Massenomics Podcast - Ep.104: USAPL State Meet

Episode Date: April 2, 2018

In this week's 2-Year-Anniversary episode, the fellas sit down and discuss some of the things that went down while they were at The Arnold, and then dive headfirst into running down the state USAPL meet that was chock full of Massenomics lifters. 

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This is the two-year anniversary podcast. Whoa. We did not deliver on the McNugget promise. We'll have to do that. You shaved your beard for the episode. Yeah, you did shave your beard. That's what we did. It's just back a little bit.

Yeah. You should have seen it, though, when it was completely shaved. Yeah, yeah. Old baby face over here. Yep, yep. I was very pretty. He wasn't the maestro. Definitely not the maestro.

So we actually haven't been in the studio in like a month. Yeah, I kind of forgot how this went. We tried to set the mood in the studio. Yeah, we dimmed the lights. Yeah, we also forgot the lights. Tyler's been burning incense down here. And one camera's not charged. It's a real low-budget production.

Yeah. We wanted to really do something special for the two years. Two years, we wanted to make sure we set it way back. We were kind of trying to go back to what it was like at the beginning. Back to the roots. Yeah, that's right. Well, it's been a busy little bit. I had, hopefully, you guys dug.

Let's see. This would be, I just finished doing it all. So it would be last week's episode was the last of our Arnold rundown. You guys haven't even heard that one yet then. No, not the newest one. I just did that like an hour ago. I did have to. I actually really.

So for me, I'm in a unique position in that I'm there and I record video for every single one of them, but you guys are five feet away, and five feet away in the Arnold means you can't hear anything. So I just was like, it was like, Oh yeah, they talked to Stan and there was a lot of smiling and laughing. Don't know a single word that was said. So for me, it is really fun to go back and listen to them and like, remember like what I saw and kind of how it all matches up.

But the thing that I had to laugh about is in that setting, because it is so noisy, you have to yell, you have to yell into the mic and it starts off with you guys this is and it sounds like uh the thing i only i can compare it to is like i think it's the first austin powers movie he's like i can't control the volume of my voice because it sounds fine in the record you know into the microphone it records just fine yeah so it does sound like we're yeah i like it the best what you said on there yeah we like we have to yell in order to hear for the person we're talking

to to hear us yeah but the mic doesn't need to try that hard so like yeah it sucks it is what it is it almost sounds like you guys don't have any social skills you don't know don't know how to do don't know how to do that welcome to uh yeah it is definitely like the opposite of uh one of those like interviews where it's just a hang yeah just like oh just chill in here yeah because you can't do that because you have to scream for the both of and you're kind of you kind of just the nature of it you have to rush it too you can't just really take your time yeah it's not just like so it's just like this rapid fire yelling yeah and there's no room for downtime in that setting like you can't just really take your time. Yeah, it's not just like. So it's just like this rapid fire yelling.

Yeah, and there's no room for downtime in that setting. Like you can't like, okay, what am I going to ask? It has to be constant talking. Yeah. Because you're just standing there in front of. That's the deal. Like in this format, if we had, obviously we will, I'm sure in the very near future, have like Half Lord Bjornsson on the actual podcast oh I'm sure in my that's kind of what he hinted towards yeah that would be cool he was like

he was like so do you guys want to hang out and we were like listen we gotta go but no yeah like talk us talk to us after you've won world strongest yeah until then no we uh you know but like in that setting you can be like you can mumble around you can shoot the shit you can like redirect you can talk to somebody else someone else time but when you're standing at the booth and hundreds of people keep stopping and piling up behind you and everybody starts getting anxious about the crowd and then your your time is up and it's like you got to go fucking fast yeah um i was yeah i just went through and listened to those ones today the second half i didn't realize like the names that we got i was rolling through there and i was like

shit that's right we did talk to those yeah that was like i think that was like kaz uh the live large and stacy burr that was uh That was Jen Thompson, Stan Efferding. Ray Williams, Terry Hollins, Thor. Tom Finn and Tom Callis. That was a fucking shit show, you guys. If you just listened to last week's episode, we won't get too deep, but I wanted to hear your guys' take on that because that happened. And when you go back and you hear that episode like you'll you'll know

but that fucking is like the worst time to ever schedule anything at the arnold yeah like if i was boss i would my the next time i'm going to schedule a an athlete to do a thing at my booth it's definitely not saturday at 1 p.m because that's the worst time that might be the worst time and place in the world. It's got to be up there if it's not. That is ground zero. So that was one of those things where it was like, well, we're kind of hoping we get some pretty cool stuff,

and it was just too crazy. It was too packed. It was too loud. And that was the one where everyone was yelling. I was yelling. Larry Shook's calling me right now. Oh, boy. Let's put it to silent. Put it on speaker.

Should I? Yes. It's probably about the sound system for the gym. Larry? Larry? Hey. What's going on? What are you doing?

Podcasting with Tommy and Tyler. What are you up to? Oh, yeah, I'll just call you back in a while. Oh, shut up, Larry. Did you have an update on the stereo? Well, I took it all apart, but they broke the ears on the switch, and there's a plate inside there. They broke one of the ears off on that, too, so I don't know.

Do we have one fuck somebody punched it or they broke two pieces off of it do we uh is it fixable or do we need to get a new stereo set up well i'm gonna go take it out to bricks tomorrow and see if you can get some parts for it but i i should yeah i got to replace like two pieces on it. All right. Well, yeah, keep me updated, whatever you think we'll do. All right, okay.

I love you, Larry. All right. See ya. All right, see ya. All right, guys, this just in. We got an update on the stereo. The stereo. Special guest.

Breaking news. First time Larry Legend's been on. That's the first guest we've had call in. I mean, they don't call him the legend for no reason. He breaks ground on everything. So the stereo at the context of that, the stereo was broken at the gym. So it's been a pretty hot topic lately.

That's, I mean, borderline not having a gym at that point. So we got to get that thing under wraps. I bet the people at the computer store upstairs, though, are really, really excited about that. This is great. God, this is awesome. All those guys finally die like we've been hoping so much. But anyway, back to the Arnold. So that is like an absolute war zone at that time.

