Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 512: Gym Equipment Prices On The Rise?

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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

If you don't follow Massanomics, you all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massonomics. What's up, everyone? We're here for Season 2, Episode 12, Massanomics Podcast, Lifting Podcast, about nothing. My name is Tanner. My name is Tommy.

And could we do the whole episode like that? It's like leading people on. We are podcasting. Get used to it. It's going to be crazy. This is season two, episode 12, lifting podcast about nothing. And this episode is sponsored by, I shortened that up by about three or four.

I was waiting. Yeah. I was going to go. Cut that and shorten it up this time. I think it's going to be safe. It should be safe in the sense that all of ours are safe unless Toby Keith, rest in power has some special. Might.

We're going to find out. I'm also only going to hit it once this time. That's also the safer movie. I do it back to back. Passes muster. We get about three seconds of Toby Keith in parity. I think, I mean, even if they don't like it, it should be fine.

I think that's a fair use of it. Oh, fair use doesn't exist anymore. That's not. That's true. That's no fair. Not acceptable. I'll show you guys fair.

Yeah, Texas Power bars. I love this bar. Tommy, did you happen to see Texas Power Bar's last email that went out? Was it just today? Yeah. Oh,

I'm checking my email right now. Yeah, I forwarded it to you. You're not going to do any better than a Texas. Yep, I got it right here. I haven't checked my email that tonight. Who said that? Evan in our gym.

Oh, yeah. They even got us quoted. Oh, yeah. They got the whole thing. Wow, okay. Yeah. Oh, you're just catching me off guard here. Yeah, it's Evan Centipani.

You're not going to do any better than a Texas Power Bar, quoted by Evan Centipani from Massanomics Gym Tour. Which, that's exactly how that marketing should be done right there. Like that's, yeah, it's like, oh, yeah, you got Evan right there. Oh, hell yeah, check out his home gym. Yes, please. Oh, here's it. Oh, yeah.

Good job, Texas Power Bar Bar Barbar's. Yep. So you can actually click through to watch the gym tour. with Evan with our watch our gym tour there with uh big Evan which I thought that that was kind of cool spend a thousand bucks plus on a bar but I'll be honest with you for a Texas power bar you're not going to do better I love they got the full quote in there yep that's what he said on the gym tour with us isn't it yep yep they got the yeah they got the full quote in there yeah I mean just to reiterate whatever what Evan said uh what else did he say I'm a Texas guy through and through

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Obviously. With your ears. The Masonomics, most recent drop has dropped at the time that this recording goes live. If you listen to Long Live, you know that that's actually coming up in about 36 hours or so, give or take. The drop's going to come. And a couple things got restock. Two of our more popular flags out of 2025 was the Home Gym Nerd flag and the Silly Goose Barbell Club flag. Both of those right-sized for your home gym walls.

Both of those are back in stock. We got a bunch of them this time so that they don't run out immediately like they have been in the prior drops. And then we have two new T's that came out in this one, right? Have you tried on any of the new T's? Nope, it's on my hopefully tomorrow list or for sure my Thursday morning list.

Should we show one of them off here? I can, yeah, I got one here. What do you got? What do you got? Wait a minute. Oh, yeah, I do. What should I show it over there? I don't know.

Do we have to show both or just one or what do we do? We can show both at this point. These people are all pretty dedicated in here. Yeah, because we're talking about our Massonomics podcast live listeners. They're getting an early sneak look at what's going on here. But we know that we just keep that amongst friends here. It's private information. So first I'm actually-

They all sign some NDAs. I'm really excited to actually get to wear this one. We have, we're writing off the success of the Massonomics long sleeve. We have added one more. long sleeve to the lineup and that is the long sleeve Jim Skull T on what color is this pepper? Is that what this is called?

Yeah, pepper pepper pepper. Is this the same color that the raw power is on maybe? Or not? Am I mixing those out? I think that's graphite. Okay. I can't. Oh, it's all the same to me. But anyways we got the long sleeve Jim Sculte. It looks great on a long sleeve. It's kind of this sort of faded black and should be an all-time classic for everyone out there.

And that is on the same blank that we did that one that was blue spruce green, the long sleeve masonomics tea that we came out with like for Black Friday or whatever that was. That is on the same blank. It's a comfort colors blank. Yep. And then another restock in a new color because we can't keep it in stock is the lifting department in. What's this one called, Tanner? That is called.

Is that correct? I think that that's sandstone. It's like a khaki-ish color. Lifting department-te, white imprint on it, I guess for the audio listeners. That's what we got. And yeah, another absolute classic here. So we wanted to go completely unique in this drop.

And so we went with the Jim Skull logo and the Massanomics lifting department logo. Actually, we were out of absolutely. Yeah, here's the thing. They're totally out of stock. There are some of our. best-selling teas and it just got to have your best-selling teas in stock. So bring them back in another color. Yeah.

So first time. And that sandstone one is the comfort colors, you know, same blank that we've been using for several of the t-shirts. Same blank on Tommy's wearing in the bolt tea. Same one I'm wearing on this Jim Scull tea. So which one of those two do you like better? I mean, the long sleeve is still so new. fresh that it's hard to not be excited for the long sleeve. But you can't wear a long sleeve all year either. So it's hard. You know, you could say a horse apiece maybe. Yeah, six of one, half a horse of the other.

So that is the new drop. If there's anything left, we try to keep the lifting department and Jim Skull items in stock, but we haven't been able to successfully do that very well lately. Maybe they didn't all sell out to the day that they dropped and you could actually get your hands on some of those. or maybe not. There's just such a lonely number of the goose hat left over here. I can't believe, like, the first, like, hundred of these sold really fast in the last five just are hanging out. So, well, this tomorrow, our Thursday could be the day. You know, people get on the side of the side.

That'll try buying. That probably will be the day. Yeah. Okay. I got, I got a question for you, Tanner. Well, I noticed that. I got answers. I noticed that.

you make a meme about a leg press can really get people fired up on the internet. Just so I think everyone's matured and grown up as a person, you make a leg press meme and it shows that no, no, people still just get angry. That one got people going. People take the bait. I wondered what you put in there about leg press, what you were going to have to say about the leg press. Yeah, that one got people fired up.

