Massenomics Podcast - Ep.85: Strongman Nationals and Thanksgiving

Episode Date: November 20, 2017

This week, the guys recap Tyler's trip to Vegas to coach Megan while she competed at Strongman Nationals. If you want to know exactly how many times he ate In and Out Burger while he was there, this is your opportunity to find out!  Check out the audio above, or the video below. If you don't already have a closet full of Massenomics gear, go to the MASSENOMICS STORE and load up on swag... Also, please CLICK THIS LINK TO GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING ON ITUNES... Click this text to follow Massenomics on Instagram... Vote Massenomics for President in 2020.. Have your barber shave our logo into the side of your head.. Maybe get a Massenomics tattoo while you're at it.    Or you could sign up for our email newsletter at the bottom of this page. Stay Strong,  

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Massanomics Welcome to Massanomics, the world's strongest podcast. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at Massanomics. Make sure you go visit massanomics.com. There you'll find the rest of our powerful content. While you're there, check out our store and buy yourself some of that sweet Massanomics gear. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week's episode of the Mastinomics Podcast. I am Tyler, joined as always by Tommy.

What's up? And Tanner. Hey, everybody. Just so you know, Professor Shons is still on the team. He just lives far away. And if you don't know about Professor Shons... You better ask somebody. Follow him on Instagram. He needs a third follower. Yeah, that's a question.

Has he been doing the Instagram thing much? I haven't seen anything for quite a while now. But I'd say he's not completely off the radar, but he's close. Has he? I think his last post was Masonomics related. Yeah, yeah. Listen, guys, I don't know what the best approach is.

Do we solicit dick pics to Sean's? Yeah, hit him in the... I don't know if he'll know how to check his DMs or not. That might be the... Well, that'll be really funny then, because guys, fill up his DMs with Ds, and then at the very least, we'll teach him how to check it next time we see him.

And he'll have just this awful onslaught. We'll burn him off the Instagram. This kind of sounds like you're scheming to see some dick pics, Tyler. I just can't get enough. Master plan. It's burn him off the Instagram. This kind of sounds like you're scheming to see some dick pics, Tyler. I just can't get enough. It's coming out in the 86th week. I'm in a position of power.

We now have actually as many listeners as we used to joke about that we have. When we used to pretend that we had a lot of listeners, that's now how many people are listening. Just think how many we're going to joke about that we have. When we used to pretend that we had a lot of listeners, that's now how many people are listening. Just think how many we're going to have to pretend we have now, though. 400 million.

We're talking Super Bowl numbers. Joe Rogan ain't got shit. But yeah, anyway, so send Sean's all pictures of your genitals. And where are we going to launch here this week? Oh, we were talking earlier about, so Brian Shaw's been releasing some like super gnarly. Yeah, I think this is some of the most impressive low-key strength feats

that are just going to fly under the radar for 99.9% of people. But these are blowing my mind. And these are Brian Shaw's Instagram grip strength videos. And the very first one I had to watch like five times because I thought for sure I wasn't. There was something happening that my brain was missing, but it was just that impressive. And Tanner, you might know the numbers better, but he took a 45 pound plate. Yeah.

He had the side, you know, with the lip, the groove to it was up. The hub. Yeah, where you could with the the lip the groove to it was up where yeah where you could see the actual numbers imprinted in and he had that side up and then did he have four 10 pound plates on it he had three fives three fives on it okay he had three fives laying on like the rim of this thing and kind of you know what the triangle shape and he just grabbed the the inside hub of the plate where i don't't know, is that lip like half an inch, a quarter inch? There's not much there. And he picked it up.

And I thought, well, I'm not seeing something right. I felt like the plates were attached to it and there was like something else in there. And I kept watching and watching. I'm like, he's literally grabbing that on that quarter inch lip and lifting. So what is that? 60 pounds? Yeah. And lifting that.

Yep. And. Did you guys try it? I just. That's like. I just like, just tried to just wrap my fingers in that position. And he never even tried it.

Cause I'm like, that's not, I don't know how it's doable. So I tried it with 60 and it was really not moving. And I have an elbow thing. So that like literally that type of thing hurts so bad but then i was like well fuck it i'm gonna try it without these fives on it then so i tried it at 45 pounds and i got it off the ground about an inch and then it it slipped out

i do feel i don't know you know fucking like tendonitis if i was having a good tendonitis day that i believe i could get the 45 at maybe up is tough you know i mean because it's got to be away from your body because yeah that's the oh yeah right i do believe i could get it like a foot off the ground i'm i'm certain plate selection is also important but and He's very specific about his things. The other one he did with... This is feat number one. That one's tricky. Number two, the first one we talked about, I think that's assuming you have the insane strength.

And you have to have so big a hand. Is that first one, are massive hands needed for that first one? Yes, I believe so. Because what it is, it's also surface area of fingers that's on okay you know what i mean like you need as much friction as you can to then squeeze and if you have little fingertips or small pads yeah like you're getting half the coverage yeah well this next one is without a doubt absolutely dependent on massive hands the second one so he had the old antique style 60 pound york dumbbell i believe which is the exact one we got down in the gym we have that

exact same 60 pound york dumbbell broken or together no it is together we have it is it is literally the exact one he used in the video and i think he talks about how he's like oh it's kind of an old antique dumbbell and pretty cool that we have it it's the roundhead yorks uh is what they're we have a bunch of broken ones yeah yeah and what do you call that like is that like a cast plate when it's like the or a clap um when it's just all one thing yeah i don't know what the name is for but i'm not sure anyways um he takes this one he grabs it by the head which is the 60 pound one has a fairly large oh and it's big it's hard to hold on to and he takes it picks it up and just to pick it up like that is impressive on its own yep hard and then that would

be really hard yeah once he has it picked up on the end he flips it in the air and catches it out of the air yeah yeah what and out of midair he flip rotates at once and snatches it. So now you have 60 pounds almost in free fall, and he's grabbing it. And if you go and just pick up by the handle, just pick up that 60-pound dumbbell, you'll be like, what? Like that just doesn't even. Yeah, and then so I was thinking like, well, maybe I can do just the end because we have the blob set. And I don't know what the blobs, because the blobs we have the blob set and i don't i don't know what the blobs because the blobs we have they don't have the weight on them and they're just half of it first one i can get easy every time second one you know if i have chalk on i'm not too tired

i can usually get that one but i don't think that second one is the same size as the 60 pound head it's even as big as this i don't know they're just really really hard to hold on to and there i feel like the limiting factor is the just the sheer size of that roundness, getting your hand around it. Yeah, if your hands aren't big, like you can't even – You're not even going to get your fingertips over it. Your fingertips have to be able to bend around it, and that's just not physically possible.

