Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 513: Equpment Wish List, Getting Too Big and More

Episode Date: February 2, 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 Massonomics, you all do it.

Social media, website, everything. Massonomics. Well, well, well, it seems like to let anyone in here for episode 13, Season 2 of the Massonomics podcast, The Lifting Podcasts about nothing recorded live from the corners of the Dakotas. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy. Episode 513. We made another one.

I'm still thinking at some point in time for sometime in season two, we do the experiment where we each record a solo episode. And we record them on the same week. and then we publish them on subsequent weeks. But so that not either of us gets to listen to the other person's episode. Yeah. So that we record them kind of or roughly the same time. And then it'll go so good. We'll just never record episodes with each other again.

We'll just take turns back to it. It'll be like this week is the Tommy show. We technically just do 26 episodes a year then. But maybe we could make a framework where it's like, okay, it has to be between 40 and 60 minutes. You know, so that it's like a secret. Santa gift where you have to put some guardrails so it's not like you buy me a

$250 present and I get you a 50 cent one. So it has to be between 45 and 60 minutes. Maybe that's the only guardrail. I thought maybe there was more guardrails, but I don't know what it has to include these certain segments or something like that. Yeah, you got to do certified training facility week and you got to do supporting our supporting members of

some kind and you got to do the sponsor. Well, we could. It'd keep things fresh. That's for sure. Yeah, that's an idea here. Maybe we'll do that coming soon and then like, we'll just Just one of them will release the one we can one of them. People can tell us what one they liked more and who's ever has the worst one doesn't get to be on the podcast anymore. It's like a survivor. Only podcast.

Two people. Podcast season two. This week's episode is brought to you by our good friends. God, it seems like we haven't podcasted in a while, doesn't it? Just, I don't know, man. It's like riding a bike. Whether it's been a day or 10 years, I don't even know. It's like riding a horse with a couple of asses.

10 minutes or 10 years, it's all the same to me. You do this long enough, it all starts to be the same, doesn't it? Makes you think we used to be a proper friggin' country where we podcasted back 10 years ago. But this week's episode. We podcasted into a hose. And then we drank our podcast out of a hose. Like when we were a proper damn country and everything came through a hose, whether it really fit or not. And it all tasted like rubber.

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and he's like, Tommy, I'm thinking of doing this thing. It's going to be called the Massonomics. Tommy's like, you know what? I really like it. I can come up with the logo. And then he was walking out of the gym and he's like, wait. Lose the Vah.

Yeah. And you're like, just massonomics. Massonomics. What? Is this guy lost his mind? It has to be the massonomics. here we are. It could have been the massonomics this whole time,

but instead it's just massonomics. And it's stuck. It stuck. This week's episode, 513 is going to be a Q&A episode. We got a whole bunch of questions that got fired us into us over on the Instagram. That's how we take these typically. We do, sometimes we do a call in, call out episode. Sometimes we just take these via the Q&A function on Instagram,

and that's what this week's episode. We got a whole bunch of questions. there's no way we're going to get to all of them. There's too many. So some of these will be pretty rapid fire. Some of them, who knows, could end up being the title topic. Could be the turning point of this business. Got a freaking tickle in my throat over here that I can't shake.

I can hear that. Question from Mad Cow. Has the toilet seat wrecking ball been identified and apprehended? No. Oh, there's a vandal still out there? Still out loose. You're going to have to get DNA samples from everyone in the gym so you can pinpoint this crime next time.

Oh, I'm getting DNA samples all right. I'm going to get them through a hose. Like when we were a proper country. If you could do any exercise with superpowers, what would it be? That's from Big Ryan. Oh. He's not going to make it people.

He's not going to make it. Any exercise with superpowers. Well, wait, is he saying what would the exercise be or what would the superpowers be? It's not clear. It's not clear. It makes it very tough to answer that question. I get my choice on the superpower. I guess I would take super strength.

That would certainly help with the exercise. And then any of the exercises would be all right. I think that's the answer. I don't know if that's the answer you wanted, but that's the answer. I think this one is intended for you. Let's do it. You answer it. I think it'll be more fun if you answer it. This is from Wycoast Jim.

Your top five vintage plates. Okay, well, you got to go York because it's accessible, available, and an all-time classic. You got to do Jackson's because everyone puts them on the pedestal, and they don't do that for no reason. You got to go with the Zoovers because, I mean, you take a look at those. and it's just a game changer. Nothing else like it. I don't know if you would consider this a different plate, but one of my all-time favorites is the York Tall letters

because those letters look so cool and no one else does that style of type on their plates, which is kind of surprising that no one's, as far as I know, no one does a modern take on that. And also, it's restrained, you know, it's cool without being so over the top, which, you know, you can do with that. modern technologies, but it's the restraint of just these tall-ass four letters that look great.

Yes. And then, so that's four, right? I got a little bit four there. God, the fifth one. What would be my fifth favorite? Okay. Not like real super vintage, but I'm going to go with the Ivanko Chrome OMCs. Oh, yeah.

Good choice. I mean, to me, those are maybe not all those have the richest, well, I mean, all those do have a pretty rich history. But there's, there's ones that people could make an argument for from a mayor. more historical standpoint or a better story. But as far as... I'm a big history guy over here. I know.

And I'm a big history guy too, but as far as visually speaking, all of those have some visual impact to me right there. I love it. What did I get wrong? Let's hear it. Nothing. I think that's a good.

I think that's good. Oh, okay. I mean, I think my list would be very similar. I could probably... I think a lot of vintage guys would probably switch out the Yvoncos. I don't think they would maybe... Yeah, I like that choice, though. I think that's good.

What is your favorite lift that you perform on a regular basis? Gets you excited weekly to do. Well, I would guess yours is a squat. It is, but it makes you so much more tired. Like lately, bench is going good enough that I'm like, I'm just excited to go benching because it's just so much easier. I can get the excitement without all the fatigue. Could be a Charlie horse situation over here.

I've never. I've never in my life had a Charlie Horse in my hamstring, and I just got that. I've never in my life, and it wasn't even like a warning. I've also, when I've had Charlie horses, I typically get sort of a warning. Like a little tight. I had no, it just came absolutely out of nowhere. That was insane. Oh my God.

And I was trying to get off. I was trying to get off camera. So it didn't look like I was dying on screen. Charlie Horse on the hamstring is one of the worst spots. And now I've like it is hanging in there like I'm going to be in trouble. which has got me very concerned. You can talk for, I got to like stretch this for a second. Wow.