Oh, and so you got to give the backstory here. That was actually a quote from Big Cody in the disc. He had wrote that comment in Discord probably a couple weeks ago at this point. Oh, is that long ago? Yeah, and I kind of, I just, it was maybe a week before I used it. I had just pinned it as like, you know what I think that's funny. So people know what we're. The, the comment he had left in Discord is,

and this was around a larger conversation. I can't even remember what it was, but it made me chuckle when I read it. So I'm like, well, I think a lot of people would chuckle of this. And he said, if you ask someone how much they leg press and they say a number, they're not strong. Right. And if you ask someone how much they leg press and they reply with 500 pounds

and they say 500 pounds. If they definitively have some sort of number to tell you, they're probably not strong. And like that's a fair general rule. Maybe people don't get, I mean, there's, it's, the reason behind this is, okay, first of all, every leg press is different. So like the number already doesn't really mean anything

because the numbers carry over. And also, you can just load up a leg press. press with so much weight that the number doesn't matter anyways. You know, you're just throwing plates on is the thing. Yes. Yes. And so people got very fired up about it. Yes. And I always like the response, sir, this is a meme page.

I didn't say that, but usually someone always responds to that eventually. It was like, sir, this is a meme page. It's such the perfect response to that because just thinking, why are you taking this so seriously. And even people that are allegedly strong, it's like, okay, if you're actually strong, though, wouldn't you just be more proud of lifts that you're actually strong in and not having to defend your leg press weight, you know? Well, and everyone wants to say, well, Ronnie Coleman. And I'm like, I commented even there on one or twice. I'm like, ah, it's important to be able to recognize when exceptional people are the exception to the rule. Like Ronnie Coleman, the greatest

bodybuilder and possibly most, one of the most on the Mount Rushmore of iconic gym figures and all of history. Yeah, if you're talking about like basketball, you're like, but Michael Jordan did this or boxing. You're like, but Mike Tyson did this or, you know, it's just like, okay, yes, yes, you're talking about the best of the absolute best. Yeah, like, yep, I get it.

The rules don't apply to them. Yes. Just to define the joke a little bit more, the idea is probably most people that are pretty strong would want to tell you what their squat is before their leg breasts. Like just to spell it out. You know, that's the, That's the crux of it.

But there's so many things, though, like, where once you lift, you realize, like, well, that number isn't important even, you know, like it's, for so many reasons. Like, it's just, even if you're someone, and it's not even saying that doing a leg press is bad. No, like, not at all. Like, not the point of the joke.

A lot of people do. A really valuable lift. Yes. It's, but it's not an accessory. The leg press. Right. It's not like the lift you do that you're,

right. Knowing what your max leg press is a, uh, really fine example of majoring in the minors. Yes. I would almost say. Like that's where you're like, okay, you're, there again, you know, there's people with injuries and things and that, you know,

people always have caveats like, oh, but what about me? And I'm like, oh, yeah, there might be people that are exceptions to the rule, but there again, that's exceptions to the rule. Yeah. It's funny because so many people can broadly relate to that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So that was a good one, though. Yeah. None of those comments fired me up, though, whatsoever. Oh, no, they're hilarious. Like, none of us personal or anything. It is the one we're just looking at you're like, you just realize everyone's taking the bait on this. It's the people that don't get it are exposing themselves 100%.

Yes. Okay. Oh, I'm just thinking here. We should mention our crew gift again. We teased it last week for the first time. And are we thinking that the plan for that still is roughly, it's spring. 2026, I would say, right? Yeah, hopefully in the next six months,

if everything goes according to the one. It should be before that. This one doesn't have as many moving parts as are, like, the last one. So I do think this one won't get to, like, even if this gets delayed, it would be on a short delay, because we can easily. We're also not right

in the middle of hosting a power lifting meet and, right, like 10 other things. So, yeah, this is much easier to execute on. So it will be a quicker turnaround time. So if you are waiting, do get signed up. Don't wait,

don't wait quite so long on this one. Yeah, and just spell that out very specifically for anyone listening that may be relatively new and doesn't understand. Everyone that's a supporting member of the Massonomics,

of, I was going to say the Massonomics podcast, it's really just of Massanomics. You're a supporting member. We send out once or twice or maybe even we've done it three times before. We send out gifts through the, via the mail to everyone that's a supporting member each year.

And we've got one coming up, hopefully in April-ish, give or take. We haven't set the, there will be a line in the sand also. For anyone that's not familiar, there'll be a hard line in the sand where if you joined up prior to that, you're going to get the gift. If you join up after it, which we do not want to see happen. We want you to get this gift. Like, it is our mission statement at Massonomics HQ that says, we want everyone to be joined up before the line in the sand so they get this gift.

We're not trying to, what's that called when you don't let people in? Gatekeep. We're not trying to gate keep the crew gift. We want to open. We're standing in front of the gate waving everyone in. Yeah. That's the gatekeepers. We're doing.

Come on in. We got a crew gift for you guys. Get in here. The line in the sand isn't there yet. You can still get over it. So if you get in before that, which i.e. now. sign up right now you're going to get in on the crew gift it's going to be a funny one and it's probably going to be a little piece of i'd say it's going to be a little piece of massonomics lore one of

those things that will continue to show up in different forms for years i would say until the end of time yes forever it cannot be created or destroyed except for created when we create it and like if you destroyed it and yeah yeah besides that though That's it. Yeah. So that's the crew, is that, does that make the crew gift clear as mud?

I think so for the time being. That's, that's enough details. Okay. Does, I think that feels, what do you, what are you crispy cracking something over there?

Just getting so thirsty over here. What is that? Hmm. I can smell it through the phone. It's a pampal moose to La Croy. Yep. Got that right. Whoa,

what's on that butterflies on that LaCroy can? Yes. I don't like butterflies. on my La Croy can, but we used to be a proper country. This is a interesting little flavor. This is a cherry lime. Actually, you said we used to be a proper country reminded me. I really liked a...