So I did also go into how we almost abandoned Half Thor. We almost missed that deal. We were this close to, yeah, so we haven't on the podcast talked about any of those second day guests. So obviously talking to Half Thor was awesome. And yeah, what was the snake we were five minutes away from walking out it was like exhaustion was saying we it's always that way on sunday yeah so we're over it we fucking we went ate one more round of polish food

killed it and then and then like but we like really took our time too like we were fucking around and sat around which we don't normally do like normally we eat and bail but like milled around and then we wandered over and we're like oh let's just go and so took our time packing our shit up and then like had we done things the way we normally would have like in moving like we would have been blocks and blocks and blocks away for sure yeah before we got the call then we still would have had to run back because we're not gonna like not yeah tried yeah with half thor yeah but uh so that was cool i was pretty stoked to we got the call from our sbd contact and we're like well get that stuff back out yep that's literally what it was we had everything packed away it's like

yeah and the sbd booth is in the back the farthest back not necessarily the corner but the very back wall the opposite of where you want it to be if you want to get there fast so we basically ran there because we know like when thor goes to a place it is and if the crowd if the crowd gets is already too big like we were fortunate there was a there was a crowd but it wasn't a huge huge crowd and it was growing though but it was growing and and we it was it got out of hand by the time we left so um had it got out of hand and we got there we probably would have really pissed a lot of people off how did it go or do you guys remember the uh when uh our contact at sp, we kind of went up to him,

and Thor was already in line, and we were maybe 10 feet away, but we could see the exchange between he and Thor, and we could tell that Thor was kind of like, well, were these guys in line? Yeah, there's a line here. They're not in that line. He was kind of wondering what was going on. Hey, he likes to keep it fair, right? Yeah, you of work he didn't want people budging in the front of the line yeah yeah but uh we tried to be respectful of everyone's time yeah that's always the problem

in those settings though because it's like what also was weird like even with ray williams like ray williams was there to maybe like two people yeah in line. We whip out cameras and shit, and by the end of a six, seven-minute segment, there's fucking 70 people standing there. And a lot of them are taking pictures of us interviewing them, not waiting to talk to Ray or take a picture with him. They're just taking a picture of an interview happening, which is weird, I think.

Well, people, when they see that happening, people that don't even necessarily know who that is start asking who that is. I could actually hear it and see it when we were interviewing Stan. There was someone that walked up behind you, and maybe it was you told, maybe you could hear it and told me, but I remember they looked, and the one guy goes like, oh, who's that? And then the other guy said something like, oh, it's that bodybuilder that's really strong. Yeah, he's like a really strong bodybuilder

and he was on Shark Tank. So it's like they had to see what was happening. Because we were there interviewing him, they were on to the fact that it was something. More interested. And then I know as soon as we packed up, then they wanted to just talk to him real quick. But Stan is a good example of that

where nobody was there when we got there. Nobody was there when we started at all. It was literally Stan Everding folding t-shirts. With his maybe his partner. Yeah. literally Stan Everding folding t-shirts. With his baby as a partner. Yeah. So Stan was folding t-shirts, and then... Good to know that Stan folds t-shirts. He knows how to do that.

Don't fucking tell my wife that Stan Everding folds t-shirts. But by the time we were done with Stan, there was, what do you suppose, 50 people standing there? There was a good-sized crowd. And we just leave. We're like, get the fuck out of here. And the guy that works for him or with him was like, thanks, fuckers. Yeah, he really did. He was like, fucking thanks a lot, guys.

Because one, Stan's not going to help us folding T-shirts. So I think Stan's sending us royalties for the commission that we actually i could be wrong but i think it probably actually does work just the scene works out pretty good we are at your booth yeah you know because it does just draw a bit of a crowd it looks like something's happening terry holland's was a cool one i don't know if you know i don't know that interview with terry holland's was i, actually probably my favorite conversation. Yeah, it was really cool. I don't know if everyone listening to this knows who Terry Hollins is.

They might, of course, know who Thor is or Ray Williams is. To me, he's just kind of one of those names that's just been around forever. I couldn't really even pinpoint, like, oh, yeah, I remember when he did this event and did this. I don't even know if I could name any examples of things that he's done. But I just, for some reason, feel like he's one of those guys that's always been there in some way or another. He's podium at World's Strongest Man twice.

I think he's got third place twice. And Fortissimus is some strongman organization. I don't even know what it is. But they recently came out with a Top 10 Strongman Ever. It was based on major events, placings in major events ever all time so whether you think that list is good or not because it had kaz like sixth because in his day there

wasn't as many events right so we didn't have maybe like a total number of points that was uh yeah yeah as many chances to prove himself right where Z is very high because he's over so much time, he's competed in so many. But anyways, Terry Hollins was in the top ten of that because he's competed in so many events and placed highly in so many global events before. So he is a name worth noting, but a really cool guy to interview, though.

He was, aside from his British accent, which maybe just makes it sound more articulate yeah yeah he's i mean he was just really well spoken and he covered a lot like yeah it was interesting like his answer questions and i haven't heard you right my my notes from it were that's the broadest man i've ever seen like his bone structure is completely different than like any human like it's just he's so freaking broad. Yep. And then his feet were huge, too. Like, Tyler, what size shoe do you wear? I wear, like, a 14 or 15.

Yeah. That's pretty big. And, like, your feet look like just normal-sized people feet. Probably, like, 20 or something. Yeah, like, he had some big shoes. He, yeah, I just can't, I'm trying to find that list to look over, too, because that was interesting. I don't know.

You know, I'm sure it was, I know it was posted know it was posted by like strong man motivation at one point in time but it was probably a month ago so yeah probably hard to dig up but yeah so that uh but that the terry hollins is a really good one um yeah that that was that was a jam ray williams was cool uh he talked about uh him himself wearing the weekend warrior t-shirt, so I enjoyed that. I mean, it wasn't without coaxing, but... He didn't just bring it up. As all of the interviews went. He knew to roll with it once, and he did a really good job of that.

It's also hard sometimes with those things, though. You have to get them having fun. If you notice, if you listen to those, like, we're not good at interviewing people. Yeah. As far as like starting and finishing. Like, okay, I guess that's it.

Okay. Let's shake hands. Shake hands. We'll shake hands one more time. Thank you. Shake hands one more time. Picture, picture,

picture, picture. And then we'll shake hands one more time. And thanks. But, um, yeah, it was,

uh, it's a learning experience, I guess. You don't have to be good at it to do it i guess you just do it no just just doing it and i was also we did though get some pretty high praise from donnie he has donnie thompson yeah i don't even know completely what he meant by it but he was saying something about the perception of reality versus what's going on and the fact that it's lifters interviewing people like he just thought he thought the whole thing seemed more genuine and he had a facebook

comment that i shared on our uh you know this has been since then that i think this was post that wasn't yeah this is after yeah i think it was a few days after he what was the comment something about how uh we're we're what the community needs. Yes, it was something along those lines. More than making, you know, it was more generous probably than what we actually are. Oh, yeah. You know, but I still liked it.