Yeah, I'll talk about was the, I'll talk about my answer. So your favorite lift that you perform on a regular basis and get you excited weekly to do, it rotates for me. It just always depends on what's going well probably. Most consistently, I would say that that's,

it's either the bench or the deadlift. I could go back and forth. It's hard for me to just pick one. That being said, if squat's going really well for a period of time, it's that one because it's kind of the hardest one for me. So alternatively, I get excited. So I could pick any of those three. That's a wishy-washy answer, but I would say it depends on the period of training that I'm in.

I was listening. Those are all good answers. God, I'm kind of concerned about my well-being over here next hour. I'm excited to lift. I'm just excited not to have a Charlie horse in my answer. I was terrified. I mean, I actually had to have to. deadlift today because my days and I you know what I had to do is I I had to deadlift and then

I hit the hamstring curls really hard because that's what I've been doing lately and then I had to immediately get done with the set and hop in my car and pick up my boy from school and I remember driving to the school which is like just right by my house but just driving there and being like wow I've never had such tight hamstrings getting into my car before yeah yeah maybe that was the problem is they just the signs were there yeah yeah Oh, baby. I don't think we can take an honest shot at this one. We've done too many things similar,

but I'll just read it for the sake of it from Big Matt. What one lift do you guys consider to be the best exhibitor of overall strength? I think we've sliced and diced that too many ways, although he did use the word exhibitor as a slightly different alternative. If we want to really pin down how we would analyze it differently with that word, The exhibitor. What's the exhibitor of overall strength? So if I watch something, what's exhibiting the most overall strength?

I'm like, what are we doing here? I would almost say it's the deadlift. That's because you can just put so much weight. If you're saying an exhibition of just pure weight, well, yeah, the deadlift does that pretty well. So maybe we've totally changed our answer now and it's the deadlift. Yeah. From Big Andy, you only get 10 exercises for the less. the time to build muscle.

What are they? Ten's too many. It's like ten. Give me some limitations here. You're assuming I do more than ten right now? You guys are doing ten? What about if you only get three? Well, to build strength.

Is that what he said? No. To build muscle. Oh, to build muscle. But what most people just say the big three, if you can only do three exercises, If you only got to do three, I think the deadlift and the squad are gimmies.

But do you do them in the exact variation? Well, let's just do this. You can do three. Well, okay, let's do three, but you can't do squat bench or deadlift. That would be the more engaging. And can you do variations of those three? No, you can't do.

You can't do deficit deadlifts. I'll do the dip, which is the squat of the lower body. I'm already coming a couple bases. Okay. Actually, would take the dip because you can do weight of dip, the pull up. I'm just going to go completely different than conventional. I'm going dip and pull up.

And then because I can't squat, like I can use any machine at my disposal. Well, now I'm second guessing my, because like, okay, you can't bench. So does that mean, ah, this is an interesting thought experiment because, okay, are we actually just taking a bench out of it completely?

Like no bench is allowed in any way. Or you can say I'll do dumbbell bench or whatever. Right. Or incline bench. But it just feels like that's cheating. the system too much because it's too similar. I'll just, for the sake of completion, I'll say dip, pull up, and what do I do for my legs? Like, I really want it to be a squat variation.

And I just, I'll do, like, I'll do lunges. Lunges is a good one. Lunge is good. I don't even really like any of those. I actually kind of like all of those a little bit. None of them are my favorite things. I'm just trying to think outside the box of the conventional three. Yeah, lunges are good.

I mean, those are actually all three pretty good. You know, if you wanted to add a barbell one in there somewhere, you could say like overhead press because that's not a bench. Yeah. That'd be a pretty good one. But outside of that, I would, I would, I could go with your list. Okay. Oh, this one to effectively answer would take some deeper thought, I think,

but off the cuff from big Tammy Schneider to the stapler, What are, what is the Mount Rushmore of crew member nicknames? Oh, I think the stapler might be one of them. The staplers up there. Probably the hardest I've ever laughed on the podcast. Yeah. Stapler is one. I think Brad the pad is one.

Yeah, that was the very first one that went into my head just because it's so, it was very unique. It was just born of a massanomics moment. You know, it was like such a part, like it just caught on with 100 plus people instantly. Like a lot of nicknames don't do that. that quick. Those two. What else sticks out?

It could be big insert anyone. Yeah, it's too generic. I mean, the problem is there are enough nicknames that there's definitely people we're going to be forgetting here. Yeah, Scott's Dodzilla.

You know, that's something. Stapler and Brad the Pad are both on there without thinking too hard. Oh, absolutely. Yes, those are all timers right there. Two more. I don't know. I can't pick the other two without more thought.

I could come up with a little more research and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I'd have to do more digging on that one. From Big Mostly Matt, what's the most ridiculous massonomics product that never came to fruition? Well, the thing with saying what never came to fruition is sometimes it actually can come to fruition.

That's why it's hard to ever count anything out. But I will say, I don't think we'll ever start doing this. this. There's at one point we had on the idea list and it was we never really looked into it. It's just the idea of some e-books like selling you because that was the thing. It might sound crazy to people now, but a lot of people were selling e-books in the early teens and or even in the mid-20 teens and it was just felt like, ah, is that something we should be doing but never quite figured out what that would be. There is one thing and although I'm over 99, I'm like 99% sure we're

ever going to do this. I don't want to completely spoil it because I still like the idea a lot. But I would just say this. There's a supplement product. I see it on the list here. Yeah. That we that we really. We got very far with actually. Yeah. We had samples. What did the guy running the day would be a up up really fun product for us. Yeah. The guy. I mean, this was 10. I mean, this was damn near eight years ago maybe. Yeah. And yeah, I finally just threw the pulls away. Yeah. The guy running the company

ended up going to prison and that's why we never heard from him because we just got go. I mean, we were ready to place an order. Well, we were ready. Like it was like talking quantities and timelines.

Yeah. And then we just kind of fizzled because we never found like the next place that could do the same thing. What is the most underrated and most overrated regional food in Massonomics travels? This is from albino snowman.

What's tricky here is we don't, unless people are providing us with regional food, we don't try a lot of regional food because we're just sticking to the interstate and things like that. And we're typically in a huge hurry. So we're not really getting to experience the local cuisine much. I really like Mexican food in Southern California. I'll say that out. Yeah, that was actually, that was one of the main trips.

We got to get off the beaten path a little more. because we were kind of more in a local area. Yeah, that was a good call, actually. Grant gave us to a polio loco. Then they took us to that one, like, grocery store place that had all that crazy food. And then Chad and Marissa took us to that one. Actually, we did some pretty good eating on that trip.