And that's why when I see every single one of these, I think like maybe Tyler has a shot because he's like, yeah, the first one he said, if someone can do this, I better get you a plane ticket. Or, yeah, a steak or a plane ticket out of here or something. I'd like to see anyone else do that 60-pound dumbbell thing of grabbing it out of midair. I mean, if you just pick up and hold a 60-pound dumbbell, imagine just fingertip grabbing an end of it out of the midair. In my opinion imagine throwing it and then just grabbing it by the hand yeah you're like yeah it's like oh 60 pounds you know yeah and like he's literally just grabbing it like i'm just the tippy top of it doesn't seem

to me when he does those things like he's like oh sweet i got it that oh he's like talking and doing it like it's just run of the mill it's like he does it every morning before he eats breakfast I don't think he's at the upper end of his limit like he's got some crazy tricks up his sleeve I'd love to see him keep pumping these out I think Shaw embraces a lot of the like

old old school strongman I kind of get that impression I think he puts a lot actually into that like like the craft of it crafty grip stuff like I think he's always been the guy that was like a really good grip guy yeah and it's almost weird there's not a lot of grip events at his level mainly because they're not very good shows yeah it's not a great show yeah short of like an unstrapped farmer's carry they would have to be so heavy for those guys. Yeah.

If they did like the frame at the Arnold without straps, that would be a grip testing event. Yeah. But then that would suck balls to watch. Yes. They'd drop 1,000 pounds every three feet. The winner would have gone five feet. Yeah.

Okay. And then so today he had the third one. And this one I've seen before. Yeah. But this is the one that's probably easiest to do in your own gym, and you can kind of scale this one to work for you too. So what he did, he just took two 45-pound plates, smooth sides out. He sandwiched them together.

You just go and you just pinch them on the smooth ends with one hand and pick them up. And he literally does this while he's like talking and having a conversation. Like it's not even a thing for him. And so then he, you know, throws out the challenge for people to try it. He says,

you know, try 25, 35, whatever. So at the gym tonight, grab 25, 25 is not a problem at all. Both hands.

I'm like, Hey, you know, feeling pretty good. And I should also say that I don't have grip strength. Like I'm, I'm not a grip guy. You guys both beat me like by miles in this category.

And then so I go to the 35s and could just barely, right at the point of the 35s breaking the ground, it just slides out. It's not a thing. And so then thinking like, oh, well, I can't get the 35s. I'll use the 15-kilo plates, which is 33 pounds. So I don't think I did myself much of a favor there. And also coated. They're thinner,

but they're also coated in some really slick paint. Those things weren't moving at all. You should have just taken the brush and roughed them up a little bit. So yeah, I scratched them up on the rocks outside and I grabbed them. Out of the three that he did,

that's got to be the easiest. I would assume, yeah. Because I've seen multiple people do like 35s like i mean not that it's easy but like just people can do that yeah do the 45s what was the other one we did with the 10s stacked together oh that was just uh as many as you could pinch together yeah i can't remember that's on instagram somewhere too maybe five or six tens or something like that. But see, even with that plate pinch, he's specific about the plates. He says the mill, mill, York 45s, which we have. Well, and that's what I noticed straight away is because, you know,

any gym will notice this, but yeah, we have some in the gym that have like a high gloss finish to them. We have some that are about as rough of a finish as you could have to them too. And even that, it makes a big difference yeah yeah but out of the three that's got to be even with 45 is not saying that that's easy but out of the three things he did there that's the having not tried it i think catching the dumbbell has to be the hardest that one because that's precision like since we have that exact dumbbell and like the day i saw that i went there and i went and grabbed that just to like better understand that and i was like never mind just well that's yeah that just blows my mind that anyone even him like it blows my mind that even he can do that and i think part

of this where it's just so like shocking to me is it's a little more relatable like i'm never going to know what a 900 pound deadlift feels like i'm never gonna know what an 800 pound deadlift feels like it's just like it they're just so not with that it's just so far beyond anything that's relatable to almost anyone that it's just hard to even comprehend anymore yeah but this it's like yeah you know i can i can get this in the gym and see how my i can't even do a thing with it. And it's not like a stack of 10 plates. It's just this 60-pound weight that kind of almost fits in your hand,

but you can't budge it. And grip, when you can't budge it. And with grip, there's a huge difference between nothing. Like that day we were playing with the Rolling Thunders, is that what it is? Yeah. And there was a certain weight where it came off the ground like nothing, and only a few more pounds on it didn't budge. Yeah, it could have been like 5,000 pounds.

Yeah, that's kind of grip for you. It's not like bench where you, oh, you were halfway up but didn't get it. Yeah, with grip, it's just not happening most of the time. In related news news kind of got back from vegas at uh strongman nationals um at wait a second isn't it supposed to stay in vegas or no no yeah are you allowed to talk about this vegas is gonna call and like literally the worst place in the fucking world to go. It's such a pain in the ass. It depends on what you're trying to do there, I think.

If you're going there to just party, even then it's pretty inconvenient. Oh, it does take a certain level of planning. It's not like you head down to your neighborhood bar and just start drinking. No, it's like you go down to what you think is your neighborhood bar, and it's $24 for your first drink. And you're like, wait, what? And now you're like, well, I guess I have to walk really far away from this place. And that's impossible, too, because a block in Vegas is like a 45-minute walk.

It took us 20 minutes to get to our parking garage. And you'll look and be like, oh, it's just right there. And then you get to walking, and you're like, we've been walking for like 20 minutes. It's like the fucking sidewalk is on this like treadmill that just like stuffs you into some other overpriced shithole. And I just, yeah. I mean, as far as Vegas goes, I'd be pretty happy if I never had to go back.

I just, I'm cheap and I hate really touristy places. Oh, that's a terrible place to be. And I hate getting like solicited like out of the blue from strangers. Well, that's all they have which is like all vegas is yeah and nobody's ever soliciting you for anything cool it's like hey how long are you in town don't fucking ask me that you know like but anyway megan had strongman nationals there um if you look her up on instagram it's at quads like megan i was there as the super coach um who had no idea what he was doing.

Did you get a pass or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just said coach. You put the super on it, though. Yes. But they had – so Nationals was my first time at Nationals. The interesting thing to me was it was their 20th anniversary which is why it was in vegas i think it was in like iowa last year oh see i assumed this was a vegas thing every year

okay so i think they tried to go big with it but it's interesting because while it is nationals it's a big event like 275 competitors i'm this is across guys and girls the 275 yep i'm certain that we had more volunteers at our strongman competition. Really? With 12 competitors. This is turning into a recurring theme. Are you saying that as a slight exaggeration? No, I'm legit.