Well, we're still in a league of our own, though. No one else is really doing this. So we just by default, we'll take that trophy. Jen Thompson was another one. She had been wearing the Weekend Warrior, too too so she made a couple comments about that and that that was cool that was another one it was like the blaine sumner one last year where i had to go up to her when she was sitting and watching an event and like see if that was okay so i was kind of worried about that that they were going to be interrupting her but she was really nice of course

yeah obviously and then we didn't... Let's be real. Are you going to be like, is Jen Thompson going to be like, I wouldn't have pictured it going otherwise. Like, fuck you, man. Get the fuck up out of my face. I'm trying to watch this shit. Right. And if she was like that, I'd be like, well, that's pretty cool, too.

I was not expecting that. That's a story, too. Yeah. And then I don't think we discussed either how we got to go in the cage with Milanochev in a really low key. Yeah, we did not talk about that at all. So this was, what day was that? Was that Sunday or Saturday? Sunday morning. Yeah, Sunday morning.

So things are kind of winding down. It was before the doors to the Arnold had really opened. So really empty, not many people in there. And we walked by the cage, and there's Milanochev and this woman in there. And Milanochev has his black animal singlet on, his yellow animal shirt, and just looking like Milanochev. And he's warming up for squats, and we're just standing there from afar like, is it safe to talk to him?

And the idea was maybe we should try to interview him like is this so we went and talked to the guy from uh from from animal who kind of runs the the booth there and thanks to him for natural guy one yeah thanks to him for letting us letting us in there and letting us uh do the deal but uh so we kind of went up to him which he's also really fucking busy selling shit there. He was really busy. There's like pallets and pallets and pallets of shit. He was literally, as I was trying to get to him, having an important conversation with one of the other employees. And all he really wanted to know was, does this dude speak English? Yeah.

But you don't want to interrupt something. So finally, we were like, does Milanochev speak English? And he goes, not very well. But you guys are welcome to go. You can go see. I think that was his girlfriend or wife or something. She translates for him, but he's like, she's also not very good at it either. And it's like, well, there's no – have you ever heard interviews,

even podcast interviews that go through a translator? Oh, it's just like transactional. It is so the worst. like interviews like even podcast interviews that go oh it's just like transactional it's not even like the worst right like and so there was we just knew it wasn't there's nothing was going to happen well tell me what happened when you and i went so okay so then we get we go in the cage and he's he's actually trying to do a squat workout regular he's trying to get his workout in so he has uh i think he had just the bar and it's surprising that a guy just the bar a guy that yeah a guy that squats once he squatted like 1100 or high thousands with wraps several times um he warms up with just the bar for he probably did about five sets of 10 just the and moved it

just fine and like so that's cool to see that too but i can't move the bar just fine that's apparently what he's doing. He needs some weight to put me in place. And so he's doing that, and so we're kind of standing afar just watching him. There's a few people in the area kind of watching him, like, oh, let's see what's on display here. And then I'm like, well, let's go ask him if we can take some pictures. So I go over, I'm like, Andre. And I go out to shake his hand, and he just kind of puts his hand out.

And he makes this look on his face like uh don't say anything to me because i don't know what to say to you and i'm like can i take some pictures and he just looks at me and smiles and nods his head and i'm like kind of do the the picture thing with my hands yeah he's like yeah yeah it gives the thumbs up and we walk away we're like it's a really good thing we didn't try it yeah yeah and then and then in the process of taking pictures while he was warming up did you still feel like maybe he didn't understand and didn't want you taking pictures i did just a couple and i'm like yeah we'll just we'll move on from here because i got i got some video of him just squatting you know just kind of some moving shots of him. And Megan took a couple pictures, and Megan has this funny, like,

I'll have to find it. Selfie. It's a selfie of her in the cage, just doing the white girl thing. Get in the cage, look at me. And then in the background is Milanochev with the bar on his back, looking over, staring right at at her just like stone cold like that's funny and then one of the more interesting things about that is when you got closer and looked at his footwear choice it was uh you could see his feet through the holes in the sides of his

shoes there was actually toes that were not in the shoe yeah like his small toe or maybe a second toe was yeah he has it's not like it's's not the Sabo or Sabo deadlift shoes. It's like the metal shoes. I don't even know what brand they are, but they've been used heavily for maybe a decade or more now. Would you say they are? How close are Shane's lifting shoes to what those are? Oh, Shane has a lot of years to get to that point.

That's what I mean. That's the only comparison. Shane's got some rough Oh, Shane has a lot of years to get to that point. That's what I mean. Like, that's the only comparison. Shane's got some rough ones. But then Milanochev, I'm like, and Shane's going to see those shoes of Milanochev's and be like, oh, I'm good forever. No, he literally had toe, and not like a sock sticking out, like he didn't have socks on.

So he had toes hanging out of his shoes. Yeah. So. Also couldn't figure out why at some point he took off his shoes and then and then his really ratty jacket and uh old white jacket it was a white jacket at one point it was very khaki color yeah yeah um but but then it was just he just like weighed his shoes and jacket yeah on a scale oh yeah i missed that yeah you played that out figure that out but whatever and also i'm like you're a super like like you ain't never cut no weight no i don't know what that was for. But, no, that was pretty sweet.

And, yeah, but that was the cage stuff, and that's kind of most of the interviews. Do we want to talk about your beard? Did we do that? Did we talk about it? Because that would have been on Saturday or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So somewhere in the process, we got a –

Hi, dog. Fletch, go away. Somewhere in the process, I got a, uh, hi dog, Fletch, go away. We, uh, somewhere in the process, I got given two different times, a, some sort of beard balm and just walking through the crowd. And the second time I was like, you already gave me this. And they're like, oh, well, let me take a picture of your beard. And I was like, what? And they're like, yeah, we're doing some contest.

So they did. And I ended up winning this contest on the deal so i got to go get my um some free shit from maestro's beard care and maestro classic maestro's classic is that what it is yeah and the now the cool part was then you got to get like a professional beard trimming from a barber from a famous youtube barber apparently you can be a famous youtube barber and the dude is i think on instagram he's like david fit barber or something like that um he's got like fucking 30 or 40 000 followers on youtube and like 80 000 subscribers on his or on his youtube channel and instagram he's like 40 000 followers and i'm like what in the fuck yeah like we're trying really

hard guys and we do not have 80 000 subscribers yeah he's like sponsored by clippers companies and shit like anyway touched up the beard did a tremendous job i got some ill-fitting clothes and uh and then i and then i came home and shaved the beard you're like yeah it's going off well no it just it had gotten to a point there's a. Well, no, it had gotten to a point. There's a length with my beard where it does get to a point in which it's got to go. Otherwise, it's like another six months of getting longer before it's manageable because it just gets out.

It was there, so I knew I was going to probably tighten it up when I came back, and I just lopped it off. Now you're the maestro. Now I'm the maestro. It was there, so I knew I was going to probably tighten it up when I came back, and I just lopped it off. So all that. Now you're the maestro. Now I'm the maestro. It's the circle of life. Yeah. I won't get into any of the allegations around the maestro or anything like that.

