Massenomics Podcast - Ep.209: The Biggest Squat Set of All Time

Episode Date: April 6, 2020

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If you don't follow Massanomics, y'all do it. Social media, website, everything. Massanomics! Massanomics! Hi, all you cool cats and kittens tanner and tommy are here from big cat rescue for episode 209 of the massonomics podcast wow that that is an entrance i can get behind right there uh hopefully in about a week from now when this comes out, people are still talking about Tiger King. I think so. You know,

it's going to be past it's past. It's the hype will be died down, but it's still, I mean, the memes are still going really strong this week. It'll be on the bot, probably the bottom slide of the trend, the bell curve,

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you know tiger king is something that i think i think you'd be it'd be worth your while to check out yes you've checked it out since then uh sounds like the rest of the world has also checked it out in the past week i think it was because of the recommendation and the mass economics podcast yeah i was gonna say for some reason i think everyone listens to us that has to be what it is it also might have something to do with everyone being stuck at home that one's harder to prove but um everyone everyone seemed to watch it what'd you what'd you think tanner i still haven't finished it yet oh you haven't no no okay i've been i still have been kind of busy so we're actually might finish might uh i, how many episodes are there?

Six, I think, or seven. Six or seven. I think we've got one left here maybe. And so I know the just, I know. You know, basically. I know majority what's happening. Yeah. I don't know if there's any, spoiler alert, actually not really.

I don't think there's anything groundbreaking that happened the last episode. Right. It wasn't like, Oh, this whole thing was a twist. He's not a real guy. Like that's not how it goes. Yeah. It really has taken the, the,

uh, country by storm though. I, I think, uh, the last series coming out that this reminds me of this is maybe like making a murder. I think so.

I don't remember the last, yeah, I don't remember the last time people were that jacked about something game of thrones is uh yeah but that was a little different yeah and that's also still right like if like if if joe exotic and tiger king had you know almost 10 years to build up hype it's like well yeah okay i get it but yeah to just be a random week in uh march is the time that you take the word or something. Making a murder is the only one that compares to that in a little bit of what I can remember, or at least of what affected me and what I paid attention to.

Yeah, I would agree with that. It's kind of funny. Tiger King almost makes me think, so the movie Joe Dirt, one of my all-time favorites, it's surprisingly similar to Joe Dirt-time favorites it kind of it's surprisingly similar to joe dirt to me in the way that it's just like this weird redneck guy with a mullet that's kind of he's like telling his story and just everyone's listening like no that's not how that goes and he's and it just keeps going and going and going and that's the life he lives so it's kind of to me a real life joe dirt who's

we i guess we don't won't give away too many spoilers because there are probably people that are just in the process of watching it but who's kind of your favorite character who's your favorite person uh if you had to pick one person of one character on well joe exotic is a fascinating character i don't think he's necessarily a good guy, and I hope most people come away with this realizing that he's not a very good guy. He did have a lot of good intentions at times, but I think he... I don't know if anyone on the show is actually... No, that is a good point.

I don't know if anyone on the show is actually a good person. You can say that they're all trying to do what they think is right, but that is the whole thing is that everyone has just built their own corner of the world where they're the ruler and the king of their kingdom. And yeah, I guess they're all doing some. These people all take it to extremes. Yeah, they're all doing some things that are okay and some things that are bad. It's on such an extreme scale

all of it so yeah it they're all they're all very conflicted people i think it's safe to say yeah but yeah joe joe is probably the most fascinating person out of all of them as far as like if i could if i could put a camera on someone and just see really be like what's making these people tick what are they doing joe's the one i want to watch the most yeah who do you think could lift the most out of anyone on the show probably uh probably uh joe's late husband mr maldonado you know he was that's what i would say travis right yeah he was the he was the most fit out of everyone there i think was he actually like he seemed he was the leanest right he was the leanest oh and he had he had all his body parts and he was young so he had those things going for

him um yeah what about doc uh the yeah that guy's a very weird culty kind of guy yeah you know one the guy that i kind of i mean i don't like him but that just makes me laugh every time he comes on is uh jeff you know the guy that he looks like he robbed uh yes yeah with his oakley hat and bandana and he's like 60 years old or yeah it's weird little goatee yeah yeah he just makes me laugh by what he's wearing all the time it's like what you're just wearing that working at a zoo oh you're wearing that harley jacket and it looks like you had like a middle schooler like take you into a clothing store and be like try to make this old guy look cool yeah yeah pick out anything but try to make an old guy look cool and they'd be

like oh this maybe like put an oakley hat on too i think that'll help and that's where he landed yeah i saw a good meme uh uh of him and it's where it's picture him at the funeral or whatever and it says uh when you're going to a funeral so you wear your black ferrari hat yes god yep they're all people that have something off with them very more more than most people do we'll say that everyone has something off with them but i went into it i thought it was going to be a documentary about tiger woods boy was i in for a surprise by episode five tiger woods i was like when does tiger woods come on yep i think that's a problem a lot of people are having with it, you know?

