Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 520: The Gym is the Great Equalizer

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You know, thanks for what you do with your podcasts and all the rest. You're doing a great job. Hope everybody keeps tuning in. You get a lot of good info, a lot of insights, understandings of how to get strong, how to stay strong, how to use your strength. You do a great job, dude. You make things better than they are in real life, I think. If you don't follow Massanomics, you all do it.
Starting point is 00:00:18 Social media, website, everything. Massonomics! We are back. Episode 520 of the Massonomics podcast, also known as Episode 20 of Season 2. we're here for a banger of an episode. We've got a laundry list of topics that we're going to go through on this rundown. First to let you know who I am in case this is your first episode ever.
Starting point is 00:00:52 My name is Tanner and my name is Tommy. This is episode 520, which numerically, I'd like to have this discussion every year. Numerically, it would. You could make the case it would signify 10 years. I am going to finally concede that this is not actually 10 years. and that won't come for a couple of weeks from now. I agree.
Starting point is 00:01:13 But just purely numerically, it's 10 years worth of weekly episodes that we're hitting this week. That's just not exactly the way it works. I'm not coming yet. Yeah. In a couple of weeks we'll be at, we will have our first episode published 10 years ago in just a couple of weeks from now.
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Starting point is 00:04:00 Episode 520. We saved some special ones for episode 520. First of all, I would say our most recent drop was today, the day of recording this. We'd come out with the gray joggers with the massonomics logo down the one pant leg. We came out with the icon tea resurrected from deep in the vault. People thought that thing was dead and we said, nah, it's back. I think a lot of people didn't know it was a thing, to be honest. It's been so long.
Starting point is 00:04:29 I think most people that purchasing it don't even know that it ever was a shirt before, I would assume because it's been many, many years since we've had that. I think the last one when I pulled it was 2001, or 2021, I think, like early 21. I think that was the blue color prior to that. It was on a gray, but those two were kind of in succession right after another. it. Yes. This is the burnt orange.
Starting point is 00:04:51 I don't know. That's not the technical color, but that's what everyone's referring to it as, because that's certainly what it looks like is the burnt orange comfort colors. And then we also came out with the raw power on the Bella Canvas athletic fit tea. And I said, boy, for all you people that keep saying you want us to do a tea,
Starting point is 00:05:10 not uncomforted colors again, you better prove to us by actually buying it. And the results are. in, they did. They did buy it. Yeah, they did buy it. And to that point, everyone bought everything.
Starting point is 00:05:26 It's not exclusive to the raw power shirt here. So while we're sitting here, almost every size of all three of those items are completely gone from it dropping about five hours ago. It was arguably one of our most successful drops that we have ever done.
Starting point is 00:05:44 Yeah, we sold out of, essentially sold out of two t-shirts and sweatpants in a couple hours. Yeah. Full orders, which is crazy. And there has been a trend over the last six months that everything we dropped is just selling a lot more than it. I mean, a peek behind the Massonomics meat curtain,
Starting point is 00:06:04 which we like to do sometimes is almost everything, you know, the merchandise like that is just selling faster. It is. And drops are way more successful than they used to be. Almost every time. We talked about our expectations for the Stratt beforehand, and boy, were we wrong.
Starting point is 00:06:21 We were like half. And we were excited if this was half of what we thought it would have been. We're like, that'd be a good day. And it went just, it's nuts. Yeah. So thank you to everyone that's purchasing items and purchasing the stuff that we're making when we come out with new T-shirts, all that stuff,
Starting point is 00:06:38 because we are noticing it. It is working. And the tricky part is we've done certain quantities of particular garments for a very long time because we just kind of know how that works and that it works. And we even talk today like should we be ordering more of some things? And the easy answer is yes, we should be ordering more of some things. But it's really hard to know what those things are because like sometimes, you know, one out of four isn't going to sell as well. And if we do, if we double,
Starting point is 00:07:15 that order, what's going to happen then is we're going to end up with like a three-year supply of that particular item. Not that we want to come out with anything that we think isn't going to sell, but that therein lies the problem is that everything we come out with, we've vetted it at least amongst the two of us to the point that we think it is going to be successful, but we also know that not everything is going to be successful. So if we up the quantities And we just assume nothing will ever be successful. So it also would beg the question. It's like, no, we'll just, the ones that we know are going to be really good.
Starting point is 00:07:54 We're going to up the quantities. And I'm like, why aren't we even making the other ones than if we're like, no, this one's not going to sell well. Like, we'll order less of this one. So it kind of goes across the board if you increase the quantity, but there is a risk associated with that. There is kind of a financial risk. which is one thing, but it's also more so just like the, damn it, now we have a ton of these forever to try and like,
Starting point is 00:08:20 we just have to stare at these for three years now because we can't sell them. Yeah, so until then, everyone just has to realize that. Apparently things will just sell out in three hours and you won't get your T-shirt if you don't buy it in the first day. That is kind of a rule at this point.
Starting point is 00:08:35 If we come out with something, you probably, this didn't used to be true, but it is true today. if we come out with something, you kind of have to buy it the day that it comes out. And if you want your size, you might have to buy it within the first hour. That's true. You know, some people don't like that, I'm sure, but it's just kind of like it goes back to my earlier point where it's still tricky for us to just greatly increase the quantities because it doesn't always go that way yet. It is trending that way, which is good, but it's still riskier for us to really increase those.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's the merchandise update. Yep, you snooze, you lose. What are you drinking over there this week, Tommy? I am a thirsty boy. Waterloo, raspberry nectarine. I cannot remember.
Starting point is 00:09:30 Have I had this one? What's it look like? I've been on this Waterloo kick lately, and I can never remember the names any of their flavors here. What did you say that is a raspberry on it and a nectarine on it? Okay. Nectarine. the ugly red-headed cousin of the peach.
Starting point is 00:09:49 You know, not a bad sparkling water. Real solid three to three and a half. Have you ever had this little number over here? It's called a La Croy, because I'm old school, the way we used to be when we were proper. It's a La Croy Strawberry Peach. Oh, no, I have not. No nectarines here.
Starting point is 00:10:10 That sounds pretty good. I feel like I got the B tier of what yours is. trying to be. Yeah, what was yours? Raspberry nectarine. We're going to take the A-less fruit and go strawberry peaches. Yeah, how about nectarines? Like, well, it's close.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And then you like strawberries? Yeah. How about raspberries? Yeah, it's close. Yeah. I had a little game in mind and maybe now would be the perfect time to play it. Oh, a game right up to that. I would assume we've beat around this bush before,
Starting point is 00:10:40 but I wonder if we should just attack it head on and really, you know, really make some hard choices here. It's a Mount Rushmore game, which you might be familiar with Mount Rushmore. You've maybe been there before. I believe I've been there. I'm just in such a drunken stupor. I'm not sure I remember, but joking.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Episode 500 was a wild time if you haven't listened to Episode 500. This is your first ever episode of the podcast, though. You'll want to go check out episode 500. It was live for Mount Rushmore, and it was pretty fun. So go check that out. but we have this game called Mount Rushmore where we pick the best four of something or I guess it wouldn't have to be best by definition.
Starting point is 00:11:25 I don't know if it's the four best presidents that are on Mount Rushmore. You know, that's the thing with your Mount Rushmore. You can decide how you're awarding it. So what I'm thinking today is we do the Mount Rushmore of Sparkling Water Brands. Ah. Not flavors.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Yeah. brands. Well, what four brands are going to make it on the Mount Rushmore of sparkling waters? I think the first one, it's pretty easy. You know, it's LaCroix. LaCroix is the George Washington of the... Yeah, LaCroix is the obvious choice goes on there. You know, asking me to assign a brand to a president,
Starting point is 00:12:01 after that's going to be significantly harder, but LaCroix is the George Washington in this case. For sure. After that, things get a little trickier. I think part of the issue is some of these... are somewhat regional, the sparkling waters, you know? Right. You know, the polar selection out on the East Coast is a way different game than the polar
Starting point is 00:12:25 selection around here. Right. Right. Which does play into it a little bit. I think Waterloo's got to be on the Mount Rush. Yeah. I mean, I think Waterloo is up there. I think I have a question about, is Waterloo everywhere?
Starting point is 00:12:40 Yeah, that's distributed out of Texas. Okay. Yeah. So Waterloo should be around. I think Waterloo goes up there for sure because their flavors are. just a little more bold in general. Yeah, they got bold flavor. So we got Waterloo and LaCroix so far.
Starting point is 00:12:55 Okay. Polars in the discussion. I don't know if you put Topo Chico in the discussion. I don't know if they have enough flavors. It's worth at least just throwing it out there as an option. It is. It is worth throwing it out there as an option. What about Bubbly?
Starting point is 00:13:09 Yeah, that's definitely part of the discussion. It's always in Walmart and all the, you know, it's in every Walmart and Target and everything like that. Very widely available. You got that right. I feel like there's one other brand we're missing out on here. Well, you could also say liquid death. Yeah, they almost feel too new, though.
Starting point is 00:13:27 You know what I'm saying? That's what they said about Teddy Roosevelt at the time. Good point. Good point. And look what he did. That's what everyone said about Teddy Roosevelt. I don't think they said that. No, they definitely said that.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Okay. What about what does Lauren send us from, a Dambler system. Rambler is one of the most delicious. It is, but that one's just so hard to get. I don't know if it can go on there. Spin drift is fairly popular too. You know what I used to get a lot of?
Starting point is 00:14:00 I had to look at brands because I can't even think of any right now. The ahas used to get a lot of those. Yeah. But I haven't had many of those lately. Pellegrino, Perrier, like those ones aren't, those ones don't do it for me. They're not. No, that's stuff shit. I think it's, I think you're LaCroix, Waterloo, Polar, and Bubbly.