How many volunteers do you suppose we had? 15, 20? All together, probably 15. Between the scorekeepers and all that stuff. I mean, they maybe had 10 judges judges the two people that were running the show and some people running the score deal and those same people were the ones moving the weights around so like yeah i mean we were probably almost one to one as far as that and like it's fucking crazy yeah so there was some stuff that maybe got moved you know like the log weights

were announced to be lighter and then they announced that they just weren't going to be. But they didn't announce it like any moment other than like when the ladies are walking out. They're like, oh, it's 170 now. What? Which is a bad way to mentally go into it. And so. Like, oh, just kidding. It's heavier than what you thought.

Ha, ha, ha. Remember how you were hoping to maybe get one at 160 not fucking happening yeah um a couple other things like they had to change the yoke and farmers medley to just a yoke run they were only allowed then they were only allowed one change the rules they're only allowed one drop on the yoke because they didn't want people scuffing up the fucking floors as though that event was just magically drawn out of thin air the day of the competition or like the venue was came up the day before it's like yeah we fucking knew the hotel knew like send them a picture what a yoke run and be like your floor gonna be cool with this so you think the whole someone at the hotel staff was like oh no no and, no. And what did they think was coming out to go down there?

So what they did is after the first event, they did the log, and then it was supposed to be the Yolk and Farmers. And then they basically didn't have a solution for that, so they just were like, fuck it, Yolk and Farmers is tomorrow. We'll go right into frame deadlift now. So you found that out after the log press? Yeah, they were like, next event's into frame deadlift now so you found that out like after the log press yeah they're like next events the uh fucking yeah deadlift what yeah okay so like for real like you could have left shit in your hotel room what if you weren't staying there yeah like well we sure

aren't deadlifting today maybe i don't need my my straps straps to do fucking yoke and farmers and you know so anyway it was just and then they ended up fucking after the next day or during the next day they just said no farmers and they just taped carpet to the bottom of the yokes and you can only have one drop which was put on them the night before they're gonna say you can only drop it once and it kind of changes people's runs change the way you approach it. Yeah. Changes your advantage. So what if you were a – What if you're an excellent farmer?

Yeah, what if a heavy farmer's carry is where you do make up your ground? Because now instead – You're like, oh, I'm not great at the yoke. Yeah, what you have is a log, and then you have a strapped-in fucking frame deadlift, and then you have a straight-up y run and then you had stones and what was the other one who's the full the who's the fell so like you had nothing that you had to have a thing in your fucking hands right yeah really no that's true there's no like element yeah there's nothing and so and for megan specifically that was like the farmers was where i think she not

that she was going to like win it but like that she that was that was an event farmers was where I think she, not that she was going to like win it, but like that, she was, that was, that was, that was her best event. So if your best event gets unplugged, like kind of can be a little upset. And I understand that like everyone has to do the,

is, you know, it's the same for everyone to everybody, but it's also nationals. Yeah. And what I would say is like like, all the people competing are, like, they're not getting their way paid there. No.

They're paying quite a bit of money to go. And, like, if the expectation is that beforehand you release the events and that's what the events are going to be, it's pretty annoying if you spend all the money to do it and to be there, and then it's different. And the thing that you were really hoping was not there. Or maybe even spent money training and getting those supplements. But I do understand if they –

If you bought a fucking farmer's set that you wouldn't have bought. And they use for – I understand if they say, hey, nobody knows the events until we get here. Yep. You know, then that's the scenario. But that's not what it's like here. So I can see that upsetting people. It's like going to the Super Bowl and being like,

hey, guys, we don't have any footballs, so we're playing with basketball. Yeah, it's shitty for everybody, but it's the fucking Super Bowl. I figured you didn't have footballs. I don't know. And they had high-temp sponsors. They provided the Hoosfeld. They sponsored, like, the bumper plates and shit. But other than the log, like, you don't need bumpers.

So on the frame deadlifts, when these guys have 900 pounds on them, it's full. Oh, I saw that, of bumpers. And so there's bumpers and clips flying off. Yeah, I saw that. And they're having to race to get it put back on. It's costing guys reps while they're trying to put weight back on. It's like, why don't you put fucking steel plates on there and but they had a sponsor well i don't know i did i did notice that yeah so it looked like they were stacked to the ceiling

and don't get me wrong literally the last thing in the world i would want to do would be to put on an event like that oh that would be because you'd be so good at it no i don't know and i'm literally not saying that i would do so good at it no i'm literally not saying that i would do a better job yeah yeah i'm the same and and trying to like orchestrate it across the country if you don't live there too it would suck it was totally blown you got to bring equipment and sponsors and i can't even imagine i totally feel their pain but also i don't have that job because i wouldn't be good at that job. Yeah.

I look at it the same way as if I, when I used to bitch about referees at like city league basketball, I'd be like, you're so bad at this. Why the fuck are you doing this? You know what I mean? Like if I, I might,

I'm probably worse at refereeing than you, but guess who's not fucking refereeing. You know what I mean? And so, and not that they were terrible and I think they had good volunteers and they had a good bunch. refereeing than you, but guess who's not fucking refereeing? You know what I mean? Not that they were terrible, and I think they had good volunteers, and they had a good bunch. It's just one of those things where... It would be an awfully hard job. It's a big beast.

It's a big beast, and fuck, you know how 275 people you're hurting cattle. Everybody's got an ego, and 90% of us smell bad. Most people have shitty attitudes. Did you hear much complaining about some of that stuff amongst the competitors? There was enough grumbling. Respect.

Yeah, rightfully so, I think. Literally, what was the one change we've had in two years at our competition? Instead of running the farmer's handles two guys at a time, we did one. Instead of being head-to-head, it was one. Honestly, that's the only mishap that we've had. For us, that's like a tragedy. I could have crawled into a hole and just shot myself in the head. I was so distraught overall.

It accounted for a two-minute, 30-second time delay. One detail in two years that Tanner didn't have completely ironed out. time delay one detail in two years that tanner didn't have completely ironed out but but anyway aside from it all i mean it was nice it was a good deal but they anyway let's in order megan did the log got zero um she cleaned it pretty good or she was able to get the clean pretty good once she got used to what it weighed what did what did people say about the mb power center logs like? Some griping about it. Obviously, I didn't handle it. For Megan, it was fine.

