Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 516: The Ultimate Gym Motto Tier List

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

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That means I got some stuff. I got to get ready over here. What am I thinking? Yeah, we got other things to hit on also. So while you're getting that ready, first of all, I got something in my bottle. It ain't a can. but I do have something. I'm going to have an oikos protein shake,

30 grams of protein in this chocolate protein shake. You ever had one of these? I've not had that one. No, I think Costco maybe has those ones too, I think. I would guess so. They're probably pretty widespread oikos, right? I'm just so on that fair life train that I just can't have one of those every day. They're pretty damn good.

I don't even know where stuff like this comes from. It just shows up. It does just show up. I assume it came from Walmart, I'm guessing, but I don't know. I don't get paid to ask questions like that. But what I do also not get paid to do is log this into macro factor. So I just use the handy scanner here, the barcode scanner. I am about 180 calories short for the day.

And what would you know? This is a magic number. 180 calories and extra 30 grams of protein, four fat, nine carbs. Log that. 3,900 calories for the day. Hit my protein target. Done. Nine over on fat and...

Oh, you're going to be feeling that one tomorrow. 20 under on carbs. A little over on protein. Always over on protein, basically. So... Macro factor, though, discount code what? Massanomics. Yeah. And it gets you a few free weeks.

I know what the results are in. How is it? Tastes like all of them. that I'm ever, you know, I am not picky on the, as anyone might know, with my protein drinks. I can, I've never met one. I couldn't finish. And I've never met one, but I mean. There was one.

Costco has the, uh, it's like the muscle milk like G2 something. And that one had sort of that weird chalky medicinal taste in it that I didn't care for. But outside of that, all the other ones seem to be pretty good. Yeah. They, they're all the. it's all the same to me. They're all good.

They're all chocolatey. Like what, I mean. Yeah. Chocolatey protein. Are you surviving Snowmageddon over there, Tanner? Sheesh. Talk about Snowmageddon. This morning was bad.

When I woke up this morning and looked out the window, I was like, whoa. This actually is Snowmageddon. Rarely am I ever like, oh, yeah, they need to call off school. And I actually don't think people should travel. This morning, I was like, yeah, that's bad. It was a full-obvious. So it was going on. Yeah.

And like our backyard kind of is on the edge of town so you can really see the... Or not see what's going on. Yeah, yeah. You can see what nature's cooking up back there. And I looked out and I was like, wow, that is bad. The drifting is insane. We didn't... I don't know how much actual snow we got because it's so weird.

In many places there's zero snow cover whatsoever. And then there's five foot tall drifts. Yeah. Because it was this wind. wind was just blowing. Do you have any five-foot-tall drifts in your driveway or anything like that that you had to work through? It was like three-foot-tall drifts in my driveway. Just annoying enough.

And then the parts of my driveway that were completely bare. Yeah. So it was very, you know, it was an interesting snowfall in that way. So some people, if your houses face the right direction had like very little shoveling in my neighbor across the street, his entire thing was like a five-foot drill. Oh, really? So he just got screwed over. Good thing.

He's got the, like, the ultra. Yeah. snowblower with tracks and hand warmers and all that stuff. Is it totally done now? Like, is there still stuff happening? It seemed like it, but they still delayed school for tomorrow already and stuff. And I was kind of surprised by that because, I mean, the city's clearing stuff out and it's pretty good already. Yeah, I'm so glad.

By tonight, it's pretty good. I still went to the gym this morning. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, come on. It was fine for me. I didn't think other people should travel. Other less dedicated people.

But just. I mean, 24 hours before it happened, actually 12 hours before the storm started, we were outside shooting hoops in T-shirts and shorts. Yeah, it's been insanely nice. Like, nicest February ever of my life. This weekend, it was, I don't know if it hit 60 years. It was extremely nice. Like, it was a perfect.

It was, the days were absolutely perfect. Oh, when outside of my. High 60s is just, oh, yeah, this is as good as it gets. Yes, it was, it. couldn't be actually almost nicer for doing outdoor activities. And then this morning I woke up and I'm like, this is the worst blizzard I've seen in a while. It's all coming around.

Yeah. Fall spring struck again. Gets us every time. Just the first one. First one of many. Just when you think it's spring. Oh, that's fall spring. Spring ain't sprung just yet.

No. Yeah. So did it snow and Sue Falls at all? No, nothing. It's just been windy. In like Iowa, I think it might have been Iowa Ryan. He messaged day as like, yeah, it's like 60 some degrees here today. Well, the temperature was like 40 something, but then the wind.

I guess it wasn't even actually that cold here, to be fair, though, too. It's not like it was. Well, but the wind does make it kind of cold when it's that windy because the gusts were inside. Like I actually had trouble sleeping last night because the wind was so loud. So it just didn't snow there. I guess it was probably the main difference. It just wasn't cold enough here for it for that. Right.

Right. Yeah, because it was like 100% blowing sideways. You know, it was sideways snow. Not that cold, but does the temperature only even matter so much when it's that windy and snowy and stuff? So yeah, we're surviving. It'll be March before we know it. You know what they say? In like a horse out like a horse's ass.

The old sane. Out like a horse's asshole. In like a champ. Out like a. Champing at the bit. I think it was just yesterday at work. I did say, and I made sure to say champing at the bit.

Everyone's like, oh, man of culture over here. Yeah, that's going. Champing at the bit. This guy has been around the block, hasn't he? He knows about champing at the bit. Yeah, so we're going to do a tier list this week. Do we want to hit on any of these other things prior to firing off the tier list, though? Do we want to jump into the tier list and then come back to some other stuff?

Or what do we think? Yeah, maybe that's fine. We can just hop right into this thing. I mean, this is literally, 10 minutes in starting something is as hop right into something as we ever. Well, okay, we can do one more distraction here. Have you watched any of the Winter Olympics at all? I put it. I don't ever know how to run anything on any of our TVs.

And I don't ever even know what we, I literally have, don't watch T, like I've talked about it before in the last six months. I don't watch TV at all. I mean, I mentioned some show I watched here a while ago and it's the only thing I've watched in like six months. So I never know when it's like, okay, I want to watch the Olympics. I don't even know how to watch the Olympics. I'm like, I assume it's free. It should be. Just talk to the TV and it appears on the screen.

Like, I don't even know how to get to the Olympics if I want to. But one day, I was talking about it with my girls and I found figure skating because I'm like, oh, that probably would. Okay. What was it the doubles or the singles? I think the quad god was a video. It was the quad god going to you're familiar with the quad god. I haven't seen that person yet. I've heard.

That's the guy, isn't it? Is that who that is? Yeah, it's not because he has huge. I was disappointed to find out it was not because. Okay. So what is the name? or what is that's the a move i think it's a quadruple uh okay that makes more sense too because i was like also expecting someone with massive legs but that just didn't make sense in my head yeah um i will say

do back flips yeah see i thought you couldn't do flips and skating i thought that was like a rule it must have changed i don't know okay i could have you seen videos of flips uh just in like the hype videos leading up to the umics i've to be totally fair here i've watched like 30 minutes total of the Olympics. The other day, they had doubles figure skating on. And just what struck me was when the guys launch the women into the air and they're doing like,

it's almost violent how fast they can throw them up there. You know what them launching themselves too? And I'm like, damn, this is actually pretty crazy how they can do this. Never before had I ever thought that. And I guess enough time has passed that now I have a perspective where I'm like, damn, respect.

That's pretty cool. So I saw just a little bit of that. And then I've seen just a little bit of snowboarding and skiing. And that's, I would, I would have really genuinely like to watch more of it, but I just haven't had a lot of time to. I did see the Veronica Vaughn crash. Oh, Lindsay Vaughn, yes, yes. I did see that too.

Yeah, that didn't look good. I don't know the full storyline. This should have been something that intrigued me more, but I think she tore her ACL like shortly before that. Yeah, like leading right up to it. I did read that somewhere. And I don't know the reason of her crash, but having been someone that's torn my ACL a couple times, I'm like, of course that happened. Like when you're like, not at all back for that.

I'm like, look at how freaking fast we're going. Flying over. And I don't want to say when she crashed, it was rudimentary. But like having watched other people, I did watch some people do that run. I'm like, oh, I couldn't have picked out that section as being anything like the danger zone in particularly. It's all freaking extremely dangerous looking to me. Like, and I'm like, oh, it is.