We used to be a proper free country. Yes. Did you read that thing that Bryce sent us about like, we drank from the hose Pepsi, proper country, because we drank from the hose. And we turned out fine and we drank any sense. But somehow it still made perfect sense. It sounded like a Masonomics podcast episode joke of us doing that.

I'm like, I swear I have never been influenced by that before, but it literally sounds like the schick we do on the podcast. It does. But it also came off like someone told an AI thing to make something, but it had no context of it's like if you just tell it, like talk about how we used to be a proper country and drink with the hose and drink.

Pepsi and didn't wash our hands and then just garbled those words. We drank full strength Pepsi and we drank from the hose and we didn't wear bike helmets when we drank from the hose.

And our cans didn't have butterflies on it because we just drank out of the hose. Why is drinking out of the hose a sign that we used to be a proper country? My kids don't do that anymore or less than I did. I don't think.

I certainly. drank out of the hose. Because we don't have hoses anymore. Everyone's got an irrigation system. There's no hoses left. We have just as many hoses at my house. I get in the hoses out, spraying that thing. Yeah, it's all.

I feel like no hose culture has changed in the last 40 years. Correct or not? Drop a comment. If you think anything's changed with the way we use hoses, garden hoses. I don't know. I don't know with that attitude. Maybe nothing's changed, but it does make some of us.

We used to really. drink from the hose. Like, I literally only would drink from the hose. It's all the time. Like, you know, it'd just be on a 110 degree day that water's just baking in the hose and you turn it on and it comes out and it's boiling hot. You don't even let it run through. I don't let the cold summer run because we don't waste water here.

Even better, you put it away for the winter, half full. It all kind of freezes and get shitty and probably moldy. You put it back in the spring. It gets out. You drink out of the hose right away before any of that water has a chance to get flushed through. Yeah, that's like the, like we drank moldy water out of the hose. We drank aged water. And we're all the better for it too.

Winter aged water straight from the hose. We drank our water through 50 feet of rubber hose just the way God intended it to be done. Yeah, that somehow is covered in shit too. Because it's dirty. Both ways through the hose. We drank both. shit we pissed through a hose fluids came in through a hose

and they went out through a hose just the way we used to be like when we were a proper freaking country I'd shit through a hose if it was runny enough get shit through a hose hoses are just the key to being a proper country it's all hose related systems of hoses we used to have more hoses

yeah we didn't have all these pipes no hoses around. Our pipes were made out of lead and our water came from Moses. There was something about letters going out in Aberdeen. I'm not privy to it about you know, some people's pipes having lead in them that come from the curb or something like that.

We didn't even get one. I just see it on the Ransson Raves. I don't even think, but people, I don't even myself follow that, but I just like see it. Viral at a local level of the complaint of the community complaint at any given time. Yes. And I'm just kind of like, okay. You know, like what are is anybody doing to do anything different?

Like the damage is probably done. Let me tell you here, the city's not going to replace all those lead lines for you. Right. We used to be a proper country where we didn't friggin' worry about. lead. No. We put in our gasoline, our paint, our pipes. It all went through a hose.

Probably our hoses, too. Yeah, hoses. We need more hoses, don't we? Real deficiency. Okay, I've got some, I've got some, we talked about it before, and I was thinking, yeah, I think I do have some equipment companies,

new gym equipment company coming. Hmm. Can't even hardly say it. I'm still just thinking about all those hoses. Hoses on my mind. I would say, though, on a hot summer day, cold water out of a garden hose, especially when you're a kid,

man, would that be tasty? Just hits different. Especially when you're a kid and you probably haven't drank water in like hours, because you don't care. You're not worried about hot or bottles. It exists when we were. kid you just be okay speaking to use to be a proper country we've talked about it before but the water bottle culture is insane it is out of hand like stop it so my boys say kindergarten you know and they

say okay make sure you pack their water bottle for them every day everywhere they go yeah every at all times a constant access to water everywhere i don't think i actually had a water growing up like ever like ever we don't send a kid to any place ever without a water bottle. No, they always got to have one. And what's funny is, I told my boy, I'm like,

yeah, when I was a little boy, we didn't have water bottles. What? Like, even in kindergarten, he thinks that that concept is so funny. But I guess the flip side of it is,

I don't know. I don't also see, like when we were kids, it was, all right, water break. Like you'd run over to the water fountain. You'd line up.

Right. I don't think they'd get that time anymore. I don't think that's the thing they do. I don't know. I don't know. They shouldn't need to. Everyone has a freaking water bottle attached to their hands. It's been switched over to the personal issue.

Water fountains are a terrible delivery system for water, though, too. Like when you try, if you were like really thirsty and you want a lot of water. Oh, God. It takes so long to get it out of a water fountain. You know, what's the worst is if you're at a practice, you know, I'm say football or basketball or whatever you did. You know, this feeling. It's time to get a water break and you're in line and you're behind the person. You're so thirsty.

Wait, though. Someone's just sucking on that thing. Like, how was your guys for football? How was your water delivery system? Was it the hose with the PVC? Yeah, if people did play football,

they might not know the system. But it's a hose hooks up to usually a homemade device that, it's like a PVC pipe that's about three feet in the air with a bunch of holes in it. They turn it on and it just shoots out and you just go get in the, the trough line. Because we like drinking from a good hose. Also, football is a, like this is what makes it so good, but it's like a filthy, disgusting sport where you just spit on yourself, like people are puking all over the place

all the time at practice at the beginning of the year. Like you're rolling around in dirt constantly. Nobody hygiene gone. Like you put on football pads. The football pads don't get washed. The rules are out the window. You're sweating them nonstop. You know, that's just.

And they just get. passed on from year to year of people sweating in them and just doing disgust it. It's not even possible to wash shoulder pads, is it? You have to take them to the dry cleaner, maybe. Well, no one's doing that. I'm just making that up. The helmet doesn't get washed. Maybe nowadays they have sprays they put in them, but that wasn't a thing when we were young.