Starting point is 00:14:29 That feels like a pretty good list right there. Yeah. I kind of agree with that. One of my favorites is the Rambler, but that's really just not nationally distributed. Like we would need it to be. Yeah, it needs to be more available. I really liked ugly when it was still in business, but. I don't think we can choose.
Starting point is 00:14:52 use ones that completely went out of business. So yeah, I think that that's fair. LaCroy, Waterloo, Polar, and Bubly. Yeah. Honorable mention. That's the definitive list. Yeah. Honorable mention.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Liquid death. Ahaz. Spin drift. Rambler. Never forget. Then that all that other bullshit. So that's our Mount Rushmore for episode 520. That's a good one.
Starting point is 00:15:23 Okay. What else do we got on the list? I saw some pop culture stuff in there. Okay, Tanner. Big, big movie. Okay, are you going to go to the Project Hail Mary movie? Definitely want to. I plan on going to it within the next week.
Starting point is 00:15:43 I'm hoping I'm going to make my wife go to it with me. She is not a sci-fi movie person. So we'll see how she does with it. but I'm going to try and make her go before the next podcast episode so that we can hopefully report back. You can have a follow up. Yeah. It would help if I knew when we're going to record the next episode,
Starting point is 00:16:00 give me a little more time to plan. But I'm going to see if I can make it happen, get some follow up there. Everything that I've heard, everyone really likes it. Seems it's rated pretty highly, actually. So I'm very excited to see that movie. Like,
Starting point is 00:16:12 I'm more excited to see that movie than, I don't know, any movie in the last 10 years. This will be the first time that I read a book that is relevant, and then the movie came out. Me too. I mean, I guess I read Lord of the Rings before the movie came out, but that's a little different. That book was around forever, you know, like everyone knew it was a big deal.
Starting point is 00:16:29 That book was around for like 100 years. Maybe 200 even. No one even knows it sold. I think it was written in the 30s or the 40s. Well, yeah, but the movies came out, what, in 2000? Something like that. Yeah, so it was around for 70-ish years. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:46 Which is a long time, actually, yeah. And actually, I'm curious, I have no idea what the answer to this is. were those books even popular when they were written? Oh, yeah. Oh, new. Oh, that's a good question, actually. You know, like were they popular? Yeah, did it take 10, 15, 20 years to catch on?
Starting point is 00:17:02 Right. When did those? It seems like that's the way that goes a lot of times. Yeah, where the people of the depression really? Okay. Yeah. When did they actually, when? I'm mostly speculating on that date.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Oh, the 50s. Okay. That's a little different. So they were all written in the 50s? And how many books were there? I know that the movie is a trilogy, but... Yeah, this says the three... Oh, um, on AI.
Starting point is 00:17:35 You give me a quick, quick answer here. I don't know when the... It just says 1954. I can't get answers on all of it, but... Yeah. It does say that they were released as a box set in 1957, so presumably they were all released in quick succession. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:52 But... Is that what people do with books like that, like current... they release a series of books like that, isn't it? Aren't people always, I never do this, so I don't know, but aren't people always like waiting for the author to write the next one? Isn't that a thing? Kind of, it seems like it, yeah? I mean, talk to the Game of Thrones people.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Right. Yeah, that sort of thing. But in the 50s, maybe book writing culture was a little different too. Yeah, life moved at a different pace then. You could just sit and write books all day. So it was 50 years old. Which is still pretty old. Yeah, right, right.
Starting point is 00:18:29 but all right this my point was yeah what was it even what were we talking about even the Oscars is what I'm trying to say here a big movie guy the Oscars did just did you catch any of the movies that won awards Tanner I have never watched any of the Oscars so the outside of the massonics podcast ever would I even ever really be able to tell you who what won Oscars unless there's something that's really into pop culture like what did yeah I know something I know Um, maybe it was K-pop Demon Hunters won something. Uh, yeah, probably did actually. Uh, and to be honest, I didn't even really pay much attention to any of these other things are any of the winners because I just, I was busy.
Starting point is 00:19:13 It's busy. I have watched the Oscars in the past. I like, uh, seeing what people are doing. You know, it's, it's how it, it might be movies that you might suck and might not like, but at the end of the day, they're at least noteworthy movies. They usually, usually did something unique in them. Um, but the winner. the winner for best picture. Let me give you the nominee.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Okay, so you did not hear who won best picture. I don't think so. Maybe you'll say it and I. All right. Let me give you the nominees here. Is it a movie I know? I don't know or not. You might.
Starting point is 00:19:42 It's so often like not even a movie. They're like, when they say it, I'm like, I've never heard of it. Yeah, here. Let me give you these nominees here. Okay. We're going to go. Where we go? Sentimental value.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Never heard of it. Never heard of it. Frankenstein. Never heard of it. I've heard of it. The word Frankenstein. I mean, I shouldn't say I never heard of Frankenstein. Never heard of what I'm assuming is a new movie called Frankenstein.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Not the original one from what the 30s or whatever it was. The F1 movie. We've talked about on this podcast. That was up. Marty Supreme. Who starred in that? Brad Pitt was in that. Okay, okay, yep.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Marty Supreme, did we talk about this on the podcast or did I just tell you about it one time? I don't remember. Okay, Marty Supreme, it's about a ping pong player. Oh, I remember you saying that. have been on the podcast. Maybe. I've got the name of it already, obviously. The secret agent.
Starting point is 00:20:35 I've never heard of that. Hamnet. Never heard of it? Sinners. Don't know it? Train dreams. Never heard of it. Begonia.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Never heard of it? And one battle after another. I don't think I've heard of that, although the movie title sounds like the same movie title as 400 other movies. I heard, actually, so on this list, I did see this year. I did see the F1 movie. I saw Marty Supreme. I saw one battle after another.
Starting point is 00:21:01 I really wanted to see sinners because I've heard people talking about it so much, but I never saw it. So I had heard of four of the movies on the list, and I'd watch three of them. The winner is, any guesses? I have absolutely no idea. One battle after another,
Starting point is 00:21:18 which has Leonardo DiCaprio in it, and it's directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. I am a Paul Thomas Anderson fan. There will be blood, boogie nights. some of my favorite movies. They're really well done. And it was actually a few weeks ago.
Starting point is 00:21:35 My wife said, we're watching one battle after another. Let's go watch this. It was the first time we had sat down to watch a movie in our house. Those are the movies I saw in the theater. This one we actually rented. So what was it on? Oh, you had to pay it on. Oh, no, no.
Starting point is 00:21:46 We had HBO. Sorry, it was on HBO. We watched it. And watched it. I enjoyed it. I thought it was a very entertaining movie, a good movie. And, yeah, one best picture. So I was, yeah, I was kind of surprised.
Starting point is 00:21:59 But I can definitely see how it would be a frontrunner. A contender. Yeah. And that's my Oscar recap. I've never heard of any of those movies. But if you told me what movies, like if you're like, Tanner, what movies do you think out of 2025 should have been in the Oscars?
Starting point is 00:22:16 I've been, actually, I don't know. I don't know any movies from the last year. What would have been the children's movies that came out in the last year? See, that's one definitely pay more. attention on that and more up on that. Like Lilo and Stitch. See, I, okay, I am not a fan
Starting point is 00:22:36 of the Disney live action. Actually, any kids live action movie because, you know, the thing with animated is you can take grotesque, weird, disgusting, not cute things and make them cute and cuddly and charming and adorable.
Starting point is 00:22:53 And all of a sudden you make them real and they're actually disgusting and grotesque. And it kind of ruins the whole illusion of what animation does. And, like, Lilo and Stitch, in the actual movie, the, like, alien guys are creepy, are, you know, they're animated,
Starting point is 00:23:09 but they're creepy and weird, and it's like, well, they're cartoons. In this, you watch it, you're like, oh, these are these grotesque, disgusting figures that are playing as aliens trying to capture these guys. Like, this is weird, seeing them in here. And, I mean, that same thing applies to all these Disney, like, when I see the Lion King live action
Starting point is 00:23:24 or the Jungle Book live action, or the Little Mermaid live action, Like, nah, the live action thing just ruins it for me. I can't do any of those movies. It is also just completely recycling the... Oh, I mean, in top of that, yeah, there's no originality. Well, I mean, yeah, they have to make the graphics and everything. But it's still that.
Starting point is 00:23:42 As far as the actual story goes, yeah, there's no originality in that part of it. Yes. Any other notable Oscars? No, because I didn't see anything else. I had no idea what won anything else. I think F1 might have won something for best sound effects or something like that. But didn't you say you didn't think it was very good, though? Oh, as an F1 fan, as an fan of the actual sport of F1, I couldn't stand the movie.
Starting point is 00:24:10 My wife was checked out. She was looking on her phone. She's like, no, I'm done with this movie. It's too stupid. It's just, it's the whole cliche sports thing of, hey, all the experts are together and we suck. But let's bring in the old washed up guy. And he's going to tell us everything we're doing wrong. Like all, you know, these engineering geniuses can't figure it out.
Starting point is 00:24:30 the guy that hasn't driven a car for 20 years can be like, oh yeah, you're doing this wrong, this wrong. I'm like, oh, man, how do we not think of that? And that's where I just can't. I just, I don't know. That guy was Brad Pitt. Yeah, that guy's Brad Pitt, yes. Well, that makes sense.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Well, yeah, I mean, it's Brad Pitt. You could do anything. I would like to see that movie. I mean, it's cool from a special effects and all that. Like, it's cool, but. And I'd probably like to see the light Leonardo DiCaprio movie because, I don't know, Most of the movie season are pretty good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:02 He's actually, and he's pretty good. Like in this one, he's kind of this paranoid stoner that's, you know, they're on the, they're kind of on the run in hiding from these people in the government. And, I mean, it's like, it's kind of the dark comedy thing. Yeah. Okay. How about, is it time for supporting our supporting members? Do we want to do that yet?
