Thinking With A Pump - GYMBRO ORIGIN STORY

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

Brodie and Luke discuss how they met and starting up a podcast together.

Yo, what is going on, guys? Welcome back to Thicken with a pump, where we get a pump and we're able to think more clearly. Now, if our editor did it right, they should have seen the pump port, because we actually got a pump this time. Yeah, we did. I mean, this is going to be our first episode. True, absolutely. So, um... You want to introduce us? Let's introduce us. I'm here with Brody Shreds, my co-host, and I'm his co-host, Luke Ellsman. And, uh, what are you laughing at? Nah, um, um, yeah, so this is, uh, thinking with a pump where we get a pump but we think more clearly as you said and i hit some chest you hit some back true and here we are first official pod i want to talk about that real quick

think it with a pump let's know what you'll think about that name because i think in our head we just kind of ramly came up with it and i don't know with a pump i know me personally you might be different just have more confidence like after i get a pump i feel like i could take on a grisly bear in a bare hands fight yeah dude you feel you feel on top of the world you get a pump you you you feel probably the best you're going to feel that like during that day you know what I mean so going grocery shopping like going grocery shopping after a workout it's way more fun than just regular grocery shopping without a pump I know that sounds lame yeah dude to each their own I mean you obviously have a personal experience to me grocery shopping after having a pump and you had a great time to me it's like

when you get a fresh haircut when you start doing random errands around town because you just got a fresh haircut. It's like, I want people to see me. Yeah. No, that's an actual thing, too. I get a haircut every week, actually, just because of the type of hair I have, so I don't have that same feeling, I guess, anymore. Right. Though I wish I do, I wish I did, but I guess it's someone that gets a haircut like a normal person. Now that I hear it out loud, that's such a gym douche thing to say. Yeah. I want people to see me with a pump. Anyways, but yeah, so that's the, that's basically the story behind the name, I think it with a pump. You came up with it. You came up with it. You came up with it and i just on the fly i just randomly mentioned it no it sounds like the name of uh two

two uh meatheads that come up the podcast absolutely and guys at the end of the day we're no we're no podcasters you know we're really just gym bros with mics and we just want to we just like the yap so bear through our um podcast if you think it's going to get deep and intellectual because it may or may not but we'll see where it goes yeah we'll see where it goes So, what's introduce, to anyone that's watching this podcast because of me, Brody, introduce yourself. Who are you? Where did you come from? What got you into social media? What do you do? You introduce me as Brody Shredds. Do you know my last name? I do. Say it. I just don't think I can pronounce it right. I say it. I don't think I can pronounce. It's Brody Falgo.

Falgo, no. Brody Falgo. By the way, by the way. And it's funny because he can't spell it or pronounce it. But it's okay. you could just call me shreds it's fine shreds i'm not calling you shreds you brodie broskey something like that that's all good with me but yeah so my actual name because dude my audience probably doesn't ever notice my actual name's brodie fowgoo anyway just kind of like my origin story i feel like we're gonna touch on how we met but a little bit about me kind of got in the game early divine days with social media to me because i didn't touch vine i didn't touch vine i didn't even have the app downloaded to be honest even when it was popping i don't know where i was during that time but like it was almost like it didn't exist to me it was weird like i knew it was

going on but i didn't download only if it was like reposted on like youtube that's like where logan paul i know all them got their start i just i don't think i was into social media yet but carry on i don't want to cut you off for too long yeah anyway so i just started i was always in the humor space um it was never finished related i just made dumb videos and if i could go back and watch my vines. I bet I would cringe so hard. I bet you would. I think I was like 14 maybe. I had that 14 year old humor. I can't even tell you what I posted, but I had like one video go viral. It was the friend that can't keep up and me and my more athletic friend hopped over a fence. We like we're being chased by cops. Yeah. And me and my athletic friend, I did a front flip over

the fence and then my other friend cleared it. And then we had our bigger friend go up to the fence, stop and he ran around to the gated port is the one friend that can't keep up yeah anyway that was the only video that popped off so i got up to like three thousand followers oh shit that was good i mean that's yeah for then i'm sure that time i probably felt hype and the funny the reason i bring that up is because i had that video saved it was my first ever viral video on ticot oh so you reposted it i reposted it i reposted it yeah i just put like a ticot type caption yeah i put the same exact caption. Well, back then, Vine, I guess I didn't know how to edit, so you would put the title in the caption. But this time, you know, on TikTok, I put the caption on the video. Anyway, it did

like $3 million. And I remember I got that feeling again. Because so a little backstory, I took a break. So I didn't, between Vine and TikTok, it's not like I did YouTube or anything. I just took a break. I made videos still, but it would be like for Snapchat, like for my friends on Snapchat. Okay. Anyway, so that was my first ever viral TikTok, and that's why I bring it up. Anyway, that got me that feeling. I was like, you could go viral in this app. Yeah.