But did you hear people? She thought it felt good. You did hear people talk about it a little bit, though. Yeah, some people weren't super into them. What's the reasoning there? I don't even know. But I've just heard that some people say they're harder. I don't know if they thought there was something with the openings

or some extra metal in places. Truthfully, I didn't give them even a look. It was not my job to handle them. Did you say, guys, I've handled one made of wood, so you have no right to complain. Not one made of wood, but one that just is a tree. What a tree. So all you divas. So you said, you complain.

That was actually my favorite thing. So when they did weigh-ins, and it was in the theater up there where they have like where is this actually at at the link hotel on the strip right i figured it was in the mgm grand is it in like there so they have a they have like a convention center in there up at the top they have what's called the block link the link hotel pisses me off everything that is a k or a ck they spell with a q yeah it's fucking stupid so they anyway they have what's called the block which is this big wide open space where they probably do have meetings and receptions and shit like that it's also done like to look all fake and hardcore like you walk up and you look at and you're like damn this is cool there's like poured

concrete walls and shit and you go and it's it's concrete looking wallpaper on sheetrock and you're like you fake ass fucking and anyway um but actually it was a nice space still too small still not enough seating like how many people do you think are at this thing hard to say spectator 275 athletes probably about 500 total with coaches and then maybe another 500 specs probably like a thousand people two thousand people maybe yeah it's hard to say there's not going to be that many people there to watch it that aren't like a coach or yeah basically yeah basically because it's the entourage of lifters yeah i wouldn't even just as a fan of the sport frankly i only i didn't even

watch much of the men compete unless i was waiting for megan when she got done i would like peace out to the hotel because it's to the room just three hours between events and i was tired of being on my feet and not having anywhere to sit um but so then they went on to the you know like i think half the field zeroed the log then they go to the frame deadlift it was was a 480-pound frame deadlift, which is a lot of weight for 180-pound. Yeah, Tanner was telling me that number, and I thought maybe he had it wrong.

Megan never got more than 380 in training. In the warm-up, she hit 400, and it actually moved pretty quick. And I said, well, maybe this is the spot. And she couldn't move it off the floor. It didn't give her any trouble, but I heard a lot of complaints from whichever fucking farmer's handle or frame handle they used was basically just two farmer's handles,

but instead of them being bolted together or a kit together, it really was just a steel flat bar. That's the MB power center. Steel flat bar with a hole in it which meant it could shift into like a diamond shape so there's a lot of people whose shit got wonky by the end of it um that was some people's complaints as it was starting to get out of square you know and i could see that yeah so they that was what that was but do you know that for like her class her class it was fucking insane like over 10 or 23 oh yeah yeah and that's the girl that won overall because i saw

like some super heavyweight men that did like 17 or something at like 800 pounds yeah what what won the log for her class do you know was it like under 10 no i think it was like 10 or 11 or something like that yeah that's crazy too that's insane even like the man it's like there's guys doing like seven or eight reps of 320 yeah yeah that's insane yeah i did like i now that the log is the one event that i'm i'm certain that i could have gone up there and probably put up maybe three or four reps at that 320. I'm pretty sure of that. That's the only one that I could have been like, I am competitive in this competition.

Here I am. Look at me. I did a thing. I'm probably in the upper middle of the path. Luckily, it's first, though. And then after that, you're like, oh, shoot. I got a shoulder. I got a shoulder.

Just push the log so fast. I did get asked a lot if i was competing and uh because i'm big you're right but like the guys were fucking huge like like there was like 30 guys there that were bigger than me and all of them were stronger than me most of the ones smaller than me were stronger than me they're fucking that's the thing that considers the competition level at this is and we talked about that too how see what happens is you know locally locally all those people are probably the best of course at wherever they're from but even like around here locally we do well at these things and so that's people's expectation that you do go that you're

really good at it awesome yeah and then you go and the competition there is like a whole another thing that people that aren't that into it don't understand no they have no they don't understand that at all it's hardly even the same playing field between like the top five and the rest of what's happening so then they ask how you did and you're like yeah i mean like i got crushed by the people that are really good at it like oh like oh i guess i thought you were strong like what are you just kind of yeah did you just suck but really that'd be no different when we were talking about this it'd be no different than being like oh yeah i'm a pretty good golfer around here and it's like

yeah i'm in this golf invitational with all the all the some of the pros and then you go and send my pro like you placed 180th it's like why'd you get 180th while i was playing against pros it's about the same by 179 no name pros yeah but they're all they're really good you know like there's people that live and breathe this shit like and nothing else you know it was very interesting because just the sheer amount of strong people there i mean like there is a lot of really big really strong people there and when we moved on to like like the frame deadlifts guys were ripping that fucker off 10 plus times yeah plus you couldn't strap in before the time started so that girl that got 23 23 reps at 480 as a woman. In how much time?

In 60 seconds. Ooh, it was 60 seconds. With strap-in happening, which is like... In order to do that, that would have to feel like a paperweight to you in order to do 23 in 60 seconds. Yeah, plus you had to wait for a down command. Yeah, that's like... Or show your down.

Like it would literally have to be like just of the weight of no consequence to you. You know, where like if you did 135 on a bar. That's what got me on like the Atlas Stones is there was some people, there was women hitting like 15, 16 reps with the fucking Atlas Stone. I think, I don't remember what won the men's was like seven or eight reps. I think it was under 10 those super heavy those three super heavy all went together 360 i think it might have been eight eight at like 360 yeah and all i know is 335 345 335 is what ours is 330 yeah was like i got it three times fuck me up for two three weeks

i hurt forever also almost didn't get it every one of those times could have not gone over and your bicep is completely like completely from two attempts and like and so where are these people getting again so i'm like what's that how much fucking stone can you lift like are you a guy with like a 495pound stone lift? Probably. There were some chicks there who were just like... But you could tell the people who it really is way below their maximal because they're not even laughing. It's all one motion. It's just picking up.

That's what you see like half-throwing them, do stones. It's until maybe the last stone. Sometimes they'll even one-motion those. It's like they're just picking something those yeah it's like they're just picking something up it's like they're picking a basketball off the ground and it just goes straight just through the hips all the way up and it's fucking crazy but um it was cool once you know we i kind of learned going to enough of these types of things and i kind of told megan the same thing i was like here's what happens you're gonna go here you're gonna be shy because

everybody's big and strong and intimidating you're not gonna talk to anybody and then about three hours left in the last day you're like oh you guys are pretty cool you like the same stuff I like why wouldn't I have talked to you the whole time oh shit you're just like so we kind of made a point to make sure we were like communicating with people while we were there and it was really nice we met a lot of really nice cool people um and so that part was fun it was a really good fun group of people to have there wasn't a lot of people who were pricks or anything did a lot of was everyone like oh you're the guy from massonomics podcast i was talking about dick pics i did i did i did make a uh i did obviously wear my massonomic stuff the whole time.

