Massenomics Podcast - Ep.102: The Arnold AirBnbCast

Episode Date: March 19, 2018

The guys sat down and podcasted after the second day of The Arnold so everything was fresh in their soft little brains. Here you'll get the rundown of everything we experienced at The Arnold up until that moment, and get some behind-the-scenes info about what some of our interviewees said once the cameras were off.

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I feel like we're doing an interview with someone and not the podcast. Yeah, this is true. Also, yeah, because we didn't bring the whole... What do you think, Tommy? The fact that I don't even have a mic in front of me is also like, I feel like I'm just sitting and watching. We didn't bring the whole mixing board this year because we figured this is actually does a pretty good job hopefully this turns out but it's worked before oh yeah shit but uh yeah we've done it before so anyway we decided it was too much pain in the ass to pack

all of the stuff and um so we forgot it and we figured we'd just do this i don't know i never thought packing all the stuff was that big of a deal i was actually fine with it i just i guess tyler makes executive decisions on his own now as the one who did all of the packing of all of the stuff had a bit of a problem with it um yeah so do you think it's safe for all of us to uh be sitting this close together on this floor no so so to give you guys an idea of our airbnb it's crazy because we got we got another airbnb just like we did last year and we are literally what five houses down from from where we stayed last year yeah five or six so it's like we can see it's

like oh hey yeah i remember you house tanner's and uh little angle here if you need to watch this like this place is decorated nicely like check it out it is for sale it is for sale if you're in the in the market for a house in new cabinets new countertops like the whole bathroom is all new yeah like this is this could definitely be on an episode of house hunters for a couple that's looking for a house um but the floors are really uneven really rough i think they took the idea that it should be rustic and look aged but like normally people pay good money for stuff to look rustic and age so that it's not actually dangerous and you can trip on these floors very easily yeah so what we, one, there's spots that are many inches higher than others. Others that will just fall in completely.

Like where Tanner just sat down, the floorboard went down three-quarters of an inch. Yeah. And if you dumped a bag of marbles, they're all going to end up in one place. They're going to roll somewhere together. So also, there's two rules. I suppose there's probably other rules. The only two I paid attention to was the, when we, with the Airbnb is you cannot,

don't even think about riding the bike. Yeah, so they have a bike in the, when you walk in the house, there's a bike. Is that where people keep their bikes, by the way? I don't know. I don't know enough about bikes. I know what I'm not doing is riding my bike on the fucking road with all of the things and water and stuff.

And then drive it into your living room. Maybe I'm going to put that where I fucking walk around. And then the other thing was do not play or touch the acoustic guitar. Why? It was just left out sitting upright against the wall in the living room. Yeah, the thing you have to understand is this is an acoustic guitar shaped like any acoustic guitar you would expect which means it's hard smooth wood should be on a fucking stand and it's like we said about the floor here it's leaned against the wall on

the really weird uneven floor so tanner it's only been tanner however tanner has two times got up and walked but no joke 15 feet away from it and the guitar slams to the floor like way worse than it would have been if i would have picked it up and played it and so that rule of don't touch the guitar i mean technically yeah we didn't break the rule of touching the guitar but it is it is slamming itself to the ground repeatedly the guitar guys we got up early we went in we did some interviewing and some things talked to stan efforting today yesterday we did all sorts of stuff we'll get into that later but what was the big deal today like our biggest thing aside from the colossal clusterfuck of the crowd which i don't know if you remember we talked

about there on a last year we had god it was about the same time like around between noon and two on that saturday if you ever want to go to the arnold probably don't but like definitely don't go on saturday afternoon saturday afternoon goes friday early or sunday If you really wanted to be a go-getter, you could go Saturday morning. And be done by 11. Yeah. But under no circumstances do you need to be there at the time we were there. It was one of those things where everybody was trying to just get away from where they were. There was thousands and thousands of people like,

I need to go this way because back there was awful. And it's like's like well we're going to where you were coming from because back here was awful and nobody was actually going anywhere and and then we got jammed up we ran we met with tom finn and um the guys from jb boss at the jb boss booth and that created a crowd where people are bonging beers and we got uh man i I wish I don't remember the guy's name, but the guys, was it from Illinois? Some of my Astonomics fans, they brought beer bongs. It speaks to the crowd that Tom Finn generates, which is pretty awesome that somehow they managed to get a bunch of beer

into the expo center and beer bongs. And people had knives and were like shotgunning beers and bonging beers. And, you know, people know his vibe. So they were representing. I will get into the other part of this story. But just in general, keep in mind, I did not realize that so many people carried around knives at the Arnold. Cone pulled a knife on me.

Five seconds after our introduction? After we met him, yeah. He basically was like, you're pretty big. It was just like, check yourself. Did he think you were going to eat him or something? No, I don't think his head would pass through my... Ed Cohn is surprisingly tall in person. So this has been the...

And before you listen anymore, you should probably go look at the picture of Ed standing between Tanner and Tyler. So Tanner... Tyler is... What are you? 6'6", Tyler? Yeah. Tanner, you're 6'3". Yeah, right around there. And Ed is probably 5'5"? Probably. Maybe.

So it looks like we have a picture of him directly between Tanner and Tyler and it looks like a little a picture of him directly between tanner and tyler and it looks like a little child is is standing there in the near future we'll have the video of the interview with ed up um but we did do a hand contest yeah yeah so with that being said ed being a foot shorter than tyler his hands are uh palms to palm like i i think i still got him beat but just barely like it's nearly identical and And I still consider Tyler to have big hands. I have really big hands. Out of anyone I know, you have the biggest hands.

Yeah, for sure. Hands down. Hands down, right? If you're watching the video on YouTube, this is a full-size beer can, and you basically can't see it behind my hand. You know, I'm holding it. Tanner does have baby hands.

What's the movie with the person? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, scary movie. That's me. So Ed pulled a knife on me. What else happened? Oh, the hand contest. But then now we go knuckles to knuckles.

And I think Ed's hand originally had seven or eight knuckles. It looks it it's super weird it has like an extra knuckle width yeah i don't i don't understand i don't know why genetically a person he had a pretty funny line it was like i never grew into my hands he didn't not even close um see a lot of arms grew into it his torso never grew never got caught up um today at the arnold though so we got out of that total i mean it was it was nice to see tom and then uh and steve uh you know he goes by jackson homeless or scuba steve and tom callous and uh that was it was really nice to see all those guys but there was just too many people and then we had to get to the strongman deal and this is the second time in a row where we like actually were allowed to be up there surprise so we were like yeah um to go uh yeah we sat in the well i sat in the front photographer's area again which is great his elbows on the stage yeah my elbows were on the stage and the center of

the stage too which is pretty awesome but kind of the kind of underneath magnus's anus yeah like i mean he might have been just farting in my face all day but everyone smelled so bad that i didn't know but maybe the coolest development this year was that you guys got to join me in the in the front row um you know we're now are in the um same the same company as brian shaw's wife half thor half thor's posse actually we sit farther up than half thor's posse and also we were more centered The same company as Brian Shaw's wife, Half Thor's Posse. Actually, we sit farther up than Half Thor's Posse. And also, we were more centered than Brian Shaw's wife. Yeah.

