Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 524: 10 Years of Podcasting: The 10 Greatest Episodes Ever!

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

Ten years of the Massenomics Podcast! We run down our ten best episodes of all time - one from each year of the show. Don't miss our new drop coming out this week, and don't forget to do your leg extensions. EliteFTS Use code MASS10 to save 10% on most orders! BearFoot Shoes Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10% on every order! Juggernaut AI Use code MASSENOMICS to save 10%! The Strength Co Get some Go-To Plates! Texas Power Bars Get the Barbell that changed the game!

You know, thanks for what you do with your podcasts and all the rest. You're doing a great job. I hope everybody keeps tuning in. You get a lot of good info, a lot of insights, understandings of how to get strong, how to stay strong, how to use your strength. You do a great job, dude. You make things better than they are in real life, I think. If you don't follow Massonomics, you all do it.

Social media, website, everything. Massonomics. What's up, everyone? Very special episode. Do not adjust your podcast sets. This is the 10-year anniversary episode of the Massonomics podcast, episode 524, the one we've all been looking for. My name's Tanner, still.

And my name is still Tommy after all these years, haven't changed it yet. No name changes. We're both still, mostly straight, most of the time. As straight as they come. And, yeah, nothing else has changed in 10 years. Really, that's it. Same old bullshit. This is the last episode.

We always said we just had to get this to 10 years. We can wrap this up and shut it down. Yeah, we do have a couple fun 10-year things planned that we'll get to. Before all of that, though, I got to tell everyone about barefoot shoes. Barefoot. Store. Check them out. They've served over 160,000 happy feet since they opened up their North

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That is their website. Use Code Masonomics, and you can save 10% on the lifetime of your membership. Juggernautai.com. You drinking anything over there to celebrate 10 years? No, I am. You got a. It's not like we'll actually get to more of this later, but it's not quite like episode. Oh, I need my homework sheet back up here.

What one's he going to say? Well, what one is it here? Oh, that's a good number. Now I'm back to where I want to be. It's like episode 260. It's a little like to episode 260. More on that later. Clifanger.

What the hell happened in episode 260? I don't get to that later. But was it just me and you? Is there someone with us? 260 feels like a lifetime ago, does it? I mean, it basically is five years ago. So yeah, pretty much. Big Matt, he said, was just going to say I'm on 260 in the backlog.

So he gets it. Someone's living it. I'm drinking, I'm going to drink an isopier 15 grams of protein refreshingly smooth mixed berry protein water. Man, I don't know. Sounds pretty artificial to me. Let's see what this thing's packing. 60 calories.

Just getting more and more exotic stuff over there every week. I know. I don't know where this stuff comes from if I'm being completely honest. It's just in the refrigerator. Ingredients, water, way protein isolate, natural flavor, sodium citrate. Hmm. Ooh, look at that one in the Zoomchere. That can's really got my attention.

Mario Lopez sweat. Just an essence. Essence of pure charisma, yes. I'll have one of those. Ooh, this thing's pretty good. Is it actually? Yeah, it's very water. It tastes like a water.

It just like flavored water. What are those things we got from from Mike? The genius shots or whatever. Is it kind of like that in a way? No, this is like really watery. Like this is not a thick drink at all. Well, those are really thick either though.

Yeah, that was different than, like this tastes more like water than anything else. It does. Like it does even have that sour. It tastes like a mixed berry. Not really. Pretty good. All right. We got my attention there.

I'll be in the lookout for one of those. Pretty pretty good. Okay. Yeah, a lot of cool stuff here for our 10 year anniversary episode. But first, before we get into that. 10 year anniversary stuff. We got real life things going on right now that we got to talk about. This is real stuff.

Yeah, we got real shit. We can't be talking about episode 260 all. We're living in 524. Also, let us know if it's, if you're listening to this right now, but it's like 2030 or later, let us know in the comments. Like, let us know. Yeah, I'm listening to 524 right now. And you said if it's after the year 2030.

You guys had no idea what was in store for you. 2029 or later. 2030 sounds really weird. I mean, that's just the future. Like, like the future. Doesn't 2030 sounds like the future? Is that when flying cars show up finally? 2030, which is in like three and a half years.

Oh, God. Sounds insanely far in the future, doesn't it? Yeah. It just seems like big numbers. But that's only like one third. of the representation of how long this show has been on. Yeah. Just take just like one third of the distance that the show has existed for.

I can almost see it already. It's just right around the corner. 2030. That's horrifying. It'll be like this, but like four years from now. It'll be like this, but people will be talking about how chat, but people will still be talking about how AI is going to get really advanced soon. That's just around the core.

Okay. What we've got, though, is a new drop coming. Oh, man, we're talking about it in the first 10 minutes this week. We're really all. Well, special announcement. It's particularly irrelevant because it's a Tuesday drop. Almost never unheard of a Tuesday drop from Massonomics. You say, what?

I thought you did drops on Thursdays. Usually we do. This one's a Tuesday. April 21st. So it's coming right shortly after this episode comes out. want to make sure you're hearing it at the beginning of the episode so that you know, like you don't want to save the back half of this episode for later in the week. And then, like, shit, I missed the drop because I didn't pay attention to anything else on the

internet that week from Massonomics. So what do we drop in is what people want to know? I don't think we're going to tell everyone everything or are we going to tell everyone everything. I don't even know what we're doing. I don't know. We didn't discuss this ahead of time. There's new sticker packs.

I'll tell you that right off the bat. brand new sticker packs. Yeah, they were much needed. We were behind the ball of those. Yeah, so a couple brand new sticker packs that we've never had before, and then there's two new T's in the drop. We'll say, I think we can say there's the first ever Jim Radar merch coming out. Yes, the first ever piece of Jim Radar merchandise in this drop.

So do you want to be on the right side of history, getting the first release, the first press sitting of something, or who knows, maybe it'll be the last? Because maybe this will be your only chance to ever get something Jim Radar merge. I mean, not. It won't be. God, I hope not. And then the other shirt is from deep out of the vault.

Not have been printed in five years. I think there's probably a lot of people listening that I've never even seen this before. Yes, it's actually one, you know what's going to happen when we drop this shirt? I guarantee even though we've printed it for the, well, we printed it for the, first time probably like seven years ago. But speaking of Finn, he's going to say, Oh, yeah. Oh, stole my idea.

I know. From a shirt that we made a decade ago. Okay. Are you reading this transcript? What is that there? If this is correct, this is from episode like 250, and it's almost the exact conversation we just had with some of the same jokes. Yeah.

boy, those guys don't even know what's going to hit him a year from now. Like, I just said that same damn thing. Oh, my God, that's like scary. And unless you're on next week. Well, unless you're, oh, actually, when we even mentioned the year 2026. Yeah. Because that's, because we said if you're listening five years from now and we did the math, like, oh, that's 2026.

If we said five years from now, we're actually talking about 2031. And you just went out about the podcast. through the back catalog. You got an episode 250 like, boy, these guys don't even know what's going to hit him a year from now. And we're just saying that right now. That is happening to people right now. They're listening to episode four, true, from five years ago.

Now they're listening to that from 10 years ago. That's, man, if that isn't the time is a flat circle thing, I don't know what is. That really is. Time is a flat circle. And Megan said, I get older and the joke stay the same because they do. I think it's the thing your sense of humor gets established about when you're in high school and you just ride that the rest of your life. Yeah, you ride it for 10 years on a podcast. Forever on a podcast.

So the Jim Radar merch and a shirt from deep in the vault, very deep in the vault and some brand new stickers to go along with it. In addition to all of that, we just released the updated certified training facility flag. So if you have not certified your home gym or any gym that you own yet, presumably most of the time home gym, go to massanomics.com or you can get there through gym radar and sign up to become certified. It's now a gym radar. I don't know if you can see it. I got one here over the corner. You can't really see it probably, but it's now a gym radar flag with a gym radar certificate

that we got our John Hancock's on. We put your gym name and the date that you're certified. And now there's special gym radar stickers that go only to certified training facilities. Those are nice. So it is now a gym radar certification for anyone. that already is certified with a massonomics certified training facility flag, the red and black one, and you want this one, the new Jim Radar one, will actually sell it to you for 50% off. There's a special discount code.

I'm not going to say it here because this is just for people that are already certified and that just want the second flag. It doesn't make you any more certified. There's also no pressure that you need to get the second one. And we're just offering it at a discount for the people that want both that already have the first one. But it doesn't make you extra certified regardless of what everyone's going to say in the Massonomics Discord. Regardless of what everyone says. You don't have to buy the Jim Raider one.

And how it might make you feel. What I'm telling you, you don't have to get the second one. But it's available if you want to, even though everyone's going to say you're a piece of shit for not doing it. So the gym radar, we are in the, we're in our gym radar certified training facility era. Well, and maybe should we plant one more bug just to give a little sense of urgency. There may or may not be a few of the old banners sticking around. So if that's something you're interested in, you can reach out and we may have a few sitting in storage that we can get. So that's the secret menu.

That won't be live on the website. But if you mess DM, email, get a hold of us and you're not a certified training facility yet, and you really want the original Masonomics red one, there is a secret menu for that. And that will probably not be a forever item, but we do have a few hanging around still. So your window on that probably is closing. There probably is a line in the sand. Right. being drawn as we speak.

And we joked about how we could have something for sale for a decade, which this is actually a real thing that's happened. We've had things for sale for over five straight years. We've said this before, this time flat circle again, but the minute we remove it or take it off the site or it's sold out,

someone will DM and be like, oh, really wanted that. We just had it for sale for sale for, most of my adult life. And we discontinued it because people weren't buying it. It wasn't selling anymore. But there's always one. Yeah, here's also a secret.

We usually don't get rid of stuff that sells. Typically, no. Here's a little business tip. I'm taking you to business school here. When you have stuff that's popular, don't discontinue it. David asked if they'll all go. no show restock soon. No, that's locked in the lore for the indefinite future.

That's locked in lore purgatory. Okay. What topic do we want to go to next? We've got so many here. I think we need to do some follow up on the last couple weeks regarding training and specific accessory. But this isn't necessarily a training update. No, we're not going to do a training update right now. We're just going to do some follow up to just some recent developments.

And there have been some just grade A. and content around leg extensions. And it seems to be sweeping the globe. And I, I'm loving it. The one day I had to call you because it was just killing me. Was when you took, I didn't know you did this.

It was like late in the day. I had been so busy. I didn't check my phone until the end of the day. And I see it's the post of me squatting. And you say Tommy's building up his like one rep max leg extension by doing some accessory squats. Or however you said it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was dying reading it because it was so stupid. I'm butchering whatever the line was. It's much more fluid the way you had it. And then to see Tom Havlin having like the top comment on it. On a few different ones, Tom Havlin has now. He's just loving it too. He's in on the joke. Yeah, he loves it too.

Yeah. Which perfect guy to be like, yeah, of course, leg extensions are a little silly. Like Tom Avland is like obviously it's a. There again, I don't hate, we don't hate leg extensions. No, we don't. We just treat it as a... We're just very aware of it.

Yeah, we just treat it as an accessory that it can be sort of interchangeable with any accessory for that matter. Yes. Any tertiary or whatever you say after that. Whatever the sixth most important is. Yeah, lift of the day is. That's where that's like, that's where that ranks. And I kind of get the impression that one of the strongest guys in the world feels the same way about it. It's also funny.

I haven't really seen his sense of humor like. No, never. The internet before. Yeah. So it's really, you know, he has followed us quite a while and he likes a lot of stuff. He's rarely commented on anything. I can't really think of many times where he's left a comment. And also when he gets in the,

and he's just like one of the dudes leaving a funny comment about this obviously goofy posts. I just love that he gets immediately that it's a joke and like it's just adding to it right away. That was very funny. And even just other people, it's the classic thing. when you come up with something a little funny, usually people in the comments will just be like, okay, now that's really funny. Yeah.

Okay, so just for example here, here's the actual post. It's me squatting. I'm squatting 425 here. So it's pretty heavy for me, you know? Yeah. And what you wrote on the photo was Tommy using heavy barbell back squats

as an assistant lift to try and increase his max leg extension. And that is so stupid. And then you look at it has 61 comments. and almost every comment totally gets it. Like, yeah, the first one, Tom Havlin, just don't forget the seatbelt for the max testing session, which is great. Tommy Schneider, what if barbell movements

are the real distraction from machines, which I also just love. Yeah, yeah, Andrew Garrison, title topic for next week's, our barbells a distraction. Like that sentiment kept going, which was so funny. And there was another one in here that,

I like, I think maybe it was on a different post, but like someone wrote, if your legs ain't extended, you're just pretending. And I'm like, that is so funny. Because it's so stupid. Look at the straight curves on this guy.

If your legs ain't extending, you're just pretending. It's so funny. It was so good. I loved that one. I mean, that was amazing. And then just how it's just fed into so many more,

so many more stupid things that, that I've just gone on. on like our uh like i call like our squats the uh leg extension of the lower bottom or whatever i just see more more dumb stuff like that that doesn't make any sense and it's funny uh it i maybe it's purely coincidental but i just alan thrall like for example had a post this week it was funny because it was i don't know if you saw it i should have tagged you in it but i i had a good comment on there i don't know what it was but even but it gets i don't on on allan thrall's one of his post you're saying Yeah, because he did a post about, it's actually very funny and very timely.