That's what I think about it is the danger level in the Winter Olympics is just cranked up to the highest amount, especially compared to the Summer Olympics. Like every, anyone, like, almost all of the sports in the Winter Olympics is like, oh, you do this wrong, you die. Like that, there's like Polvault is the only one that exists. Daniel Tosh said, uh, the Winter Olympics is just feeder Olympics for the Paralympics. Yeah.

Okay. Have you seen any of the clips? I did this one I saw on Instagram. The clips of like the downhill moguls skiing. Which one's that? It's where there's just bumps on and they're just like you will never look at that and think that those people have human level knees. Like the way their knees can absorb the bumps is the most insane thing ever.

Like imagine going, I don't know, like 50 miles an hour and just hitting bump after bump after bump and your legs just go don't do do and you go straight down a hill and somehow you get to the end and you're okay. They got some shock absorbers in there. Yeah. Like I'm watching the guy. He's like, falling through the air and somehow landing backwards and still going. It was...

What do you know about ski free? What is that one? Is that the skiing freestyle or... Can you look up ski free? Like, maybe type it in to all one word. All right, let's see. Let's get to the bottom of this. Look up Google images on ski free.

Freaking keyboard died. Let me switch. Let me switch them out here. I got my other keyboard. The suspense will be killing people that are listening along that do know about ski free. Probably got to be. Oh, that game?

You know about it. Yeah, I used to, I had a friend, when I was really little, we didn't have a computer. This on DOS computer. But I had a friend that had a computer, and they had this and didn't really understand it at all,

but I loved this game. And it made no sense to me. I played the shit out of ski free. And then the monster, like the abominable. Yeah, the monster would always come and get you. Like, right? It's like impossible to outrun him.

Okay, wasn't it though? Was it like, could you outrun him? Virtually. Like, he's so fast because I do think you can hit jumps and things. that speed you up a little bit, but he was insanely fast. Like he was way too fast. It was like when he came,

his imminent death. This and Mind Sweeper were like the two. Yes. Ski free, that was what that was called. Wow. Also, jazz ball.

What do you know about jazz ball? Wow. I think I'm saying that right. Jez ball. Yeah, Jess ball. Let's see the picture here. Do you ever play that?

Yeah. Clicking the screen and it goes up and down and then he keeps cutting it off and you try to get those balls like into us. I just barely remember this one. But Mind Sweeper and SkiFree, I definitely, those were high on my list of. Yeah, ski free underrated game, actually. Like, it's probably terrible now if I play it and keep my interest for all of 30 seconds. I'm sure as far as games go, it just sucks now.

Wow. Some classes. Is this Windows 95? Is that what those were on? Is that really? I think that sounds right. So Lindsay Vaughn. definitely got attacked by the

Amonroo Snowman on ski free. She did not make it away from him. No, yeah, she was stuck. I would say again, though, I just want to be clear, like, that would be insane to be downhill skiing, like, that fast after... Oh, Terry and ACL.

Yeah. You would have no control over. And I'm like, I feel like you need ultimate control in that scenario. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how the fast they go. I'm sure they go like 50 miles an hour, maybe more, like... It seems like a lot to not have everything working, right?

And then the one other thing was the curling. I made a couple of memes. It's about a, I did not know that meme was my exposure to what that was. And I still didn't even look into it or anything. But I guess the Canadian guy literally like touched it one extra touch. Which, I mean, I'm assuming that is against the rule. Like, were they, did they get in trouble? I don't know the rules well enough.

Like, yeah, the Norwegian guy or whoever, what, I can't remember what country specifically it was. but he called him out. I don't know if he actually got in trouble for it or if you, like, by the referees. Okay. But it's just the other team was calling him out for it, something like that. Yeah.

I actually don't know the details. Big Katie's, Big Katie's our curling expert, and I think she was listening, or she was in here at least somewhat. Maybe she knows, but I did like it as the meme possibilities. Yeah, it was a good one.

I like that meme a lot. That was good. Yeah. That's it on the Olympics. Yep. our full Olympic coverage. We'll wrap it up next week. The conclusion of the Games.

Winter Olympics, not as good as the Summer Olympics. No, Summer Olympics, just track and field those events, man. Yeah. They just know how to build up the drama and the excitement of them. And swimming, honestly, even. I can give swimming some credit. I know. And gymnastics.

Gymnastics, yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, I do like the Winter Olympics a lot. Like, that was, snowboarding was my favorite thing in the world from the time I was like 18 to 21. Like, that was my. After Olympics is all the most rich people on accessible sports. Oh, it is though.

Yeah, it absolutely is. Yes. Yes. There's huge chunks of the population that have never done any of it. Right. Where everyone can relate a little bit to all the summer, or almost all the summer Olympics. Right.

And like a lot of, even gymnastics, I feel like you don't have to grow up rich to be able to be in gym. Yeah, go try a handstand and then be like, all right, now let's have some flips and some other crazy stuff in here. Yeah, you need to get good at skiing. You know how, like, affluent a family has to be to be able to. Yeah, with everything going on now, yeah, I know.

It used to be a proper country where it didn't have to be, but, all right, that's the Olympics. Now should we jump into the tier list? Yes. Now we're at 20 minutes, I feel, now we're warmed up and ready to go.

Yeah. So what's the tier list? The tier list is on Jim catchphrases. Is that the right word? Like Jim sayings, Jim Where is our list? Motivational Jim.

Yes. Can we have like title topic music for this or something to really set the stage? We do need to set the stage here probably, don't we? Like it feels inappropriate without it. That's like our opening games is when that's our opening ceremony. This only comes around once every four years. Once every week or so.

This is going to be the. Jim Sains That's how you remember how long it's been This is going to be the Jim Sains slash catchphrase tier list And we haven't done a tier list for a while, have we? It's been I almost spoke too soon Really put me through the ringer on all those

It just couldn't hardly get a word out I want to do my dream podcast would be one where we don't speak. It's all, it's just all set up for you to push a button in front of me. Yes. All right. Jim tier list, though. What is it though?

The gym. This is the Jim Sane slash catchphrase tier list. Now, what I'm just thinking, you know, it's different. I like this concept a lot, but what didn't dawn on me in. until right now is that these are sains, which don't make the most visual representation for a graph. Some of these, there's a very particular person.

So we can do that. Some of the other ones will just have to figure out a way to convey that visually. Right, right. A lot of them do go with a person. They do. Thankfully, so we can do that. We've got a list of about 20,

and maybe we'll come up with more. And it did take a few suggestions, you know, looking for suggestions from the Massonomic supporting member Discord. But I guess my thought on this was it's more like almost like motivational things that people say either in the gym or about the gym. Not necessarily like conversational things in the gym. It's like something someone in the gym is going to yell or they're going to say like motivationally about the gym. I think kind of like it's not like necessarily a cue.

You know, it's more of a mindset is what they're trying to get across with these things. A couple of these bridge the cue thing, but like just because they're very iconic almost where it becomes like Kleenex where it's. Yeah, but this isn't a list of like our top cues for the gym. You know, it is. Right. Ultimately, a lot of these things are as much a part of someone's brand as anything that they do. Yes. Yes, yes.

Okay. So we got that. Oh, I don't have the thing like so that I can look at it as we're doing it too. Oh, God. God, we are unprepared this week. Do you have to email me that? Yeah, let me give that a shot here. Okay.

You still got the same email address or do you cancel that one? Oh, I get a new email address every month. Oh, that's what I thought. It's the middle of the month. I couldn't remember if you were jumping ahead on that. It's still daddy fat sex at sgives.com. Okay. I couldn't remember if you were on to like underscore 24 or something like that.

Daddy fat sex would be. be a very deep cut for our back catalog listeners. Who was that? Was that to us? I thought Tyler's wasn't it? Or did somebody put it on a review? Oh, maybe that's what it was. Yeah, I could.

I was like, was Sean's on an episode when that was brought up or was it Tyler? I couldn't remember. Did Tyler just riff it one day? Like when we were talking about old. It was like we were just talking about people's underscore 69 hotmail addresses. Was he that or I couldn't remember if he. Daddy fat sex. Yeah.

Or I couldn't remember if he said that was his or that's what it. Yeah, it was brought up, though. Yeah. Okay, I did get the, I did get the stuff I needed to do my daddy fat sex. Did I send you the right thing? Are you allowed to? Okay, yep, I see your little hand in there. Yep.

