thing is I actually, I want one. I do, but I'm like, I just need one thing to get me over the hump and convince me.

And I'm like, I'm like 45% of the way there. And I just can't get that last little thing to convince me like, this is the reason I need it. So I don't know. Someday I'll probably have one, but I just can't quite get there now. It's another thing to charge,

which I, do get very annoyed about the charging thing. I guess, I don't know, I have my actual phone on me so frequently that, you know, because you get updates if whatever you want to get an update. Like so if I get a text message or a call, you could actually take it through here. But rarely am I without my phone. Right. But if you use it for that reason, I could see that being valuable too.

But I just, you know, 99% of the time I'm going to have my phone. And that's the thing. Like, I'm like you. It's my work is at work. I'm in front of a computer. at a desk. So, you know, there's no lack of notifications reaching me if that's what I want it to be. Right.

Yeah, Big Jess says you can start and stop music and audio books from it. I don't know. I think it's really nice. It's a cool piece of technology. I also just kind of like my regular. I wear a watch to work. And I just, also when you do this, there's a split second it takes for the watch to come up. Oh, for the watch to come on.

Actually, yeah, to see the time. And you know what I kind of like? about my regular watch. It's just there. This is a weird thing, but I'm like, it doesn't take a split second to appear. It is there whenever I want it. I don't know.

I do like it. I just, I haven't played around with it enough to know what of it. What features would be most valuable to me. Well, if a month from now, you're like, yep, I figured it out. This is what it is. That's all it would take to convince me. But until then, I'll be, I'll be waiting.

Well, and it does track your heart rate. I see that mentioned too. and I did, I was messing around with that, just seeing what it is. But there again, I don't know what I really do with that data. So then I'm like,

okay, I know what my heart rate is now. So what? Like outside of it being like dangerous, like dangerous levels. Like what do you? You know, like we went to an amusement park and I was,

when we're doing it, I'm like, oh, I'm going to see if my heart rate gets elevated. it gets elevated when I'm sitting here waiting and I'm like, yeah, it did a little bit. Hmm.

Yep. Just as I suspected. Now I know. Yeah. So what's your take is you would, you've considered them before? I straight of want one, but I just,

I'm trying to convince myself of a really good reason. And I just can't quite get there on the reasoning. So yeah. Until then, I'll just keep trying to think of, an excuse to really convince myself of it. There is a water mode, I found out. So like when we're going on a water ride,

you put it in a water mode and then you take it out of that when you get done. Oh, really? Yep. Oh. I mean, you don't have to, though, right? I don't think you have to. I think it's probably... So like you're going to take a shower and have it on.

Like you're supposed to put it into water mode is what would ideally be happening? I think so. Okay. I don't know what's going on there when you're doing that. Yeah, this is, as Gary said, it ejection. the water from the inside with with the noise. Okay.

When you take it out of water mode or whatever. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, Apple Watch. I guess I'll follow up more when I've used it more. You know, I've been wearing it. We get the long-term review here. Yeah.

I'm like, I'm not the biggest advocate, though, after a little bit. I'm not like everyone must go out and purchase. I don't think they're that expensive relatively speaking money. They're really not. They're not too bad. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. I'm always a bit of a tech guy. So you can, like part of what I struggle with, though, this is a good example. Like your watch face, you can make this look 10,000 different ways. And I'm like, I don't like having to choose that. Like that's not my personality. Like I don't want to, you know, everyone I've looked, I've been like, oh, what do you have your setup like? And I'll look at him like, why the hell do you have it like of that?

Right. And then I'll look at what I settled on. I don't know if this look up across, but it just looks like a watch face. Yeah. I'm like, I tried a bunch of different things. And I'm like, I kind of like it if it looks like a watch. I do like that it has the temperature right on because I could like, like the outdoor temp you're saying.

Yeah, I can add the outdoor time. I'm like, oh, 31 out right now. Yeah. Low of 16, high of 38. And I do kind of like that just like in the old man in me, likes to be able to see the temperature up. Keep the tabs on that. Yeah.

Yeah, that's it. Apple watch. Okay. How about us supporting our supporting member segment? Yeah, let's do it. This is a relatively new segment of the podcast, especially particularly to season two. There's only a ninth time we've done this in season two.

So we're kind of getting our bearings about us. So bear with us if we stumble on anything here. Supporting our supporting members, this is a segment that we use to give back to people that support us. We'd love to have you support our show, becoming a supporting member is the number one way you can boost everything that mass onomics has going on this is the number one thing keeping us moving it keeps our lights on a big jake heightened strength gift and jake and abby gifted me a used george forman grill

for christmas it was on my doorstep when i was gone on vacation some guys really do have it all yeah so uh the your supporting membership will go to pay for for the electricity that I use to heat, superheat that George Foreman grill up to 600 degrees. Pretty soon they're going to be like, oh, is this guy running the data center over here? All this energy is like, no, we just got 10 George Forman's. You guys have no idea how much electricity those George Foreman grills to consume. They basically need a dryer plug to run. You think heating and cooling your garage for your home gym is expensive, wait until you

plug in a few George Forman grills. This year at the Lyft Hardly Veezy Classic, do you think, like for the Friday night party, we just set up like 30 George Forman grills and do a massive grill out of just with only by George Forman's. God, is this heaven on earth? No, this is Western, Northeast, South Dakota.

It's just the longest line of tables. B-Y-O-G-F-G. I will say everyone Everyone brings their own George Foreman grill To grill their own burger Exactly how they want I'd be really curious how many make it through airport security You know some of those are not getting

Sir, you know you have a George Foreman grill in your bag Do you understand how power those things draw? Yeah, it's a B-Y-O GFG Cookout and they're like, oh, by all means Why do you say so? Go right through Why didn't you say so? You're a man of class over here.

I will say, looking at your George Foreman, it seems like a little newer model than what I typically remember. Definitely. This is like the deluxe, like the large, like they started to get crazy with the George Foreman. Yeah, I remember to have a little more of like a white clamshell kind of look to it, you know, a little more circular. That's what, in my day, that's what a George Foreman looked like.

Oh, this is a big old beefy George Foreman. Yeah. It's like a late model George Foreman. Yeah, late model George Foreman. It's not quite as high value as the early model, the rare early a model George Forman Grills. Traditionally white with brown stains. Well, it was white. Now it's kind of yellowed.

It's yellow, grease brown. Not even like, it's like in the paint. Yeah. It's like part of it. It's like way more scratched up than it should be. Yeah. So George Forman Grill Cookout. That would be fun to a fun concept,

all George Foreman grills cooking out. Just extension cords everywhere. The meter on my house just going, z-r-rum. Just to cook one or two burgers at a time. Yeah, Dr. Jake from State Farm posted a picture of his white one that looks a little

more. Yeah, Daisy chain those George Ormans. Yeah, we get Daisy chains George Mormons. Yes. A Daisy chain George Forans. Could you,

we'd probably have to, we got some electrical guys in the crew that could actually literally date, they could actually figure that out. There's a way we could rig that up. Yeah. So yeah, if you become a supporting member,

it will feed our very expensive George Foreman Grill collection and use hobby. You first, you pay to collect them, then you pay to run the damn things. This week, supporting our supporting members, Big Eddie and Big Emmett had a little crew meetup together it looked like.

Then we had the crew England meetup. That was that big Chris. Chris is the Wolf's den. The Wolf Den. I had Chris, Jose, Steve, Stephen Wafflearn, his buddy Christo and Big Derek were all there. I really enjoyed seeing that picture of all of them together because it was just like, oh, this actually is just a condensed version of our entire New England trip as all these guys just in one picture. together and it didn't seem real life to me to see that.

Well, I don't think I've almost ever seen any of those people together in the same place. No, I've never seen. I know all of them. I've hung out with all of them. But you don't see any of them together. And then there's this, you even said it to me when we were talking about. You're like, oh, it almost seemed like a Photoshop picture. It's like you just take six random room members from different spots.