No, but football is, I mean, it's part of the charm of football, honestly, is, yeah, someone, Keith posted a picture of the, yeah, that looks like a very nice one. That looks like the Cadillac of football watering fountains. Also, do you ever remember being around kids that would put touch their, do you ever see a kid touch their mouth and like literally put their mouth on the water fountain? It's disgusting thing ever. Not the football one, but like the water fountain at the school or whatever. Yeah, people would get way too close to it. Then you'd be like, oh, I got to go after that guy now.

You've been sucking on that thing. Yeah. Literally, we're sucking it out of there. Yeah, it's the joke from it. Do you ever watch Parks and Rec? I have, but I don't know if I know the episode. They had to make, like, I might get this wrong because it's been so long. Aren't they, is it Pawnee, Indiana they're in?

And they have to make a public service announcement for the city because everyone in the city thinks the proper way is your kind of a water fountain is to completely cover your mouth over the thing. It's so stupid. They're definitely out. You would get behind kids that would. like put their mouth up to the touch their mouth onto the thing though oh yeah well the worst was though when you got the ones with no pressure and it's just like

dribbling those are the worst what do I do here there is nothing worse than we're like oh I'm so thirsty thankfully a water fountain and then you turn it on and it goes like just barely is like just wrinkling over the edge yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah do you ever drink out of the lion's head at Storybookland? No. I know exactly what you're talking about, but I never, I just picture that thing having really low water pressure. I don't know why. Lowest water pressure. It is terrible. That's what made me remind me of it is the classic terrible water pressure. But my point, the water bottle thing is completely out of control.

Yes. Yes, it is. Can we all, like, I'm not saying it's going to, I'm not even saying it should change. I just want everyone to acknowledge it's completely out of control. Okay. You know what this just reminded me of actually? And we always forgot to talk about this. And it was very popular in the Discord for a little bit. Is speaking of things that are just maybe a trend or out of control is I remember people talking extensively about women walking with weight vests on. Oh, yeah.

And I don't think we ever talked all the time. Did we? Maybe we didn't. I don't know. maybe we never did talk about it on the podcast. Someone tell us, did, do we ever talk about that on the podcast? I don't think we did.

That, uh, we might not have. Yes, every, oh, we don't. Oh, it says we did. Damn it. Oh, we did. Okay.

Well, okay. Never mind then. All right. I thought we never talked about it. But yeah, it's a big trend of 2025. That's the home gym trend of 20, that's the popular,

the gen pop, the home gym trend of 2020. Yes. It was a weighted vest. Okay. Well, Big J.B. He said, not only did we talk about it, we talked about it extensively. That sounds all right.

Yeah. Okay. Move along. Yeah. Should we do? Well, I never talked about the new equipment I have on the way, though. Oh, that's why we started this. Should I come back to that?

That could be a teaser we could do after the title topic. Okay. I like that. Yes. Equipment talk on the way later this episode. Yeah. Okay. But first, how about some supporting our supporting members?

How about it? All right, this is a relatively new segment of the Massonomics podcast. It's only now the 12th time appearing here in season two of the podcast. So still kind of getting our feet underneath of us on how this segment really works. But I'm thinking the general idea is we have these supporting members that choose to support Massonomics monetarily and in a number of ways, especially monetarily. through our supporting membership program at masanomics.com slash join.

You can join also. You get a whole bunch of things. You can get in on our Discord. It's the only way you get in our exclusive Masonomics Discord. It's the only way you can listen to the show live. It's the only way you can listen to the pre-show, the Massanomics pre-show before every episode,

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year. So he was the A league winner. The B league winner also got a prize. That was Big Cody. We haven't seen that that's hit yet, so we'll wait to follow up later on what Big Cody's winning was for winning the Toilet Bowl League of the Fantasy Football Massanomics Division. Big Bubbs started a podcast with a couple of buddies about retro gaming,

and it's called Cart Creeps. Nice. Yeah, Cart Creeps. Big Sam accidentally put a drink spotter on the side of his car and drove all the way to working back without knowing it was there. That's pretty cool. It was a drink spotter ex-all. Yeah. There was a SoCal meetup.

It was big Alex West, big Andrew, big Gary, and big mofo. They got together for presumably some of either lifting or drinking, maybe both, maybe combination. Sounds like a good time. Yeah. Big Michael was awarded his professional engineers license. Oh, just engineer anything now. Yeah.

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to this week's supporting members that we supported. Okay. I've been clicking around here. Been looking at a certified training facility of the week. Yes. I have been looking. Several good ones have jumped out at me, but I think we're going to take,

this one's pretty clean. I think we're going to take a look at this one. We're going to go to, what am I at here? We're going to go to a little place called North Carolina. We've been there, haven't we? We have been there. We've been all over that damn state. All up and down them, Carolinas.

And right outside of Jacksonville, towards the coast, east side of the state. Yep. A little place called Squirrel's Gym. Squirrel's Jim, found it. You seen this? Have you heard about this? Oh, boy. That looks like quite the place.

You ready to dive right into this thing? Let's do it. All right. We are in a garage. How many pictures we were working with, too? We got four photos, four photos. We're in a garage. We'll cover the basics here.

We're in a garage. We got horse stall mats and we got equipment. And it looks like we're sticking with a little bit of a rep theme from what I can see in this first photo. And I'm not sure what rep calls their green color, their OD green. But we don't see a ton of racks in that color, do you? No, I like it, though. I do too. It's almost like a moss green.

Yeah, Rogue only does like a lime green, don't they? I don't think they do this kind of more military. I'm surprised they don't do this color. Yeah, but you know what I'm talking about? They do that bright lime green. Yeah. This color, you don't see very much of this one. And I think it looks pretty dang good, actually.

And so you got the rack. So we got a six post rack with the, ah, I can never keep reps naming scheme straight of, if it's the Aries or a theme. But anyways, it's their functional trainer with twin stacks in the back. So this really is a rack that looks like it can do it all. And they got a great setup here. They got the bench to match, I think, from this view, I can't tell because I can only see the top of the bench.

