Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 59: Don't Quit Your Day Job... yet

Episode Date: May 22, 2017

In this week's episode of The Massenomics Podcast, Tyler announces his new project that will be transitioning him away from the traditional 8 to 5 grind and into the all-day-every-day grind of owning a business. He'll probably be fine. Or maybe he'll lose his ass.. We're just glad it's mostly his problem and not ours! As always, you can watch this episode in full color video... Or check out the super-high quality audio version below.. If you don't already have a closet full of Massenomics gear, go to the MASSENOMICS STORE and load up on swag... Also, please CLICK THIS LINK TO GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING ON ITUNES... Click this text to follow Massenomics on Instagram... Vote Massenomics for President in 2020.. Have your barber shave our logo into the side of your head.. Maybe get a Massenomics tattoo while you're at it.    Or you could sign up for our email newsletter at the bottom of this page. Stay Strong, M

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Things are happening. So we are on air. Welcome to the Massanomics podcast, guys. We're here in the studio. You know, since we have all this new listeners, I don't think we've done like podcast 101. The rules are like you're supposed to introduce yourself at the beginning too. We don't do that.

I think we used to, didn't we? It used to always be. We should do that again. Yeah, we'll do that now. Can we come up with cool nicknames first? Everyone usually calls me the Beast. Tanner the Beast. So if you're just listening now, like that's normal. That's what everyone calls me the Beast. Tanner the Beast. So if you're just listening now, that's normal.

That's what everyone calls me. Hey, Beast. It's not weird, and I didn't make it up for myself. I'm Tyler, and everyone also calls me the Beast. So this is going to get really confusing. Yeah, it's crazy how that goes. Two Beasts. I mean, out of all the nicknames in the world. I mean, we didn't pick them. Yeah, that would crazy how that goes. Two Bs. I mean, out of all the nicknames in the world.

Well, I mean, we didn't pick them. Yeah, that would have been really lame. No one picks their own nickname. It's the rules. But I'm Tyler. To my right, your left on the camera is Tanner. And to my left is Tommy. Tommy.

So, yeah, I suppose, you know, we've probably got, what do you suppose, 60,000 to 80,000 more listeners now than we did a month or two ago. Realistically, we probably get new listeners every week that are listening for the first time. Who are all like, well, who the fuck are these guys? Yeah, why are they acting like we know? And if this was the new week you decided to join, you got really lucky because you got the introductions. Yeah, and then when you go back, you can just roll on all this new information we just gave you yeah do you guys ever when people listen to it do they ever say anything about like confusing our voices around i i've had some people tell me they get confused between people that know me that will say sometime a couple people

have told me that when they're talking they might think it's me sometimes and i was gonna say sometimes like leah's told me she gets our voices i they might think it's me sometimes. And I was going to say, sometimes, like Leah's told me, she gets our voices confused. I think it's because we all mumbled. They're all just so masculine. Just thinking about it right now, though, I don't think they're all... None of our voices are super different. Maybe our audio equipment just sucks. It just blends it all together.

Maybe our sound guy's really bad. I don't know. It looks good. It all looks good. It actually still surprises me how inexpensive this setup is. When I hear, no, I don't want to offend anybody over at Juggernaut, but Chad's Jug Life podcast, I still enjoyed enjoyed listening to it but up until about was it a month ago yeah a month ago it's terrible i swear to god it was a fucking iphone sitting on a table

in a room and they press record and to their credit i didn't move on so they were entertaining enough but jesus christ it took a long enough though i mean like with and they you know they've got some resources at their disposal. You know, like some at least. Yeah, I mean, I had to ask my wife for permission for me to spend... This whole thing was like $500. It's not like it was... Yeah, pretty much anybody can start a podcast.

I think at this point, everybody does have a podcast now. It is getting to be much more of a thing but we did beat some people to it at least we've been doing it for over a year so we beat some people everyone and everyone might have a podcast but very few i'd say a very small percentage of those people ever hit 30 or 50 so we should probably just quit now and we kind of we say we we we won the podcast game or move to daily like a daily format you know like talk radio imagine or that shit like you know howard stern used to be it was like every day for like what eight like ten hours eight hours nine hours a day or something like that i think he did

what was it was like 50 hours a week or something on air just insane like absolutely nuts yeah and then to try to be entertaining. For that long? We barely try to be entertaining for an hour a week. But to have to try to be funny, almost like material funny and bits funny. Right. For hours and hours a week. Fuck all that.

I'd try for some of that Howard Stern money. Yeah. That can make you do some crazy things. I could get really funny. Replace us with a team of writers. So we didn't really talk about it after we got to, approached, and passed our one-year mark. I meant to ask you guys in a couple episodes

with a year in review, what's like your favorite episode or maybe your top three favorite episodes in order. That's really good. Like three to one of ours. That's really good. Like three to one of ours. That's a real, that's really good. Fuck. My number one still to date is Julian Pinault still. Mainly just because I was kind of a huge fangirl of his.

Right. And then so I know, and it was really, really a miracle that we were able to get him and the schedules and to have everything work was, we were just stupid fortunate to land that. And it was, you know, he's a riot to be around. You know, I think if a guy spent, if I could spend a couple hours with Julian once a week,

I'd be pretty stoked about that. So, like like just to spend that time with the guy was was pretty cool that's probably would be my number one what about yours tommy uh you know i that one's for sure in my top five yeah because that one is a little different because it's one of the few that i had not like nothing a part of it also i was just purely listening as like a listener right um so it was like i had no idea what to expect i had never heard any i knew who he was but i'd never heard any of his stuff so yeah i really enjoyed that one a lot um and then like the ones where you've got to do any type of

traveling to interview someone those are always really fun too you know like with uh nick and dan and jonah and those are probably the only three i've done traveling for but anytime you get to do that that's really cool and then i could could go back and think we've had some random conversations where it's just us, and those ones can be really fun too. It's hard to pick out any one specifically in there. Anything with Big Shane. The Julian one, if I was to just pick three, I think I would pick, um,

in no particular order of these three, Nick, Ty Luecke, Dan Bell, and Julian. You know, I wasn't even there on the Julian one, but the same thing,