But then someone put them in a room together. Yeah, that was really cool to see. I was jealous. I'm like, that's got to be a lot of fun. I want to hang out with those guys there. I know. I was super jealous.

Great news, though. If you followed along, you saw a little bit of them lifting and the Wolf's End well. I think that that's the video that we've got coming out. That YouTube video of Big Chris's home gym tour

is probably what's going to be out by the time this episode comes out. I think that's next on the list, isn't it? I probably is. I mean, I got to have it on my to do list for tomorrow. to edit it. I don't remember what was next.

Also just reminding you, oh, that you still have to get that right. Someone should edit that thing. It needs to be ready in about a day and a half. But yeah, if that's next on the list,

then I'm excited to watch it. And then Big Adam had a crew meet up at a certified training facility, the Weenie Hut Fitness. Big Jen competed in a bench-only competition where she got 135 pounds on the bench. This week's guest on unpaid and underrated

our braddy little sister podcast was none other than Big Andy from the great state of Minnesota. And you too could potentially become a guest on unpaid and underrated podcast by first becoming a supporting member. Thank you, supporting members. How about a certified training facility of the week? Yeah, where do we want to go to this time? We could go. We were just in Colorado. Yeah. So our options are essentially limitless, like the movie.

Has Tommy seen it? Probably not. No, negative. I don't know if I've seen that movie. It's where you take a pill, right? It's where you take a pill and it makes life really fun, I think. That just sounds like drugs. Where to, where to? I'm just clicking around a little.

Anything jumping out at you? How about have we done, have we done this one? Just the northernmost California gym is Lost Cabin Iron. I just clicked on it. Lost Coast Iron? Oh yeah, that's probably it. No, we have not done that one.

Shall we? Yep. All right. Lost. Coast Iron Northern California Well our most northern

California gym Correct There's a lot of California gyms Also you mentioned No one's in the middle of California Someone just joined up like today or yesterday So there's now two in the middle of California Like Fresno right

Fresno and Bakersfield Yeah wow So they were listening and they said yep Right yeah because it was It was pretty much like SoCal and like the Bay Area And now all of a sudden, yeah. Now we got Turtle School Jim in Fresno and in Bakers Field. We've got the Armory.

Well, they play their cards, right? We'll feature them one of these weeks. Yeah. So Lost Coast Iron in California. Big Alex. Big Alex. All right off the bat here. We got a folding rack, a rack that folds into the wall.

I'm not totally sure. what one that is. You know what they always say about folding racks, don't you? They just, you fold them out and that's it. Yep, you fold them once, the one time you put them out. Uh-huh. To be folded again. We got a, there's a barbell in there.

There's actually another barbell leaning against the wall. We got a little curl bar hanging out in the rack there too. There's an adjustable bench. I'm not quite sure what one that is. We got some bumper plates hanging out. We got a few loadable dumbbells sitting down there. Yeah, what are those like one inch? I think they are because if you look on the weight tree in the back,

there's some one inch plates there. You see those? Oh, yeah. And we don't see a ton of one inch plates. So it's always refreshing to see some of those hanging around. Actually, that curl bar, I think it's a one inch curl bar too, isn't it? Yeah, what do you call that? A one inch rackable curl bar, it looks like to me.

Well, it's not really a rackable curl bar. No, look at it. I mean, that's how I do microbar is like, I don't fill my crowbar out to the sleeves so I can put it in the rack. That's rackable, by definition. By definition, you are correct. We got a rep sandbag. There is.

Oh, that's a strong man corner. Yes, yes, it is. If you look at photo number two, we got a close-up of the deadlift platform. California Strong. What animal do you think that is there? That's an otter, right? I think it's got to be an otter, isn't it? Yeah.

What's the South Park? Kill the table eaters. You know, that one? Where the people go to war against the otters? Yes, yes. Our last photo, photo three, is there farmers carry handles against the wall? Yeah, it looks like, I couldn't tell from the other angle if that was like an axle of some kind, but yes, those appear to be farmers carry handles.

There's a glute ham slider there. which I think that's a great addition for any gym. You know, it's like, I don't know, 60, 70, 80 bucks, something like that. But I use mine all the time. TRX bands or something. Yeah, yep, I think you're right there. Yep, some TRX bands.

Looks like maybe there's a matador or some type of tricep dip attachment behind the rack there. Drink spotter light. And drink spotter light. Got, I have it. Also, a Masonomic sticker on the rack there. It looks like Ryan's circular,

I gave blood one. Or is that a Brad the pad one next to it? Do you see that? The circular one? Yeah, I can't see quite well enough to what that one is. It might be, I gave blood one. That could be either one of those. And this must, this has to be, is this a garage?

I can't quite tell. There's a door and there's a, I think this is a garage. Yeah, I think. It's got the water heater in there. Yeah, and the first photo showed some, like cabinets that kind of look like garage cabinets. I don't know. Maybe it is.

Maybe it's not hard to tell for sure. Yeah, there's no way. Hard saying, not knowing. What I am wondering, though, I'm trying to start to draw my own conclusions, but pretty curious what you think. Do you think you could get strong in here in the Lost Coast Iron? Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, we're getting hell of strong in there for show.

All right, that's certified training facility. You could too make it on a certified training facility of the week just by getting your training facility certified at massonomics.com slash certified. All the details are there of the rigorous process of passing the test. So that gym's in Fort Bragg, Tanner. You ever been up there in any of your army excopades? No.

National Guard excopades? No. Well, actually Fort Bragg, I think there is a more popular Fort Bragg. Oh, is there? It's not. That's not that one? That one. Okay.

That's where I'm getting confused. North Carolina is where the popular Fort Bragg is at. Home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces, S.F. Okay, yep. It's just a scenic coastal city in California is all it is there. All right. Known for Redwoods, Glass Beach, and Skunk Train and Lost Coast Cabin Garage Gym. Sounds good enough for me.

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we might do a little training update at the end of this episode because we haven't talked training for a while. So we'll see if we get to it. Oh, hell yeah. We'll talk trained. Talk the shit out of training. Do you kick out or did you give these live listeners? They're going now.

Give them the axe and while they're on the way out the door, give them the boot and then say, I hope the door don't hit you where the good Lord split you. Right in the ass crack. That's what that means. Referring to the ass crack. Okay. Title topic-wise, we're going to talk about some

2025, just some cool stuff, like some of our favorites of 2025, some of the biggest things we saw by the numbers in 2025. We pulled together some big data for this one. Crunched a lot of numbers. Crunched a lot of numbers. you check those numbers, crunch those numbers again? Crunch.

Here they are crunched. So what would you title this topic though? Well, we don't know what the official YouTube title, but we'll say for now, this will be like a 2025 best of recap is maybe what we'll work with. Yeah, I like that. I can get behind to that. There it is. Okay.

So I wrote down a couple things. Do we want to start with anything? in particular? Maybe maybe let's go with some of the more objective or yeah, objective things first,

things that have more numbers to them because that's just, it is what it is. And then I think later on maybe we'll start talking more of some of our personal favorites

are standouts to us throughout the year. Okay. So did you see anything that I, have you seen this stuff yet? I just pulled it up before we were recording.

So I just saw it for a second. So how about our biggest Instagram real of 2025. I would have never guessed this one. Actually, a lot of this stuff I would never guess because it's just a dumb algorithm thing

of what catches on. But this one really surprised me because it's a somewhat anticlimactic video. It's very novel and interesting, but I wouldn't think most people would want to watch this. And do we want to say what it is?