Starting point is 00:25:25 I don't know one other thing first. No, we might as well get to that. Okay. supporting our supporting members, relatively new segment of the past podcast, just the 20th time that we're doing it here in season two of the podcast. What we do is we try to give back to those that support us. So if you become a supporting member,
Starting point is 00:25:45 this is one of the perks that you get, is you could get a shout out if you're doing something interesting, cool, noteworthy, competing, that sort of thing. We'd like to highlight it here on the show. Also other perks that you get, you can listen to our pre-show. the show before the show. It's on recorded, on, cut, on, filtered. The only way you get to listen to that is if you're a supporting member.
Starting point is 00:26:05 The only way you get to listen along live to the podcast is if you're a supporting member. And then multiple other things, but if you're thinking about signing up, now is the time to sign up because we've teased it a little bit. But soon we have a mailer that's going out to everyone that's a supporting member. if you're signed up prior to the line that we place in the sand, you will get in on the mailer. If you sign up after that line in the sand, we're not going to send it to you.
Starting point is 00:26:37 So what you want to do is sign up prior to the line in the sand, which is going to be coming soon. It's not officially yet, but just as a heads up, I would just get signed up now, so you make it in plenty of time. This week's supporting members that we want to highlight, Big Matt Sesney,
Starting point is 00:26:54 competed in a single-ply bench, only meat. And he bombed out. This is how the game goes sometimes. A for effort, at least for Big Matt. A for effort. If it was easy, everyone would do it. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Big Jessica Bittner at Canadian Nationals, powerlifting, got first place with a 561 kilogram total and a 218.5 national record squat. Still got it. Still got it. Big John also at C-A-N-P-L National Championships got second place in the 163-pound M-1 division. Oh, yeah, we're all about that M-1 division here. Yes, sir.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Big Matt in a hat competed in his first strongman meet. It was King and Queen of the Throne. The Master's Lightweight Division, he came in last or second place, depending on how you look at it. Ah, I like that. A little glass half-full kind of guy says, second place. Glass half empty might say last glass half full.
Starting point is 00:28:02 Second. Big Matt C came in second place at his power lifting meat. They ran out of second place medals, so they gave him a third place medal. It's like, so he got, he got third out of two people in his class. I'm not sure how to look at that one. Depending on if you're glass half full, glass half glass half glass. managed to do somehow worse. He got worse than last.
Starting point is 00:28:34 Big Skavone was at the Iowa State powerlifting meet where he went eight for nine and hit a PR on every single lift for a 1223 total. Oh, hell yeah. Doesn't really get better than a PR in every single lift, does it? No, it does not. Big Brian, not that Brian, accepted
Starting point is 00:28:53 into Informatics Master's program. Don't even know what that is, but it sounds important. It's so important that neither of us even know what informatics is. Well, wait, was that up for an Oscar this year? Because I've never heard of it. Big Jose, no way, was at IPF Mexico Nationals, where he got, went seven for nine and got fifth place overall in the 93
Starting point is 00:29:21 kilogram weight class. Man, this guy I think he is. No way. No way, man. Big Brandon, big Kurt, big spitesy, pizza, and Big Tom, where the sweet's guests on unpaid and underrated. You can go give that a listen. It's a separate podcast.
Starting point is 00:29:40 We call it our brady little sister podcast. They record an episode every week that features supporting members of Massanomics. Go give it a listen. I heard the rumor is that's already like being known as the Dream Team podcast rotation there. Well, that's the Dream Team. So that's what people on the Internet are saying. at least. I wonder which one of them is Christian Leitner.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And who the Isaiah Thomas? Who got left out? Yeah. Who was snubbed. Yeah. I think Christian Leitner's coming to Western Northeast, South Dakota. I think I saw that actually online somewhere. He was on the dream team.
Starting point is 00:30:22 He was on the greatest basketball team of all time. Sort of as a joke in comparison to everyone else on the team, but he was still on there. That's all that counts. Yeah, better not say too much just in case we have them on the podcast. Really eat these words later. We're like, oh, Christian Leitner, we're big fans. How many teams have you made, buddy?
Starting point is 00:30:50 Okay. Do we want to do, do, a certified training facility of the week. I mean, I know we do. I really want to do a certified training facility the week. Have you been looking around this map on Jim Radar? Has anything popped up to you as a potential? That's the problem is I have been looking around the map and everything is so good.
Starting point is 00:31:12 That trying to narrow it down is a real. That's the story over at Jimradar.com. Everything is so good. And some of these places I look at, I think, God, this place looks so good. And then I realize we've actually done them before, but they've updated their photos and it's changed so much. Yeah. What do you think?
Starting point is 00:31:41 The world's our oyster. That's what I think at Jim Radar. I could just click around in here all day. Okay. How about goodness? Nope, I already did the... Thought I had one. We've already done that one, though.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Okay. We're going to do this. I don't think we've done this one yet. I'm looking at a little place called South Shore Strength. It's just to the east of Chicago. South Shore Strength, Big Chris. I can already see he's got some cool flooring in here.
Starting point is 00:32:27 Yeah. So, all right. South Shore Strength. South Shore Strength. We are in a basement here. And it's got the basement. It's got the Midwest basement vibes down perfectly, I'd say on initial inspection.
Starting point is 00:32:44 I'm looking at photo one. We have 17 photos here. So we're not going to get through all of them because that takes some time here. But the first photo, checking it out. Okay, we got some, we got a very eclectic collection of flooring. Looks like you got some tile of some sort. There's a deadlift platform. There's horse stall mats.
Starting point is 00:33:07 There's maybe something else too. There's some wood, I guess, in the deadlift platform. So you've got a variety of flooring textures you're working with here. Yeah. Right off the bat. Yeah, there's a looking at the setup, though, we got a deadlift jack. I don't, what deadlift jack is that, Tanner? The Titan one?
Starting point is 00:33:26 Probably the Titan one it looks like to me. It does look like it, yeah. We got a rack back there. I'm not sure what rack. What rack is that, Tanner? That rack is a T3 series Titan fitness power rack. Okay, that's just a workhorse right there for you. Yep.
Starting point is 00:33:42 I'm actually going to switch it to photo two just so I can look around a little better here. photo okay photo two they are really putting out the vibes here right um yes you know that's probably what's missing from gym radars not enough people are doing posed photos in their gym actually like uh cover photos yeah we got like the the b boy uh they got the matching uh track suits on with the boom box a sick uh getal blaster i guess yeah yeah i think that's what more people should have on their gym profile is a photo of them posing in their gym because this goes pretty hard when I look at this thing. I already can tell by looking that's got to be a Texas squat bar in the rack too, so I know
Starting point is 00:34:24 these guys know what's up. Photo three. All right, we got some barbells on the wall here, Tanner. I don't need you to provide me barbell support, but I see an elite FTS SS yoke bar. I think I see a some type of fringe mitas bar of some sort. I see one with some gold sleeves on it. Yeah, they've got. That's the, they got the easy curl Midas bar from Fringe.
Starting point is 00:34:50 They've got the 29mm Texas power bar, the elite FTS Camberd, All-American bar, the Yoke bar, like you said, he's got the Texas squat bar, Texas Deadlift Bar. He's got an old York bar and he's got the Cambuqi Duffalo Bar. Nice. That's a good collection of bars right there. Yeah, for sure. We got our, of course, our certified training facility flag. Then we got a couple racks. of dumbbells.
Starting point is 00:35:17 We got, it looks like competition style kettlebells there, some slam balls, some, there's some, uh, Luchadori wrestling masks on the rack.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Yeah. See those? On the top corner of the rack. Yes. I like that as a decoration. That's good. That's good. Yes.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Okay, looking at the kettlebells. Oh, also we got a live large fan here. I've seen a few live large banners. And they have the let it rip live large pre-workout bottles. Not a lot of that around anymore.
Starting point is 00:35:47 Remember when Nick gave us samples of that at the Arnold. Right. He just let us take some. He just gave us a bunch, I think. Right, right. Yeah, this South Shore strength, now that I see his camo dog sticker,
Starting point is 00:35:59 I'm like, I definitely have that sticker too. Yeah. It's hard to remember all the stickers. You got to keep going on the pictures. There's more of them posing. Actually, multiple of them both. Yeah, we've got photos them posing with their ski masks on, lifting with their masks on.
Starting point is 00:36:19 Yeah. And then we got, okay, then we'll just round it out. There's an attachment wall. What do we got? Are those some variation of the, um, Meg grips or there's the Amazon? Got those elite FTS grenade grips on there.
Starting point is 00:36:31 Mm-hmm. A little arm blaster or some tricep, B push down bar things. Is there a, does they got a mammoth belt squad or some type of arm or something here? Let's, um, I just see it from the mammoth corner of this,
Starting point is 00:36:47 but I can't quite tell from what, also do they I think they have some type of a lap pull-down machine yeah they do have the mammoth fringe belt squat okay yes that is there yeah then there's a there is a there is a body solid lap pull-down machine well it makes sense you know where body solids out of Chicago I believe so okay I get it now and the tight and reverse hyper is tucked back in the corner there too man there's just more stuff the more I look yep yep and a foo's ball table Is that foosball? I think so.