You can probably Google that if you want to. You can probably just Google it. But yeah, so I got probably the most famous barber in the fucking world touch my beard. And then how did I reward it? By getting rid of it. Destroying that masterpiece. Yeah. We had a bit now.

So we're all done with the Arnold. We flew home amidst an absolute fucking blizzard. Somehow we're allowed to take off and land. So we made it, we rested, we didn't do anything. You guys had a powerlifting meet then a week later, which was at this point last,

a week ago. A week ago now. Yeah. Tell us about how all that, Tommy. So, it was the national championships and I won it.

So, national champion. National champion. Tell us the fate. You could probably Google that. No, it was the South Dakota State Powerlifting Championships. The meet is run by former podcast guest and world champion

bench presser jonah leo if you want to hear him go back to episode 30 something maybe maybe 39 something like that we had that many episodes before we had it yeah i think because i think nick was like 30 nick was our first uh was nick the first? No. Jonah was. Oh yeah, you're right then. It must have been 20 something. Like 22? Yeah. Okay, because Nick was like 30. So it was before. Sweet, yeah.

So he puts on the meet and first of all, he does an amazing job with it. Going to the Arnold, we get to see a glimpse of probably five different powerlifting meets going on a mixture of most of them are usa pl meets but i think there's like an xbc deadlift thing or something there too but um it's a really really well run meet like the production value and everything is top notch like last year we talked about the same thing we

talked about how the meat was good and this year it was only an improvement on last year. The meet was bigger. I think they had 110 lifters. So with that, they had two platforms. Everything ran really smooth. There was a ton of people there watching. A ton. I was shocked by that.

When we talked to Jonah, I think he said he'd had over 500 people pay admission to get in, which a powerlifting meet attracting 500 people like i can't imagine there's many places many meets in the country that attract a crowd like that no we even at the arnold granted the arnold is separated into these many separate things all over the place even even within powerlifting i think that rogue stage only has seating for like five or 600. Yeah. So like the amount of people that were there watching,

like we were watching the bench, you know, when we were sitting there that day, there might've been more people than that. Like, Oh yeah. It was to me, it felt like,

well, and the thing that's tricky at the Arnold too, is at any one event, I don't think there's a lot of people that are there for the whole event. Like, I think there's a lot of people that kind of are like us that are like, Oh, there's something going on here let's drop in see if

i know any of the names any big lifts are going on i think a lot of people gauge like there's a big lift probably gonna happen within about 20 i'll wait for it yeah or if you're like it's too far off you just move on but yeah with these were all just people that came to football so there was nothing else to do there so yeah yeah so these people were straight up there to just spectate, watch, enjoy, support, all that good stuff. And first of all, Massanomics showed up big time. We had, what did we have, like eight guys? Eight lifters, yeah. With the Massanomics.

And then even a couple more that got adopted throughout the day, so we were up to like ten. I mean, we basically occupied a flight of our own flight. Like, there was a few other people in it, but it wasn't unusual for Mass Anomics to go back to back to back to back. Like five, six in a row. Yeah, so it's like while you're getting ready, like one of the guys from the gym is out there, and then there's another one right in front of you. So it just makes it fun because it's about as close as you can get to feeling like you're with the homies, lifting up the gym, going for some big lifts.

It was like what Gino said it last year and he said it again this year. Massonomics is in the house. And he was not wrong. So that was also another really cool part of this meet is Gino announced it again. He knows how to keep the energy levels up and going throughout the whole thing. How does he do that? I don't think anyone knows that answer. I mean, I don't know how anyone could do that.

What if you don't have Gino? It's not as cool. It's not as cool. It's still a really good meet. It's a good-looking meet, but how does it – that's my thing. If you see Gino announce like, even at the Arnold, when they had Geno was in on the main stage,

so then where the USAPL stuff was going on in the convention hall, like, was not Geno. Right. And then it's kind of like, eh. You're like, what the fuck is this? It would be better if Geno was here. It sure would be. Yeah.

The two stages thing, he does an awesome job with that like he's announcing both at the same time and you know it'd be nice if it was always like okay this one's going it's a break now this one's going and it does work out that way a surprising amount of the time but it can't always and it is uh sometimes it is hard to know like oh what's going on or you know what was cool about last year with only one stage is he is so dedicated to that. Like, as you're walking out, he's looking at you, talking about you. Slapping you in the ass. Yeah, yeah, and stuff like that.

And that does happen sometimes even with two stages. But every once in a while, some of the lifters, you know, just because it has to be like that with two stages, they get a little lost in the shuffle. And I can say as a lifter, you don't notice that part at all that's right you're just going on with your day but um i guess getting into maybe the lifting part of it uh you know we had warm-up room tons of room tons of area to warm up like there was not an issue with like having a platform to get going six er combo yeah six cr combo racks identical just for warming up uh so that was really nice and again because we're all in the same flight you're warming up with all the guys from the gym uh the day starting off with squats so it's me ryan larry nick dave jake um

austin kind of got in the mix as kind of a new guy matt was there and so we kind of all had you know this warm-up together and go out for squats and um one thing i've never had this happen to me a little a little not not a big issue but caught me off guard a little bit as i went out earlier in the day when you get there right away you get your rack heights in and i had my i had these adidas shoes that have a decent size sole to them and i don't know if it's like in the morning like you're just tall because you woke up yeah your vertebrae haven't compressed and i got my heights to like yep this is where my heights are then i you know you start actually squatting two and a

half three hours later and i have shoes that are about as flat as possible and i don't know if just like putting the bar on your back shrinks you down a quarter of an inch. And I went out for that first squat and immediately I'm like, this bar is way too high. Like I'm having trouble. I have a fairly low bar and it was up pretty high. Got it down, did my squat, opener 501, felt pretty good. And I'm like, I got to switch that. And luckily you can switch. I had no idea.

Like if that was a thing, like if with USAPL or they like strict that, nope, you're pinned, you're locked in. But I got that switch. And then, so so yeah going out next two attempts i think it was like 5 30 tanner was right there 29 oh yeah 5 20 yeah and you're you're right there like called on them like that felt really good like go for 540 and so that was a 10 pound pr and i mean that felt really good i think there was probably 10 more pounds yeah i think on that day yeah i think uh like if you had a fourth attempt i think you probably could have went and done 550. I would have went for 550. Yeah, it was out of the thing.