Yeah, it was the horse stall Matt hold at the 2025 lift Hardly VZ classic Strongman tiebreaker where big Toby and Big Allen are standing on each side of a horse doll mat with a plate hanging in the center and they're holding it until they see who can't hold on anymore. And that is our biggest, our biggest, biggest video ever on Instagram, I think. Did you say the number? Yeah, 10 million views on Instagram, 40, 50,000 likes and I don't know how many shares. I didn't write down shares on that one. But I don't know that we've ever broken 10 million views on a Instagram real before.

It's a lot. It's a lot. Even for real standards or whatever, you know, shorts. That's a lot. Yeah. And then also, just to highlight the oddness of how the numbers work, there was an Edmund Fitzgerald meme that I meant. It was just a still image of me squatting in Massanomics gym in, like, 2016,

like in the old squat rack in front. front of the bathroom when it used to be there. It's actually the picture of me squatting and Larry's standing behind me. And it looks very vintage Masonomics because, like, we're not in massonomics clothes. It's just things look way different. It just looks way different. You can tell it's a very old picture. And it's just that fading to an image of the Edmund Fitzgerald crash, you know,

with seas crashing, just another steel image where one slowly fades. out and the other fades in and it says something like I can't remember what the thing is. It says it's something about the Edmund Fitzgerald about like when I go down for a squat and don't come back up. I feel like the Edmund Fitzgerardt. You know, something like that. I can't even remember.

And that one, I think, had their most shares for the year. Really? Like up there and likes has, you know, that horse tall mat video has 40,000 likes or 50,000. Well, the Edmund Fitzgerald, mean one has 110,000. like, you know, only one or two million views. So it has like a fifth of views, but two or three X the likes. And that Edmund Fitzgerald one has over 50,000 shares. Wow.

See, and I can't even remember that. I mean, I'm sure I saw it. Yeah. But I don't even, I don't even remember that one now. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, over 50,000 shares of that, that meme. I'm a hot performer there.

Was that also during kind of the Edmund Fitzgerald run with all that stuff? Okay. It was. And there's a whole bunch of... There was several that took off during that week or so, wasn't there? Yeah, that was the biggest one, but there were several others that were not far behind that. But I just think it's funny how it can work how something can take off in...

You know, they both went viral to speak, period, but where one, like the ratios are so much different, where one is so much more views based, and the other one is so much more likes and shares based. I don't know what that means, but it's just odd how they can be so much different. The ratio can be so different between two videos going viral. Yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

The analytics should be there to see what the best post was like a non-real, but it wouldn't give it to me as being weird. So I do not know what the biggest non-real post was of 2025. Okay. just because of faulty analytics. Yeah. What about that? What about if we go over to YouTube?

Yeah, that's what this one also surprised me a little bit too here. Yeah. The top YouTube video, this is Paul Foss's Shed Gym Tour at 50,000 views. I mean, did this actually beat Foxy Menagerie out for the year? Yeah. It did, really. Wow. Yeah.

It did. It had more views. But I don't think this was even a new video in 2020. No, because it can. It came out in the end of 2024. Right. So that one just, it ramped. It took off multiple times, though, is the thing with that one.

Right. Because I think it had several runs of, you know, getting 10, 15,000 views over the course of a week or two. Yeah, so Foxy, more of Foxy's Menagerie's views must have came in 2024. They must have, yeah. Because that is our most viewed video of all times. It's just crazy. It's stupid.

The margin gets wider and wider. that our most viewed video on the mass dynamic YouTube channel is the woman with the world's largest booms. And YouTube won't let you monetize that one. I guess she can't be monetized. She's not doing it for the money. She's just doing it for the love of the game. So that's our most viewed long form video content is Paul Foss's Shim. Of note of more recent post ones that were up there would be like Gluck's home gym tour

and Evanston-Depani's home gym tour. Also, Dr. Tattie Waffles, very high up on the list, too. Yeah. That's right up there, isn't it? The good Doc Tat Wafs. Yeah, he's actually almost even with Glucks. Like, they're actually like 100 views apart. Then the top short, YouTube short of the year,

which this one really took off, as far as a YouTube short for us goes, was the Ephron home gym tour montage. And this like took off half a year after it had been posted. Yeah, it says you posted in April. It didn't really take off until like November. Like October, November. Yeah. And it has two and a half million views on YouTube.

And it went off like six months later, which is just very odd. And it's kind of funny to see how much money that makes on YouTube on a short, dumb little video. Yes. But you get two and a half million people to watch it. Even a short video can make something. Yeah. Make something.

Okay. Certified training facilities. New ones in 2025. Actually, I'm going to change this because I think today there was two that came in that I didn't have. Ooh. New certified training facility. Because the program actually launched in December of 2024.

So the very first run, which sold out immediately, was in December of 24. I don't know. Dude, do we get a second run in December, in 24? I think there might have been some sold for a, some second run. Okay, so technically like third runners might have been. Yeah, maybe second to me, somewhere around second or third. Okay. That second one's in question.

Third runners were, third iteration was for sure in 2025. Second run, I think was, I don't know, somewhere right around the line. Okay. So we had 394 new certified training facilities added to our map. in 2025, which is just crazy because we've said it before. When we came up with this thing, I think the very first time we ever did it, we made 50 banners and we thought, well, if we can sell these in a few months, I guess it went pretty good.

And we sold all 50 in like the first couple hours. And then that happened again and again and again. And the fact that there's now, I don't know, what's it like 400 and some. Yeah, there's over 450 certified training facilities on the map. Yeah, just wild that there's that many people that have all decided like, yes, we actually do like this. This is really cool. And yeah, that one's been a game changer for us. Like the way it's helped us find home gyms.

You know, we do a certified training facility every week on here. It's just, it's actually changed how a lot of things work around here. Yes. And then as far as selling stuff on our website, I mean, going back to what we just said, the thing that we sold the most of in terms of units was the certified training facility, actually, for the year. We moved as many units of that as anything else at all. But for the sake of already discussing that, more interestingly, giving it a close run for its money.

Yeah, wow. Is the drink spotter chill at just a few units shy of the certified training facility? The old drink spotter chill, which, I mean, rightfully, rightfully deserves to be in that spot. Yeah, the old drink spotter, I didn't assume we had sold that mini-drink spotter chills. I thought if you told me to guess, I would have said, I don't know, have we sold 200 of those,

but quite a few more than that. In terms of dollar amount sold by item, there again, certified training facility, but since we already knew that, more interestingly, next highest would be the horse stall Matt Gripper, which didn't come around here until fairly close in the end of the, you know,

close to the end of 2025. Yeah. And it makes sense because those are both products that cost a lot more than T-shirts. So, yeah. Yeah, you're more expensive items. Generate more revenue. Who to thunk it? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you see it here, so you don't have to guess. But would you have known what shirt we've sold the most units of? You wrote, you have it written here, Silly Goose Barbell Club. If you would have told me to guess, mine would have been either the gym, the gym skull or the or the lifting department. Or the lifting department. I would not have picked Silly Goose Barbell Club as the number one selling shirt of the year.

those weren't very far behind. Okay, so it was pretty close. Yeah, but I actually, I mean, I think Silly Goose Barba Club was definitively number one. Wow. By a decent mark. But they were all in similar ballparks. Yeah. And that was, and that, I mean, it does make sense, though.

Like, that was the only one of those two. That was an actual brand new design for the year. Right. But in my mind, we only did like one or two. Like, if you told me, I'm like, oh, we've only done one run of that. Like, I don't even. Like, I just don't even picture that shirt being around much. Yeah, we've done, we did three in 2025.

Yeah. Wow. Yep. Went of, would not have, would not have thought of that one. And, well, to that end, what flag, did you see what flag? It was the silly goose barbell. It was in it again. Yes.

Which is that one I maybe would have got. But, uh, yeah, still. That's, it's good to see. And then new supporting members. in 2025, our biggest year ever of supporting members. Oh, I actually did not look at this one, so I don't know what it is, but several hundred, right? Yeah, 337 new supporting members in 2025.