Just waiting for that Tiger Woods appearance. I have heard some other people are speeding up their releases of some docs that are coming out. Yeah. Is it a Michael Jordan? Have you seen anything? Is it the Michael Jordan one? Yeah.

Okay. I didn't know if it was like Michael Jordan or bowls or basketball in the 90s. It's really Michael Jordan? Have you seen anything? Is it the Michael Jordan one? Oh, yeah. Or is it? Yeah. Okay. I didn't know if it was like Michael Jordan or Bulls or basketball in the 90s. I didn't know if. I think it's kind of Michael Jordan. It's really the Michael Jordan doc. And I'm excited. I think that one's coming out in April now. And that's by the 30 for 30 people, isn't it?

I think it's bigger than 30 for 30. You know, yeah. It's ESPN in some way. Yeah. Yeah. 30 for 30 but you know i yeah i see 30 in some way yeah yeah 30 for 30s are all done by different people you know it's always different yeah directors and everything like that but yeah i think this is even like a bigger production than than a typical 30 for 30 from what i've gathered i just saw yeah i just right before we recorded this i saw on uh on tv it said they were moving it up to April, isn't it? Isn't it coming out in a week or two?

Yeah. But it was originally slated for like the summer, I think. Yeah. Smart choice on their behalf, I would imagine. So people are moving stuff like that up, but then movies are all getting pushed way out. That makes sense, too. I think the new Fast and the Furious, they're just pushing it out until like next march now or next april like it's going almost they push it out almost a year that doesn't seem very fast or furious of them it might be furious it's definitely not fast

so more things more things that just shows it really does just depend on the medium, the media medium of what's actually, like, because TV or streaming is big right now because people are stuck at home, but movies, you know, people aren't going to go out. And podcasts, through our research, we found that maybe they're not hugely

changed, but maybe down a little bit because people aren't making their commute sitting at a desk i've even noticed at my house uh my wife isn't working at the moment and with that her being home time that i would normally be listening to podcasts around the house when i'm here alone i find myself i'm listening to less podcasts too and i don't think that i'm alone in that situation where just people's normal lives have changed. And so their listening habits have changed.

Yeah, because podcasts are really something that people do in their normal routine, in their time when they're by themselves. Yeah, right. And that's just in one way or another, that's changed for a lot of people right now. Yep. But we did get some messages from some listeners uh a few different ones that were really appreciative and happy that we uh are still rolling right now we're dedicated to the cause because it gives them something to listen to so we will never ever stop thank you at least made it we're on the we're on the back side of four years now so yeah yep only 208 more to go yeah i'd be 37 if we go i don't like it i don't like when you

put it that way jenner those are numbers i don't like that's true we uh we have you know since uh since we're all in this for the long haul at this point you know the world isn't going to be changing in a week or two weeks from now and who knows maybe a month or two or more we decided to take the plunge and we are attacking these sopranos now oh so we're going have you watched it all no i have not watched it all we i've i've started to watch it it's just i haven't been watching that much lately here so i haven't seen i haven't i'm kind of on a pause, but I'm on the second season somewhere wherever I'm at. We got through the first season in about a week. It is surprising.

Back then, they would do like 13 episodes in a season, which is really weird. It's like that's breaking the rules. That's not how that works now. You do 10. 10 is always the number. It doesn't matter how much story you have. You do 10.

Yeah. So that will at least in these times keep us busy for a few weeks i guess yes that will for sure i i like to judge uh series or or film well series by their intro and how well i like the song and the intro and i really like the soprano intro i enjoy watching uh the panning of the city while he's driving. Kind of old rundown houses in New York for the most part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We, we, that was one talking about intros. That was one. You really started to do the math this year or last year at this time, we were going through game of Thrones and it's, you start thinking, okay,

the intro is almost two minutes long, 60 some episodes. Like, God, that'd be two hours of watching the intro. And that's when we just started fast forwarding through it every time it's like i can't devote two hours of my life to sitting through this intro but the game of thrones intro was different though depending on where where the episode was like based out of like especially towards the end it started to really it started to change quite a bit but yeah yeah we still watch probably more of the intros than we should have but already on on the sopranos i'm like okay we

got to get to it we got a lot of work to do here so we just skip past that intro yep uh do we is there i mean this is kind of the recurring thing now is there things to talk about in the lifting world tanner we found a couple we we're having to dig a little bit deeper all the time i think to find stuff our unnamed sources are having to just work even harder for us to get us something to work with so one of the things that so wait we wrote a few things down but so we should we jump into our big lift segment then how about that i think we should yeah okay so big lift segment um probably the biggest lift that i've seen in quite a while or that has appeared in big the big lift segment is daniel bell squatted a thousand and three pounds for a set of four do i have that weight

weight right is it a thousand and three according to my notes that is correct okay and he did that for a set of four reps which is funny because just on last week's podcast what i was going to say we were talking about chris duffin doing a thousand for a set of three and we said who have we ever seen do a thousand for more than a single before and we said kirk kowalski in his famous video from the 90s and then dan bell from the animal cage the year that we interviewed him on the podcast. And then not more than like a couple days after that, Dan posts a video, which I don't think it was like the day that he did it