And I had a few people like, Oh, I'm totally going to buy that shirt. You know, it was like, you said, we'll do it right now. Also show me on your phone. I was like,

I was like carrying the flasks around, which I had a new one every day. Like holding it. Cause I'm not stupid. I legitimately made a point to like, make sure that I was holding it so that the logos were not, you know, not in my hand. I'm not dumb.

It was like me at Kale Beck was wearing a Starting Strongman shirt. I was like, yeah, he fucking gets it. You got a thing. You better be about that thing. Right. If you're not, how do you expect other people to? Yeah. But it was a lot of fun. The banquet afterwards was $90.

Food was pretty good. Banquet, you know, it's just an awards meeting. It's just reading off stuff. A couple of nice speeches. And, you know, like Dion there, it's her life's work. The gal who's like the president of Strongman Corp. Was there any talk at all about U.S. Strongman? No, nothing.

No, they wouldn't, I'm sure. Because that's the other thing there is a whole other strongman nationals that has like 200 people that go to it that's in like it was in detroit this year this last year was in detroit do they get a lot of the same competitors i don't know that's a good question i would assume there's pro cards that they do too because now this whole thing is about pro cards from what i understand nationals is basically a qualifier for the arnold right like people people do nationals in order to make it to the this one now basically i don't remember how it all played out but like the top x amount of finishers depending

on your subclasses and shit like that overall in subclasses you You got X amount of people made it to the Arnold, and then the top three or something like that got their pro card. I think top three in each subclass got their pro card. Maybe it's top three overall, and then the top eight get whatever. I don't even know what the pro card means. It seems like a thing a lot of people wanted. Obviously. It'd be cool to say you're a pro-strongman.

But, like, so what does it destroy? Then the money starts coming in the mail? Does strongman corps start paying you? That's my question. I doubt it, yeah. Because they probably don't. No. So, like, I don't know what that means.

Yeah. It seems like. I mean, I guess I'd take it. But this qualifies, you know, the way that these people approach. Do we get some sort of podcasting pro card? Yeah. Went and. 84 episodes. We got hit 100 episodes. 100 episodes. And it's Do we get some sort of podcasting pro card? Yeah. 84 episodes.

We got hit 100 episodes. 100 episodes. And it's literally a card you get that just says pro. Well, it's probably laminated, though. But a lot of these people, it seems like they have to do competition throughout the year to qualify for nationals. So then there's kind of a large pool of people that qualify for nationals, and then all these people, the best of those ones,

they're coming to nationals in hopes of making the Arnold. That's kind of the stepping stone. And that's through Strongman Corp. Yes, that's Strongman Corp. The USS has nothing to do with the Arnold, as far as I know. No, I don't think so. So you want to go to the Arnold. I think they do have something that you can qualify through

through that other one. But it's not the Arnold. No, I don't think it's the Arnold, but this strong man nationals, strong man, corp nationals is a feeder for the Arnold. Cause that's like a really big deal to make. That's gotta be one of the bigger events you could ever do.

I think that's probably for an amateur strong man. That's like the, that's the, like you've made it or, you know, you're like, I made the Arnold, which makes sense. Yeah. Yeah're like, I made the Arnold. Which makes sense.

Yeah. Yeah. One thing was that, so at the banquet also, it was 90 bucks. How much were beers? $12. Domestic. Modestly priced. $12 domestic beer, which is for real the worst that it's going to get in Vegas.

I can't fucking believe it. I can't believe it. So you're like, bring me a case put it on my tab listen i roll pretty deep here you know i bottle service you got a bottle here's a hundred i won't be drunk well that was my thing as i told the and it's the same thing at the pool this is a funny story i go to the pool and i'm like did they have a nice pool i I was... Was there a lot of people there? Let's just say after about 1 p.m., the flamingo blocks out the entire sun from the Link Hotel pool. So don't go to that one.

But anyway, I was at the fucking pool, and I go... This was like Thursday, kind of our off day. Was there a lot of strong man people just around? Not the pool. Okay, no. They're busy eating and sleeping. They got strong stuff to do.

And also, I don't know how many were there at that time. But there was a lot in the hotel. Like you just see people around, you're like, strongman thing? Oh, yeah. Strongman thing. All the time. My joke was every time I'd see a huge person, I'd be like, you're here for the ping pong tournament? And I always got a good laugh and broke the ice.

It's funny. And I had a couple people who would just spot me and go, do you know where the strongman thing is? And I'd be like, come with me. But so anyway, back to the pool, right? So I'm at the pool. I go to order a drink because I was going to go lift at Brandon Allen's in like four hours. Because I was going to go lift at Brandon Allen's in like four hours. So I was like, I'll have a double while I'm here at the pool.

And then chill out for a few hours and then go lift. Relax, get some sun. Because Brandon Allen's got a pretty nice tan. I don't want to show up all pale in South Dakota to eat. So I get there and order this drink. And he's like, well, doubles come in this cup. And so, but you get this, and then your next drink is, and I swear to you, he said $3. And I'm like, oh, my man, I like that. And he's like, so that'll be $24.

I was like, oh, well, I guess at least if the next ones are $3. I was like, maybe I won't go lift. Maybe I'll just take advantage of the three. But I have the cup all weekend, so good. The pool's going to be my spot, right? I just had the one, hung out for a little bit, went and lifted. Next evening after the shit's over with, I go to the pool with your cup. Take my trusty cup.

I'm like, saving money. I'm so fucking smart. And I go there there and i was like set this down i'd be like i'd like a double morgan diet he's like all right and he pulls it up and he goes that'll be 21 and i'm like but the guy said it's three dollars off and then the bartender like rolls his eyes he goes we would lose our ass if it was three dollars i'm like well not really because you got 24 for one fucking drink and i come from a place where it was three dollars i'm like well not really because you got 24 dollars for one fucking drink and i come from a place where drinks are three dollars yeah and none of our

bars are going out of fucking business yeah fucking asshole so i spent 55 dollars on two drinks after tips yeah i was so fucking mad yeah and then because i was like at that like i can just go to my hotel room and drink and come back yeah you know i can drink fast so i was like so after put that one down it was like go to the hotel drink a beer carry two drink those on the way back you know but god vegas is just so inconvenient did you see any bad injuries? Nothing too major. Tex Martin. Yeah. Big Tex Martin on Instagram. I competed against him in Rapid City.