Damn, that's a lot. Yeah. That is a lot. Our biggest year ever. Well, actually a couple came in here at the end. I'm going to say 339. Wow. A couple new ones here, even just this evening.

So I think we're at 339 new ones for 2025, which is awesome. As we said, that is the number of way that we keep our George Foreman grills running. Yeah. That's how we get to bring your own G, B-Y-O-G-F-G. We're going to need a bigger George Foreman grill. We're going to need a longer extension cord. And that also, man, we are appreciative of those because, yeah, like you said, that that puts this whole thing in a different position than if we only sold T-shirts. Like it's, that's, that's becoming a bigger and bigger part of the business all the time.

Yeah. So how about this? What was your favorite YouTube video of 2025? Okay. So this one, I've, okay, there's a lot of ways I actually. think about this. And, you know, there's the, what's my favorite from a subject matter? What's my favorite stylistically? Like what's, you know, there's a lot of ways you can say, what is your favorite? And there is one that really jumps out at me. And because for me as like a direction for, okay, so

it's a gym tour. And for me, this kind of signal that my brain's sort of a shift in how we can think about gym tours and how they can be shot and the subject matter covered. And, I mean, one of my, what I'm talking about is Evan Sentipani's gym tour. Like, I remember filming that. And while we were shooting it, while I'm watching it to the little tiny screen

on the back of the camera, I'm just thinking like, oh, I just feel like I'm watching a video on my phone. Like the look of this, as you were there literally being the one filming it. Yeah, I just felt like I was holding up my camera, my phone and just like watching a YouTube video that like someone with, you know,

access to someone like a big person. and a big budget was making. Because I remember just thinking, this looks so cool. Like the stories and everything that being told are really, because they only come from someone that has a ton of experience and has been around and done a ton of stuff.

You know, all these just, just he gives good answers. Like, just the whole vibe. All of it was shot so good. And it was, it was the one of, to me, one of the first times we did a video where,

yeah, we were there to talk about Jimmy equipment, but we didn't spend that much, time like really looking at like the camera was mostly pointed at Evan and for good reason because he just had great things to say and like that sort of like change this thing in my brain where it's like oh yeah actually these don't necessarily have to be like hey we're talking about this leg machine and the camera needs to be pointed at the leg machine talking about the specs and everything like it can be more of a guy that like the leg machine's a starting off point for the conversation and then

like it's almost a podcast now where that was something that got it going and now you're just hearing cool stories and, you know, these experiences that this guy had. And so for me, that one just, it's like a turning point in my brain for how things worked after that. And that one, that one's what I feel like really got that going. When Brian Coppillman's was kind of that. Well, and his was too. And that was the day before. But like Evans was taking it to an even more extreme because like Brian was the very first time ever that I really had that feeling of like, whoa, we're just like, oh wait. Like this is just a guy talking. And this is awesome. Like it's better almost. you know, or it's like that's almost, it's almost more fun.

Yeah, but like where Brian will tell you, like he's newer to the fitness game. You know, Evans obviously just been doing it and doing it like to an extreme level for a long time. And so like just having his input on that just felt like a just a whole different way for how we can approach this. So is that your pick? Probably. Yeah, I think so. That was going to be my pick. Oh, really?

you said anything. I'm like, it's probably got to be the Evan Centipani gym tour video. And it was just, I couldn't even really tell you why other than I just remember the feeling when we drove away after recording that one. And I'm like, that was the best video we've ever done.

Yeah. And I'm like, I can't even tell you why I just, there was just something. I'm like, it was like the perfect as far as what we try to achieve. It was the perfect one. Like where I'm just like, That was just went, that is so, I was like left thinking,

people are going to love that. That is so entertaining. Like if you like lifting or home gyms at all, you will love that video. Yes. It's exactly what I thought, like the second we drove away after filming it. Yeah. And I'm just, I'm trying to think, like some of our earlier gym tours, you know, because we played around with, I mean, it's, it's more or less been the same formula.

But, you know, there's things that were always changing and tweaking a little bit. Right. And I'm sure, and I haven't gone back and watched anyone for a while, but I'm sure if you watch some of our earlier ones, it is probably pretty targeted at just talking about the equipment. And I think over time, like, that's what's actually made them unique and different and good is that it's been less of just strictly equipment talk.

And like I was saying, it's like, no, the equipment talk is like a jumping off point for a conversation. And then like, where do we go from there? And I think like we've gotten way better at that as time has gone on. Well, and every gym is still different too. Like some by nature are going to be more talking. talking about the equipment and some by nature are going to be less talking about the equipment but like that's finding the right combination for each gym kind of to you know just like uh but yeah

i kind of think that that's the of 2025 that was the best and that's not even i mean we had a lot of really good videos like i could make the argument for several videos being in the top of the like i mean in any other year if you would have told me like oh no you're going to do and i'm going I'm miss people here, but like just looking from whether you're started like, oh, you're going to do videos with Darko. Like I'm just saying like bigger names like Darko or Chad Wesley Smith or, you know, basement Brandon or Gluck or you're going to go to Keith's gym. Like all these ones, you know, that just would in any other time be like, oh, that's the video. But there was just so many big ones we did that were great. It really is hard to like if you said, all right, pick number two and three.

I don't even know if I could. Like it's so hard to decide. Yeah. I do think it's Evans number one, but yes, there was a lot of good ones. So what about our favorite massonomics trip in 2025? We did a lot of trips. I was also thinking about this. And I think, okay, there's two things here.

And you are, I'll say, I feel like the Northeast trip is where we perfected the formula. That's what I feel like. But to me, the first one of the year in January in California was like, that was like, that was the first time where we thought was like, is this actually possible? Like, yeah, can we, no,

we can plan out? Can we actually do like eight, eight gym tours in a trip? Is that doable? Like, can we drive in the car multiple hours a day? Like, is,

is that something someone can do? And it was like, no, we're going to find out. And we did it. And it got done. It was like, yeah,

that is doable. Like, that is a thing. And I think that really just kind of set the template, set the standard for what this is. and we've just refined that as time has gone on. Yeah, because then, like, next we go to Ohio, and I feel like we're like, no, no, we can do like,

it's like, well, that's where we learn. Yeah, pull up the certified training maps. Yep, see who we're going to. Start hitting up people and start making the rounds. And like we know it's doable now. But then I do feel like by the Northeast, it was really like, oh, no, we like this is now the formula. It is just like plug and plug in.

the pins on the map. And we kind of know the travel schedule and what we can get away with. And then it's also like, oh, no, we can get away with more. It's like, no, we can do less sleep and less eating. Yeah, we can show up to Brandon's so tired, hardly awake, and still struggle through two videos. After we've been on the road for like,

way too long and filmed way too many videos already. It's like, oh no. Like there's 24 hours in the day. We want all of them. But that is also the most, I would say, if you were to standardize a process, like the Northeast trip is the pinnacle of that where it's okay, no, we know we get in here.

We're going to get you miced up. We know we need to do this whole thing. We need at least an hour and a half, preferably two hours. By the time we show up, it you're going to we're going to record it when it's done we're going to shoot the b-roll like i've got that down so much better like i know when we shoot the intro afterwards then we know the talking points we're going to make where you can pretty much just bang that out and then i know what i need to get for photos and like it's just starting to feel like this well-oiled machine when we show up to a place and it's just like check check check and it's never like oh we forgot photos or we forgot to do that like we just know what to do now and it feels more automatic than ever we never walk out out of the place without having to have we never walk out of the place without having to do it's not we never we never walk out of the place without having having. Yeah.

When we did the California trip, we didn't take pictures, really. Right. Like, I'd maybe get a picture of the person. Actually, no,

I'd take the back. We got a few photos, but it was still just like, I don't know. And I need the photo on my camera for the instance, you know, we just know all the things we have to get.