like I didn't really know about him, but like that's, if, if you, if you're listening to this and you haven't listened to that, find whichever episode number that was like, like, like I did, you would be,

if you don't know about them, you would be just like in my shoes learning about it it's like wow this is really good yeah this is so so that one's definitely up there and then like with dan that was just a lot of fun dan bell's podcast was the fucking funnest yeah that's probably the funnest for sure yeah and i i really like uh getting to know nick yeah you know i thought that was and and then Jonah's in the same as all that too and just like you said any of the ones where we got to go interview

people was really cool but the party cast too I thought that was fun I still have not listened to that episode I did and it was like pretty cringe worthy because it was like does it get into a real shit show

all I know is I was And it was like pretty cringeworthy. Yeah. Because there was like. Does it get into a real shit show? It just, yeah, it's just like. All I know is I was pretty housed when we started. Yeah. And that went on for quite some time. And you got more sober by the end of the night. Yeah, I was. And so like I just basically edited the intro and outro and like mixed the whole mix on that thing. And then it was just whatever.

I don't need to hear it. Because if I hear it, I might not publish it. Right. But that one was pretty good. I think any of the ones where we've got to like, you know, like meet people or land a guest. Those are pretty, those become like kind of sort of like really rewarding experiences. Because that's fucking super uncomfortable. You know, like I'm in Encinitas, California and I'm knocking on Mike Bledsoe from Barbell Shrugs door.

And we're just like, like, hey, so like, I guess we're here to do this. You know, like that's a weird situation to put yourself in, you know. And you put yourself in some weird situations. I get in weird situations. Trevor's episode too that was another one kind of like julian's where it's like i obviously didn't know anything about him but so it's just interesting to listen to and that was cool for me with trevor because one i got to spend you know a couple days with the guy and two and fortunately in any of those

situations these people could be fucking weird like you don you don't know. You know what I mean? And you're in your house. Statistically, some of them are bound to be. I just haven't quite got there yet. So fortunately, you know, Trevor, like, big fan of death metal. So it was like we were able to hit it off. But the cool thing about that was I had no idea actually what his story was, especially for, like, how he lost his arm.

You literally didn't know. I didn't know until he was telling me on the podcast. Like, was he born like that? Or was he in the military? Yeah. I had no idea. So that was, uh, that, and I, and I wanted to keep it that way. Yeah.

So I, when leading into it, I'm like, obviously I'm going to ask about your arm thing, if it was an injury or whatever. I said, but like, don't be into it now. And he was like, what arm? Yeah. What do you mean? What arm thing? what do you mean? What arm thing? What do you mean?

But that was really good. Honestly, every one that I've traveled, the TIFPL one in Canada. Oh, yeah. That was a really fun episode. But yeah, I would say in order from, not in order, but in my top three would for sure be Julian, Dan Bell.

And, you know, I really enjoyed Scott McGee's too when I was there too, just because, you know, he, Scott's a pretty real dude. I also, on their podcast, I leveraged us a shameless plug on the WODcast this last week. They had no guests, so they were like asking for questions and it's usually nonsense so i posted in there i said uh i said so who do you think would win in a street fight the guys from the wadcast oh i saw you comment that the guys from the wadcast or the guys from massonomics so on air scott's like reads this and the you know the other guys were like what the fuck is mass yeah yeah Scott's like, well, Tyler's just trying to get some publicity here. And he says, but I'm going to give it to him because he's a nice guy.

And he said, but we would definitely kick their ass. We'll take any sort of publicity we can get, shameless or not. We're lovers, not fighters. Yeah, and of course, coming up you know we don't have any real travel scheduled for podcast well how about this any one that we all know that we want to do and we've kind of looked at needing to do it is brad gillingham so anyone that listening to this you can't get your name mentioned on the show yeah right so anyone that's listening i i'm sure there's a couple people that listen to this that that know brad probably um tell him he's on our radar we're coming for him and also that uh

tell him to remind him to check his goddamn facebook messages what if this whole time and i haven't checked he replied back and i just never. And he's like, wow, that Tommy's kind of a jerk. He really stood me up. But he's just a hop, skip, and a jump away for us, really. So that's one that we'll need to do. I also think it would be nice to get down to Omaha. Yeah, for sure. I've talked to those guys, and that's a go.

Should we just buy a Massanomics camper and make it a Massanomics camper? Or jet. And we'll just hit the road for like a month. Yeah. Massanomics G5. Yeah. Well, we'll do like a GoFundMe for it. Well, I mean, the Weekend Warrior t-shirt sales keep rolling in.

There's no reason. We could probably buy a tank of fuel for it at least. Probably not. I mean, it would be unwise because then we couldn't ever restock the shirts. So we're still going to have to pay for fuel out of our own pockets. That's true. Fuck. I mean, it would be unwise because then we couldn't ever restock the shirts. So we're still going to have to pay for fuel out of our own pockets. That's true. Fuck. But, yeah, so those are probably the two things we'd like to do.

Any big trips and travels, I guess we've got some sort of big news coming up, is going to be pushed back, I'd say, probably to, like, late summer, early fall. Because we're going to be, I'm going to be quitting my day job, transitioning to part-time, I guess. You didn't listen to when those people always made that joke that when they said, don't quit your day job, I've been trying to quit this day job for so long. But, uh, so I'll be, uh, transitioning to part-time and me and a partner are going to be opening our CrossFit gym. Sexual partner or domestic partner. I like to leave,

I like to leave all my options on the table. So we, so yeah, so we should be breaking ground on a new building here in the next week or so. Pretty stoked about that. Equally terrified. Are you going to get to do the shovel thing? No.

You should just go with it we could we could uh schedule this whole thing out we should just go buy a shovel and spray paint it gold and then just go do it you know just take a picture of you doing that that's one of the that's like one of the things that i hate every time i see it because i've done a lot of like construction type stuff well okay and all you see done a lot of construction type stuff. Well, okay. Will it always be a ribbon cutting though? Yes. But all you see is a bunch of tucked in shirts and ties and slacks out there. And everybody leans on a shovel. And they take the picture.