And pretty much nobody, actually nobody had better seats than us. Yeah, I mean, Mark Bell was in the area as us for a while. Yeah, further away. But, I mean, when you're talking about VIPs like this, it's... We've got, what do they call it, clout? Is that what that is? My favorite part about being up there is when Half Thor is lifting,

it's just like you're in a Half Thor Bjornsson Instagram video with all of his posse. You just hear his friends yelling. Yes, Thor! But now my question to you is, they don't yell in their voices. They growl. Yeah, yeah.

You know the way when you're a when you're like in junior high football and your voice first first starts to change and so everybody yells in this way this totally doesn't make your voice well your voice doesn't carry any further when you just break your voice like and you can't understand any of it and it actually isn't any louder and so it just sounds like it hurts and there's no way he understood the words that they were saying and but anyway they seem like nice guys but probably not they didn't they didn't seem like nice guys but they were really loud and scary um but it was it was just like his instagram videos where those guys are yelling and he was lifting heavy things

and uh so can can we say why we got to be in such a good spot? Yeah, probably. So, well, I mean, we went through the whole process. We applied for credentials and such, but we do happen to have a super fan who's been with us from the very beginning who's helped us kind of like get to these spots, which is fucking awesome. You know who you are. Thanks totally.

Yeah. Yes. We're forever indebted. which is fucking awesome uh you know who you are uh thanks totally yeah yes yes when we're ever indebted when tommy so we we won't recap the story last year when it was like uh yeah you're not actually supposed to be here tommy and she was like but i'll let you up here and then we had gone through the process this year and she kind of made it happen for us but tommy goes up to get right up to the stage and we stayed back we were way yeah it was like it was kind of the thing of like all right tommy go do your thing and i'm like oh okay here i go see you guys later behind a thousand people yeah and then tommy texted me and he's like hey yeah we've got spots for you guys to get up here and then i look at the mass of flesh between us and there i was like i don't know how this is going to happen

and we kind of just it was like that scene on Wayne's World where they got their little VIP badge excuse me excuse me and we used the microphones to look official which is so stupid because we weren't interviewing anybody not only that we weren't going to so actually what we did is we led with the microphones all the way through the crowd and then we get up to the front and I would take them out, unplug them and put them in the backpack and sit down. But just so you know, this is important. And the,

probably the cool, the part that I thought was funny too, is when you guys were on the way to make room for you guys, people literally had to be like kicked out because like, no, these are, these are for important people. And then like,

I'm sure the other people are like, Oh, who's going to sit here. And then these guys show up. It's like, Oh, my, my favorite part might be the look of like a combination of anger and disgust and like resentment that i saw generally on people as we were forcing our way past them and like like they just had to eat it yeah it's whatever and well there was and actually today was there

was a couple people who just very quickly, when the bodybuilding thing that was before the strongman got done, they just rushed up to the front. I don't blame them at all. As soon as one event is done on that stage, that's the time when things are moving. That's when you need to get to your spot. And I just remember saying out loud, I said,

you know what, though? All the enthusiasm in the world doesn't make that spot theirs, no, does it? Sure enough, we got up there, and it was ours. So it was great. But, no, so I can't be – we're super, super thankful for how awesome that was. Like, literally the best seats in the house, short of being on the stage. Yeah, and when you're on the stage, I mean, you're kind of in of in the way you got to be behind the guys so and i like to think that we deserve it but i know better so we're just like trying to not fuck up the opportunity like we

better get good videos and good pictures and don't fucking make anybody mad like it's like don't be drunk but uh no it was mean? But no, it was fucking crazy. And speaking of good videos and good pictures, I mean, we saw some cool stuff go down. Yeah, so by the time you're hearing this, you probably will have heard some of the things, but I don't even know where to start. So what was yesterday's events, first off?

The bag over bar, which probably isn't a lot to be said about. Truthfully, they threw the bag over the bar. And we showed up midway through. In my opinion, it's just not a very crowd-friendly event. It's not a very photogenic event. As far as results went, though, Halfthor had 95 pounds. Halfthor was first. Shaw was second.

Shaw tried to jump him to 100 couldn't get 100 so half thor got first and was shaw second is it i want to say someone else got second i can't remember but anyway yeah after that then after that was the uh what was after that one the natural stone yes which is a very unique one. It is a rough field stone, oddly shaped, no real way to grab it, no tacky, no chalk. They could use tacky towels. It was all they could use. It weighed 410 or 420 or something like that. So that was pretty fucking obnoxious.

And they, right away, I don't even remember who came out, but nobody was doing very well. Everybody was having a really, really, really hard time with it. People were getting it up to their, you know, almost to the knees. A couple people didn't even hardly get it off the ground. Jerry Pritchett, really big guy, really strong guy, huge deadlift. Kind of suspected maybe that he'd do decent with it and he really struggled

with it so you're starting to wonder if anyone is going to be able to do anything with it you know in the back of your mind Shaw and Half Thor are going last so you think like well those two are probably going to make it look easy when it gets to them because most of the time

in these things Thor and Shaw come out, and they make like, I mean, they're just so much better than everybody else. But that was not the case really in any of the stuff. And then I don't remember who. Basically everybody had a tough time. Actually, Dematar actually did. I mean, he got it almost up to his chest. As as the event goes did you guys talk about the scoring when i walked away oh yeah it was a really unique score like i thought it was going to be because you had to shoulder the stone

i thought it was going to be you shoulder the stone you get one point but shouldering the stone is such an achievement that they they luckily broke it up so that you could get some... So if you broke it off the ground, if you got, quote, what, wind under the stone, that was one point. I think if you got it to your lap, it was two. Up to your belly or chest was three. And then shoulder was four. And shoulder is only one arm holding it, the other hand.

Shoulder was four. And then five was on the shoulder with one arm off. Oh, it was, okay. Yep, with only one arm holding it, the other hand. Shoulder was four, and then five was on the shoulder with one arm off. Oh, it was. Okay. Yep, with only one arm controlling it. So, yeah, even I didn't catch all that. Well, Mark Henry was the one doing the explaining. He did not even understand it.