because he is talking about how his gym's closed and he's not going there anymore. So this was a little bit of a, I don't know if he did, yeah, maybe he did it a few weeks ago or something, but he did 1,00 did it a few weeks ago or something but he did a thousand three for a set of four which that has to be the most reps that anyone's ever done with over a thousand pounds i think that that's pretty much a fact i that would be a really hard one to find to find someone that's done more no i mean then at that point you'd have to be at five reps to to have done

more so a set of five with over or or they did a thousand four for a set of four uh yeah there you go yes they chipped it in the future knowing that that was what it was going to be yes um and why is it a thousand three was that on calibrated plates i don't know how that breaks down what is uh let's see if we do i get the old calculator here 1003 i could be doing something wrong but i don't think it really works doesn't make a kill i did a thousand divided by 2.2 and that doesn't seem to work out to an even kilo it comes to almost 456 kilos but that's yeah i don't know maybe that maybe that makes to work out to an even kilo. It comes to almost 456 kilos, but that's, I don't know, maybe that makes sense to load to the bar.

I don't know. But anyways, that's huge, and Dan did comment on there that he was just, Dan's a regular listener of the Massanomics podcast, and on that video I commented something, and he made the comment how he was just listening to our last episode where we were talking about him squatting 1,000 for a double or a grand for a double. So it was destiny.

It was meant to be. Yep. But that's pretty crazy. Yeah, that's super crazy. And the way he does it, like none of them, I'm sure if you asked him, it felt a lot different but they probably don't feel good no no it probably feels terrible but it really doesn't look like that's not like what i think about when i see someone doing a thousand pound squat it

looked like he was just doing that could have been 600 if you told me it was 600 pounds the way it looked i'd be like oh yeah that's probably 600 pounds for a set of four. Yeah. Or 700 or, you know. Yeah. But you were talking about like the, you know, one of the best squatters of all time. So I guess that's, you know, when you're built for it, it's just another day in the life. I guess that's what makes them good. That's all it takes. Just squatting 1,003 for four.

So Dan Bell, friend of the podcast keeping the dream alive and he kind of one up one up chris duffin then he did he didn't let him have that for very long did he yeah right and people were jumping on like i saw a bunch of people tagging chris and stuff you know that um because chris had said he was kind of the first or the only person to do something but chris wasn't saying he's the only person to squat a thousand for reps his deal was squatting and dead lifting both both a thousand for reps and yeah i think he probably still is the first and the only person to have done that i don't think that's changed in the week since we chatted so i'm assuming he still has that record to his name

yes yes someone else just bopped out of the woodwork and it's like oh yeah i can do that too yeah that episode we recorded last week aged terribly and then the other big thing coming up is thor has a deadlift planned it sounds sounds like. Yeah, it's a special event. It's not a meet. It's not a competition. It's literally just him going for the 501-kilogram deadlift, right? And he's partnered with World Ultimate Strongman, who he was going to do that event with him in Dubai,

where he goes for that, is what had planned. That got canceled, obviously, along with everything that got canceled. And it's in May. What is it, May? The beginning of May that he's going to do that? Yeah, May 2nd, it says here. And it's in Iceland,

and there's going to be a live stream, and the live stream is going to be free. He's going to do it to the same standard that Eddie Hall broke the 500-kilogram deadlift record with. So that'll be with a suit, with straps, and with calibrated plates, and on a traditional deadlift bar, not an elephant bar or some other wacky bar it'll be on a deadlift bar with calibrated plates so in theory this should be as close as you can get

to an apples to apples comparison right which is great because that's kind of the annoying thing about all these records and stuff and strongman is like well yeah but they did it on this and his was on that and it's not the same especially like eddie hall fans are insane are eddie hall fans yeah about that and just an aside on that like whenever i've um whenever we've put things out on the massonomics instagram page like say the mount rushmore of strongman is a good example which i'm not dogmatic about the people that are on there but so just so people know we had uh yeah kaz brian shaw z zedrino savickas and puginowski yeah there go. So those are the four on there, which I think maybe not everyone will say. A lot of people would agree on that four, honestly.

A lot of people would agree on that four, I think. A lot of people would be like, no, those are bad choices. No, no. Nobody that knows a damn thing would say that. And a lot of people would be like, you could make an argument for another person or two. Yes. But when you're trying to distill anything down to the four best, there's always going to be a little room for interpretation. Because like the other Iceland guys, you'd have John Paul and then Magnus.

Those would be the other two guys that won several times like that, and people bring those guys up. And I definitely – you could probably trade those guys in, trade a couple of those guys out. But it's, I'm always like, I'm not surprised, surprised isn't the right word at this point, but the number of people that say Eddie Hall should be on there that I'm like, Eddie Hall, like that is a, I mean, unless the, okay. Now that I think about the only way I see you making that case for it is by, if you're saying like what he did for Strongman. But if you just look at his.