And I don't know if we inspired that or it's purely coincidental, but I want to look and see what his post actually was here. It was. Is this one reason split squats? Yes. He goes, if Bulgarian split squats are too hard, use the SSB and hang on to handles. If that's too hard, go to a Smith machine and do them. If that's too hard, you can hang on to a functional trainer to, if that's too hard, You can go to a, and then he stops and he's like, no, just do Bulgarian split squats.

He's like, you don't stop trying to make the exercise easier. Just do them as they, you know, he's like you get tricked at first. He's like telling you all these alternatives almost. And then he's like, stop it. I never saw it. And I see you wrote, I found seated leg extensions to be a great alternative. That way I can literally sit while they work out my legs and they don't make me near as tired. It's a great hack.

That's kind of the fun joke, too, like people have been in on, is like, no, I prefer sitting down on my ass while I'm not. It's like, I'd rather pick something where I can sit on my ass. It's great because I don't have to get so tired and sweaty. On that topic, though, I do have to say, like last week, I was like, yep, they're off the menu, leg extensions are off the menu. I'm doing split squats. I am not lying. I actually thought I might have injured myself.

I have not been that sore in like years from lifting. I was starting to think I was either going to get sick or something was wrong with me because I actually had to push my training out several days because I was so incredibly sore. I'm like I can't actually deadlift. Like I'm messed up right now. And if that just didn't teach me that just leg like extensions had detrained me to a point of just being a straight up pencil neck. Where did it,

where did it feel the most sore? Everywhere. It was just anything below the waist from the waist down, man. I'm telling you from the waist. I couldn't even pick one spot. Like the classic getting out of a chair. It was like, I did those on,

I did those on, I think, what day did we record last week? Was it Tuesday or Wednesday? Maybe it was Wednesday. I think it was Wednesday. And I was supposed to lift on Friday. I'm like,

I can't lift on for, I'm too, I'm too sore. So I did, I actually didn't lift on Saturday or Sunday. I had to move it to Monday. It was terrible. I like I just, it was, because it was supposed to be a heavy deadlift too.

And I'm like, I actually feel like I might, I've never thought this in my life. I might tear a hamstring if I go do these right now because of the soreness in my just quads and posterior chain in general. It was brutal. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you do leg extension. So do you actually not want to cause growth and significant, significant change? Do leg extension? But yeah, I'm telling you, man, I have not had a

Soreness in my body like that in many, many. It was like, it was just like I had never done anything in my entire life And I just worked out for the first time. I could not believe it. It wrecked me. Yeah. Yes. Okay.

What about bars? Is that something we want to talk about? It's kind of like, you know, I was looking at the calendar with, uh, Let me see, April, or just April. We're basically three months out from the meet, and I'm like, you know what? I picked up that Rogo-Hile Power Bar and Bear Steel on Marketplace, probably like last November or something, and I've been using it exclusively since then just to try something different. I have not touched another bar.

My deadlift bar, my Texas Power Bar, nothing. Just been using that bar for everything. And it's a good bar. I do like it. But I thought, you know what? It's time to get back to my Roeuf. roots here. Let's go. So at first, I brought out the 29mm leg extensions are out. And non-Texas bars are out. Uh-huh. And I brought out that 29 millimeter Texas power bar and man, that baby's

got nerling on it. All of a sudden, that Rogo-Hau power bar just felt like it was a child's, just like a child's bar. It was just, it felt so passive and nothing to it. The, it's like shocking how aggressive the 29 millimeter bar fills in comparison to that. And then when I got the deadlift bar out, a couple things, one, that's even more aggressive still, which just actually my hands were actually just not used to that.

I got done in my hands just kind of had a feeling to them like they had been through something. And using a deadlift bar now for the first time in, I don't know, four or five months, it kind of felt like I was like lifting off a trampoline all of a sudden. It was very different feeling. And it didn't, I mean,

also the day I brought it out was, I was deadlifting 475, which for me is a lot. And so, you know, getting a little more weight. You're getting a little more bending. And yeah, it was crazy. It felt like a different lift almost all of a sudden, just because it'd been so long between the stiffness of the Ohio bar, the passive nerling in comparison and, man, changes over here.

Well, and plus it's probably all those weeks of leg extensions you'd been doing finally paying off. Yeah, you know, it's like they say, if you're legs and extended and you just pretend in. I'm done pretending over here. So you did, you liked the deadlift bar from the first rep that you touched it? I mean,

it did actually feel a little different. It did feel a little weird. And it's, I mean, it is different. It is a little different. Again, I'm not deadlifting five,

six, seven plates like a lot of people are where it can feel a lot different. But even, even with four plates and some change, it did feel different on me. Yeah. Like better or weird at first or?

probably actually in the better, it's, it's the smaller diameter. It just, you feel like you have a better grip on it. Like, that is the thing. That's what it is. Yeah. But it did feel a little springier too. You can feel that whip a little bit. But none of it was like, oh, this feels bad because I'm not used to it.

Yeah. Well, actually, for that matter, like I did 475. Those are my heaviest deadlift since the meat last year. Yeah. And I did a set of three and they felt pretty damn good. I mean, I'm not going to say they were easy, but they weren't that. It wasn't a repeat 10. And it wasn't.

supposed to be easy. No, no. It felt good. So, like, I'm kind of excited about how things are shaping up here. Yeah, your peak leg curl that you've been training towards is really going to. You know what? Your one rep max leg curl.

You know, it's kind of dissing leg extensions, but now that I think about it, Lifton's going pretty good. Maybe that's where all my credit goes to is all those leg extensions I did over the years. That's what I'm saying. If your leg is ain't extending, you just pretend. Maybe we'll get into more training update. Yeah. In this episode as well.

I was trying to give you this week a little peek into what my Instagram algorithm has been looking like lately. You sent me some, some, a lot of videos of people singing mostly. One of those two guys, I used to get those all the time of those guys. Oh, the two guys to, yeah, the duet. Yes. They're kind of a popular one. But all the those.

people, the comments on those videos are just amazing, aren't they? They are so funny. And the videos are like, even if you want to shit on the people, it's like, well, yeah, after a while, it's just, yeah, some people that are bad at singing. But then you read the comments. They're terrible, though. Well, they are. But like, they're all terrible.

But like, once you see someone really bad at singing to see a fourth, fifth and six video, right, right, right, it's all the same stuff. Yeah, you just suck. Like, I get it. Yeah. But then every time the comments have a new thing that they're regging on the people for, and it's so freaking fun. The comments are brutal.

And I was just dying, laughing at them one night, like reading the next one and the next one. But it's insane to me. It's just, it's crazy how many, because these people, none of them seem to appear to be doing this as a joke. Some of them might be. Well, most of them don't appear to be doing it as a joke. I think it's just, they're just addicted to any type of engagement at all.

Right. That has to be it. Because to get a thousand comments basically giving you backhanded, basically just dissing you in the most creative way possible. I mean, you have to realize that, but you also have to be like, oh, but that's a thousand people, baby. But and these are all, like they're like little music videos, I guess, because they're all shot like professionally audio. And they're all recorded in a studio. Right. Yeah, the song's pre-recorded.

Lipsink to a little music video. And they're all so bad. Yeah, yes. And there's so many of them. Like I could just scroll my, and there's just an endless of them that all have these professional videos. And they're singing, their singing isn't terrible in the sense of like someone.

Well, some of them are bad. Like they're really flat and their timings off. They are actually all like really bad. Yeah, technically, yeah, from a technical standpoint, they're bad. Also from a creative standpoint, they're bad. That's also part of it. The lyrics are absolutely.

terrible. It's like if you got a third grade class, you're like, okay, third graders, we got to sing about a country song. We got to make a country song. Typically they're about these five subjects and they're like, go. And like that's the level of writing in these. And I'm not even a guy that needs like, worse than that even. I mean, they are. It's just the most predictable overused sayings over and over and over again. And then usually they don't have any rhyme to them. Like literally, like a not a literal rhyme. They're just like words randomly placed together.

Yes. Like at least AI would come up. with words that rhyme and flow. But I think it's an entire genre that's very popular right now. If there's so many of these out there. Maybe, but because you'll read- I mean popular to laugh about. Like I think it's like viral

Goot. Some of it though, like kind of the rapping ones where it's people trying to do that like people write, I used to work with a guy that actually played this shit and it ruined everyone's work day. So I think some people like some of that stuff though. I can't. None of those are like like, like.

I can't believe anyone likes that. It's just terrible, terrible music. Yeah, it's bad. It's bad. Like the one guy with his cowboy boots and his pants. The comments were like the guy, way that guy looks. He just looks. Those pants are 32 16s.

It kind of looks like it. Yes. Yes. That's the thing. It's just so stupid. Like, that shouldn't be that funny, but it is in that context.

Yeah, it's very funny. He's built like crash bandicoot. I think that's actually a comment on that exact one. So see, Big Matt even knows the videos, the specific, you just said to the guy with the boots and that comment,

and he knew the one you're talking about. Yeah, he's built like crash bandicoot. Which is an hilarious comment too. Now I haven't looked at Crash Bandicoot since I was in about fifth grade. So I got to look at it. Actually, yeah, yeah, I forgot. He basically has just jean shorts on.

Yeah, it is that. It is 100% that. What do you think about a little supporting our supporting members? I would love nothing more. Okay, so this is a relatively new segment of the. Massonomics podcast. This is just, this is our 10-year anniversary episode, but this is just the 24th time here in season two

that we've done supporting our supporting members. And it's a little segment. We like to give back to those that support us. They do that formally through our supporting membership. You can do it too. You go to masanomics.com slash join. That's where you see all the details about all the different levels we have that you can sign up for.

We'd be happy to have you sign up at any level. The only level we don't like you to choose is the level, the no level. Like you can't not choose a level. Choose a level. And then we'll be, we'll be very stoked about that. There's a lot of things that go along.

A lot of perks that go along with signing up. And one of them is our supporting mailer that it's coming real soon. It's going to be one of the, I mean, it could be next week the week after that that we say what the official line in the sand is. We're very close to actually setting the line.

It's basically done. We're just very busy. So we just haven't moved it to production, but it will be moving to production here any day. Right. And once that ball gets rolling, there's lines in the sand, there's things are, wheels are turning, gears are in motion, and there's no stopping it. So if you're not signed up for a supportive membership by then, you're screwed, get signed up now. Also, if you're an existing supporting member and your address has changed since the time that you signed up to become a supporting member, please email us or DM us with that address change, your new. address and we'll get that updated. Even if you've ordered something else from the website since then, but your address has changed, we still need you to send us your new address because it's a different database of addresses that we need that goes based on the original address that you signed up with.

This week's supporting members, there was a SoCal crew meetup, including big mofo, big Andrew, big David, and big Regner Rock. Oh, dreams do come true. It looked like a boy band reunited. Big Will did his first powerlifting meet in seven and a half years. We were only two and a half years into the Massonomics podcast by the time he did his first power, his most recent powerlifting prior to this one. Oh. It was back in like episode 130 when he did his last powerlifting meet.

Just a young pup. He got first in his division at the Clarksville Barbell Fortress Battle. Big Daisy was a back spotter at an APL meet in Australia and nobody died. It's good. Big Scar and Big Cody both competed in California's strongest Goofy Goober competition at Anteem Strength. Scar got second in the middleweight women's category and Cody. Big Cody won the lightweight men's class. Oh, hell yeah.

A.A. Ron hit a family PR. His new daughter was born on April 9th. Congratulations. Big Matthew Porter, Porter Fizz Ed, of Eclipse, grip, fame, and many others, was this week's guest on unpaid and underrated. That's the brady little sister podcast of the Massonomics podcast, where they interview a supporting member each week. Go check that out.

And on half-baked thoughts this week, the Crew Wolfpack podcast. Big Jen was the guest. So you can also go listen to Big Gen on Half-Baked Thoughts. Another Massonomic spin-off podcast. Stick around long enough and there's... You too can make a spin-off podcast. This is like...

What's a show that had a lot of spin-offs? Cheers. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of, actually. Frazier and something else, I think, spun off of that. Yeah, there is another one. Frazier is for what's the most popular show that was a spin-off. Uh, okay, cheers spin-offs. This is coming from a guy that's seen almost no episodes of Cheers.

Cheers is a great show. No episodes of Frazier. What's the Tortellys? Frasier. Is that what that is? That isn't that the grumpy waste of Carla Torterleys? Yeah, Carla. Only lasted 13 episodes.

Okay. Wings? Not a direct character. Spinoff. Who was the main, who was the character that was, oh, created by Cheers producers

and set in the same universe. Oh, I got it, I got it. So it's not really, I don't count that as a spinoff. Yeah, I agree.

For se. Cheers is a good show. Frazier, I don't like it that much. Yeah, and it was never, but what, what was the most popular

spinoff of a show? Well, according to this, Frazier, Law and Order SVU, or the Simpsons. So we're saying, what is,

what is the Simpsons a spin-off of the Tracy Olman show. Never heard of it. No, I'm not accepting that as a response. I've never heard of that. That's made up. Apparently the Simpsons was on there first, though. That can't be an answer

to my question because the Simpsons is too popular to be considered a spin-off. Okay, well, here's the answer you're looking for. Avoid the contract. Here's the answer you're looking for. Young Sheldon. The Big Bang. I think Young Sheldon is a popular show, isn't it? I think so.