That might be underrated even. You know, the Andrew Garrison, famous Southern California meatloaf, of course. Yep, yep. I don't know what the overrated regional food would be. I don't know that I've experienced anything that's too. Usually at those points in time, I'm just pretty ready to eat whatever's available. Yeah, I think there was, after Juji's that one night, no, it was a, no, yeah, it was actually when we're at Jujis all day, we left and we went back to our hotel room. And I think there was a, was it a Bo Jangles in our parking lot?

And we just went through there. And I felt like it was very subpar. Yeah, that sucked. And it also didn't help that. We went back to the hotel room. the floor was soaking wet. So you're like walking in and take your feet off finally after a long day. And then you're like, why am I all wet right now?

It smelled damp in the whole room. I think the air conditioner was leaking or something. But was that in the same place as the Bojangles? Yeah, that was where that was at. I remember eating this chicken and fries, fast food in bed with wet feet. That was a bad. Covered, absolutely covered in chalk. That was.

After having chalk on me for. 12 hours straight. That wasn't a good. None of that was good. Yeah. But the next day, Donnie hooked us up with those pork sandwiches

with the mustard sauce. That was really good. Yeah. So that'd be South Carolina. Yeah, that was South Carolina. North Carolina barbecue or? No, that was in South Carolina.

Yeah. We had to dip down south of the border there, you know. From herbal snails tutorial for how to shit on the toilet, including the finer points of leg drive and bracing. That's what makes gym people need it. Also, arrival and departure angles would be. This is from Jake the Snake. I think we've done this, though.

Haven't we make a powerlifting meat out of non-traditional lifts? Haven't we done that? I think we have, and I can't remember what we picked, but I'm pretty sure we've done that before. Go overhead press the Jefferson deadlift, and the squad is what I can't, what other leg, I can't remember what we did that. there.

I would just use the different bar. Well, that works too. Let everyone use the safety squat bar. Spider bar. Spider bar. Spider bar. There you go.

Everyone has to use. To a high box. Everyone. Reverse bands. But everyone literally has to max out doing that. Like, just see what people, what happens?

I like it. I like it. Big Garrett dodge ball at Lift Hardly of Easy. Friday night backyard party. oh, you know, we were at this trampoline park the other day, and they had a little dodge ball ring in there. And there wasn't many people there. So at first I'm throwing them at my kids.

And I forgot, oh, these soft dodge balls, you can just throw them so hard. Like the foam balls. Yeah, and they don't do anything. But it's fun because you're just feeling like you're just unloading. And then some other kid came in and he was starting to throw them at us. And the very first one I throw, I hit him right in the face. Luckily, they don't do anything because he was just laughing about it.

but yeah, that actually was pretty fun. You don't realize, though, after a few throws, you start feeling that in your elbow pretty quickly if you're really getting after it. Yeah. You actually don't want to just go into whipping one full bore right off the bat. Can we get a little sports and books text channel in the Discord as a treat? Oh, don't think so. I don't like there to be too, we already have a lot of channels.

Too much off topic. Yeah. Too many channels. I just don't know if there can be another channel yet. Yeah, the world's not ready for it. On the topic of sports, do you see this Indiana championship, Tanner? They did it.

That's a pretty... I mean, that's got to be... I mean, I know people have talked about this nonstop, but, I mean, that has to be the most impressive impressive coaching job of all time, doesn't it? Sure seems like it to me. To just take essentially one of the worst schools. I mean, actually the school would like the worst record ever.

and in two years, in one year go to the playoff, and then second year, goes 16 and no, Heisman trophy, national, like everything you could possibly do, they did it.

Like, that is insane. I don't really even know how. That's what I actually don't get because then they talk about, well, even look at the rosters. They have no five stars,

no four stars, like, you know, on paper, none of their guys add up. And you're like, so you're telling me, it's really just purely coaching?

Like, that's, yeah, it's hard not, it was hard not to want. them to win i feel like uh just as somebody that didn't have a real real horse in the race yeah just the the oddity the spectacle of the whole thing of like someone really someone really could just turn a ship like that and make it happen it's they're better than every SEC team they're better than

every team ever ever they won an award for best football team ever made that's kind of what the award is sort of you know north side of Grand Barbell says, will Tommy ever or will Voltra ever send Tommy a Voltra? Tommy needs a Voltra? We're trying. Probably not. The right they're going. I sure doesn't seem like it.

Yeah. We might get them one of these days. You never know. Yeah. From Big Kevin over at NASA. He says, what's on Tommy and Tanner's radar for gym equipment additions for 2026? What's on your radar, Tommy? What is on my radar?

God, that's a good question. You know, if I had to make a wish list, I'd say the Texas Exel bar is high on it. Just feel it's so cool. Just to bench with that would be fun. Do some other stuff with it. It would be fun too. So that's high on the list.

You know, if you just had to say just, I mean, a Voltra would be on the list. But purely as a wish, I just don't have a desire to buy one right now, but it would be really cool to play. around with. Other big thing.

I don't have any big items on my list. Like I could come up with a bunch of just things $200 or less, but I don't really have anything big on my list right now is the thing.

And part of it is I'm not trying to find. Like if I actually took the time to really come up with it, I could find something, but I'm not even letting myself go there right now. So right.

I got too many other things going on, Tanner. Yeah, I would put the Texas Axel bar on my radar for 2026 also. Maybe I'll save this now because we've got a lot of questions to go through, but I actually have one, two, three, four, five,

six pieces of gym equipment, all big pieces of a gym equipment that are on the way currently. What? Six? Wait, save it like we're going to talk about that right now or say, what are you saying here? I just save it for next episode maybe. Oh, okay.

Okay. I'm in no. I want each one has their own story. So I'm like, it feels like this is at least a five minute thing. Could be a whole episode here. Yeah. Tanner's Equipment Hall.

Yeah, there's six things. So maybe we'll wait on that. Okay. Okay. From Big Danny, will you ever make shirts on the Bella Canvas blank again? Probably some here. Yeah.

I mean, we've even, even in the last six months, we've had a few go on it. Yeah. But the vast majority will not be. Biggest reason people buy the comfort colors one. There's a few people that would like us to still be on Bella Canvas, but a vast majority like the comfort colors better.

So it's just what the market asks of us. Yep. The people want it. We deliver. Yep. But never say never. Yeah. That being said.

Yeah. It is nice to have a little mixture. Yes. When will you guys get the keys to the dean? Your events clearly drive western, northeast, South Dakota tourism. So true. Tell the mayor.

Tell Aberdeen magazine. Tell anyone that will listen. No one will listen to us. From Big Diego, are you guys going to do any Iowa home gym tours? We're basically neighbors over here. I would say that's absolutely going to happen at some point. Yeah.