A little hand in the cookie jar. Don't want to get caught grabbing in there. How do you zoom on this? Well, I don't know. Your buttons are different than mine. I hit command plus or command minus, but. Oh, yes. there we go, Command Plus.

Or you can hold Command and scroll with the little wheel. Oh yeah, there we go. Even better. Gives me some ultimate control. So last tier list we did was cardio equipment. Prior to that was Strongman Events. Part of that was Barbells. Jim Apparel, all-time classic one right there.

Protein sources. Was that our first one kind of? Probably, actually. What's the best one we've done? So protein sources, gym apparel, barbells, strong man events, cardio. The best one? I don't know. I hardly remember what we talk about in half of those.

I'm going to Jim Apparel is our best one. Jim Apparel was a pretty good one. The protein list one was pretty stupid because it wasn't like, or wait, music. There's also music one too. Yeah, that was kind of when we were stumbling into like, how do we do this? And it wasn't until we were done that we were like, oh, yeah, this is actually like, overplayed gym music is what this is. It took us a whole episode to figure out what we're getting out.

I missed the music one, but yeah. The music one's good, though, too. Okay. So do you have one you want to kick us off with here for the Jim Sames to your list? Oh, boy. Really putting the pressure on right away. Okay.

Come out firing. It's funny. Some of these, there's a couple in here. I'm like, I don't know what this is, but I do know what most of these are. I'm going to start us off with what I call a massonomics classic and that is weight is a number heavy is a feeling that's a very massonomic specific one isn't it it's very massonomic specific i wouldn't say maybe it's one of the more

philosophical ones on this whole list you know it's a lot of these fit under the title of like a battle cry where this one is more of a thinker you know something something maybe you'd want to put on your ball and think about you know yeah but uh weight is a number heavy's a feeling god you know, I just like the levels to it. I like the mass. I hate giving ourselves an S right off the bat. I think we could put it in A. Yeah, I think that's fair.

I don't think it's an S if I'm... No, it doesn't have that mass appeal within the, you know, the whole lifting community. You know, massonomics fans know it well, but it still is small to our little section of the world. So let me... You know what I write on a thank you card when someone orders, uh, their first order and it's a weight as a number heavy as a feeling flag or shirt. What? I say, weight as a number, heavy as a feeling, it's basic algebra.

And they get it and they're like, hell yeah. I've written that a lot of times. Okay, wait as a number, heavy as a feeling. See, that's got a good visual right off the bat. Yeah, it does. Sweet. Okay. Next, let's go to

it's actually very curious how we're going to rate to these. I mean, that's always the thing. Also, I should preface this, this is the first tier list of ours you ever hearing. We make the rules up as we go. Yes. And we didn't like talk about any of these in advance whatsoever. Not one day.

Or even our angle of how we're doing this. So the rating. And actually when we're done, we're going to reevaluate and we might move things around some more. So it's a sliding scale up until the very last minute. Here's one. What about? this, R. P.E. Air.

And it could be something else along those lines, but basically calling something RPE Air is saying it's really easy. Yeah. I hate that kind of. Like, I like it as a joke. I was going to say, there's two ways, though. It's, do you mean it seriously or not? Because that's where it, you know, when you get to kind of say it ironically, but that's what it's good. Like, ironically, then it is good, but like for the sake of having some lower rating ones in here. Yeah. I think that that's not. that good of one. And there are people that actually do say that seriously, like an 100% serious tone, which... Yes. Yeah. Like, that is funny to me as a joke. And it's, we do the thing where

it's RPE insert, whatever. Yeah. Or obscure things. Yeah. Just get it like otter and otter. Okay. Now, the issue with this one is, what the hell do I use as a visual for RPE air? Actually, you know what? That's simple enough. I can just write the words. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. That works. Okay. What do you, what do you think it on your list here for, for whether this sits? Unironically, it's probably close to an F for me. I think that's pretty fair. Unironically.

Yeah. We're actually going to do the whole list and then we're going to come back around and do the opposite. Because RPA air as ironically, I'm like, well, that's like a B. That's not a bad. Actually, you know what? Maybe we should just change this list to different RPEE rankings and you know, RPE air, RPE morning paper and we'll just go on and on all of them that we've used over the years.

Yes. All right. Next up, there's some real bangers in here, but you don't want to go with anything too good right away. Okay. We'll do this one. Progress, not perfection.

Progress, not perfection. I mean, this really isn't like a exclusive to the gym, but it certainly applies to the gym, right? Yeah, I don't do the motivation crap or any of that. Like, I don't know. There's someone this probably means something, but for me, not a fan. I don't like it.

No, like for me, that's an F tier one for sure. Progress, not perfection. Synonymous a little bit to me with great is the enemy of good. Is that how that saying goes? I mean, I'm not saying the sentiment is wrong or bad, but I just don't, I know, I just don't care for that. Like, if you're going to put it on a shirt, that's not a shirt we're going to want to have. No, no, nor is it something that I'm going to say to someone. And if it is the Jim Sayings list in that context, we don't like it.

Yeah, it's out of here, F tier. Yeah, that's pretty much an easy F to me as well. Okay. Oh. Oh. Okay. How about this? It's still your motherfucking set. C.T. Fletcher. Iconic.

That is really iconic. I-S-Y-M-F-S. Like the longest abbreviation that if you go to the gym actually does mean something to you. Actually, this is yours. So go ahead. Go ahead. I have my thoughts. Well, to me, that's very iconic. Yeah, I agree.

It uses an F word in a way that makes you feel good about using the F word, which is always a plus. I'm pretty much like, it's like close to an S for me because it's just, it's C.T. Fletcher, I guess. And, you know, you could, and I'm kind of using this as maybe lumps in all of CTs because you could say, I command you to grow. Right. Muscaro, stuff like that.

But like this is the, I think this is the one. I think so too. Probably. I think so too. I'd say it's an ass. It's a real battle cry of the early 2010's internet. You know,

like it just, ah, it was good. You had to be there. Back when we used to be a proper country. And I guess if you're more into lifting in the last five years, it doesn't mean that much to you. You probably are aware of it a little bit.

But at the time. Oh, just took the world by storm. Yeah. Okay. Next up. I held my tab go. Okay.

Let's go. Okay. Of the same time period. Strength is never a weakness. Yeah. So, I mean, that's a Mark Bell, right? Like, I don't know if he's the first person to ever say that. But, like, you think of Mark Bell when you think of that, right?

Yes, that's what I was going to say. I don't know if he's the first person, but that's the one that I feel like made that saying popular. Like they had that on all their stuff forever. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know. I'm curious, does he still use that in any of his marketing materials?

I'd actually really like to know that if that's still a thing he does or not. Or is he left that one behind? You know? Does anyone know? Does anyone up on their Mark Bell lower? I don't know. Well, strength is never a weakness. I get the sentiment behind it.

It is pretty good. Um, it's not like it doesn't have the whole, uh, like the passion that you can yell behind it, you know. Oh. Um, it's not as good as weight as a number of heavies of feeling. No, no, it doesn't, I don't think it has that level, quite that level of thought behind it. I don't, it's probably a solid B tier, I think. Yeah. Just kind of middle of the pack.

Yep. Yep. All right. What do we got? Uh, next one, we're going to go. Oh, let's do train insane. or remain the same. Classic.

Yeah. Train insane or remain the same. Some of these are impossible for me to even consider not, ironically. I know, I know, I can't ever picture like saying that in a serious tone, you know? I don't know where to put that. Maybe that's like a C.

I don't know, because what did we put in the F? RPA. progress not perfection i don't know if because train insane or remain the same i'm just changing the rules as we go but like that when it is kind of funny to me when i use it ironically so i like it's maybe a sea i don't really know what my logic is on that all right well we're going by fields then and by fields you think it belongs in a sea so we can't argue with that no terrain and same or remain the same there it's been documented it is officially c tier yeah

Looks good there too. Looks really good on that C tier. Okay. I'm going to go here. This is one that's relevant to a lot of people in our circles. Bar don't lie. Yeah. Basement Brandon.

How long has he's been using that a while, right? It's been a while. But he has, though, right? I don't really remember it. I bet I followed him before he was using it. Or maybe he has had that the whole time. really even know. That's what I was just curious.