I just can't do that. I'll never forget. I saw a tweet one time. You know, back in people were making funny tweets. And it was something like, I'm totally going to butcher this, but it was something like my pitch for Young Sheldon episode one. It's like, dad enters room,

Sheldon, there's toys everywhere. Undo's belt. Get over here, Sheldon. It's just so. It's so stupid. I mean, I'm butcher that, but it's so stupid. Young Sheldon. I'm just guessing you're a big, big, big, big, bang fan.

I just, big bang theory. I just watch it nonstop. I can't get enough of it. What was the, what's the comedy sitcom we would often talk about that you don't like? Oh, how I met your mother. How I met your mother. Yes. Yeah.

Classic. Yeah. How I met your mother. is better than Big Bang Theory. I'll agree. It's one of those things. I just, it was on in the background a lot at my old house with roommates.

And I just never really processed many episodes of it. It's like one of those things my brain just couldn't even comprehend it. Like it just wouldn't, it wouldn't accept what it was in front of me. I do really like how I met your mother. It's also very much a product of its time. See, that's the thing. I think it's too much of its time where I just didn't like that.

Yeah, it was very much a product of its time. And not that I have a problem with shows that do that. I mean, you could say the office is the same way and I love the office. The office is a little like that. Something about, I think it's the sitcom. It's the, I've talked about this before. It's the thing of being in the set that I don't like. I just don't like those shows like that.

So I just, I've never liked any show like that. The office is different because that was the documentary style of whatever. Yeah, it's not doing the set thing with the laugh track and all that. Okay, as long as we're talking about it, I started watching a television show for the first time in at least a year. What? Yes. I've been watching a TV show.

And by watching... Band of brothers. Okay. Next topic. Not this time, but now that you bring that up, I kind of want to watch Band of Brothers. I meant someone brought it up on the Discord actually this week, and it was actually Keith saying that he doesn't think Shane Gillis is funny.

and I just started watching the show Tires on Netflix. There's two seasons of it, and it is funny. I finished the, actually, for whatever reason, I watched the second season without watching the first season. Oh, really? I started on episode one of season two. How did you even come across this show that I've never heard of it? I watched so little television.

I forgot that you should start with season one if you're going to watch a series like that. I just want to know how you arrived out of all the TV shows in the world. How did you arrive at this one? What was the? I thought I had heard. heard somewhere someone said it was funny or like that was in the back of my head and then I one night I was like I'm gonna watch a little TV tonight and I'm like put on Netflix but I'm like but I literally was like I want something that if I am checked out in 20 minutes that I'm just gonna go to

bed and not care so I'm like I kind of want to show like that and I'm like oh and I came across it I think it was feeding it to me I was pumping it to me and I'm like yeah I actually remember someone said this is really funny. And it is really funny. Okay. I like that show. It actually, it's way more blue or way more off color than the offices, but there's something about it.

And it's not like the office, but there's just something about it that reminds me of the office that wouldn't make any sense because you haven't seen it. But like maybe to someone that's seen it, they could understand what I'm trying to articulate there. but I do think it's a really funny show. And what I liked about it, it fit what I said exactly. Like, you can watch like a 20-minute show.

Yeah. Get some good laughs. It's over. That, yes. A lot of the cast is really funny to me. You know, I think it's cast really well. It also reminds me a little bit of workaholics when I watched that show.

Yep. It's like a workaholic slash office. You know, those are two shows. They're going to, it's not exactly like that, but it just kind of, when I watch those shows,

I get a similar vibe as when I watch this show. You're selling me on it now. The only thing I've ever seen Shane Gillison, I did watch a Saturday Night Live episode, and I thought that was really funny, but I don't think I've seen the video. The show is, I really like his,

like the characters in the show are just, are just very funny to me. I think his comedy in this acting, this sitcom or whatever you want to call it, is much much funnier to me than he, his stand-up or his podcasting and stuff like that. Like this is his fate. I actually like some of that stuff too,

but I just think this is way better than that. All right. So I'm a big tires guy, although I have watched all of the second season. Big second season guy. I can't vouch for the first season yet. Maybe just the second season is where they hit their stride. I actually started to watch season one.

I finished the second season, and it took me to season one episode one, and I'm like, this looks kind of old now. I hardly know what happens. Well, and you know how like, especially in like season one of any thing,

like it's just, yeah, they got to kind of introduce to people. A lot of times it just gets changed a little bit. You know, people find their stride and like probably the writers figure out stuff. And I'm like, this isn't quite right.

This isn't what I remember from season two. Okay. that's enough about that. What about? So does that mean it's time for a gym? Yes, that officially, now that our tires segment is wrapped up, it means it's time for our, I think it's our certified training facility of the week, isn't it?

Brought to you by our friends over at gymradar.com. I've been, I don't know, I don't want to put your words in your maltime, but I've really been enjoying what these, Radar guys have done lately here. This is, this is getting pretty cool. You know, I've spent quite a bit of time on there myself, and I got to say, I'm impressed with what they're, what they're pulling off over there. Yeah.

I like talking about vibes. I really like their vibes. I feel like, I feel like these are guys you could go have a beer with. I think these guys are going to have, like, a lot of beers with. These guys, I feel like you could go to the circus and these guys can, get pulled out of the crowd randomly. And it would be pretty entertaining. Not to get super specific on what I feel like about these gym radar guys.

I think you're right, though. I do think you're right. Yeah, not altogether terrible guys over at Jim Radar. From what we know up to this point. Yeah, just as what we know. I mean, we don't know a ton, but from what we do know. So have you found us a potential gym that we could virtually tour this week via Jim Radar? I have.

And this one's a looker. Are you ready for it? Yeah, what's the name of this unit? It's called Lightspeed Fitness. I know I've seen this on there before. Oh, yeah. Wow. This is one of the more unique looking gyms on all of Jim Radar, I think.

Yeah, it is. I think it's safe to say that, isn't it? It definitely is. This is now designated as certified training facility of the week. I just hit refresh. What part of the country is this in? Dallas, Texas. Okay.

I just hit refresh, saw that certified training facility of the week, pop right in there. Oh, man, it's real time. Yep. Yeah, these guys over at Jim Radar know how to make these updates happen fast. You just say the words and it happens. Thankfully, they gave us permission to change who certified training facility of the week is on their site. I think this week we're just going to run through a few stats before we hop into the photos. So people can start painting a mental picture and then we can totally splash out that picture and write the right picture for them.

We're talking light speed fitness in Dallas, Texas, 200 square feet. It is a garage gym. It was established in 2020. And they got 38 pieces of equipment in this bad boy with their top equipment brands being rep rogue and power block. And some of the featured pieces before we hop into this, they got some interesting things here. They got a rogue folding rack. They got a torque fitness anchor seven. I don't think we've ever seen anything about that.

I think it's their wall-mounted functional trainer. A space-saving wall-mounted cable machine with dual adjustable weight stacks and swivel pull these one-to-two ratio. Never seen that thing before. I don't think I have either. And there's two different gyms that have it. Wow. And we have a discount code on that.

Discount code mass. You know what? Someone, go buy it. We need a third opinion. Someone listen to this. Go buy it. What are here what your thoughts are? The two that do have it both gave it, two that reviewed it, both gave it five

of five, right? I mean, yeah, torque makes some high quality stuff, so it would not surprise me if it's, if it's legit, but all right, we're ready to talk about what this gym actually looks like now,

though. Yeah, yeah. Okay, and I think, when I first saw this gym pop in, I want to say there was only a couple of photos, and there's been a lot more added since then. Yeah. What really makes this gym stand out

is that it has the, it has a Star Wars, what are they called in Star Wars, light speed warp speed. I forget what they actually call it. And I'm, I was a Star Wars fan back in the day. I'm just so out of it.

What do they call it in space balls? Yeah, yeah. But they've built the wall. You know, when they go into whatever, they, God, I can't remember what they call it. Like, we'll just say light speed. When they go into light speed in Star Wars and the stars elongate and it makes those long lines.

Yeah. It's ludicrous speed in space balls. Okay. Okay. They've painted those walls, those lines on a wall, and it looks really cool, actually. Like, it's a really cool effect. And they got some, uh, some light strips are some LED lights of some kind of along the wall, too, to add to this kind of like blue neon-y, spacey look.

Did you, he wrote how he did the, how he painted that too. Are the directions actually, I see, if you go through the photos, they have some like in-progress photos of them making it. But is it? Yeah. He said he did white walls for the whole garage. Then some painters tape and black paint on the gym side led to my best attempt at the Star Wars. hyper speed jump in black and white. This is more clearly visible when the gym was less equipped, but yada yada, yada.

But yeah, he talks about that exact thing that you said there. Yeah. And right at the center of like where the hyper speed lines converge, that is where he has, it's basically like a storage rack kind of. Yeah. Right?

You know, he's got some dumbbells on there. Yeah, he's got it. First of he's got a TV up top and then he's got some plate storage. He's got some dumbbells. I can't tell if that's a kettlebell or a fat bell up there. what it is. But it's, yeah, it's just right in the center. It does look so cool.

And then down on the bottom does he have? Are those the power block kettlebells down there? That's what it looks like. And then he does have the rogue wall-mounted rack, which I'm just going to assume he does what everyone else does and that thing is permanently out. Nobody ever has folded up a wall-mounted rack. If you're listening to this drop and you actually...

If you routinely fold up your wall mounted rack, please drop that in the YouTube comments. If you've ever folded it up like twice or more, drop that in the comments. And it doesn't count after the first week. You know, you might have done it a few times the first week you had it. But after that, right. You didn't do it. Right. Okay.

Also on this wall, though. So there's the rogue rack there. There's some wall control in the back. We got some various attachments. He has jammer arms of some kind here. I don't know. Are those, do you see, are those rogue or what does it say those are? Those are the, I saw those, those are Griffin.

Okay. Fitness. He's that Griffin Fitness arms. And he has the megalith handles on those. So he is a man of class over here. Got some barbells, various barbells around. He has the Iron Master bench. Got the freak athlete, freaky machine, whatever they call that, you know.

Yep. Getting freaky with it. And then he has for the Iron Master bench. Yeah, he's got like some of the attack, like the leg attachment and some other things. Yeah, he's got the leg attachment pro. He's got, uh, but what's interesting is he has that up. He has the leg attachment rigged. He has it in the photos here.

He has it rigged up to that torque. Yeah. Um, functional trainer. So I guess it gives you some plate loaded capabilities for a leg extension machine, which is a cool way to see that. Yep. Uh, looking at the attachment wall. We got some kind of looks like my rep.

Um. Curl bar attachment. Oh, yeah. I think he has the same one I do there. He's got some eclipse grips in blue. What else do we got? Got a wall ball target. Oh, this is interesting.

From his torque machine, like functional trainer, he does have. Sealing mounted pulleys. Yeah, some ceiling mounted pulleys to give him a lap pull down. Kind of reminds me of Dr. Taddywaffles set up a little bit. Yep. That's cool. And, yeah, then he's got some Nike Metcons 9 showing its inspiration.

Oh, that's why that's in there. That's not an incidental picture. I didn't read the descriptions. Ah, that is cool. Okay. Yeah, I do like that. I do like that. And then, yeah, it's just some different photos of the lighting in the gym when it's all set up,

which is, yeah, you should look this up. It's really cool. Got a concept two rower, a bunch of different plates, a plate tree. Then, yeah, you can see various stages of this over time. but, man, what a cool gym. And it's the certified training facility of the week. We saw some cool pictures. We analyzed some of his equipment.

What I really want to know, though, is Tommy, do you think you could get strong there? Oh, hell, yeah. You're not just saying that because he has a leg extension set up for that Iron Master bench, is he? You can trust my unbiased, honest opinion here. I would not say I think I could I take getting strong places very seriously and I would not say that I think I could get strong there if I didn't really feel it and I think I could get strong there. Yeah. Yeah. So you're not. I mean, my legs would be extended. You would not be pretending. I can vouch for him. He is very unbiased and honest when he delivers these opinions. So I'm I'm also unbiased and honest. You can know that my opinion of his opinion is legit. Someone that's not very unbiased and honest. would say. Yeah. Okay.

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Okay, okay. I think we should get into, oh, I need a little intro into this, a little, kind of something to really set the tone for 10 years. And I think I've got just the thing right here. I think this is really going to set the tone. It'll get us in the right mood,

a little mood music. Yes, that takes me way back, like 10 years back. To when Mommy was hitting you. To when mommy still hit me. just 10 short years ago. So that's right. When you hear Disturbed, talk about mommy hitting him,

you know it's time for our 10 best podcast episodes ever from the Massenomics podcast, one from each year of us recording. With some honorable mentions from each year as well. So, yeah, it's like the 40 best, but we picked 10. If we pick 10% of our catalog, this is the top 10%. And we did pick one from each year.

So we didn't just pick our 10 favorite. Each year we had to pick one. And some of these were a lot easier and a lot harder than others, actually. There's been some of these years. And flows to this show. Some of these years, I'm not sure if we recorded a single good episode. It's true. I was there for it.

I was there for it. We went full years without putting out anything decent. That was long ago, though. So our 10-year anniversary, we're going over our top 10 podcast episodes. We got all these looky-loos still hanging around in here. Yeah, should we get rid of them? They gots to go. Yep.

They can't. They ain't got to go home, but they can't stay here. They've been riding our coattails for 10 years. It's time to get rid of them. Okay. So I'll set the stage on our timeline. then we put out our first episode in April of 2016 so each year runs from April to the beginning of the next April.