I could understand that argument. Right. But if you're just looking at top performers. He won once. Yeah. He won once. I don't think he, he never won the Arnold. He won World's Strongest Man one time.

And even more importantly to all these fans, he broke that deadlift record and had a documentary about him. And he's just more famous and more popular. And we are saying this as Eddie Hall fans. We love Eddie Hall. He's great. He's a character he's entertaining he is more of what should in a perfect world exist in strongman interesting people

to uh to to profile and watch and learn about and see compete and it's why he's become famous like it's he's it's all work to his favor for sure yeah and i i would totally buy the argument that he's done more for notoriety around the sport of strongman than almost any other strongman yes but i think most people aren't using that as their rationale behind why he should be on the mount rushmore of strongman if they're making that suggestion. They just don't know. I think a lot of people, it's people that are not even that aware of Strongman.

They just know who Eddie Hall is and say, oh, Eddie Hall. It's the same people that love Paul Anderson. Right. There's a lot of, oddly enough, Paul Anderson fans out there. That the maybe the weirdest one to me but yeah out there and they love him but and it is and back to the you know the actual deadlift what what thor's going to go for that 501 kilogram which would would break eddie's record i do still think though you know eddie has said it too and i've heard

you know multiple people use this reference before and other things is everyone remembers uh the name of the first man that walked on the moon yep and like i do think that 500 kilogram barrier barrier so is like a such a significant number that 501 yeah thor does now have the record but eddie being the first to break the 500 kilogram still is you know that's just significant forever no matter what happens from that point you know yeah well and it's yes there's a lot of things there it's kind of you know looking at comparisons it's is it is it cooler to be the first guy to break the four minute mile or to be the second third fourth and just do it slightly faster it's like well those ones aren't quite as cool and also the same thing with uh with julius maddox going for the bench

record you know it's like okay what does he have right now 765 or something 70 he did this last time yeah and so even there he's competing against himself okay, if he does 775, is that that much cooler? Is it 780? Is that that much cooler? Yeah, it's cool. But you know what's really cool is 800. And then if he does get 800, is 802 really, really cool? Well, not really.

Once he gets 800, it's almost like that's, I mean, not to say he shouldn't try to do more, but like, I don't know what's... There's nothing significantly cooler after 800 that's going to be possible. He's not going to bench 900 pounds. Yeah, the record is actually just broken at that point. It doesn't make any more sense anymore. No, and that's so true in the case of that bench record. I just do not think that anyone will ever

like there is no way but i remember thinking with in the case of uh kirill serchev when he had the record for the number of years he did it's like gosh no one like who is going to bench more than that you weren't seeing people that is the only thing that this tells you is that yeah you know with eric spoto and carill like there's always you just think all right they've pushed this limit too far and now we're looking at possibly 800 happening in a year or so uh what do you think um is more likely to see successfully happen in 2020 half thor bjornson deadlift 501 kilograms or Julius Maddox bench 800 pounds wow that is a that is a very good question um

I think I kind of lean towards Thor just because I do believe he's capable of it and he has there's a date set in stone now and there's a date set in stone yes we know for sure he's gonna make a run at it i don't know who knows how long this virus thing will go and um i don't know what his training situation is like right now if if right he's in it i i don't follow his training super closely but i don't know if this has thrown that off. And so I think the Thor one has a fairly good likelihood of happening. Yeah, I'm going to go with that one. I think that one's slightly more likely. And then which one would impress you more?

If an 800-pound bench happened, I would be more impressed by that. And I think most people would. impressed by that and i think i think i think would i mean the 800 pound bench what the 500 kilogram deadlift was for lifting like i think the 800 pound bench is more sensational like more wild and like it's just it is like and it's funny to say because a 500 kilogram deadlift is obviously insane and you know no before eddie did it the record wasn't even close to that he did go out and shatter the record not on similar to what julius maddox is doing with the bench press but an 800 pound bench i just maybe it is uh like a heat of the moment thing, but that just seems way crazier to me now than a 500 kilogram deadlift. To me it does.

Yes, I agree. And it is because it just is so out there as far as the number goes. Yeah. A lot of people chase that multi-ply their entire life and will never get to it. Right. Yeah. He kind of like ruins the measuring sticks of everyone else forever. It does. Yeah, and you can't even make the excuses of a crazy arch or no range of motion

because it's about as big of a range of motion as you can get for someone like that yeah you know it's funny you you consider uh for just you know your typical person lifting a 400 pound bench press as you know that's a a mark or you know that's a threshold where everyone's like oh that guy's pretty strong he's literally twice as strong as like you can do twice as much as someone you consider to be pretty good at bench pressing yep not yeah it's just an entirely different conversation yeah yeah but so the thor's deadlift competition is in may 2nd and they're just doing that uh you know because of the social distancing i don't think there's really people i don't think it's an event for people to go to even i'm sure he's going to have his group you know his uh those guys oh yeah his

crew the blue shirts will be there but what are those what are those you know those blue jerseys that they always wear what's it say thor's power gym yeah yeah i'm sure they'll be there yeah it is turning into a bit of an iconic look for him you know you just gotta look out you just know to look out for that and that's yeah that's who it is should we read some ads tanner all right let's do it the thing is how many ads should we read should we read all of them like we normally do well if we want to keep these guys paying us, I suppose that's in our best interest.