I mean, we still, we haven't done Iowa. We haven't done Minnesota. We haven't done North Dakota. I mean, Wisconsin's quite a ways, but we've, Wisconsin's on the list, Illinois's on the list. You know, those are all very doable driving distances. Yep. Or an even shorter flight, just depending on how we want to do it. So, yeah, I mean, we got, we still are sitting on enough videos that we're not in a huge hurry right now, but we will be making a few trips this year.

So I kind of really know gym tour areas off the list. Like I think we'll get, it's just all we need is time. And we'll get there. Big Band of Druthers says, what's the next vault re-release, merch items? We can't say everything, but in February there's a big, something big that's coming deep out of the vault that a lot of people have been asking for for a long time. So you have to go look out later in February. I have to go look at this list because I can't remember. Ah, yes, that is, that is a good one.

Yeah. There is something coming deep out of the vault that people are going to be excited about. From Big Justin, what is the silliest yet most rewarding thing y'all have ever done for Massonomics? Siliest yet most rewarding. So something that was silly, but also rewarding that we've done for at with Massonomics. So, I mean, you could kind of, you could, to an extent, say the meat is sort of the silliest, most rewarding thing. It depends on where on the silly rewarding thing. Right. Yeah, because everything is on a sliding scale here. What jumps out at me, what I think is a better answer to that question, though, is I think our contributions to the world regarding the Jefferson Deadlift are pretty silly and pretty rewarding when you look at.

I like that. from the T-shirts to kind of being known as the Jefferson Deadlift guys, to keeping the official leaderboard for it, to running contests about it. I think we popularized it in a number of levels and channels for quite a while there. Yeah, I think that's good. I would say the horse stall mat stuff too. Yes, actually, that's the more recent, better example of that.

I just wonder, should we put this on a shirt sometime? Just sell it. We never did it. We'll sprinkle some horse doll ammonia on it before it goes out, just so people really have that locked in. Yeah, I could, couldn't you see that like that? I can see like that right now.

That's literally a mock-up. No, it'll just be a white shirt and we'll print a black square on it. Just like that. From Big Joe, is there any chance the lift shorts 2.0 will make a return. We did just hint at something big coming deep out. Here's what I'll say. we got something big coming deep out of the vault in February. Who knows what that's going to be?

It's probably not what you're suggesting. Never say never. Big Andy says, why is a football bar bench more respected than a trap bar deadlift? Is it? There's an assumption there that I guess I don't take that. I don't take that for granted that. I've never considered the comparison.

The only thing I would say if someone was to compare those if they were saying, why is a football bar bench more respected than a trap bar deadlift? The only thing I'd say is there are people that can trap bar deadlift quite a bit more than they can deadlift. I don't think there's many people that can football bar bench. Wait, you can't? No. I don't.

Maybe people can, but I just don't know that I've ever seen someone be like, oh, this is, I can actually bench 30 more pounds when I use the Swiss bar. I was stuck at 350 benching. Right. I can do four plates with the football. If there was people that could do that, they'd be doing it all the time because that is the nature of, uh, there's that. I also think they're much less accessible.

You know, there's just not as many of almost every gym we go to, I mean, just in the home gym level. But even commercial facilities. ever has a trap bar. Has a trap bar of some kind, you know. I mean, a lot of them are just the really shitty ones. Not a lot of bar are gyms that are just more commercial gyms, you know, not a power lifting specific gym, have some type of neutral grip bar. That's not super common.

So that's already a different barrier there. I would say that makes sense, you know, just the availability of the different bars. Yeah. wanted to I wanted to cough into the microphone and then let me clear my throat this week

want to do a little special supporting our supporting member segment you know each week we give back to those that give to us you can also become a sporty member if you go to massanomics.com slash join this is a relatively new segment of the podcast it's only the 13th time we've featured it here

in season two of the show. But this week, rather than calling out people individually, I just want to mention we have seen a lot of new people joining up lately. We really appreciate that. The number's higher now than it ever has been. And there's been a lot of people even just like increasing their membership level. So shout out to everyone that's doing that.

You know, say they're at the $3 level and they said, hey, how do I switch to a six? Well, it's pretty simple. You just sign up for the whatever, next level you might want to support that, then you cancel your old one. And then we keep you your spot in line so you don't lose your supporting membership number. That all stays there intact. And overall,

generally, just thank you for everyone that's supporting. It's still the number one thing that keeps the wheels of mass anomics turning and it keeps water in our garden hose. Keeps the wheels turn and the grills burning and the water spraying through them hoses. Keeps the water in the garden hoses. So if you're not a supporting member, please consider becoming one because we are going to have a crew gift that goes out sometime this spring. And we want you to get in before the line in the sand, obviously, right?

We'll probably touch on that again in future episodes, I would assume. So if you want to hear more about the line and the sand, just keep listening this season. Yes. Yep. It's only a matter of time. Thank you to supporting members. I think we should also do a certified training facility of the week, don't you? Oh, I think that's a great idea.

But now the question is, where do we go? Well, if I remember correctly, I think last time we took a stop in North Carolina, you know, it's been a while, but that does sound correct. What about, I just clicked on one here. Oh, it had some pictures, and they look promising. I would just want to make sure we haven't done this before. It's in Beaufort, Georgia, and it's called Holland Gym. It's right around Atlanta. Have we done that before?

I'm just getting there right now. What did you say it was called? Holland Gym, just on the northeast side of Atlanta. I think we have actually. Oh, okay. I think we've done this. Yes, yes, we've done this one. Okay.

But if we're going to talk that area, I don't think we've done the dungeon of gains. Oh. The dungeon of gains, you say. So what state is that in? that's just just north of Atlanta okay you know I just went down the road

all right let's go there see it see this thing the dungeon of games yes I'm liking it from big Chris the dungeon of gain certified training facility of the week congratulations big Chris you just made it so we're in a basement here

that's I think where the dungeon name probably comes from and he's 10 pictures to go through on this yeah there's a lot there's a lot here and first I haven't looked ahead yet. I just see photo one. He's got a blue rep rack. The blue pops. Blue looks great. You know, last week we had a green rack. This actually, this is almost the same rack as last week, except instead of the green. This is the blue because it's got the functional trainer built in.

I mean, it's basically doesn't have a Smith machine in it, though. You're right. Doesn't have the Smith machine. Other than that's very similar setup. He's got the matching bench too. Got the matching bench even has, I think last week had the feet, those feet extenders out front. too, didn't it? I think so. Yeah, so very similar setup. He has the fringe sport bumpers, kind of the crazy pattern ones,

which I always think those plates do look pretty cool. Yep. Got the blue bar to match it even. Wow. Blue bar, blue bench, blue rack. Got a leg roller attachment, all kinds of attachments on that rack, too. Yeah, that's a good stuff on that rack.

