Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 518: Darko Talks Home Gyms, Equipment and Weight Loss

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

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Social media, website, everything. Massonomics! What's up, everyone? We're back for episode 18 of season two of the Massanomics podcast, the lifting podcast, about nothing. My name is Tanner and my name is Tommy. Also, episode two of the gym radar podcast. It coincides with episode 18, season two of the Massonomics podcast.

Just almost too easy to keep track of. How long do you think I can keep? There's only one way to find out. We'll just keep this going. I was just thinking, Tanner, it's not too often that we podcast twice in two days. And then I also do add to that. It's not too often we podcast three times in like five days. which is what we're at right now.

It does feel like we've been doing a lot of podcasting, doesn't it? Actually, I mean, I was going to say, I feel like I live in this chair that's already a given, but I kind of feel like I live in front of this chair with a camera on me the way things have been going lately. Well, for all you know, that's, if you don't get one of those covers, you've got that going on anyways.

True. What do you think of those little things that you put over your camera on your... I mean, I used to think it was insane, and I mean, this is the world. goes on, it's probably not the craziest thing anymore. Yeah. My wife always covers everyone, like puts a bandit over everyone all the time.

Yeah. Like anywhere, there's a camera like that. She's always covering it up. I would say as far as that goes, though, I mean, if you're worried about your privacy, you're probably revealing way more online through just the websites you visit, the things you click, the things you like than you ever could with, you know, a camera in front of you. That's probably true. Also true facts barefoot. Store makes some of the best barefoot style footwear on the market.

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Big news. This is going to be our first guest episode of Season 2 of the Massonomics podcast. For anyone that's unfamiliar with the formula, it's... No, just a second. Pretend this pause doesn't exist. It has been a while since we've done this. Last time we had a guest was. It's true. But you know, I don't know.

Okay, so we're three months into the year. We have our first one. Well, that puts us on track to have about four this year. So I'm not saying it. Let it be known. I made no reference to time there. I'm on the record. I was going to push that no matter what.

Yeah, I could see a scheming over there. really aware of what I was saying. So we'll cover a few of our topics for maybe about 30 minutes. We'll chat with our guest, Big Darko, first time on the podcast. We've toured his gym, toured his facility, but first time as a guest on the podcast, that'll be fun. We'll chat with him. After that, maybe we'll talk a couple more Massonomics things and wrap it up.

That's more of an outline for our newer listeners. know how this works. Just breaking it down. Play-by-play, what to expect this week. Okay. Well, what are you drinking over there? Oh, okay, we're starting with that. All right, okay.

Let's start. I got the polar raspberry lime premium seltzer. I've got a liquid death mountain water. Sparkling drinking water. Is that a regular? Yep. Polar's good. It's good polar.

Might have to grab a horse doll mat coaster for mine. like five of those left or so back here. Oh, there are some. Not many. Okay. Not many, but you could buy one still. Probably not by the time this comes out. You're probably too late.

Are we going to start with any Jim Radar updates? Maybe we'll give a few updates quick since we kind of waited a long time last week to get to anything there. God, been a lot of people, a lot of people getting in the site using it. Um, pretty big milestone. Cross 7,000 reviews. That's crazy. 7,318 as we speak. Man, take your eye off that one for a minute.

And just keep shooting. In one week of being live. I mean, that is the craziest number of the whole project so far. But, uh, yeah. Yeah, a lot of reviews going in there. I can say at this point, I can't read them all. There's a lot to miss. Oh, gosh, no.

But I do feel like I read a fair number of them. There's always something good in there. The leaderboard, you know, we had this top 100 leaderboard. Used to be if you had a proper country. Let's say the leaderboard used to be on easy mode where if you had like 100 and some points on the website, you'd be on the leaderboard. Now you need 500 points. You've got to be a gold medal member to even make the leaderboard anymore.

Yeah. Which is also hard to believe. So that's cool too. And there's five people over 2,000 points. which is our highest, highest level. There's 32 over a thousand points. That's,

that's impressive. Yeah. You know, we did the math. I remember when we were creating the point scales for that. I think we thought, oh, someday some of these people will get to 2000.

I'm not sure we anticipated five people. We didn't think there'd be five in a week. No. No. I mean, it gets a lot harder once you get to 2000, but still, like,

that's also a crazy number. Yeah. The new gyms keep rolling in. You know, it's great to see it hasn't really slowed down. They're just still, they're still piling in there. Yeah. You know, are we going to do, are we going to introduce a new segment later on this show?

Yeah. Okay. Because I have some other. Or should we do it right now? Well, how don't you tell me. We can just do it right now. Okay. This is the introduction of the first ever radar report.

Yeah, do you need a, do we need, I don't have like, do we don't have radar report music? Well, we might have to revisit what. our report music is, but let me find something for the interim. Okay. What do we want here? No, not that. I just feel like

we know all these ones too well. I need something new. I just want something new. Okay. Here we go. Maybe this. That works. Yeah. That works for that. for this week at least we'll let roll with that okay this week's drum on roar man that's right

strum on okay radar report is going to be where we discuss just things that we found on jim radar things that are taking place that we like me whether it's an update kind of actually what we were sort of just doing but we're going to formalize it now and tanner i got a couple notes here do you have anything specific you want to want to cover no other than we i wanted to make sure to mention the review number also we're now over 4,900 piece of equipment within any any time here we'll be over 5,000 pieces of equipment in the database. 5,000. Other thing I wanted to mention.

Equipment. Damn, that is crazy. Wow. Okay. I got two things I got a note that I've discovered through Jim Wright over the, over the short period of time here. One, Jonathan and Genelie, the Roost, have made maybe the most impressive Atlas stones I've ever seen.

Have you seen their review on those? Yeah, I already told him when do it, when are you making some for me to purchase from you? Everyone needs to go to the DIY Atlas. You can just go to the equipment page and type in Atlas Stones and then find the DIY product. And then go down to the reviews, the one that that Gena Lee and Jonathan have made. Their black Atlas Stones are crazy looking. It's like two giant as bowling balls. Oh, there they are.

Like I've never seen stones that look like that before. Have you? I haven't seen a set of stones like that in a while They're nice And he gave a little bit of his explanation On how they put them together and everything But I was I was really I was really impressed on those

Those are cool And they almost look too nice to use I know they do I'd love to know Well but that dye Isn't it like something you put in the concrete To make it turn that way right? Yeah but he also put sealer on it

I'm sure is why it's shiny like that I don't you know I wouldn't make it shine What I'm trying to say is even if a piece chipped off, it's still going to be black. It's not like paint. Should be. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

It should be. Okay. So that's really cool. And then I found another review today. This is one of my favorite reviews of the entire website that I've read so far. And I am going to, oh, okay, God, I'm glad I screenshot of this. I'll just put it in the Discord so everyone can see it too. Okay.

But there's a few things in here that I just love. And, okay, I just found this review. This is from mid-sized Sean, and he's reviewing the Bodymaster's 45-degree hyper-extension, which looks like an amazing 45-year hyper extension. He wrote a very long story on it, just talking about this is an equipment from a bygone era when mass monsters roamed hardcore gyms. It's build qualities unsurpassed. You know, he's going on and on.

Also have a very interesting story about a dear old lady whose husband had passed had it listed on Facebook marketplace for free, and he was the first one to send her the annoying, is this still available? And she was kind enough to hold it for him while he drove an hour to pick it up. And this is where the review really gets good to me. Given the circumstances under which she acquired it,

it serves as a memento mori, a reminder of death for me that I am simply its next custodian and that it will outlast me. And I'm like, damn, that is an amazing review. And I mean, ain't that the truth? Like, that thing will last forever. It's just mid-sized Sean's turn. It's not really his.

It's just his turn. That literally already has happened to the piece once. Yes. And Sean will also die and someone else will get that for their home gym. It's like the ring after you have this thing. It comes for you. The body master's 45 degree. Those pads look new.

It does. It looks like the elite FTS ones, you know, that curve around the top. Yeah. And who knows maybe part of that is, but the frame of that old beast will last forever. Yep. It'll just, who knows how many lifters will use and die with that while they move on to the next. Ah, that one just, I was reading that. I love to think about how many people are going to die using that 45 degree hyper extension.

That body count on that thing's insane. I wouldn't know the body count of that thing. Yeah, that's amazing. That is amazing. It's killer. To die for it, you could say. Yes. I like that.

Okay, that's our awesome first radar report. Anything else on the radar? I think that's it for now. I would remind people, get signed up for Jim Radar if you're not. We have like 350 certified training facilities on Jim Radar now, but what that tells me is there's still almost 200 certified training facilities out there that actually have not signed up for Jim Radar yet.

So, I mean, you guys should be the first people signing up for Jim Radar. A, you get all the premium features. B, we already know you like this stuff. C, what the hell are you doing? Get on Jim Radar. D. C, all of the above. Yes.

Yeah. So get on Jim Radar, especially you 200. Everyone else also, but especially you 200. Get on there. The map looks cool now. It'll look even only cooler once we get all of you on there. Looks cool now. Imagine with 200 more pins on it.

Yeah. Then we're going to start a body master's 45 degree reverse hyper death map. Everyone that's where everyone's buried that's that uses this thing. Does body mat? Does they still exist? Do they still make sure? No. Okay.