Of course. And, yeah, so he was winging it. That was really cool. We'll talk about that later. But so this thing was, like like immediately it looked really hard and you're wondering if anyone was going to be able to do much of anything with it it was just like watching these guys just struggle and fail then uh matthias keselakowski we're just going to make it up kilkowski keselakowski from poland poland 25 to polish competitors this year. Who was the other guy? His name was Mateusz.

Another Mateusz. Or Matius, depending on what you like. Or Matius. And Mark Henry pronounced their last names and first names very differently. He also called Dimitar Mateusz. Is that when he introduced him today? There was many different ones. There was like Demtar, Dattar. He just straight up said, and Mateus.

And then Demtar came out. And I thought, I must have heard that wrong. And then he would misprint anyway. That's the Mark Henry thing. I don't want to talk about it. But Mateus comes out, and he just picks it off the ground and laps it. And everyone's like, what the, wait, what? And then he just stood it up like when you're going to do a stone load.

Just stood it up, rolled it right up his chest, re-gripped right on his shoulder, got situated, took the hand off and dropped it like a fucking boss. And it took him fucking like 15 seconds yeah it looked like he had been practicing this event forever this specific stone yeah yeah and then god probably like they moved the stone back in and we're like it was like oh and then he goes for it again and we almost didn't even realize that you could do it more than one time because didn't expect anyone hardly yeah i assumed when he was going again like i i thought they were going to stop him i didn't know you could go you did it already like i can't pull

over anymore i can't pull over any farther already pulled over and he uh so he fucking grabs the stone and just rips it up again drops it just mother fucks everybody and it's like 10 points on the board and then the crowd starts going like crazy. Picks it up again. Gets it to his shoulder. Drops it stone cold. Like just fucking boom. The look on his face.

Like you have to see the look on his face to know like what this felt like. Some pictures and some video and stuff of it. And then he goes for the fourth one. And everyone's on their feet yeah and I mean it was like and this isn't where the announcer says all right come on everybody this is a big deal everyone on your feet everyone is just literally like what in the fuck oh my god yeah like even people that have no idea what they're watching you could literally just tell like this was a crazy because it's not often where you see the strongest men in

the world struggle with something so hard and then a guy come up that like he's not known as being the the top three like he definitely has a lot of potential but i don't think anyone would have just picked this guy to come up and make it look so easy let's and this kid's 25. Yeah. And has a big frame. I mean, he could put some beef on him. But then he goes for the fifth one. Everybody's going nuts. He gets it up to his shoulder. And it was as, like, lit up as I've ever seen anything at the Arnold.

It was crazy. And he slams the stone down. Everybody goes nuts. And I'm pretty sure still, even the some of the things we saw today i think this is only my third year going to the arnold i think it was by far the most impressive thing i've ever seen at the arnold and that doesn't and then that includes people that were stronger than him beating him at you know like but he's just that that one achievement is crazy those guys on the stage you know mark, Mark Henry and Dr. Todd,

the old man that puts on, like, is the world's foremost strongman historian. They asked him even, like, where this ranks of things that he's seen, and he said it's easily in the top five, you know, strongest accomplishments I've ever witnessed. Frankly, if you can do anything five times or four times that Brian Shaw can do once, that's not mild ones. And that's what really put it into perspective because the second he did one,

I thought, okay, once Thor and Shaw get a hold of this, they're going to rep this out ten times. At that point, you know, Mateus is a guy with a big frame and long arms. And it's like, all right, so half Thor and Shaw are going to come out. They're both really good at stones, long arms. Did anyone else even shoulder it with with the arm the russian got it to the shoulder and four got one so everyone else got one and it

yeah it was by no means like a cakewalk yeah they gave him one they gave him a four and did not give him a five and there was actually it was i think pretty universally people were not so yeah so like once the dust settled everyone was like whoa, we really did see something crazy because the guys that we consider to be the favorites absolutely struggled with this. Totally laid eggs. I mean, compared to what he did, he got 20, and the second best score was five. Yeah, and what really added to the intensity for me was directly behind me, I don't know if it was a girlfriend or wife

but was standing and yelling yelling really aggressively in polish and it was scary so that added to it the polish version of rip its fucking head off i'm assuming that's what she was saying i i just keep thinking about his facial expression though too as like i don't look he wasn't like trying to do this but it's just like at that moment he knew he's like the most gangster dude on the planet and he's like yeah he he looked like a hard motherfucker right there that was like nope ain't nobody fucking with this yeah that was awesome um that pretty much kind of rounded out yesterday's.

And I don't remember what we even did. We went to and had a really incredible dining experience where we each got to spend $25 for pizza that took an hour and 45 minutes to show up. I also ordered drinks that then they dropped all of them. And then it took another probably half hour for these drinks to come. But at least they charged us full price.

Another cool thing we got to do on Friday was we were inside the animal cage for quite a while. Forgot about that. That really felt like we got into an exclusive club. Because the way this started, I think we told you guys on the podcast a few weeks ago that Tanner had been talking to talking to some of the guys at animal and they're like yeah just just come to the cage and we'll get you in and that just sounds like something you tell people and we went up there and i'm like like just getting ready to look really dumb when you push yourself in front of people and just watch the whole crowd get see just the rejection happen so hard and we go up there and i see tanner say something and all of a sudden oh massonomics guys yeah yeah come right in and like the gate opens and you go in

it's like okay yeah we just sit here with brandon franklin and pete rubish and who else was even quads like rob and that guy that can bench i don't even know is yeah james strickland james strickland and then the other guy that was in there benching at the time too yeah yeah but yeah it's like oh yeah we're just hanging here with these guys and like yeah he's running us out yeah do interviews whatever and like people are staying out of our way i started to feel bad one because we're pretty i mean we're pretty thick dudes and tall and handsome and tommy's hair's in the way but like we were we have to talk we have to talk on this one point right here you said because we're tall yes and um see we may we maybe take it for granted you know i'm like six one ish you know we already covered this you're six three tyler's six five

my brother's like six are you like six six my brother's like six five like most of the people that go to the gym are six foot or tall. We're some corn-fed dudes. Yeah, like I just take like, to me, six foot is just normal. Like that's not weird at all. In my opinion, like Tanner's 6'3". I think that qualifies Tanner as a, you know, like he's almost a tall guy. Yeah, like even if people ask me like, who are some of your friends that are tall?