So like our year one best episode from that year is from April 2016 about until April 2017. It's like our financial year, right? We just kind of break things out differently. Yes, exactly. It's fiscal versus. Yeah, fiscal year. That's how familiar I am, but the term is sometimes I'm. interchangeably use fiscal and financial, you know.

Such a numbers guy. So used to it. Yeah. It's our tax year. So April 26 to April 2017, that would have been our first one through 52-ish episodes. Is this the order we want to start in? Do we want to do the oldest years first?

Yeah, I think we start back. We want to go the other direction. Yeah, I like starting at the beginning. So 10 years ago when we started, an easy option there could have been, I think episode one or episode two. I mean, yes, and absolutely honorable mentions for sure. Yeah, episode number one was actually the second episode we recorded,

and episode number two was actually the first episode we recorded. Don't ask us why. I still don't know why. That was Tyler's idea at the time. He had some reasoning behind it, and we were just along for the ride. Well, look how well it turned out. I guess he wasn't wrong. He did set us up on the right foot there.

Yeah. Can't argue with it. Also worth noting this first year, I mean, we're well in the Tyler era of the Massonomics podcast. You know, this is all three of us for this entire year. And also in the honorable mention, Shans was on there at least a few times in person. He came down in Tyler's basement with us. Which is also very funny to think about now. A four-person in-person episode.

And there's actually multiple in-person people that we had in that first year. actually came to record with us. And part of that I think was just like idea generation where I was like, oh, you get someone else to come talk and we'll figure that out. So we got the Sean's episodes. We did that yoga episode where the woman came over to Tyler's and we all did yoga before we recorded the episode.

I remember. I don't remember anything about the episode. I remember doing the yoga in his living room. Yeah, I don't really remember the episode that well either. but yes, same. I do remember doing the yoga. Yeah. And Dan Bell, episode number 51.

Isn't that funny to think about how early. At the Arnold. In our Arnold Airbnb. Well, actually, that was almost a year in, actually, really. Almost a year in. Yeah, that was a very end. How early in the Masonomics journey we crossed paths with him. That's kind of crazy.

Yes. Yeah. What I remember there again, what I remember the best is walking through the, that park. After we walked all day. And Dan was like, what the, Rick, are we doing?

Like, why do we have to walk so far? I know. Now you would just call an Uber every time. You're right. And then episode 30 with Nick Tailuki live from Minnesota. That one's funny to me for a couple reasons. One,

it always feels so much later in the timeline to me than episode 30. our first ever video recording. Yeah. If you go to YouTube to watch the podcast, it is the first one is episode 30 with Nick Tailuki where we busted out my camcorder for the first time. And just put no thought into how we're setting that up or any of that. Like now there'd be quite a discussion about that.

And at that time it's like, yeah, camera over there, we'll sit here. And it's also, I was just thinking about this the other day, actually, he had a sweet home gym. I'm assuming he still does. It's probably even better now. I would imagine he's added stuff to it over time. Like, that wouldn't be a bad place to go tour someday.

He's maybe sold stuff because I know I've talked to people that have bought stuff from his gym since then. So I don't know what his home gym status is. Interesting. Okay. Yeah. I mean, he could have just been normal buying and selling. Right. Yeah, just switching things out.

Right, right. But I know I ran into at least one or two people over the year that I've said, yeah, I actually bought something from him. I went and picked it up off of Facebook, Facebook marketplace. Interesting. Yeah, that was, yeah. But our best episode of season of year one, it's actually two co-episal. All-time classics.

If you haven't guessed by now, it's episode 32 and episode 33 of the podcast, the party cast episodes live from, what was the name of that? It's like a, yeah, what the hell was that called? was it's like i can't remember that building i can't remember either yeah it's actual offices now isn't it okay i think so i think so it's right kitty corner from the zoo actually for new one that's been to

aberdeen been to the zoo from it's very close to the zoo bar it's just to the southeast corner of the zoo bar and that was our west yeah southwest corner uh that was our one year gym or there's just like a gym christmas party i guess i think yeah which is also funny now that like because we've always done like we've always done this like yeah let's get the people we're friends with together and do something and that was the thing then it was yeah like the gym christmas party yeah there was some party and going on there yes there was and uh those two episodes they're kind of in infamy as being like infamously bad i guess is what you might say there was probably no less than 30 people different people on those episodes if there's one thing

that I know that makes for great podcasting, you get like 20 people all together on the microphone, most of them of which have never podcasted or maybe even listen to a podcast at that point in time. And many of them have nothing to do with Masonomics at all. They're like spouses and friends, like people that had just no connection to anything. And like for a lot of it, nobody's even running the show. It's rudderless. And at the time it's like, yeah, this is a good idea. This should happen.

but it is a little piece of the little mass and a, you know, if I had a nickel for every time, for some time somebody said, well, oh, the party cast, you know, like, they have a name. It's the part, are they called the party cast on, or is that just what everyone calls them? I think they are called that, aren't they? Okay, so we called them the party cast, yeah. Yeah, party cast part one and party cast part two, yep. Okay. All right.

Any other notes on the first year? That's pretty good on that one, I think that's pretty good. So then we move April 2017 into 2018. And I have a couple honorable mentions here. This is still fully in the Tyler era. So it's all three of us. I really enjoyed. One second.

One second here. I'm just reading the Google AI overview of the party cast. What does it say? Comically bad and wrong. The party cast, say if you do the party cast, Massonomics, refers to a special two-part episode

of the Masanomics podcast, episodes 32 and 33, recorded in November 2016 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the gym, key details, content. The episode features over 25 guests from the strength industry

characterized by a chaotic, celebratory atmosphere with binge drinking and overeating. Well, a lot of that's pretty correct. described as an epic collaboration with too many icons in the strength industry to even name drop. Focusing on fun rather than technical lifting advice. And then it gives these episodes set the tone for the Masanomics brand, which describes itself as the lifting podcast about nothing,

focus on humor, community, and powerlifting. And then at the end, Massanomics has continued to host various parties and meetups over the years, including the crew falls meetup. So it does sort of connect the dots a little bit there. Yeah, it does kind of. It's actually a lot of threads in the years. there that makes sense.

Actually, now I'm looking at this year two, your job is, we'll go through a few that I have definitively as honorable mentions, but then I have a few that are our choice to pick what one on the spot you pick is the best one. So honorable mention, though, the TB12 method. I remember that one. I remember that one well. Yeah. The Tom Brady lifting method.

That was down in Tyler's basement. That was kind of a fun one, I think. Also, the seriousness episode. where I think we said the word seriousness 100 times. Something like that, yeah. And then I had to highlight these ones because I forgot that this is a thing. I'd be curious if you remember this. Episodes 101 and 103, not back-to-back episodes.

What the podcast episodes are for those weeks are just, we clip together all of our Arnold interviews. That's the podcast episode. It wasn't us sitting around talking. It was just the interviews from that, first year at the Arnold. I had forgot this existed until looking at your notes here. And then once you said it, I do remember that.

Because I think I had to, I think, because I had the video files, I think I had to clip them all and then export the audio and then send it to Tyler so he could put it up as a podcast. But also, I think I remember the time being like, oh, we don't got a podcast for a week or two. Like, makes things easy. That was the thought. But now it would be funny to think, like, we were just at the Arnold.

We did interviews. were just like, oh, yeah, we'll just put all those together and that's our episode for the week. This is a podcast, obviously. Like, that's not really a podcast, guys. So then we have three choices for the best ones. So the other two will also be honorable mention. Three choices and we'll have to pick.

Episode 102 is the Arnold Airbnb podcast where it's, I don't know if you remember that. Airbnb that we stayed out. It was like a old wooden floor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. That episode 102 or episode 95, the title of the end of the MB power cast, which that was a pretty important episode.

Actually, that was getting us some notoriety at a time when we were trying to find some notoriety. Or episode 70, Julian Pinot. Ironic Mazenomics episode. It's iconic. I'm just going to say, the fact that. that we weren't on it, I'm taking that one out of the running. And that's the only reason.

And that is it just for that reason alone. Otherwise, it was a very good episode that you should really go listen to. So it's the Arnold Airbnb or the end. The one that sticks out more to me, I actually do remember recording that Arnold Airbnb one, but the one that sticks out more to me as being more iconic in the Masonomics content pool is the end of the Mark Bell Powercast episode because it really felt like we had the inside scoop on something there. Yeah, it did.

And I remember there was like, after we recorded that, I didn't and I still don't use Reddit, but I remember you or someone was like, hey, people are talking about this on Reddit and people are like, yeah, I heard it on the Massanomics podcast. And we're like, people on Reddit are listening to the Massonomics podcast. Like literally we had that conversation as like, whoa, what is going on? Like they're, people are getting this news from us and citing us as the source. Yeah. Yeah.

It is pretty crazy. So that was episode 95. Number two. So then we're to year three, which was 2018 to 2019. Some, uh, it's actually a transitional year is what I would call it, 2018 to 2019, because you'll see in actually some of the episodes, the differences here. So 113, how to start your own gym. I just thought that's noteworthy because back in 1-813,

we were talking about how to start your own gym, which is totally a topic we would talk about today. But that would be how to start your own home gym. Right. And that wasn't the phrase that we used that. Right, because that wasn't a thing many people did in 2018. Right. There are people that did,

but there was not many that had a home gym in 2018. Right. 119. I like the title is how online, fitness apparel business works. So you know what the reason for that episode is? Well, I got to say reading that, I really like that because just taking the title at surface level would be like, man, at episode 526, I'm still not sure I know how that actually

works. 400, 400 episodes later, I'm still not sure we've got that figured out. But was that in relation to the lift shorts? Is that what that was? That's the lift shorts. Like, that's almost like a, not tongue and cheek. It's a, hey, dipship, this is how the online fitness works. You put logos on blanks and charge more.

That is how the business works, yeah. Right. And then another great honorable mention, supplements, real or fake, came about in one of those, which I think is just a pretty iconic episode. I think that one is absolutely a classic. That one is really stick out in my mind. But that one would have been from, I'm pretty sure, your old basement. Yep.

I remember recording it because I was, in my head, I was laughing so hard at the time. Like, just trying to keep a straight face while reading all this stuff to you. I can totally remember it. That would have been really new in your old basement where we were just sitting on at that white folding table. Yep. Just in the corner of the room recording. Yeah. With the basement window.

Yeah, right behind us. God, that is crazy. How many different places we've recorded from over the year. And I'm, I don't know when this happened. Am I wrong? Did we record an episode from your backyard one time at your old house? Do you know what I'm talking about? Did do that.

Didn't we? I don't know what episode that is though, because is that on YouTube? I don't know. I don't know. Because I think it was just you and me. I don't think Tyler was there, but was it because he was gone? I think we did it on like the Zoom even. Ah, we could have.

So that would have been like, that would have been probably pretty early on then. But was it prior to being on YouTube? Because I want to see the video of where we were doing that. What episode that is that we were sitting at. But didn't we record one outdoors at Tyler's house one time too? Like we were sitting in his back patio. I'm like almost positive and I couldn't find that one either. I don't know because I feel like we went outside a few times,

but I can't remember recording one. But we did record one outside at your house though, didn't we? I forgot that at my old house. Because I could have swore we also had a conversation and like, man, if we could get a sponsor, like one or two sponsors that would even just pay us like $10 a week, we could make like $20 a week podcasting. And we're like, that'd be pretty freaking sweet. I barely remember that, that us being out there, what, yeah, I want to see, I want to look up,

I want to look at that YouTube video. That would be funny for, funny to watch now at this point. Because the other one that I couldn't find, I'm like, What episode, didn't we record one from the entryway at the gym? Yeah, and Ryan was there too, my brother. Right. And I don't, I couldn't figure out, because I thought it was like the episode after Tyler left. It would have been right around there, yeah.

But it wasn't like 120, it should be like 125. And I clicked on a couple and I'm like, I do not see where this video is. And I'm like, oh, this, maybe this is the Mandela effect that I think maybe we never actually recorded an episode from the entryway of the gym where we set up those boxes. I was going to say, but I was there. too, but that's exactly how the Mandela effect works. I was there. I remember it. Yeah, we set up those boxes and we

set up the, uh, we set up the. Okay, now you really got me thinking, because this should be such an easy one to find because there was only, it was like after Tyler left, there was just a couple of weeks where we recorded with like three of us. But it was like it goes from what I see, it goes right from Tyler's house to your old basement. I'm like, I could have sworn it was like the episode after, you know, when we were trying to figure it out, like where we're,

even going to record. And it was, and it wasn't apparent to us yet that we were just going to go to your basement. I see my old base. Oh, I found the one outside. Oh. It's,

uh, episode 115, Dave Hoff's new record in IPF worlds and Ryan's there recording it with us. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, that's the first episode after Tyler,

after Tyler's, what episode is that? It's, uh, it's the one where you Photoshop in, uh, Dave Hoff when I'm on my bachelor party. And,

oh, yeah, got our shirts off and he's, you have him like, suiting up. Is there like pizza rolls on that one? Yeah. It's those bagel bites in the corner.

What episode is that one? 115. But that's that Tyler was not gone yet then though. Well, but he wasn't in the episode. He wasn't. Right, right. And then the next one is episode 116 is in the gym entryway then.

Yep. It's right there. And episode 117. Well, and then it's weird. But then when he was just gone. Tyler was gone to like Europe or something, wasn't he? Oh, maybe that's what it was.