Starting point is 00:37:22 I thought it was air hockey at first. Yeah, that looks like foosball. So you can have fun even when you're not working out down in this garage basement. At South Shore Strength, the 500 square foot basement training facility. We've seen a lot of it. We'd analyze the equipment. Probably the most important thing, though, is Tommy, do you think you could get strong there? Oh, hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:47 Yeah. We're getting strong in South Shore strength, gym, wearing Luchadora mask and posing with the jukeboxes or with the tape decks. Yeah, the boom boxes. Have you ever bought a tape? You know, some people put things out on tape again now. Yeah, a cassette tape. I don't think I've ever actually bought a cassette in my adult life. And I've bought a lot of CDs over the years.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Not recently, but there's a while. We grew up in there. We were really the heart and soul of the CD era. Actually, the closest thing I ever got to a cassette was I had the cassette adapter that you would put in your cassette player in your car so that then you could plug in your CD player. Yes. Everyone had that. That was the way to listen to music back in the day. I had cassettes, played cassettes, but I wasn't old enough yet to purchase cassettes.
Starting point is 00:38:41 By the time I was purchasing something, it was CDs. but we definitely played cassettes when I was little. I think we had an Elvin in the Chitmunks cassette, if I remember when I was young. That sounds like exactly like a cassette someone to have, honestly. You put on that radio that was mounted underneath the kitchen cabinet. Yeah. You have one of those things.
Starting point is 00:39:04 It would be like a radio cassette player there. And you could, yeah, that's really all I remember about. How many songs could fit on a cassette? It's a good question. There can't be many. You know, some people still do release cassettes now, though. No, I know. That's what I, like, that's kind of, uh,
Starting point is 00:39:20 sort of popular again, too. I can sort of see the appeal to it. This says seven to ten songs per side. Well, it depends if you have a 60 minute tape or a 90 minute tape. Okay. So about the same as a record in the ballpark. Yeah, 30 to 45 minutes per side, roughly. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:44 Cassettes, watch out. Could be on the comeback. We're bringing it back. It's a very hot right now with the cassettes. You know what else is very hot right now? I noticed the American press bar that they had there from Elite FTS and South Shore Barbell. And perfect timing. Elite FTS is actually our newest sponsor of the Massonomics podcast.
Starting point is 00:40:05 You can purchase something from Elite FTS and use discount code Mass 10, whether you want to get that bar we talked about, whether you just want their toilet paper, which I highly, toilet paper comes highly recommended for me. We haven't not had Elite FTS toilet paper in the gym for probably six months to 12 months even at this point. It is our one supplier of toilet paper. It's a real workhorse, you can say. Yeah, it could be real nervous. I was in the gym last night, and I can say someone was using that stuff
Starting point is 00:40:37 because there was a stank in those walls. We were in the gym last night. getting some photos in a little bit of video. And we had been in there for like an hour and nobody else had been in the gym. First, first, I went in. I got there at like nine on the dot. And I'd driven in that. You know, it was three hours in the car.
Starting point is 00:40:59 I had to pee. So I go in, go in the bathroom right away. And I thought, man, it stinks in here. But there's no one here. So someone must have just left was my thought. And I'm like, okay, it's a gym bathroom. It's going to stink. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:11 And so we leave. You and I are messing around making fun. photos, you know, videos, doing stuff for an hour, over an hour, I think. It's 10.15. We go back in there when we're doing a dumb clip with the lead FTS toilet paper, and it still smelled the same. And at this point, an hour and 15 minutes have gone by makes you wonder, how long had it actually smelled like that in there for?
Starting point is 00:41:33 Three hours, four hours, just permanently? I don't know. Well, because we went in there and I'm like, God, it smells like shit in here. And it, like, smelled bad. It still smelled fresh. I thought there was going to be a turd in the toilet. I know. But everything was clean is the crazy part.
Starting point is 00:41:52 So what's that smell coming from? It's just permeated in the air. I don't know. It doesn't disperse for hours. It's just stuck in the paint. It's not like there's a lot of soft surfaces for the smell to be stuck in. It's like there's bedding and towels everywhere. It's just,
Starting point is 00:42:11 right. There's a tile floor and hard walls, but somehow those are, smell is just lingering for a really long time. Yeah. So check out EliteFTS.com. Use discount code in Mass 10. You too can get toilet paper that goes good in smelly bathrooms.
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Starting point is 00:43:54 Yep. I wonder if we should, as you do that, too, like, do we jump into a radar report at some point in time? Oh. Yeah, we should, but I got to think about that some more unless you have something in mind. Well, we could, well, did we mention, did we talk about the number of reviews? No, I don't think so because I don't think. that was official as of the last episode. So I think that that's probably pretty worthy.
Starting point is 00:44:20 Always so many things going on. It's hard to keep up with what we've said. It's hard to remember what. Yeah, exactly. So have you kicked? That's the official radio report then. You're getting those kicked off. While you do that, I'll get some radar report entrance.
Starting point is 00:44:36 Hit it. Let's really feel the theme here of the radar report. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? Oh, that puts me in the mood for some radar reports. I love it when Will Ferrell pauses for dramatic effect before the song kicks in. Was he pausing or are the radar love guy's pausing? That's true. They're in cahoots.
Starting point is 00:45:03 So this is the radar report, our weekly segment where we run down something that's going on on Jim Radar. Jimrador.com. The finest website. for home gym owners in all of the land. And what is our, what is our radar report for the week? Well, I'm just calculating the totals here to give people the most up-to-date stats.
Starting point is 00:45:26 Oh my God, this number keeps, this number's out of control. All right, radar report, here it is. The total number of reviews on Jim Radar, 10,590 reviews are live. there's a good chance by the time you're actually listening to this, that number's probably past 11,000. Crazy number.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Like crazy number. That's so many reviews. That's a lot of reviews. That is a lot. And it just keeps ticking up all the time. There's other numbers that are growing. I can see one number will be exciting to be on the radar report next week by the time we record. And then probably the week after that,
Starting point is 00:46:10 I can see another exciting one that we're going to be hitting some miles. I would say there's still probably almost 200 certified training facilities that have not gotten onto Jim Radar yet. So we have a huge number of people that have gotten on here, a ton of gyms that also aren't even certified training facilities that are available on the site now and published that you can check out. But I think that there's probably close to 200 certified training facilities that you signed up to be certified prior to Jim Radar existing. and then you haven't actually gotten on gym radar yet. So come get on gym radar. You already have paid for the premium membership where you get every single feature available. And we just want to check out your cool gym on gym radar.
Starting point is 00:46:57 It gives us a chance that we might get to pick it as the certified training facility of the week. Everyone else will get to see the cool things that you got going on in your gym. You can start leaving reviews, you know, stuff that Jim Radar is about. anything else major in Jim Radar News at this point? No. That reviewed was exciting. We're working on a bunch of stuff behind the scenes all the time. We do have some, like always, some very exciting ideas for how we can keep the site engaging
Starting point is 00:47:31 and fun and interesting for new and existing users. So it's, we're just paying attention to everything that's going on and coming up with some new ideas based off of what's taken place, and I think people are going to be excited once we get these implemented. I think very soon we're going to have a technical guy, Nate, on the podcast, and we're going to talk even more about Jim Radar,
Starting point is 00:47:52 obviously, when that day comes. Give me the one-month recap, maybe. Yes. Be on the lookout for that coming soon. We haven't officially decided what the title topic is for this week's episode. There's a couple things here. One thing is I got some new equipment.
Starting point is 00:48:07 Some of that's been showing up, so we could talk about that, that for months, depending on how long we want to tease people on the new equipment. But the other thing is, I wrote this down in here, the topic that all I wrote down was Jim Equalizer.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Yeah, what is this? Well, I'd written this down a while ago, and it became, I thought of it not related to this, but as I watched this week's YouTube video, which was with Gunner Peterson, it really highlighted this very same concept to me.
Starting point is 00:48:39 and he's i watched the full i watched the full gunner peterson video just here last night also i gotta say that gym tour was so cool we recorded that quite a while ago now so it was really a refresher to me to see you it and it was so much fun like if you watched that i'm like this was great like there was no part of this that wasn't fun that was a really good one and like you said it had been what went was it october no i think october or early november when we recorded that thing. Yeah, it must have been somewhere in there. So like four months ago, that's almost the almost the longest we've ever sat on a tour. Right. And so when I was editing it, it was like, it was actually like watching it back for the first time. I've forgotten so much about it.
Starting point is 00:49:23 And that gym tour is awesome. It was really good, super entertaining. We talked about maybe one 50th of what was in there, really. And it was still a 45 minute gym tour. You know, it would be just an eight hour tour if you actually went through all the stuff. Like there was other outbuildings that I even pointed it to the one point and I'm, and we did, we went in there later and I'm like, is that full of gym equipment? And he's like, you don't want to know. And it was completely full of gym equipment. And it was bigger than a gym, bigger than most, as big as a commercial gym, just
Starting point is 00:49:58 trailers with unused gym equipment. Trailers, tents, all of these things holding equipment. And every kind of crazy people. of a gym equipment that you could think of. Yeah. Even things you couldn't think of, just things we've never seen before. We're in there.
Starting point is 00:50:13 Yeah. Like I forgot about that one thing I was using at the beginning that you like throw and push. It's so what was the power netic or something like that? Yeah, something like, and I like how we can't get a hold of the guys. And I'm like,
Starting point is 00:50:26 the phone number's right there. He's like, we try and call them. Trust me, we've called the number. And also, even that day we were there, it wasn't like the tech from Kaiser there.
Starting point is 00:50:37 working on equipment. I think so. There was multiple guys from equipment companies there working on things or installing things, which is just like multiple. They were everywhere. Yeah. And these aren't his employees. These were people from the company just coming into work on equipment.