I didn't actually get a chance to talk to him, but I talked to his either girlfriend or wife for a little bit. Was she competing? No. Okay. No, but Tex tore his quad. I don't think it was super nasty, but it was enough to where he was shuttered up.

He was moving around okay. I think he had a good chance of winning the 265 weight class too. Yes, I agree. I think he did. I think a lot of the things that were put up by other people were things that are within his wealth. He was leading the one event he did get to finish. He was in first place in the 265. He's a big 265.

Jesus Christ. Yeah. So he's a big two 65. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. But so he was probably. I'm trying to think of anything else that I saw.

I don't think there was anything too major. A couple of nosebleeds, a couple of people passing out on the deadlift. A couple. I saw a girl blew out her knee on the very last lift of this last stone of the last day. Okay. That would suck. But also qualified for the

arnold yeah that's all probably not gonna be i uh california's strongest man on the husseville stone looked like he uh oh yeah i felt bad yeah i was like andrew wickham he just had a rough he's had a rough couple events you know he just you're always the margins for error pretty slim when the weights are that big and i think he is like he knows his events pretty well like he knows his event training he's really strong he knows his event training really well um and it just it just it was a couple mistakes yeah and i think he was there's so many strong people there there is no room for yeah because someone's gonna someone's fucking good i mean like he was off like that yoke where he just put it down rush the pick and then had it

down before the end and they didn't give him a slide through. If they give you a slide through, if it slides past, they'll give you just a two-second penalty. So that cost him a ton because anyone that finishes. If it slides through, you're going to get just a slow time. But if you're a DNF with just a fucking distance, it puts you way back. Right. And that sucks.

And on the Houssouffle, that's tough. If you're going to pass out, what do you do? Yeah on the husafel he just that's tough if you're gonna pass out what do you yeah like i mean well that's what he passed out actually he just had a borderline like he was you could see him stumbling in a way that he was like i think he picked it in either too high or too low it was like at a point where he's having trouble breathing i didn't talk to him about this but um it just looked like, yeah. And then he fell and went with it. That 400 husafel is the weight we did in Rapid City. And that is heavy. Like that sucks. Like there's, I think 224 feet or something, one for the guys.

And I was like, holy crap, that is insane. Because when you pick up a 400 pound husafel stone, like I, the split second i picked it up and i've never trained it before so it was really a shock to my body but i was like what in the fuck like this is i need to get this off yeah yeah so that's that is that is one of those events where as soon as you get it on you it you go i want to quit i want to quit i want to quit I want to quit yeah you know and uh but the interesting thing too was there was a gal the lightweight woman no middleweight I think it was a middleweight I don't remember if I'm gonna fuck it up if I think it was a lightweight woman um I think it might have been the gal that won it um carried the whoose fell stone 540 feet i thought someone went over five that is down

60 foot down and back fucking five times yeah it's like almost a football field down and back yeah like it's so crazy and she smashed everybody yeah like it was like twice as far as the next person nearly it was nuts and that's an event megan did pretty well at generally speaking um she didn't what like crush a bunch of people but that was one that was her first event that she could get a score on the board compete and where you're like competing with yeah there you are you got moving so she did it she didn't maybe do as well as she wanted to but she had never trained with that implement and was pretty happy with that um we get out of the next day um next day was what did we open with open with the yoke then and then um and megan did okay with that got a slide penalty

at the end didn't move maybe as fast as you want but she had never carried that 460 pound yoke the three we did 380 in training like two weeks ago and even that was like pushing it on her body to where i didn't want to go any heavier that close to the event and i was like you just have to understand that we're just we're only adding basically a two 35 pound plates or two 45 pound plates to this and like and you're at your competition weight so you can pick it you can move it but it didn't feel good in training for her so it was like a good confidence booster for her to pick up and carry 460 and finish it. So then was the Stone of Steel, which is always a fucking wild card. She had no practice with the Stone of Steel, some with our stones, but our stone, which one is it?

The 160 or the 180? 180. with a stone of steel some with our stones but our stone which one is it the 160 the 180 180 the 180 is like one of our more fucked up stones as far as like it's kind of rough rough and tack isn't great you know it's just one of ours and so she hasn't played with it a ton um never had a lot of really good i mean she's had better luck with the 200 pound stone at our gym than the 180 so we didn't even get to do a lot of rep training with it because it was just too tough of a pick for um so this deal going with gloves and tacky towel and all that what did you see most people doing gloves or no because i saw half and half i saw people just literally nothing like a cut off sleeve and completely bare arms and most of them had spray tack all over yeah yeah um did you see it where most people did they have the towels

right next to them and then yes yeah and everyone was like spent 45 minutes putting towel rubbing towels all over their body yeah um so but that was uh megan we didn't know also side note megan's judge for that event was a guy i don't want gonna fuck up the guy's actual name but on instagram he's overweight too great he's a big fucking huge strong dude used to be like a big fat guy i started following him like forever ago when i was a big fat guy so he's a guy that's been like super like it's like oh man this fucking dude and then he's judging her so it's great for megan because she had never done that event and she goes through she gets the first one over and he's fucking just right in her face like so he was the shit so give him a follow on instagram he's a really really good dude to have there for also uh so she ended up with three reps

on that stone which we went into that hoping for one i was like let's get you one that's that was a big win for her so yeah um overall she finished like 35th out of 41 or 42 which that generally i suppose was disappointing to her but like i told her i was like you got to go back and look at your events like you zeroed the two we thought you were going to zero and you did as well or slightly better as we thought on the others and how long have some of them probably been doing this too yeah yeah i mean she's basically done this since march you're not doing what 23 reps of whatever it is unless you've been doing this for a little while i think that gal that did that was like a has like a power lifting background i think like a four or five hundred pounds in her squat

and like i mean she's like a legitimately strong yeah really strong chick so um but it was all good it was a lot of fun i fucking hate vegas so much i'm super stoked to be home um but uh no it was good also uh martinez lixus yeah was one of the judges there oh that's cool i saw he was you didn't you didn't draw him on anything did you no she was going to on the yoke but he switched out right uh right there but um he was there his i don't know if it's girlfriend or wife is uh rebecca rowley was kind of one of the near favorites in megan's weight class there she had a rough round i think ended up finishing like top 10 but i think i don't know if brian alzrew was there or not he's never state or something on yes he was there yeah he

wasn't competing i don't think but i think he was there he was there i know simply because i saw a bunch of his shirts and stuff around yeah i don't know what he i don't know him he's does strong man he's really strong yeah so i don't know i don't know him personally but somebody else asked me that i think uh cory weisbeck asked me that today i was like i know the name and i know he was there or at least a bunch of motherfuckers with his shirt. Yeah. He was there, I'm pretty sure. But anyway, Martins, for a guy that got fourth. Was it third or fourth this year? He didn't podium, I don't think. So he would have got fourth. Fourth at Worlds this year.