But then if we look through, what else is in this basement? Man, okay. It has a sauna and a cold tub. Look at it. of two. That is, yeah,

that's a sauna and a cold plunge. Hot cold therapy going on in here. Yep. Boom, boom, boom,

muscle confusion. Wait, is that a, force USA leg press back there? Hacks squad? Yes. Something like that.

I think that is. I was just seen if there's any different pictures of that to show that. But I think that that's what, you can't see it really differently.

Yeah, I think it's Force USA though, right? Yep, yep. So that's a nice little unit there. Photo three. Where the room, oh, okay, I'm confused because I thought this was a basement, but looking

at the photo two, you're looking at trees and there's a door to go outside. So I don't know if this is like a ground level thing or what. Maybe it's an attic. I don't know what it is, actually. Maybe it's a garden level. Maybe. Are you familiar with garden level? Oh, garden level.

Are you tracking garden level? I know garden level. I am familiar. But no, garden level wouldn't have a window like that. Garden level is halfway in the ground. It wouldn't have a door. Garden level doesn't have a door to go out. I mean, I don't think it, I mean, it went typically.

So, all right. But looking at the other room of this, because this is like, it's all framed out, but, you know, the walls aren't finished. This other room over, he has a treadmill. There's a bike of some kind in the corner here. It's cut off. There's a temple of gains.

I think it's the, leg curl leg extension machine. There's some fixed dumbbells. There's some fixed like bar belt curl bars on the rack. They have the dumbbells. There's I think a mammoth belt squat, a bench in the middle of the room. There's multiple TVs on the wall. Yeah, there is multiple TVs.

Actually, now I've seen multiple fans hanging from the wall too. So I'm very curious about what this setup is. Yeah, it's got to kind of be a basement because the one part has concrete walls and there's plumbing. I see, yep, I see that now. Yeah, looking ahead. Okay. So maybe it's just a walkout basement.

Yeah. Oh, we got, I'm looking at photo five now. We got a freak athlete, freaky thing. Isn't that what they call it, the freaky thing? That's what it's called. That's right. The freaker. What, it looks like the, is that a fringe sport walrus there maybe?

That lap pull-down unit. That's kind of what it looks like, I would say. I guess it could be maybe if bells of steel one. I can't quite tell from the angle. but that's a nice one. He's got a dehumidifier down there. Yep, got to have that. Got's to have that.

We got some bands and a concept two rower. Yep. Good to see. Take the cardio seriously around here. Yeah, we got our fixed curl bars. With a nice rack. That's kind of a commercial setup to see the rack to actually hold those things too. And then, yeah, I think that's the fringe walrus, I believe.

still can't see the side angle but I think that's what that is in photo eight there are adjustable kettlebell down there yes that's what that is photo nine we got a dumbbell rack some dumbbells we touched on that photo 10 the freak athlete freaky thing

it's all there thing damn a lot going on in the dungeon it is also called the dungeon of games so it's probably an indicator of what's going on there too do you think if you were with big

Chris in the dungeon of Gaines. Do you think you could get strong in there? Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, we're getting hell of strong in the dungeon of gains. You too could get strong by becoming a certified training facility, massonomics.com slash certified. By the time this comes out, we might already be at over 500 certified training facilities on our map. Go check out the map. They're all over the globe. USA is absolutely covered. A lot in Canada. More and more in Asia, Australia. Europe's got a whole bunch. And then if you are a certified training facility already, make sure to send us pictures so we can get them added to that. And if you're a home gym person and you ever purchasing any gym equipment, please consider using a massonomics affiliate link. We have a bunch of discount codes, a bunch of affiliate links on our website, every single company that we talked about here, rep fitness, fringe sport, force USA, concept two, the horse tall mats from tractor supply company. Like, I don't know. There's a freak freak athlete.

We have an affiliate for like every single thing that's in this gym. So please consider using them. If you could only pick one, which lift is the George Foreman Grill of lifts? And why? From Big Jeff. Okay. Now, this is a hard hitting question.

The George Foreman Grill of lifts. How do I want to think about it? I'm just trying to, it's hard to pin down and define something is, Old school iconic, really hot, grease tray. Kind of smelly. Lass forever. Last forever.

Yeah, iconic is a real key word there. So like a little grungy almost. Was it the question that what left is the George Liff? Of lifts. I'm going to say it's the dip. Just everything's the dip. No further questions. Just it's all the dip.

I'm going to go with like a roll of some kind. I'm going to go with a row on this one. Like barbell rows. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to go with. Okay. Both.

Yes. And actually both are the correct answer. We got the two that were correct. From Mike. We've done this version of a question before, but just for the sake of it, we'll quickly. Would you rather fight 50 hamsters, the size, 50 hamster-sized Eddie Halls,

or one Eddie Hall-sized hamster? 50 hamsters. Hamsters are tiny. Yeah. Like it doesn't need, you could literally say, hall-sized hamster. It's just like a bear.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure, it's the 50 Eddie Hall-sized. Or Eddie, you know what I'm saying. the little ones. Big Wafiron said,

will Tanner deep dive into the Kaiser equipment collection? And what gen will it be? Well, I have been looking at some Kaiser equipment. Let's just say they're around. I haven't made that dive just yet, but you never know, never say never.

You know, there's not a lot of equipment lines where I say you've got to make a dive, but with Kaiser, you do got to dive in. You kind of dive into the deep end. When you have to run lines, When you got to run hoses, then you know it's official.

When you got hose is power in your equipment. That's a deep dive. What's the best gas station to take a shit in while traveling the country? Oh, well, the issue with this is it would require that gas station be throughout the country. And after visiting the Northeast, they just don't even really have gas stations there. So that's the problem. I mean, any of the newer cases are typically, pretty nice.

Casey's is usually good. Actually, when we do the long drive to the Arnold, the loves truck stops tend to be nicer than just your random-ass gas station along the interstate. Usually the truck stops are just better in general. What's it? Loves, what's the other one? I can't think of it.

But yeah, Loves seems to be pretty good. Flying J. Yeah, there's a few of those. I don't know if those are really outsider area a lot. But, I mean, there's a few those around. I personally also am a big fan of the old Quickstar in our area. Quickstar has been quite nice. Also great coffee.

The finest cold brew. Get it. Get it. You won't be nitro cold brew. You won't be disappointed. Are you guys going to release Home GymCon apparel so we can make crew stand out at Home GymCon? There absolutely will be some new items for Home GymCon and some that are probably specifically related to Home GymCon. But those will be available.