I don't even know if I would say Tanner's a tall guy. I'd be like, well, my brother's pretty tall. Tyler's pretty tall. I don't know if I really know any other tall people like Tommy's not short at six one but Tommy's not tall and I but you for the most part when I yeah around the people I know I would never describe myself as tall and a little like Shane's like six three two you know it's like all these other than the people on the strongman stage I you know i've said it before about like crossfit people is that you say that cross fitness is 50 fitness and 50 shortness i also think that strength is at least 40 shortness and that that is where our introduction

everyone goes it starts like this oh you guys are a lot taller than i thought yeah yeah rob literally said he's like he kind of like he saw us quads like rob rob philippus and he he saw us and we've talked back and forth with rob on the internet before but we've never met him in person and he kind of saw us and he like saw the shirt and stuff and he like i could tell the the gears were turning in his head but he's then he he goes like it clicked then he's like oh i guess I thought you guys were like, one of you was like short. That's what he said. He's like, I guess I thought like you guys were short.

Yeah, when he said that, like I actually laughed. He kind of went on and he was like, am I getting something wrong? Like, why did I think you guys were short? You know, it was kind of weird. And it's just because we're all like somewhat similar. And then Brandon Franklin does the same thing. He's like, oh, yeah, the massonomics guys, they're trees. it was kind of kind of just because we're all like sort somewhat similar and how you know and then brandon franklin does the same thing he's like oh yeah the massonomics guys they're trees well and then poor brandon who was probably the shortest one we interviewed in the cage

is right in the middle of us and uh he probably had the ed cone thing going on uh but no but we're in there and we're blocking for a minute i'm like geez all these people outside the cage can't see what's going on in here except i got to think about what it was like when we watched things outside the cage which is that you can't see anything that goes on inside the cage and also except for about 45 seconds at a time there's nothing going on in the cage yeah it's the animal warm-up cage yeah this year they did put a screen up, which means that if you're on that side, you can watch the screen and stay in the loop on what's going on. So we weren't blocking anybody's view of somebody warming up at 135.

And if that was the thing you needed to see, listen, there's a lot of things going on at the Arnold that are more interesting than that. So we got in there, and we basically just interviewed everybody that was in there that we wanted to talk to and then there's a few others we wanted to talk to but we just kind of felt like we were starting to be in the way just like people were coming in and being and they're being like hustled out of our camera line to where i'm like we're not that important yeah

it's like like we walk in front of the camera we were being treated really well and like they were purposely staying like out of our way but it felt like it felt like a certain point just felt like it was inconvenient like we better get out of here but after a while maybe and i and it wasn't we didn't feel welcome just felt like like they're really getting put out yeah like let's get out of here but i don't think tomorrow we'll probably go back yeah yeah we'll go back in and we didn't go in there today because this day is the worst fucking day at the Arnold, for sure. All these things, you know, the strongman, the cage, all of that is awesome for us because we've worked ourselves into these great opportunities.

I'm not bragging about it. I'm almost advising you, like, they're really fun for us because we get to be in these prime spots that no one else does. But if we didn't get to, it wouldn't be all that much fun. And I've done the Arnold and the Cage and the Strongman stuff. You know, we've all done it from outside the Cage. We've done it from the Strongman from not in good seats or from standing. Except for Tommy.

Tommy's been front row literally since the beginning. Yeah, I'm not going to mess around with that. But I've done it and yeah it's it still is cool but it is super inconvenient if i had to describe the arnold other than obviously crowded it would be and smelly and and lots of other things it is a super inconvenient thing that still is like probably worth it but it is like man everything is like you wouldn't go to the grocery store when it's like when you know it's going to be busy yeah you're going to go to this thing when you know it's going to be the busiest it's the busiest thing i experience in a

year yeah i think so i'm never like in this crowded clusterfuck like this because there's nothing i hate more than that yeah the closest thing i can compare it to is if you go to like big concerts or music festivals like take that type of just chaos from the number of people and just jam them into like some small hallways and like concourse areas and then they all want to move but towards a thing with which they don't know yeah and then mix in just random booths playing insanely loud music to try and generate this fake hype for Instagram that no one's actually excited about.

Yeah. Bang energy. Bang energy. God, and as much as I like their drinks now, that was so off-putting. But there also was people that must have won or gotten multiple cases of

Bang Energy drinks, which is like, man, that's something you want to win at the end of the day. Because I was like, are you going to carry through this crowd like fucking 24 cans, 16-ounce cans of pop? Fuck. Congratulations.

You won a brick yeah carry it around that's the equivalent of giving somebody a puppy for christmas it's like here you go now fucking deal with it better take care of it this is gonna be in the way a lot um okay because we're super scatterbrained did we talk about the finish of the strongman then the deadlift oh maybe today's it oh we did okay okay all right so we still talking about yesterday then yesterday well i don't know if i'm done with yesterday miss any of the interviews just did we at least touch it we'll give you guys yeah so we got to stan efferding was great who else or okay yesterday what was yesterday who do we interview yesterday was a friday We went straight to Kaz. That was actually really good.

We got even further in with him. No tall people or anything like that. No Book of Enoch. Kaz did also tell me some offline things after the interview. It's one of those situations where you wish so bad it was in the interview, but it's just things that they're not going to say. You know that he just doesn't say that on air. And then we're probably not going to say all the things because we want to be able to talk basically though kaz

we didn't host this yeah the strongman deal and basically yeah he got replaced gave us some opinions uh and in a nutshell him in the i forget the british announcer's name he always announces world's strongest man but he's awesome. And Kaz said, and he's exactly right, those two have great chemistry. Which we had mentioned that those two should be together. Yeah, and he agrees, and he thinks the current formats that they're doing it with basically suck. And he's right. Yeah.

Mark Henry's got to go. You guys, I mean, I just don't know. It's the worst. So anybody, us, we'll do it. I'm going to lay out Tyler's plan for making it better. One, it doesn't have to be me or Tanner. I mean, you can just leave us in charge of hiring, and we'll put the event together.

And we'll keep the money and hire ourselves. But what you need to do is you need to get a person up there who knows the stuff. Let's say it's Kaz. Kaz is a little out there, but Kaz isn't just going to talk out his ass, and Kaz will know the rules and all those other things. And then you need a color guy. So if it's the British guy or something else, fucking radio DJ, Tanner, I don't care.