And everybody has a hard hat on that they don't know how to wear. Let's get out of the way. And they're like, all right, let's go back inside. Let's get out of here there's bugs out here this is this is awful but uh so yeah so we should be breaking ground here in the next couple of weeks and hopefully should be open uh july or august um so what is the what is the what is the gym what's it called and what's i still can't technically say the name. Oh, under wraps. Okay. Well, because of, I guess we could go into this. Like, CrossFit is very, like, very litigious with their, you know, intellectual property.

So, like, you can't say CrossFit. You can't say a fucking thing, the word CrossFit. Is it like saying bomb on a plane? Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. And you'll get the same reaction just with CrossFit HQ's lawyers. So with the affiliation process, like it starts out,

you have to, one, be a level one trainer. Two, you've got to submit this little deal. They make you write like a fucking essay or some shit and then your location and some details and then submit name. And the name part is hard because there's like 10 million CrossFit affiliates in the world and they all have names. And at this point, most of the names suck. We are fortunate. We did get approved for a name that is, I like. That doesn't suck.

It's brandable. And truth be told, if I ever wanted to de-affiliate, it's a brand that I could make standalone afterwards. So, um, so that we're pretty stoked about, but I'm in the middle of, I haven't wrote them their check, their $3,000 check for me to owe the name, have the name. And I have to have send them my proof of insurance before that. So, but once all that gets done, like you get approved, you get like 90 days to get all that shit taken care of, it starts back over and i was actually concerned because our name is a good name that's like a word that people will use and know whereas a lot of the shit you you if you look up some bad crossfit affiliate names there's a lot of them um there used to be a crossfit affiliate called crossfit dental really for real and they had like

a fucking tooth cartoon thing they've since gone out of business but uh i mean there is any number of awful awful affiliate names so my worry is that like we would get this name we have it held for us and if for some reason we wait past that 90 days that somebody at hq will be like giving out the name be like hey we got one that's good that fell through like take it now right um so i'm sitting tight i'm not gonna fuck myself until yeah by by getting it out there just yet yeah but um all that should be i don't know we can probably talk about that specific part of that next week i should have it all in order by then, but that's exciting. What about the way the gym's going to, I mean,

is every CrossFit gym run the same, or is there some, you know, do you have a different philosophy from some other ones? There's a lot of different ways you can do it. You know, for us, basically, though, the pricing is going to be just, it's all, you know, some places will do like a, oh, you can do a three-class week membership. Like they can do some tiered membership shit. For me, I just want everything as simple as possible because there's, we're starting out. There's just the two of us coaching and the two of us who own the business. And we're just trying

to build it from there. Um, but I mean, we're basically, I'm, I mean, I'm liquidating like all of my money, like all, you know, all of my savings, everything is going into this deal. So, um, so I don't have any more. It's like whenever I put into this, it's like, well, if however far that gets us to start, that's how far we're going to start. Then we have to build from there. And it's pretty fucking terrifying, actually. But we've got, I think, a fair amount of members that we'll actually have on day one. You know, basically because we have an existing CrossFit community and there's a lot of people that are going to be coming with us in the other place. Probably isn't going to be around um any longer

which is long run good for us as well so but yeah that's exciting i put in my fucking my notice at work which is also a weird thing to try to ask you know i do heating and air conditioning i'm a service technician so for me to say, well, I either can leave fully, you know, you can have me not at all. Or the other option is I'll work four days a week, like six hours a day. Those are hard outs too. Like if I have a call that runs long, you better get somebody here. So over that time, will you teach like a morning class or an evening class what i'm going to do is i'm going to come in and do or coach we'll both coach basically the evening classes

and then we'll do our like fundamentals classes for new members and a lot of it especially early on hopefully is going to be intaking new members and getting them through the fundamentals program and all that stuff so a lot of that's going to have to be done in the evenings or or concurrently with the other classes too so both of us are going to have to be around in the evenings and so i'll have the afternoons to get i also don't know when i'm going to lift as i'm coming through this, I'm like, when am I going to fucking lift? Yeah. So I'm probably going to get weak or fat or both for a while. And the irony is that you'll be in the gym. Yeah. I'll spend more time in the gym but not be able to train.

Right. I'm actually thinking about just making it a priority so that, like, because I'll be knocking off from work about two or three o'clock and the first class is at four 30. So I actually have the very first thing that I do when I get there, just get my workout in right away, be done and then handle the business because otherwise, you know, I will let that,

it's pretty easy to let that slip. And if I don't put it first, I certainly am not going not going to do it at nine or ten o'clock at night probably not do you think uh that at least in the in a transition stage that you'll end up like you're given hours in a week spent working out will be less like you're gonna have to for sure go fast you know you just yeah have to get workouts done quicker or maybe not as many a week or. Yeah. It's going to be, I mean,

everything's good. I don't, I don't know when I'm going to fucking cook food. Yeah. To be honest with you. You know? Um, yeah.

So all of it's going to be a learning process. Some of it too, like, you know, Tanner, you're pretty organized with things. You're trying to be. Your spreadsheets.

Yeah. Spreadsheets and stuff. But I like for real am the exact opposite. Yeah. Don't like, you don't like to do that. But I'm still have a grasp on a lot of our business concepts. Right. Like conceptually, but the actual like, like specific moving parts of the money

and keeping track of things. I'm terrible at, and my partner is an exceptional coach and maybe doesn't have all the business knowledge, but we also don't know dick about. So all of the things that actually are going to make the money happen, we're fucked. We have to,

uh, so we got to hire that out for sure. Um, but I don't know. It's exciting, I guess. Some of that you just will obviously learn as you go. And there's really no other. Like, you can only prepare so much for so many things.

Exactly. But you really, until the shit starts hitting the fan, you won't really know how it's all going to play out. Well, because he'll be coaching full time. Like, he won't have another job. So he'll be like paid but i mean not well yeah but paid right a salary but you know i've been doing all of this for since like september if i got paid just minimum wage for all the hours that i've put in thus far fuck my fucking house would be paid for and just think and if you got paid minimum wage for your masonomics hours on top of it.

Yeah, just goes to show, like, maybe we are really dumb and we should be picking a hobby that, like, pays anything. Like, we could probably have some pretty decent income at this point. Well, you know, it is that time of year, though, Tommy. You got your boat. I know.