No. Well, also my. You could say that the people then made the. company just had their turn with it too and it's done to the next one. My knowledge on equipment brands has gotten a lot better whether I like it or not too or it's just like, okay,

just the awareness of it's like, oh, you're putting in this Icarian piece. Icarian was purchased by pre-core in 99. It's like, right. That's the part that threw me off at a certain point on Icarian pre-cor. I'm like, which is it? And I'm like, ah, it's both. That's the confusion here that I

have. They were inverted. Is that the right time to use that? Yeah. That's, I think, the way Tom Cruise would have wanted it. Okay. Radar Report. We were also on Neural News this week when we were talking about all the podcasts we were doing. So go listen to the most recent episode of Neural News.

You'll find the likes of the two of us chatting with Jake and Nice Like Mike on there. And we talked, of course, we talked about Jim Radar, but we probably talked for 30 minutes about Massonomics history. It's quite a bit, actually. The regular listeners here will probably like that as much as anything. You know, you've probably heard us talk about Jim Raynor

quite a bit lately. But there's a lot of good, just old school massanomics talk built in there too. It was fun. It was fun. What's this belt? Oh, okay, just quickly. Did you get a new belt?

No, I had, I just, I don't know why I thought of this the other day. I was put my belt on, my lifting belt on. Put your belt one prong at a time just like everyone else. Well, just like everyone else. But what I'm wondering, I'm starting to realize I might be doing something different than everybody else. And this was really brought to my attention for the first time of my life when I was at

Massanomics gym and I put the jelt on. And I said, oh, the pockets are upside down on this. And you're like, what do you mean? And I go, well, it's, it's, they made it backwards. And you're like, well, it's because you're putting it around your body. counterclockwise. And I'm like, well, isn't that how everyone wears a belt? And you're like, I don't do that.

And Ryan was standing there. He goes, I don't do that either. Like, you guys both put your belt on clockwise. Yeah. And for whatever reason, I was adjusting my lifting belt the other day. And I was just remembering how you guys had said that. And now I'm curious, what direction do most people put their belt around their waist? So, but you're saying like on a lever.

On any belt. I put the belt so that it wraps. You know, when I'm leading the belt around me, I'm putting around my body counterclockwise. is how I put a belt on. So then when it comes down to tightening the belt, I grab it with my right arm to pull and tighten it. Is how, you know,

like on a belt with a prong is how I. Yeah, I feel like that's what I do. Oh, I thought, okay, I thought that day we were talking, you guys were like,

oh, no, you like same thing with the, you know, the, on the jelt, you know, it was upside down because I was putting it around my body counterclockwise.

But maybe that's normal. I don't know. Hmm. Maybe it depends on which dominant hand somebody has. Yeah, see, I'm right-handed, though. All right, myth busted. So we'll find out. Someone said, you're a madman, big win.

I'm just seeing what people say about the belt activity. Someone said they go back and forth. That's even crazy. I need more research. I have to think about that one more to even know what I think is right and wrong. I don't have a good opinion. But so you're, you're, You do it the same way all the time, though you're saying for sure.

Yes. Don't change in my belt direction. Left and right. I have a whole world mixed around. Do you ever use something to, like, do you ever, you know, people will like do something where they put their belt against the rack? Oh, no. No.

Have you ever done that? I've never done that. That's maybe more of a thing with like a, maybe a double prong belt where like one can get kind of stuck. and but no, I don't, I don't have that issue at all. Have you ever felt like there's a use for a double prong belt? No, especially because before I had a lifting belt, the first time I ever used when I was borrowing a buddies,

that was a double prong, and I just remember how much of a pain in the ass that thing was. I think it's been pretty well debunked at this point that like a double prong doesn't do anything that a single doesn't, right? What could it possibly do different? Be more difficult to tighten and take off. That is what it seems like. Okay.

Thinking about time. What? He's not here yet, so we still got time. Okay. Yeah, and he might not come to like 15 more minutes, so we probably could talk about something else here too. Oh, okay, I got a quick one for you here. You know what?

Okay. I'm late to the game here, but in the name of always just slowly, slowly over the course of a year and a half of using macro factor, You know, you just dial in things just a little bit, one at a time. I got to say, I think this is one that you've just always mentioned it in passing, I believe, so I've never really even paid attention to it. Fat-free cheese, never done that before. And man, that is for a guy that likes to have cheese on his food,

you realize how much fat you can cut out of your day and also kind of up the protein at the same time, too, going with the fat-free option. You know what the worst part of it? Here's a watch out for on fat-free. cheese. I eat a lot of it. Here's the worst part about fat-free cheese. If you put it in the microwave, melt it, it sticks to things so much more than regular cheese. Oh, really? Like if it gets melted on a plate, it does not want to come off on the plate once it dries. And I don't know what it is about it's all those additives they're putting it. I don't know, but it sticks way more to the plate. It also

doesn't melt as easily as regular cheese, too. It's, it's the, it's the, it's, I mean, that's the big, well, it doesn't taste as good either, but it doesn't taste. It doesn't taste bad. Yeah, it's in the ballpark. The texture is off too, though. Like, it doesn't have the same level of like smooth, creaminess to it. Like, it is a little more rubbery and. But it's still pretty good, honestly.

And that's the thing. Like, if I was just eating it as slices of cheese, it would be very noticeable. But typically it's one ingredient with mixed with meat and rice and sauce and potentially several other things. So it's just the illusion of cheese at that point, really more than anything. Yeah, fat-free cheese is a great hack if you need to watch your fat and your diet. Kind of hard to find, though. It's not a given that every place just has it.

We get ours from Walmart. They always have a good surplus stock of the store brand, I guess. I don't know. What is it great value or what is store brand at Walmart? Yeah, yeah, great value. Yeah. Yeah. Like we usually have about like six-packed.

of those at any time. I just got it for the other day. I got like three. I'm like, well, that didn't last any time. I'm going to have to do the same thing. Get about six of them at a time.

Yeah. Fat free. Cheddar cheese. Great hack. Okay. Want to hear some supporting our supporting members? Yeah. This week.

Well, actually, I'm curious to hear. This is leading into, now I realize what you have written down here. I was like, what is this about? Now I realize what it is. Because Big Ben,

Big Colton, and Big Rissa. all competed at a strong man show together. It was the Frozen Feets event at Los Campione. So I think Colton got second. Rissa tied for first. Not sure what place Ben got, but were you there?

I was there. Also, Brendan, I believe was there. I didn't see him. Who was? I believe Brendan was competing as well from Jim tour. Oh, was he? Willie's weight room.

You didn't see him, though? I didn't see him. Kind of a challenging environment to see things in. Right. But, yeah, there was a lot of things. I know I'm going to miss somebody,

but Jake was there, Jake's wife was there, Grayson, Hannah, Paul, Bryce. Who else was I talking to there? I mean, there was a lot of people there. It just felt like a Massonomics meetup. Yeah, that's what it sounds like.

I went and just basically talked for three straight hours. I mean, that's what we all did. And then it was like, all right, I guess we're done here and we took off. So were you there at like the end of the competition? Oh, no, I got it. I think it started at 9. I was there by 10, and I stayed until, like, probably a little afternoon.

And it was just about getting done. And I had my fun, so I hit the road. But, yeah. Yeah, it was, it was a fun time. It's quite the crew meet up there. It was, it was. We got to, well, Paul and Bryce are both going to be in Ohio. So we got to talk about our Ohio plans.

Yeah. So when are they, what day are they leaving? They're flying out on Thursday because they have weigh-ins on Friday morning, I believe. Is Bryce going to make weight? Well, that's the worry. That is the worry. We'll have to see. He said he's been eating a lot of fat,

fat free cheese in preparation. He should make weight on. I think he'll be fine. And then, you know, he said once he's done with this meat, he can basically just get ready to sell all this stuff off too, you know,

just one week closer to be done. Like he's done to be done lift. What's he, is it like on his gym equipment? Is it just going to be a first come for serve situation? I think it's probably going to be like that one lady. It's just all.

going to be free. She's just a sign, probably just a sign in his driveway. It says free equipment take. In Bryce's case, he's not going to die. He's just getting married and he's quitting lifting. Yeah. Yeah. Some people, well, it is kind of his funeral. But like, in his case, that's the end of his lifting career. It's done. I mean, he's pretty much been on record, right, that he's going to quit lifting once he gets married. It's been documented. I think they talk about every week on the Huck Finn Barbell show. I want first dibs on some of that stuff in there once he hangs it up here in a few months. You too. Big Antony got accepted at the USDA Sanford School of Medicine.

What school is that, Tommy? One of Canada's top business schools. Yes. He's going to be a doctor from one of Canada's top business schools. Doctor of business. That's pretty cool. And he starts the day after the Lift Hardly, VZ Classic.

I think that last year didn't Garrett start his medical school, like the day after the must be a thing. It's just how medical, they just, they plan their calendars around the Lyftar of the Visi Classic. They're like, ah, we got some guys that are competing again this year.

We got to wait, wait till the day after to start. We can't ruin this for him. And Big Rissa was this week's guest on unpaid and underrated. Go give it a listen. And if you're a Massonomic supporting member, you could potentially get on there as a guest if you're involved in the community. And this is important.

We have a big crew mailer coming this spring. There's going to be a line in the sand. If you're a supporting member, if you're a supporting member, there's a laundry list of perks that come along with that. I'm not even going to get into them all today for the second time. You said laundry list. We know that.

It's a laundry list. The one I want to talk about, though, is this gift that's coming up. And we're going to have a line in the sand that's coming sooner rather than later. If you're not a supporting member soon, you're going to miss out on this. and you will be labeled as a giant horse's ass for the foreseeable future if you miss out on this. I do not want to see any of you be the person that signs up the week after this gift goes out.