And that's when I started my TikTok grind. And it was about a year, a year I was doing shrictly just TikTok comedy, following trends, doing stupid stuff. And I got up to 40K. Basic. And then I was playing college baseball. So I was at 40K, and I posted my first baseball-related TikTok. and it went viral, and it was a certain trend, but it was when your coach tells you to just hit the ball, you know, like, so, yeah, just hit the ball. Anyway, so I made fun of that, and then it turned

into more, then it turned into, like, a series of my own to where, like, coach, like, when coach tells you to keep your eye on the ball, and then the ball actually hits me in the eye. Yeah. And, like, I give them a thumbs up. Anyway, but that got me to 180K on that account. And then I was like, I had like three months left to baseball and I was like I can't keep this going right so that's gonna run out at that point fitness was my passion I was like why am I not doing anything finish related so I made the decision to just make my own account rather than continue because at that point it was I was in the baseball niche yeah all my followers knew me for baseball so at that point I was like I'm just make a new account I made a new account and I had a decent physique at the time

nothing great so I went with like the comedy apparel right again because I just like making people laugh always have yeah and when I would post my workouts or like my meal tutorials it just didn't feel like me you know what I mean right yeah yeah but at the same time you know when you're posting something and it just doesn't feel right maybe it's just not yeah maybe it's not truly you I mean people want to see what I eat right workouts and stuff I still dabble in it that's why I'm getting to more long form YouTube I got a few videos backed up and saved ready to post so be expecting I do know some YouTube content

But yeah, anyway, so that was kind of my story with social media. And fitness-wise, I got in, I was always, I always worked out. I tell people I trained over six years because I started at 19. I'm 25 now. If you guys didn't know, I'm 25 years old. Because a lot of people think we're young. Yeah, no, we, um. Which we're still young.

We are still young, but a lot of people do think we're really young, like younger than we are, which is to me flattering already, which is I never want to get to that age where being younger is flattering, but I got to that age. I'm 26, and I think the biggest reason why we look so young is because everybody else is juicing, straight up. Keep your youth. Yeah, honestly. I mean, I see 20-year-olds that look 35, you know what I mean,

just because of the abuse and shit. That's true. They hopped on at, like, 16 and shit. They look good, finish-related, but they don't look good overall, healthy-wise. Yeah, like the health part of it, not there. Right. But physique, I see sick physiques on, like, 20-year-olds, 21-year-old. 19 year olds now and that's great but I think that's really what it is though like no no

not trying to bash to those guys absolutely not their own they got their own goals their own ambitions to each their own but for me I've always been natural and and I guess it's starting to pay off because you know my face hasn't aged significantly and you got great skin man I'll say that see it's funny people say that and I'm like I don't think people understood like when all through high school acne self-conscious I felt I felt ugly that's one of the biggest things dude so oh wow I didn't know you had acne

back then all all through high school man I tried every over-the-counter nutrigena I tried X out when it was X out I did X out because they're like one Dap and it's all good and they show like proactive I think I tried proactive that shit burnt my face or something dried it out they used to have infomercials

and I was like I need that yeah they make it look so good They really sold me, especially X-out, because you're like, from the same creators of, um, whatever the hell you just said. Proactive. Yeah, yeah. And you just put it on your face once a day or some shit, and then now you have no acne. Didn't work. Honestly, I lost my acne when I stopped washing my face with that shit. Really?

I swear to you. I don't wash my face with, like, acne product anymore. I'm the same way. I never ordered anything, but I tried every dang over the counter. Everything in the Walgreens or CBS I could find. I tried. And what did you do? Try your fucking face out?

So, I. Because that's what it did to me. No, back story. I had, it probably started when, you know, I was going through puberty. I hit puberty rather late, I think. Anyway, my acne started around like 16. But it's why you say that because I would go to school and when it was really bad, I didn't want to look people in the eyes.

You know what I mean? Yeah, because you didn't want to see them looking at your face. I felt nasty. Because if you looked at their eyes, you can tell if they're looking at your face or your eyes. They're not making like total eye contact. You could be like, oh, dude, especially if you had a white head or something, which I never allowed anybody to see me with a white head. What is a whitehead?