I don't know. It kind of looks like the AB50,200 with the same green frame. They got some wall control on the back wall. We got the Masonomic certified training facility banner hanging proudly. we got a Muhammad Ali and a Mike Tyson banner. So I don't know, maybe a little bit of a boxing fan here, perhaps. And then I wouldn't want to get in the ring with this guy.

No, no, you wouldn't. And then we got a gun rack on the wall. We got the rep SSB. We got the rep open trap bar down there. There's also some toaster storage for plates on the floor. All this toast talk is making me hungry. Yeah. If we look at photo number two.

Oh, we got the, are those the snowed or true lab? I always forgot to like mix. I kind of, it's the one where you rotate the handle and it goes a few pounds at a time. Got those color way. Yeah, and the matching green, which looks great, really consistent with the color. We got a little pupper in the foreground here too. And, oh, do we got a Smith machine in the, yeah, we got a Smith machine in the rack, but it's not the rep one. How do you know?

Because I think the rep one. Bell's a Steel or something? That's what I'm wondering. I think the rep one, the, what do you call it, the ladder or the hooks, I think they're a little different styling, I believe.

Okay. I believe. I could be wrong, but I think that's the case. Got a drink spotter, photo three, got a drink spotter XL on the rack. I love to see that.

And photo four, last photo, we got a, what's that? What kind of runner is that? Is that a true form? Or is that? Was that, uh, oh, it's an assault run, assault runner.

Oh, saw it's right on the side. Yeah. We got an assault runner and a concept two rower. And, yeah, that's the gym. And another dog. Another pup. And he's got a, he's got a big gate in the garage so that his dog stay in there. I think with the door open.

Keep the dogs in. Who let the dogs out? Is that the plan? Do you think there? What's that? I would assume, yeah, that's what that's for. It seems like it. Yeah.

Um, yeah, it's a really tidy, cohesive, uh, efficient, Jim. I'm just, I only think in terms of YouTube titles of gyms now. So, compact. I only, my brain only works in YouTube SEO titling optimization. Uh, what do you think, actually not what, but do you think you could get strong in this gym? hell yeah getting strong with big kyle in squirrels jim as you were rattling off all that stuff i couldn't help but think about this also massanomics dot com slash affiliates we're racking them up like the affinity stone infinity infinity infinity infinity is it infinity infinity infinity like the car kind of yeah yes he's

The Avengers, they just love the Infinity Carbara. They just love an upscale Nissan. That's what the whole, that's what they were all fighting for. Collect the Audi Stones. The affiliates, though, I don't know if we mentioned a single thing we don't have an affiliate for at this point. Rep Fitness, check it out. So when I say this, you can go to Massanomics.com slash affiliates. If you're buying any new equipment, if you do it through our affiliate link, it costs you no more.

A lot of them we even have discount codes for. So it could cost you less. But we get a little percentage of that sale from the company that they're. Actually, you know what? It does cost you. It's just that the companies have already built that into the cost of their goods, whether you use it or not. So you might as well use it and the company will pay us a little bit. But to be fair, it does cost the customer, right?

because it's like the same way free shipping isn't actually free. Right. You know, it's just a numbers game at the end of the day. Correct. So it doesn't cost you anymore than it's already going to cost you if you click our affiliate link. But rep fitness affiliate link, check. Concept 2, affiliate, check. Wall control, affiliate now.

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affiliate in her affiliate arsenal possibly what's the most important infinity zone like is there one in the center i don't know i have something like that movies i'm out of the loop so you have not seen it literally seen none of them any of the avengers has tommy seen it uh i mean i've seen no no no not really no no uh well if what's the best infinity car Like what would be the best infinity car you could buy? Well, in the, uh, let's see, the late aughts, the early teens, the freaking G70. I think it's the G70. That was pretty ripping for a while.

He knows the infinity version of the Nissan Z. Okay. Oh, nice. So is he even nicer than the Nissan Z then? Oh, yeah. It had a backseat, actually. Oh, you could, you know, you could technically. What, sorry, G30.

They change it to Q. Q, G30. There you go. G30 infinity. That is where it's at. What, what's the, did they have a, so what's the 350 Z?

That's just the, is that a Z or is that just a different, just a specific model of the Z? Oh, G35, God, not G30, G35, G35 and G37 or the, or the infinity versions of the Nissan Z. So yeah, the 350 and the, was it the 350 and the 450? I'm not huge in my Nissan infinity.

Yeah, 350 Z. And then they had a three, yeah, 370s. and now they just have just the Z. Okay. So the three, no, that's Nissan. So the, what is it, G35? Is that what I mean? Because you take the zero off instead of 350, it's a 35.

Okay. Instead of the 370, it's a 37. Right. Okay. Sure. I get it. The G35 version of our newest affiliate, like, do you know, you don't, you probably don't know what it is.

I can't keep off with it. This gym right here, though, it's whenever you build a pyramid, do you know where you start? The base? The base. You always start at the base. Just like when you build a home gym, you know where you start? I think I know where this is going. The floor.

The base. The floor. Yep. And what's covering his floor here in the squirrels? Horse stall mats. Horse stall mats. We can only assume they're from tractor supply company, our latest affiliate. So if you want to purchase horse stall mat.

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Thank you, BuildFast. Someone's ears must have been ringing while we were recording. They sold one of these goose patch hats. I don't know if someone actually listening when they purchased a goose patch hat. So one less of those is available option. I also see another certified training facility came in.

We're closing in on 500 certified training facilities on our map. First one in China just got certified this week also. That's what when you were talking. I was initially looking in the whole side. Southeast Asia area because I'm like, I know we had more popping up there. I didn't really, unfortunately, none of them have photos. But I did not realize when you go, look, I mean, first of all, nothing in Africa, anything east of, uh, anything east of what Sweden, dead zone all the way until you get all the way across

all of Europe and Asia. And all of a sudden, we got one in Thailand, one in the Philippines and one in China. Yeah. One right outside of Hong Kong. mean, come on, worldwide, baby. And then Southeast Australia has a little hotbed in there, too. Yeah, isn't that where the vast majority of the Australian population is, though, is it? It must be.