We didn't shoot intros then. Like, that wasn't a thing either, which also kind of dictates the way you think about the video a little bit too because we have an idea of that going into it. And the beauty of that is then by the time,

with all that refining, by the time we get to somewhere like, uh, in Nashville where we're kind of all you know we go to like gunner petersons where we don't know the guy at all and we have to do this and he's kind of like

behind schedule so he's like oh sorry guys but we got to you know we got to go here right or like we show up to Seamus's house who I'm like this is high pressure for us because this is a famous person yeah who's like carving out a little chunk of his time and so us to not

look like buffoons luckily we have does this microphone work like Do we know what we're doing here? And it's like, no, nope, just get the equipment out, set it up, and we're rolling. And I want to say from the time, you know, we started getting stuff out to the time we hit record, it was probably a few minutes, honestly. It was fast. Yeah.

And the idea of doing that a year ago would have been like, whoa, man, we're not ready for this yet. Right. Right. Okay. So what about gym equipment that you purchased in 2025? what is your favorite new piece of Tommy's garage home gym equipment that you added? Okay. You know, I had an answer in my head, but just in case I forgot something.

Ah, okay, because I have to pull my list here really quick because I'm already realizing like actually I'm leaving something out. Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to go, I'm going to go my top three here, but then I'll tell you my favorite. Okay. How's that sounds? So, yeah, that's good. My top three items for the year that were added to my gym, my own gym, I'm going to say it is the, God, this is tough.

This is tough because I don't just add things just on a whim, you know, they got to be good for me to add them. Right, right. But I added the weapons, you know, technically those, well, yeah, those didn't show up. up until like April or something. So I added the repens. I added the GMWD leg machine. Yes.

And I also did add the Peloton bike. And those are all three pretty different items and they're all pretty damn good. If I had to say my favorite, I don't want to say because it feels cliche, in low effort, but my favorite is the repins out of that group. Like they are that good. I figured that's that one you would probably say.

Because in my mind, I actually bought the repens like in December of 24. So like I didn't consider that. They actually didn't showup, but I didn't even get to use them until 2025. So I didn't even have those in my mind until this, but I thought I was going to end up saying the GMWD leg machine. But yeah, it is the repens as, as my favorite. You probably use the weapons the most.

They get used just about every workout. Yeah. I mean, actually, I take the back. They get used every workout. It's just they get used to want. Or certain workouts than other. Like, it might, maybe a certain workout, they might just get used for some warm-up stuff

where other ones are getting used for actual multiple sets throughout a workout. But yeah, they are that good. And no, no buyer's remorse there at all. They're the real deal. Yeah, that's good. If I had to do the same list, if I did three things added to Massanomics, gym three,

two tsunami bars. Well, that leaves just one spot left. I would say it is the arsenal strength, the late-loaded Humbler row machine. I still use it all the time, used it today. Yeah. People use it all the time. That machine is awesome.

So that's definitely up there. The ATX pendulum squat machine. I still use that one all the time. That's still your, is that your number one leg machine? If you had to pick, you get one machine for legs, would that be it?

Or is there something? It is still as of right now. No, no, no, no. I like the pendulum squat better. I really like our hack squat machine. Oh, yeah. Sorry, the hack squat is what I was to put another one in the run.

I could go with if you, I don't know, if you made me only pick one of those, that would be a tough choice. I mean, I haven't used the hack squat much lately at all. I've been using the pendulum squat, but it's just because it's still, you know, I've had it for like half a year. So, yeah, I just, and like, I don't really, when I do that, I don't just like switch back and forth every other week or something. Yeah, you got to put a little time in run it for a while and see, like, can I get better at it?

and the pendulum squad is just so damn hard. Like it is just a hard without having to put a ton of weight on. Right, right. And just like just lights your legs up. Just crazy. So I really like that. Number three is a harder pick, I guess, in homage to all the vintage weights I got in 2025.

Yeah, there was a lot of those. Eerie Jackson 45s as a lot of. like my other number three. That's quite the score. Yeah, that's, that's a, that's a rare one right there. Right. You know, they're signed and they're cool. And like, I pick those as just almost like the capstone to my vintage plate wall that I did in 2025.

Mm-hmm. I think it's got to be those three things. Number one, I would pick one of those two machines. That's really, actually really, really hard because I used both of them. every single week since I've gotten each of them. And I don't know which one's better. Like that's, if you made me there again, get rid of one of those two. I'm not sure which one.

I honestly don't know if I could, I guess I maybe would say that the pendulum squat is better because I just lean towards leg machines being more valuable because I like alternative ways to, work legs after the squat is over. And with the upper body stuff, I'm just like, there's always just so much stuff you can do with dumbbells and other ways that you don't have to have the machine. Also true with legs,

but I don't know, that's just my take on the different upper body machines. I'm a big fan of lower body machines. I think because of that, I'm going to go with the ATX pendulum squat. Yeah. It would be hard for me to, and I have hardly even used either one of those,

but I would struggle to pick a favorite out of that group. Yeah. So that's what I'm going to say there. I don't have anything prepared for this, but as far as new equipment in general, like equipment that came out in 2025 for, favorite equipment of the year. Favorite equipment of the year,

not even necessarily that we have. I've got a couple of things, I would actually say. the Texas axle. I do want one of those. That's pretty more recent on my memory of something that came out. I really think that was a really cool one of 2025. So that's on my list.

The other one, I don't know that the entire product was brand new, but at least the version is the version three, Temple of Gaines, leg extension, leg curl. So the most recent version, the updated one, that there's like a little more range of motion

and stuff like that. I really like that. that one that came out in 2025. And then, you know, having been at home gymcon and seeing the buzz around a lot of things, it doesn't actually release yet. And it would have zero application to me whatsoever. But the dialed motion leg developer was just a big hit. Yeah, that had about a big of a buzz around it as anything possibly could.

And rightfully, you know, I wasn't there any good to use it. it seems like it is justified that it's not some poorly done thing. Like it seems like they've actually thought through all the stuff to make that a good piece to a home gym. Right. To me personally, it serves no utility because I have an endless amount of space and that's a space saving consideration. But I just, the buzz around that was was interesting. And then a lot of buzz around, of course, the functional all-in-one trainers like everyone having. that.

Yeah. Version of that. It's like almost everyone having a nice version of that. Yeah. It's like you can go when we're at Carps and he has the McColo one, which is a relatively budget option. I'm like, this would be great.

And like any home. I don't know what, whose home gym would this not be? You know, like there's pros and cons of every different one and stuff like that. But I'm like anyone could get strong. That was our takeaway. We really enjoy it with that rack.

That was our takeaway is that it just seemed like, yep. If you were starting to home gym and someone gave you this, you'd be like, well, I could get nicer stuff, but it's kind of just to say you have nicer stuff. Like, it's not letting you do anything new. Like, you're not losing out on any functionality here. No, if your goal is to get stronger or what, you know, it's like, that lets you do everything. I know. That's what those some of these more, I mean, it wouldn't be my number one pick still just for whatever reasons or like, if I'm just

being on. Existing biases or whatever that is. But, but yeah, it's like if someone showed up with that. Whereas before, I think, I think even six months ago, if someone's like, I got this McColo all in one, I'd been like, yeah, okay. And after seeing it in person, if someone said, they'd be like, yeah, I totally get it, man. You don't even got to justify yourself to me. I 100% understand why you arrived at that. Yeah. The other big, another big thing in 2025 for gym equipment was the growth in these rack-mounted Smith machines. You know, so if you call it an attachment or a part of your all-in-one rack or whatever it is. You know, that was certainly a lot of growth.

And as someone that owns a dedicated Smith machine that we've, did I get that in 2025 or that's maybe, no, that came in, well, where were we coming back from or something? You were coming back from crew falls when you got it. Okay, so is the winter of, okay, so is it a winter. You got a, it was a year ago. Like a year ago, basically, yeah. Yeah.