I mean, I know he could tell us, but has he had that, like, was that in the really early days or did that come around, you know, pre or after home gym? I'd be curious just in his timeline. You know, in the history of things. I always want to know where this falls. Yeah. I don't know. I do like it.

It's concise. It's catchy. I like Brandon. He's a crew member. based on ball don't lie by, I think, Rashid Wallace. I think that's what he said. Yeah, I don't know my MBA history good enough to. I think by Sheed, Rashid Wallace.

Okay. Ball don't lie. I like it, but it's probably not S to me, so to me it's like an A. That's what I was going to say, too. It doesn't have that thing that you can just really yell, you know, in all situations. So I agree with a solid A tier on that one. Yep. Oh, look at that.

A tier, Massonomics and basement Brandon. Good company right there. Yeah. Okay. All right. Do we have any S tiers? We do have one so far. Okay.

How about yeah, buddy, lightweight baby? It's an S tier. Of course that's an S tier. It's like S plus plus. Yeah, this is the most obvious one on the whole list. Yeah. Right. And what's this, are we saying, yeah, buddy, lightweight baby.

It's one, are we putting that as one thing? or we're just saying, yeah, buddy, or whatever, however you want to spin that. Yeah, whatever version of it you like, it all goes. Yeah, that's the top dog, Ronnie. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's, that's it. Like, that's, nothing on the list is better than that.

I don't think to me. I don't think so either. And that might be the closest you'll get to like a unanimous decision on an right. Right. You know, it's just, it's the best for a reason. Everyone says it for a reason, right? Yes.

It just works. That's low-hanging fruit. That was obviously going to go there. Yeah, that one's a classic. All right. Okay, let's do this. Spread the taint. Spread the taint.

Yeah. By our good buddy. Ed Cohn. Friend of the podcast. Ed Cohn. Past guest. Many of fun meme have made of Spread the Taint that Ed is.

got a chuckle's out over the years. They hit every time, don't they? They do. It's his cue for squatting for anyone that doesn't know. He tells you spread the taint. What do you think? Where does that go? I'm trying to get a damn picture of him here.

Sorry. Pretty good. Pretty iconic. It's pretty good. Pretty iconic. It doesn't, I mean, you could actually yell that. It's kind of a weird move to yell that out loud. You know, like that's...

I put it at it. It's not a nest to me. It's not quite. It's still your mother F in the... set and it's certainly not yeah buddy oh yeah definitely not it's like an a or a B to me yeah it's an A or a B um looking at what we got hmm I don't know probably a B tier ish yeah one picture of Edward here there we go B tier and I wonder if we should pause the tier list oh oh damn uh things we so much time has gone by yeah first of all I think we should say tomorrow

is our big drop. We have our biggest drop of 2026. Well, if you're listening live, it's tomorrow. Otherwise, if you're listening, it's happened. It was a few days prior to this coming out as the recording published. So we do have our biggest drop of 2026. I'm wearing one of the shirts. It is the black comfort colors, silly goose barbell club shirt.

I've been wearing this shirt almost every day since we got this shirt. actually. I probably worn this shirt like sleeps in the last 20 days. Blow snow in it. Podcasts in it. Today I, today I blew snow and it went to the gym

and podcast all in it. Yep. In this old girl. So I do really like this and this is on the comfort colors blank that we've come to know and love. Do we want to talk about every item in the drop then? Are we going to go? Good.

Yeah. I mean, we got the circle of trust here with us. We can let it in. So do you have the other tea? Um, no, because I wore that and it's in my laundry. I do have that, I actually think. Do you have either of the other items there? No, none of them.

None of it. I've got the tea here handy so we can show that off. The other tea is right here. And this is also on a comfort colors blank. This is our OG logo T, so the print is in white on this. And the color T on this, I think, is moss. Is this moss? I believe so.

I think so. This, mouse that. Mouse this, mouse that. Yeah. Moss colored comfort colors, OGT. And last time, the OGT, after being gone for like six years, sold out fast. So we had to get it back in another color. In a day.

In less than a day, every single. size every single one was gone in less than a day. So we did bring it back and never before have we had an OGT on this color. And I really like this color. And I really like the OGT. It's OG, the original gangsta. And then the crew-inspired item, crew-inspired, crew-created, whatever,

we first got our eyes on this in Framingham, Massachusetts, perhaps. I don't know if that's the right town. Yes. Got I'm forgetting actually what's in the drop already. Yes. From crew member Big Chris, he came up with this idea because we've had the 8-bit powerlifting. We've had 8-Bet Strongman for a long time.

To lesser degrees, people may be less familiar with it. At one point in time, we had the 8-bit Highland Games tea. We also had the 8-bit party-time tea. Classic. So this is the fifth installment of our 8-bit series, the 8-bit bodybuilding flag. A limited run of 8-bit bodybuilding flags inspired by Big Chris

from our home gym tour with him. He gave us a banner even that's hanging up in Massanomics gym. I think he said it was also inspired by our just incredible recap we do of the Olympia every year. He wanted to make something to commemorate that. That actually makes a lot of sense. That thorough rundown we do.

And then the last item in the drug, drop deep out of the vault. This has been, I think, maybe six years, five, six years since we had these for sale. Deep out of the vault, lower body garment item, back by much popular demand.

When we were at Crew Falls, it was the number one thing that people said, when are we going to get these again ever? It is, you do have the chance again. We brought back the joggers. Massonomics joggers are back for the third. time ever for the first time in over five years massonomics joggers are on the site and they're nice i i have not had a pair in quite a few years and i'm glad to have it back in the rotation and these ones are

comparable to the design on the first joggers we ever did which was just kind of like the more simple massanomics that runs up and down the leg yep we made it even a little bigger this time yes So that's the drop. All four items, I think all are going to be fairly hot sellers. So at the time of listening to this, who knows what's available? Check it out, though. And then we're actually building up some inventory. For the long time, everyone's been complaining because we're out of almost everything all the time.

And we're starting to build up inventory. We're getting caught up on a few things. I would also mention I've been working on the restock of both. horse stall mat coasters and horse stall mat grippers. The horse stall mat gripper, if you're not signed up for a back-and-stock email, you're probably almost certainly not going to get this run. And if you don't get this run,

it's probably going to be two months until we have a run ready of these again. Labor intensive. Yes. Yes. So those are coming soon. We have to be an artisanal made over there. They are really. And the demand is, growing. Like the demand is increasing for the horse stall mat gripper. So do, if you get signed up for

the back in stock emails on either the coaster or the gripper, I don't even know how much we'll advertise that those come back in stock because I think when we send out that email, it's going to sell most of them out. And I want those people to get the first go at it, you know, the first chance. Should we do a supporting, our supporting members segment this week? Yeah. All right. Hopefully I prepared that. And I did. supporting our supporting members is a relatively new segment of the podcast. This is just the 16th time that we will be featuring the segment here in season two of the podcast. Season two being everything from 501 on and this being episode 516.

So I want to shout out first Big Zach. I want to shout out Big Zach giving Tommy D. Creative a shout out for his project. Yes. into the supporting or supporting members. Yeah. Yep. Did you see that in there? What do you mean? Did I see that in there?

He put it in supporting our supporting members. Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought you were, I didn't know if you were saying there was something else that took place that I, yeah. So what did you, what had you worked on for Big Zazz?

His wife had a, I'm not sure how much of it is secret or not, but his wife, they also say they had a logo that they were working on for a project and they were, I gave props. It was probably the best logo

anyone has ever approached me with before. And they just said, hey, is this good? And I said, you know, if you rolled with this, you're doing better than most people. But I said, I think I could make a few little tweaks to it. And so we just made a few little improvements and got them on their way. There was a Pacific Northwest crew meetup. They were at the new kids on the Rock Strongman competition.

It was Dirk McGirt, Big Brian Jeff and Big Joe. And they had their PNW Massonomics crew banner with them. representation with the picture, which is just awesome. It's the one with, uh, I like, I like this idea of like different chapters having banners, you know, it's like their,

it's like their coat of arms for different areas. Yes, I do really like that a lot. I really like that. Like everyone just accepts that. Yeah, this is our regional, this is our regional,

the coat of arms that we all rally behind. Yeah. We take pictures with, like the SoCal group. You know, there's the Boston area one, the New Englandish one. There's the specific.