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for the life of your membership. Thank you to our sponsors. Thanks, sponsors. I thought of like four things while you were reading. Whoa, this just turned into a three-hour episode, I guess now. All little interesting little tidbits. Do you got them locked into your brain so we're not going to forget these? I was just like, God, I wish I had a pencil or a pen right now

so I could write these down because I guarantee. So there's supposed to be four. Let's see how many I can remember. Four is the magic number. Okay. Dots. We talked about it last week. Yes, we did.

A few people messaged us with information on dots because we kind of said we couldn't really find anything. I haven't looked at any of it, but apparently information exists on it. Maybe the guy who's german i think i caught that from someone that the guy that actually came up with it is from germany but his last name wasn't dots all right well i will still uh hold my opinion that that information is not exactly easy to come by yeah if you know what that might be that's for sure but a google search doesn't seem to be making it easy to come by so So someone needs to be the official publisher on this and make sure it gets out there.

Yes, I think that that's for sure at least the case is that it is not easily found. So that was one thing. The second thing, that thing, as we're recording today, this is the last day of March right here. It's March 31st um that thing that people are all sharing on instagram that it's like put your best lip everyone's sharing it in their stories today where it's like it was a it was a thing that mark bell started i

believe okay yes yes right yeah i think that's it was like it was like the strong slide or something where you would put yeah uh it was it was an instagram post going around if people aren't familiar with what we're talking about it was an instagram post you'd put in your story and it had it was like one of those templates where it had blanks in it so it said best squat best deadlift best bench uh favorite instagram account our favorite instagram meme account yeah favorite podcast podcast there was maybe one or two other things but uh we were getting tagged a decent amount in that which i yeah we did we got tagged in that a lot and it's funny that i don't know that there's many other pages accounts podcasts that get tagged as much in

dual categories as we do because it's like i was gonna say is it was a 50 50 split almost of us getting tagged as either someone's favorite podcast or someone's favorite lifting meme account on and on some they gave us both but it's just funny that like I think it uh depending on what way people absorb our contact content not everyone's a podcast listener everyone listening to us say this is a podcast listener obviously but a lot of people are just Instagram followers and that sort of thing. So it was just funny to see that, uh, which people were choosing. And I was kind of keeping a rough tally and it seemed like it was about 50, 50 between whether we were

someone's favorite podcast or favorite, uh, lifting meme account. Yeah. Yeah. I was just impressed that anyone would want to put us in either one of those. That was super cool to see. That was. So that was number two. That was number two. We're halfway through, Tanner. Number three was just, I was going to note, we never even really mentioned it. I don't think that we are recording remotely again.

So if someone's listening. We are, yeah. Because the audio from last week did turn out really good, I think, right? Because I don't think you would have known had we not. As far as I was concerned, it was almost seamless. Yeah. And really, it was seamless. Just we know that it wasn't.

We weren't recording in the same spot. So, yeah, this is week number two of recording remotely. Yes. And hopefully by this point, it is just seamless. We're just pros now. I think we are. Yeah. I mean, we've been doing this for 208 episodes.

If that doesn't make you a pro, I don't know what does. Well, then we get paid to do that. I think that's what actually makes you a pro. Yeah, that is the ultimate definition of a pro, is getting paid to do what you do. That's why it's always funny. People that are professional powerlifters, it's like, are you though?

Is someone paying you? Is someone really paying you? Some people that is the case. I think very few people are actually getting paid. Yeah, right. There's people making money. Or getting compensated in some way, but actually getting paid.

We've talked about this enough times there's just very little money around in that way but that's another conversation that's true and I forgot number four oh god I was really excited for number four

it'll haunt my dreams that's why I wish I would have had a pen or a pencil next episode i'm gonna have a pen or a pencil so as these things now we know but three out of four ain't bad that's passing that's batting 750 in baseball that's pretty good it's a that's an above average baseball player for sure that's true that's some barry bonds numbers i don't know baseball i think thatonds numbers. I don't know baseball. I think that's right. Yeah, I don't know enough to dispute that. Or current relevant baseball players.

So I have to name people from 15 years ago. Yeah, you know, I was going to get really into baseball this season, and then they canceled it. So I guess I'll just have to wait until next year to be a super fan. Do you know who's the most famous? Who's the top three most famous baseball players today like actually playing yeah um i know two p i know two that i'm not sure if this is right but i was gonna see if i there's two names that come to my mind and i'm curious if you know better than i i was gonna the one i was gonna say i was gonna say bryce

harper that was yeah okay so that's one of the two I have in my head. Um, outside of that, I don't know who I would say is like, yeah, they're the, the other one that I think I know of is Mike Trout. Yeah.