And you can say the current supporting members are champing at the bit just to get this thing. They're going to be champing once these go out in the mail, that's for sure. Should we do a certified training facility of the week? I thought you would never ask. Jim Radar. I can't wait to see who. who's going to get the extra 50 bonus points for the leaderboard that gets to be certified training facility of the week. So we're heading on over to Jimradar.com slash map where we can see this beautiful map of really the entire globe.

The entire planet Earth is on this map with pins everywhere. This thing is handy. Where do we want to go this week, Tanner? Oh. Have any preferences? No, I was going to leave it up to you. You're kind of the geologist here. Um, do we want to, do we want to go international?

Um, no. Okay. Okay. We'll keep it in the States. Just because the answer is probably supposed to be yes. I'll say no. I'm fine with that. Oh.

Okay. Okay. I'm just looking around here at a few places. Damn. See, the problem with Jim Radar, this is a real problem, is that everything is so good. It's really hard to narrow down where to go to. You could say Jim Radar's biggest weakness is that it's very strong. Is that it just cares too much.

It's too good. Wow. Okay. We went to Denver area last week. Where were we the week before that? Do you remember? Illinois. Illinois.

Oh, yeah, that's right. And then, oh, boy, Tanner. You're not making this easy on me. What about, oh, I keep finding cool. I don't know. Should I just go with this one?

Yep, whatever you think. Okay. I don't think we've done this. I have, I don't think we have. Did we do the lab in Georgia just outside of Atlanta, Georgia? I think we did.

Now I'm questioning myself. Or did we not? We don't have them marked as certified training facility of the week, so we can do it here now, and then they'll get it for sure. Okay. I don't think we did this one. Okay. Do you see it?

Have you seen this? Yep. Yep. The lab. We're in the Atlanta area. All right, we got two pictures here. But with the beauty of Jim Radar is just having two pictures, doesn't mean we don't know what's going on.

Very aesthetic looking right off the bat. This is a basement gym. Okay. It's got that, you got the picture here? It's got that black on black look. And then it has the all white equipment, kind of that basement brand inspired style, you could say. It's got the hex lights over above,

lighten everything up real nice. And I don't think we got horse doll mats on this floor. This looks like some premium flooring. Top-notch stuff. That is not of the horse variety. But looking at the actual equipment, Tanner, you give me my rundown. down on actual specs here, but we got the rogue

four post monster rack. Yeah, there's an RM6. Well, no, that's the other one. Oh, yeah, they got two racks. Yeah, there's actually, there's an RM4 and an RM6. Yeah, and the RM4 is actually spaced out so that it, okay, so it's a functional trainer, but they have it spaced with the storage for dumbbells in the middle.

So it's a pretty, there's probably an actual name for the setup. It's actually very similar to Brian Copleman's setup. Yeah, it is, isn't it? It is similar to Brian Copleman's. Where you have a tower on one end, storage, tower on the other, but then it turns into a rack on the other side. And then this rack... He has the Indy Functional Trainer on.

Yeah, yeah, there you go. Indy functional trainer with a storage rack attached to one side and, yeah, the additional weight stack on the other. And then he's got the prime smart arm system here with the shorty bench. And shorty adjustable bench, the smart arm. I mean, several of the attachments. He's got them all wall-mounted for a very clean look because, I mean, it is quite a bit of stuff getting it all going.

But that is nice. And then, yeah, in the back corner there, is that, what's that camber bar? What kind of camber bar is he got there? That I was just looking at, that's the Titan, Cambridge breast bar. Quite a few people have that thing, actually. They do, yes. He's got that full dumbbell set. Those rep urethane dumbbells look pretty fancy in there on that.

Oh, those are, okay. Yeah, the rep urithane dumbbells. Yeah, those are nice. And then, yeah, it's the RM6, but he does the wings off the side of it. And I can't quite tell, yeah, I can't quite tell him that photo how he's actually using that because he doesn't really, doesn't, maybe he hasn't set up for storage. I'm not totally sure. He doesn't have a whole lot on there. But very clean setups.

No doubt about that. And then the other photo, I don't know if this is just looking behind or what direction this is, but was that a stepper stair climber, stair mill? Okay, I was just looking here. Yeah, that is what? He's got a Peloton. And the Peloton too, yep. Yeah, he's got the Stepper. The Stepper Steremill.

Stepper Steremel. We got some tiny dumbbells, the Peloton, a Titan Playa box and some TRX bands. Yeah. Also a Georgia fan, which fits. He's in Georgia. That actually checks out, doesn't it? Yes, it does. But he's got a couple Georgian shadow box jerseys up there, doesn't he?

soccer or volleyball or something like that what do you think sport that is oh yeah i don't know i just assumed it was football but yeah i don't think it is uh probably soccer maybe yeah we'll say soccer that is a sweet gym though yeah the lab officially the most recent certified training facility of the week but even with jim radars help tommy we need to know do you think you could get strong inside of the lab oh hell yeah yeah we're going with big james inside the the big lab and getting hella strong. All right, certified training facility of the week. Do you want to read one ad quick?

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Doing pretty good. Are you familiar at all with the Massonomics podcast? I am. I think that's how we start our week here at Darko lifting every Monday. Starting your week off right at Darko lifting. So Big Darko, if you don't know, what have you been living under a rock? get out from underneath that rock and find out about them. We've done a gym tour and a facility tour both with you.

And a Vulture Tour too. Yeah. How long ago were we there? It was last January ago. Yeah, so it's been over a year. Wow. Time flies when you're having fun. And now we got you on the podcast.

We're excited to get you on. So welcome, Darko. Oh, no. Thanks for having me. Thanks for the invite. Awesome. It seems like you've had a lot of stuff going out. on since we checked in with you last.

Yeah, yeah, quite a bit. So what's the most recent updates with Darko lifting? What's been happening? It seems like a lot. Just as of February, we moved out of my garage finally. We are in our new warehouse, and that's where I am right now, which is a bit of a relief. We were running out of room, running a full business out of my garage,

and trying to still have a gym in there was not the best. So we finally moved everything out of there. And now I have a full warehouse and a second gym to build with equipment. What was the process like trying to find a warehouse? I mean, is that challenging or was it just a matter of, okay, once you look, you had some options and it was pretty straightforward. It was pretty straightforward. I knew I didn't want to drive very far.

I'm just my kids are still in elementary school, and I have to pick them up every once in a while. So one, I was just trying to find something that was relatively close by. And where I live, there's not a lot of places that are industrial or that have warehousing. So I was kind of limited to about two or three rural centers that are warehousing. So it was just a matter of finding out one that had enough space that we were looking for. and even the one we got, which is about 1,540 square feet, I kind of wish we would have gotten something a little bit bigger just to kind of future-proof us a little bit.

But, you know, we may do it with about 150 square feet in my garage for three years. So I think we can make 1,500 square feet last quite a while. Yeah. So does that mean the garage gym, did it take over that extra 150 square feet to them for gym equipment? Oh, it sure does. Yeah, so that's actually why I haven't updated my pictures on gym radar yet is I have a lot of plans for my garage gym.

And I'm just waiting to have a little bit of time. I've been so busy here at the warehouse that I haven't had time to fully do my garage gym over again. And as taboo as this is, I'm going to pull out all my stall mats and do rolled rubber flooring. And that's just such a big project. And I'm like, uh, really going to need a couple. days to really do that whole thing. That's just a big project in your job. Yeah. Like I did a small version of that last summer and

it's, it is labor intensive. And yeah, you got way more stuff than me. So yeah, I can hardly imagine. So is it. I just added the leg press. I weighs a thousand pounds. Oh, yeah. I'm not looking forward to moving that again. You, you added a leg press. Yeah.

Because you had, when we were there, you had, was it the signature fitness? Yeah. Okay. Do you still have that? I still have it. It's over at my buddy's house. My buddy Brian, who works with me. So we actually, shortly after you guys came toward the gym, I moved that over to his house because we needed to build another workstation exactly where that leg press was.

And instead of bringing that back, I saw a good deal on Facebook marketplace for a prime fitness leg press. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's that like seeded one, isn't it? Is that what? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I have seen that in your stories then. Okay. So how do you like that? Yeah. It's nice. It's really nice. I mean, the one issue of selectorized leg presses is that you got to start in kind of an offered position.

But I mostly use it for accessories, so it's fine. Right. So what else will you get new to fill up some of that additional room? I have on order right now a freak athlete hyperpro. Okay. I'm hoping that doesn't turn out to be a. table. We'll see. I'm hoping. 50.50. Yeah. And, you know, some of it as silly as this is, I can't bring in too much stuff mainly because I care about camera angles because I post my

workouts every morning. So I can't overfill my gym. So there's not going to be too much more. I did bring in a deadlift platform, which I have, which is, I posted. in some of my videos. So that takes up quite a bit of floor space. So between those two, that takes a wide a bit of space that I wasn't utilizing before. And then I kind of have some ideas in my head about trying to build out something like a dinabody chest press

machine just with some tinkering that I kind of want, that doesn't rely on plates. It'll be both reloaded. So it'd be a little more compact. So that's that's cool. Whenever I have time, which might not ever happen. It would be never. Yeah.

Yeah. So like is it, is there anything, any negatives of the warehouse? You know, like, is there any party that's like, oh, it was convenient that I'm like five steps away from my kitchen or anything like that? Or is it just all better? No, it's all relatively positive. So my warehouse is about five minutes. Okay. It's a five-minute drive from my house, so it's relatively close.

I would say the only negative, it's a positive and a negative. There's a bar about two doors down from our location. Yeah. On one hand, it's very positive because if you're, it's Friday at 4 o'clock, you know, it's kind of nice. But you also kind of get some weird people walking by us. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of them like to peek their head in during the afternoon, like, what do you guys do in there?