As someone that has a dedicated one, I do really like it. It's nice. Then that one we have is a nice Smith machine. And people use it quite a bit. It's a great addition to the gym. And I've used it quite a bit, actually, in the year that we've had it. But it wouldn't be that high on my list. Like if you're like, I'm like, it kind of messes up your rack, first of all.

That's the big one with that. Yeah, it actually just commands all that space, you know, that plane that it's on. And I'm like, no, for me or most people that we. lift with and, you know, our lifting community, the priority for a rack is still squatting with a barbell. And I'm like, at a certain point you monkey the whole thing up so much. I'm like, oh, where do you have room left to squat?

I know there is room left to squat. I'm like over exaggerating that, but I'm just like, well, where do I squat at? Why does it seem like I'm like, it's like, well, now you don't, the most important part, the worst part. Yeah, because you also limit your options for where you can squat too. It's like, oh, you want to squat out of the front?

Well, those attachment points are gone because the Smith machine has taken them over, you know. But, I mean, it does seem like people have came up with some good solutions there. Like, if a Smith machine is something that's a priority to you, a few years ago, it kind of didn't seem like you had an option. And now all of a sudden it seems like, yep, they've got that figured out now. You can get one of those and have that taken care of. I think they're nice. And I'm not wouldn't even, I'm not poo-pooing that when people do have.

of them. I'm just say if it was me personally in my made up home gym where space is a big concern and I have to worry about that. I'm like, I wouldn't, wouldn't be on the top of my list just because I'm so strength training focus still that I'm like, well, I got to make sure I can squat like as like I want to optimize my rack for my squatting. Yeah. For my benching. I 100% agree. Like I have that like I am in the demographic for someone that could benefit from it. And it's just like, yeah, it just doesn't speak to me yet. You know, that's right. I can see someday. Like maybe there's someday where it's, yeah, I'd want to add it in.

But as far as right now, that's very low on my priority list. There's two other, two other trends that I feel like I noticed a lot this year. From either one hype people talking about it or two, just the number of product releases and companies getting in on it. And one of those would be your free motion arms, you know, your 360 degree cable arms that attach to your functional trainer. and it's that whole thing that we talk about of, you know, nothing's new. It's all kind of been done in the commercial space before. And it's just, I mean, you know, it's just the home gym version of that free motion functional trainer, just bringing you a condensed version of that down that works in your system.

And it seemed like a lot of people were getting on that trend and are continuing to get in on that trend. Yeah. Yep, that's 100% true. What's it? Did you have one other one? Yeah. So that was the first one. um second one is i notice a lot more people having options for like a freestanding cable tower

of some kind cable towers in general whereas and this isn't again something that like i that speaks to me a ton because you know i kind of can get around that with my lap pull down for the most part i can make it do what i need to but um yeah like bells of steel has a ton of options in there and rep has kind of sort of put more options in there too and i mean i just and like all these budget companies are starting to have some more interesting. And actually, they are coming out with some interesting and unique takes on how to do like a cable tower, whether it's selectorized or plate loaded and things that actually range from budget friendly to more premium options and just different ways you can use them.

So it seemed like there was a lot more of that this year too. Well, that reminds me of something not new in 2025, but definitely much more widely popular in 2025, as we've talked about it many times with many people, the Volta. Yeah. That where I feel like, uh, and two years ago there was, I don't even know what the talk was of that, but here especially in throughout 2025 really grew in popularity amongst home gyms. Yeah.

You know, at this time last year, we had, we'd never seen one in person. Like we'd heard of it, but, uh, never, never had seen it. It doesn't tell darkos. I don't think that we had, that was the first time we actually got to see one in person. 11 months ago. Yep. And I was impressed. with it. Actually, I should add one more thing. As far as we're talking trends of the year,

looking back on it. I mean, we made a whole episode about it, the rise of the machines. Like there was just a ton. You know, a couple years ago, there was no talk about adding a machine into your home gym. Like, it was crazy. You know, who's going to put a machine in their home gym? And there's been a lot of, a lot more people adding machines into their home gym as time has on here. Yeah, big time. I mean, you added one this year. I did.

I added one myself. Yeah, so it's, but and that kind of ties into, yeah, it's just, it's sort of a machine. You know, cable tower is sort of a variation of a machine to a certain extent. Actually, there is one, you should type this in really quick, Tanner. There's one machine, our cable tower that I actually think is pretty interesting from a home gym perspective. It's the get RX. It's the Viper cable tower.

And it's nothing revolutionary. But what's kind of cool about it is it has the weight stack. and it actually mounts to your wall. It all makes sense when you see the picture here. Oh, yeah. I was looking around the other day and I saw this. Do you see how the profile on that is almost non-existent? Yeah.

Does it mount to your wall then? I think it mounts actually to the wall. So just to describe what we're seeing here is it's like a cable tower. You know, it has, I don't know, like an 80-some inch upright or whatever it is, you know, with holes all the way down so you can move the trolley up and down on it. But then instead of having like a weight stack behind. it like you would see on like a lap pull down or something. It actually has a weight stack that sits off to the side and flush up against the wall.

So the whole unit, I don't know, maybe comes out from the wall of foot, maybe. Yeah, probably. And then this one also has those free motion tornado arms on it, which makes it a pretty interesting piece. Yeah, that is cool where it would really not take up very much room. No, I mean, really, you just need the wall space. And then outside of that, as long as you have room to move around it, you're, you're good to go. But that was one of the more unique ones I saw as far as that cable tower thing

goes. That's on my radar now. Okay. Anything else, either gym equipment wise or just number trend vibe 2025. Oh. I mean, we talked massanomics.

We talked equipment. Yeah. I mean, that's probably mostly it. We talked some of our favorites. I I don't if there's any of their favorite categories we need to be addressing. But. Yeah. Also, like I was thinking in the sports of powerlifting or strong man, any big, like, things that I noticed in 2025 outside of other ones.

And I don't think so. I feel like untested powerlifting as a, you know, fan spectator thing become, has, like, fallen off a little bit for, like, the lack of big, Yeah, it feels like the personalities are gone, you know, where it's like, and part of it was before, you know, you look. I mean, there's John Hack, of course. Yes, there is. And I'm not saying like these people don't have personalities, but what I'm saying, it's the larger than life. It's like the WWE character of it all.

Like, but my, my classic example always is go to YouTube and type in the backyard meet of the century and look at those guys that are on the list. And it's, you know, Stan Efferding, the Lilly Bridges, Dan Green, George Lehman, like Vince Urbank, like all these. these people that had like these larger than life personas of like being these crazy guys that like how did they get yeah Pete Rubish like how did these guys where do they come from who the hell are these guys like what's going on here and the hell had like this legend about them and now it's like I don't know there's just some random dude at this local meet that total's like 2300 and it's just like yeah that's cool and no one seems to really care anymore and I'm not saying their accomplishments aren't cool like that still is but as far as the the legend built around these people no one has

that legend anymore it feels like But like, is it just a victim of the times that, like, because that backyard meet of the century, which was like 15 years ago or whatever it was now. Yeah, everything was new and novel. It was like the first thing happening. But there was like 15 people there that anyone that was interested, like everyone knew their name or still now knows all of those people's names. Like, could you put a powerlifting meet together with current active lifters in untested and come up with a list of 15 names that you feel like most? people know about or am I just so out of touch with it that I uh because I'm like oh yeah John Hack um the record uh Colton and then that's the thing it gets it's really I don't know

like I mean you for sure wouldn't get with a you wouldn't get 12 of them to show up and compete like like that like well I that's kind of the my original point that I was getting at is like it doesn't seem like there's a uh a meat doesn't seem like there's a arena for a big meat Like it for a while even like five years ago. Like all those were it was like, you have the biggest guys and they're going for the biggest total. And that's all that matters. And there was the showdown this and the showdown that.