Isn't there something on the north? Isn't there a couple cities on like the northern side too or not really at all? Sure, there's maybe something. Well, I don't know if it's anything of size, though, is there? Maybe there's not. Yeah. You're probably not. What do I know about Australia?

Like southeast is, are the, yeah, it's Adelaide, Melbourne, Melbourne, and Sydney. Sydney. Those are kind of the... And Brisbane's a little bit more northern there. I guess I've heard of Perth, but that's the way on the western side. Tune in next week for more Australia updates. But we do have a certified training facility in China now. So that's pretty cool.

Actually, to your point, send us pictures. If you're already a certified training facility, email us pictures of your gym and we'll get them added. maybe I'll end up in certified training facility of the week. Other people will just be able to see your cool stuff. Get your photos added to the map. Okay, should we get into our title topic? Oh, I got to kick all these looky-lose out of here.

Yeah, get rid of these. They've come along for too free, too free of a ride for too long. I just start looking at the map, MassDenomics.com slash certified and I just, the hours can just pass by, you know. Could you also report? all of those individuals. That goes without saying they've been reported. For acts of

sexual deviance. There's a lot of them in here so, wow. We weren't getting the message tonight to just wanted to hear that update on what new equipment I had on the way. Say equipment talk and people just start lingering.

Everyone's just like, well, I could listen to some equipment talk of what equipment these guys have coming. I wouldn't mind finding out, but no, you're going to have to wait. Oh, a very minor equipment update. You know, you asked me if my adder weights would bottom out the stack, you know, depending on what I did. Yeah.

I can position them both in the middle so that they do not bottom out. Okay. So is it close or not? Not even a concern. Well, if I mean, first of all, it would have to be on a movement where I even travel that far, which is almost none of them. But, yeah, I mean, if I was doing a movement like that.

Travel that far. What are you, James Hard? Exactly. But I don't do those movements very often. And then, yeah, if I ever did, I can just fit them both in the middle and not an issue. Okay. All right. Okay.

So are we ready? We're ready. We might not spend a ton of time on this title topic. We had a lot of different things we wanted to talk to on this episode. But we thought it was worthy of beating the title topic of the episode nonetheless. And actually, before we do that, you got to. Oh, that's not our standard title topic intro music, but a little different disturbed vibe this week. This is when our title topics are a little more disturbed.

It's more of an abusive relationship. This is what we're going to get into here. So maybe that is more appropriate. But the title topic, the working title is equipment prices on the rise. That's the sound of your wallet getting hit. That was the intro music there. Question mark. exclamation mark.

Well, I don't even know there's a question mark. I think it is just an exclamation point, but two exclamation points? Yes. Maybe make it a triple even. Why stop there? Exploding head emoji? Yeah. In conventional grammar, is it permissible to use multiple exclamation points?

Like, can you say, is there a use, is there a literal use for two or for three? I'll say this. Is it always just one? In the name of design, you know, occasionally you stylize things. I hate two exclamation points because it just looks like, oh, were you trying to do one and you did two? Like, that's why I hate three. I'm okay. If someone wants extra emphasis and it makes sense, you know, you're doing a poster or something more graphical,

three, I'm cool with three. You can do three. I'll allow that. But two, I'm like, no, two is never the right number. And then. That actually makes sense to me. Yeah, two just straight up looks like a mistake always. And then three is fine because that looks pretty intentional.

And then like four, it's like, well, that's too many. So if you're doing more than four, you just need to do like 10 or 15 now. Like that's always been. Okay, right, right. So the answers, you know, typically if you're unsure, the answer is one. Yes. Maybe there's a use for three. Yeah.

And I'm just speaking stylistically here. Do a ton of them. You know, like one three or 20. Like, that's kind of your options. One three are a number you can't really count. And, you know, when it comes to actual grammar, I don't know, like, Three more than one's probably never the right answer. What about a double punctuation?

You know, you know the question mark exclamation mark punctuation. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What's the correct order there, too, is also. I think kind of depends on actually the, the, the, is it more of a question or more of a Yeah, I think it depends on the context of how you're doing it because I've definitely, I mean, just writing, I don't know, emails or something have, you know, do that. And occasionally, occasionally, I do that in every email I write.

It's just, every email I write is just a mix of pure excitement and questioning of everything I know. So there's, for some reason to me, I, whenever I've done that, I always feel like the question mark comes before the exclamation mark. I think that's typically the right move. I would feel weird for me to put an exclamation mark and then a question mark. I think, okay. So I can just say, I'm excited. Or am I? No, in my mind, I can think of times where I've had clients email me something and they're very confused.

and they do an exclamation point and then do a question mark as in like, what's going on here? But they're more putting the emphasis on the excitement, but it is a question, so they also ended in a question. Right. Which is a funny way to write an email.

Multiple question marks is a really sassy, if it's in conversation. You're like, oh, let me throw you under the bus with these question marks. Like, really? Question marks. Have you seen this? Question mark, question mark, question mark.

Yeah. So what was it again and what with punctuation? Equipment. Oh, wait. The rules or the title topic? The title topic with punctuation. Equipment prices on the rise, question mark, explanation point. I think that's what we're going with.

Okay. So it is something we've noticed, though. Yeah, there's been a lot of chatter online recently. So you could say one of the, uh, I think what brought this to most people's attention was rogue. Anytime rogue does stuff, it typically, you know,

crosses people's radar, you could say. And they had, uh, I'll be the first to admit, I'm not pricing out rogue functional trainers ever. So I'm going to rely on the community on this one. But a lot of people were saying,

it seemed like you were seeing price increases of anywhere between like 10 and 20% on several of their, uh, functional trainer all in one type racks. And what that equates to is anywhere between like one and two thousand-ish dollars. And I think there also was some talk about how some of the things that were included before, attachments, that pull-down bars, things like that were now no longer included. So the deal just got worse is what it is.