I don't need to buy a boat because Tommy's got a boat. That's right. None of the rest of us need a boat. Tommy's got boat i know i don't need to buy a boat because tommy's got a boat that's right none of the rest of us need this we don't we don't we don't need to buy motorcycles because tanner tanner just takes us all for a ride pulled up on his motorcycle i think we get all three hop on that thing oh yeah they're just the one seat so my wife actually i don't know if she drove past you or if she saw you on the camera at the house oh yeah sure pull up but she said uh she sent me a text saying uh tell tanner he has to take me for a ride on the motorcycle and i said uh no keep your fucking hands to yourself but uh yeah so that's kind of all the moving parts for me right now. Quit my job and just going to be doing coaching people

and trying to learn how to run a business and trying not to starve and lose my house and get divorced over the stress. So no real major. Lose my health. Nothing major. No major big deal. Would you say all odds are against you right now?

Yeah, I'm just cashing in all my retirement money and piling it into fucking something I don't really know what I'm doing and I have no coaching experience really. all my retirement money and piling it into fucking something i don't really know what i'm doing and i have no coaching experience really and um so what but that's all you got a spare bedroom yeah yeah it doesn't work out like most people you know will hate you so it'll be yeah i mean i'm not very clean well what's the you're cheap and i'm i prefer to not pay rent too so but so those are you know that's kind of the the risk or the negative but what's the if it all works out good yeah i get to do what i want to do that jumbo jet comes into play right the other thing too though here's the the thought exercise

that i actually did through the whole thing it was like pretty reasonable like what is literally the worst thing that could possibly happen if I do it? Short of what's on the other side of not doing it, which is like, fuck, I'm probably going to wish I did this forever. You know, 10 years, if I don't do it, I'm going to be like, fuck, I should have done that 10 years ago. And here I am still on my knees in front of some busted ass furnace in the middle of winter with some unappreciative son of a bitch standing over my shoulder, wondering why I haven't fixed it yet or wondering how, about how much it costs and you know right so if this goes tits up i can still go do that you know like like i do have a skill yeah i have 12 years in that trade demand yeah the demand for that isn't going away so yeah i've done it for 12 years i can kind of do

you know i could do that you could get hired for that like immediately yeah i could start the next day you know it wouldn't be a big deal it would suck you know but like and it pays well so i could always do that so that's the thing is like the worst case scenario we ride it too far and maybe we don't cut it off when we really try to hang on let's say worst case scenario my fucking house goes into foreclosure and i was like well then i just fucking rent yeah you know what i like i don't know like what but the the kind of the like they can't you can always get a job like yeah and i can always get a job you know certain certain types of jobs like that yeah one where you can always yeah like someone's always going to want and i can kind of get a job anywhere too so like if you know if if that goes belly up and

then you guys run me out of town because of the blacklisted because of the audio quality on the podcast and um and then and then i gotta move somewhere where there's no winter and i'll just work on air conditioning all summer yeah or all year round which would be fine with me too yeah so yeah that's worst case scenario that's worst now what's best case best case scenario is i can make a a like less income probably than i make now but i'll enjoy it more you'll be so happy so happiness you would say is the best like yeah it's definitely enjoying enjoying your life and i don't get paid like i'm not like killing it but like we don't i do you know it's it's okay it's comfortable yeah and it will not be comfortable even if it goes well which is fine

it's you know i'm choosing to do it right which is probably why it's a good you know making the right decision if you're choosing to go down that road right but um my wife gets a little anxious about that stuff though she's like stresses a lot more than I do. Because I'm like, I don't know, they'll take the fucking house away from us. Did you say you could just pass all your HVAC knowledge onto her and then get her lined up with a job? Yeah, probably not.

I think it, you know, some people, to them, it would be crazy. But other people, it's like, oh, of course, why wouldn't you do that? I think it would be crazy but other people it's like oh of course why wouldn't you do that i think it just the big thing it comes down to like your risk tolerance yeah what you really want like some people would that would they would shit their pants and would never be able to handle the the stress and like even if it's going to eventually work out like they just wouldn't be able to take, like putting that on themselves. But also like a lot,

if you look at a lot of people that are, you know, invented something or have built successful, very successful, very comfortable, basically not having it. Yeah. And then they took chances,

you know, but some people don't want, some people would rather play the long game and like, but so it's just difference. Yeah. Different people. And you know, But some people would rather play the long game. So it's just different people. And I think anything with entrepreneurship-wise is somebody is... I'm on the extreme end of the spectrum. I am not risk-averse at all. You guys know this.

We've done lots of things with Maths and Comics where I'm like, fuck it, let's spend all our money and try that you know what i mean like i have lots of bad ideas and i'm willing to ride into the rocks but the podcast itself like we talked one day like you brought it up like oh should we do that and i was kind of like oh yeah maybe and then like the next day we're doing a podcast yeah you know it's like the shit well why don't we just do it yeah you know that's kind of your would be your attitude like why don't we just do it yeah you know that's kind of your would be your attitude like why don't we just do that yeah and that's usually that's usually like my department is i'm definitely not afraid of risk yeah right you know because christ i mean we can all die in a weird basement fire in the next fucking half an hour and that would be a weird one because we have all these goddamn

studio lights in here and equipment, and we haven't vetted the electricity in here. But I was like, well, Christ, yeah, we might as well just do it and take a stab at it. So that's what we're doing. It's cool. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope anybody in our area shows up. So how about your coaching? I'm going to be the worst.

What do you mean? Just between the two of you i mean you know what derrick the other one's a good coach he's an exceptional coach yeah i would that's that's one thing that he is like genuinely really really really gifted at and he's a really good communicator in that regards too and um so that's really good coach basically i'll become coming in having to learn how to coach you know i know how to do the movements and how but to learn how to actually coach those movements well i'll basically be training under him i mean yeah i'll act as sort of the business manager and he'll be acting as like the head coach coach you know but all the business cards are just gonna say president or whatever yeah like how does that even happen like like in a situation like that like do you just make up like I'm CEO well then I'm president well I'm super president

I feel like in the situation like this co-founder is pretty common probably I don't like that can we use founding father you know i mean it's your business so i think technically you are a dad yeah that's right i'll tell derrick you can't because i'm the founding father or we'll just like fuck it it's my business card you have to have the name and just have it say like my name and then just like og yeah yeah but yeah, so that'll be kind of the dynamic. It'll be cool because we'll be able to really get, I think, a lot of people. The nice thing in this area is there's still like not really much fitness going on here. You know, we were talking to Scott when we were in California.