You don't want no part of this. You're going to have to have to get the warehouse on Jim radar too. It has been weird, though, going to work. I actually had been home basically since the start of COVID. So having to leave my house and like take my stuff with me every day. Right. I got so used to being home for basically five to six years straight. It's, it's, I got to get in.

know a whole new routine of packing my stuff in my bag and grabbing, you know, protein shake and my breakfast and just take everything to work with me. So it's, it's kind of a, I mean, I did it for 20 years, but, you know, you take six years off of doing that. And it's, you got to kind of remember everything that you got to pack because before it's like, I'll just go to my kitchen and grab lunch real quick or something. Right. Right.

You mentioned filming your training and just your. training in general. It seems like since we left you last, you've really been taking your training really seriously. Yeah, you know, when you guys came for the tour, you know, unfortunately at that point, my training had definitely kind of fallen off. You know, at that point, I think I'd still been working by myself. And, you know, thanks to the home gym community, I just was so busy. I'd have been working essentially 12-hour days, like six days a week. And so you're working 12, 12 hour days, you got to get some sleep. I got two young kids. You play with your kids. It's not a lot of time to train. So once Brian came on board, I think he came in March of last year,

you know, now I kind of settled into a routine where I can be done with work at five. I can get to bed by 9 o'clock. So I wake up every day at 4.30 in the morning. I'm trained for two hours. So over the last, I mean, especially since home gym con, because we're still basically, basically, because we're still basically when he came on, we were still trying to catch up on a lot of orders. So basically after home gym con until now, I think I've probably trained, I don't know, 30 out of 31 days of every single month, essentially. And then it's just, yeah, it's been going really well, you know, a couple nagging little injuries, but that's just part of being old.

And you lost quite a bit of weight too, didn't you? Yeah, I dropped a little over 40 pounds over a couple of, couple months. And so what was, I mean, was that tracking food? Was that just more movement? Like, what was what was driving that? So I didn't really track any calories. That's kind of, you know, I've done this before. So I'm generally aware of what I'm eating. I'm, I've always a creature of habit. So my breakfast, every single day, the same thing, you know, protein yogurt, protein shake, protein bar. So just kind of get that out of the way. Lunch would be the exact same thing every single day, kind of low calories. And then a lot of it was just not staying up late every single day

in my garage until 12 o'clock. Because you do that, then you're, you know, you're snacking, you're having, you know, sodas or drinking, you know, a couple of beers at night. And then you're not training either. You're not sleeping well at night. You know, you're getting four or five hours of sleep at night. So between all of those things, you know, you remove all of those and then you start training, you know, the weight just essentially melted off once I was able to basically go to bed at 9 o'clock. Right. So, yeah, that was, it was a very nice change. But eventually I got so low in weight.

My wife was like, you got to put some weight on. You look like skeleton. It seems like your lifts have been going good, though, too. Like, it was tracking like that your squat seemed like it kept creeping up. Is it still all going good? Yeah, I feel, you know, my deadlift, I just hit a PR of 385 with a conventional deadlift last week. I've always been a very poor deadlifter. I don't know what it is.

I just. Welcome to the club, man. You and me both. Yeah, I just, it's never been a lift that I've been good at. I've always been more of a Benger. So to be able to hit that, I really only started training my deadlifted like on this stretch for the last two months. so to be able to hit that already. I think it's just been a testament to some of my training,

just being consistent. And my spot, yeah, it's definitely jumping up there pretty quickly again. I think my max I've done previously was like $392, and I think I just did $3.65 the other day. Nice. And I'm at least 20 pounds lighter than when I did it before. Yep. So I'm playing on hovering around 190 pounds,

where before when I said all my PRs, was about 207 pounds. So I'm hoping to be about 20 pounds lighter and still, I definitely feel confident that by the time lift hard of the Fizi comes, which I am signed up for. Yes. I'm going to crush all of those. Yeah.

So that's the break, you know, for anyone that doesn't know, Big Darko is signed up already. You signed up like the day it came out for the Lift Hardly VZ classic powerlifting meet 2026. Yeah, no,

I'm excited to get out there. Oh, man. It's going to be fun. I'm pumped. will be a lot of fun. So you haven't, you haven't done a powerlifting meet before then? Or,

or not really. I did, um, so like the home gym discord used to kind of do virtual meets. So, you know, I've done one. It wasn't like any official meet.

Right. But I, you know, I'm used to kind of the standards as far as a comp bench. Right. What's expected, you know, at least on a squad and death lift.

So I'm definitely going to start prepping, especially my bench, uh, at least for the pause. is the singlet is one thing that I did not have to use the last time so that that's that's going to be one thing that I need to look into getting yeah you're going to love I mean I don't know you might not love the singlet but outside of that I think you'll really enjoy it it's going to be a lot of fun having you here for it too yeah that that's going to be that's

cool we were excited when he saw it when we saw that you joined up for it no I'm I'm really excited one to just do kind of a you know serious serious meat gives me something to just, you know, focus my training on. And, yeah, I look forward to just kind of, you know, at that point I'll be 42. And, yeah, you know, I'm hoping to sets in PRs at 42, which, you know, a lot of people don't do. So that'll be pretty exciting. Yeah, probably also the first time you've been to South Dakota. It will definitely be the first time when I've been to South Dakota.

Are you doing a solo trip or is the family coming? that'll be a solo trip because the weekend after we might the family might have to go to Florida for my daughter's jiu-jitsu competition and then the weekend after that you're going to have a busy month home gym yeah it's going to be a lot of flying yeah it is yeah because in two weeks after the lift hard live easy classic is home gym con yeah yeah that i'm really excited about to you uh but yeah it's going to be a lot of travel for those three weeks but you know what i'm super excited by all of them all three of those weekends to me i'm super excited i mean all of them just sounds so fun and yeah no complaints from me about any of those the hardest thing for you is going to be getting work

done in july probably yeah that would be where the that would be the hard part probably Yeah, you know, we're hoping being in a bigger space allows us to definitely improve our workflow. You know, my wife now is able to come in and help us out a little bit during the day before we just didn't have room. She's like, oh, I can help you guys. I'm like, we literally do not have a single place for you to help us anywhere in the garage. There's just nowhere to work. So now, you know, we're going to be able to build out these. big huge workstations. So, I mean, the hope is that we were able to get caught up before home

gym con or well, before probably live hard live easy. So I can get out there without having to stress about it. Yeah. And yeah, so the goal is to hopefully just having such an improved workflow that we're not getting behind on orders. And it's not such a, doesn't put us super far behind like what has happened in the past. right um what what do you like right now like on orders what's your are you fairly what's your turn around time like i guess usually get on an average product um it just depends what product it is certain products require a little bit more hands on um and so we we definitely got a little bit behind because of Black, or just because of Thanksgiving, the holiday season. So we got behind

because of that. And then, so some of our lead time really were running about three to four weeks on a number of our products. And then moving into the warehouse, you know, that set us back even further. And I mean, this is probably the first couple days where we're like, okay, we're probably we now cutting our lead time down to like somewhere between three and five days on most products. It just depends, though. Like a lot of our stainless steel products require finishing, like whether it's polishing or doing some angle grinding. Things like our shorty and long e bars that are stainless require basically like routing of all the edges, which takes time. So some products just, you know, are three to four weeks.

Some products we can get out in two to three days. It just kind of depends on which product it is. Well, here will be a fun little game, and this helps for anyone that's listening that maybe isn't familiar with everything that you sell so far, but what would be your Mount Rushmore of darko lifting products

of equipment pieces that you make and sell? Mount Rushmore. Up there, I mean, definitely is going to be the barbell anchor. That's what started at all. And Shorty Bar-Dargemore. is definitely up there. I think those two are pretty much old reliable. They're consistent sellers. Even three years after they came out, they're still consistent sellers.

The QuickMount for the Voltra is definitely up there. That's just been an incredibly popular product for us, which is kind of weird because it's product for another product. But it's been very popular for us and is actually turned out some customers for us that are customers that I just never would have thought we would ever have. And also I can tell you, well, first of all,

we do a lot of gym tours and your products are in every gym, but I'm shocked at basically if we go to a gym and it has a Vultra, it has the Darko Quick Mount. Like it's in every gym that we see that has that. Yeah, it's pretty much been the go-to so far. I mean, with most people that have Vultras at this point. So that would definitely be up there. the fourth one

as funny as it was would be it'd probably be the danglers the danglers are one of those products that are very silly when you hear the name and I think that's why a lot of people buy them because they sound very meme worthy but then I get all these people

that come back and they're like you know what these actually work really really really well and they're very comfortable and I love them for reverse flies or you know tricepull downs or whatever and we sell a time of them. I mean, it's crazy. Like, I really didn't think we were going to sell a lot of them. And we sell probably two or three pairs every single day. Yeah, that's awesome. That is cool. I think

that's a good Mount Rushmore. That's probably about what I would, I mean, I would probably would have known the Shorty and the anchor. Yeah, that makes sense to me. Yeah. Also, speaking of products, what's over your shoulder there in the rack, Darko? What's going on there? So we have a new product coming out. Oh, I didn't even know what's going on. Now I see it. A lot of people know we do 3D printing, Tommy. Yeah, a lot of the whole time, yeah.

A lot of people know we do 3D printing products, but we also have a new thing that we're doing outside of 3D printing. And it's custom printing on certain products. So we have these magpins. And you see this one. Yeah, I see it. Yes. We're going to offer custom magpin heads that use UV printing.