Yeah. Yeah, because then we're back for like five more weeks. Right. I think he was literally just gone for a little while. Yep. And then 125 is the first one in my, okay, this is probably just so annoying for some people to listen to.

But 125 is the first one in my basement. And Ryan is there too. Yeah. So which one's the one from the gym? Um, the 116 and 117. Oh, 116.

That one's funny looking to me. Yeah. So we did 117 at the gym too. Yes. So what are we, We're just recording on the Zoom, aren't we? Oh, yeah, because we're only using two mics and we're passing the mic. We're using the handheld mics.

The rhino on 117, the rhino bars sitting there. We must have been talking about that. Oh, yeah, it's like on the table. Yeah, that is funny. Yeah. Wow. Okay. That's why, though, I think Tyler was gone to Europe almost like maybe on a,

it was his dry run or something like that before he officially moved. I like the only comment on this episode 117 from at Gaines R Us Fitness Flow. Definitely liked. You guys really know your stuff. Very good podcast. Nailed it. Getting the praise even back then. Since back that,

so that was seven years ago, have you gotten a haircut since then? I've maybe gotten, I've maybe gotten a trim once maybe. That's it. Like who did it? Oh, I would have went to a.

a barber. Actually, when I first moved Aberdeen, because your hair's not, I don't remember your hair not being that long, but like right there, you can tell your hair's not that long. Well, I got to say, okay, because I clicked on 117. Now I got to see 116 because it's down. In 117, it's up. I got to see it looks like. Um, yeah, it's, it definitely goes through like stages where it like gets longer and shorter. I think it's because it starts to break off and get all damage and then I'll take better care of it for a while. Right, right. Yeah, well, in 116, though, 10 years ago, like it was, I hadn't had,

eh, I don't know, actually it had long care since I was like 21. So, yeah, I had long care for a while. I don't know, man. It's weird. It changes. Which all arrives me to say the best episode from the third year of the Massonomics podcast, the most iconic was episode 124, Tyler's leaving the podcast, which I don't think prior to that releasing,

it was like a total nobody knew that's what was happening. Also I'd say nobody knew almost nobody was listening still even in season or year three. So it's not like we had thousands of people on the edge of their seat. Like right now if we did a podcast out of the blue

that was like Tanner's leaving the podcast, everyone would be like, what? Or you know, if Tommy's leaving the podcast, it would be, I'd feel like it would rock our little corner of the, uh, Oh, it'd be a huge deal. Like, it'd be crazy.

Yeah, I also love this comment from episode 116 from Roy Dikins. The intro with Kaz and the IPF guy saying how great you guys are when it's pretty clear they're not familiar with that fucking kills me every time. And you go, LOL gets me every time to seven years ago. Years ago. Also, it's fun. The people commenting are people I literally have no idea who they are now. They're not still around. Yeah.

They were just there for a little bit. Yeah. They were there for episode like 90. Wow. Okay. Man, we are doing some reminisce. This is going to be a three-hour podcast at the rate we're going here. Well, we'll get to three-hour podcasts.

But yeah, Tyler leaving that, I mean, that's, I don't know if it's the most entertaining episode of the year, but it is the most important episode as far as signifying a change and how all of this went. Right. So 125 on, there's the big shift there. And actually what we learned is a little. little before that while we were figuring out what we, because he must have been gone for like a month there actually.

Year four, 2019 into 2020, if you remember history, there was some things going on, everything that was going on in that time frame. So also a very important transitional year for the Massonomics podcast. Some of the runners up, I'll say, episode 173, Coup Live in your now old, but at the time, new basement. You had just moved into your new house. So there's almost like nothing in your basement. I think I lived there for like a week or two, something like that.

I think episode 172 is recorded from your old house. And 173 is the first one that we recorded at your new house. So I'm sure that was a bit of a shit show. We were like, uh, Coops here. Like, how we're going to record this? It was because we were also at the gym. And then it's like, okay, we got to go do this episode quick. and the audio I think was really bad on that one on Coops, wasn't it?

And I think that was after that got done, we're like, yeah, this is becoming more of a thing. Maybe we should get better equipment. And I think we did that. That equipment thing was a big thing for a while of us like upgrading that stuff too. Yeah. Doesn't seem like it'd be quite as big of a deal now. Or no, I think it was after that. We're like, no, we should just wear it, make sure we have headphones on every time we record because otherwise you don't know when things get messed up.

Right. I think that was part of the problem there is we just didn't know because we're just, recording with no monitor of any kind. Yep. I also had episode 200 in there. And from what I could see, that was some of our first ever call-in guests that we did was right around episode 200. I remember talking about that in the gym, lifting like, oh, man, this could just be the

thing that changes everything. Call-in guests. This will be crazy. It wasn't really that crazy. Wasn't that crazy. Did we still have the old board when we were doing calling guests then? No, because that was part of it. is like, oh, now that we got the road board,

okay, we can easily do calling this. So we had the road board in 2019. Damn, this thing has been a workhole. I have the original one here. Right. You know, you got one later down the road. It's the same, right? Yeah, yeah, but like, I did not realize this thing is from 2019.

This thing is, that was pretty new at the time, though. Yeah, oh, it was like brand new. It had like just came out. I mean, I think everyone that does a podcast now has something like that. But for those that don't know, back in my day when we were a proper country, this is actually not proper. this road board is way more proper. Back in our day though when you started podcasting, use some terribly intimidating piece of equipment. Oh, you used like just a recording mixer.

No idea what anything does. Right. And you just pray that it doesn't get off. It had XLR. Tyler would be over there in an episode. Constantly tweaking it. He was constantly turning things. Yeah, because, well, here's the thing. The road board nonstop turning things. Yeah, the road board doesn't let you clip your audio. Like, and right. I'm no audio. expert, but it's the thing when like it totally blows out and distorts it, the road board will like, I can be super, super quiet and then I could just scream full speed and it won't clip it, where those other ones are just like a constant battle of hot mic versus can't hear. Like you're just constantly messing with it.

And it had XLR cables, a power cable, like RCA cables. It had so many goddamn cables on that thing. I remember Tyler being like, yep, this is how I have it. Just do this. And we just didn't touch it forever. Like, we went as long as possible without making sure nothing moved. Yeah. And then when we got this, it felt like we'd stepped into the future.

But do you remember him just like, oh, constantly, touching the gain on everyone's thing because you'd get excited and, oh, and like that would clip if he wasn't on it right on. And he'd be like, he'd mess with it and he'd give you a signal later to like move your mic up

or move it back or, you know, it's a pain. Kind of actually reminds me of when we go to lead FTS and do them. Like, they kind of have that same thing in place there. where it's like, oh, we've done this a lot. I don't think it has to be this complicated.

Actually, I say the road one, but probably like any company that makes these now, they probably all have the thing. Right. Some auto volume thing where it doesn't get shitty sounding. So that was Coop. Episode 200, our first guess. Episode 211, I wrote down the title was Garage Gym Bubble of 2020.

Man. Which I just love that title. I do. So we were recognizing what was going on there, though. You know, like that was obvious. Everyone talks about it now that like when we listen to their home gym podcast or anything like that, they're like, well, obviously, you know, I started my home gym in 2020. Oh, that line. That's always been an odd line to us because we'd been at the gym for so long prior to that.

And, you know, we'd had mass anomics gym for so long before that. So it's like, yeah, when I started lifting in 2020, of course. And I'm like, well, what? No. What did you do for the 20 years before that? Yeah. Why did you start then? What were you doing?

But that was a real thing going on. Like there's a big part of this niche where it now exists because of that, really. But the number one I put was episode 206 where our world got rocked. The title was the Arnold that never was. And we had literally packed everything. Yeah. I was coming home from work the night before. We had a very early morning where we were going to get on the road at like 5 a.m.

from Aberdeen. And I was coming home from work. And people were like texting me and calling me and saying something like, I think nothing had been canceled. You know, eventually all sorts of things got shut down. And that seems obvious now. Six years later that's what was going to happen. That's what was going on.

But at the time, nothing like before the Arnold, nothing significant like that had gotten shut down that I was aware of. And I think they'd like canceled one or two NBA games or something and that was like it. And it was like, yeah, the governor is on TV right now saying that the Arnold Sports Festival is canceled. And this was the day, there was people there already. You know, there was people in Columbus, Ohio for it that had beaten us there that were already there. And he's like, yep, it's canceled. then I called you, I remember calling you on my drive home from work.

I remember looking it up on my computer. Like I saw the video and I'm like, I'm like, no way. And I'm Googling it. Because I was like, I don't think you had heard it yet. No, I haven't. I was just working all day, minding my own business. I was like, check it out. I think the Arnold's canceled or something.

And you're like, yeah, it's canceled. I remember like I was still on the phone with you by the time I got home. And I'm like, so what are we doing? I like, it wasn't obvious even immediately. It's like, well, we just don't go. like you'd think of course you don't go but we were it was like well if there's like half as many people there it's still going to really good and that was where it was for us is online like we just didn't have a huge audience online so like the arnold was a massive deal for sales like it was it was a

big percentage what we're going to do for the year and like yeah like 2019 was just our 2020 was just shaping up to be a crazy year too because we had a double booth we actually knew what the hell we were doing like we had done some serious research and like plan layout ahead of time yeah we were pretty jacked up for it we were like we really thought like you know to to users saying like we're like oh it's march and we're going to make our nut for the year in march right here like this is when it's going down yes uh then we got to do a big like online sale in the community really turned out for that like probably our craziest online day ever at that time right so that it all worked out with everything that was going on so the next is year

five, one, two, three, four, five, which would be April 2020 into 2021. And some honorable mentions here really get into call in guests, I would say. We had Jess Bittner on. I just wrote down a few of that. Yep. I thought we're, you know, that was a cool one. Dan McKim just think it was very funny. We had Grant from the Strait Co on for the first time ever.

It's so funny to think about that. We didn't even know him. That was pretty much how we met Grant was. on the podcast. So weird to think about now. Yes. Yes. Very weird.

We had episode 220, which was back in studio. We were recording remotely. So I would sit down. We would do it over the... Yes. I think you had the Zoom. I would record natively on the Zoom and then I had the road board,

I think, is how we did it. And there was just no video there for. a few weeks. Yeah, I think so. Yep. It was just a few, it wasn't for very long, it was maybe for five weeks or something. There's no, I would just put a, I would just put a, I would just put a place. I would sometimes rotate.

If you watch those episodes on YouTube, I would sometimes, I'm just putting like six of the most random massonomics images from my catalog. And I would, like every 20 minutes, I would just change the still frame on the YouTube. So if you watch that YouTube, there should be some different funny images in there. I forgot about that too. Wow. But I think I would record, we would do a,

would we do like a FaceTime then? God, did we? I don't even know. Or did we just have. I remember sitting in my old basement on the couch there. And I'm pretty sure I'd pull up like my iPad and we'd do a FaceTime.

I think you're right. But then we'd each record natively and mix it together. The audio, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come by an audio and pull up that.

Yeah. Man. if only we knew that there was a thing called Zoom. Was there? Actually, well, I mean, it was, but actually it still went to you, it would have been a little tricky still with the recording equipment. Like it wouldn't have been an easy, obvious thing, but. Right.

Man, that's crazy. Episode 241, first episode in the new studio in your basement where visually, our visual presentation got a huge facelift big time on episode 241. I still remember after that. that you sent me the clip i believe it was 50% facts and jim mcd is like man those massanomics guys they must have spent a ton of money their studio looks great yeah and now it's like oh yeah because we put a neon side in some chairs and got some basic light got some depth and some lighting you know we weren't just like our backs weren't against the wall for the first time yeah ever yeah a white

a white wall with just a flag pinned against it which was basically our that That was our backdrop for the first 240 episodes in different variations. There's different flags like at time, it's funny. In your old house, it was the blue lift flag. For some reason, when we moved to your new house, it was the don't curl and me flag. I don't know why it changed or what our logic was. It was just like, yeah, we're due for a change here. That's really funny.

Then then the infamous neon sign that's now in Massonomics gym, that is a piece of massonomics history, that neon sign. we did spend a lot of money on that sign. Yeah, because it's so big. Especially at the time when we still, you know, didn't have a lot of extra money. I think that sign was like 400 or 500 bucks, wasn't it? I thought it was like 500 bucks or $600 or something. And now, now that the world's changed,

that damn things probably like $1,000 now. I suppose, yeah, yeah. Sweet sign though, still. It's a cool part of Massanomics gym when you come in there and the lights are off and the neon sign is still on. That sucker's just glowing. Yep. It hasn't been shut off in years now, actually.

Okay, so but the number one, or the most iconic from that year, would have been episode 260, which was our five years of podcasting anniversary, which would have been five years ago from now. And that one, if anyone gets a chance, check it out on YouTube. We are wearing suits and ties for episode 260. And we pop, you had a champagne bottle for us. So, but we're, we literally put on our, we're actually wearing gym shorts and then suits and ties on top. Yep. I had actually forgot about this too, though, until you wrote it down that we did that.

Yeah. Yes. So I like that one. The next year is year six, April 2021 into 2022. We had Jonathan Oldham live in studio. We picked him up. That was the first use of the limousine. Yep.

Do you remember that episode? the technical error with that episode. What was, I know we had to sit in a particular orientation. Well, first of all, because we'd never done three people in the room. So it was just like so much messing with the room to get it ready and all of this.