So it's nice to know that that's probably in the tank there. Like, you know, in some, if not right now, very, very soon. So that really made it a lot easier. Because my goal for the day was to hit 1,400. And when you start off with a 540 squat, that gives you a lot more leeway to try and get there like as of a month ago i'm thinking like 1400 i'm gonna have to go basically nine for nine and have a really really good day but like i said when you have that 540 gives you a little more wiggle room and i think everyone like squats went pretty good for everyone larry hit an all-time

sleeve pr like a 12 pound pr and he had more in him too because i helped him i called that for him he didn't want to pick that last one and i said well you've done 551 in competition and you just did 545 and it looked like there was no weight on your back so try like i think it's 563 is what he did he probably could have done like five i don't know what the number is but like 575 that's fucking a big squad that's such a big squat at 220 pounds yeah did he even weigh 220 uh no under at like 215 yeah he could have squatted five stuff i mean he did squat 565 which that's a damn good squat and it looked good too uh you know a couple other guys nick squatted 530 i think he cut he said he cut weight and he feels like that cost him a little bit.

You know, that's a little less than what he'd been putting up in the gym. Chuck, his first meet ever, squatted 557. Yeah. So that's pretty cool. That's not bad for your first meet. Seems like a good starting point. Yeah. A modest starting point.

He said he's kind of hooked after that. Yeah, Chuck was having a good time. You know, Corey in the same boat as Nick, what they did a really good job of is they adjusted. Maybe they weren't feeling like their day was perfect. They weren't going to hit that exact PR, and I'd say, Ryan, your brother was in the same category. So they did a really good job of adjusting those attempts, like after their first.

To put in a good meet as opposed to stabbing for the PR. Right, so they still could do the best they could that day. Yeah. And Corey kind of had a curveball thrown his way with his first one because didn't he, like, lose his balance? He almost fell over. Yeah. And he got a red light.

And he was on the way up, and he lost his balance and fell back. Okay. Like, fell back, and they had to catch him. And I was like, that was moving up really good. Don't retry that. Just do whatever you're which is always scary on your first like squat he was wondering about the day he didn't know about and i was like it's it'll waste don't uh you're like that was going just fine it was just a really weird thing

that i've never seen happen before and he doesn't he doesn't like make mistakes no not ever he's about as technical of a lifter as we have right so he just took kind of a second like whatever he was going to and he got it but it was a little tough so he did a really good job drawing back just a you know 10 pounds probably 10 pounds later than what he wanted to get he he did 501 in the gym he probably wanted to hit you know 505 to 510 and it didn't really look like it was there so he said he went with 496, and that ended up being the perfect weight, like any more, and he probably wouldn't have got it. So that takes some control or like some self-awareness.

Well, you have to have your ego out of it. Yeah, you have to check your ego because then he got it, and it saved his total. He had a 1,400-pound total. 1,405, we tied. Yeah, and that was his goal too is to break 1400 had he not done that not made that smart decision he would have not gotten that total at the end of the day yep and i think ryan did the same thing ryan had squatted 520 in the gym you know maybe

three four weeks before so he's probably thinking i'd really like to squat maybe 530 if i'm feeling good that day yep it they didn't move like he would have liked them to he adjusted that and did uh 518 it was right in there yeah right around 520 yeah whatever that kilo yeah jump is there but yeah so squats like for the first first attempts are for the first lift of the day i think everyone got done with squats like this this is going really good like this is this is a fun meet and and that was immediately obvious it's like this is going really good. Like, this is a fun meet. And that was immediately obvious. It's like, this is a really fun meet. Like, we were all having a good time. It was really cool with all you guys being in the same right clump together like that.

It's probably pretty rare for that many of one group to be in the same flights like that. It was really cool. Yeah. So then after that, we started to get warmed up for bench. And same thing, you know, bench. We just kind of take our time, get going, go out there. First attempt for me was 312. I can never remember what the kilo mark is in there. Yeah, it must have been that.

Or 308 maybe. I think you did 308 on your first one. Okay. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, so I did that one. Felt really, really good. Second attempt, I did that one. Felt really, really good. Second attempt, I did 325. Same thing.

Felt really good. Which is a PR for you. Meet PR, yeah. So, yeah, last year I hit 319. In training, I hit a good, solid 335 pause bench. And I'm like, I know 335's there. I kind of want to get a pause PR. It's like, let's go for 340 i want to get a pr

today i want another pr and uh went out there and the three four it just wasn't there so i just made the wrong call but it's also nice to kind of just see like what was there you know yeah right um so ended the day on 325 for bench uh everyone else though again, pretty good benches across the board. Yeah, Larry went for an all-time bench PR at 385 on his third, and he was close. He's gotten 380 in a meet before, so after his second. And he's done 385 in the gym. In the gym, yeah, an all-time meet PR. 385 would have been because he's done 380 in the same meet either last year or the year before.

And after his second, he did, I think three 74, the one step below that. And it moved pretty decent. The right call probably would have been to do go to three 80, but he kind of had the point. He's like, I've done three 80 before. If I get it, I that's not, I don't care about getting three 80 again. I want to do the next one higher than that. And that made a lot of sense. That's what his goal was.

And it was close, but he couldn't quite get it. But that would have been a damn big bench there again at 215 pounds. Doing a 385 pause bench would have been pretty sick. And at what age? 41, 42. Yeah, basically hitting all-time PRs. Yeah, Ryan hit a meet PR of 270. Chuck hit a state record bench of like 385, 386.

That was on his third attempt, right? Yep, that was on his third. That was his goal. I know he wanted to. That was a pretty good call for him. Yeah, that was a good number. Yep. Does that match his gym number too?

He's done four plates. Yeah, he's done four plates in the four plates the pause has been a little bit he even talked about that how that pause really takes a lot out of you so that's been an adjustment pause and for me I'm sure other people have this problem too but on meet day after squats

and then going into bench I put a decent amount of arch nothing too crazy but when i arch hard like i normally want to after squats my back is so tight and i just and it's not like the whole side of my back is tight it's just like i have knots all up and down my erectors yeah and that's always the issue with me on meet day is like getting keeping that bench tightness like i'm used to and it's just it's it's hard to do it anyone that's done a meet before the variable of doing all of those lifts all nine lifts on the same day can change a lot of things

versus like whatever happened in the gym and that was the thing like in the gym going up to this I had had a my touch and go PR of 350 and that felt pretty fast still like I had had a good pause 335 like taking commands from someone and i'm thinking like okay i'm prepped for like a really good pr and that just shows like it is hard until you're there on the day you don't know what can happen yeah another one i forgot to mention jake the snake did it and he had it the day before he got kind of a freak accident like a pretty severe laceration he was he was testing he was testing i think it was one of his classes yeah they were testing their vertical jump and on his

way down his hand caught like the like the knob that locks in the height on it or something and either way is coming down from the jump his hand caught something and it cut his palm open and he had to get like eight or nine stitches in it and he he's thinking like, well, there goes the meat. And then he said he was kind of playing around with it. And he's like, well, with squat, you know, I can get in a position where it's not too bad. He said bench was really like, because it was pretty much where you want to put the bar.