I would, yeah. I would agree with that in my very limited baseball knowledge. And I don't know who the third one would be. Probably a pitcher, I guess. I don't like, yeah, there's be probably a pitcher i guess i don't like yeah there's probably some pitcher but i i i don't know enough to make a distinction of why one pitcher is more famous

or has more star power than another or who's just not not a pitcher just another non-pitching player who's another name a third famous baseball player even. Well, I could name players on the Twins, but they're not really famous baseball players. I don't think anyone on the Twins actually counts as famous baseball players. That's what I'm saying. I just don't watch baseball at all. I can't really think of a third major league baseball player. You know, A-Rod doesn't play anymore.

I know, Derek Jeter and play anymore david ortiz retired uh yep the game that's all washed up nothing left this it's damn instant replay that ruined the game i didn't even know there's a replay supposedly cheaters ruin the game too if you know if you're steroids ruined the game that's what ruined steroids yeah just everything ruined the game yeah because we see how much better the game's doing now that they apparently got rid of steroids we can't even name three players yeah exactly uh tanner we're about 40 minutes in what What do we want to do? We got games to play. We got. Should we just do we go to overrated, underrated or what are you thinking?

I could mess. I could mess with that. OK, there's some good topics. So maybe maybe maybe this will keep us entertained for a while here. And right now I'm going to also try to see if I can remember all four topics off the top of my head. If not, I'll have to go to my... Really pushing the brain power tonight. Yeah, I do have my cheat sheet just in case we need to look.

But something we've talked about already this episode, overrated or underrated. We've talked about it at length the last couple episodes, but we haven't put it in this context yet of overrated, underrated. Overrated or underrated, king tiger king this is this is a great topic yeah rated underrated because it's something that's super hyped and super hyped things are prime candidates for this segment yeah so when it comes to overrated or underrated, I will admit I'm a fan of Tiger King. I found the documentary very entertaining. But now answering this question, is it overrated or underrated? I actually do think it might be a little overrated.

I don't know if it made much of a statement about it was like just purely just, all right, we're just dropping into the middle of these people's lives. And I don't know if it made as to me, it seems like documentaries kind of should be trying to do something. Like if you're just in the people's lives, I guess that's just reality TV. You know, that's what reality TV,

like reality TV is not trying to really make a statement. It's just like, all right, we're following these people around and see what they do. And as far as a documentary goes, they didn't really, it felt like they didn't really tell me if I should be like, okay,

yep. These people are doing bad things or we don't, or the documentarians, like they didn't really even point you in the direction of that. You thought maybe someone was doing something right or wrong here. Right. So, yeah, I think as a a documentary it's actually a little overrated highly entertaining i will agree with that all day it's super entertaining um but as far as did i learn or take away anything from it what i took away it was a pretty surface level thing of like well there's just a lot of

crazy people out there that are obsessed with exotic animals and probably shouldn't have them i don't know if that opened my eyes up to the bigger i guess it made me aware of it There's just a lot of crazy people out there that are obsessed with exotic animals and probably shouldn't have them. I don't know if that opened my eyes up to the bigger picture. I guess it made me aware of it. I don't know if it opened me up to anything bigger than that, though. So I do think it is maybe a little overrated as a documentary. Overrated, then. This one will be, everyone will be underrated.

I already know the points. People might say, you know say you know people because like especially this comes out in a few more days maybe people are like all right enough of the fucking tiger king that bubble already burst yeah yeah you got a point there yeah i could still though just seeing this being 95 percent underrated yeah okay so overrated or overrated or underrated zoom meetings zoom meetings uh i think in this day and age where we're at right now anything video conference video meeting video call video chat i think they're all underrated it's a pretty important tool for people to keep their sanity right now to be able to communicate with people more than just a phone call or emails and if you're an iphone person you got facetime which is great or if you have a mac you know you have facetime you can chat with people

all types of ways with that get what 50 people in our however i don't know what the limit is on facetime i think it's at least 20 but if you don't have that there there's tools like Zoom. And I haven't used Zoom for quite a while now, but from what I have heard, it is the best. The reason I picked that is because it seems like that's what I've been hearing so much about it. It's what we started using at work, and I just hear everyone say Zoom meeting this and Zoom meeting that, and I'm like,

God, it seems like a while ago I don't remember people. People would reference skype yeah i think from what i understand zoom just does it better than any of the other people okay their their apps are better it works better it's easier um than than skype or like a go-to meeting or something like that because i don't really hear people say skype anymore yeah and i don't i think sky say Skype anymore. Yeah. And I don't, I think Skype, cause like, I think Microsoft owns Skype right now. And I don't know if they just, I don't think it's like super,

I don't think it's really adopted in the business world as far. I've never heard of like anyone wanting to request a Skype meeting. Right. In business settings. Zoom just seems to be the go-to. So they must be doing something right. That right that everyone wants to go with them. So, yeah, I think Zoom, what was it, Zoom meetings? Yeah.