That's what I love about this area. There's everyone's fat. There's no fitness. I was going to say this weekend, you know, I was around a bunch of college kids and my thoughts were, do college kids even lift? Like it's just, they don't do. These ones definitely did not. Did you ask anyone?

Like, no, because you didn't need to. It was very obvious. Like when the guys weigh 150 pounds, like, I mean, I get it. I was there too. So I, I mean, I was in the exact same spot, but it's just now it's like you all look like tiny little children. And you have degrees and stuff. Fancy degrees. Start making that money and someone can come take it from you.

That's interesting. Fuck, I had a deal. Oh, yeah. So with Scott, we were talking about, you know, he said like, you know, in Los Angeles, he said it's actually like a pretty like, generally, it's kind of a pretty health conscious. There's a lot of hippy dippy. It sure seems like it. Yeah.

The fucking, you know. $25 shakes. A lot of crunchy granola and people trying to stay lean. And I get it though. I mean, it's nice there. You could take your shirt off 365 days a year and walk around i mean yeah you'd be in your best interest to look good probably yeah but um here that's not the case certainly not not that everyone here is out of shape but

i think there's a good opportunity like you can just go into hibernation for an easy nine months yeah and maybe not actually come out of it wear a very puffy coat so the way i look at it here is like so we're technically opening a second crossfit gym in our in our area um but i really am not i wouldn't be afraid if there was two or three others like i think i think the town could support three to four um as long as they're marketing and doing a good job because the goal isn't to fight over the same this small amount of people that are trying to do fitness the goal is to actually have a bigger better impact and get more people moving like you know you don't do this to like serve the people who are already fit that's not the point you know so the goal is to get people

from where they are to where they're going and uh so i think there's there's a lot of room for growth in that market in our market here so and i still think it's if you pulled 100 people in town would 10 even know what we're talking about not a clue yeah there's no way yeah there's there's still a such a limited but on the one that's around now in town you know they don't advertise no no it's like not a limited knowledge of it. Well, and the one that's around now in town, you know, they don't advertise. No, no, it's like non-existent. They're kind of in a holding pattern growth-wise on purpose. So I think, yeah, you come in and you put some effort into getting people, you know, I think we'll be all right. Otherwise, I'm just going to move in with Tommy and Leah since Tanner gave me kind of a lukewarm response.

Yeah, yeah, we got a basement so you can be really away from us. You can be away from us as much as possible. So looking at this now, from the time you first started seriously looking into starting this until now, how long has it been? I'd say we got to sort of a verbal agreement with Derek and I on the partnership stuff in like September. So October, November, December, January, February. We're like eight months.

So you're saying like when you want to start a gym, you just don't go, I want to start a gym. And then it just goes. You could actually. I mean, like, yeah, you could. I suppose the CrossFit component of it adds a lot of. That component's a little different. And there's, you know, with our deal specifically, there's so many moving parts.

And then commercial real estate in a place where we live, which is a really small town, is a game in which there's very few people that own property. And the stuff that's vacant, they're really just waiting for somebody to come in and just heap piles of gold on them so they can take it. So that's been like, I mean, we've been in and out of fucking 10 different deals that we've been trying to work for buildings. And some of them we were ready to make a deal on a building we didn't even fucking like just because we had to do something.

And fortunately, this new thing will be pretty sweet, I think. and like just because we had to do something and fortunately this new thing will be pretty sweet i think um and yeah so as that goes further we'll probably have some more super exciting developments for you in the next week probably i would say by next week or the week after we'll have i can tell you the name and the super sweet logo that our graphic design guy the in-house designer. Yep. And probably a couple of other things. But yeah, so I'm looking for people to rent out my basement. To subsidize. Subsidize my mortgage. You do have a pretty big house here.

I thought about it. Yeah. If you just put a kitchenette in here. Down here. Yeah, I thought about it. But then why would we do this? That's my worry. Actually, if I were to rent, I could easily stick a little kitchenette down around the corner there.

And then just, this would be the bedroom. And then you'd have your own sort of living room. Oh, yeah. And I could probably get a fair amount of rent for it. You kind of have your own access. Is your washing machine down here. Yeah. Like,

okay. And you'd come right in through the garage, right down the stairs. Yeah. The weird thing is you would have to shower still. Oh yeah. But like, that still isn't,

you know, a huge deal. Right. Probably. Unless you mind seeing me naked. Fuck you. Fuck you. They probably, that's that at Perk.

Charge extra for that. You could really get people moving in from far away for this. For this arrangement. Yeah, it'll be, call it bear country. Yeah, so have you guys got any weird bear DMs from Dan Bell's fans yet? Not enough. Not enough? Not enough. Not enough?

No, not enough. Well, if anyone wants to hassle Dan, just send him your bear requests to dbell underscore 74 on Instagram. He's into it. He's got a menu and everything. I've only got a couple that I was pretty sure were directly referred to me from Dan because they were just really specific. So we're gunning for them.

But what else do we got today, Tanner? Oh, go ahead. Maybe you're going to talk about this as the newspaper. Well, yeah, our Massonomics local fame. Our nationwide success. What was the headline? That's what I was just going to was just gonna actually have the newspaper up in the garage i think but but yeah the the local newspaper for i guess initially right after the

gym started did they contact you tanner and are a few months after the gym started yeah they did an article on the gym because in a community of our size a new gym is somewhat newsworthy so they kind of got car accidents yeah yeah i mean in front page yeah yeah so so they they did initially contacted us then and what is it been a year year and a half and so they kind of wanted to just check back in and see what's happening so we uh a couple weeks ago met with the local newspaper thinking i mean well they probably talked to us for close to an hour didn't they i think so we talked oh yeah we i mean we definitely we did what we do just sat there and flapped our jaws until they were tired to listen to us they left

and we weren't quite sure what would become of that but uh they actually did because we talked about a lot of things we covered a lot of things the title title is Mastinomics Gym. Well, I guess this is the gym, but really we're talking about all Mastinomics stuff. So Getting Big Nationwide. Yeah. That's a good title. I like that. I like that they use the term getting big. Yeah.