And so I think. You just got to deal with it. Yeah, they did. They did allow him to put a little bit of padding in it. Like that was legal. I think he did have to take a little bit off of that from what he normally does. I think all in all it probably had an effect on him for the day. Yes, yes.

I think his bench was lower than what it normally was on meet day. Yeah, yeah. He did adjust accordingly on that. Yeah, but he did. I mean he started the day with squat PR. He said that was a PR for him. Yeah, 530. Yeah, so that's good to have one of those conditions yeah for sure the what would have got me is dead lifting i think but he said it was low enough in his palm to where it was more

of a problem to bench yeah yeah because where it was really at the deadlift was you know sitting there yeah and he hooked grips too so it really does i think kind of get out of the way for him but yeah so bench all in all went really well one other note there was a guy that he just missed the And he hooked grips too, so it really does, I think, kind of get out of the way for him. Yeah. So bench all in all went really well. One other note, there was a guy that he just missed the 205-pound weight class, so he weighed like 205 and a half pounds. He squatted 640 in a pair of knee sleeves, and he could have squatted a lot more than that.

Yeah. Like he could have squatted 675 at 205 pounds body weight. And i asked him about him missing weight because he missed it by half a pound he said i've been cutting for 30 days and i did not have another half a pound to lose yeah he's like when i got on the scale he's he was talking about how shredded he was and he's like there was there was no other half pound to be lost anywhere like i i was that was it and he said he's never he's like there was there was no other half pound to be lost anywhere like i i was that was it and he said he's never he's done going for that weight class because he just can't do it anymore and you would think of that like on full full feed full like hydration like if six high sixes is there like maybe you can make around at seven like that'd be really cool to see yes

i'd be more jacked to see that then that just a cool lift that is one of the bigger lifts of the day I think too then finally we go into deadlifts deadlifts is an interesting time because some of the guys they almost look forward to this all day and other of the guys are like ok can we just get this

let's just get this over with as soon as possible Larry's like we can just fucking go home now. And Ryan's like, this is what I came here to do. The joke that I always like to say to Ryan, the meat doesn't start until the bar hits the ground. Which is true, though, because that is where you see, like, and it's just, I'm not a good deadlifter. I'm just not a good deadlifter.

I'll keep working at it. I'll keep trying to get better. But, you know, you go through the meet and you see all these guys that, you know, they're putting up respectable numbers, but they're squatting like 400s and benching like mid twos. And all of a sudden it's deadlift time and everyone has five plates on it. I'm like, what the hell? Why is this a thing? There's just tons of 600 plus pound deadlifts like from yeah the 183 pound guys to the super heavyweight guys yeah i don't even

know the number of 600 plus pound deadlifts there were probably 50 like you know of multiple attempt yeah considering yeah yeah yeah attempts it's just like 600 pounds of death yeah like oh you want to be competitive. Like, that's what you got to do. Yeah. I can't freaking wrap my head around that. Yeah, like 183-pound guys deadlifting 640 pounds. Yeah. You know, I mean.

That's just the world we live in. Yeah. But, you know, again, like when it comes to powerlifting, that's where you make up a huge, that's where a huge chunk of your total comes from. Yeah. So you got to be good at it. But for me with deadlifts, the goal, last year I hit 545,

which was a pretty good PR for me. I was going to go for like right in that area on my second attempt, and I was hoping to get 555-ish, depending on how things were feeling on my third. So I started, I think I started at like 515. Felt really good. Go out for 540, my second attempt. In my head, felt really good go out for 540 my second attempt um in my head felt pretty good got my

as far as i know my first red light i've ever gotten in a deadlift in my life and it was the the head judge though i understand it i got a red light for not having my shoulders back far enough which got called by a lot i saw a lot of people got called on that i guess that's a thing like i totally understand like when you have your shoulders hunched over um but yeah a lot of people like people, like, I think in our flight alone, out of the, what's there, like, 15 lifters in a flight, I think five of them or more got called for not having their shoulders back far enough, which seems kind of, like, a little strange. Definitely eyeballing that closely. Yeah, yeah. So there was a big look on that.

But the 540 felt okay, but it was like, you know what, let's just get 550 and call this a day here. Went out for 550, went out there, pulled it from the floor, and right away I felt it shift in my hand just a little bit. But in my head it's like, yep, we can save this. So going up, I remember my eyes were kind of closing a little bit and i get to the very top and i look at the head judge and he has his arm in the air and he's just looking at me and i'm looking at him and he's looking at me and i'm like why isn't your arm going down and it was not even a split second later the bar just went right out of my hand yeah like yeah like about as close as and it wasn't like i couldn't lock

it out it was i think it was maybe because it's maybe the bar looked like it was about to move or something i'm just gonna wait until you drop this you know like i'll give you a second and that's where it's like that's where it's like meat numbers are tough because like in the gym all day every day oh at 550 yeah i had that one baby like there's no problem there but it's like you go to a meet and you never know how things are going to go. And so it kind of sucked to miss that. But overall, I hit my 1405 total. I had a pretty solid day.

I can't complain about it at all. Other people's deadlifts. Ryan, good deadlifter. He went for 639 on his third and was a little shy of being able to lock it out. He had it well past his knees it was yeah an inch from lockout his deadlift always flies to up to the point where it's a few inches above his knees and then the last you know that last little bit is the battle for him and he couldn't it just wasn't quite there as close he probably would have got two pounds

less but yeah i probably would have uh i'm trying to think i think larry and chuck they both missed their thirds they went for chuck went for a number that would have given him a 1500 pound total uh and he he missed that so he ended up with like a 1478 total in his first meet or whatever it was and that was cool larry went for a number uh actually larry just went for one step above what he got in a second because after he got a second i was like just do yeah let's just do one more than that wasn't much more to be had oh they're really like he could have maybe considered not doing that third one because his second one was everything he he had got that second one. Corey hit a pretty big deadlift PR. Yeah, he did.

In the 205 class, he deadlifted, I think, what you missed, their 551. It was either that or 556. Maybe it was the next one up, yeah. Which was pretty cool for him because I even know, it was about a month ago when we were really getting prepped for the meet here, he was fighting with his deadlift. He didn't know if he was going to be conventional or sumo and switch was kind of going back and forth on it he did all his training blocks conventional at the very end to do some testing it just wasn't feeling good he switched back to sumo like three

weeks out and ended up hitting a 30 pound pr switch to sumo so but i believe all that training of the conventional ultimately helped him yeah i don't think it's a hindrance at all if anything it built more strength he's just technique because it's also he's still squatting yes a lot you know for a high frequency yeah so there's a i think all in all total wise a lot of people missed maybe an attempt or two. All in all, total-wise, though, I think everyone was really happy. It was funny. Larry Legend and Thick Nick, both 231, 105-kilogram Masters class guys, and we joke about them competing against each other all the time, like it being a rivalry because they're both so nice.