Yeah. And we only saw him from the stage at the Arnold. Not as big as I thought. He's not as big. Like, Wickham's as big or bigger than Martins is. Yeah. Which is interesting. Yeah.

Because he's one of the strongest guys in the world right now. Yeah, I mean, he basically, what was the order at? Eddie, Half Thor, and Shaw was third. Shaw third? Or did Shaw drop even further? But anyway, like, to be right in that company with those guys and being, by my guess, 80 to 100 pounds lighter than them is pretty fucking impressive.

He's not massively tall. I guess 6'3". So, like, I was impressed. I mean, not that he's a small guy because he's a fucking truck. Yeah. But he doesn't look like – we've seen Brian Shaw. Yeah, like, I stood next to martinez many times you know when we were kind of getting yeah megan ready and he you know they were in kind of the same lanes and stuff and like

i was like no shit like maybe you just don't have to get it's not a quest for hugeness yeah i mean it is i think he's really proficient in his i think he moves really really well too yeah but i was pretty impressed with that having seen that he's not a fucking giant you know like brian shaw looks like the guy that should finish top five at worlds yeah martinez i mean really has to fucking earn it at that point i mean that's crazy yeah but no it was. It was a lot of fun. But that's about all I've got as far as the wrap-up for Vegas. That last thing you were just talking about reminded me of an important question I've been meaning to ask you guys. Are you guys ready for the question? Do you guys think hydration is important?

It's funny that you mention that, Tanner, because I've been thinking a lot about the importance of hydration myself lately. Seems like it might be kind of a big deal. You know, I think you two are onto something. As you two were talking, I just made a quick search on Ask Jeeves, my personal favorite search engine. And it turns out that 80% of the human brain is made up of water, fact. And good hydration can actually help reduce cavities and tooth decay wow that's astonishing tommy it really is tyler but how are we supposed to stay hydrated all the

time what could we put our water in that would keep it cold be portable enough for our busy schedules and look really stylish all at the same time. I've got it, guys. The Flex Flask by Massonomics. In parentheses, excited. Oh, my bad. The Flex Flask by Massonomics? What the heck is that? Well, it's this amazing liquid container that holds 41 ounces of anything you choose.

Anything? It's made from double-wall stainless steel, which helps keep your drinks colder longer and has a wide mouth lid hmm that all sounds good but the flex flex flask probably doesn't come in cool designs or any different color options to match my personal taste that's not true tanner i just checked on massonomics.com there are three different flex flask designs and each one takes my breath away. And they come in your choice of brilliant white or a stealthy matte black. Well, that does it. I'm convinced, guys.

I'm going to go to massonomics.com right now and buy one. You better hurry, Tanner. I might just beat you to it and buy them all out of stock. Everyone laughs together. Oh, we're not supposed to say that part. So that was brought to you by our sponsor. Our sponsor, Masonomics.com. The Flex Flask.

It's the Flexiest Flask. There it is. That was fun. That was a good ad read. I kind of like this script reading thing, guys. They must pay us a lot of money. Yeah. Well, now that we've got that out of the way, guys, we're getting down there on time.

It is the week of Thanksgiving, and the week of Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks. And what more? Let me back that up. let me back that up i think today would be an excellent time for us to talk about everything that we're thankful for in the world of fitness and lifting that's a good idea because there's so much to be thankful for i mean the hard part is going to be really narrowing it down to just a few things to fit on this episode i'm thankful that uh apparently s SBD's apparel is sized in a way that's supposed to make you feel enormous. I bought a 2XL shirt, as I always buy, that fit like a medium. Then bought a 3X that fit like also a medium.

And now I'm wearing a 4XL. So apparently I'm a 4XL kind of guy, which is good. Yeah. Thanks, SBD. Yeah, that's really good. What's something that you're thankful for? You know, I'm thankful for our top-notch training facility. You know, we got all the toys around.

I could really go in-depth on all of them. But, you know, just bars alone. We have more bars than most people in one gym than most people will ever see in their whole life. Than most people ever need for any real reason. Yeah. But they're there. But we have them.

I'm pretty thankful for all of our podcast listeners that are out there. The ever-growing podcast audience. I'm thankful for each and every one of you that give us the motivation to keep doing this that we're doing here i'm also thankful for uh nevada's recreational marijuana laws tommy uh are you thankful for 12 beers or is that that not so much oh not so much i am thankful back into the land of two dollar beers and $3 cocktails. Where the beer flows like water.

The beer flows like wine. I am also thankful for anyone that's ever even stopped by the website to check it out. The reason we can keep this stuff going not only is from the listeners, but I believe there's also a good chunk of listeners that have maybe even never swung by the website. So if you want to be in my thankful group, you can just hop over there and check it out. I think you'll find some stuff you like. There's all kinds of articles there.

Check those out. And there's all kinds of good stuff for sale. Like what type of good stuff? I've got it, guys. Oh, that was Tommy's line. Damn it. I'm thankful that I have a wife that allows me to go to the gym as much as I do because anyone out there that's single now, and if you're a regular gym goer,

that is something you're going to want to think about if you're going to decide to not be single anymore. You're going to have to run that by. Yeah, because that's a huge time commitment and i mean i've seen firsthand a lot of people that that does not work out for so disappear yeah stop yeah yeah so i'm thankful that uh i do have a wife that allows me to spend just an absurd amount of time on that and this and all things in between. I'm pretty thankful that I don't have a real job. I just hang out at a gym all day and yet still go to a different gym to lift.

I think that's why everyone tries to quit their job is so that they can be a part of two different gyms. I think that's everyone's ultimate goal. I'm also thankful for the entire two years at Mastanomics Gym because we are celebrating this weekend. We will not be doing

a party cast this year due to mostly us not wanting to be super embarrassed with our own behavior. We'll be embarrassed, but we're not going to share that with you our own behavior we'll keep the we'll be embarrassed but we're not going to share that with you we'll probably podcast the day after i suppose and we cover the highlights oh yeah that's right fuck yeah you'll catch it all secondhand yeah which is best for everyone yeah i mean if you you want to know what it would would be like you can just

listen to last year's and it would give you a good indication i mean you don't have to we don't even have that available anymore probably yeah someone's going to be thankful for uh some top-notch prizes too yeah yeah uh a member is going to win a quarter of beef a quarter pound of beef yeah a full quarter pound from windies i uh and that is down at the basement of the dakotaritory Brewing. Yeah, Dakota Territory Brewing, Aberdeen, South Dakota. We have the inside track on breweries that are not yet even open. It is not even open yet.