And then I'm all flustered. We recorded for a while and it didn't work. Yeah. That was the first time that ever happened. We forgot to record something. Because I'm just messing with so much shit and tearing the room apart and I wasn't used to it. And then finally we started recording way too late.

And we were like 12 minutes. in. I looked down and I'm like, damn it, I didn't hit record on the board. We just started. Yeah. And so then we had to just start it all over. I was so annoying. I remember just being pissed at the time. That's right. I forgot about that. It's really only one of the only times it's ever happened. As I said, I had to look down and just again. But once an episode, I'm just like, yep, am I for recording? Yes. Now it doesn't really matter that much because we'd have backup. Yeah. Yeah, because we both record each other's track. Right. And I mean, yeah. We have cars.

In the business, we call that redundancies. Exactly. Then a lot of cool guests in that year as well. I wrote down, I could have wrote down like 20, but I wrote down Ed Cone, Dave Tate, and Johnny Candido was a big one at the time because as a guy we tried to reel in for a long time, we had a lot of jokes about him coming on and he never was,

and then he actually was. I think the words he used was, I respect the hustle of us, constantly barraging him. He just gave up eventually and was like, sure, I'll do it. But it's also funny because it's like he's this big inaccessible guy. It's like, no, it's just Johnny Candido. Right. It's not like some crazy person with an, you know, inaccessible schedule.

Even more so in 2026 is that apparent than it was in 2021. Yeah. But the number one from that one was, episode 300, which was over, I think for the, maybe the first time we'd ever done it over a three-hour episode. There's always that thing you take pride in just making the episode as long as possible. And we've, at a certain point, you start to exercise some self-restraint and you say,

we can reel this back in a little bit. For our sake and everyone listening. That was a, we had a lot to go through. And I think in episode 300. It was, it was a really, really good episode, I think, actually. That's why this episode is going to be a 10-hour episode for 10 years, 10 hours, yes. April 22 to April 23, this is year 7. We've got some good honorable mention.

So I like this title. Tommy Rediscovers Commercial Gims. So that's when you moved to Sioux Falls. This was a year of changes. There's a lot going on in this time span here. Yeah. So you're going back to like non-Messalon. Astronomics commercial gyms for the first time.

And it was blowing my mind, actually. Like, it was actually, I remember just being like, oh my God, this is how the world actually is, huh? Chad Wesley Smith live in studio, which that was a cool one. That was prior to that then. That would have been before you moved than that year. That was only like a month or two before, though. It wasn't, because he came in the fall and I moved like the shortly after. And then episode 352.

Massonomics power lifting meet is official. That would have been our announcement that the lift hard live easy one is going to be a thing. God. We're like, yep, we're doing this. I remember that now because I just moved into our townhome when we moved here. Right. And I moved like a week or two before the rest of the family to get things settled in because our daughter was like three months old. So I'm trying to get the whole house set up so that when they moved down here, it's livable.

And I remember while this is going on, the place is like incomplete chaos. And you're like, the meat's like selling out. Like it's sold out and like a, you know, like it's almost full of the day and we're being like, this is so crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. That's right. So our number one, it kind of ties into all of that. Episode 350, the last in person. I mean,

it turns out to not be the last ever. Well, but is our last regularly scheduled episode. 350 from what had been our kind of our pinnacle podcast studio up to that point. You know, the one we were talking about the neon lights and everything like that. So it was the last in-person one. 350 was a great episode. 351 was a little bit of a nightmare.

I don't know if you remember our first one. And it was like, that did not feel good. Well, because at the time, you know, things like Stream Yard and whatever. it is. Riverside. It was all pretty new. They were not good. No.

They constantly dropped out and had issues and we tested a bunch of different things. We talked about this before, but we were on the phone, on Zoom calls or whatever until. It was like one in the morning. One in the morning, multiple nights in a row being like troubleshooting and looking

at options and testing. And just for basically two weeks, it was like, like I didn't have a single good feeling about how the heck we were going to pull it off. All we had to do was by Tanner, a new computer, by Tanner a road board, by Tanner a video camera, upgrade Tanner's internet connection. That's right. Then once we got all that set up, it was good.

We only had to spend like a couple thousand bucks and then we were good to go. But it did. And it's not, we shouldn't have had to do that if like Stream Yard and stuff would have worked decently. But what we came to is that wasn't meeting our standard. So we eventually decided the only way we can do it and meet what we feel like our standard is, is to record natively from both locations. And that's when we're like, yep, we just have to buy all the stuff. And it's never been an issue once since then. No. I mean, I don't know. Maybe there's been moments of hiccups, but outside of that, it's just been flawless. That would happen in an in-person

studio one. You know, there's, we forget to hit the record button or the, audio sucks back in 170 or, you know, like that happens in person too. So no, but that is what we had to do. We eventually got to that point. We're like, we just have to buy all of this stuff and then we think it'll work. Oh, and lighting. You know, we have both needed. Yeah.

And we're just getting boxes of lighting at our houses to put on our desks. And it was, yeah, there's a lot of shit going on there for a little while. Now these podcasts like this, I'm not saying we're the first to do it. There's probably mini, many doing it like that. but everyone does it. Now, it's not that far in the future, but the technology just gets so much better

wrapped around that, like it becomes so much simplified. Okay. So then year eight is April 23 to 2024. Couple honorable mentions were a guest we had. I'd say C.T. Fletcher, Colin one,

what I thought was, God, that doesn't seem like very long ago. It seemed like we just, did that. But okay. C.T. Fletcher, Pa, Dwyer was a good one.

We had tried to get Pa for quite a while and he's ended up being very funny. And then the Mike Isratel live one from his basement, right? Mm-hmm.

Yes. When we did like one of our first gym tours, I guess. Yeah, actually, wow. I,

yeah, that's probably outside of a Massanomics gym tour, like the Massonomics gym, gym tour. That would be, I think our first,

which, man, talk about, talk about just going straight to the top right away as far as what would attract attention and views. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. But easily, I think, a number one choice for that year, which episode I really like a lot is episode 400, which is our 40 most influential moments of Massonomics. We did a lot of homework for that episode.

Yeah, that's still a really good history recap of the Massonomics podcast. Yeah, that's a great episode. Pretty well done. That episode is better than this episode. if I'm in different ways. Yes. Most of them. Year 9, April 24 to 2025.

Oh, we're getting into some very modern era stuff. I just had to write down some of these names of episodes. But I would say we got Mitchell Hooper on. We had Coop back on that it ended up being a good one. The Eagle Olympics rundown, which obviously we were a part of the Eagle Olympics, which was a very fun experience. Then a couple of these names were tariffs with Peter Keller from Fringe, which with everything going on, that was very relevant.

And then the rise of the machines. It was kind of a bit we were really into and continued to be into up to this point. But I don't know. Yeah, I picked episode 444 live with Jujimufu. You can make an argument for other ones this year, but that seemed like a pretty, that was a pretty big, deal. That is. And that's, that to me is the model of if this thing really, like if the podcast brought in like just tons and tons of viewers and it was a thing of like, all right, production

quality is really justified because there's so much eyes and money around this. Like that's just a perfect. Basically, we don't have other jobs. So all we. Yeah, exactly. Like you have the unlimited time effort and budget to put into these things. Like that one is kind of the shining example of like what this could be at at the highest level. If you crank it up to the, yeah, because there's two cameras. The whole setup looks great. Like we're on location.

Like shot that thing. I remember editing it, you know, between the wide shot and the close-ups of Jugi. Like it's probably our best looking podcast we've ever done. Yeah. And which we could replicate. Yeah,

we could. You know, but it's that podcast we also probably had just literally like setting up recording, tearing down for that podcast. we probably had four hours into that. Yep, and I can tell you the editing time on that one takes significantly longer than these normal ones. Right.

You know, like that's, I mean, that's collectively. Also, you have to travel to someone. Yeah, oh yeah, like collectively, the amount of hours we had tied up into making that podcast happen was pretty crazy. Yeah. Then modern era, the year we're just finishing here, April 2025 until present. Oh, I had to put a couple tiers. list in there because I thought that was something fun. weird. So the barbell tier list,

the protein food tier list, the crazy coop conspiracy episode that we did here pretty recently. But to me it's got to be, it has to easily be, because this is, you know, the

Gigi one is probably our best presentation of what we would do, but just a really cool, very, the most unique thing is episode 500 live from Mount Rushmore. Nobody knew we'd been teasing this special travel on location episode forever. and I feel like just pulling off the recording live from Mount Rushmore is a really, it was really fun. People were like, wow, that's cool. It was. Like, this was 24 weeks ago already,

I guess, but it also just felt very, I mean, kind of odd or cool or whatever it was sitting there out at Mount Rushmore recording our podcast, which we had done 500 times, and just random people are walking by, looking at what the house going on. This thing taking place. This literal, this thing is taking place. At Mount Rushmore. That also a ton of time into getting that one going to, you know, recording that, getting that going, a lot of pressure with the weather.

Oh, God, yeah. I forgot about the weather part of it. Also, our families were involved that weekend, too. so we had family stuff going on. It was a lot. And not that we put Massonomics in the backseat. I think we, even as is with our other jobs, we do a pretty good job of making,

like we don't cut corners because we have other things going on. But if we had no other jobs in Massonomics was the only thing, I would say like that Jujimu or Mount Rushmore thing, we'd probably be doing that like once a month. Oh, yeah, for sure. And that would be really, really fun. And I would love to, but it's just the time. Yeah.

the return on time just, it can't be justified right now. No, no. I mean, periodically we'll do that stuff still, I think. But it's just, I mean, we could almost record three gym tours. Like, I mean, coming up here, we will record three gym tours in the same amount of time. It would take us to do one of those. No, and that's just recording time. That's not counting the editing time on the back end to make it all happen.

Because it'd be, it's kind of this weird situation we get in where we have these great people we want to do stuff with. Like in our trip coming up here, we're visiting 10 people. We could do more with each of them. But the more we do with any individual one means something we don't get to do with the next person. Yeah. So it's this weird balance of, yeah. Okay, yeah, do you spend five hours with this guy?

Because you only have so many hours in a day. And if you say, well, we have 10 hours a day, do you split that time across five people or do you split that time across two people? and the decision we've made as of late is to split it across as many people as possible. Within reason. Yeah. And we feel like that is our best bang for the buck. Because part of what's cool about what we're doing,

I think is we're doing this with so many people. Like that's part of what makes it cool. But that is not an easy decision. You know, when we go to someone really cool's place and we're like, oh, it would be fun to do six videos with this person. Yeah. We could. We talked out some ways to maybe get her out.

Like we have some good ideas. We have some good ideas, I think, to maybe squeeze a little bit more out of it. So we'll see how this next trip goes. That's the 10 best. Can we just title this episode, the 10 best podcast episodes ever? And it doesn't say like the 10 best Massonomics episodes. Let AI pick that one up. According to Massonomics, here's the best 10 podcast episodes ever made.

Yeah. And it's just 10 Massonomics podcast episodes. and mostly a detailed history of our last 10 years of podcasting that we get to an hour into the episode. Yes. Do you feel good about that list? Yeah, I think if you were going to jump around, if you were somewhat new to this and you're going to jump around,

those are all great episodes to take in. Yeah. We'll probably have to skip some of this stuff. We'll get to it next week. But I just, before I forget this, because it's already slipping my mind, I wanted to bring up this one rep, Max bench conversation.

It wasn't because it slipped in my mind because there's a third hand. It was from your brother. Okay. He explained this conversation and it really like highlighted something to me of people that get it or don't get it. So Ryan was talking about a guy that he works with that, you know, doesn't really lift, but like kind of acts like they get lifting. I mean, the classic he lifted in high school.

Right. He's spent some time in the gym before. much he lifted and we all know the guy you just picture the guy you know the guy I'm talking about you have the guy that is your version of this guy and Ryan just hit a bench PR recently I think he did 330 I think so first time yep which you as a lifter that sent there we go that sentence I just said Ryan just hit a bench PR 330 for the first time you don't have to ask you know exactly what I mean. You know that he did 330 pounds for

one rep, even though I didn't specify that because of fucking course that's what he did. Right. That's like we're speaking the same language here. Right. Right. But like him talking about so many works with and the the dude's pressing him on lifting,

asking him and he's like, oh, how much do you lift and stuff like that? And he's like, well, actually I just hit a bench PR 330 pounds. And the guy's response is, oh, just for one, like, for how, the guy's response is, oh, for how many? Yeah. And I have two things on that.

First of all, if someone doesn't just know the answers one in that sentence, they don't know about lifting. Yes. Yes. If they don't just know the answers, if you have to, like, there's also an implication that only one is not impressive. That also, like, there's, it's. It's like a backhanded compliment.

I mean, it's just a backhanded comment you're making right off the back. That is also someone that doesn't lift because I know I lift and I know Ryan. I don't have to know him, but I'm a lifter and I'm aware enough that he's been lifting for a really long time really seriously. So him hitting any bench PR is a big deal. Yeah. Even if my bench is more than his, that doesn't diminish his bench PR to someone that's been lifting for a long time. So two problems with that statement, the guy said. A, if you ask how many you don't know about lifting because if someone says I hit a bench PR,

they say the weight, it's for fucking one. Yeah. For anyone that doesn't understand that, here's your cheat code. Nobody's, like, oh, no, I meant for 10. Oh, crap. Yeah, I forgot to tell you it was 10 reps. Not just like too much. I think I was doing one.