And like several years there were people were trying. And I just and it was kind of working. And it feels like it's not really working anymore. I don't think it was kind of working then though. Like there's a reason none of those things exist anymore. No, I don't think it was working financially for anyone. But like for a while like you were getting. Oh, yeah, someone was kind of doing the thing of successfully getting the biggest names together.

Right, right. I don't think it was working. It's why it went away because it obviously wasn't. But I just don't even feel like the biggest names get or but is it because tested powerlifting is growing so that like less people are interested in untested? I don't know if that's a real thing or not. Well, we had the time we had Steve Donovian, he was the first person that ever said it. to us, you know, that really made me aware of this. And you're like, do you see, I think you asked him, is there a time where you think, you know,

tested powerlifting is bigger than untested? And he goes, it already is. And you're saying like the meats are way bigger. They've consistently figured out a way to put on these high value meets year after year where tons of people are competing. You're getting the biggest totals, the best totals, the best competitors all on the same day, all lifting. And he's like, and they're huge.

names. These people have huge followings, which admittedly we pay less and less attention to all the time. But there does seem like there's more. Like even from the amount I pay attention, I'm like, yeah, there is, like in the tested side, there's, there is quite a few big names, especially if you're really into that. Yeah, there is. Those exist. And a lot of those guys are like damn near as strong as some of the untested guys. Some of them are stronger than the untested guys. And, you know, whether you want to say that's because they're cheating or not, whatever. But as far as it goes like they're doing it the way they're supposed to. And yeah,

I mean, like the untested meat are the tested meets. Like they figured out how to put on from what I can tell like a better show than any untested meat. Right. You know, like go to the Arnold. Look at,

look at the tested meets. They look like legit actual sporting competitions. Like it's, yeah. They have crazy video boards. They have stands for the spectators. Like they're filled up. It's,

I don't know, they figured something out. Like you, like at the one Brandon. That's what I'm thinking. That looked really cool. And Jose, you know, the one that I'm like, and where the Minnesota Department of lifter safety is the spotted and loader crew there.

Like that looks legit. Yeah. Yeah, it does. And it's, and like Brandon said, yes, as far as a competitor goes, it's really cool. And yeah, I don't, it's, it's an interesting time for untested powerlifting. Yeah. I'd be very curious, like, if there's any big developments in 2026. Stay tuned to find out.

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What about a training update? What about horses? Is it or something we got to talk about? Is it a big basketball game or the animal? You know, you live in the Midwest long enough. And I shouldn't say midway. You just speak the English language. You think everyone says the same stuff.

Or you say, you know what? Okay, the English language, we live in a big, diverse country. Everyone has their own little pockets of whatever history and ways that they say things. And you think, well, okay, at least the Midwest. We all kind of do things a little different here in the United States. the Midwest. We can all relate to that. But we do things a little different around here. But there was a little saying you used last week. You said something called a horse apiece. And I don't think twice about that. I hear that saying. That's a horse apiece, six one,

half dozen the other, you know, 50, 50, either or. You know, it's all, it's all the same thing. I don't think twice when you say that. I know exactly what you mean. And I believe it was in the discord. First, Keith put that in there. Horse of Peace never heard that saying. I thought, well, you're from New York. They don't, yeah. I guess things are just different over there. You know, you don't get it.

They're both a little different around there. And then there's a few more people like, yeah, I've never heard that one. And then Jen and Iowa said, I've never heard that. And at that point, I'm like, really? Is this that regional of a thing? A horse of Pete, like I, I just thought everyone knew what that meant. That one actually surprised me that it wasn't common knowledge. It is to me.

I mean, I just feel like it's, I say it a lot. I feel like I've heard my parents say it multiple times. It's like growing up in school, I feel like I heard, I mean, I don't know if any of this was true, but I feel like I remember teachers. Like it's just a phrase that people used and that one just, it's just, you think you got the culture down and there's still sayings out there that I guess are somehow hyper-regional maybe.

Just when you think you can ride. one horse with two asses when a horse apiece comes around. A horse apiece. What is it? Don't, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Don't look a gift horse in the ass. What is that from?

I don't know, actually. I've heard that. I've heard that before, but I don't know what that. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I think it's because this could be completely wrong. I think you say that, you know, if someone gives something you don't look at it, if you can tell a horse's age by their teeth,

so you don't look them in the mouth, like when someone's doing something good for you. You don't like turn around and judge them and say what's wrong with them. Yeah, so I had to Google it here because I don't know what the saint actually means at all. And actually this makes sense is, it means,

you should be grateful for a gift and not criticize or question its value. Right. It's impolite to be picky about something that was given freely, which I am this giving season. Christmas, that's a really good thing people that keep in mind. That absolute, like, that's definitely the definition, but like a gift horse in the mouth, is it because you can tell a horse's age by their teeth or something like that? Oh, yeah. Okay.

So origin here. The phrase comes from the practice of checking a horse's teeth to estimate its age and hell. Okay. Older horses have longer teeth. All that makes me think of is Michael Scott, the, You know I have soft teeth when he's doing his food in his wine. That's what that makes you think of. You know I have soft teeth.

Inspecting the teeth of a gifted horse was seen as rude because it implied you were checking if the giver was trying to pass off an old or poor quality horse. Right, right, right. A gift horse, yeah, like someone that's giving you a horse as a gift. Okay, yeah. Yes, yes. I'm out of my equine, my equine traditions here. I'm not quick-shed.

There's a lot of horse-based sayings. Yeah. Well, you know, they kind of ruled the world for a while until the car came around, you know. Yeah. Isn't there a lot of horse-based sayings, though? I think so. Oh, well, there's only one way to find out.

Hold your horses. Is there a lot of, straight from the horse's mouth? Yeah. Put the cart before the horse. I like to say, I use that one all the time. Beat a dead horse, the dark horse, get off your high horse. I mean, you could say to ride a horse with two asses. Yeah, yeah.

Chomping at the bit. Yeah. That's a horse name. Actually, there's, this was in the discord. I think at one point, it's chomping or people say chomping, but the original is not chomping. it's uh can you find anything on that is it champ champ champing yeah yeah it's actually it's original saying chopping which equals eating but champing is the correct original term champing is the correct term yeah chomping is the new common version yeah because i they say people don't know what champing is

so people just started saying chomping it's actually you're champing at the bit yeah originating from a horse noisely biting or grinding its bit the metal bar in its mouth wow i didn't know that's what that was called. Yeah. Huh. Wow. Yeah. So you're really,

you're really champing at the bit over there. I think from now on I'm going to purposely say champing because people are going to be like, she's saying champing at the bit? What does that mean? You're the ones that are wrong. Yeah. You have healthy as a horse, eat like a horse.

Yeah. Wild horses couldn't drag me away. True. Oh, man. There's a lot. Big horse guys over here. What's your favorite horse saying? Well, I kind of like that.

What the hell did we start this whole segment with? We've got full circle on this. What were we even talking about? A horse apiece. A horse piece is pretty good. Actually, where does that one come from? I don't know. It's a horse apiece.

I don't really know what the origin of that really is. like either way it's about a horse. I don't. It says it most likes it comes from an old dice game where if the final rolls were tied, the game was a draw. I don't know. It was a horse a piece.

Popular in the upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota. South Dakota, I add that to the list. Yeah, okay. I think riding, you can't ride two horses with one ass has to be like, what could be better than that? That one's pretty good too, yeah.