And the cool thing about these is it's not just printed on there. It actually has texture to it. So you can feel Tommy's face on here. Yeah. I all want to feel. And his beautiful hair. That's pretty cool. And then we got Tanner back here too.

It's the best part of that photo is. That's a slightly AI version of me. I had a little Tanner and I'm like, oh, he needs to look like upset. And so I told AI, I was like, make this man look upset. And it's spit that on. I'm like, damn, it actually, that's the only time I've ever done that. I'm like, oh, that looks pretty good, actually. And now it's on a Megpin.

That's great. That's awesome. I had to use what pictures I could find. Yeah, those are good. Yeah. So I did not notice those until Tommy, you pointed that out right now. Yeah, it's a new product we're coming out with, you know, so many people out there have custom logos for their gyms.

And you see it with like this sticker exchange on the Discord. So it's just one of those things. You know, a lot of people do stickers and stickers are fine. And, you know, I've done stickers before on my on certain magazines that I have at my gym. But the printing on these are amazing. It's just kind of one of those things that like I wanted to offer people. And it's not just limited magpins. It's something that we're going to offer on a few products.

It looks really good for anyone that's just listening to this. like it looks really good. Yeah. At least. Oh, it's pretty wild. Yeah. Like,

this is my dog. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. But, so yeah,

it's definitely, it's a, it's a neat kind of way just to customize your gym. I, you know, over the last couple of years, I kind of feel like a lot of people

have kind of gotten to the end game, uh, building out their home gym. And like most hobbies now we're kind of getting into the, we're going to color match everything. and we're going to build our logos. And so it's just another way for people to add another, you know, touch to their gym where they can add custom logos, but in a much kind of a nicer way

than just putting, slapping a sticker on a magnet pin or something like that. So. So when are those? Do we have a, you guys will be getting yours. Oh, awesome. In a couple of days here. Amazing. Okay.

So do I, do we have, I mean, is there a release date for the, for the public on the rest of them? or is it just a work in progress? It should, it was going to be today. And then some guys invited me to a podcast. Through the whole thing off. I had to go home and get a bunch of equipment from my house. So tomorrow, more unlikely it'll be tomorrow. Okay.

All right. Well, I'll ask everyone listening that. That means they can go by. Okay, everything on Darko gets a fancy name. Is this just Meg Pins or is there a fancier name to this? I don't have one yet. Well, you got until tomorrow to figure out. I'm certain that I will come, you know, that usually is one of those things that I come up with last before.

I'll have the product description written pricing figured out and then, and then I'll come up with the name. And most of the time it works out. Yeah. For any, I mean, a lot of people will know this by now that are listening. But I think just about every single darko lifting product is on Jim Radar. I mean, I'm pretty sure I add. your, you know, because Tommy and I share that responsibility. I'm pretty sure I added yours and I don't think I missed much.

If I did, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to audit that and make sure we got everything. But if you own a Darko lifting product of any sort, you should be able to add it to your gym radar. And if we are missing something, just request it and we'll get it added. But I think basically everything's on there. We're going to have a new product ad, though, here now. Yeah, yeah, no, I, yeah, I took a look and I think you guys nailed it. I think you guys pretty much got all of them. And actually, Darko, I don't.

know if you're aware of this the website does under the equipment section have a sort by most owned button and that collects all of the pieces on the website and you have let's see uh eight nine 10 the barbell anchor is the 11th most owned product on the entire website of any type of product 66 gyms on the website having the barbell anchor i mean that's pretty impressive man yeah no i love to hear it every time i see anyone's gym with it in there just still to this day three and a half years later brings a smile to my face. It's just it's such a cool thing seeing, you know, something I made

just hanging in people's gyms. It's incredibly rewarding. I can't remember if he's on the map or not. I'm just looking at our map, but does your brother have a gym just really close to you too?

Yeah, we're idiots. We both built home gyms. Yeah. About a quarter mile away from each other. Yeah. A lot of the exact same equipment. I was going to say he has an awesome setup too, doesn't he? He sure does. What's the name of his gym?

It's a lot nicer than mine. Do you know what he calls his gym? What's a? He goes by JDK Army. Yeah. JDK's family garage gym. Yep, this is it. Yeah.

No. See the darko lifting. Very upsetting. I haven't actually seen this. Okay. No, this is legit. I remember you saying your brother had a nice gym and right your house. but okay, this is my first time seen photos.

Wow. Yeah, this is legit. It's very upsetting. Oh, one of his pictures is the horse saw Matt coaster even nice. So he's indoctrinated too, isn't he? It looks like. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, no, I think you just got the grip. I think we both just ordered the gripper. I think we both just got him. Oh, yeah. He's got a sweet setup too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we live a quarter mile away from each other.

We could have one gym. You could have two gyms that you could both have full access to. And, you know, one could be set up for, I don't know, upper body or something like that. What's the leg press he has there? What is that? He also has a plate loaded prime fitness. Yeah. That's a nice one.

Also, the Aliko dumbbells. Well, sir. Yeah. Like I said, it's very upset. Yeah. You guys kind of have a family feud going on with who can have a cooler home gym. I can still I'll lift him, though. So I'll take it all that matters.

Yeah. That's what counts. Okay. Yeah. So what about product-wise? We talked about the pins. Is there anything? I mean, with you bringing Big Brian on and the extra space and stuff,

do you feel like you have more time to think about new things that you want to do? or hopefully will you have more time to think about new stuff? Like, I mean, that's part of the goal, I would assume, right? Yeah. So we actually, you know, I had a few products kind of in the pipeline before the move, but we just ran out of room. We really just couldn't bring anything else in to stock them. We just didn't have anywhere to put them.

So, you know, I had a few products that kind of got into prototype phase. And we just, you know, know, once you realize you don't have room to even stock it, you kind of just let it fall by the wayside because, you know, what's the point of working on something if you can't ever bring it out? So we basically have brought some of those back out and we've been just working on development again. So we're hoping to have two new products probably within the next 60 days just because now we have the room, we have the room to stock them. Yeah. So, uh, One of them is a ultra-related product that we've been working on for probably like four months now.

And another one is a set of J-Cups that I've kind of had in my mind for a couple years now. But, you know, those are bigger products, you know, for us, when we bring something in, we have to bring in a couple hundred pieces, whatever it is. So, yeah, we just, we ran out of it. out of room in the garage. So now it's, all right, well, we got all this room. So let's make use of it. So, yeah, we're kind of back into development mode.

So that's cool. Yeah, when we have a free time, that's kind of what I'm doing. Yeah. And then I can't remember, do you have some products on Rogue site now, too? Yeah, what's on Rogue? Yeah, we have a few products on Rhodes website. right. We have the anchor and the double-decker anchor. We have the dock on there now. The short e-bar, long e-bar, and the quick mount for the anchor,

similar to the Bullsdale, the anchor fully system. So yeah, we have six, I think, six products on Rhodes website now. And then we also have products on the Shorty and Long E-bar on PRX's website. as well. Okay, cool. And a few products on Anchors website as well. So, yeah, we're kind of getting a little spread out now on a few companies reselling. PRX guys are only a few hours away from us. We might have to talk some of them into coming down for the Lift Hardly v.C. Classic and

experiencing the weekend with us. Yeah, I mean, we had chats with them a little bit. I mean, they seem like great guys when we've talked to them. you know very cool at home gym con another you know another main in america company you know that's always a plus for me to work with companies that do that but yeah i mean when i learned that they were out in the dakotas and they were manufacturing out there i thought i was kind of super i was really surprised to be

honest i thought they were importing all of their product from overseas so i thought that was pretty cool yeah so with roger pr x then do you fulfill everything like I mean, this is maybe some people don't care, but I'm just curious how that process works. You still fulfill everything that goes through their site? Or do you actually, you know, ship bulk orders to them on those products? Yeah, we fulfill. It's a drop ship model. Okay, it is.

Which we preferred Rogue when we had talks with Rogue. They, uh, yeah, they basically were very open to really whatever best suited us, which was really cool. So, you know, it was whether we wanted to drop ship or ship in a bunch of inventory to them, if we wanted to drop ship on individual basis. You know, we even had some talks about them manufacturing the anchor and them, you know, basically handling everything and then just paying us a portion of the revenue sales. So, like, they were very open and very cool about everything. I think it was every option

but for us it just made more sense for us to need a drop ship them yeah from our location so is there anything yeah PRX and anger those are just a strictly drop ship as well okay is there anything special you have to do with like the shipping process when it's a rogue order versus an order off you know is it is the packaging any different is there any rogue anything in the packaging or it just you ship it out just like you

would an order from your site no exactly the same same. Like still write my thank you notes. Yeah. Uh, sick, you know, exact same process. Only thing that goes in is a rogue packing list. But outside of that, everything else is the same as our normal process. Cool. Home JimCon then. What, uh, are you, I mean, I guess it's different because the layout is a little different in general. Are you in like a similar area? I can't remember the map. Are you in a similar area? Did you get the same side booth? Are you going to do a similar setup? What's your plan for home gymcon? Yeah, same size booth. So we're 10 by 20. We're a little bit on the northern side, I guess, of the map. But yeah, we'll do something

similar to last year. Mike forego some of the tables. But yeah, you know, squat rack, all of our attachments on there, some bright color to attract attention. But yeah, give away a Voltra again. You know, I'm so curious. They, you know, Beyond Power hasn't signed up again. Right. You know, I consider them a good partner of ours. If they want to do that again, you know, we'd be more than happy to entertain it.