I did 10 of them. And then also the implication, whatever the number was, that it's like, oh, just one. A real lifter doesn't say that because they know what it takes to hit PRs in lifting. I wouldn't even say a real lifter, just like anyone that's actually spent some time in the gym around people. Right. Get that. Right. Anyone that's like even aware of the work that goes into any accomplishment, you know, and that isn't a dick.

because that's kind of a dick thing. That's like a dick way of putting it, I would say. Yeah. Oh, it's just the thing of like anytime someone accomplishes anything, you're like, oh, well, I mean, it's the, that's it. Like that is the treatment you're giving them, you know. Like it, uh, I mean, I've benched more than Ryan before. When he told me that, I'm like, oh, that's awesome.

And also, I'm thinking any, I mean, any PR's great. But once you're over three plates, too, as a bench, like that feels like a real milestone, you know, like it's for sure. That's one of like, I mean, I've, I think even myself considered, I've done more things more impressive than benching three plates, but I still, like benching three plates for the first time is like right up there

with just some of the highlights of lifting for me. Like that was, that felt huge at the time. But yeah, you don't have to ask how many, like don't ask how many. It's the thing he said. It's the same type of person that when you ask,

you know, when someone says, or what do you say when someone says how much do you leg press and they say a number? Yeah, that's actually the same bit then here. It's the same guy. It's the same guy, isn't it? Yeah, it is the same guy. He knows, he really knows his max leg press really well. When you say you hit a PR but they got to ask you how many reps,

but then that same person when you ask them how much they leg press and they come back with 595 pounds. Yeah, like, okay, yeah, I'm piecing some things together about you. buddy. There's a lot you don't get here. Talk to me when you know your one rep max leg extension. What are you wasting your time on that machine for? Got to get on the leg extensions.

One rep max leg extensions would be a difficult. That's like, isn't that the whole thing of it with machines though, with all of it? It's all relative to the machine. You're just at the mercy of what machines available to you. Well, it all goes back to the felt weight. I'm a big felt weight guy.

So don't even get me started on felt weight. Yeah. Yeah, screw the ergonomics of the machine and everything else. The only thing that matters that is going to get you strong or not is the felt weight. It's felt weight. Anything else is just a distraction. Yeah, I did want to cover that before I forgot. It kept slipping my mind.

I'd see that topic in there and be like, now what was the story on that? I know I had a point. And I kept losing my point and train of thought, so I was glad to get that one out on there. We should do a training update, but I think that's too long of a discussion to get into on this one. Probably. At this point.

I do want to do a sack segment before we wrap this one up. Yeah. Well, we haven't done our radar report either. Oh, yeah. Well, let me do a sack segment, actually. Because these are both, we'll do this quick before I forget, because I've been meaning to do this.

So first one, let me see if I got a note with this one. Someone sent me these, actually. I'll have to get you one of these. That is. That is nice. Keith's ass. I like the comment Keith made. He goes,

quit making my ass wider than what it is. Someone was putting like two faces on it. That was from Big Antonio. Now, this is from Big Tanner. You know what this little ditty is right here. Oh, yeah. Got a pair of them.

I've seen this. I've heard about this. or power lock callers. So give me the story here. I don't know. There's apparently all I know is those are made in Nebraska, and I feel like the guy making those people know who he is. Yeah, he's a supporting member.

His name is also Tanner. I get that part, but I feel like how original. People personally know him, though, or do they not? I don't. I mean, I think just basically through this and just as of more recent, you know. I didn't know if people had known about it. I think Mo and Jake. both our affiliates.

Oh, yeah, that's why I just didn't know if they had known him for a while or if they just not that I know of. Came across it at the same time. Husker Powerlock, the last barbell collars you will ever need. I don't know if I'll read all of their note, but just to give some of that context, he said, my wife and I took a chance on a product that we truly believe in. Along the way, we have met some wonderful, creative, genuine people. We have heard from gyms all over the U.S. about how much they love our collars.

we manufacture, assemble, and fulfill all of our orders right here in Nebraska. So they're working on some pretty cool upgrades for the future. They're going to have a booth at home gym con and we'll see them there. All right. I have not tried these yet because I meant to bust these out last week and I didn't want to take them out of the basement here before I never got to put them out of the sack. I'm definitely as far as the Masonomics sphere goes aware of it because, yeah, there's a lot of people in our circle

that seem to have those things. I think I already added them to my radar, so they're already there. Then this got sent. This is from Big David at Cotto Gie Grips. Do you remember seeing a grip when we were at Big Michaels? I do. I do.

From David, he said, I included a couple of small gifts. You can either A, keep both. for double fisting LaCroix, B, give one to Tommy. Just do what's in your heart, he said. So that was in reference to the Cotto coosies that he sent us.

But this thing, this thing you gotta see. This is on Jim radar so we could look up the official product description. But this is a rope attachment. and it is a massive rope.

I don't know if you're getting the full context of this on video here or not, but it's this rope attachment. It's got the black capped ends on it, and then it's got the ring and the carabiner at the end of it. Damn. Do you remember when we wrote this idea down, Tanner? Not that long. Well, this is slightly different.

It's slightly different. Yes, yes. But yes. When I saw this, I was like, oh, yes, something we had very similar to something we had talked about at times. Wow, yeah, no kidding. Well, cool to see it in action. Yes, and this is just massive.

That thing is beefy. Yeah, so we'll get this in the gym and start testing with it. They also sell like those geegg, you know, the geogrips that are like the blue. That's what I thought you were going to be pulling out. I wasn't expecting the giant ass rope. No, I know. This, to me, is actually cooler, though. I'm like more stoked about this.

Uh-huh. But so you can check this out on Jim Radar. Koto, Ge grips is on Jim Radar and all their products are on there. same with power lock collars. They're also on Jim radar. This is quite the fric, but the pictures, the product,

I think they need to put in a banana for reference. Well, I'm looking here. I don't, it doesn't look that big, does it? No, it doesn't.

Like something is off in the scale of their photos because. Right. Yeah, either that, or they do just need the banana for reference because it's not, you hold it up.

It's not obvious that it's this massive rope. No, it just looks like any regular, regular rope. that's just the natural color on here. But when you hold it, it looks completely different. Well, I also have these miniature hands over here. Yeah, they got to look into that.

Banana for scale. Banana for scale, yes. So that was my sack segment for this week. What's in Tanner's sack? There we go. Feels good to get all that out of there. I really, a rope came out of my sack today. Yeah.

Shooting ropes. What a relief. All right. Should we one other, do you have anything in mind for this last segment of the show? Not especially. I didn't know if you had something

at the top of mind or not. I think we'll just figure it out. We'll just figure it out. Here we'll go. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? Red our love.

Very nice. Very nice. There it is. All right. So this is our radar report. So where we update everyone on what's going on with Jim Radar. Here's a number. Here's a number.

We have 1,250 users on Jim Radar right now. 1,000 users, not just website users. Right, right. People that have created accounts, Jim Radar accounts. 1,250. In addition to that, a number all kicking. out there is the 6,622 pieces of approved equipment. And as of like this week, we actually for the first time kind of have caught up on our

equipment list. So there's more that come in every day. So we always have a few to do. But we're basically caught up. Whereas if you do a request, it's added within the next 24 hours now. Where when we first launched, I mean, there was times where there would be like four or 500 pieces sitting in the request queue where it started to be like, yeah. we'll never get to the end of this.

We're just screwed. It was actually a point of concern for a while. Oh, when the list is that long, it's not good for my anxiety. No, oh, it's terrible because you just think,

well, if each one of these takes five minutes, like, it's just a never-ending task. Like, we'll never get this done. And then when you refresh and look 30 minutes later,

the number's bigger. That is the problem. That is getting bigger. Because there would be times where me and you would both be in there just working away and the list, the numbers actually going up

while we're getting, piece is done. And you think, oh my God, it's a losing battle. We're never going to do this. And it took some time, but the other day, it was actually at zero for the first time since we launched. We actually got caught up. And a lot of the piece, I mean, we'll just say this. There's essentially no new equipment coming out that we don't have. Like anybody producing equipment nowadays, we basically are complete for their catalog. Really the only things coming in now are stuff from other countries or just really obscure smaller manufacturers. When I think we have almost twice,

the database is almost twice as big now as when we launch too. You know, so like there is a point, you know, it's always the joke will never be, it'll never be complete because it actually never really will be just the way it works. But we're getting to a point where I think less and less will you come and search for a piece of equipment and not be able to come across it.

And I guess the other thing I want to point out about Jim Radar as long as we're on the subject is, A, love the guys over there. Don't know a ton about them personally, but. The work they're doing. The work they're doing over there. I'm assuming. As straight as they come. You know, those guys are.

I'm just going to make an assumption here. The amount of work that this thing is, how impressive it is, I'm assuming they just, this is the only thing those guys do. You know, I don't know how anyone could do anything and keep this, anything besides, keep this machine running the way it is. I'm sure it's their full-time job, and I'm sure it rewards them enough financially that that's the case.

Like it has to. There's no way that they're just doing this. Just for the love of the game, no one does that. No one puts that amount of time into anything. But what I would say is, like, Jim Radar, what I find is it ends up being kind of different things to different people.

There's several different aspects of Jim Radar. And, you know, some people, maybe they'll get, up on, I'm just picking a thing here, the reviews of Jim Radar. Some people think it's just a review website. Right. And I'm like, that's not really it at all. Like if you, you don't need to ever leave a review and you could love Jim Radar.

The reviews were literally not a part of our original vision of Jim Radar. No, those came in like a couple months into the build. We're like, oh, it does kind of make sense if people are adding equipment that they should be able to talk about that equipment and their experience with it. Like, yeah, it was not a part of the initial build and even for a little while into the, into the creation of it. Well, and to both of us still, this is not a review website. No. That's not the primary goal.

It just happens to be a secondary third thing that happened. And it even just makes our primary goal better because I'm like, well, we want this to be a gym community and inspiration piece where you can show off your gym and check out other people's cool gym. the reviews of equipment just make that even better, I think. Like, just like the robust database, the comprehensive database, you know, the images, pick anything, the videos, whatever. The reviews are just a piece that adds to the bigger mission. So, like, I mean, the ultimate goal here is just being able to take a peek into anyone's gym and see how they're doing it, what they got going on.

Because there's just no good way to do that. Like there was never a good way before. It was maybe there was a Reddit post that someone posted some photos and you could maybe read some description if they left one. Or you would hope that that person had an active Instagram account where they regularly posted photos of things in their gym. And even that can be a big stretch and you got to somehow find this Instagram account of this person. There just wasn't a good way to do it. And this, I think, aces the test of doing that. And yeah, reviews happen to be a thing that's on the site,

but that's by no means the primary goal of the website. For sure. So that's what I, my point there, like if you're, you don't have to want to review every piece of equipment in your site to want to make an account here. Like actually, what I'd tell you is don't worry about that. Like nobody, we'd like it when people that do because it just adds to it and it makes it interesting. It's cool when you click, click on a piece of equipment and it's got 24 reviews. and you see this actually aggregated score from a whole bunch of them that kind of means something.

Like it actually tells you a story. But you can just like adding pictures of your own gym and you might not be the person that wants to add your entire catalog of products, but you're just like, I want to show off a few of the cool things I've got going out on here. Here's my order for importance in what makes me happy on a gym radar account. One, you make an account. two, you add at least a photo of your gym and three, you add at least some pieces of equipment. Because now...

The big things, add a rack, a barra bench. Yeah, I'm not saying add 50 pieces of equipment, even if you add 10, even five. 10 actually is an interesting number. 10 paints a pretty good picture. It does. It really does. If someone adds at like 8 to 10,

I kind of know what their gym is about. Yeah, because if I'm actually on the website and I'm trying to check out gyms, If I click on your page, you have a gym name, you have a photo of it and you have some equipment, I can absolutely figure out what the vibe is here, what kind of lifting, training you're into, like your style. Like I can see all of that from just a couple photos and knowing what you equipment you have. And then after that, if you want to start chasing the leaderboard, leaving reviews,

great. Like that's awesome. But by no means do we expect that of anyone. Yeah, I just leave, get some good photos in there. Actually, don't even get hung up on good photos. Put some photos in there. Right. Get them better later if you want to.

Put some photos in there and just add some equipment. And that is what makes the site helpful for people because now they can make those connections of finding what equipment is owned by who and what it looks like in a gym when they look at that equipment piece. Well, and actually you brought up a really good point there. I was talking about the reviews. The leaderboard is very much like that too. That wasn't originally.

that wasn't in our original mission. That was something we added on later that we thought it's really cool and it adds to it. But there again, you don't have to care about that at all and you could probably still get a ton of value out of the site. Like,

I would argue the leaderboard has no bearing for the vast majority of users. Right. It's just a fun little thing for the people that do want to be involved in that sort of thing. But like you said, it just doesn't really matter. It's not really the primary goal or whatever.

this isn't what I would recommend, but even if you are like, yeah, I just never want anyone to see my gym or anything like that. So I'm never going to create my gym on there. I'd be like, oh, please consider doing it because the more we get just the cooler and the more fun it is and the more interesting the data is and stuff. But even if you just were really adamant about that, just checking out the equipment pages and like the most owned and the what you can find about equipment that you don't really see. see just by comparing each individual site separately, I think that there could be really good value there for people. Yeah, I think as far as equipment goes, if you're trying to just get a pulse for what the general vibe about anything is,

I don't think there's a better spot. I'm like, I mean, okay, full disclosure, biased. I'm going to say biased but honest here. But that's actually a new thing, biased but honest. I'm going to flip the game on its head. Let's stop saying unbiased. We're going to start saying biased. When it comes to Jim Radar, biased but honest.