Northwest one, you know, there's the Iowa group. Everyone's got their own sections. All their different chapters. Yeah. Some are state specific. Some are more regional. Some are more state of mind. Yeah, yes.

Big Mad Cow competed in an indoor volleyball tournament, and they got second place, I believe he said he won $40 cash from that. Can't afford to not compete at that point. Big Scar hosted a 1,000-pound challenge. That was a lifting-related challenge. Obviously, I don't know all the details of it, that, but she was one of the hosts there.

Big Love Lady posted its transformation over the past 18 months in some part with using macro factor. Use discount code mass. What is it, Massonomics? Yeah, Massanomics. Discount code Massonomics. He went from 275 to 215. he posted his before and after pictures.

He got sliced and diced. And he said he's like as strong as he's ever been before at 2.15. He looks completely different. Yeah. That is a transformation. That's big. Yeah. Yeah.

Big Kona set a family PR with his first grandbaby. So congratulations on the first grandbaby. This week's guest on unpaid and underrated, our braddy little sister podcast was Big Kurt of the Kurt Locker. You may be familiar of such fame as a Masanomics gym tour of the court. Is that why that sounds familiar? I feel like I know that guy for some reason. I just can't quite place it. So that is our supporting,

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You go to massonomics.com slash join. We have several levels there. We got something for everyone, really. The only thing that there's not is nothing. You pick any level we're happy, just don't pick nothing. The only thing there's not is nothing. So don't get nothing. thing gets something when you go to massonomics.com slash join.

And it really is the number one way you can support massonomics still. And people continue to join. It continues to grow and it continues to help grow massonomics. And without that program, if like that program didn't exist whatsoever and it never had, massonomics, there's probably a fair chance massonomics wouldn't even exist at this point, actually. Just disappeared, gone forever. It would be nothing but history at this point. Well, you might like that.

I mean, I might like reading about it, but I wouldn't like it not existing, though. Yeah. Okay, so that's supporting our supporting members. How about a certified training facility of the week? Do you have anything on your radar there? You know, I'm looking trying to narrow. Okay, I want to talk about this one. We're going to talk about a little place called Ugly Carpet Gym.

Oh. You heard about this. Have you seen this? Yes. Yes. and this is in Illinois. A little place in the Midwest. I think everyone's in agreement

that Illinois is in the Midwest, right? Yeah, I don't think that's even with, that's not even debate. Okay, just making sure we're on the same page here. Yeah. Okay, you got your photos up. I'm getting there. We got five good ones to pick from.

Okay, I like it. So, so I feel like, like this was a farm office that's been converted into a gym. Well, and Big Bread is a farmer. Okay. So,

yeah, we have a farm office that was converted into a gym. Okay, no mind, I'm tracking you now. I may have known a little, I've known a little more than you did at the time. Like,

what are you basing that off of it? Like, what do you know about farm offices that is so telling here? Just literally reading the description here. Yeah. Oh, if there's one thing I can do, it's Sparta, spot a farm office from a mile away. I can just look at a room and know it's a farm office. I feel like there's also the machine shed next door to the house is what it's in.

Is that what you think? Yeah, it seems about right, yeah. You think it's also where he does all of this farm bookwork? It would be a place where I would do my farm bookwork, so I think that's the same assumption again. Yeah. All right, so we got the ugly carpet gym in Illinois. photo one we got five photos here photo one first of all what really sticks out is there is a red and black theme here isn't there also for just even first of all this gym is awesome yeah well that's got

yeah without even touching about yeah before we get to the equipment yeah i mean if you need the quick summary yeah this gym is really awesome so be ready but uh red and black theme and stick into it stick into it really well here right off the bat man there's just so much to see in this one photo we have you think i would know these names by now but you have the rogue monster with the functional trainer in it. I can't keep straight. He's got the monster rhino plus indie functional trainer. Oh, okay.

There you go. Yes, I knew you'd know it, Tanner. I knew you'd. Yes, I can spot those from him, by the way. So that is already just quite the statement piece. You got Darko anchors with barbells hanging from them. You got, is that a synergy? Yeah, that's the synergy.

Well, do you want to know what it is? I'll tell you what it is. Like a Synergy Plate tree. I haven't seen one of those yet in a gym. He's got the Delta PK 4-tier vertical hybrid plate and kettlebell storage rack by Synergy Custom Fitness. Yeah, that thing's beefy. That thing is big. Yeah.

He's got the red color on that one. I can see, I like how this is just like tucked under a table. He's got the rep ins with the red Black Widow cart. I mean, it's the same setup as mine. It's got the same cart. Except it's, yeah, except he has the full repins, not just the measy little 85-pound. set like I do. I'm going to look at photo number two here because there's just so much to take in.

Photo number two actually is the quicker one to go through. We got Xmaster plates, the Xmaster Crohn's. Those do look really cool. Like any time you got chrome plates, they look really cool. And the X master ones are impressive. And he's got kind of a little workbench area there where the weapons are tucked under. He got some mutant metals. That's probably where he does his bookwork.

Probably, actually. The mutant metals, some arc attachments there. Let's look at photo number three. photo number three is the bench set up inside the rack and is that the uh what what's the rogue bench that is that the manor he's got the manoray adjustable bench yep the rogue manoray we got the we got the vts we got the vts up in the rack yeah he's got the vts i don't think we've done a certified training facility of the week with the vts have we i don't think so and so that's impressive we also there's multiple vulture mounts on the rack so you know we've got

those vultras on him too. Yep. Got those. In the background, I can see my beloved GMWD, L-E-O-O-8. L-E-E-E-E-E-E extension and leg girl machine

that's back there too. And you know it's in black and red to match the color of everything. I'm looking at photo four. So yeah, you can see that. We have the concept two ski erg. There's, is that the Temple of Gaines pendulum squat?

That is the temple. Well, let me just verify. That is the Temple of Gaines, plate-loaded, adjustable pendulum squat. As we saw on the gym tour, With big. Onan.

Onan. Yeah. That's a sweet piece of equipment, actually. That's legit. That is the real deal. That thing's nice. And photo five, we have, you can see the corner of the barbell wall, and there is a lot of barbells. Elite FTSSS yoke bar.

We got, I don't know, curl bars. I'm assuming deadlift bars, I think. Is the new Texas Power bars, Axel bar? Is that in there, too? I see it really beefy. It's also got the all-robar. rounder of gun he's got the gun near all right. Oh yeah you're right yes yes that is down there yep yep that's down there so a really cool collection of barbells for sure and then you have the wall control

with you know just a ton of attachments as well and are these the rogue deep dish plates Tanner can you confirm or deny that oh let me look closely here because they certainly have it he has the rogue deep dish plates deep dish plates. Wow. And we did miss one thing. There is the concept to what's at the, what's the Erg? Well, no, the bike. He's got the concept two, bike Erg.

Bikers, there you go. Yeah, ski erg and bikerg. Yeah. You know what else he's got? I'm trying to see where it pops up in the picture here. He has the Super Bench Pro from Iron Masters. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

The very first photo, it's tipped up with the other bench in it. That's the only one you can see it in. Oh, yeah. The Super Bench Pro. Very popular home. gym piece of equipment there. Yeah. Wow.

And I mean, we're still just, there's still a ton of things here that we have. Oh, this is just scratching the surface on this gym. It's like talking about the big items. Yeah. But damn. He packs a lot into what looks to me to be about 375 square feet. If you just had to make a rough guesstimate of what it is.

Yeah, that's an impressive gym. It is a really impressive gym. It's a really nice one. Yeah. It's, it's freaking sweet. Yeah, it is. So the ugly carpet gym I don't know is the carpet that ugly

Oh I've seen I've seen uglier carpet than that Yeah Is that a Berber Berber what's that? I don't know is that a kind of carpet Oh I don't know Maybe

Carpet types Maybe Is that like B R R R B R B R Burber B E B E R B E R B E R B E R B E R B E R B E R B E R B B R B B B R Hmm I know, you know, it's kind of the hard, yeah, that appears to be correct.

I never heard that before. I know a Berber when I see a Berber. You do, I never knew what that was called. It's just like that hard carpet that, like, you could still, still roll stuff on because it's hard enough. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.

It definitely is a Berber. Oh, I learned something in this episode, I guess. What do you think of Berber carpet? I mean, it's like what would be in a classroom almost. Yeah, or like an office maybe, you know? Yeah, a old farm office. Like an old farm office. Yeah.