Are you familiar with if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. No, is that a saying? Yes, look it up. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I'm not Googling anything over here either. That's just another horse saying that hit me. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Is that correct? Yeah, well, yeah, it's a proverb and a nursery rhyme. Yeah, okay. First recorded about 1628. I've never heard that one ever. Does it make sense to you, though? If wishes, I mean, yeah, kind of. If wishes were horses.

beggars would ride because beggars have nothing but wishes. So they'd ride horses then at that point. Yeah. That's kind of like if ifs and butts were berries and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. Have you ever heard that before? I don't think I heard that one either. Ifs and butts were berries and nuts,

we'd all have a Merry Christmas. Very similar to. Because all back in the day, all anyone wanted for Christmas with berries and nuts. You know, that was what would make a good Christmas was just berries and nuts. what a shitty Christmas. It's like, oh, you could ask for a PS5 at least.

Like, oh, what I really want this Christmas is berries and nuts. Please, Santa. Berries and nuts. He's like, well, hold it right there. Haven't gotten any nuts all year, Santa. Why are peanuts like there is kind of a tie to like nuts? Oh, nuts for Christmas. It has to be a historical thing.

Yeah. You know? Like that's not. You get the tin of mixed nuts, you know? I mean, it is kind of a good Christmas presents in a way, actually. I take it back. Like, that's not bad. You can definitely get worse things.

Yeah. But it's weird that there's an association with nuts and Christmas to me. Uh-huh. But yes, ifs and butts were berries and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. Like, that's the thing that would really make your Christmas merry is if you could have. What berries are we talking? even like I just think of like it's not like strawberry no like some hard yeah it's like a fruit cake version of berries where there's like shitty and hard and not good like they're gonna be

disgusting yeah like we're not talking like juicy like strawberries or raspberries or yeah that's just an assumption is that it's not fresh in any way it's somehow hard and gross there's no juice of any kind like it's not even going to be a berry you even are familiar with eating no yeah it's like something that I don't even know if this is a real berry or not like it's Is it just made to look like a berry? This is garbage. Yeah. And does it go with nuts?

Because I don't think berries and nuts go together. Well, those are horses scenes. Yeah. I don't know if we have enough time for a training update again. Might not. We might have just saved that for. Just taking care of all of it. God, you know what?

We actually, I've had cable towers on the list since September. And we inadvertently got it taken care of today. Oh, that's it. Mark it off the list. It's done. Mark it off the list. Ah, yeah. There we go.

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And it's, the other thing... There's an endless amount of equipment in there. It's a really interesting mix of like really premium stuff, you know, from like Rogue and things like that to just like budget things where it's like, nope, I don't use this. Some of like the most budget stuff that he bought off. Not using this a ton so I don't need it to be super expensive. Right. And that should be a cool gym tour. And that's been a while now at this point.

So I'd be excited to watch that stuff. I'm like, oh, I just, this would be like new like these old ones that we recorded a long time ago. It's almost like a new experience for us. Yeah. So do make sure you're. and also leave a comment on any of the YouTube videos, like including this one. If you're watching this right now,

drop us a comment and let us know your Mount Rushmore of anything. Like your Mount Rushmore of insert anything, and we'd be happy to hear it. What was your favorite piece of equipment you added in 2025? What was your favorite Masonomics video in 2025? I'd love to know both of those. Yes, anything like that.

We'd love to have in a comment on this video, and YouTube. And the beauty of it is, it's your gym, it's your opinion. You can't have a wrong answer. You don't have to put the disclaimer on the front of it. You can just say what you want. I still prefer if people put the disclaimer.

Okay. So you can put the in my incorrect opinion disclaimer on if you want. You don't have to, but you can. We'll allow it. I know it's a bit, but I do really feel a lot better about it. If someone disagrees with us, but at first say, right, in my incorrect opinion,

I'm like, you know what? I agree, you are wrong, so I'll, I'll entertain this now. I really like the idea of someone coming just, you know, in good faith coming to our YouTube page and arriving at a video on accident and reading through the comments and just seeing all these comments of, in my incorrect opinion, this and this. And people have to think like, wow, this is just the most cordial comment section I've ever seen in my life. Everyone is just so just trying to disarm the situation here. I really like that formula.

I want that to just stay a thing or anyone that comments, anything that disagrees with us at all or even could potentially disagree with our opinion, they say in my incorrect opinion, insert comment. Just really makes everyone put the guard down, you know,

it makes it feel like a safe space. Yeah, what is, what's the thing you say, people say before they say something, oh, with all due respect? Yeah. It's actually the opposite of playing with all due respect. It's because you put with all due respect.

respect and then you know like it's not respectful. Yeah, you know, we're just to just the most heinous thing ever. Right. Is it the opposite of that? It kind of is because it instead of, you know, with all due respect, you're about to typically put an insult on the person where this one, in my incorrect opinion, you're just putting the, putting the negative energy on yourself right away. You know, you're putting yourself down from the start.

Right. So it is literally the opposite of with all due respect. Yeah. in my incorrect opinion. Yeah. Now they don't teach that one in school. No. We used to be a proper friggin' country where they did.

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Do you know who said that? Country guy. I don't know what. Big and rich. Okay. Yes. Big and rich, two-part, two-piece band. Two-piece ensemble.

Mr. Big and Mr. Rich. Yes. How could I forget? Save a horse ride a cowboy, am I right? Yeah. Who said that? Right? Is that also them?

I don't know. What was the first thing I just said? Maybe what was I confused? What was the first thing? Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses? Yeah. That's maybe not big and rich. I was getting confused.

Save a horse ride a cowboy. That is big and rich. Whiskey. What did I say? Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses. And beer for my horses. Beer for my horses. Song by Toby Keith.

Oh yeah. For some reason, I was muddling the two things. Yeah. You know, sometimes people, but we'll say, yeah, it all sounds the same to me. Yeah.

See, all these horse things, it's really a horse apiece about it. I can't even discern. I, of course know that's a Toby Key song, but you get all this horse stuff going around. It's horse talk. Well, and then you're podcasting, so you're trying to ride multiple horses, and here we are with just only one ass. Yep. Yep.

And then all of a sudden you start talking in hands and furloughs or whatever distances that are just related to horses only and you don't even know anymore. I feel like we have to get up. off our high horse sometimes and think about it from every man perspective. We get up here on our high horse as the host of the show. Oh, furlong, not furlough, furlong, furlong, furlong. That's a measurement of a horse or?

No, it's like a distance. I feel like that's what they use in like horse track racing, isn't it? Yeah. I'm pretty sure I saw that on C-biscuit. It was like, oh, a full furlong behind them. Yeah, furlong, a standard unit of distance used in horse racing. because, I mean, the English system The standard system

will do anything to avoid the metric system. One furlong is equal to an eighth of a mile or 220 yards or 660 feet or approximately 201.17 meters. Americans will literally do anything to avoid using the metric. Yes.

The old horse race, that's six furlongs. Or the Kentucky Derby, which is 10 furlongs. Obviously. Do you think they measure things in horse stall mats? I wonder how many horse stall mats in a furlong. Well, 660 feet. Tell me about 100. 10.

Yeah, about 110. Pretty clean measurement. Putting them lengthwise. Pretty clean conversion. How many horse stall mats would that be stacked on top of each? other three quarters of an inch at a time. A lot. How are stall mats would it take to pile to the moon and back?

Yeah. Like that's what people always. Like a thousand furlongs worth of them. Americans literally will do anything to avoid using the metric system. Should we wrap this one up? Yeah, let's do it. All right. Tommy, where do they find?

Oh, you can also buy stuff from us. We resocked. Tommy's wearing it. The bench heavy tea is back in stock, the black one that is on a comfort colors blank. Looks awesome. I don't even have that one. I might have to take one out of this run because it's just calling my name. That one looks real cool.

I really like that. Lou print on that black tea looks really cool. It pops. I like to see a horse say something bad about that shirt. Where do they find you at, Tommy? You can find me at Tomahawk underscore D. You can follow me at Tanner underscore Baird. We've got like five of these hats left.

Oh, if you want one too. You'll get one of those. Not a horse, but a goose. Yeah, it's a goose. It's a goose apiece. And make sure to follow Massonomics at Massanomics. See you.