At home gymcon. So if you're coming to home gymcon, yeah, you know where to find us. We have absolutely, I have almost no idea what those things are. Oh, God, no. At this point. We got a thousand other things to do between now and then. The Lift Hardly ABC Classic is before that. Yeah, there's a lot that needs to happen before that.

Big Sam Bob says, how do I convince my wife I'm not in a cult? I would say just embrace it and quit trying to be something. and we're not. And just, just, it's like a cult without any of the bad stuff. Yeah. Oh,

here's how you, you bring her to crew falls or the meat. Then that'll set her straight. That's what she just needs to see with her. Well, it is a cult, but I kind of get it now. It's immersion therapy.

She needs to just be in it. Really get it then. Okay. When will the next, this is from MoFal, when will the next contest happen, need an opportunity to get a check mark? I don't,

about contests. We got a lot of things coming up in the works. But, well, there's always a chance at Lift Hardly of Easy Classic. There are several contest winners there technically. So that's in the bank. We just did crew falls. Didn't we have a contest on our lists for this year? Didn't we already come up with one or might as imagining things?

Yeah, no, we have some ideas for it. It's just more of at this point, a matter of where we fit that into the timeline. Just need more time. So it could, when he says contest, he's not talking about Lift Hardly Veezy and Sue Crew Falls and all that stuff. But there is opportunities out there still. And like fantasy football or the, we'll have the March Madness. Oh, did we do one of those? I forgot about that.

The Massonomic supporting member brackets. The best of that wins the contest, actually. So there's chances. Zurcher Deadlift for Lift Hardly, Live Easy Strong Man. Nope. there's no dirt or deadlift this year. Wait, is that a question or a statement? It's a question and eyes looking sideways.

But no, I don't think that that. I think the only mystery event is rocks. Oh, okay. So there is some mystery behind what the rock event is, but not the deadlift. The deadlift is on a monster bar. So a big long 10 foot bar. From Big Montana Fish,

How do you guys plan your gym tour trips? Will you ever be in the Kansas City area? We will absolutely do Kansas City at some point. Don't know when, but I know that whole area I'm just looking right now. Yeah, Kansas City is a hot bed. That's one I have written down on our list, actually, Kansas City. Yep, there's a lot down there.

That would be easy to get a bunch of gym tours. It's just a matter of deciding when. What was the first part of the question, though? How do we what? How do we plan them? Well, plan them is just figuring out. typically is there like a big draw or one specific reason to take us to a certain area? Yep.

And then from there, once we determine the area, we just look at the map and look at our certified training facility. Yeah. See who has photos. See who has interesting gyms and start reaching out to people. So if you don't have, if you have a certified training facility, that's step one. If you don't have pictures, make sure you send picture to us because we got to look at pictures to have an idea of like, what is this? You know, what's this like? that is actually how we do it though we use our certified training facility map

and then just i suppose beyond that like some connections and stuff like that to help fine tune it but that's that's how it happens Scott dodds supporting number number one said do you fear massonomics getting too big no i do not no i don't think i mean well i guess when we're talking too big here too big that it takes over our personal, our other jobs and it's the only job,

well, I could leave with that problem. Too big that we can't keep up on orders. I don't think that's ever possible, so that's not a thing. I guess too big that there's too many people into it. I don't know. I would say at this point, everyone that's gotten into Massonomics

has so far been good people. Like it hasn't turned into the home gym Facebook group or anything like that yet. So too big that we get, financially rewarded for over 10 years of busting our ass on this project. No, I would love for that to happen. That would be a great result of that. Yeah, as long as we can keep the masanomics vibe to things, I just...

Right. You know, like, it's, I mean, it's obviously significantly bigger than it was even four years ago, five years ago. But I still think it's the same. To me, it's still the same. I mean, if anything, it might even be better massonomics, yeah, because there's more people to get involved to be excited about it. Yeah. Yeah.

It makes it way better, I think, actually. Big Scott also said, is there talk about a Massonomics phone app, the store training programs, and the podcast on it? Not really, but never say never, I guess. The tricky part is as far as the store goes, like you just go to a website so you don't, an app just wouldn't really provide anything there. Training programs, we don't really have training programs. And that was the last one. Oh, the podcast. Oh.

Yeah, I mean. It's not really where people would get the podcast. Yeah. I mean, I get the idea of an app, you know, and stuff, but. At least not in those ways. Yeah. That would be a trickier cell is making it for those reasons. Yeah.

Right. But never say never. Yeah. Let's see. Big Chris says, what about running massonomics is way harder now from when you started? What's way harder? Well, when we first started, we just came out with, like, a shirt or two a year. So that's, so everything that comes with that from the, you know, just the frequency now of monthly merchandise drops,

which we've been doing for like the last six years or whatever means more designs, more ordering, more fulfillment, more market. I mean, there's just everything that doesn't. Yes. I don't know if it's harder. Like, I guess we have to formula down. Like, I mean, yeah, like there definitely are parts where you. have to think about things away more when you have more stuff going on. There's way more things to think about and talk about.

But I mean, it's not like we're doing manual labor out in the freezing cold over here. Right, right. Yeah, I mean, there's just more to do. It's not necessarily like. Yeah, it's just more. Yeah. I guess what's harder, like sometimes we have to make really real decisions that affect a lot of people. Like, and some of them are not always fun.

We have to make like not fun decisions to make. make at times and do really serious crap. And that's not fun. Like, that's harder. When Massonomics first started, we didn't have to make any serious decisions about anything. Like, we're making decisions. It just didn't, like, affect anyone else.

But now we do stuff all the time that's going to affect hundreds of people. Yeah. And, like, some people personally, deeply. So, you know, like. The most public version of this recently was just all the issues getting the meat going this year. Right. Because that does affect, I mean, a lot of people,

participate in the meat and how it's right i mean there was just a lot of moving pieces of that one yeah i'd that's the hardest part to me is like dealing with difficult decisions probably let's see we got to skip a couple just because we got so many are not going to get get to everything was there ever a design that just never came to be that you wish you'd made not really right if we make it if we yeah as far as the design one I mean for the most part is if we think it's a design worth happening we just we make the design

there's nothing really stopping us yeah I don't think there's anything on the design side that's ever really held us up there might I mean there's there's reasons that things have held us up for I think that shirt that has the little lift shorts all over it in a pattern kind of really wanting that shirt now I would that would be a funny shirt

shirt yeah the all over lift shorts print. Wouldn't that be a hilarious shirt? Oh my gosh. I bet if we made that we would sell out of them. Oh, especially it was a limited edition, kind of limited quantity thing. Yeah, they'd be gone.