Starting point is 00:50:51 It was right. Not something you ever see. No, quite the crazy setup, though. I mean, you have to watch that gym tour. It's a spectacle. He was talking to the guys. I just remember this now. These techs are in there working on stuff.
Starting point is 00:51:07 And Cunner has his trainers there. And he made some comment to him like, just tell them whatever the machine needs, just buy it. We'll get it taken care of. They're not skimping on anything. They just want it and they want it to work the way they want it to and just get it figured out and we'll get the bill taken care of.
Starting point is 00:51:26 Yes. So at the beginning of that video, I said, what's the gym name? What's the gym called? Because I don't know if I did even know at that point in time. And he said, it's common ground. because, you know, we think the gym is the one piece of common ground where it doesn't matter where you come from or whatever.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Like, this is, we all share this in common. And this was very much the gym equalizer thing that I had been thinking of. And this, we've talked about this on the podcast before. And like, this isn't a new idea that nobody's ever thought of before. But it really highlighted to me the other day in the gym, because I actually had a conversation with these people that I was at the gym with, sort of about it because I'm like, huh. It like, it actually, like I, I, I thought about it because I never think about this when
Starting point is 00:52:13 I'm at the gym. But I just, just that day it hit me and we were kind of laughing about it. But in the gym, there was four of us in Massanomics gym in Western, Northeast, South Dakota, which you'd normally consider not that diverse of a location. Like, it just is the truth. Right. It's just not that diverse. Like if you've been here, most of the people here are white.
Starting point is 00:52:33 And that's just like, we're also talking about South Dakota in general. Right. Right. But in the gym, we actually do have a very diverse gym member population. At least it's more diverse than the general population, I feel like, is our gym membership. But it was myself, a Native American guy in his 50s, a woman in her 20s, and an African American guy in his 50s, 20s. And I just thought it was like,
Starting point is 00:53:08 oh, we write a joke here. Those four of walk into the bar, the fifth person ducks. Right. And I just, I was talking to one of the guys, I'm like,
Starting point is 00:53:21 oh, it's kind of crazy. Like everyone gets, always gets along with everyone here. You know, like it doesn't matter. The, the acceptance of the rule is like you're a shitty gym member.
Starting point is 00:53:31 That's really rare. But that's because you're just a shitty gym member, you know. Right. And I do think it's the equalizer. So like I was talking about it in terms of kind of like race, but the thing that comes up more often is even age, where I'm like, oh, yeah, it doesn't actually matter
Starting point is 00:53:47 if you come in here and you're 21 or if you're 53. Nobody really cares. And a lot of people don't pay attention to it either. Well, in like in other parts of society, that's like this difference maker. Unless it was a job, you're not going to like, If you're 20, you're not hanging out with people in their 50s typically. You know, it's not really like there,
Starting point is 00:54:09 because there's like this built-in difference here. Or like this class system or whatever it is. And at the gym, at least the kind of gyms we go to and the stuff we do in gyms, nobody cares about that stuff. It all comes down to like what's going on in the gym. Like if the 22-year-old is a very, very experienced lifter for their age and, you know, very knowledgeable and knows what they're doing. And someone else that's a very successful man in his mid-40s comes into the gym,
Starting point is 00:54:49 they still kind of like going to defer to the person that knows, like, has the expertise. The subject matter expert here, yeah. That is the thing. And I think Gunner said this too. You know, he said it's common ground. And he goes, we don't talk religion. We don't talk politics. I think you said like social economic status like that.
Starting point is 00:55:07 And that is the whole thing of when you're in there, like at the end of the day, you know, the guy that can bench 315, you know, yeah, I don't care if you make a million dollars here. If you're benching 135, you kind of like,
Starting point is 00:55:19 you don't really have that leverage in that position that you just, you haven't put in the work in the experience to be stronger, you know, and not that you have to bench three plates or deadlift five plates or whatever, but you can tell when someone has actually genuinely put the work in and if you spent time in the gym,
Starting point is 00:55:37 you know, we all know people's strength is relative and all that, but you can tell when someone's put the time in to actually get better at this and they take it seriously. And that at the end, there's like what you respect, you know? Yeah, it does like,
Starting point is 00:55:49 that is what you respect in the gym. And I talked about, you know, race, age. The other thing, and you mentioned it, it's career also doesn't really, I mean, we have people that are engineers, you know, food service employees, police officers. College students, bartenders, high school students, bartenders, lawyers, like bankers, everything across the sector of a small South Dakota community.
Starting point is 00:56:20 People that work for sanitation department and like literally you name it and just could be literally anything. And none of that matters. And when I say it's like, oh, none of that really matters for the most part. I'm saying it doesn't matter at all. And that's the other thing. That's the other joke about the gym, though, is depending, like, there's a good chance some of those guys could lift at the same time and still have no clue what the other guy's career is.
Starting point is 00:56:46 You know, like, they've actually, and that's, you know, that extends to all gyms. That's the way it's, what's awesome about it, though. Right. It's the joke of like, oh, yeah, we've been lifting together for like a year or two, and I don't know anything about the guy besides what we do here, you know. Yes. And we both have the time of our lives. Yes, that's a sweet.
Starting point is 00:57:03 part about it. And like you could, I guess another thing is, is politics. You could maybe like make assumptions about what some people are into, but for the most, I mean, for the 100% part in our gym too, nobody talks about that. Like that is not, it would really suck if people did. So thankfully they don't. Like there is a sign from supporting member, Chris Hale sign painter. And it says, Right. And our gym above the door, it says no politics, no religion, no drama. I think is what the sign says. And that actually was what sparked that conversation because the other guy was like,
Starting point is 00:57:43 I really like that sign. And then I'm like, I was thinking, I'm like, yeah, isn't it sweet? Everyone here, like, it just depends on if you're like you're a good gym member. And beyond that, nothing else actually matters. Yeah, it's the truth. And that's, if everything operated that way. Oh, my God. Realistically, it can't, I suppose, in some regards.
Starting point is 00:58:05 But, like, if it operated more like that, even just a little more that way. I think what helps it, though, is it's such an obvious, I mean, pecking order isn't the right word, but it's such an obvious display of, like, money can't ruin it in the way that a lot of things. Like, okay, let's say you want to get into the hobby of cars or motorcycles. You can just buy your way to the top and be like, look at me. Right. I got this. I've got the coolest one here.
Starting point is 00:58:30 Yeah, where you could have been like into cars your whole life and you know everything about them, but you don't make, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. So buying a crazy expensive sports car like isn't something you're going to do. But like money can just like ruin that hobby. I shouldn't say ruin it. But it can just change that hobby so fast. And like that's with a lot of collecting hobbies is, yeah, you got the money. And all of a sudden it's you're the look at me guy.
Starting point is 00:58:52 But that's not what actually going to the gym is about. It's not the money part. The money actually has nothing to do with it. It's just such an obvious display of who put in the work actually. Right. And I always say like, I keep relating it to, in my mind, like the easy thing is like being stronger. Like, you know, who's stronger. Stronger isn't really the only thing.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Like part of it is like technical prowess. Right. Part of it might be your physique. It's putting in the work, like whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. Because you can tell, I mean, part of it goes into diet. Like how well do you take care of yourself?
Starting point is 00:59:24 Part of it goes into, you know, how long have you been doing this? You know, if you're in your. 50s and you're still going at this. Like that's just a sign of, like people get that. Like the respect is there when they can see that. You know, you've been grinding for a long time at this. I do think that's a good point though.
Starting point is 00:59:42 You can't buy. You can't buy your way to it. The other thing too, the other thing too that I think makes lifting different than a lot of hobbies because you could say, well, there's a lot of hobbies, sports that you can't buy your way into.
Starting point is 00:59:54 Right. And I agree, but a lot of hobbies are so technique-based that once you have a certain base level of technique, you'll always be competent, you'll always be pretty good. I mean, you could take if, like Tanner,
Starting point is 01:00:05 you're just, you played basketball. Right. I never really played basketball. You could take forever off and you and me could both say, no, we're starting basketball tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Like, you're just going to be better than me for, you're probably better than me forever because you just have a baseline level of technique where with lifting weights, if you took like basketball, when you started playing, again a few years ago. You hadn't played in like 10 years, right? Or more.
Starting point is 01:00:30 Right. Right. Like if you hadn't touched weights in 10 years or more, you would be, you wouldn't, I mean, you have no base. Yeah, it's not, it's not knocking the rust off. You're actually starting at zero. Right. Where, you know, the gym is the same thing of like, if you actually do take your time off, you can't just say, well, I got really good technique. I'll, I'll pick it up in a hurry. No, like you're, and some guys do have a decent level of base strength built into their, you know, are lucky with that. But for them all, part if you did nothing for 10 years you know you're going to come to the gym starting at zero and so like there is that level of respect to you can just tell when guys have stuck guys and gals
Starting point is 01:01:07 have stuck with it over the years yeah yeah so i do think it is the ultimate equalizer though like it's like the ultimate equalizer dude that was part of why that was right before i started my home gym not the first gym i went to when i came to town because that one was had a lot of like kids and then just like, or I'd go at lunch and there'd be just a lot of people just doing cardio on their lunch break. But the other gym I went to that was a little closer to my house. I mean, I could go and there'd be, it was the wildest group of people in there, you know, from like the array of 15 to 65. There might be five different languages being spoken at any given point.
Starting point is 01:01:46 I mean, fitness goals and strength were all over the board. Like, it was just crazy to watch, like, well, it was taking place. And everyone was cool. You know, everyone was nice and good. Like no one was annoying. You know, people were doing things that I wouldn't personally do. But that was part of the fun of going to, like, man, what is going to, what are we going to see today? Like, what's going to happen now?