I think Zoom meetings are underrated. Underrated on the Zoom meetings. And wanted to interrupt this session of overrated and underrated for a Mastodonomics ad. We do have the Lyft decal sticker for now on our site that uh we started to sell a bunch of those and that is a big beefy decal that is a big beefy decal and it's very durable i had to test it out myself and it's the list sticker in it's just the the word lift in huge white letters it is about eight inches by what five five inches six

inches so it makes a statement especially on windows especially if your windows are tinted really pops and i don't say many things pop but this pops we don't just say that things pop and it's starting to it's starting to pop up in places appear in different gyms on different pieces of equipment and it looks good it does look they're also saying it's the quickest way to uh make your vehicle triple in price so if you're looking to up the resale value on your vehicle you slap a lift sticker on it man you're gonna get a lot more money when it comes to you when it goes to market that's for sure that is true and as we're thinking about that this is probably kind of breaking news too i don't know if I've told you this, and I'm pretty sure I haven't told the podcast audience.

I am considering selling my Buick. Are you really? I'm considering selling it. I haven't. Like to get a newer Buick to replace it? I don't know. I might just sell it. I might just sell the Buick.

I might just get out of the Buick game. I don't know. Wow. Which would't know. Wow. Which would be a big, pretty big. And if you've listened to the podcast before, it's come up, you know, at least a handful of times. So that's big news. That's very shocking. The other day when I was watching the Sopranos, Tanner, I thought for sure Tony Soprano was driving a Buick.

And I was recording it it and then it went by the screen and then I saw it was a Lincoln and I thought it seems kind of weird that this mafia gangster guy is driving a Buick yeah I would think maybe like a caddy yes a Lincoln would make more sense than it went by and yep it was the Lincoln but what really got me thinking it was the Buick is because it was a big four-door car and of course it was that gray color that every buick in the world is and that's what really got me going on yeah until i realized it was just a lowly lincoln no none of that yeah no no he does drive a chevy tahoe a lot in there too yeah and yes and then uh yeah the tahoe is it a tower suburban i think it's a tahoe it's a little bit

shorter i think if i remember right but it's funny because that's such an old looking vehicle but like you know in the show yeah yeah it's so it looks so old like an old shitty vehicle but now that if someone was driving a tahoe you'd be like oh they're driving an 80 000 vehicle yeah right i so i i can't imagine the reputation has changed that much i'm assuming it was still a premium vehicle then. I'm sure it was. It's just funny to watch because you think you're like, oh, why is he... Like the first time you're like, why is he driving that junky old towel?

And then like, oh, wait, that was brand new. When I see those things now, they're completely rusted out and like just barely staying together. Yep. So yeah, that also was like an ad for anyone that isn't interested in buying My Buick. You could maybe...

This is a platform. You could make an open offer on that. You would just have to come to South Dakota to get it. And you would do it before you put the lift sticker on it so that the value would stay a little lower for the buyer? I would consider that. Also, I may just put the lift sticker on. Pass the cost on to them.

Yeah, yeah. So that's pretty enticing for anything that's, you know, just DM for further details, I guess, on that. You will have to keep us updated on that one. I'm a little worried about it. I was considering making one of those funny Craigslist posts, used vehicle posts about it, you know, like where you talk it up that it's really cool. Yeah, just so over the top with the whole thing. If I get the time i might actually might try to do that yeah it's marketing man you got it is and you know for the one or two

thousand dollars that i might get out of it it's probably well worth my time spent i i think so you know people leave us pretty creative podcast ads and they don't get anything out of that that's true our reviews i should say reviews yeah podcast reviews yeah yes um but so i guess my original point there was buy a lift vinyl decal if you if you would like to we have those topic number three overrated or underrated the summer olympics summer olympics this is another one that's tough is it overrated or underrated i still think i'm gonna say underrated on this i still think the olympics are underrated it's that one time every four years where you get to see or five in some cases or over five you know we got that leap year this year and uh where you get to

see some sports that you don't normally see on tv i i'm personally not a big fan of swimming don't really care for that part which takes like two weeks of the olympics yeah right i respect what they're doing it's just not that fun to watch but um yeah you get to see a lot of really cool performances it's fun the world gets behind it uh it's it's a nice break from everything else for everyone to to rally behind and have some fun so i think the olympics are still underrated just not this year just just not this actually you could say that a 20 2020 olympics is so underrated it's not happening yeah well that's just they are calling it the 2020 olympics still it's just going to take are they really yeah it's still happening yeah well that's just they are calling it the 2020 olympics still it's

just going to take are they really yeah it's still going to be called the from what i saw it's still going to be called the 2020 olympics so held in 2021 for is the next one still on for 2024 yeah i think that's what it would be yeah i think that's the logic behind that schedule does not break right yeah it's just there'll be a five-year gap and then a three-year gap yeah yeah that's okay well as long as you still get olympics i was gonna say maybe at this rate uh four years from now the world will be so broken there's no way there will be an olympics this is probably four years from now hey we gotta make it one year from now? Hey, we got to make it one year from now first. Yes. Yes, exactly. Topic number four, and this was all by memory so far,

so as long as I spit this one out, we did successfully make it through all four topics without me going to the cheat sheet. So that's a pretty big win. Topic number four, overrated or underrated? Dazed and Confused, the movie. Dazed and Confused, the movie, not the led zeppelin song right all right uh led zeppelin song i'll say is underrated it's a great song that's this is a twofer over rated underrated this is a twofer yeah i slipped one in there that was part of my druthers this

week as i added my own in dazed and confused the movie i think that that movie is underrated it is it's always entertaining. It holds up really well, I feel. I guess I haven't watched it in a few years, but the last time I did watch it, I still feel like it holds up pretty well. It's got a banging soundtrack. It really captures that era of,