That really. I think she must know that that was. She must have got it. Yeah. That's a good title. And I think on the... What did it... You know, you're not going to have it there,

but on the actual front page of the paper, they had like a teaser that I think said something like... Yeah, it said something nationwide. Masonomics gaining nationwide attention or something like that. Yeah, yeah, that's what it was, I'm pretty sure. So all of you that are actually listening to this, you are our nationwide attention, just so you know. This is your fault.

So because of you guys, we made it to our local newspaper. I haven't been in the local newspaper since the court section, like a decade or so ago. And I'm telling you guys, this is the type of town we live in, if you don't know where we're from. I used to get in trouble a lot when I was in my late teens and early 20s. And every time I would get arrested for underage drinking or like smoking pot, it would end up in the, you know, they have this little list of everybody that went to court.

It's naughty. Which I've never, I always wondered, do, do bigger cities have that? I mean, they must have it. It's probably just not published in newspapers. It's probably like really buried. Even this is like, there's a lot of shit. Well, because it's like, it's like teeny in the newspaper there's just like a list of all these little things and yet every fucking person who reads a newspaper yeah it's like

that's what but that is like a small town thing is that like people there's a lot of people that i mean their i think main reason for getting newspapers to go to that section and see like who's been getting into trouble oh carol's son what a piece of shit he is you know like but no i remember a seat belt i remember that uh also every single time i ever ended up in the court section when i was younger i would get uh i would never have the balls to like tell my dad about it ahead of time because i'd be like well i'm a fucking adult you know what i mean like i don't have to tell him every time i got in trouble i'm 20 but like but people would always tell him like so my question is what the fuck is wrong with that person you know what i mean like like tanner i was reading in the newspaper that your kid got caught smoking grass yeah like like

you would you go up to that person and be like so your kid got arrested yeah like that's a weird thing to just bring up to a person like would you would you start that conversation would be like all right i'm gonna talk to you about something that's none of my business so i hope you're ready for it and here we go and it's also something that's gonna make you mad but of course then it's even worse because not only is that person a dick, but my old man had no idea. So like it was like, oh. So I think they were pleasantly surprised to have me be in the newspaper for not that. We all made it in a picture.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They fit us in. We were just talking away. He had an extremely wide lens because I was very concerned with where he was pointing that camera. That was your first concern. Because the lens was big, but he was pointing it just right at my junk.

From what I could tell, it was just coming in and he was just looking at my penis and was taking the picture. To where I'm standing here, I'm like, what the fuck is he doing? Like, I'm not doing anything. And so, like, what is... And Tommy, who knows that apparently that guy also has quite an expensive camera. He does. But he was like, no, it's a really, really wide-angle lens. It probably got the whole room.

And I was like, okay, good. And it did. It really did. Because he was like five feet away, pointed at my junk, and got all three of us. And you're like out in the background, like in the distance. Not even. But yeah, they did some nice local news reporting on us. We had some good quotes on there.

Yeah. Names might have been used interchangeably at one point. Yeah, some things get moved around. We can, you know, our voices blend. You are right. I think also, like, it's interesting because a lot of the people who are reading a paper newspaper probably are not like your target demographic if you're in the podcast game no it's kind of like two generations ago you know yeah so it was so i think there was probably a lot of people that saw that article

because around here most people read the newspaper if i had to just like what is the type of person who reads a paper newspaper and has a subscription? 75-year-olds. Well, yeah. This is, like, different than, like, the New York Times or USA Today. Maybe where people are just trying to keep up on current events. Like, this is just, like, yeah, this is just this community.

What's going on here? And so there's probably a lot of people that had no idea what a podcast is. Yeah. True. And certainly none of them lift. Cause if they did, they'd hang out with us. But,

uh, but so it was kind of there. They did have to make sure that they put the disclaimer in that our podcast contains very adult language, which is good. I assume either. How did they get that information? Do you suppose?

I'm guessing she's listened to it. Listened to it. Yeah. All right. If you're listening to this, you did a wonderful job and we apologize for all our foul language. Or, or they just saw the explicit thing that goes,

rolls on. I would guess that she's checked it out. A couple of them or something. Yeah. A little bit of reporting. So, but yeah, it was pretty cool.

It'd be nice if it, we got paid money yet though wouldn't that be sweet is that the next step that would be all right that is always the next step all the money's haven't mastered that yet you know we could what we could do is just start jamming the beginning and ends of this with like 10 minutes of uh ad copy some of those podcasts are oh yeah the big ones the big ones the first like like like like rogan's podcast now that stuff is like 15 minutes of him doing he does a separate read now like because he couldn't he used to do it while he'd sit in the room no and now it's so long and then the ending of it is too it's the same thing it's just like when they're that long though, doesn't everyone just fast forward through it?

That's what I thought. Like if it's just little organic pieces in between, you listen to it because you're like, okay, he's just going to talk about it for 15 seconds. I think what he does is he leverages the amount, the massive amount of listeners he has. So though they do pay less for spots in the beginning and end of the podcast, they'll pay less per minute or whatever but extrapolated still to the amount of listeners

he has he can still make a hefty amount of money and not have to dick around in the middle but there's a lot of podcasts i listen to that drop that stuff in in the middle and then it's really frustrating or they'll have the worst segues in the world. You know, like. So that reminds us. Speaking of super awesome t-shirts, we've got the new Lyft shirt. Yeah. So that was that. Anyway, that was the newspaper bit. We're super famous now.

If we weren't already super famous before. Yeah. And now we're just, I guess, local heroes. And the parade is going to be this week yeah we've been just getting hounded with local interests now it's a weird sexual request and uh leah's getting really upset yeah it has to stop this has gone too far but uh did we have any uh reviews this Yeah, we do have a review. Should I pop that open here?

We didn't really have much for comments on the old YouTube this time, so you guys kind of dropped the ball on that. Yeah, way to go, guys. But I did just check today. I know we have a review, and it was a good one. We're up to 24 now. That's one for every hour in the day. That's right.