I think those are good spots for it. I wouldn't personally want it like in my bedroom or anything, but. Yeah. Yeah. Berber works there though. Okay. Do you, most importantly, we really went into depth on this one. What the most important thing we haven't even discussed that, though,

do you think you could get strong in here? Oh, hell yeah. We're getting strong, ugly carpet and all. We're getting strong in all. We're getting strong in there. All right. This week's episode Let's see

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before we get there is I don't even know what we've, because we've teased this on the pre-show a lot lately. The pre-show is our show before. The show, it's only supporting members can get in there and listen to that. And we've been talking about this big, giant secret project that we've been working on. And we always say that stuff,

that stuff is big and giant. And this is the biggest thing we've ever probably worked on. Marketing hacks right there. Everything's bigger and giant. Everything's big. But we have been working on this probably longer than we've worked on anything prior to a release of something. I mean, yeah, we put more time and effort into this than just about anything we've ever done. Yeah.

And we think as long as things stay on track, which it feels like they are, that the, when we record next week, I mean, so is next week's episode going to be like, I think next week. It's going to be all about it. Yeah, next week is the unveiling. Next week's episode is the unveiling. of everything. So when this episode comes out, like five months of hard work is all going to. If you're listening to this episode, be on the lookout this very week. We're going to probably unveil this.

And the next week's episode, we're going to talk about everything we've been up to in depth. Finally, you'll get to hear like all everything that's been going on behind the scenes for several many months. Yeah. So that's kind of the timeline that we're looking at. Yeah. Similar timeline to Tanner's equipment reveal. No, no, we're actually not hopefully going to just hint at this. We'll probably next week's episode we'll just be talking about that and almost nothing else, right?

I think so. Unless there's a surprise, which surprises can always happen. But I hope there's no surprises and we can stay on schedule. And if there is, it's not going to be. Yeah, I guess it could have to change, but it's not going to change too drastically. I don't think no matter what. It shouldn't, no. Right.

Okay. So I wanted to get that out there. that this is coming up. That is an important thing to know. Yes, is that, yeah. If you skip around, bounce around episodes, which you shouldn't. But if you did, next week is one you do not want to miss. It is one for the history books as far as Massanomics goes.

Yeah. Okay. We're also going to the Arnold really soon and doing a big gym tour that revolves around that. So at some point in time, we'll talk about that. It just feels like this is so on the back burner compared to everything. If you're a supporting member and you're coming to the Arnold, get signed up on our website. You can go to the events tab.

And we have a crew dining out event, the Saturday night of the Arnold that's at the Eagle. We have the entire upstairs rented out. And it's all like we had to buy several thousand dollars worth of food. And then we're going to charge everyone some smaller fee than thousands of dollars. You exchange money. We give you food. You're going to pay some reasonable amount of money for a really good. good supper for some reasonable amount of food yeah I think I think we have 48 people signed up at

this point in time 48 supporting members signed up for that there is there a limit isn't the limit like 60 up there or something yeah yeah I think it's like 60 so we're getting gonna take it to the limit they're gonna call the fire marshal on us they're gonna be like we're gonna be up there everyone's having a good time they're gonna be like all right everyone hold up and we're like what like you guys are over code and then they're gonna like all these guys are going to walk in and then it's just going to be like a male stripper thing. I was just going to say, this sounds like a stripper scenario. Oh, man, who orchestrated this one?

And the strippers are going to be all the mass dynamics crew members that are firemen, like Brandon Doyle and... Brandon Doyle and all of his buddies. All the guys from the world's strongest firefighter at the Arnold contest. Okay. All right, back to the tier list. Oh, yeah, that's so weird. Okay, yeah.

Let's get back to that thing. All right. All right, back to the tier list. Whose turn is it? I'll pick one. I'm not even really sure. How about go to war with the bar or with or on the bar, depending on how you like your war?

Yeah, you know, this one's kind of formative to my lifting story. You know, I learned this from Larry. Learn this from Larry back in the day. Larry Legend. And, you know, it's definitely got that old school vibe to it, but I don't know, I learned it out of meat,

and because of that, it kind of holds a special spot in my heart. So I don't know. Like, to me, I feel like it's a C tier. Yeah. It's got a story to it.

You can also end it with brother. Yeah. You also say it like this. You got to go to war with that bar, brother. Yeah. Yeah. You're allowed to embellish this one a little bit, add a little flare to it.

So you go to war on that bar. This is a war. War. We mean war. That's the C tier. We can all agree on that. I have one of maybe the longest saying on this list. I'm calling an audible here though.

Okay. You ready for this? Yeah. Okay. If I can't get it up for one more set, you might as well start throwing the dirt on me now. Start throwing the dirt on me now. That's, of course, the infamous Larry Legend saying.

I got to make sure I spell this right. There was a lot there. Larry Legend of Masonomics, Jim, infamously said, you know, talking about whether he's going to compete, not compete, whether he's going to put up a good meat, not get a good meat, and, you know, whether his life is he's run down from work and everything else he's got going on. He says, if I can't get it up for at least one more set,

you might as well start throwing the dirt on me now. And damn, do, you know, the older I get, start to think, that Larry guy might know of something. He might be out of something here. I do kind of have to remind myself that sometimes. You know, sometimes you're lifting alone in your home gym. You're like, God, then just going too crazy. My iron triangles extended to the absolute max.

I just can't, I don't have any more effort. And then I remember, I can't get it up for one more set. You might as well start throwing the dirt on me now. and to me that's at least a B or A tier saying right there. Yeah, it's one of those. I'm good with either one, honestly. We'll go B tier. It's an A tier, but it's knocked down to B because it's so long.

Yeah. And you can't do, you can't do the abbreviation. You can't do I-I-C-G-I-U-F-O-M-S. You know, it's just too long. It doesn't work for the, you know, we said, I-M-I-F-M-E-S-L-L-U-U-F-Set, whatever that one. You know, that one's a little.

little on the long side, but this one's really on the long side. So it doesn't, it doesn't work as well there. All right. What about classically, no pain, no gain? Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the more classic ones actually on the list here. Um, you know, it is classic. It's kind of played out. Very played out. I think everyone, I think everyone that's ever been to a gym has probably heard that one or is that ever even worked out has probably heard that one. So it does have the mass appeal I mean, we're debating over an F or a C tier here, right? Like that's, right? I think it's C.

Okay. Which one are you doing? Train and Sainer Remain? Okay. Oh, I was just copy. I just, uh, did we do train and Sainer? Oh yeah.

Okay. I see what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. I'm tracking now. You know, all these words. Yeah. This is, uh, this, this, this board is looking like, uh, like one of,

like just a collection of sassy shirts from the early 2000s that people would wear around. Yeah. If we get too many here, maybe we'll just cut a few of these out. Like if our board gets full,

we'll just stop. Okay, well maybe we should pick some that we can associate a face or more. Yeah. Okay, okay. Let's go with, um, uh,

okay. We're going to go with, you know, everyone wants, everyone would be a bodybuilder, but no one wants to lift those, those heavy ass weights. Did I,

Did I maybe mess up a word or two there? No, everybody want to be a bodybuilder, but nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weight. I do, though. Ronnie's second appearance, if anyone could be here on here twice, I would say it's Ronnie. Yes,

I feel like this is still a really good one, but it doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Yeah, so because of that, I think you got to knock it down one, two, an eight here probably. That's, I mean,

I think that's exactly correct. Okay. How about? Arnold, the pumping iron, the pump is like coming. You know, I was like, I'm coming at the gym, I'm coming at home, you know, everywhere I'm coming. Yeah, this is another all-time classic. Talking about the pump.

Come with me if you want to be coming. Come with me if you want to come. Come with me if you want to come in the gym, come at home to me, I'm coming. Come with me if you want to come. Who could forget his legendary saying. Come with me if you want to come. Hey, you know, the 70s, it was a different time. Pumping Iron, great movie.

That's kind of like the one we chose here from Pumping Iron. Arnold, the most iconic lifter ever. As far as the saying, I don't know. is it well it's not S that's what I was going to say it's not S like it's probably an A to me I guess just because it's Arnold

this is the Arnold factor I guess Yeah I think that's like a B almost And it's just Arnold graduates it to an A I think so I'm fine with that Come with me if you want to come We're going to have a good time Come on guys

Everyone's invited What does that mean Come with me if you want to come I'm pretty excited. I think that they're going to have that on shirts at the Arnold this year. We should have that. We're just for the special limited Arnold release. Come with me if you want to come.