I mean, the Voltra to me, I mean, anyone that watches my training videos knows I use mine all the time. I love that thing. I think it's great. So yeah, we'd love to, you know, if they wanted to do it, absolutely. But we're still going to plan in a giveaway of some sort, you know, whether it's a suite of our products. The Voltra that you may be curious about this too. Actually, right now I think the Voltra actually of all machine in our machine category on Jim Radar is at this moment the most owned machine by Jim's on Jim Radar. which has kind of been a little surprising to me.

I'll be honest, I'm not surprised at all. Yeah, maybe, yeah, and I could see, I could see that, that thought. I just, I can't believe, it's not surprised to me the tie, but I'm like, it is the most owned by all all gyms on Jim radar. That's kind of cool. Yeah, I mean, I've, I mean, I've seen so many people that I know either from Instagram that have been kind of wavering. And I mean, in the last couple months, you know, they've just one by one, keep buying them.

And I just know it because I see their orders for quick mounts. Right. Yeah. Yeah, you kind of figure it out through a secondary method. But yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. So the West Side Scout, Rogue reverse hyper is neck and neck with it, though.

Those two are right on each other's heels. And then the Hyper Pro, what you were talking about from Freak Athlete. Yeah, I had a reverse. hyper. Yeah. Did you have the West Side Scout one? I sure did. Well, you got the top three,

top three machines right there. It is funny. That one is funny. I think we do come across that one quite a bit, but it is, since it is foldable and stuff, it is pretty inconspicuous. So people can tuck that away.

Pretty out of sight when they're not using it very much. You do lose the tape. You do lose the tape. aspect, though, if you folded up. Yeah. I used mine a couple times. It's just I had to keep folding it away to use it just because at the time, my space was rather

limited. And I'm, after a couple times, I'm like, I'm not doing this every single time. I want to use this machine. It's just, this is a pain. Yeah. Okay. Well, anything else that you want to get out there on darko lifting? You know, anything we didn't cover that you wish we had asked you about?

Um, just, you know, I mean, I guess just, you know, a big thank you to the home gym community. You know, it's just, when I first started, you know, with just the barbell anchor, it was just kind of an idea that I was, I just wanted for my home gym, like my personal home gym just because I had a Mars bar, which the original one is still hanging behind me in the warehouse gym. and it sucks to move around. It's just, it's the worst. So like once I made the anchor and then like a couple of people on Discord were like, yeah, I want one too. And then a couple more people were like, yeah, you know, you should make that. And then, you know, I made a few and I was like, okay, I'll probably sell like 50 sets and

that'll be it. And at the time, I was interviewing for positions. And, you know, and it's huge thanks to basement of Brandon, you know, he did a review of the anchor and he basically sold out my entire stock and oversold me by like 150 cents, which put me into an incredible panic. But, you know, it just, it was able to launch this, you know, company and allowed me to just, you know, do something I, love. Like I love this community. It's, you know, that's why, you know, I'm active in the Facebook group. I try to be active on the Reddit. I'm, you know, in the Discord. You know, I try to post on Instagram. So to be able to just continue, like, come up with things that, like, I want for my home gym and to see other people really like them or want them in their home gym has been just such an

awesome thing. And I'm just so grateful for everyone in the home gym community. It's such a, I mean, it's just such a it's an awesome community of just people and i'm just so thankful for all of them that like i get to do this like i just like i get to hang out and like talk about gym stuff it's like most people you know like like what i used to do before this before covid was like the most boring thing in the world and like i'm so happy i'm not doing that anymore uh so yeah just you know a big thank you to everyone it's you know it's a complete blessing to be able to able to, you know, do something I love. And, you know, just thank you to everyone that shares anything of mine on Instagram, Facebook. I just, you know, one, I just love seeing people's home gyms.

I watch every single home gym tour video. I just can't get enough of those. You guys should do more of them. And we got to, we're, we're leaving in a few days to go to a bunch more of them. So we're on it. But yeah, thank you to everybody. It's just, I mean, Yeah, I'm just, I'm still in disbelief that I'm sitting in my warehouse that we ship Jim if I made out of. It's totally crazy. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah. I was just pulling up, before we get done, I want to read a couple of these.

I was looking up reviews on Jim Radar for darko lifting equipment, and I pulled up the danglars, and there's a couple of reviews here. So this is from big Mike G. Got these in blue to match the vibe of the gym and then realized they were blue ball danglers. So yeah, but they feel great in the hand and Darko does great work. Five out of five stars. This is from Big Adam NC.

They feel so good in my hands. So far I really like these for reverse dealt flies and unilateral tricep pushdowns. Definitely worth having in the collection. Five out of five stars. These are just universally five. These have a perfect rating so far. Five out of five stars on the danglers.

And you can use discount code Masonomics. Yep. So actually while we were recording someone, I just got an email notification that someone was doing a darko lifting activity. So someone probably just bought a set of danglers with the discount code Masonomics, I bet. Awesome. Well, Darko, we'll see you twice in July. We'll see you in July twice.

That sounds like a good July right there. Are you going to, you went out on the town the night of home JimCon. Are you going to do that again this upcoming year? Yeah, there's probably a good chance. Great. And we'll also do that in western northeast South Dakota when you're here too after the meet. I'm looking forward to it. Awesome.

Thanks, Darko. All right. Thanks for having me, guys. All right. See you later. See you. All right. See you.

Oh, oh, oh. Core beans. Beans. I haven't got to hit that button in a while. I just wonder if you knew how to do that still or not. My instincts just took over there. I didn't even think of it until I hit the leave button. Then I knew it instantly just.

Spidey sense is tingling. Give the man his cool beans. He earned those damn beans. Them beans have been on ice for a while now. Yeah, we've a, you had to knock the dust off of the cool beans over there. We have guests coming over, bust out the cool beans. We don't get to do that very often.

You had to, you pulled the cool beans out of the cupboard, cupboard and went and dust went everywhere. Good to catch up with Darko. Yeah. Good guy to support. Yes, absolutely. Pump that he's making the meat. That's going to be fun.

Yes, that is going to be fun. I'm really, that, I mean, this goes without saying, but the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic, part of what it makes it so cool is that sort of thing. You just get these people from the community coming from all corners of the globe to get together and already know he's going to walk away from that like,

oh, powerlifting is so fun. I'm like, well, hold, hold up. It's not always that fun. It can be really fun. But it's not a guarantee. Yeah. Oh, that was cool. Everyone, leave us a comment below.

How do you think we did with a guest for the first time in many months? Was it like riding a horse? Was it like riding a horse? with two asses on one horse or did we have to work out the cobwebs? Maybe we'll do one again in six months to see how we're doing. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah.

You don't want to overwhelm the system right away. Yeah, I never, how long into it had you seen those magpins with our faces on? Oh, within a minute. Okay. I did not notice that. The second you said something of it, I saw it, but. Yeah, I spotted them pretty quick. I think I'm going to order a pair of danglers tomorrow, too.

I don't have any. I should get on that. I think I'm probably, I think I'm going to do it. Probably what's stopping me from getting strong if I had to guess. I'm starting to feel like it's the missing link of what has been holding me back. You know, I've tried damn near everything else. That's got to be, I don't know what else it could be. After reading, I was just influenced by Jim Rader reading those reviews.

I'm like, these people also. And there's a few reviews on there that weren't being silly. And everyone's like, yep, I love them. Five out of five stars. And I'm kind of like, yeah, I should be buying these. why do I not have these? It's a very inexpensive tool to add to the tool chest. Yeah, God, you can pick any color you want too.

Well, you can have any color you want as long as it's black. Or literally any color at all. I've got a sack segment here. What? A sack segment. Yeah. Still get those things? Every once in a while I pull something out of my greasy old dangling sack.

I think this had a note with it, but I must have dropped it. Anyways, what I'm working with. I think I know what you got there. I got one of those two. It's my pile right here. Yeah. Yeah. Comfort colors, T.

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I thought I kind of felt, I thought I was something special over here. Oh, no, no, no. I guess they give those to anyone these days. Oh, what are we at for time? I've got a few other things in the list. I were a little bit of time still. You know what?

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We do, well, I've got this gym equalizer bit, but I maybe want to save that. I think that's going to be a good one, and I just want to save it to the right. Yeah, we don't want to waste it this week. It's a real, real heavy thought segment. Okay. And almost it's a borderline title topic, if I'm being honest.

And we've already got Darko as our lead man for this episode. We're setting the stage here, man. That's, it's, this is going to be big. This is going to be the biggest thing we've ever discussed on the podcast. All right. You got my attention. The title is Jim Equalizer. I saw it in there.

Speculate. You know what? When I saw that in there, you know what my first thought was? Did I put that in there? Did Tanner put that in there? And then I got to click on it and it says Tanner put it in there. And I go, okay, I actually have no idea what that's about then. In a few days, we are leaving for Detroit and the Arnold.

We have five gym tours and one Arnold video. So assuming travel and everything works out, we'll be coming back with six videos. And he forgot one epic meetup. That's true. A very epic meetup at the Eagle. I feel like we have to eat lunch at Hubert's on Saturday, and we have to eat supper at the Eagle. I'm like, that is one hell of a day of eating.

That is actually. The Eagle is really good. Yeah. And usually at Hubert's, we eat an offensive amount of food. It's kind of like a game of how much can you stuff yourself. $50 to $60 tab at Hubert's of Polish food. Yeah, that's going to be some serious eating that day. I'm excited.

for the, I am most excited for the food. It's my going to be my favorite part of the trip. I kind of want to see some of the people, but I'm really excited for the food. Yeah, the people just like happens to be secondary to whatever else is going in my mouth. The main person I want to see is Hubert. Which is funny.