It's a big milestone. This was from May 5th. Five out of five stars from MegaRuby. Awesome dudes who don't look up acronyms is the title. Who don't look up acronyms. So does that mean something to either of you guys? Probably, but I'm probably too stupid to draw the conclusion to it right now. There's more.

You might be able to. I'm remembering this now. Maybe we'll be able to figure it out together. All right. So it's, I like charisma and people who lift, and these guys seem to do just that in this podcast. Great content, funny, and like most men, they make just enough mistakes that I don't hate them,

but feel superior to them while I correct them. If I could make one suggestion, I'd love to hear about or from any strong ladies so I have someone to relate to. Also, get Dan Bell back. Yeah, we need to get Dan Bell back. If only Dan

could just be on the podcast every week, that would be even better. That would be. We'd have to do something about his breathing. We're going to have to get the microphone figured out can I see that at the bottom there you have to see the spelling of the name

you know we probably mess up a lot on here oh CETC remember we probably did that for the US Open. And we were going to look it up. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's what it is then.

You got to remember, though, my internet down here in this basement is like third world internet. It's fucking terrible. And the hours of research we do before every show just sometimes can't cover everything. It's literally none. That's a good, thoughtful review, though. That is a good review, yeah. So she wants uh to hear from more ladies what have we done for ladies episodes you did we did you did the the this is

female power lifting we had them on we had megan and leah um we should probably prioritize like a bigger named female guest yeah you know maybe when we do that trip out west this fall i guess the other one when we did the yoga. Oh, yeah. Katie was really good. Yeah, we definitely need to do that because it's definitely a lot of wieners in here. The tricky part for us is that we're already in an area where it's hard to get a hold of people. So then women with lifting expertise are even fewer and far between, I think than the men with that lifting expertise around here.

So that is really just an excuse though. Yeah. We'll have to prioritize because we are, we do have like, we're hoping to put together like a trip to get four to six episodes done sometime this fall on the road. And, um, and in doing so we should probably try and get some ladies on board there to mix things up a little bit. Like Brooke Wells? Yeah, I don't understand why Brooke Wells has not responded to any of my DMs.

And so what I've been doing is I've just been increasing the frequency with which I send her DMs because I thought that maybe, here's what I think. I think Brooke Wells gets a lot of DMs. How many DMs do you think she gets in a day? My favorite bit, this isn't my bit, this is off of Rogan's podcast, or Rogan's stand-up special,

but he has a bit, and I think it applies to Brooke Wells. I think if you deleted the dick pics that get sent to her DMs from her phone, that her phone would be physically lighter. You know what I mean? Well, there has to be some someone's probably already done this this just goes back into our research research department that's non-existent but there probably is some type of equation that exists for if you're a female and you have this many number

of followers just how many you're getting you're getting yeah this percentage are probably male and you're probably x percentage of them are sending DMs this many times per month. And so you probably could calculate a lot of that out and get a pretty good guess. So my strategy here to get Brooke to just get an apartment with me, is that asking too much? I don't know what the hang-up is. I'm a nice guy. My wife will be pissed.

But anyway, so I figure she gets so many dms i would just ramp it up and that way you don't want to get buried by all the new dms so you just send her a dm every five minutes for you know six consecutive weeks yeah like there's no way you'll get blocked or anything because i don't think so looking forward to the next one at all times or at least that way it'll catch her catch her eye yeah um i have a lot of unopened mail from the sheriff's department in whatever town that she lives into but but no so yeah brooke wells will probably be on the podcast totally at some point um that's a probably a lie it sounded cool though but uh yeah we want to get uh we'll get some ladies on when we uh when we get out out about. It'd be sweet if we could just like, we've talked about this before,

like just travel like once every five or six weeks. Just do like fly somewhere on a weekend and get three guests lined up and then just knock them all out. And then we take a few weeks off and publish those episodes. And then we'd only have super awesome guests all the time. And then it wouldn't be just us. Yeah. Because we're the worst.

Literally. We do suck. The worst. We do suck. What else did we have today, you guys? Nothing new on the Instagram. Well, I don't want to go into it too much, but I want to address it just briefly.

Jonah, friend of the podcast, and Blaine Sumner, friend of the podcast, were really fighting on Instagram. And I don't want to give it any more than that or take any sides, but if you guys want to see the two best benchers in the world really being mean to each other, those the world really being mean to each other, those two are really being mean to each other.

Not pulling punches. No. That was some shit there. If I said things like that to Tanner, it'd be like, well, I don't know if we're going to be able to hang out. And I guess they're not trying to hang out. Yeah.

But they had a little spat on, that's on Leo Strength's Instagram, if you'd like to check out a little powerlifting drama. We're not going to, I don't take sides in those things because we love both those guys. Part of me is still hoping that they're just playing, but I don't think so. I think that's not true. And we can be sure that that's're just playing. But I don't think so. I think that's not true. We can be sure that that's not the case. But the one thing we can all agree on is they're both incredible one-board pressers. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah, Jesus Christ. That's been the most fascinating thing. It was like 9.45 or 9.40 for Jonah and 9.30 something. 9.45 for Jonah and 9.37 that Blaine did. I would gladly watch a video of that every day. I don't know if he does that or how frequent that happens but that was awesome yeah that was really cool i can you imagine being the spotter yeah yeah i would not want that whole thing was just

like if if like something happened that slipped from his grip as a spotter you're trying to grab 950 pounds like and also like aside from like it does get past the point i would think if you're gonna miss that lift even even if it's not a traumatic injury miss yeah like which it can be you know what i mean like you can have a shoulder go and that way it's just coming down yeah like without any help and then you're all fucked but what if you're just on the way up and you stall out and it starts to come back like you're not gonna just take 10 pounds off of that right when it's moving back down again and get it up that's not a 350 pound bench where you just got to pull a couple fingers to help the guy get it

up so it's the thing is like it's a snapshot in training that we don't even understand yeah to see more of that would be awesome yeah Yeah, Jonah's kind of old school. He doesn't do a whole lot of the social media stuff, doesn't post videos all that frequently, but hop on there and encourage him to do so because I could watch Jonah throw 800, 900 pounds around. I would just like to actually see a glimpse into his training a little bit to see what it looks like, what some of the days look like it would be they both have really good shirt uh taste and shirt slow yeah they both