And they can't be mad because, you know, it's not like something you actually said. So it's not like, is that an Arnold thing? I just love the idea of just thousands of people at the expo having that shirt on. Yes. Because everyone would be like, I sort of get it, but it also kind of doesn't make sense. Yes. That's good. That's good.

Okay. Let's do this one. Change of my mind on the fly. I'm just, I'm just conflicted on a few of these. Okay. How about, Okay, I'm going to go, this is the shortest one in the list. Up.

Yeah. A big up yelling. I also did behind this one to write hips. It is two definitely different things, but used interchangeably almost. Like it's just the key when someone's in the middle of their lift and they just say, but up really applies to every lift, I guess. So it's the key there. Yeah.

I mean, this has to be like an A or S tier, right? It's just like the one that people say. all the time. Right? Yeah, you just go, I mean, maybe it's a little, maybe it's not quite imaginative

enough to be an S tier, but I mean, up, come on. Like that's, that's like a tier. It's like you don't want to go down. Right. Because people forget,

you know, people forget. Oh, damn, which direction was I headed? Yeah. You got to set it up. Yeah, I'm good with a. What do you got?

How about I want to hold it? By Kurt Karwaski. Classic. Captain Kirk. Just used that in a meme the other day. I want to hold it. That is an all-time classic. I thought about reusing that video again.

And then it's like my toddler when he sees me have literally anything. You know, like, I want to hold it. It is that same thing. Captain Kirk, I want to hold it. People don't know this near as well. I mean, hardcore power lifters know this saying. You know, people, just generally speaking, people don't know it like they know,

yeah, buddy, lightweight, or if it's still your set, or come with me if you want to come. Like, it's probably one of the least known on this list. I mean, to me, it's very iconic to me, but as far as the ones on this list, it's not probably well, it's kind of like a sleeper one almost. Yeah, I think you're right. You got to bend around and know this one. Yeah, I don't know what that means as far as where it goes.

I don't know if it's like a B or an A. I think it's probably a B tier. Yeah. Because it's, you know, it's kind of one that you can only really say when you're the lifter. It's kind of weird to say when someone else is lifting that you want to hold it. I want to hold it. Watch out. I want to hold it.

Like, oh, I'm kind of holding it right now. Sort of doing my thing right now, buddy. What do you mean you want to hold it? There's no room for you to hold this. All right. What do we got left here? We're getting down to the end. Let's, um,

I don't know if this number 17 is one for the list or not. That might not, that might not, yeah, we'll skip that one. I have, that's off the list. You know,

there's some, I don't know, there's some honorable mentions that I could say. I'll save those for the end. Okay. But, uh, okay,

there's the old classic here of the, uh, of the hip drive. Yeah. Um, um, um, you know, starting strength.

Yeah. Q, same to the max. Hip drive. Hip drive. When in doubt, hip drive. Just hip drive your way out of anything. Never found a situation I couldn't hip drive my way out of. Just hip drive right through this one.

You can hip drive anything if you hip drive hard enough. That's right. Come with me if you want to hip drive. I think it's worth, I think that's the full state, isn't it? Yes. To come with me if you want to come. I'm not huge on this one. It's definitely big in starting string circles,

but it's probably to me like a C tier, maybe. I think that's right. Are you going to use RIP as the picture? Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. All right, here's a picture. I'm looking all youthful and spry over here. I might.

Yeah, I don't know if this is universally. true. I might not love cues that much, like yelling cues. I'm not a big Q guy at all. Because by the time, I mean, to me, like, yeah, you can say cues all you want. I'm going to do the lift. I'm going to do the lift at this point, you know, like, been doing this for damn near 20 years. Like, you're going to change it on the fly on me. I have a way bigger problems. You know. Yeah. Right. Without a spare. Do we need to do if the bar ain't bending you just pretending or not?

What is that? I don't even know if, is that a thing people say or did I just make that up? I think the Husky Boy Barbenders made that one. Is that right? Is that from the Husky Boy Barbenders? Oh, okay. You remember the Husky boy barbenders? I remember.

How could I forget? Husky barbenders. You know what it is. Your brother will still bring up the Husky boy barbenders to me pretty regularly. It's a very, very deep. Can you find the Husky boy bar benders? I got to look right now and see if they still exist. I mean, they haven't put anything out in 10 years,

and they had like 200 followers. I don't know. I don't know why. Like how did the Husky Boy barbenders? It's still that same picture, too, that they've always had for their thing. Yep, their last, oh, no, they had it upload six years ago, and before that it was 10 years ago.

Okay. But how many followers do they have? 133. How did that leak into the mass, like, because they left, okay. there was the Husky Boy Barbenders, and on one of the very first Masonomics channels,

our videos, they left a comment like, there was something like, you know, hell yeah, keep lifting guys or something like that. So then like we all just started following their channel. Oh yeah,

the Husky Boy Barbenders, sweet. Like someone cares about this. Yeah. And they ain't here anymore. We outlasted even the Husky Boy barbenders. That is a deep, deep cut.

Like that is deep. I'm pretty sure on one of the, of the first three videos, if you go look, that that was where they left the comment. Yeah. Like the boys are back. They have a video. These are good.

But they were supportive. They were good. I wonder if any of the Husky Boy barbenders are listening now. They are. They are going to be like, holy shit. We are the Husky. We are an exclusive club of real ass lifters.

There will be no half lifting bullshit. There will be nothing but gains. Enjoy entertaining lifting videos. and feel free to ask plenty of questions. They're just ahead of their time. Don't mind if I do. We used to be a proper country where the Husky Boy barbenders were around.

They were pumping out content on YouTube. Husky barbenders, where are they now? So if the bar ain't bending, you just pretending, is that on the list or off the list? I don't know if it's on the list. Yeah, I don't know. You tell me, is it making the list or not? I just don't know if people say that.

Well, we just say once in a while. Like, are you, like, like, have you ever heard someone say that before? Not seriously, no. I just want to take it off the list. I don't like it. Okay. Okay. What about like, what about?

PR or ER, I want to put that on the list. Yeah, that's a good one. That'd be the last one that's currently. That's a good one that I would add. PR or ER. So personal record or emergency room in the hospital. Wait, wait, that's what that means. It's like, I thought it was personal record or.

I'm going home to watch that one show on TV. It's with George Clooney. Personal record or I'm watching George Clooney. Either one. In the 90s. Yarr was an enormous show. Like, they don't, in terms of popularity,

it was like insanely popular, I think, if you look up. I mean, I think it was too. I never watched it. I can't say that I've like actively watched an episode of it ever. you were too busy watching Golden Girls

That's true I know that Golden Girls much better than I know ER Yeah I don't think I've ever seen an episode of ER in my entire life PR or ER If you use ironically it's kind of is funny I like to I like to use it to like as a real thing if you're really saying like If you're telling someone come on PR or ER like if you can't PR you better ER

You know that's the connotation there which is In idiotic of course to say that if you really meant that. But I don't know if anyone says that really thinking it. Probably not. Probably not. It's like an ACDC shirt, only it's PR ER, PRER. Like that.

PRER. Where do you think for slapping that one? Probably, yeah. It's one of the two. We'll go see. All right. Okay. Anything else you want to add?

We got a little room left. We'll just, maybe these are just, honorable mentions. Unless any of them are so good, we got to put on with us. It's going to give you some sayings I remember from back in the day. We used to have one we threw around quite a bit called Daddy's Home. Classic. That one would get thrown around quite a bit.

Yeah, very, very Masonomic specific on the Daddy's Home. We used to just say that in the gym all the time. I know, all the time. Like it eventually became associate like Jonathan Oldham kind of grabbed it and around with it. But long before that, we were saying that. It was because it was getting brought up in the gym. gym all the time. And I like to know sometimes there'd be a story that would go with it. It's like, you open the door, daddy, so it would get built up.

I may be misremembering this, but I think it like started and I don't know if it was from your brother or I, but like related to Larry specifically that it was like, it was like a Larry thing. It could have been the first time it really clicked with me was I remember being down there one day and Adam was going for a big lift and Ross kept saying it to him. And I'm like, oh, this is good actually. Yeah, Daddy's home. Come on.