Starting point is 01:02:05 Yeah. So this topic was in there for a while. And then when Gunner said the common ground, or well, I mean, I remember he said that, but I kind of had forgotten about it. And when he said that again, I'm like, oh, yes, exactly what I was thinking about the other day, too. It really is the common ground. Yeah, I agree. And you can't make excuses for it. It's just either can do it or you can't.
Starting point is 01:02:23 Like, that's, or you can't. I mean, you can be the guy I used to bench 405 in high school, but you know, right. And the only exceptions to the rule are like, if you're just like shitty, like if you're just like a dick and shitty to other people, like people aren't going to like you at the gym.
Starting point is 01:02:38 But that's just anything too. Like if you're just, but if you're just relatively nice, nothing else really makes a difference as far as that goes. Only everything was like that. Oh, man. Like life a whole lot of you.
Starting point is 01:02:56 easier. Actually, this, it's funny, that topic actually ties directly into something that I have listed here. And that item is hair. And this past weekend, my boy needed a haircut. Typically, my wife handles that. She takes him to wherever he gets. I haven't been in a haircut place, believe it or not, for many, many years, many years since I've stepped foot in a place that offers haircut services. We thought you just went to the place where they sheer wool. That's where I go. I don't go to a haircut place.
Starting point is 01:03:31 They go to the wool place. Annually take a little wool off. So we go to sport clips. I've never been to a sport clips before. I'm kind of like, hey, it's been a long time. I want to see how this whole system works. I'm curious, you know, how does this work? And the way sport clips goes is you book your time.
Starting point is 01:03:48 And, you know, they tell you like, yep, you're, you know, it's very sport theme. Like you're on the bench, you're up in 30 minutes or whatever. Oh, sure. And so you're getting updates on what's going on. And, okay, the app or whatever the hell it is tells her, all right, our turn is in five minutes. We better go because we were just eating basically across the street. So we go over there.
Starting point is 01:04:04 We get in, we sit down and, yep, they were busy. So it still said, yep, you're up in five minutes. And so you just sit and watch. You're on the bench, you know, while they've got TVs everywhere. And we're sitting watching. And eventually it's his turn and go back to the haircut. And the lady's asking, okay, what do we? we need to do here and they're going through it and I'm just watching because I have not
Starting point is 01:04:25 actually watched a haircut take place in forever. And while I'm sitting there, you know, there's guys filtering in and out all the time. You know, there's a lot of men in here. People have just been filtering. Just like that. A lot of guys getting their haircut showing up and an older gentleman, I would guess, in his probably mid-60s comes in and she goes, all right, you're whatever. your name is, you're up.
Starting point is 01:04:53 And he comes over, oh, I've been waiting an hour and a half. And if you know anything about sport clips is the first thing it tells you is how long you have to wait. So if you're waiting an hour and a half, that's your problem because it told you how long to wait. And she goes, oh, he was complaining to the person working there. Yeah. Oh, I've been waiting an hour and a half.
Starting point is 01:05:10 But he wasn't like in a confrontational way. It's like that was his conversation starter. It was how long he's been waiting. And I thought, oh, he's just giving her shit at first. I thought he'll move on from this in a hurry. And she goes, oh, goodness, I'm sorry. It's been pretty busy today, you know, and she's being a champ about it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:25 And then he wants to talk a little bit more about how long he's been waiting. I'm like, okay, dude. Okay, whatever. Anyways, so. She's like, so what else are you doing today besides waiting too long for your haircut? I'm like, oh, she's doing great here. Like, she's being funny. He goes, nothing.
Starting point is 01:05:43 She goes, nothing. Nah, I'm retired. I don't do anything. What's the problem for waiting for your haircut? That was my exact thought. Like, oh, man. guy actually has nothing going on and nothing to do. Okay, whatever, man.
Starting point is 01:05:57 So I'm just laughing at that. And I'm standing there just now very interested in what direction this conversation is going to go. She's, I can't remember how it started. She's asked him about something else. And he goes, oh, man, my apartment where I live, the lady above me, I had to just chew her out the other day. She's being so loud. So now he's complaining about where he lives. And then he's going to be a theme here.
Starting point is 01:06:27 Oh, he's just going on and on about it, about his whatever, however annoying this lady is. And then while she's cutting his hair, he goes, oh, I didn't want that that short. So now he's complaining about the haircut too, which he didn't have that much hair in the first place. And trust me, I'm looking like, no, the lady is doing what needed to happen here. And anyways, it was just one negative thing. after, like it did not stop. It was one negative thing after another. Oh, and then, oh, these gas prices.
Starting point is 01:06:58 I haven't seen them this bad since COVID. So it's got up. I filled up yesterday. I'm glad I did. It went up 30 cents overnight. You know, and like everything. It was just one thing. Like, he didn't say one thing that wasn't a complaint the whole time.
Starting point is 01:07:12 And my wife is there. I didn't say anything to her. I didn't even look at her. I thought she was just paying attention to my boy. Yeah. We get in the car. She's like, my God, did you hear that guy? behind us. Okay, I thought that was just me. She goes, like, I was insane. Like, clearly has
Starting point is 01:07:28 something mentally wrong with him, the way he can't fixate on anything besides the worst thing. And I told her, I said, I could not imagine leaving my house with that attitude. Even if I was pissed off about something, I could not imagine bringing that attitude and just rubbing that in everyone's face all day long as I go. And like to go to a business and have that. And the girl was a champ. Like, She was being so positive the whole way about it. But, oh, that was just, I forget that there's people that are like that in the world that are just the Debbie Downers about everything. And they got to bring that black cloud over everyone that they see. It's crazy.
Starting point is 01:08:04 It's the classic at work when in the break room, the lady says, and someone goes, well, at least tomorrow's Friday. And she goes, yeah, just one day closer to Monday. It's like, holy cow, that's your philosophy that you're not. not even, like, you're not actually excited about it now. Yeah. Like, just one day closer to Monday. I'm like, you don't even like the weekend? Even the weekends, though, okay, man, whatever.
Starting point is 01:08:38 But I, yeah, I didn't really have much of a point to that story other than it is, I'm not even much of an attitude. Be positive guy, like, I'm not even that, but. Just don't be terrible. Don't be that bad. Don't be that guy. Yeah, that's good. I got a sack segment over here. Love me a good sack.
Starting point is 01:09:00 Actually, we got some beverages. I don't have those, but you got those too. Yeah, I got a sack segment as well. Yeah, so we got similar sacks, I think. Twin sacks. What do you got in yours? Well, let's see. I've got this coozy in mine.
Starting point is 01:09:17 Pride of the American side at SS-Edmin, Fitzgerald. Oh, you want to see my coozy? Yeah. Because yours is made of wool. We are holding our own. Nice. Pretty cool, isn't it?
Starting point is 01:09:30 Yeah. So this is from Big Stephen, right? In Mass. Yeah. Big Stephen out of Mass. Got the 803 Barbao Club, the Crew England sticker. Is this the official, have they agreed? Is this all crewing?
Starting point is 01:09:46 Oh, no. Well, Crew England, was this for a meetup, or is this the official Crew England sticker? I think it's now their crew England sticker. I think it's now their crew. England sticker possibly. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I like the regional stickers.
Starting point is 01:09:57 Regional crew stickers. Regional crew stickers. The contingency stickers. Yeah. And I got one other thing that you probably don't have in yours. Oh. It's going to go with my collection over behind me. You can see in my house of cards back here that I've clearly talked about before in
Starting point is 01:10:15 the past, but I've got you here. Oh, dang. This will go nicely with my. Minnesota, MSS and MX plate. We now have the Massachusetts MSS and MX plate. They don't require a front plate in all the states. Oh, God. But they give them too.
Starting point is 01:10:35 All these freedom-loving states that don't require front plates. Yes. We're free from the chains of government over there. Like when we used to be a proper country. So this is the Massachusetts, the spirit of America, MSS, NMX, actual plate. you know, state, state, and which the Minnesota one is the actual Minnesota plate,
Starting point is 01:10:56 still deciding where exactly to display these. Obviously, the gym is a choice. I might even just put these like in my house somewhere. They are really cool. Because they're cool. So that makes another state of having the actual MSS and MX. And he has this on his vehicle, of course, but this is pretty sweet.
Starting point is 01:11:17 Damn, yeah, that's hooking it up right there. Yeah, that's cool. So only like 40, seven to go. You're so close, so close. Can be a little trickier on all those states that require two plates. Yes. Well, I think Minnesota does, but then he got new ones or something like that. So then he got, I don't know, I don't remember the story on the Minnesota ones.
Starting point is 01:11:41 But very cool. Thank you, Big Stephen. We got to hang out with you at the Arnold as well. So I think maybe you had mentioned that you might have something coming. that was worth it. That was a pretty sweet sack. And then he sent some IPAs, right? Have you had any of the IPAs?
Starting point is 01:11:55 No, not yet, but mouth is water and just looking at them. It's a ponder, IPA pounders. I had a sports segment, not as much on the books, but I did have a sports thing here. Very quick. You know what I really like for all sports now? And this just makes it so I just probably never will watch an actual complete professional sports game.
Starting point is 01:12:19 again is that every sport, and maybe we talked about this recently, but they have like their 15 to 20 minute recap of any game and the NFL does this, the NBA does this, and then they're on YouTube. Oh, they are? It's just like, yeah, it's just all the action from the game. Like any NBA game is usually about 15 minutes. NFL, I think they usually do it at about 15 or 20 minutes also. And you essentially see the entire game.
Starting point is 01:12:45 Everything that happens. everything of any meaning that happens. Like what you don't see is all the crap that you don't care about. Commercials. Timeouts. Because I'm kind of keeping up with the Timberwolves right now. And, you know, they play a few games a week and I'll embed before I can watch like the 15. And even if it's even not interesting or like the score, I can skim ahead.