Like, how do you make that shirt though? Because you can't screen print that. Yeah, you have to be sublimated. Yeah, it has to do like a cut and sew. I would think where you sublimated and then someone does have to sew that into a t-shirt, which is doable, but it's just. Right. It's going to cost more to a process.

Yeah. Well, yeah, it's going to cost more. It's got freaking all over live. print shorts on it. It's kind of my definition. It's going to be expensive. What's the next silly goose implement?

We don't know yet, but I would say we've definitely discussed ideas on the implement. We have other ideas for other implements. I don't know when or where, how, or if, but we the idea, we are not out of

ideas as far as that goes. I can tell you that. Big Keith wants to know any guests that they should have on their radar to get on their podcast unpaid and underrated. I mean, I think they're searching them out pretty good. I don't think they need any of our advice on that. It's supporting members that are active in showing up to things.

They are the experts in vetting and getting these people in, so they would know best. Right. They're better at figuring that out out than we are at this point. Which ones are better? Push-ups or pull-ups? Pull-ups, for sure. This is from Big Chris in Massachusetts. Pull-ups.

for sure, right? Probably. There's just a lot of other ways that you can work the push-up stuff. I like both, actually. I do both. I actually program push-ups in quite regularly as an assistant. Yeah, I do all the time.

What I really like? What style of push-up are we talking about? I like deep stretch pull-ups. Like on a block or something? I use bumper plates, is what I actually use, a bumper plate on each side. And then I bring my chest all the way down to the ground. and do those very, very controlled. And you do like sets of 15 to 20 of those and feel it.

I also, it like improves my shoulder health, I believe. I don't know. I'm not saying that I'm not even recommending it for anyone necessarily, but I know for me when I do those pushups, help my shoulders actually feel better. I don't know what the difference is versus like conventionally loaded chest movements. but controlled pushups are good for me. Yeah, I could see the big range of motion,

but also it's not super heavy. There's not a ton of weight, but you're also going through a controlled range of motion. I mean, it makes sense to me. I can see it. I like the idea of weighted push-ups, and I've played with them a lot before. They're just hard to do, right there?

No, I've never come across a method that I really like. I'm saying, yeah, and for hard to do, I'm saying the logistics of actually. Logistics. Yeah, achieving it. Yeah. There's a logistics problem with the weighted, you know, if you have a partner there, even then, just the way your body and back moves when you do push-ups, it's hard to keep it.

Yeah. Keep it balanced. But that being said, I really like pull-ups, too. And chin-ups and all the different variations there. The thing with pulps is they're just hard. Like, pull-ups are just hard. Yeah. And if you do decide to wait, them, they're much easier to wait than a push-up is. Yeah, that's the difference between the two.

Pull-ups are relatively much harder. Push-ups are relatively much easier, and I'm not a huge fan of exercises that you need to do for 40 reps to get... But that's why I do, like, really, you know, deep stretch push-ups and stuff. Another question about gas stations. We basically already answered it, so I won't cover that. To Tommy, did you get your driveway cleared yet? This is from

Who's that? Could he? Who would that be from? Must be somewhere from Crew Falls. Oh, okay. Yeah, the weather was for a while great here. So every, there was no snow.

I mean, there's been snow outside of the first little bit. That was from Colton. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, outside of that first little bit of January or whatever, there's just been, it's been no snow until tonight.

We got a little bit of snow. So I've imagined, though, once the weather, I think it's going to warm up, a little bit in like the next week and that'll take care of it. So no problems. From Ashenat Freedom Fitness Equipment, How many horses does one have to slaughter to produce just one horse stall mat?

Just curious. He's running around spreading his anti-horse stall mat propaganda. Right. Yeah, what's the yield? What's the yield on a horse for a horse stall mat? Yes. Okay. No real answer for that, is there?

No. You know what there is an answer for? What? What have I talked about this? What if I talked about? Do we read ads in the middle? I can't remember. Did we read ads in the middle?

Did we forget to read ads in the middle? We might have forgot. So have we only done one? I think we only have. Well, I definitely got to do another one then and not the one that I started with, which was obviously barefoot shoes. So I'm not going to talk about them.

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favorite bar in his home gym, the 29mm Texas Power Bar with the ultra-aggressive nerdling on there. We have several Texas deadlift bars, several Texas squat bars. They're all kind of leading in their class, I would say. They've been doing it, since 1980, tried true, and they're not just resting on their laurels.

They're now innovating coming out with things like the Texas Axel bar that they've got available. They've got their bars in several different finishes and coatings, world record, state records, massonomics records, your home gym records that are all going to be set on a Texas power bar. When you go buy one, let them know that your friends at Massonomics sent you. This episode is, did I talk about the Strength Co-Radeaway? Or am I just imagining things. I think I talked about the strength code right away, right?

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Big Jake from State Farm wants to know, will there be a Midwest gym tour in 2026? Yeah. Yes. Probably multiple, depending on your definition of Midwest. Yeah. Yeah, they'll be there.

Big Scants wants to know the odds of Big Bryce and Big Paul getting snubbed for strongest couple award again at the 26th Lift Hardly of Easy Classic. probably pretty high, right? Probably. There's a lot of strong couples there. Yeah. There is also, there is, not also, there is a large number of couples that always compete, are competing together each year.

Well, technically Bryce gets married the next week, so I don't know if he's allowed to be on the couple market anymore. Right. This might be their last chance to win, too. It's gone forever. Yeah. Because Brian has been married. I mean, it'll be gone forever because Bryce is going to quit lifting, right? That's what you're getting at.

That's what he, once he's married, he's hanging out. Yeah, perfect, for the other that does know, we're talking about Big Bryce, perfect little sweetie.

He's always struck me as the kind of guy that the second he gets married, he's not going to be in the gym again. Yeah. I think he's, I don't even think he's all, we've all seen that guy before. Yeah, I think he's even just openly admitted it before that as soon as he's married,

he's just done. It's like he's graduated. He's just on to the next thing then. I will all be able to go in and everyone. gets to pick one thing they want from Perfect Little Sweet Jim the most because he's gonna have no use for him. Yeah, he's got to park in his garage then, you know, that's what the part of the garage

is for, so. He's gonna like, come in there, like he's also asked to wear like a suit and tie every day now. For his official business job. Taxes and stuff like that. I mean, he'll have a lot of stuff to do that won't involve lifting. Yeah. I bet he gets into fishing. He'll probably get

really into fishing if I had to guess. I could see that. Fishing. Yeah, what else do dads do or husbands do? Probably maybe pick up on a softball league or something. Yeah. In the summertime when he's not fishing, you know. Right, right. That's probably it, though.