Yeah. People won't know. Like Jonathan ran with that, but we, that had been around for a while before. Yeah, it was because he came, he came to town and like, well, and we were screaming at him the whole time. We were right in the heart of screaming that. Yeah, we kept saying it to him. But that's because we had already been saying it, you know, and that's so funny.

It's daddy's home. Yes. And he was like, oh, daddy's home. Okay. And he really took that one. Because that was like shortly after he found out he's going to be a dad. And so he was riding that high of that. But yeah, that one was good.

That one definitely had a stretch for a while. That was good. Other other classics, there's the Tom Platt's video where he's just ripping out leg extensions. And he goes, kill me. Iconic video for sure. Also a classic. A little harder to do much with that one. Very simply just yep, you know, Ronnie,

Ronn, just yep, yep, yep, yep. A good yep, yep, good, well-placed, yep is hard to beat. Yep, it's a filler. It's a filler when you're shouting at someone, yep. Yes, it is. Anything else, an honorable mention or otherwise? Oh, I thought I had one more, and now I can't think of it. Well, it must not have been that good.

if you can't remember it. It must not have been any good. That must be it then. So looking at the list. I do a quick recap. Yeah, we better do a quick recap. F tier, R.P. Air. Progress, not perfection.

C tier. Train insane or remain the same. Go to war with the bar. I forgot the. I got to get the the on there. Go to war with the bar. Also, no pain, no gain. Hip drive.

PR or ER rounds out the C tier B tier strength is never a weakness open the taint if I can't get it up for one more set you might as well start throwing the dirt on me now and I want to hold it a tier we have weight is a number heavy's a feeling bar don't lie everyone will be a bodybuilder but no one want to lift no heavy ass weights come with me if you want to come up and finally in S tier we have it still your motherfucking set and And yeah, buddy. Yeah, that's it. Man, just when I think we can't do the perfect tier list, again, we nail every single thing. I thought we'd met her match, but yeah, you're right. We aced it.

Ace the test. We're like seven for seven on tier lists of absolute perfection. How the hell do we do it? Let us know in the comments what Jim saying did we forget to rank? You know, you can let us know. what you think we did wrong, but what's the format if they want to submit that? I mean,

the only thing we got would have got wrong is just forgetting to include some. That's the only thing we got wrong. Right. But if you do want to, you know, call us out on anything, you start the comment with in my incorrect opinion, or is it my incorrect opinion is.

No, it's in my incorrect opinion. Oh, yeah, yeah, my incorrect opinion is. No, I think, how do we do that?

Yeah. Either way. We'll say, you can either say, my incorrect opinion is or in my incorrect opinion, then you say whatever you want, and then you end it with, but whatever,

I don't know anything. Right. You really disarms the situation. If you want to critique us, you just do that. Otherwise, please take your stuff else, take your negativity.

And then you can say whatever you want, but you got to follow those rules. Yes, as long as you do that. So everyone knows you're wrong. Yes. You can say, we're shit eaters and whatever else you want to,

but just bookend it with those, with those things. And, but do let us know what you think we missed. What did we miss? And in your incorrect opinion, what did we get wrong? That's a tier list on Massonomics. Boom. Oops, we did it again.

Wow. Okay. So what? Is that the end of the show? Do we do it? We did the show. I would say this week's podcast, this week's YouTube video, well, the most recent YouTube video that's come out.

It hasn't actually come out yet at the time of our recording is our home gym tour of Big Willys Garage gym. Willey's weight room? Yeah, Willie's wait room in southeastern South Dakota, just down the road from Tommy's house, actually, maybe not, I actually didn't realize exactly how close

that is to, especially when you're on the north side of Sioux Falls. Oh, yeah, if you live on, even if you lived or if you lived on the west side of Sioux Falls, like, I mean, you could be there in like 10 minutes damn near, you know, maybe less depending on where you're at. And it was a very cool

home gym tour, we didn't know Brendan that well. We didn't know him at all prior to that. We'd never met him. Yeah, I'm not just should say it accurately. We'd never met him before. He was a certified training facility. He is a supporting member now. And we saw his pictures on our certified training facility map.

We always say how we use that to find Jim Satur. Here's another case. If he wasn't on our certified training facility map, we would never even have known, you know, it would have never came up. We literally were recording videos in Sioux Falls and we're looking around who else has certified training facilities in the area that we could just catch here on the same day

because we're going to have time and boom, Willie's weight room. And it's very unique. You know, we got, you think by the time we've toured 70 home gyms that you start to see at all, but it's just his layout is unique compared to anyone else, like how he does it in such a small footprint. And also like,

Oh, he does it on where he didn't spend that much money. Yeah, even his equipment selection was different than a lot of people that we see, too. So, like, you start to feel like you kind of get the general vibe, but there's always a different angle that someone can take in the way they build their gym. Also, he works on, like he does cool, custom vehicle, restorations, modifications, you know, a little bit of everything. And so we got to talk to him a lot about that and talk to him about some of his cool old car. and looking his pickup that he was driving. And that part of it was fun too. Yeah, that was fun.

Yep. So check out that gym tour. Don't forget about her gym tours. More gym tours on YouTube than any other channel. And they're the best. Like, let's not pretend that they're not just the best gym tours, you know. Yes. They are absolutely the best.

I do have a quick sack segment if we've got time for it. Yeah. Yeah, I have that too, actually. You got something too? Well, I mean, we have the same thing. Yeah, I have it just in the room over. So I have it. How do you know what I have, though?

Because I could see it out of the corner. I could see it out of the corner. Oh, you could? Okay. Yeah, just barely. Okay. I've got griddling gains, the lifters cookbook for strength, speed, and power by Big Waffle Iron, Stephen Rose. And it is his book that he put out.

I have not read it yet. I haven't either. I just got to just thumb through a few pages, but I do have every intention of sitting down and giving it a read. But to complete our sports and book segment, sports this week was the Olympic. Books is griddling gains now available for sale, I think through the Kindle app or something like that. Yeah, something Amazon related. I don't know how that whole system works, but yeah, it is available for sale. And I do like getting a nice, hard copy book.

Oh, yeah. I still, I really got to figure out how to re-reeper, redo my Kiknack shelves because I've got so many and I want to display them all in like the most absurd way where you, the most eclectic collection. of oddities and this would sit really well on there. You know, I really liked, I think it's in the first page of the book. He, uh, it's kind of maybe in his acknowledgement slash thank you section. And, uh, do you see that there, Tanner? Do you see his names? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. That list of names there. Yeah. Let's see. Here's some good interesting ones. I'll get to Jake Heinrich, Dylan Coates, Tim Scantleberry, Eddie Woodard, Emmett Reyes, Paul Foss, Matthew Sessney, and Bryce. woman, aka the mass dynamics wolf pack.

What a lineup of people there, huh? Yeah, that is the mass dynamics wolf pack right there. You know, I can't say that. I will not for a second think that to we got to, you know, we're not going to take credit for any of that. But I like to think that we're a part of making that whole chain reaction of dominoes all come together, you know, just like each one of them is a part in making it happen.

I just like to think of the whole thing of like, oh, that's just these people. from all over the place have all been collected here. Well, it's safe to say these people may be a cup. I actually don't see, it's funny, like Bryce and Paul only met each other through Massachusetts. I know. I think Paul's like the best man in Bryce's wedding this summer.

And they're both from Sioux Falls, but it's easy to forget at this point that they actually. That through Masonomics. Through Masonomics. And even the entire rest of the Wolfpack, I don't. They'll correct. They can correct me if I'm wrong. but I don't know that any of them knew each other prior to mass dynamics.

And now they're like the tightest of friends. You know, like, I mean, all this group. The front of a book together. Well, I'm like, I just associate them all with each other as the group wolf pack. I had to remind myself and I'm reading through that. I'm like, well, yeah, obviously he's going to name those people. I'm like, wait a minute. They don't actually live like really near each other or hang out on a daily basis.

I'm like, oh, yeah, that's actually kind of the funny part of the whole thing. Yeah, that's very cool. Yeah, I'm excited to read this and also to display it, too. I could put it at the gym because I have a lot of lifting books at the gym, but this one's too important. Like, I don't want this one to get all roughed around by Randos. Everyone taking it in the bathroom with them. Getting the pages all sticky together.

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