But somebody just to be there. Then just because there's stalling. And that person also needs to be able to provide some hype and excitement at the right times and the right reasons. Not Mark Henry walking away while someone's about to deadlift, laughing and being like, Oh boy, that bar sure looks like it's pretty heavy. Like I know when I look at this, he's just like telling a story while somebody is trying to deadlift 900 pounds and when he stalls he's just saying things that he sees and he's just he literally okay guys at some point today mark henry walked out and goes yellow shirts we all got on our yellow shirts everybody on the stage got on their yellow shirts we got our yellow our yellow

shirts on we're ready to go why don't you hopefully you these guys are going to get their weights entered in so they we're going to know what they're going to deadlift so we can get this thing started and it's like well wait we know mark that you got on yellow shirts as a matter of fact we can see the yellow shirts um but mark uh mark does a lot of that and it's tough and i think he's a really good guy probably and i think he's a really strong guy who has a lot of history in the sport mark is not the guy that needs to be doing that job there's a lot of people who shouldn't do that job you know what i mean so it's like being president like like you know what i mean like

i don't want to be president i'd be bad at that job you know like lots of people would be bad at mark henry's job up there lots of people would be but he also is bad at it so put someone else there i and i it's just he's been doing it for a long time it's never been good so who's making this fucking call but so somebody else seems to do it and then the other thing is when there is downtime and there wasn't near as much downtime as there yeah they did like last year we talked quite a bit about how slow they were between events rogue rogue like stepped their game up and like kept this thing moving directly in response to our feedback as as we're finding out with most things yep they are listening so you could tell like watching them that it was

something they talked about because when they were out there changing around equipment and stuff they were like hustling and sweating and like you know someone was like this year is not going to be like last year and i think in my opinion it's just like if you're wasting one person's time that's like whether it's an accident or whatever like it's just kind of disrespectful right like listen tanner i'm gonna be 40 minutes late like but i'm not gonna tell you i'm just gonna make you stand there now but do that to fucking 30 000 people who are standing up with a bad view that are hot and in the room full of farts like it's fucking terribly disrespectful i think to just dick around and take too long so they did a really good job this year,

and there was a little bit of downtime, a little fucking around with so-and-so's waiting on putting in their weights, which is whatever. In my opinion, you make a hard, fast deadline, or they've got to submit them anonymously. There is a fucking line with which you write your goddamn weight, and we don't wait around because Mark Henry's like, boy, these boys are up there making a real chess match. I used used to always wait around i'd want to put my stuff in last so i would

they're gonna wait till the guy before him and it's like mark that's not endearing us to this fucking process while we're sitting here and nothing's happening and you're still talking so during the times with which you have to do that play fucking music yeah and then they can chime in every few minutes instead of just feeling like they're filling this awkward silence yeah literally play some music and like it doesn't need to be like blasting loud or anything just like yeah keep something going keep the keep the vibe up keep the keep the energy i mean every nba game does it like every every sporting event does it like they just they don't ever rely strongman showdown does it they don't rely

on a commentator to fill three hours of airspace what that is is that's crowd work and mark henry is not that guy and so they just need to get that and the other thing is then the booths that are near the expo or the expo stage need to not be allowed to have music during that shit because they are all playing music but it's like kind of far away and it's fucking mark henry's still talking and so and then you have like jones back then yeah that actually was back then by mike jones blaring in the back we talked about mike jones on our walk yeah literally i don't think we ever today we've spent a decent amount of mike j. It's like a 15-minute Mike Jones conversation. While we're listening to Mark Henry stall, way back there,

there's all these booths, and three of them are playing music, so it's bouncing off each other and sounds terrible. But then I'm hearing, like, back then, hoes didn't want me. Yeah, Mike Jones, you got it. No, you're hot. Hoes all on you. But yeah, they got to have some music just to kill the dead time. I just don't think it's that complicated.

It's a simple problem to solve. But all that aside, today's events were the frame carry, but this time it was 200 pounds lighter. It's only 900 pounds only. Still up the same ramp that they've used for 17 years that apparently now falls apart. Right? At least in the last two years of my experience.

Last two years, things have broke on it. And then there was no straps this year, I suppose, because Tanner made a good point. He said some people get a little crusty when there's no grip testing. And so that's a good way to test the grip. If the deadlift's with straps and the frame's with straps, then there's really no grip element. Because the guys that were picking up and not continuing to go on with it,

they were failing because it was a grip deficiency. And I think a lot of hands were ripping open too. Yeah. Oh, my hands can't handle 900 pounds. My gentle, soft, precious hands. A bunch of lady hands ripping at 900 pounds. But they, yeah, so that went, I mean, Jerry Pritchett smashed that event. Yeah.

Totally smashed that event. I don't understand why that was so easy for him. Is he like that with any frame carry, or is it like up a ramp? I didn't see him do that last year. I don't know. He was so easy. Is he like that with any frame carry or is it like up a ramp? I didn't see him do that last year. I don't know. He really crushed it, though. That was another one of those moments where you're like, God damn. Was it nine seconds or 11?

Nine and a half. Nine and a half seconds. Shaw smashed it, too. The cool part about the frame carry up the ramp is when they get done, when someone crushes it, they get done, set it down, and they, like, stand up on top of it, and they're always like, yeah! It's like that on top of the world feeling. And then when you're right down below them and, like, you can feel their sweat.

Definitely cooler when you have our seats. It's that same thing, though, as, like, a wrestler on the turnbuckle, you know? You might as well throw him a couple beers while they're up there and let him be stone cold for the moment. And so Jerry Pritchett smashed that one. Shaw came in about a second behind him. Everybody else had some drops.

Thor was maybe third. Yeah, Thor finished. He was 11 and a half. He dropped it once and was still only a second behind. And then Matthias Kelliger. 11 and a half he dropped it once and was still only a second behind and then um uh matthias kill uh he uh mark henry can fucking make up names and just mumble when mark henry came out the first time i i'm gonna stop beating on mark henry here pretty soon but

my as soon as mark henry came out today i lean over tanner and i go let's get ready to mumble because anytime there's a name he can't figure out he just mumbles their name he's like and we got the sabatinoff and he pronounced dimitar sabatinoff sabatinoff i know uh dimitar dimitar is a strong guy like he's probably not like super unless you're super into Strongman, you probably don't talk about Dimitar a lot. But we have managed to talk about Dimitar quite a few times. I didn't realize until right now.

I fucking love Dimitar. We've talked about Dimitar probably more than any Strongman. I fucking really like Dimitar. I think we need to talk about him again here. More every year. That was one of my big takeaways from when we were born strong is that Dimitar used to have hair. The fact that that dimitar used to have hair was crazy and long hair beautiful if you don't know look look up dimitar on instagram you gotta follow him

i would actually really like to talk to him like just i want to know like and i kind of what's got that guy going well i also want to want to ask him, like, Dimitar, what do you do in the five minutes before you go up to do a lift? Because what happens is Dimitar comes up, and Dimitar is not very sweating, and Dimitar sits down in a chair. When Dimitar gets up to go do a lift, however, Dimitar is purple and is pouring in sweat, and he's twitching and blinking and crazy. It's not even twitching.

It's like body waves. Yeah, like it's holy. He's just like. And I don't know if it's a height thing. If you look at someone that was maybe just about ready to die. Yeah. You know, like that was really, really close to having a heart attack. Yeah, and I don't know if he has like a secret technique

with which he just like ramps his blood pressure up to get ready. Some Wim Hof secret. Well, for real, though, it's the sweating thing I don't get because he doesn't look like that when he comes up. So how does sitting in a chair make you do that? He's good at it. Whatever it is, he's good at it. But Dimitar gets out there.