And what I think is interesting about this is, you know, last year we had Peter Keller on, CEO of Fringe, PK, PK, as he was. he's known in the community. And he had talked about how, you know, his prediction with tariffs was that, you know, it's going to raise prices on everything. And then once prices, you know, obviously on the import brands. And then once it's raised on the import brands, because prices have gone up, now the domestic brands will also have to increase their prices,

which will then probably just make prices raise more. And we probably had them on not quite a year ago. And for the most part, it's kind of actually sticking to what he said would happen is seems to be taking place. But, yeah, I don't, I think, you know, we go back, there was definitely a period like last summer where it just seemed like the import brands were just changing their prices daily almost.

It was just nonstop. And then things. Like you could be up and it could actually be down sometimes too. We're just always, and I think that was more as a reaction to the policy that was going on, which was also up and down daily. Right. And, yeah, it seemed like things have leveled off a little bit.

But I do, because Rogue is, so big. It does make you wonder that if they are raising the prices, does that turn into a thing of, well, now everyone will start doing that? Or is it just, is it purely going to be on their functional trainers? Because across the board, you didn't see it really across the board with rogue, but you did see it on some of their bigger ticket items. So it does make you wonder, is there more of that coming or is this just a one and done thing? Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. There was also talk about, you know, to talk about Rogue specifically, just thinking, I heard some people complaining about the way that they raise prices.

Maybe that it's like they're not, there's not transparency around it or anything that that just happens overnight. And I don't know. I'm not up in arms about that. I'm kind of of the opinion. That's okay. That's kind of what I don't really think that they owe anyone anything to. It's the same thing when people complain about, oh, you had a sale and it was only 2% off

or you didn't have a sale. And I'm like, but it's their business. I can do what they want. Yeah. I don't have a problem with that. I guess I don't have a problem with the way they do it. Although it is nice if you look at someone like Fringe, Peter's Very plugged into the community

and he'll give you lots of heads up on everything. But I just think that that's uncommon. It's good. And like if you like that, it's the exception to support that company. Yeah, right. That's not the norm, though. That is the exception to how this goes.

And like if you like that, definitely support that too. But I just don't, I don't have a problem with that. I don't think they're doing anything sneaky by doing that really. Yeah, I don't think so either. I mean, they're, you know, charging what they think they can get away with, which is kind of how a lot of this works at the end of the day is. It's how everything works.

If we could sell our shirts for 200 bucks a piece and we'd sell just as many, I think we're selling $200 T-shirts, but we've kind of decided that the number we're at is where we're at. Yeah, right. Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, I guess I'm curious to see how it affects all the other brain. you know, if it does. Also, oh, how do I say this? Maybe this is just my like middle class privilege talking. And I don't even think that doesn't even make sense. So I don't know how to

describe my point of view on this. But I kind of don't care. Even as someone that buys equipment, I kind of don't care because these purchasing decisions that I make on equipment, I want the stuff. If I want it, I want it. And I'm going to do what's necessary. if I've made the decision, you know, the price matters. And I'm going to compare other brands. It may make it so I switch to an alternative choice, which that's also okay. But like if I've decided I value something enough, whether it's 10%, whether it costs 2000 or 2200, at the end of the day with equipment, it's actually not going to change

whether I buy it or not. I'm just talking about me personally. Yeah. Well, especially with this, the rack thing when it's, the rack is just like the piece that You kind of, in a perfect world, it's the thing you're buying and then it's like, it's done. Like, you're just not doing this anymore. You know, and you're never going to wear it out. It's the joke we always say, it's going to outlast you.

Like, it's just your turn with it. Right. Anyone that buying this stuff is going to sell it off before anything actually happens to it. You know, like it will outlive you. So that's also the thing that it is, like, it'd be different if it was, actually can't even think of a good example for Jim's because it all just lasts forever. You know, that is the. Right.

I just think it may, it could possibly make me look harder at other options. I think that's what it does at the end of the day because when that price delta between, like it seemed like when it first started happening the rise in prices, it really hit those import brands. And for a while it started to be like, well, what's the benefit of going with rep or bells of steel or French whoever when they're like almost the same price is rogue? you know, like you could, there was a point in time where you could kind of make that argument on quite a few products. And there definitely are some today still that are that way. But when you start looking at an all in one trainer and you're like, oh, this one from, you know, we've seen this one from Ritfit is like $2,000. And then this one from Rogue is like $8,000. And they have a lot of this.

Like that's where some of the price differences start to get really hard to justify. Yeah. But rogue has built up. brand presence that people want and when you want it, it commands a premium. Yeah. And that's kind of the way I think about it, though, even to myself. And I get it. And I'm like, no, if I really, if they have something I really want and they raise the

price by 10%. And I can make it work. I'm probably still going to buy it. You know, like if it's something I really want. Well, I know. And that also ties into the part of, I know this isn't exactly what it is. But at the end of day, this is kind of a luxury good. No one needs.

No one needs. That's what I kind of look at it like. Right. You know, it's not like, oh, I can't go to work today. I don't have a car. You know, it's not like, you know, it's my groceries. They're half price at this grocery store. Yeah, I'm going there.

You know, it's right. Like no one, as much as I hate to admit it, no one needs a home gym. You know, like it is a luxury at the end of the day. And then whether you decide to stock it out, you know, build out your home gym with used fines or fines from an import company. or fines from a premium made-in-america company. Like it is just all different levels of luxury at the end of the day. And disposable income is what really comes down to. And this is from two guys that love buying gym stuff.

You know, like, be honest with yourself here that none of this is a necessity. And especially when you start going to the higher-end options here. Yeah, I think I heard nice like Mike say it the other day where he said, we don't use the word need around here. I'm like, yeah, that's fair. we don't really use the word need when it comes to gym equipment. What do you need? Well, I don't need any of, like, okay, I do need a few things because that working out is important to be.

I don't need very much of it. I want a lot of it, but I don't need to take care pretty fast. The wants, that's the one that's harder to satisfy. My gym equipment needs went out the door a decade ago. My needs were met years ago. Yeah. Yeah. What is it, is it,

Maslow's hierarchy of means? Yeah. If you make Maslow's hierarchy, okay, maybe this is a, I will reach self-actualization once I get, once I get the nerling on these handles then. Yeah.