He is there working every single year. The one year he wasn't, he had like a doctor's appointment or something. It was just one time. He asked where he is. Yeah, and yeah, they said, yeah, it was his niece or something, but otherwise he is always there. Do you already kind of know how the, little conversation will go.

I'll say this, if I've seen it once, I've seen it a hundred times. The one year, though, when we hyped him up, he gave us some free food. Do you remember that? He did that one time. Yeah, he went back and got like an extra, the Maloney or whatever it was.

He got like an extra one of those. And then after that, every year we hyped him up, he just says, thank you, thank you. And that's like it. Yeah. What do you, is the weather going to be pretty decent there when we're there? That's a good question.

I mean, it's decent here, so I would hope it's decent there. We've been on a freaking roller coaster ride in western northeast. Well, you guys have, yes. We've been like through, we're through, we've been through double fall spring. And actually now after today and yesterday, if it gets cold again, I'm going to officially call it third fall. Because it's been, like, almost the snow is almost all gone again. Okay, okay. That's what I was curious.

It was like really nice here today. Yeah. But how many days ago was it that we got like. I think it was like two weeks ago, wasn't it? You guys got just... Well, that was the first time. But then again, just here this last weekend, we got a bunch of snow again.

Oh, yeah, yes. Yes, because my father-in-law was here, and he said, I got to get back. It's supposed to snow. No, after that blizzard, it got really nice again. Yeah, it was last Friday. It snowed. Yeah, and it's snowed, and we got like half a foot of snow.

Yeah, and we don't get any of that here. It's so nice. And then now these last couple days, it's been like 50 degrees. And the snow's mostly all gone. And I'm like, if it snows again like that, I'm quitting. I mean, it's only the first week of March. It very easily could.

Like, the year I moved down here, I have photos of like snowstorms in the end of March, you know, into April. And it's. And it's not the fact that we're getting snow. It's that it snows. And then it's like 55 degrees for three days. And then we get a blizzard. And then it's really nice again. And then we get a blizzard.

And I'm like, stop. Enough's enough. I cannot handle one more full spring this summer snip snap snap it's just that 40 year old virgin or what

it's the office yeah yeah we've referenced that many times I always can forget it's always a perfect a good reference so yeah

how about since we don't have time for Jim Equalizer how about a quick has Tommy seen it segment Wow. As long as we're throwing back to guess.

As long as we're dusting things off. Yeah. So last time we did 1986, you had your worst round ever of Has Tommy Sina. Do you know how many you got right in 1986? Was it one? Zero. Zero. First time you've ever had a goose egg. Well, I can't do worse than that.

And this year we're going to 2003. Okay. I like your chances better. I do like that better than if you say it in 1985. And I try never to like. I'm never trying to pick ones that you have seen or that you haven't seen. But I got to say when I'm going through this, when I was going, like, there was just ones here I have to pick. I know.

Well, I'm like, I have a feeling you've seen quite a few of all. You know, it's probably movie watching time then. Yeah. People don't have YouTube to sit and watch or social media. You had to watch something. Yeah. So I, I've got a feeling you've seen several of these. How many do we do on this segment?

Seven. Typically seven, occasionally eight. I can't say five. I'm going to say four. I think I've seen four, I'll say. All right, that's fair. We'll start off with just an absolute home run. Has Tommy seen it from 2003?

Here we go. Like, I already know you've seen this, but it can't not be in here. It has to be in here. Has Tommy seen it old school? Yes, actually the funny part of this is. So, 2003, I was in eighth grade, which is not old enough to go see an R movie by yourself.

So me and my brother and my good buddy Brad convinced my mother, to take us to old school. And, yeah, it was a funny movie. Still is a funny movie to this day. It's a classic. Was it the officiant at your wedding? Oh, yeah. Actually, yes, yes.

Yeah, that, right, yes. That's, wow, good, good call back. Heck of a beard that, Brad. Probably didn't have one back then. No, he didn't have what in eighth grade yet. Nope. I can't remember what Brad looks like. Like, I actually can't.

I mean, I've met him that one time. Yeah. Yeah. at your wedding. I just, but I just, I have an idea of what he looks like. Of the character of what this person is. Yeah,

like, I could do like a sketch artist and it might kind of look like. Does Brad, I mean, he had that really big beard. So you know who he looked like to me? You can tell me if this is way off or not.

Is Brian from barefoot, formerly of barefoot shoes that was working for the maestro. Oh. The way we saw him at the Arnold last year. kind of, but Brad never really lifted. So he wasn't big like that. I mean, you know, he was never.

I feel like they had the same beard. Yeah, they had a pretty similar beard actually, though. Yeah, the beard is pretty similar. Yes. Yeah, that's a pretty good comparison, that part. Okay. So one for one. Has Tommy seen it?

2003, dumb and dumberer. No, I actually have not seen this one. I've never really seen the whole thing. I know I know what's been on before, but it just felt like, you know, like it was this travesty that wasn't, you know. I think it kind of is a travesty. Yeah, that wasn't respecting the original and the way it should have. And yeah, I know I've seen parts of it, but yeah, never, never actually.

I would actually, I'd have to put a no for me on that one too because I think it sucks so bad that there's no. I've seen parts of it, but who's in it? Like no one of note? That's actually a good question. because sometimes you say that and then you look and they've had like yeah I'm curious oh Jim Carrey yeah no I don't know Derek Richardson Eric Christian Olson was he a non-or teen movie oh yeah he's the guy who janey he's like the jock that's trying to be mean to everyone yeah yeah maybe got back a hunchback

They're trying to pick out the ugly girl for him to prom with it. Is it like where the ugly girl that they make hot? Was that like, yeah, they're like, oh, okay, we got to pick, yeah,

they're trying to pick who he's going to go to prom with. And they're like going through other people. There's like the conjoined twins. He's like, no, they got two. And like the hunchback. No.

And then it's just the artistic girl with glasses. He's like, oh my God. So, you know, that's the ugly girl. Isn't that the, that was kind of the joke of the movie.

It's like this obviously hot girl. Yeah. And then they like, You're like, oh, how could you make her pretty? And they just like take the glasses off. Yeah, they do this crazy like thing where they're getting ready to do the makeover. And she just takes her glasses off. She's like, my work here's done.

Yeah. Not a new two movie, funny movie. Not on today's list, though. One for two so far. Next one. Has Tommy seen it? The last samurai. No, I actually haven't.

I've never seen this movie. Really good movie. Okay. And I remember, I felt like it was always on HBO when we were kids. when I was younger. Probably. And I never watched it.

I never did. I actually always wanted to watch a movie and I just, I've never seen it. That's worth watching. I would actually like talking about it makes me want to watch it again. At least I think. I haven't seen it for a while, but I think it's really good.

Okay. One for three, I guess we're slipping here. You're not doing it as well as I thought maybe. Here we go back to something that I think maybe you've seen. Has he seen at 2003 Bad Santa? I have. Yeah.

I wasn't a huge fan of that movie. Are you not a Billy Bob Thornton? You know, I don't mind him. It just seemed like he sort of plays the exact same character in every movie, like the guy that's kind of the loner that's checked out from the world and has a bad attitude. That's kind of just like the character he always plays, which it can be funny, but it could also sort of feel like you've sort of seen that.

It seems like some people really like that movie. I was never that into it myself either, but doesn't it seem like it has a really big following? I yeah I remember people talking with that movie liking it a lot and I that one just never did it for me that much me either I thought maybe you'd say otherwise because I thought people loved that one but I never really liked it that much no I mean it's probably okay and I'm sure there's funny parts but it's been a long time so I've seen it's probably since high school so I'd be curious how it holds up okay you're two for four has he seen it secondhand lions second hand lions yeah I think I think it was probably critically acclaimed. I have seen it. It's got people in it, you know. I'm just looking at the pictures of this.

Is this a comedy or what is this? Not really, no. Like, looking at the picture, I almost, I can't pick out what type of movie this is supposed to be. Yeah, Michael Kane is in it. Haley Joel Osman. No, I've never heard of this movie in my life. Yeah, tells the story of an introverted young boy,

Haley Joel Osmond, who is sent to live with his eccentric great-uncles, Robert Duval and Michael Cain on a farm in Texas. What's its ratings? Is it good or not? It has an IMDB rating of 7.5, which is a terrible. I mean, that's pretty decent. Yeah, I thought I remember the, I have seen it, but probably in 2003.

I think I might have went to it in the movie theater even. There's not a ton of movies on this list that I've just never heard of. Like when we play this game, you know, usually I, at least have an idea. I've just never in my life heard of this movie. And even looking at pictures, like this could be an AI made up thing. And I'd be like, yeah.

Like, it's not real. Like, I've just, no recollection of this. The cover of it does kind of look like an AI made up thing. It does. It doesn't, I mean, these old guys,

it's a, yeah, it doesn't look real for some reason. Yeah, Robert Duval isn't it too. That's right. Yeah. Okay.

So no to secondhand lions. that's maybe that's a hard no that is a hard no okay has he seen it C Biscuit oh no I haven't um I have seen parts of this one too um Toby McGuire isn't it yeah Spider-Man yeah no I have not seen C Biscuit C Biscuit is good yeah I've seen you know big horse people around here I know you kind of need to just for this is just that's just research for the podcast yeah I did see I I do remember like well watching one of the horse racing scenes. I don't know why or how I just remember that part.

But maybe I did see more of the movie, and I think, and that's the only part that stands out. There's some memes from the movie also. Is there? There's a couple, I think. I really like, my favorite scene in the movie is like the big race of Seabiscuit versus War Admiral.