Dimitar actually had a pretty good day. I mean, I think for what his tool set is, he did pretty... I thought he did better than I expected his frame to do on that raw stone. And based on it, we haven't talked about the deadlift yet, but based on his reaction and what I thought, I'm pretty sure he hit a deadlift PR all the time. He deadlifted like 935, and he was pretty jacked up about that.

So I'm guessing that's the best he's ever done on that. are all time he deadlifted like 935 and he was pretty jacked up about that so i'm best in that guessing that's the best he's ever done on that yeah he uh he his deadlift was on point today i mean it really was and the frame i think was just going to be a little much i mean dimitar's only was he like three three thirty but he's short he said like i think they said he was six foot oh okay but he i don't know is he six foot I don't know. Is he six foot? I don't know. It's hard to tell. If you go on his Instagram, or a lot of the strongmen, their Instagram, they have a picture

like Rogue lined up all the athletes. And of course, they've put him standing next to Half Thor, so he looks really short. But maybe he's around six foot. Maybe those other guys are all just that tall. They are all pretty tall. But yeah, Dimitar is... Oh yeah, Jerry Pritchett's bicep. We did talk about that, didn't we? So, yeah, so Dimitar, I don't know.

Yeah, I would like to talk to him. Also, can he still grow hair? And he should. Not like that looked really good either. I kind of liked it yeah it's definitely a different look between the two like it's one of them looks like one of them looks like he might be like uh just like a kind of overweight like school teacher yeah with any so and he was wearing glasses and when he used to have hair he wore glasses too but now he's wearing glasses when he used to have hair. He wore glasses too. But now he almost looks like, when he comes out there,

he almost looks like a guy. If I didn't, for some reason, I've grown to like him a lot. Oh, yeah. But he kind of looks like a guy who would be like a prototypical, maybe like the second bad guy that you face on a video game. One that you're going to beat for sure it's not going to be the main boss like the second

or third boss who you're like alright listen all you got to do is you got to do this this this this and then you get past him and that's what I envisioned Dimitar as and then what was the him in his weak spot and he exploited and then the Russian dude Mik, my run and deal with him was that he's from Russia.

Shimlyakov. Shimlyakov, which his name is a made-up bad guy name for sure. Yeah. Mikhail Shimlyakov. Like James Bond, bad guy. Yeah, he's a Bond bad guy. Russian, comes out in his black beret. He was a russian special forces

soldier which is odd but yeah my comment on that during the thing to tyler you know like mark or a couple times he'd be like yeah and he'd use the opportunity he'd parlay shimlyakov being uh in the military to like uh celebrate our our military and stuff. And I'm like, he's Russian. We're not on the same team. Wasn't he part of the team that was trying to actively undermine us? Wrong side here. Like, we're not like,

like, like, am I like, I like Shivlyakov. Like, I like him a lot, but I'm like, am I celebrating the fact that he's a Russian special forces soldier?

Who's on American soil? Yeah. Can you imagine if there was a strongman? If Brian Shaw used to be a CIA agent, and then he went to this competition in Russia, and they're like, yeah, he used to be a CIA agent. Let's hear it for the troops. For the Russian special service troops. Hey, strong man.

There's no geopolitical bounds in the world. Apparently not. I literally think that he's like just, that's not clicking with him. Like, no. It's like, you know that he wasn't in the United States Armed Forces. Like, I want to say that. You know that he wasn't in the united states armed forces like i want to say that like you know those two things are not the same things we actually were

not friends at all for like 30 years and now it's even now i think we're getting back to that i don't know the speaking of isis i'd like to thank our troops like well let's back it up here like wrong troops but now that is a good but he is a great segue he in my opinion i don't i've seen him the last two years or the last three years this is my third year of seeing him last year he was hurt he had a bicep thing and he came out and tried some things and he was never able to do anything um but he comes out and he is fucking fun to watch like he comes like he has personality yeah he's people get hype you know like shaw will get excited afterwards but he's nothing for the crowd before really other than let's go half thor is all hype hype hype but this

guy comes out he's fucking charming he smiles yeah and he usually usually before he goes he likes to kind of wave to get the crowd in and it's's not like, it's like a, hey, come on, guys. Let's do this. It almost gives a little smirk. With the natural stone, he'd get it up on his shoulder, and then he'd use this other arm on his lap. And he'd start winding up. But he'd do it nice and slow.

He'd do it, and he'd look at the crowd and be like, come on, guys. And everyone's like, yeah, we should be excited about this. And then he, but for the deadlift, one, he'd come out and had some badass deadlifts. Also, he didn't like the chalkiness of the floor, so he'd come out and he'd fucking spit. Yeah, he'd spit on the floor. White grind his socks into it, and then hit his lifts.

I mean, I didn't think he could deadlift that. He had two over 900? Yeah. And we're talking, because this is kind of the rising bar thing, where it's not like he's going and he waits through a rotation of 10 guys. He's deadlifting, and then with the attempts he's calling, what did he start with, like 8-something? I think it was like 850 or 860.

Yeah, it's like, oh, you did 850? Well, for doing 850, now you get to do 900 in three minutes. So then he waits like three minutes. It might have been five, but it wasn't very long, and then it's like, alright, get out there and do nine, and he goes out there and does it. And then, was it third attempt now? Yeah,

his third attempt, and I think the wait was 9.30 to 9.50. It was somewhere, and then I can't remember the exact number. Still not a lot of time between. No, no, not much, especially because we'll talk about this, I suppose, but like Shaw, J.F. Caron, Hafthor Bjornsson, and Jerry Pritchett, none of them even did their first attempt until like 925 pounds. They were all under 900, over 900.

Yeah, for their first attempt even. So he goes up, though, for his third attempt. And his second attempt moved pretty well. So we knew he'd take a big jump. He comes out for that third attempt, gets it up, and it starts. Well, no, his second attempt was good, but he got shaky in the knees, but it still was fast. So you knew he could grind it out, and it still moved quick.

So I remember coming out to his third attempt, I go, this one's going to be good to watch. but it still was fast so you knew he could grind it out and it still moved quick so i remember coming out to his third i go this one's gonna be good to watch and it was the reason why i recorded even though i didn't have the good camera or anything but tommy was getting pictures that's the reason i recorded like just the video of everybody's attempt because i wanted to see like the fucking gnarly grinder that like someone just really sticking one out. And he fucking did it, dude. He gets up there and it goes. It's three inches below the knee. He starts shaking.