Starting point is 01:13:07 And sometimes I might watch the whole thing in like five minutes. And you basically know the entire game in 10 minutes of time. Yeah, that's okay. So I, for a while, this season did the same thing with the Vikings is I would just wait, you know, just have it, you know, record the game. And I would just have it get an hour and a half for more into the game. And then just, all right, we're going first down. Okay. Fast forward.
Starting point is 01:13:35 Second down. Fast forward. All right. That whole series, we got done in 30 seconds. And I would just, and then you fast forward through the commercials. And there, you know, I'm directing the speed. Right. So if something's interesting, I can,
Starting point is 01:13:47 I do want to see the replay of the five angles on this. Right. And I could do it, but you realize, man, there's not that much that actually happens during a football game when you start fast forwarding through stuff. And F1 also does this after the F1 race. They do, it's called the race in 30,
Starting point is 01:14:02 where they just do 30 minutes of a full recap of the race. You know, they're just pulling out kind of the highlights. Right. And it is efficient. I will give you that. The one thing it ruins is it ruins that suspense building. of, oh, what could happen, you know, because it's just boom, boom,
Starting point is 01:14:18 like you don't even have time to be like wondering what's going to happen because the answer is straight in front of you. So it does ruin that part of it. But if you do just need to kind of keep up on what's going on, it is an easy way to do that for sure. Well, I'm never going to watch the NBA get, you know. Right. And yeah, if it comes down to that, this or nothing, like it is a way to actually be involved. Right. And it's so much fast. And I don't really, I'm not sitting around looking at stuff on the internet so it's not I've it's never I'm rarely is it ever spoiled I'm actually also I can watch it a day later and I'm still like I'm like well who's gonna win you know like what like oh they're up they're up there you know it's I don't really miss out on any of that either yeah yeah it's I just
Starting point is 01:15:01 would not want to watch a full game the problem commercials are just so bad right now though commercials are terrible there's so many commercials and everything it's nonstop and then I mean, it just ruins it. It really does ruin the whole experience how many commercials there are. Drakes it out so much. It really makes you think we used to be a proper country. Yeah, when we had commercials for cigarettes and beer, and then we got right back to the game.
Starting point is 01:15:26 I'm not sure what it is, but I can't remember. Occasionally I'll put something on for my kids, and then maybe it's just regular TV or whatever, and then there's commercials. Every time there's almost this discussion about what this even is. Like, we're in the middle of watching our show and now there's a break from that to watch something that's not our show.
Starting point is 01:15:47 Why is that? Like they don't even know what commercials are. Oh. Because there's not commercials on Netflix. There's not commercials on... Yeah. Are you saying like on YouTube? Like they don't watch television.
Starting point is 01:15:59 Yeah, but are you saying like on YouTube when it puts in the weird kind of ad things that are sort of shows? No, more like if I just put on TV, like conventional television, like occasionally... Oh, you're just saying the concept of an ad is just popping in and like you're getting hit with. Yeah. They don't know what that is.
Starting point is 01:16:13 Right, right. Like they don't actually know what a commercial is. Oh, okay. My kids have totally adjusted the fact of if it's something that they don't want to watch, commercial, get like, you know, the second something they don't like is on. It's commercial time. Like their brain has accepted that fact that unless I, unless this is the thing I picked, it's commercial on TV.
Starting point is 01:16:33 That's what, that's how they think of it. So the only, the what I've taught them, if it's toys, it's fun, if it's not. So like now it's like, not toys. You know, because at least if it's a commercial about, because like what I said, I'm like, well, sometimes it's about toys and then you kind of like it because that's my memory of commercials. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:51 Well, sometimes it's about toys and you're like, okay, I want that. Oh, you get a lot of that at Christmas time. I want that. I want that. No, you don't want that. It's just a toy. It's just shiny in your face. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:03 So sports, short 15-minute sports. Oh, and it is. Maybe there should be a massonomics podcast version of that where you just get the 15 minutes of actual entertainment. The quick recap without all the ads in it. And there's also March Madness, Tanner. Are you aware of that? This is absolute madness.
Starting point is 01:17:20 I like to call it win or go home. The thing I made up. I've heard that before. I've heard that. You know, it's a pretty big massanomics bracket party out there. I'd be curious to see how that shakes out. Yeah, the winner of that does get a Hall of Fame checkmark,
Starting point is 01:17:35 so there's a lot on the line in that competition. More valuable than money right there. Yeah. Who do you think is going to win? Take it all. Watch like three college games the whole year. And when I say watch three. I know nothing about it.
Starting point is 01:17:49 Saw like three quarters of college basketball. So I did see UNC loss tonight. And who else? Wisconsin was like a five seat and lost two. I'd never heard of it before. No, the team that they lost to, I think this was the game. The guy that made the game winner,
Starting point is 01:18:09 it was the first two-pointer he had made all season. No, really? And he had made like 73s. Really? It was the first, he was. So he just doesn't even take twos. He was one for, he's now one for five on the season in two-point attempts
Starting point is 01:18:25 and was like 60 of 140 on three-point attempts. Wow. And the one, I mean, he was a shooter then. Right, right, right. But like to just never take a two-point shot. That's kind of wild. Yeah, that can be a thing.
Starting point is 01:18:41 UNC had the biggest comeback loss ever in the first round tonight. Okay. I think they were up by like 16 at one point and they ended up losing in overtime. I think in state Bs the eight seat upset the number one. They did. I saw that as well. In South Dakota basketball state. Get some very specific basketball talk here.
Starting point is 01:19:05 Strap in, everyone. This is going to get interesting. forget that there's thousands of people listening to this from all over the world. Okay, so let me tell you. There's the thing called state B's. It's the smallest division in South Dakota high school basketball.
Starting point is 01:19:20 In South Dakota, high school basketball. The smallest division. It's played every year the boys tournament has played in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The people show up for it. That part's not a joke. The people do show up for it. Yeah, it's the biggest attended
Starting point is 01:19:36 of all the classes. You know, is people talk about that tournament, not the other ones for whatever, whatever reasons it's led to that. I don't know why, but it's also like Aberdeen will not give it up too. Like everyone else wants to rotate. I'm surprised how they let them have that because that's always kind of a point. Everyone wants it. I know. But with all the state stuff, though, most of it cycles around.
Starting point is 01:20:02 There's something weird about State B boys basketball that Aberdeen has gotten. The A's in double A, they bounce between Rapid City and Sioux Falls. I think the girls all rotate all over the place too. Yep, they do. And even, you know, football's different. But like wrestling bounces around and, I mean, pretty much every other state event for the most moves around. Right. But not state be boys basketball in South Dakota.
Starting point is 01:20:28 Western Northeast South Dakota has the absolute stranglehold on it. We have the, I mean, they have the arena, which is part of the, you know, it's the. Yeah, but there's also big arenas. I mean, the fact that they could do basketball in Sioux Falls and Rapid City and Brookings has an arena. You know, like there's USDA. There's no shortage of arenas. Right. Yeah, they have some backdoor deal worked out there.
Starting point is 01:20:52 That's, damn, getting money involved. That's what it is. Okay. Oh, okay. We'll do this. Since we did the Oscars, this, I had this one on tap for a while ago. Has he seen it? And this time, I solicited the help of.
Starting point is 01:21:09 of chat GPT because this is a particularly hard year. And I said, give me the movies that are most likely for someone in their 30s or 40s to have seen from this year, like a man in the 30s and 40s. What I would say about this year, there was like four or five really home run movies. We always do seven on this. For the last two, I was like, these are hard. So actually there's going to be, I actually tried to, uh, When we get to the last ones, I tried to, like, I change the rules of the game.
Starting point is 01:21:45 That we'll get to because it got so hard at the end of it, actually. Now I'm really curious what year we're talking here. That's what I. Well, that's part of it. It's 1985. Oh, and 80s, I'm just terrible. But the first four, the first five, it's really the last two that I was like, man, you're giving me a lot of credit right off the bat here.
Starting point is 01:22:08 You're giving me a lot of credit already. So do you have a prediction on 1985? Two. Okay. I bet you've seen two. I mean, I bet you've seen at least two. Well, there's the one year I saw zero, so. That's true.
Starting point is 01:22:24 I can picture you've seen four of these even. We'll find out soon enough here. Okay. All right. From 1985, has Tommy seen it? Back to the future. That was the number one on every list I could find. everyone was like back to the future would be the one.
Starting point is 01:22:39 I actually have seen back to the future. Yes, I have seen back to the future. Have you seen two and three? Is two the one with the Wild West or whatever? That's three. That's three. What one's two? Two, he goes to the future.
Starting point is 01:22:54 Oh, he has the flying skateboard and all that stuff. Yes, yes, correct. You know, there's like fact, their idea of technology in the future was like fax machines that did weird things. And he has the Nike's that became really valuable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have two. I have seen two for sure. I've probably seen, I know I've seen parts of three.
Starting point is 01:23:16 I've probably seen all of three. But both of those, I've seen them like once, you know, like each one one time probably. I have seen the first one a few times, but it has been a while. Stained. Stained since I've actually seen the first one. But yes, I have seen the first one. Great movie, Back to the Future. good trilogy right up there with Lord of the Rings.
Starting point is 01:23:37 So we're already at one for one. Hot start. 1985, has he seen it, the Breakfast Club? Actually, I have seen the Breakfast Club too. Yeah. Yeah, have seen that one. Also, been a while, but I have seen it. Kind of the quintessential 80s,
Starting point is 01:23:57 what do you call that? Anxie teenage movie, sort of. Your ass is mine. what's the principal's name? I can't remember his name. I mean, I can picture the guy and everything. He's like, you want another one? That's another one.