All things that aren't lifting. Yeah. Will Home Jim Con be a Hall of Fame check mark this year for the Massanomic Supporting Member Hall of Fame check list? This is from Big Joey. It's a great question. And I think as of right now that's still TBD, isn't it?

Might as well be. I don't see any. I'll see your reason to decide right now. Yeah, it's our show. We'll decide what we want. I don't see any reason to let any cats out of any bags. All-time favorite

and least favorite sparkling water flavors. Well, ramblers are pretty damn good. Actually, now at this point, it's just a memory in my head of what I think a rambler is. I don't even know what they taste like anymore since it's been so long. But I think,

think they're good. So there's that one. I mean, for me personally, flavor profile, anything in the lemon and lime, that's not lemon cello. Always hits pretty good. You know,

those tend to be my favorite. But, yeah, oh, there was that, didn't have that, uh, you didn't have that cherry cola stretch for a while there,

Tanner. Ugly waters. God, I forgot. That's what I was, that I was going to say. I forgot about us. Ugly water cherry cola.

Yeah. At the end, the ugly water, like, I did Dr. Pepper one too. Those two were like, those were good. I forgot about that. Rest in power, ugly water.

That's actually a long time ago now. Yeah. Yeah, my wife, like that year, got me a case of ugly water for Christmas, too. I just came across the picture of me holding a case of ugly water. I'm like, man, what I wouldn't give for that? Man, I've never looked that happy before. Give me that ugly water back. What about worst?

Oh. It's not a sparkling water, but the worst is the protocol. Yeah. Not good. Also, uh, who was it Riley, big Riley? Who lived down the street from you or your old house? Oh, yeah. What was it?

Like dirt flavored? Yeah. He gave us a couple of shit, like intentionally shitty. Brody. Brody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Was that Brody actually? I can't remember who actually dropped them off now at this point because it's been so long. But yeah, wasn't it dirt flavored? Was that what? Yes, it was dirt flavor. It was like soda or something.

That was bad. I mean, it tasted like dirt. Oh, wasn't there also like chicken wing water or something too that they had? Yeah. He might have given us that too, didn't he? Yeah. Also, uh, what, what's Jose's flavor? We just did the Jose Gym tour.

What's his go to? Well, they have those polar. What's his, yeah. Yeah, she sent us like those jalapeno. Yeah. Polar.

And I don't like that. I see, I don't mind spicy foods, but I don't really like spicy beverages. Well, it's not like spicy in the sense it's hot. It just tastes bad. Yeah.

Like, it's not like spite. It's not like making your tongue hot or something. It just tastes like shit. It's like not the flavor of that anyone would ever want in a spark of water. Yeah. Those are all up there for me. Yeah, that's a good list.

All right. Last question. Big Joey wants to know, do we have any big projects on our radar for 2026? Well, I've got a few big things you've been working on. Boy, do we? I think we're getting kind of close, don't you? I think we're getting close on this? Yeah, we do have some big stuff that we're working on.

Yes, we do. also we're recording this episode a little bit more in the future than normal so who knows by the time this comes out maybe we're getting even closer i know we will be getting closer but it'll be at least a week closer to whatever that dead then whatever yeah yeah so do we have big stuff just broadly speaking yes all kinds of huge shit going on specifically also yes broadly speaking and specifically specifically speaking Yes. Everywhere in between yes. Yes. If I am not at work or even if I'm not working on my day job or doing some with my family,

I am working on Massanomics. Just chain to that computer. That is all the time. The old ball and chain. That is the truth right now. That is it. Those are the things I do. I work, do stuff with my family, or work on massonomics?

I have no other hobbies anymore. Yeah, you know, it's a sprint right now. I'll just say it's a sprint. And we're sprinting pretty hard. I do not have no other hobbies exist right now. That is it. Yeah, I can relate to that. Luckily, it's, it's, I don't.

I mean, it's a lot of stuff, but it's still fun. Like, mostly it's not fun. It is. It is still fun. Yeah. It's definitely worse things you can be doing. Absolutely. Yes. There's definitely less productive things you can be doing, too.

I feel like it's very productive. I think also. Either that or we've just tricked ourselves. It's possible, too. Don't rule that out just yet. Also, don't rule out our newest sponsor of the podcast. Elitefts.com. This just in.

their newest sponsor, Dave, Tate, our buddy over at Elite FTS. Would you feel comfortable just saying Dave Tate's our buddy? Oh, yeah. I mean, he's our buddy, right? Oh, yeah, absolutely. He knows this on a first-day basis. We've hung out before. Yeah, we'd check in with each other periodically throughout the year to see how things are going.

It's buddies. That sort of thing. We're buddies. Our buddy, Dave, a friend of the podcast, gave us a discount code. It's Mass 10. can use that on most stuff. I mean, try it on everything. There's a few things if they're already on sale or like maybe some really large pieces of

equipment that it won't work on. But it's going to work on most things. Also like the safety squat bar, it's both of our favorite specialty bar, the elite FTSSS Yoke. Also with the discount code or if it's on sale too, it's just still very affordable. Like we talked about in last episode, prices going up on things. Just a very affordable, awesome addition to any. Jim, the SS Yoke from Elite FTS.

Yeah, if you plan... Discount code in Mass 10. If you plan out your sales and discount codes correctly, you can get a pretty good deal on it. Yeah. Yes. Thank you, Elite FTS. This episode is also brought to by Juggernaut AI. Juggernaut AI is the smartest program for you.

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I'm just looking at the list. I don't know if this will change at all, but you've probably been able to see Coach Carp's gym tour at this point. Possibly another one, I don't know if that'll be Roarman's, big Rouries, or which ones we'll see there additionally. But we should be in the thick of the Nashville gym tours on YouTube. And hopefully everyone's enjoying watching those as much as we enjoy. making them.

Please be sure to be subscribing to our YouTube channel. Leave us a comment on any of those videos, including this video. Drop a comment every week on the podcast video on YouTube. And, you know, if you listen to the podcast and don't check out the gym tours, that'd be kind of insane because they're essentially a walking podcast around their gym where we're doing this with one other person and talking about gym equipment. So it's kind of like the cool, it's like this is the normal podcast episode every week. and then you get the really cool one where we go visit someone.

We don't have guests on the show as much. Not the ones that suck like this one, but a cool one. We don't have guests on the podcast very often anymore. What we do is once a week have a second podcast where we're at their house. So that's how you get that form of us chatting with other people. That's pretty much it, isn't it? I think so. Buy something for Massanomics.com.

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We're calling it quits. That's it. I'm saying it. That'll be it. That's our challenge. By the time we get back for the next one, we hope, I hope to see the needle move on those five-star reviews. Tommy, where do they find you at? You can find me at Tomahawk underscore.

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