have the uh massonomics lift shirt and uh blaine seems to wear his a lot yeah which is we might have to send him another one because he's gonna wear that out and then like what's he gonna wear after that that's true yeah that is true yeah and speaking of the lift shirt tanner what do you have on your head there yeah that's what we should this is a prototype of the weekend warrior hat or some version of the weekend warrior hat this is something we're looking at maybe doing in the relatively near future so maybe if you're interested in this you could drop us a line like what what color hat you'd like to see it on or or send us a money order for 10 of them yeah pre-order them like just cash they're a thousand dollars each

yeah um ultra premium we're working out the details of the embroidery and everything right now but uh i think it'll probably be a finished product sooner than later so have we talked have we figured out kind of what maybe what hats we would put it on would we keep it on the larry style i really i really liked it on the uh on the lieutenant dan that did yeah that was actually a mistake that it got on that but after seeing it was really sharp yeah that's yeah maybe our the viewers could help us like what would you uh what would what would you order it on a snapback or a fitted hat or all of them everything yeah yeah not now now that i think back through i should probably go and get the the lyft logo put on with all everything you own all the hats that you already in all the different i now have 11 massonomics hats they're

all different and uh i could get yeah i could do the lyft logo on all but to on nine i could get, yeah, I could do the lift logo on all, but to, on nine, I could get nine more. You could get 20. Yeah. My wife will love that. They're,

they're all over the fucking house now. Nobody has a spot to hang 20 hats and I wear like a different one. At least it's all like wherever you go, you're like, Oh, where's my hat? And it's like, Oh,

there's one. I'm like, this is the one I'm doing today. And as my, my hairline gets sadder and sadder up here i gotta wear a hat um but yeah i've got hats everywhere now in every room there's one or two on every shelf on every everywhere i go that's how all of you listening that's how your houses should look like yeah i don't know yeah you could have a lift shirt in each room in case you spill something on it's functional and it looks good too from a decorating standpoint.

I was, when I was out last night, I was wearing the, our Masonomics' numero uno shirt and some guy comes out of the bar in the bathroom just housed, looks at my shirt and goes, you're fucking right it is!

And then just moved on past. And I was like and then, and then, and then just, and then just moved on past. And I was like, sounds like our kind of guy. He's got good taste. Yeah. Don't know if he knows what, what he's,

what he's saying. I couldn't imagine that he did. Yeah. Cause I had no idea who he was, but, uh, yeah, it was pretty cool.

So that shirt is also available. Yeah. Buy one of those. We got some of those sitting around. So, um, they're happy to send you one. I think we're that shirt is also available. Yeah, buy one of those. We got some of those sitting around. We're happy to send you one. I think we're about ready to wrap up. If you send us money. Yeah, money.

I mean, yeah, you're going to send us money. Caveat. Yeah, money. Yeah, money. We're going to start doing this next week, where I'm going to assign each of you guys one of the closing things. To talk about?

Oh. Like. I want to. I'll take Twitter. The Twitter session. Like, don't follow us on Twitter. Yeah, I mean, you can. If you have like 10,000 or more followers

and you can just share it to your followers. Yeah, you know what? You can follow us on Twitter, but all it does is tell you to go follow us on Instagram. Exactly, yeah. But yeah, what I want to do, because my memory is so bad every time we try to roll it out, is we'll end up having it to where I'll be like, and the YouTube, and Tommy will be like, and the Facebook, and Tanner will be like, and the Twitter, and the

website. LinkedIn. But for now, I'll just try to roll it all off the top of my dome here. Support the podcast. What's the best way they can support the podcast? Probably money still, right? Money would still. Which is my personal favorite. So it's going to be go to massanomics.com.

We've got all of our articles, videos, old podcasts. The whole archive is there. So if this is your first time listening and you remember what our names are now since we introduced ourselves this week yeah you can go back and know who's talking um uh but there click the shop now button we got the weekend warrior shirt we have all of our hats all our other shirts um even banners yeah you could buy it that banner right there that is in our shop you might if you have like a gym, you might want that. Yeah.

And we could send you that banner. That actually would be the banner we would have to send. Yeah, because we'd have to get the other one made. There's a little bit of lead time. So literally, you could be the owner of that banner. You could have an impact on the show by stealing our banner. If you buy a banner, we will autograph it. Yeah. For sure.

We'll leave a good note on the back of it for you, just so we don't ruin the art. We'll sign the back of it for you. Yeah. We were in the newspaper. That's got to have some value. These things are going to be flying off the shelves now.

I think so. We did sell that one. That one, that one time that one thanks derek well we'll even number it so you know how exclusive it is it would be it would be number two three three it's number three still it's in the top 10 so yeah at some point that's gonna be something pretty cool you could say for sure so we've got uh all that stuff in the store's going to be a real good way to help us keep moving things forward. Then we can keep dropping new products and new hats and new, all that stuff, all that money. We just turn right back in to offer new cool stuff.

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Yeah. You guys got to. Top 10 most pathetic podcasts you're not listening to. These guys, they just beg for people to leave them reviews the whole time. But anyway, that would be one really sweet way if we could get on some sort of ranking. Yeah. If we ever are on some sort of ranking on iTunes, I'll be super stoked. You guys will be the first ones to hear about it.

Yeah, definitely. So leave us a five-star review there. Also, youtube.com forward slash massonomics. Still have all of the videos from the arnold on there all our interviews basically have you seen other than rogue fitness's stuff any videos from the arnold that are as well made as ours absolutely mark bell has some decent ones out there oh mark everybody he doesn't work bell you're right fuck you're Yeah, his videos are pretty good. But not better.

Not better. Actually, some of ours are funnier. Yeah. You know, like without it out. Yeah. And tell Mark Bell to come and be on the podcast, too. He's got a lot of business in South Dakota. Yeah.

He could deliver me some new raps. The gym has a couple slingshots. We support him. Might as well support us in return. It's only fair. But yeah, make sure you subscribe on YouTube and check out the videos there. That's everything, right?

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