And he's in it. He gets it just above the knee. And he starts bleeding out of one nostril. Starts bleeding out of the other. And then it runs like a river. Just blowing out his nose. Like covering distance. And just flowing all over his face.

Tommy's got pictures of it just over his teeth, his mouth. The deadlift nosebleed is somewhat rare. You don't see it a lot, but that's probably the most common spot you do see a nosebleed in this stuff. And the volume of blood that was gushing out of this is something really unusual. A lot of blood. is something really unusual. A lot of blood. And he fucking got it locked out,

basically the lockout of the day. I mean, that's a great image, him locking that deadlift out. Yeah. And then puts it down, immediately says, I'm sorry. Yeah, like apologizing for the blood on the platform. Like says he's sorry, points to the platform, wipes all the fucking blood off,

not all of it, just smears the blood off his face onto the back of his hand, and then is just smiling this bloody smile and does his little kind of salute thing, hand to his heart and bows to the crowd and walks out like a fucking baller. Yeah, and that's the thing is like

every single rep he finishes, or for any event he finishes he ends it with like his hand over his heart he bows and then usually he does like a little salute to to almost every direction of the crowd and a lot of times he'll even go shake all the refs hands between attempts yeah and even if even if he doesn't do well on an event he still like kind of gives his respect the same way yeah easily one of my like probably the one that i'm gonna walk away with after this year being like that's my the guy that covered the most ground in my mind in being one of my new favorites that guy is fucking awesome to watch yeah like i'll watch

him compete any day for sure um what went on next so half thor come out hit they all hit their shit we get down to the last couple attempts. We kind of got the vibe that what did Brian Shaw hit? Thor did like 1,011 or 1,012 on his second attempt. Looked really easy. Looked really easy. When he got done with that, you're like, well, he's going to do a lot more than that. Yeah.

Then Shaw on his second attempt went right after that. He did 1,016. And it did not look good. It did not look easy. Like, he got it cleanly. I mean, maybe there was a little bit of a hitch. That probably would have passed in a publishing meeting. But it was hard.

Like, you could see. It was slow. Yeah. It took a lot out of him. Yeah. So you were wondering, boy, what is he is he gonna try next because there's probably because you know half door is gonna put it to yeah and the world record uh prior to this was 1036 or 1000 1037 from jerry pritchett last year uh jerry pritchett ends up uh pulling a fairly hard

second attempt and then he said he tore his bicep a little bit on that and he i know he tore his bicep earlier this year so it's probably the same same thing going on and he went for uh i think a one pound over his last world record and didn't really budget i don't think uh jf carone though he did 1021 on his third and his deadlift is impressive it's crazy yeah like he has the fastest deadlift at least to the knees where it just even with a thousand twenty one pounds it flew to his knees yeah that guy in that kind of static strength department is i mean he he's the real deal and was that his third yeah that was his third so he was done. Then Jerry missed his. So it was just up to Thor and Shaw. Thor had to go first.

We're guessing that Shaw didn't even put in a number at that point. No, I don't think so. He was basically just going to defer to Thor because if Shaw puts in a number that's lower than Thor's number, it doesn't matter. Yeah. And so he can't. So basically he was stuck. He was either going to have to hit what Thor hit or go up. And also, these guys are getting into world record territory now.

So there is $5,000 on the line on top of this. So I think basically Shaw just deferred to Thor and was kind of hope that Thor didn't hit the lift. And I think rightfully so. I think he also knew he didn't have much left. And that he was not going to cough up a bunch of places. So he, uh, but Thor come out with 1041.

Yeah. What was it? Yeah. 41. Yep. 1041. And, uh, that was not,

there was more left in that too. Like he just lifted it and you know, you could have definitely put, put more weight on it. Yeah. It was, the crowd went fucking nuts. I was going to say that was another feeling

where you kind of got the tingle up your back like, whoa, that's pretty cool. Yeah. That might have been the second coolest thing I saw here. Yeah, yeah. And then Brian Shaw came out and we were all like, yeah, it's not going to happen. And then it starts chanting USA.

And everyone started standing up. And then it gets loud and you're like, and in my head I was like, he's about to America the fuck out of this thing yeah you did I but right up until that moment I was like no way no way and then all of a sudden I'm like oh maybe he is going like I don't know why that the crowd changed my mind but I was like oh maybe they're gonna change his mind because I don't think Brian thought he was going to hit that. Right. And he popped it off the ground. That was it. It didn't have a good chance.

That lift didn't have a chance. It was a real good day. I then went and got my beard trimmed. Before that even, I was sitting next to Mrs. Slater. You can probably explain this better than I can. Steve Slater. Slater and Tanner.

You can probably explain this better than I can. Steve Slater, I don't know that he works for Rogue. He owns his own shop in Ohio here where they make, what is it called? Slater Hardware. There you go. Established in 1946, Lancaster, Ohio. 1946, Lancaster, Ohio. But he makes all of these implements that you see at the Arnold Strongman, especially like he'd be well-known for the Austrian Oak Log.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, and like the frame and the stones, you know, the big world record stone that Shaw lifts every year. They make all of that stuff and um i think he's kind of known for like being the best at that stuff kind of so yeah so this guy or his sister was sitting next to me in the photographer or in the photographer's area and real nice lady um what you could tell was really excited to be there you could tell she was a fan of the sport of strongman to be there you could tell she was a fan of the sport of strongman she knew the guy's name she was hyped and clapping and cheering for

everyone and uh after the event got done she said yeah it was really fun sitting sitting with you guys and uh she goes into her bag and pulls out this little miniature slater stone like kind of paperweight type thing and gave me a slateraters hardware t-shirt so that was that was really awesome yeah and uh the stone little thing is cool that is pretty cool because it's actually like cast yeah you know what i mean because there's still the seams that is pretty sweet yeah and then somehow so at the arnold guys there's people that walk around giving out shit all the time and i got given some beard thing and had a picture taken and i was like whatever apparently won a thing and and they were like oh come pick up your prize so i go there and it was what was it maestro's beard balm or something like that well they had barbers there who someone who basically the guy there was talking to me about their brand all the stuff and it's cool

and you can get their stuff in stores or whatever. So, but he was like, had me do a full beard trim with his barber who then I find out that my fucking barber has 20,000 followers on Instagram. He just goes, Oh yeah, he's a YouTube barber, which I didn't know what a YouTube barber meant. Like,

do you, are you a YouTube? It's just like, what does that mean for sure? He is David Fala and he has 20,000 followers on Instagram. Apparently he did Bradley

Martin's beard. Fucking Ray Williams beard. Yeah, apparently you can get famous as a barber. Did not know that at all. But anyway, trimmed up my beard. Never had a barber. Did not know that at all. But anyway, trimmed up my beard.