Starting point is 01:24:13 It's giving them out like 10 detentions. Also the kids, some of the high school kids in there look like they're like 26. Yes. Emilio S. is one of them in there. Actually in there too. Emilio. All right.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Number three, has he seen at 1985. Rocky four. No. And this is. one Rocky 4 is? Well, just because of the gunner thing, I had to look it up. Rocky 4 is where he fights Ivan Drago, right?
Starting point is 01:24:41 Right. Yeah, I haven't seen it. Actually, this will maybe hurt some people. I've never seen any Rocky movies ever in my life. Oh, yeah, that's going to hurt some people. I've seen part, one of my college roommates was obsessed with Rocky, so it would be on quite a bit.
Starting point is 01:24:55 And I'd see parts of it all the time, but I just, I'd never sat down and started and finished a Rocky movie once in my entire life. And I like Rocky 4. Yeah, I actually do want to watch them. I should. And I know they're, you know, they're the,
Starting point is 01:25:10 they kind of set the genre for that whole thing. But now I got to watch them. So you're two for three. Still pretty good. All right. Another big one. We still have a big one here. This is a big one.
Starting point is 01:25:23 Number four, has he seen it Rambo First Blood Part 2? Hmm. I don't think I've seen part two. I have not actually seen this. Even part one. I'm a little questionable on if I've actually seen the whole thing or not. You know, I guess I'm just not a Sylvester Stallone guy. And my comment on that of like, really, Rocky and Rambo came out in the same year.
Starting point is 01:25:47 Yeah, in the same year. Wow. Really had it going out in the 80s. Yeah. Sly was really on the move, wasn't he? He was making moves. And also to have part four of one movie and part two of another movie come out. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:02 Classic great name First Blood Part Two. Keep him guessing. Yeah. So you're two for two. So you've seen two for four. So are you saying you've seen no Rocky movies and no Rambo movies? I've seen no Rocky movies. I don't think I've seen the first Rambo.
Starting point is 01:26:22 I know I've seen parts of it. I don't think I've actually watched all of Rambo though. Let us know in the comments. What are you most mad about Tommy hasn't seen Rambo or Tommy hasn't seen Rocky? That's actually it. Yeah, that's a good one. What level is more offensive there? Okay, number five.
Starting point is 01:26:43 This one I wasn't sure, but this one I was still like, okay, this one's got a chance. After this, they get a little sketchy, though. Number five, has he seen it? The Goonies. I have seen the Goonies. That one I have probably not seen since I was about eight.
Starting point is 01:26:59 Yeah. So I don't remember much of it. But that was what was cool, though. You know, I went out, I went out to Portland last Labor Day and we went over to Cannon Beach, which is where like the Goonies ends when they have their little shit. That's right. Yeah. That was cool to see that part of it.
Starting point is 01:27:14 But yeah, I have seen the Goonies. It's also been a very long time. So three for five. Okay. So number six, you get two choices. If you've seen either of these two comedy movies, we're counting it. Multiple choice. Okay.
Starting point is 01:27:28 Yeah. So you get a multiple choice on this one. comedy genre from 1985, both also again, starring the same actor. Have you seen... It's not so... Oh, man, he didn't have four movies come out in the same year. Starring Chevy Chase, have you seen either National Lampoon's European vacation or Fletch? No, I have not seen European vacation.
Starting point is 01:27:53 I don't even know if I knew that was one. Yeah, that's the one where they're like going around a roundabout. I don't know if you've ever seen that. and he's like, oh, see, kids, it's Big Ben. And then they like go, like, they keep going around multiple times in the roundabout and he, like, can't get out of it. That's probably the scene that's the most about that movie. That one's not really ringing a bell to me at all.
Starting point is 01:28:12 I feel like no one brings that one up. It was the follow-up to vacation where they go to Wally World. Oh, really? Okay. It was the second one in the series after that, I think. Wow. Yeah, I've not seen European vacation. What was it the movie said?
Starting point is 01:28:28 Fletch. That's also... Yeah. I have not seen that. Fletch. I'm familiar with it a little bit, but I've not ever seen it. Nope, I'm looking here. No, I have not seen it.
Starting point is 01:28:45 Okay. Nope, I can tell you for a fact I've not seen this one. So it's a double no. Well, okay, so last... You said you haven't seen Fletch? I have not seen Fletch. I've seen National Lampoon's European vacation, but no to Fletch. But I think it's like people talk about it.
Starting point is 01:29:00 I've just never seen it. Yeah. You get three choices on your left from the last one. Really hedging my bets here. And since you're a bit of an Oscars guy, this does include Best Picture of the Year. Also one of the other nominees and then just a wild card because it was a movie that I had heard of from 1985.
Starting point is 01:29:21 Right. Bring it on it on. So two critically acclaimed and then just the one other 1985 movie that I have at least heard of. So I was like, okay, there's a chance. Yeah, okay. Let's get it. So best picture in 1985, out of Africa. Really?
Starting point is 01:29:38 Really? Before. Yeah. That's your first option. Your second option is the color purple. Okay. Not completely sure what that is. And then the third option is weird science.
Starting point is 01:29:53 Okay, was weird science a TV show, though, too? Or was it a movie? Could have been. the movie is when they like create this woman through computer AI well it's actually maybe it's kind of relevant now
Starting point is 01:30:07 okay um yeah so I have actually not seen any of these weird science okay I actually do remember this I don't know if it used to be on like Comedy Central back in the day I think so yes yes I think that that's right
Starting point is 01:30:23 and maybe that's why I was seeing as a TV show because I do remember seeing it on TV But I've never actually really seen it. You know, I just know, yeah, there was a thing with the two guys and like, the babe, you know, this whole thing. But, yeah, I can't say I've actually seen it. And then out of Africa, no, I put this in here. I've never been Robert Redford, Merrill Street.
Starting point is 01:30:50 Never heard of them. No, just kidding, I heard of them. But, no, I do not know what that movie is. And then isn't the color purple? Isn't that like a... familiar to me, but I don't know what it is for sure. Isn't it kind of like a... Oh, my God, here's Stephen Spielberg.
Starting point is 01:31:09 African American woman living in the South who survives abuse and bigotry. I mean, I feel like it's one of those kind of critically came movies that people talk about, but yeah, never seen it. So you did do three for seven. Wow. Not bad. I beat my expectations of two. Yeah. See?
Starting point is 01:31:32 Things are looking up on. Has he seen it? 80s movies, man. I am not with my... I'm not really, apparently, with any movies, but 80 movies, 80s movies especially, I'm pretty terrible. Well, and this is also just getting old enough that it's not...
Starting point is 01:31:46 I mean, I guess the first ones are very... It's just... I was just surprised that you didn't have to go very far down the list, and I'm like, I haven't even heard of very many of these movies. Like, I've maybe heard of 10. movies from 1985. And like we were talking about 2003 recently.
Starting point is 01:32:04 I mean, this is also in large part because of our, the age that we are. Right. Yeah, but 2003, I'm like, there's like 20 movies that I think are all blockbusters. It felt like it like huge movies. I'm like, okay, what are some of the big movies at 1985 here that you've missed?
Starting point is 01:32:20 Ah, the original Mad Max it has on here. Yeah, I saw and I'm like, I don't know, does, I don't know anyone that's seen that hardly before. I've never seen the original Mad Max. The newer one is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's the most insane thing ever. They have Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Seeing that,
Starting point is 01:32:36 that movie's pretty good. I guess that one didn't pop up on my top movies. Actually, I liked Pee We's Big Adventure. Oh, I thought it was hilarious. That was the bicycle. Yes, yes. I'd love to see how that holds up, but I remember. I actually, it scared me when he was like in with that trucker lady.
Starting point is 01:32:54 Oh, yeah. Oh, I forgot about that. Like, I think they do the crazy animation thing where, like, her, eyeballs pop out of her socks. Yeah, there's something that goes on there, because I do remember that being creepy, too. And I, like, was afraid of, I was like, this movie scares me.
Starting point is 01:33:08 Yeah, what else do we got here? We got Friday the 13th, part five. Clue, the movie Clue. Boy, I don't know, man. I'm not seeing a whole lot that's really sticking out to me from 85. Teen Wolf. Oh, Teen Wolf? Oh, wait.
Starting point is 01:33:34 Teen Wolf? Oh, is that? That's also with Marty McFly. Yeah, I was going to say the guy. So was there like three movie stars in 1985? It was a very, very small industry at the time. I didn't know.
Starting point is 01:33:50 I missed Teen Wolf. I would have put Teen Wolf on the list. I haven't seen it. Okay. Teen Wolf is good. No, it's not good. I've seen Teen Wolf at least. I'll pump the brakes.
Starting point is 01:34:02 Ferris, oh, wait. This says, oh, 85. I can't be fair. I would have,
Starting point is 01:34:08 because is Ferris, the guy from Ferris Bueller's Day off, was he also in weird science, though then, too? Was that the, is that the same guy? Mixing things around. I don't know,
Starting point is 01:34:22 man. I don't know. It's too hard. I don't think it's the same guy. Okay. Now. Now. That's the same era.
Starting point is 01:34:31 It's right. I'm roughly the same year, but yeah, that's it. Why can't I think of The Star of Back to the Future? The guy he has like Parkinson's or what? Michael J. Fox. Yeah, Michael J. Fox. Right? Yes.
Starting point is 01:34:46 Don't ask me. Don't ask me actors' names. Ryan, I always get mad at me because I'm so bad at remembering actors' names. Not much better. Okay. Does that kind of bring us to a closing point on episode 520 here. Not just a closing point, maybe a closing time.
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