And like they do this thing where they don't even really show very much of the race. They show like people like sitting around listening to it on the radio. Oh. And like, it's just the way it's filmed. And, like, there's this historical piece of where the narrators, like, there was, they've had these facts and figures that, like, at the track that day,

there was 960 kegs of beer consumed, you know, like the stuff like that. And it is, I do really like that scene. It is pretty good. I like that movie, too. I want to see that again. Yeah, I'll have to watch that one. So that's a, no. I thought maybe you'd seen that one.

Secondhand lines, I did guess maybe you hadn't seen, but I was also like, I'm not sure. I actually don't know what level of popularity that movie has, but probably none. I would love to hear if anyone else had you heard of that movie before. Let us know. It had a limited release, mostly to the northeast corner of South Dakota. So last one, has Tommy seen at 2003, Laura Croft Tomb Raider?

With Angelina Jolie. Yes. Yes, I have seen that one. Boy, I could not tell you a thing of what I just don't, I don't remember the plot of it at all, but I know I remember going to it in the theater. I think there's a woman with big boobs and suspenders that, uh,

yeah, uh, shoot stuff with a pistol. I think that's the plot, yeah. Roughly, like in combat boots probably or something. Yeah, shorts,

yeah, shorts, you know, you got the, uh, the pistols, the holsters on your hip, but yeah,

man, yeah, I do not remember. of the plot, actually. That's if you've, that's most of the movie. I think, I think we should,

spoiler alert. We just spoiled the movie. I think they're coming out with a new Tomb Raider though. Yeah, I think they are because when I was typing it in here, that's what came up really. Oh, it's the girl from Game of Thrones.

The red hair, it's, oh yeah, what's her name? Sansa or something. Yeah. I can't keep them. It's been a long time.

So it's a long time. So it's a lot of time. It's a lot of games. It's a lot of. Lord Croft Tomb Raider is a yes So from 2003 Was that three for seven? Three of seven

I will Yeah three of seven I guess next time we'll go to 1985 85 and Oh okay now let's Now I just I had to check what were the biggest movies of 2003 Just to really put me in the time frame

Lord of the Rings Return of the King Saw that Finding Nemo Had that on there Didn't see that until recently. But I think there's a new Nemo coming out like this week.

It's like, isn't there? I'm not wrong on that. Well, no, it's like a bear. There's a new Pixar movie coming out this week. But I think it's called like Hopper, I think. But I think it's about bears. Okay. Also, Project Hail Mary is coming out like next week.

Yeah, in the next couple of weeks here. Yes, I do really want to see that. But yeah, okay, here. Top 10 of 2003. Number three, Matrix Reloaded. Saw that. Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl. Saw that.

Bruce Almighty saw that. Matrix Revolutions, saw that. Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines. I did not see that one. I've not seen T3. You seen that? No, I've not seen that. Last Samurai, covered that one.

X-Men, X2. I'm pretty sure I went to that. I kind of can't keep all those movies straight anymore. Where's old school in the list? Is that not even, is that not in the top 10? It's not in the, well, I think R-rated comedy isn't going to have the same. Oh, right. And then number 10.

Number 10, elf. So C-Bisket isn't in the top 10 from that year? This is as far as global revenue goes is what I have. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the biggest box office smash is that is what that list is. Okay.

Ah, School of Rock. That was a classic, too. Jack Black. Yeah. A lot of movies in 2003. Like, imagine that list, like the seven we went through and then the 10 you named here, that seven, 17 outside of, keep it going here.

Charlie's Angels. Hulk. Too Fast, Too Furious. American Wedding. Scary Movie 3. Cheaper by the die. Kill Bill. There's some classics in there. That's actually insane. There's like 30 good movies from one year. And like now there's like what was the last movie that came out, the last new movie that you're aware of?

well I went to Marty Supreme about a month ago I wasn't aware of it until like two days before we went was the first time I'd ever heard of it but I don't know what that is so I mean it was it was actually a pretty good movie but yeah yeah I don't I just don't I mean outside of kids movies I just don't hardly know what's happening anymore so is that a kid's movie or Marty Supreme yeah oh god no um I don't even know what I've never heard it's uh it's about the uh I don't know how much of it's real or not.

It's about a ping pong player in like the, what's it, the 40s or 50s. I think it's the 50s after World War II. And did you ever see Uncut Gems? I know we talked about this. I can't remember if you. No, I've never. Okay. Has Tanner seen it, no.

It's basically, if I could describe Marty Supreme, because I had no clue going into it. I'm like, is this a sports movie? Is this like a biography? Like, what is this? It's basically two and a half hours of people making terrible decisions. and then to fix their terrible decisions, they make more terrible decisions.

And it just constantly, their bad decisions are coming back to haunt them from earlier in the movie. And it's like the most anxiety-inducing thing. And then you get done with it. And I told my wife, I'm like, wow, the last time I saw a movie

that was that anxiety-inducing was uncut gems. And we looked it up and it's by the same people. Oh, uncut gems. That's Adam Sandler. Yeah. I've seen part of it.

And Kevin Garnett's in that? Kevin Garnett's in it, yeah. Yeah, okay. No, I would say no, I haven't seen it. But yeah, I've seen like the opening part of it or something. Yeah, I've seen part of the movie. It's just people talking nonstop and just saying stuff to make other people mad or lying. And then it just keeps snowballing out of control.

How good. I'm kind of just having a hard time remembering because I haven't watched him for a while. How good or not good is Matrix reloaded? How comparable? I mean, it's safe to say it's not near as good as the first one. No, and it's also because it gets really complicated too. So I was, you know, 99. That was the Matrix, right?

99. And I remember at the time, you know, 10 years old. It's probably 11. I don't think I saw in theater. So it's probably 11 when it came out on video when I watched it. At the time, I remember thinking this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. This is, you can't beat this as an act as far as an action movie goes.

And didn't watch it for a long time. It was probably 10 years ago. My roommate at the time had never seen it. So we watched it again. Like, damn, this movie still. holds up. It's still incredible. And now, with all of the AI rise and everything, I'm like, I really, I just see references to the Matrix get brought up all the time. And I really want to watch it again. And then

it brings up the things of Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions. When we were kids, we had the Animatrix, which is also, it's like a series of animated shorts that all tie into the Matrix universe and provide backstory. And I watched that thing a ton too. I would just love to do the whole matrix thing all over again and see what's good, what's not. But my recollection of especially two and three is that they got very complicated and hard to keep track of. Reloaded and Revolutions, as you mentioned, I was like how they both came out in 2003 and they did. They came out in May and November of 2003. Yeah.

And I don't know if that was one of those things where they were set to be one movie, but it got to be too long and they split it. I'm not really sure what the, how that happened. I don't know. That seems crazy that they came out like five months. I mean, that's very weird, yes. Like, but Kill Bill Bill, was, you know, the same thing. And that came out.

Was that, yeah, Kill Bill, Volume 1 was in, also in 2003. Yeah, but Bill volume two, I guess, didn't, must not have came out to the next year. Movies. Oh, we just didn't know how good we had it, did we? Used to be a proper country where they came out with multiple Matrix movies and, like, in the same.

Season of the year. We also used to be, it reminds me of 1980 when Texas Power Bar, Texas Power bars was first started. That's when we used to be a proper country. They started making their buddy caps was basically addressing the known issues at the time when he came out with that Texas Power Bar. And since then, it's just really sunflowered and blossomed into what we know as the original 28 and a half millimeter Texas Power Bar bar. 7th Gen 29mm

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this 2003. movie list, Tanner. It's a trip down memory lane. It's crazy that I still can't believe that that many movies came out in one. So you'd go to the movie theater and it'd be like, oh, what can I watch? The Matrix or Kill Bill or Seabiscuit or The Last Samurai or Bad Santa or School of Rock or Legly Blonde 2 or Freddie v. Jason or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Phone Booth or Underworld or Final Destination 2 or Shanghai Knights. and three. Yeah, or Shanghai Nights or old school or,

uh, but, but bad Santa like you said, uh, Jeepers creepers too. Man. I don't even know how there was that many movies. I know.

National security. Uh, no. Um, yeah, man. There was bulletproof monk, Malibu's most wanted.

Cabin fever. See, all these movies, whether you saw them or not, they were part of a cultural event where people would talk about them. because if you didn't see it, your friend saw it, and then you'd go to school, and they'd tell you about the movie they saw, and you'd hear people talking about, like House of a Thousand Corpses, that, you know, that's kind of had some infamy since then.

But, wow. Things that make you say we used to be a proper country. We used to be a proper free country. We used to go to the movie theater and watch a movie. We didn't stream that show. And it wasn't some just. freaking lame-ass sequel to something we've seen before and another remake. It's when people had original ideas.

People came up with new ideas except for The Matrix, which was a sequel. Too Fast, Too Furious. Scary Movie 3 and Bad Boys 2 and Terminator 3. But besides that, it was all original. And Spy Kids 3. Besides that, though, all original. And except for Bayside Shakedown 2, whatever that was. And the Jungle Book 2.

Other than that. And Final Destination 2. And yeah, not Final Destination 2. That one. Well, Final Destination. Jeepers 2 and Taxi 3. Totally not all like each other. Those are also a little different.

Cradle to the grave, I'm sure is just the first one, even though there's a two in there. But the Jungle Book 2, 2003 re-release. I mean, it has a 2-end re-release in the title. So that clearly was not the first go on that one. But everything else though. Everything else. Everything else was purely original.

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