Never had a barber touch my beard ever, so that was interesting. And yeah, that's what that was. And that pretty much kind of rounded out our day. That did. We wandered our way back here. Nice relaxing way to finish by getting your beard touched up. But yeah, and I think that pretty much wraps up day two. Nice relaxing way to finish by getting your beard touched up. Yeah, and I think that pretty much wraps up day two.

And tomorrow is Sunday, which is a pretty low-key day. It's a pretty short day. Hopefully. Yeah. We'll probably hopefully snag a couple more interviews. There's some guys we'd like to catch, some powerlifters and stuff that we haven't yet. And maybe some of the strongman guys will be around. They'll be done competing. So I think, you know, last year we were able to catch Ray Williams

and half Thor on Sunday. Also, you know about this, but if you follow the sport, but Ray Williams broke the squat record today to 1,070. We missed that. It's hard to be in so many places at one time. Yeah, I get told a lot. It's like, oh, did you see this? It's like you have to be there once to

understand that like you cannot see anything yeah and also 30 minutes yeah a lot of these places like from from a straight line like you clear the place out to walk from one to another maybe five to ten minutes but under the circumstances you're in to get from one spot to another can be anywhere between 10 minutes and 45 minutes you just don't know 45 it is the worst 45 minutes your day i think by choice you know uh these last two years even we've kind of put our eggs in the pro strongman arnold basket as far as we make that choice consciously over some other things and i think that's a just as a spectator it's pretty fun to watch where some stuff, there's a lot of,

uh, the truth of the matter is watching someone squat a thousand pounds. It's awesome. The people get hyped. It's cool. However, from just as a person in a crowd, like it,

the bar has, you know what I mean? Like you're just putting away, we, we talk about strong men like that a lot. We're like, the reason the sport's supposed to be interesting is that it's supposed to be a spectacle yeah and that's why i don't like like a straight bar from the floor normal deadlift for our strongman

company you know you got to have it like look fucking neat lift a car yeah some time you know and and then just talking about the spectacle of it like today i in well i gotta think here but i probably the heaviest deadlift i've seen in person is in the 700s maybe for for an actual just deadlift um today i watched like 10 got like the worst guy i saw deadlift pulled like around 800 and one was the first and it was just like get this guy get this scrub out of here and then like how many people did we see pull over 900 today all of them

I think anyone that hit I think there was 8 that probably did over 900 Mateus Kielkowski didn't make 900 and the first guy right away he went out after one attempt and I don't know if he hurt himself and I know it's an elephant bar but let's just say like with a whippy a whippy bar with wide plates how many people in the world pull over 900 i mean there's two in this room you can decide what to

megan doesn't count but you know like how many guys pull over 900 in the world conventional ever I don't not many and then how many pull over a thousand ever how many actual thousand plus pound squats did we see today and or deadlifts did we see today we saw four people but how many actual lifts did we see completed or attempted completed we saw one two three four five i think six completed 1 000 pound deadlift it's fucking unbelievable yeah yeah and not only that those six happened in a matter of like 15 minutes that has to be like a record right i think so like there's no way that's been done before in a room in one room yeah Yeah. That many. Yeah. Yeah. I can't imagine it happened.

No, I bet that is a record. Do we get the rogue record breakers thing for coming up with that record? Yeah, so where's our $5,000 check? Hey, we came up with a record that they broke. Is that kind of what the thing is here? But, well, hopefully we'll get back to you guys tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get a bunch of stuff and we'll uh we'll get we'll get all that stuff as soon as possible um that's gonna have us wrapped up for today we're over our we're yeah we're over our hour no my gosh we have to go

eat this is uh we haven't eaten since the dopest fucking polish spot again now my man ben skutnik told me there's apparently a spicy chicken place above in that market. And I'm going to be honest, Ben, I'm going back to the Polish place tomorrow. This shit's too good. Were you like, yeah, but what about the Polish place? Oh, also today, I forgot to say, Steffi Cohen deadlifted 545 pounds today in the cage. At 123 pounds body weight. That's really impressive.

She is for sure one of the women to watch in powerlifting there's not many more people that have that craziest stuff going on than her her uh sumo deadlift technique is it's pretty spectacular too it is textbook like you can't what do you say better to do about it and even even at 100% max weight, 545, it really doesn't falter. Like it just gets slower, but she does not like get out of the perfect groove. Nope. Just to wrap up too, Heather Connor. What do we got here?

314 on the squat. She's pretty strong. 159 on the bench. 402 on the deadlift weighing 97 pounds. 97 pounds. A 558 Wilkes. Yeah. Well, I just want to quit.

I think other crazy things that happened today that we didn't see. Four times body weight. Is that her? Yeah, that's her. Yeah. Her deadlift is four times her body weight and three times her body weight in the fucking squat yeah that's insane dan green also pulled a 900 pound deadlift conventional deadlift beltless like what like where's that coming from? I don't even like that. That's just, don't let your kids do that. So hopefully we'll have some more shit here.

We're going to get a bunch more content tomorrow that will have us wrapped up for today. Let's give the whole rundown. So go to massanomics.com, buy all the shirts, hats, gear. We're wearing the Lyft shirt, the Weekend Warrior. Oh, and also, a lot of people like these shirts yeah listen before all these people from the arnold get one you need to order one really quickly and if you're wondering if people saw us and said hey it's the massonomics guys they did that happened and you know who you are. Yeah. Thanks, that one guy. We did get to take fan photos like four or five times.

Yeah, we did. It was kind of cool. That was great, yeah. And like just walking through enormous crowds, just like a random person be like, hey, it's the Mastodonomics guys. And like we all give them high fives as we walk by. Hey, what's up? It's like, whoa, that's cool.

Now, our dude from what was it illinois the one who grabbed us by the uh we they're the ones that snuck the bongs into yeah which was hilarious yeah also then looked at their instagram look at his instagram page what the fuck yeah i don't even remember some of the numbers but it was like yeah 645 deadlift uh four it was like 645 for reps i think wasn't it well i think it was a single he says pr 451 bench press and a 661 squat yeah that's some and you i'm not gonna say he looked like like he was he was a big deal he was a big dude like i should do that and i can't do that i certainly can't fucking that's fucking crazy so so kudos to you you're probably listening yeah hopefully you're listening he said what do you say i'm one of your 30 listeners

fuck i mean i'm not glad to meet you but let me i gotta look at the metrics and make sure that's not true there's like twice that many there's at least twice i mean we switched the platform over so we really the data's not showing what we thought it showed. There's a lag in the metrics. Is that our version of there's a glitch in the matrix? Yeah. Okay, so go to the store. Scroll to the bottom of the page while you're there.

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