We're that ingrained in the community. Not sure if that's legal, so maybe we don't talk about that. We'll edit that out in post. Yeah, we do lots of post editing. A lot of it. I am also thankful for spotters from Selby. They're known to be the best spotters. I have heard an old Chinese proverb that, I think it goes,

you always want a spotter from Selby. Yeah, I think that's what it translates to, I'm pretty sure. From Mandarin or whatever. I'm thankful for the unreasonable amount of fucking fitness equipment and body strapping gear that I have now at this point. Body strapping gear? What is body strapping gear? I got all my wraps and

sleeves and i got some of them i finally got some of the slingshot forearm elbow cuff things you know oh yeah i had to use those today to bench for the first time felt pretty good i see ryan he has one too he said he enjoyed it i got some of the the new SBD navy blue, basically also still black knee sleeves. And I would have totally got the black because that's what I wanted, except they didn't have them in my size. It was pretty funny. As I'm trying them on, which the first time you put them on sucks anyway. I'm like expecting it to be difficult.

And the guy's like, I think he was just stroking my ego. He's like, I mean, with the size of your calves, you're just going to need a bigger pair. And I'm like, oh, shut up. Thank you. So I guess I'm thankful for my calves and my knee sleeves. Would you say you're thankful for SBD making Navy as well? Nah. No?

Not a great look, in my my opinion i don't know like we were talking earlier like red red with black stitching would have been sweet yeah i'm telling you they're holding out because sales are going to double overnight it'll be black friday red ones drop yeah yeah i bet they will that will happen someday though yeah it's. Yeah. They should release just like a yellow pair just to motherfuck Titan, too. Yeah. Does anyone like that color, though? Like, does anyone want that? No.

I don't even understand why they make their shit so ugly. Yeah. They could use help in the design department on a lot of things, not just their knee sleeves. Right. Tommy, have you tried contacting them? I haven't, but that's a lot of momentum. I'm thankful for Tommy D Creative and TommyDCreative.com for all their super dope. Keeping the dream alive.

Keeping the dream alive down at my CrossFit gym. That's right. Is there any particular Thanksgiving foods you guys are thankful for? You know, I actually don't really give a shit about turkey in general. So I don't get super worked up about it. I've never asked you guys, are you guys white meat or dark meat people? I like white. I'm more of just a meat kind of guy.

It doesn't really matter. Actually, honestly, I think for Thanksgiving most of the time, my dad just smokes like a bunch of pork loin because it's easier. Yeah. And in my opinion better i i am kind of in agreeance that turkey itself is not like i always smother it all in gravy i mean if i had to pick i picked the dark meat because it seems to have a little more juice to it but um yeah i smothered all in gravy anyway so yeah i think the best move i know a few people who cook

um they'll cook like a whole prime rib or two. And that's what they'll have, which that's the way to go. Yeah, it is. It is the way. Yeah. I don't have the patience or money to be one of those people. But if you are one of those people and you'd like to feed me, let me know. I'm also not real big into like pies and stuff.

So that part of it. See, I enjoy a good pecan pie i get like a pumpkin pie and a cheesecake yeah you gotta put it in my face like that time of year yeah i feel like it's like the one time because i'm never making one of those and i'm not buying one so it's like the one time of the year maybe besides christmas that when i see a thing maybe it was just conjecture but someone was saying that ed Eddie Hall was eating like four cheesecakes a day. Is that real? I don't know.

That one of Brian Shaw eating, he was eating cheesecake that day, and he's like, well, you can't just leave half a cheesecake around, so he ate the rest of his cheesecake. It wasn't like one extra slice. It was like four slices. I think that's got to do something to your insides like how how much diarrhea do you have to have or how long do you have to eat cheesecake before your body just accepts that this is what we deal with now things are moving

so much through brian shaw's plumbing that like i don't think diarrhea is really a thing for him it's just stuff coming out yeah it just turns into muscle and then just comes out as like it probably comes out in cans that's the thing they never they never talk about that in any of these documents they really don't talk about the eating they really don't go in depth if you're eating that much what do you think's going on on the other yeah my go-to when we're at the arnold this year when i get to one of those guys is going to be a few questions one is going to be how much fun is it flying on planes what's like the worst airplane story you ever had um the second one is going to be which of the strongman competitors is the stinkiest yep and then the third is going to be tell me a story about how often and what your

poops are like spare no details which uh which strongman competitor do you think is the stinkiest? I don't want to call anybody out in case I get to interview them. I think there's one that comes to mind that we probably won't interview him, so it's probably okay. He might smell perfectly fine, but I think maybe Dimitar is the stinkiest. Is it maybe just because he has the most foreign sounding name? You're like, he probably is from a place where armpit is the huge. Yeah.

So I think that's got us about to the end here. I think we said we're pretty thankful for everything. And, you know, maybe most importantly, though, I think we can all us about to the end here. I think we said we're pretty thankful for everything. And, you know, maybe most importantly, though, I think we can all agree on this one. We're thankful for the crew we have in Massanomics, in the gym, the people that listen to this. That's what makes it all go around.

That's what makes it tick. Yep. All you fucking losers out there. What's there to do? Lift weights. You shitty assholes. Listen to weight lifting podcasts ignoring your family

while you're listening to us yeah Ryan Mercer you're still a good fan yeah Ryan Mercer for the win thanks for the review

every one of you who aren't Ryan Mercer who didn't leave us reviews we're still thankful for you but get on it uh i don't want to be mean going into the holiday so thanks a lot for listening to us everybody um please like we talked about earlier go to massonomics.com they're gonna find the flex flask the glorious flex flask coming in six different

colors and designs right six but it probably doesn't even come in any cool colors or designs that fit my personal taste. Oh, I bet it does, Tanner. Also, the shirts, the hats, all the good stuff is going to be there. You can get yourself a... Do we sell the banners on there? Yep. Yeah, get yourself a super dope Massanomics banner. Also, you're going to find all our archives of articles, videos, the good stuff.

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that way. I think that's everything. Sounds like a lot. Remember when we were going to split that out and each of us were going to pass that around and I never did that? I couldn't handle that kind of thing. I thought we did pretty well with the Flex Flask read. Maybe we should just start scripting everything on the podcast.

The whole thing. It'll just be pages. Hey, Tanner. What did you think about Lost V... Oh, never mind. That was me. So that'll do it for us today. I'm Tyler.

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