There is no, none of that. But, like, we just do it for them, like as a joke almost. And they got the exact same total yeah identical total it's just funny how that goes like it just seems like why and same thing with me and cory like all the numbers yeah as big of the numbers are yeah come in at the same one and the ways that you get there like the way me and cory got there is pretty different like our squat and bench were were very different, and deadlift was a little closer, but somehow you end up on the same number. Yep, yep.

I was looking through these. We were talking about this last night, Tommy, but I can't find the deadlift one. But open powerlifting has some of their statistics. The percentage of people. Yeah, so the 600-plus pound squatters in competitions, So the 600 plus pound squatters in competitions, in sleeves, only 2.3% of all weight classes. Of all men. And this is people in the Open Powerlifting Database. Yeah.

Which is most meets performed in the last two or three years are in there. Yeah. So 2.5% over 600 squats. Yep. Yep. That's it. And that is really rare. Is there a deadlift one? I'd like to see the percentage of deadl yep. That's it. And that is really rare. Is there a deadlift one?

I'd like to see the percentage of deadlifts. That's what I was hoping to find. It's got to be higher. It's got to be way higher than that. I think so. The raw bench press. So this is how big of a landmark the 500-pound bench press is. Is it less than a percent?

It is. Less than half a percent? One percent. Yeah. Yeah. And I would also assume in USAPL that number is probably significantly lower. Because the bench in USAPL is the lift that you notice the biggest difference from other federations. And it's also, yeah, like the strictest one, too.

Yeah. Heels on the ground, head on the bench. Yeah. You know, the rules themselves. Wait for the start command. Most of their places don't have a start. Some of the pause can be inconsistent the pause command at this meet uh was long on some of them like i'm not saying it's it was it was the rules and it's all up to the judge and it wasn't like i'm not complaining

about it but like there wasn't if if you were lying to yourself training like and you know how telling yourself like oh that was a pause yeah you know i got you were in you were gonna be caught on that there because the pause there was there was no like oh yep that's pause go ahead and that's how it is going into every meet like you don't know like because a pause is a pretty subjective thing to a lot of people and so a pause can be like a quick pause and it can also be like a firm it stopped let's let's make sure there's no movement yeah now there's no movement now we're gonna go so that's what it was levels to it I like that there was a couple people that walked by Tommy and I one point another time someone else walked by and said we

didn't know who this person was and they just go hey I listed the podcast cool to see you guys and And just kept walking. Yeah, we got a few of those. And there's people in the crowd, in this large crowd, wearing Masonomics shirts, like the Weekend Warrior shirt and stuff. And I was like, oh, cool shirt. It was just people I don't know. So that was cool.

That was cool to see. Bonica was there, and she was wearing a Masonomics gear. Bonica Law was wearing her Weekend Warrior lift shirt, too. Another one other funny thing joe about to meet jonah said uh i know i listened to you guys's podcast about the meet last year and you said uh you we said we didn't think you know it could be outdone of what he did last year so i had to do this year just to prove you guys wrong and he outdid the shit out yeah it was actually and then there's one thing we left out that was maybe to me one of the best parts

of it is the bathroom the bathroom was from where we warmed up 15 feet away and it was like right and they were clean all day and big and they were big and there was a lot of urinals stalls like it wasn't like run down the hall

go down the stairs take a turn like you could be warming up the hall go down the stairs take a turn like you could be warming up and literally go to the bathroom like take take your time because it's right there like you didn't have to worry about it so that was really really cool they did have really good concessions and beer though too like beer at a powerlifting meet if you're i mean it says here's what i think what else is there to do as a? As a spectator, you want to enjoy yourself. It still turns into a long day. But I also think that as an athlete, especially because the deadlift is

definitely the most entertaining one to watch. Yes, we talked about that too. I'd say deadlift, then squat, then bench in that order. And the problem is the squatting, while it can be exciting, is so early. Yep, it's early in the day. It's really tough to get up to that. And it's a lot slower, too. Especially to get a crowd into it, because everybody's not even through their coffee yet.

But by the end of the day, if the beer is flowing, the crowd kind of can get a little rowdy. And it's a lot more exciting, so it makes for a good finish. Bench, I think everyone can agree. Bench is my favorite thing. It's like what I think I'm the best at, it's a lot more exciting, so it makes for a good finish. Bench, I think everyone can agree. Bench is my favorite thing. It's what I think I'm the best at. It's my favorite. It is the worst event. It is terrible.

It's boring to watch. It's almost impossible to film or photograph. It's awful. The angle that it's at, it's tough to really. The only way that I think would be cool to get footage of would be to basically get super distracting to the lifters over their face yeah and like that's about the only angle you ever see that's worth a damn right but it doesn't even tell you whether or not the lift has happened yeah i did just find an open power lifting that uh of the deadlift kind of it's it's structured a little bit differently it has what percentage of all-time

men's raw deadlifts um in each range okay so this is as of march of 2018 um 25 percent of the men's raw deadlifts are under 400 pounds 20 percent are under 25 percent of them that's kind of surprising yeah it's the fourth the quarter of them yeah but i suppose there's a lot of meat first time people yeah very light people yeah so then you have uh 31 are in the four to five four to five range that makes that seems like where the majority like is that the largest category um then next is with 30 is the 500 to 600 range yeah um so basically if you deadlift more than 600 pounds yeah meat there's 25 12 are in um that range. Okay. And then there's only 2% that are in the 700s, less than a quarter of a percent in the 8, a tiny, tiny fraction, like a tenth of a percent in the 9s, and one person at 1,000. So that is way higher than the squat, though, right?

Because we were talking 2.5% or something. Yeah. So you're talking basically, we'll call it 12 14 15 like 16 lift over a thousand or over 600 pounds um but you get into you get over 700 and what was that two percent so over seven is comparable to over six yeah for squat we were kind of talking about that too like over over seven for a squat or for a deadlift is i i mean i don't know i don't know like using the term elite i guess but but like that's a that's a that's a big boy number yeah you're no matter who you are and over six over six on a squat is the same way is a big boy number it's just so weird that you see so many numbers way higher than that so out there you know what i mean to be like

but it's because we're so like saturated by instagram almost desensitized to what is normal yeah a thousand pound squat i see a thousand pound squat a week now don't you but it's because we know all 10 people that you know that do you know we've watched closely those guys but that's it's always interesting you know and we know a lot of but we know a lot of people that, you know, are just really fucking strong. That's crazy, though. When you're talking about people that are of competitive powerlifters. Yeah, the people that do this. 2%.