Like, yeah, I can go to equipment manufacturers website, but you have to wonder, are they deleting reviews, how curated are these reviews, you know, what's the full story? And also it's really hard to, like, see how that stacks up to other pieces unless you just start pulling up a bunch of websites and seeing all these manufacturers. But if you just want to get a feel for like, what the hell? Like, what? I need a bench.

Like, what are people actually buying? And if you just go, which is a really good example. Yeah. Because like everyone, just about everyone has a bench in their gym, just about everyone. Like we've been to a lot of home gyms. I'm not sure we've actually been to one yet that doesn't have a bench. And if you're like looking into getting a new one, you're starting to gym, whatever, wherever you're at in the process. Go here and like, you're just going to have such a good feeling for like where the industry's at.

Otherwise, what you do is you go, you type in best bench. And you're either going through YouTube videos. and if that YouTube video is four years old, it's very outdated. Stuff has changed a ton. Or you're going to land on like a garage room reviews article. And depending on where they're at in their update cycle, like it may or may not be up to date and it might not have stuff.

But Jim Radarman, it's right here. Like it gives you the actual pulse of what's going on in the industry with what people are buying and doing. Yeah. That's right. That's very correct. Man, is that our sales pitch? I guess that's our sales pitch.

Come on. It's so useful, though, isn't it? Yes, it is. Like, I am literally looking at the benches right now. I'm just playing a scenario in my head. Okay, I really need a new flat bench tomorrow. I'm like, man, everyone owns this FB 5,000 for rep. I got to at least consider that.

And I'm like, okay, there's also 27 reviews. And it's got a 4.85 average out of five. So I'm like, everyone owns it and they really like it. I'd actually click into that deeper, be like, what did people say negative about it? That's what I would want. I'm like, okay, there's a lot of positive reviews. There's a lot of five-star reviews. I want to actually find what did people say bad?

So here I'm like, oh, they said a 4.33. Only qualm is the base leg is a little wobbly when you move side to side, which can be concerning with a heavy bench. I'm like, that's an interesting point. And actually, coincidentally, that's big Dr. Jake. I know him personally, so it's even actually more valuable to me, assuming that's not the case. But I'm looking again, that's a lot more five out of five. Do I see, here's another 4.33.

Big Antonio, bench is a bit light so it can feel a little tippy. Once you're in place, it's not moving. Great bench. I'm like, well, is that, you know, like there's, I'm just, but still mostly five out of five stars. but there's interesting things to take from that. And then you'd go to the, you can see a very, very cheap flat utility bench 2.0 for, not saying very cheap, but like a far less expensive version from Rogue. You're like, okay, am I just looking for a cheaper price point?

But then you click on that and compare it to the REP flat one. You're like, oh, it's only a difference of like $40. Exactly. And then really another comparison you go. The next flat one is the Monster Utility Bench 2.0 from Rogue Fitness, which I actually have. Which is $335, or you start changing the. pad to that not bad one and all of a sudden it's 365 and throw some shipping in there and it's like a 400 and some dollar bench all this is like do i want to spend that much more or does that

rep one that has mostly five stars and a couple people worried about the front foot um like is that one actually good enough it might be oh actually you could read this guy what did this guy say he said it's the first first review on this one he said really solid fixed bench i have the original one point version and this 2.0 fixed pretty much all of my complaints from the original version. Price is pretty good for what you get with this. 4.67 out of five and that's for me. There you go. I was actually very curious to read my review because I kind of forgot. So I'm like, what did I say about that? But even if you're new to this though and you're just like, who do people like, who makes me like, I don't know, I got buddies telling me like rog's the best.

Like what's right. Like I don't really know much about it. Like I don't. know that name. I know their stuff's nice, but like, who are people buying stuff from? And you go to look at the bench category and you see the top 12 benches, like eight or nine of them are from rep. And you're like, damn, these guys must have something figured out over there. Like they got, yeah, they're getting a lot of ownership and a lot of praise. So they, I mean, the proof's right there.

Like, it's all, it's all out there for you. We could talk about Jim Raider all night. I mean, we could. And we will. So buckle in for the rest of this 10 hours. We're going to give you nothing but biased and honest takes. on this, so be ready for it. Stranko plates are really leading the plate.

There is a bit of a battle going on there between the strength co and cap barbell because Stranko is pulled ahead a little bit. They have 121 gyms with a strength co plates. Still though, Cap barbell in second with 103. I would have never guessed. I mean, I know a lot of people just have those kind of generic standard barbell plates, but 103 gyms with those is surprising. but 121 in strength called that like that's that's good yeah i uh when the site was really fresh

the york milled yeah and they were up higher pretty high now that's really tailed off i really thought that that was going to continue to stay up there but that's just only in 40 right now which i always kind of feel like well everyone's got those but not really yeah it's i think as time has gone on too they've gotten more and more expensive to where you don't like there was absolutely a time where you accidentally got those you know or like something that uh Jim Radar taught me because I wasn't very aware of. People love the, or a lot of people like the fringe sports savage bumper. Yeah.

Like that they do. Jim Radar has put that plate on my radar. Like, not that I'd never seen it before or anything, but it, Jim Radar has made me look at that plate in a different light that I'm like, God, people love this. You know, like, this is just a highly owned, highly reviewed, uh, plate. Yeah. See, because I'm not, I'm like, we're just not in the market for bumper plates. Like, we're not those guys. So, like, that's something we just never really look at.

And I, same thing. I would have, I would have never guessed. Because we also haven't came across that many gyms that have them in them either. But as far as the rest, I mean, the rest of the population is concerned, these are very popular plates. Yeah. Yeah, they're out there. Also, all right. The fact that, uh, I mean, once you take the massonomic stuff,

out of there and the horse stall mats. The repens are a very popular item. Actually, they're tied to Stranko plates and 122 gym ownership on both. Okay. And I mean, the, what's, to me, the thing that's interesting about the weapons, though, is that it's basically a $1,000 piece of equipment.

Right. Like, Strinkle plates, yes, if you have a full set. You can buy a pair of 45s for, I mean, you could be into the, you could own a part of Stranko plates for $100 if you wanted. Right. You're not getting into the rest of, for much less than a thousand.

I don't know. I think they have like a $60 option even now. So maybe you can get into it for like $900. But that is a spendy item and a lot of people have it, which shows that they got something figured out there. Yeah. You didn't do a Strength Coad, did you? Oh, no, I did not.

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The Strength Company plates are slim but rugged, smooth but easy the grip, and electrocoded for durability and to look great in your gym. This is the next generation of American Ireland, only available from the Strength Company. And they're the number one most own plate on Jim Radar. I got to say one more still. Looking at this, I wouldn't have guessed this.

And the fact that the number two item in the barbell category is the Titan Fitness Safety Squat bar, you know, it's like we always say people love on the internet to shit on Titan and be like, oh, yeah, no one would, no one would on purpose by a Titan, you know, unless, unless Titan, unless you're a shill for Titan or they're paying you, who would buy or recommend something from Titan? It's like, dude, it's right here. Like people spend their money on Titan stuff.

Yeah, it's interesting. The battle for the safety squat bar is actually pretty tight between Titan and Elite FTS. And you actually see the tail of the tape on there. More people owned the Titan one. But the Elite FTS, they both have a lot of reviews too. so there's like a good sample size here. The elite FTS is owned by a little less,

but generally agreed it's a better bar still. You know, that also, so that it's just like, well, how much money do I want to spend? And surprisingly, the rep one is owned by even less people, but is ranked even higher, rated even higher. And still has a decent number of views too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we could look at this all day and we do talk about this quite a bit,

but, but man, these guys over at Jim Ray, I got to tell you. They got their shit together. I mean, they must be working 80 hours a week to keep this thing looking the way it does. These guys are on to something. I'd like to meet them. I'd like to shake their hand. I would just tell them.

You know what? I'm going to do them a favor. I'm going to tell everyone I know about this. That's the least I can do to pay it forward here. Hey, let's you, I and everyone else listening. Let's all agree to that right now. We'll do them a solid. We'll tell everyone we know about it.

It's the least we can do. Yes. Let's all tell at least one friend this week about Jim Radar. I like the sounds of that. Let's all make a dedicated, dedicated Instagram page post about Jim Radar. We call that paying it forward. For these Jim Radar guys, we will do anything. We like them that much.

This week's YouTube video was the one that's going to be out when this comes out, The one that Tommy's getting ready just for tomorrow morning as we record is the Kev Cave Basement Gym Tour in the bus, Ohio. God, that is a good gym. That's, yeah. I don't like to play favorites, but that is a gym I've really enjoyed out of all the gyms we've seen. So have you went through the video, did you notice, did we talk at all about the felt load on the template? Actually, surprisingly, you guys almost didn't talk about that machine at all. which is really funny.

You spent quite a bit of time talking about the ISO row one because he got that on Marketplace. And I had never seen that one. And then you actually talk about the differences of the V2 versus the V3. Actually, it's really funny. The V2 versus the V3 multi-flight. You're like, yeah, so what are the differences? And Kevin's like, well, you know, on mine, it has stickers on the dial for the numbers. Yours is laser cut.

And you're like, oh, good, because there's no way we could get strong. if there were stickers on there. I think you're like, I just have to throw the machine away and be garbage. Like you're just driving him the point of how stupid the thing is. I don't really remember that.

That was hilarious. And then, yeah, you get to the leg machine and he's saying, yeah, I have the, actually he got the V3, the same one as you. And he's like,

yeah, they've made some improvements here. And he's like, yeah, really solid piece. I like it a lot. And you're like, cool, yeah, I got mine coming.

Or you're like, mine just showed up. I can't wait to try it out. And then you move on to the next thing. Like, it might be the thing you talk about the least in the entire gym. But it is funny that it appears again. That machine just...

Yeah. It's everywhere. But I think he even says, yeah, it's just a good... It's a good fit. Like, you know, no way is like negative towards it. He's just like, oh, it's a good... I've really enjoyed having it.

It's a nice machine to have in your home gym. Yeah. Good. Kevin the Shill over there for Temple of Gaines. Pays him with his own. Bies the piece from. him with his own money and then says good things about it. And then has the audacity to say that he still pretty much likes it for his team.

What a loser. Then he has the audacity to be personally pretty satisfied with the piece of roll. Oh, God. Give me a break. Makes me sick. He's got the balls to decide for himself that he pretty much likes that machine. He's going to sit there. Spent the money.

Bring strangers into his house and tell us with a straight face that the thing's not a piece of shit. Like, come on, man. Like, actually, I really kind of like this. It's been a pretty cool piece for my training. And I think, you know, it's cool. It's not that big of a footprint. And I can be both leg extension and leg curls a bag.

Yeah, look us in the eyes and tell us that. Yeah, tell us the real story, Kevin. How much are they paying you, buddy? I noticed how you didn't mention the felt load. How the hell are you going to get strong when you don't know the felt load at the top? On this finisher exercise that you do maybe once a week as like the fifth or six exercise at the end of the day. How are you ever going to get strong? I like a lot of people in the comments of that too.

We're like, you know a hack I learned for doubling the felt load that makes it a non-issue? This is the one leg. I'm like, I should have really mentioned that in the video. Actually, that's a good point is that you could always do single leg. Sometimes I don't love single leg exercise just for the time economy. Oh, I don't like single body, single side. Yeah. I mean, it's good.

I don't either. But if that was the most important thing to me is the felt load at the top, then. Oh, yeah, like, all right, you just doubled the felt load. Yes. By cutting the number of extremities being used. You can really get that leg extent. And you can spend even more time on sitting on your ass too. It's the beauty of it.

Sit on your ass twice as long and you thought you were not using that much your body at once before. Let's cut it in half. Let's use even less of our body. You know how you were barely but getting out of breath before? Let's cut in half the oxygen demands of this exercise. It's a beautiful thing. They say if the leg ain't extended, you're just pretending. And on that note, I think that wraps us up for 10 years of the Massonomics podcast.

Stick around for the next 10. If you thought this first 10 was good, you're right. It's probably downhill from here. But we'll do our best to make sure that that's not the case. Final thought, do you think we'll be podcasting 10 years from now? Will we double our podcast? Will I will we be almost 50 And podcasting

I'm going to say no there's no way I don't know why but I don't know Because 10 years is a long last time Why would we quit? It's so weird to think about like why would we quit Why imagine the scenario where we would Why would we quit but also like why would we still be going And I know there's going to be some clips someday

Of us saying these exact words and neither scenario makes sense. That's the problem. I can't picture either scenario. That is the problem. That is it. Neither one of those makes any sense. It makes no sense to quit,

but it also makes no sense for there to be 10 more years. That's just it. It's paradoxical. It makes sense because it doesn't. Whatever that clip. Whatever that. Tommy, where do they find you at

for the next 10 years? You can find me on Jim Radar and you can find me at Tomahawk underscore D. Follow me at Tanner underscore Bear. Just make sure to follow Massonomics at Massonomics. See you.