Like you need like some safety and a roof over your head. So like you need like a bar and some weights. And then you go up the pyramid here. Yeah. Isn't it the top one self-actualization? Isn't that what it is? So, you know, like, isn't the bottom like the bottom like some sort of housing? I think it's something like that.

Yeah. Okay, here it is. Here it is. Yeah. Physiological needs. Yeah. Breathing, food, water, shelter. Yeah.

Shelter. Yeah. And safety. The next step, safety and security. That'd be health, employment, property, family. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Step three. Love and belonging.

Friendship, family, intimacy, sense of connection. Okay. Yeah, you got the home gym community. People are good there. Yeah. Step four. self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others. I need to be a unique individual.

And then finally, the top of the pyramid, self-actualization, morality, creativity, spontaneity, acceptance, and so on. Wow. I have not looked at that. Most of us are in that stage of our home gym equipment purchasing. Most of us got the base level of a bar and some plates long ago, like a, you know, the chintzy bar and some plates. The peak of that creativity period pyramid is being really pushed to the limits. Yeah, the pyramid's getting really tall at the top. One other note, I just not particularly, I don't know if it's particularly note,

but I thought it's worth mentioning you had mentioned, you know, part of their pricing change was more like almost like shrinkflation kind of where it was this package used to include X, Y, and Z. Now it includes X, Y, and Z costs extra if you want to add it on. Yeah. It's just a different way of the same. Yeah. And some people might say, well, I already have those things.

So actually it's better for, well, I mean, besides the fact that it might cost more and you get less. But, you know, if it meant including those means it still costs even more, you know, maybe that's better for some people because you're not getting stuff that you already had or don't want. But, yeah, at the end of the day, though, I mean, I do feel for people it does suck that prices going up on anything are unfortunate because it can increase the buried entry and, you know, just the cost. And, you know, everything does seem to just be getting more expensive all the time. But I don't know, just have to work a couple extra hours at, where do people work? Where do people work nowadays? Yeah, that's not a little bit of center. Just pump in a few more hours there.

regional agronomy cooperatives. Yes. Finance Department. A few extra hours. Just make up the difference. Menard's morning stocker. Get a Monard's morning stocker job. Gotta go.

They call us it back. You have to work like 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. 5 days a week. That's it. A bunch of old retired people. Some guys haven't made. They go do that and then they can just go like golf or whatever. Not a care in the world.

They got a jumpstart on their day. Absolutely no responsibility, like the most mindless of, if something doesn't work, you just literally don't do it and leave and come back the next day. Glad someone's here to take care of that one. That'd be nice to have that kind of job. Whenever there's a problem, it's like, yeah, that's a problem. It's not my problem. It's a problem for someone.

I don't know. I don't actually deal with problems. All right. I'm wondering if I should, maybe we save my equipment roundup for next episode. Oh, we can do that. That's fine. I got to save something for 513, what do you think? Yeah, that's fine.

Okay. This week's episode, have you worn your new barefoot shoes at all? It's not to buy barefoot. Yes, I did. It's been brutally cold, though. For dog walks, the weather's been pretty crappy around here, so I've only got to wear them a couple times as all. It has, when you say it's been cold, it has been cold.

Did you guys get any snow today? Um, no. Oh, we don't get in probably an inch or two tonight. Oh. No. Um, no, we really don't have any snow. It kind of has like blown snowy looking, but no snow to speak of. But cold is the dickens, though.

Absolutely cold is the dickens. Mm-hmm. You can, they can keep this wherever it came from and we'll take something a little bit warmer again. Oh, I know. Almost through January. Almost. Yeah. Barefoot.

You haven't worn your new Osogen too much yet, though. Three or four times. Yeah. Three or four times. I mean, we've only had them a week. I don't leave the house that much. So that's like quite a bit of shoe wearing for me, actually. Right.

When you go to the garage gym at what point in time and where do you change shoes? So I walk out to the garage gym with no shoes on. I walk out of my socks. Keep the garage floor. And you keep your shoes in the gym. Yeah, I keep my shoes in the garage. Yeah. Yeah.

And I just put them on out there. Would you ever accidentally step in a puddle in your socks, though? I mean, you could accidentally, but I'm very cautious of that. So that'd be a real buzzkill. Yeah, I don't do that. I don't like that. Because if I got like in a big puddle before I would have to go change my socks, I'm not going to go to the whole workout with wet feet.

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the new drop. I had mentioned before, Massonomics is firing on all cylinders. We don't want, I don't want to put words in Tommy's mouth, but I would say we're just barely getting everything done is like what we're doing right now because there's a lot going on, which is great. Yes, we're getting there. There is never a dull moment of Messonomics. There is no. never a time when we don't have like 40 things we could discuss. And it's like, what is the most important to discuss at this point in time? We could just lift the hood and let you guys know all the secrets, but you have to wait for another day.

Soon. Soon. Soon. Underneath this hood. Soon. Soon you will know. You could open up the hood of this infinity G35, man. The stories it would tell.

This G35 infinity could talk. You know what's funny is my friend had an infuriq35. Fendi G37, actually. He bought it probably eight years ago. And he lived out on the West Coast. And I went to go visit him one time, but it was the middle of winter. And he'd keep it away in the winter. So I didn't see it that time.

And then finally I went out again to visit him this past fall. And I was very excited to see his car. But he put it on an auction site. And he literally gave the title. He did the transaction with the guy, bought the car from him. exchanged the title and 30 minutes later he picked me up from the airport. So after eight years of trying to see this car, I missed it by 30 minutes. So never got to actually go inside a G37.

Miss connections. Man, what could have been? Well, there's always next G37. Well, I don't know if you know, those cars get modded pretty heavily. So not a whole lot left. A lot of Paul Walker type. That'd be even being generous for a, what gets happened to a lot of them.

Okay. Tommy, where do they find you at? Tomahawk underscore D. You can follow me at Tanner underscore Bair. Just make sure to follow Massonomics at Massonomics. See you.