Yeah. You know. Yeah. So 7, 6, and what do they say? A 500 bench is 1%. So you probably actually want that to be, toned down a little even so what would you put probably like 450 for set more in between 450 and 475 is prop prop i don't know you don't see a lot of over 450 benches in competition yeah so probably around the 450 number they maybe they

have that too another just an open power lifting plug those guys listen to this so they'll be happy that we're we're talking about it so this data though when they like one i like the list the top 10 the sort of stuff yeah but like this data like that that we're just talking about those are my favorite is the fucking absolutely is such a huge service yes so if you're not following uh open powerlifting make sure you are on instagram they're open powerlifting and then their website is openpowerlifting.org if you've powerlifted before type your name name in there, search it, check out your stuff. It should be there. If anything's not there, if anything's incorrect, get a hold of them, and they will get it fixed.

Here we go. 700-pound raw deadlift. 1.8% of competitors have deadlifted more than 700 raw. Yeah. But why is that different than what I just looked at? Maybe is it a difference in time? It was a month. That wouldn't be that big of a difference.

Is that all competitors or men? If it's all competitors, then it would be cut in half. This does just say raw. That would make sense that the number is lower even. 700-pound raw deadlift is more common than a 500 pound raw bench which sounds about right i would believe that a 500 pound raw bench is not common like if i if i had to set like like numbers that i would like want yeah where i feel like a guy my size to be like a strong guy you know i think i feel like i should

squat six pull seven and bench four and a half for sure yeah i was gonna say the number isn't five for bench because that is fucking crazy i mean there's people people out there but that but it's not comparable to the seven deadlift and six squat that you said i think i think the 500 bench is more comparable to like an 800 pound deadlift yes i agree 700 pound squat yes i agree but i like those i like a nice uniform number where it's like five six yeah yeah yeah if that was the case though it that that would be a the i it would be easy to say that that person's best of lift was for sure yeah yeah if you bench if you bench 500 and benching is not your best event, you're Dan Bell.

Yeah, right. Yeah, you're one of those guys, yeah. That's true. Yeah, but that's interesting. But that breakdown when they process the information like that is my favorite. They're a great resource. They're over 5,000 followers on Instagram now and still kicking, kicking, going strong, gaining momentum.

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and we sell them for more than we buy them for. And I just feel like maybe we should take some of the accounting away from Tanner. Because Tanner just keeps telling us that we don't get to have any money yet. I know that we sold things. My only hope is that in like a few years, Tanner's going to surprise us just because he knows we're irresponsible. He's like, guys, I've been putting money away this whole time. I took the money and invested it in a very risky fund, but it paid off big time.

I really didn't think you guys could handle it, but now here you go. He invested in some. What would you guys be like then? Like, thanks, but I'm happy. Like on Forrest Gump where he's like, he invested all my money in some fruit company, and it was Apple. He said, we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, good, it's one less thing i i do have some reviews here now too all right let's hear them um this first one is titled move over barry manilow oh um this is from

a name you guys might know bacon underscore n underscore barbells okay he said uh he hadn't he had tried to leave reviews before, but what he found out is when he had stuff in there that was maybe obscene or vulgar, it was getting screened out. No shit. So that's why I think these numbers change a lot of times, and I can't read them.

It goes towards the numbers, but you don't get to... They block out, so don't write penis or anything like that. Well, do it, but just write it in a way that the computer can't play it. Send those ones to at massonomics on Instagram. He said, these guys know what they're doing, embracing powerlifting to all it's worth while not taking it seriously. That's very true. Which is what it's all about.

These guys are the ones who made you think drinking was cool when you were 10 and saw them hanging out with your brothers. All that aside my wife prefers we listen to the podcast to get the mood right massonomics has improved my marriage and my life on so many levels from bacon and barbells big big fan my man i like that that's good that's good uh next one, five out of five stars from ShakeWeights775 is MassTastical. Great podcast. The knowledge these guys provide really helped me gain size with my shake weight lifting sessions and Richard Simmons workout routines. I'm not sure what all the power lifting stuff is all about, but overall, it's very enjoyable to listen to.

Nice work, guys. Keep shaking. Olympic weightlifter emoji. Eggplant emoji. That's good stuff, too. Okay, this next one is long. But I really like it. So settle in.

Okay, here we go. And this is the last one. Is that what you tell all the ladies, Tanner? That's what I say. This one is really long, but I like it. Just give it a chance. It's just long, but I like it. Just give it a chance. It's just really thin. Can you afford not to listen?

Question mark is the title by Nintendotron. Okay. Masonomics gives you all the information you need to know about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Also, they talk about lifting heavy things and pooping it's a mostly decent podcast i started listening a couple months ago and have since received a promotion at work and added multiples of pounds to all my lifts coincidentally my dog has not listened to the podcast and last monday was diagnosed with cancer additionally my wife also not a massonomics listener was diagnosed with diabetes on Tuesday.

Yet here I sit, a week later, cancer and diabetes free. I'm not saying listening to Mastinomics prevents diabetes and cancer, but I'm also not saying it doesn't. It may be too late for my family, but that's no reason to put yours at risk. Hit subscribe, leave a five-star review, and force your family, friends, and pets to listen to the podcast with you it's for their own good life doesn't offer the opportunity to be a hero every day will you squander yours as for me i'm headed over to the massanomics.com slash shop to purchase my wife a flex flask proper hydration it's only one of the many weapons we'll be using with our upcoming war against diabetes and what about the dog you ask i think he'll be just fine you see we're currently listening to

today's podcast as we sit at home on the couch while he recovers from this morning surgery which was a massive success. That's from Nintendotron. That's really good. I think I'm actually crying. I know we're getting late here, but just a quick word about that. I figured out who that was, who wrote that. I was like, God, I got to know.

Like, who the hell is that? I did a little look, and it came to me and that is a person you know i probably haven't talked to talked to him in 10 plus years when i was a freshman in high school this person he was a senior in high school yeah and i screwed off in the weight room and this person as a senior in high school is one of those few people that actually kind of understood about lifting. And like, to me at the time, I probably was like,

what is all that stuff that he's doing? Like, why isn't he just doing curls and max out benching, you know? But, uh, I just thought it was funny, you know,

15, 20 years ago, he was actually lifting and haven't talked to him since then. And he stumbled upon the, the mass dynamics podcast. That's really cool. Left what I would consider to be the best review. A top notch review.

Shots have been fired I think. Someone outdo that idea. You guys really brought it this week and that's awesome. That wasn't really, when I read that the first time I was doing that too. We need to find a way,

we need to basic, that needs to get posted. Yes. Yes. That's a good idea. We will, we'll share that. So, so everyone can hear that.

Well, I think that's got us for today, guys. Thanks a lot for listening. Go to the store, like everything he said, protect your family from diabetes, buy some stuff.

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