I think it was in 1977 was the year that they did. That sounds right. Or was the year that Dazed and Confused. I just remember because my dad graduated high school in 76 and being like oh yeah that was like one year off of my dad's graduation that was that time but uh yeah daisy it's really and there's like there's quite a few people in it that way yeah i was gonna have it has a quite a cast you know yeah i'm just looking at because i know i'm gonna forget people so i'm just looking up the cast right now. Okay. The movie came out in 93. I didn't know what year the movie actually came out.

Uh, you have Jason London who I just know him as the guy from, uh, out cold. If you don't watch the snowboarding out cold, he's the, you know, he's the football player guy. Yeah. Uh, you got him that, joey lauren adams you know from big daddy i believe she's that's probably her biggest movie oh right yeah yeah and mall rats chasing amy those were slightly smaller movies but big daddy um mila jovich uh adam goldberg matthew mcconaughey you know there's some people in that movie yeah Mila Jovic, Adam Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey.

Ben Affleck. You know, there's some people in that movie. Yeah. Yeah, Ben Affleck, yeah. I wouldn't guess that it's as old as 93. That's almost a 30-year-old movie. Yeah. I had to do the math six times in my head there because that

doesn't make sense to me yes to say that that's almost a 30 year old movie that doesn't seem right yeah that'd be that'd be like when i was a kid watching movies from just well watching movies from the 60s like how? So weird. The time from when that movie came out to now is greater than the time from what that movie is portraying to when it was made. Right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh,

it is. Okay. It's last day school, 1976. All right. So yeah, it was 1976. So,

and that's the other funny thing is it seems so like it's such a retro piece, but it wasn't that feel that way yeah maybe it didn't feel that way as much at the time but that would be like a movie coming out now that's uh portraying because what so we're saying 76 so it was only 17 years in the past so that'd be like doing a movie about something from 2003 which would be like i don't know that's not that much different that was a very recent we didn't really have cell phones but yeah yeah like come on guys it's a little early to be making a retro movie we can at least wait 20 or 30 years right huh i feel like

things have changed less in this 17 years than that 17 years but that's probably not really true that's just a it's just because we're alive i think things have changed yeah i think things have actually changed significantly more right it's just the fact that we're here for it but god it just that's the one thing that starts to make you feel old tanner yeah the time is flying by man it is that's uh we had a few as a few months ago we had someone uh that joined the gym a new guy, and we have the boards, you know, the boards for board pressing. And most common use for our four board is a tripod. So I was moving it for that reason.

And I asked, it was the new member's first day, and I asked him if he's ever seen Dazed and Confused while I was holding the paddle and told him that we've got to go through the ass-whipping ritual, but he hadn't seen the movie, so it was a little lost. So it was just like, I'm just a weird old guy now. Yeah, but then I kicked him out because he hadn't watched Dazed and Confused. Yeah, it's the right thing to do, I think, in that situation. It's really the only thing I could do to save myself from making that joke that he didn't understand. Yeah. He tried to embarrass you, so you must humiliate him. You're gone now.

You are gone now. It is his punishment. So what did you say on the movie? I said Dazed and Confused is underrated. People should watch that movie. I agree. It's good. I watched it a few months ago again, and it's still good.

Still good. So that wraps up overrated underrated uh if that's what your druthers agree with my druthers are all about that okay um we talked about the new lift decal in the store otherwise we're pretty stocked up on things you actually what we've been selling a shitload of everything is our flags and banners it's like people are starting home gyms or something i don't know what that's about yeah we have been selling a shitload of flags and banners and we've been reordering we've got most of those products in inventory still but we're reordering a couple things now but those are definitely the hot ticket item so if you're after a flag and banner i would jump on it because we're doing our best to keep those restocked but really we have sold more flags and banners in a month than we have in uh you know probably

several previous months combined uh yes yes yeah without a doubt it was good thing we had some of those around otherwise we'd be out of all of them pretty pretty easily uh so flags and banners we do have we're just talking about it before we've got several new t-shirt uh not just in the works but like where it's not going to be long here and we'll have those out i you know they're probably at least three new shirts that we'll have. We wrapped up that first quarter. We've got to come at you guys hard with this second quarter now, so don't think we're dragging our feet over here.

We've got some stuff in the works, and you guys are going to like it. Yeah, we've got at least three brand-new shirts and maybe five or six new things all together, so it'll be pretty cool. and maybe like five or six new things all together. So it'll be pretty cool. And some shirt color choices that you haven't necessarily seen from us before. So it's not another yellow one this time. It'll be something you haven't seen yet.

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