Whitehead, when it turns white, and that's when it's like... Oh, I had those. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I had those. It was awful. I mean, I would pop them right on the spot if I could. I would get, like, cystic acne, the ones you can't pop, and it's just, like, deep in the skin. Oh, yeah.

I had that, too, a little bit. Anyway, I had that to high school, freshman year of college. Freshman year of college, I think it got worse. And that's when... So, fun fact, when I started working out and finally eating right because I was a freshman in college. I was eating pizza rose, baby. Bagel bites, hey, it was amazing, but no, it was awful for my body. And I think that played a role.

A hundred percent, because I ate like a trash can. And now when I, like, when I'm cutting, I'm eating strictly clean foods, faces perfect. Like now, like when I'm in a surplus, you know, I got higher fats and whatnot, I get the occasional pimple. Right. Right. It's not nearly as bad. Like, I don't have like full-on breakouts. But I'll get the occasional one.

Yeah. No, I remember when, I remember the summer that ended at all and I never had acne again. Because usually during the summers is when, like, I'd get tan, and the sun was actually kind of good for acne. Right. You know what I mean? Like, it would darken your face and make red lit, the redness not pop as much. And, yeah, it was just one summer where I think I just grew out of it. But I'm going to keep it a buck.

I don't really want to talk about acne for too long. Yeah, absolutely. But to finish my story, I started at 19 actual training because I played, like I said, I played baseball. So they had us in the weight room in athletics, baseball. made us work out, but I never fully got into it and took it serious until I was 19. So I've been added over six years. I could tell people I've been added 10 years, but I wasn't taking a series back then. Right. But yeah, so that's a little bit about me, how I got started in the weight room. And it was just because I was skinny. I was insecure. I was the smaller guy. I was

playing college baseball. I was the smallest guy on the team. And so I needed more pop behind the ball. And so I really wanted to do it for shrimp purposes. And then I was like, I would look at people like Joe Aesthetics. I remember I didn't know him at the time, but he was popping up on my Explorer page and I was like, I want to look like that. Yeah. I think that's why I, you know, I like being shredded. You know, I coined the term Brody Shreds. Right. Now you got to do it. Yeah, that's a little bit about me. He's stuck. Tell the people how, how you got into it, because you got into lifting at an early age and content, kind of, right? Yeah, a little bit. So, um, just become, I mean, now that I've been on a few podcasts, a few hours,

and a few others. This has become something I've talked about a lot more. But yeah, so if you guys know me, then, you know, I started posting it on YouTube earlier on, like before the, before TikTok ever existed, before Reels existed, and Instagram, all you could do is post pictures. After a graduated high school in 2016, the year after that, I moved to South Carolina and that's when I fired up my first YouTube video. Like, I had the channel, I guess, because I had the Gmail and then I fired off my first YouTube video and it was just working out in my garage gym like every every literally every every every muscle I probably recorded at least 20 times like I would just lift and I would film it and then whatever whatever happened within the gym

if my brother was home we you know film whatever bullshit we had there but we were kind of loners we didn't really have friends out there so it was just us filming and I was already watching and consuming so much gym content I was like why the hell am I not bumping out my own you know what I mean and I found a love for like the editing and putting the music over it and that was also fun for me I remember our first YouTube video me and my brother we filmed it and we knocked it out we downloaded

an editing software I forget I think it was like Sony something and we downloaded it illegally so we didn't have like the full legit thing busted busted just exposed myself Sony I'm literally using a Sony camera so it's been years it's been years um no we downloaded it somehow i don't know if it was sony or whatever the hell it was and we we edited the hell out of it we had to edit like three different times because it kept crashing and we had the restarts that didn't save but we got it we got

it on the third attempt and we thought it was a masterpiece we had some slow-mo shots and then it would speed back up and then it would transition and we're like yo this is gold it's trash it's trash i look back at it and cringe are they still on youtube yep yeah we're gonna have to watch that today you're gonna have to watch the first first ever YouTube video but yeah so posted hundreds of videos loved it stood consistent and then you know I had some transitions in life where I was back and forth from Jersey and stuff so I was less than less consistent but um it never really popped off too much you know I gained up to 17,000 subscribers on my own

without shorts just long just long for good that's really that was solid yeah on YouTube just long form and then eventually I stationed in Jersey I stationed in Jersey, and that's when I took TikTok more serious. You know, I started to really like, all right, like, I could see potential here. And I still had a passion for this shit, you know. And I was still posting it on YouTube, like at least once a month, always on Instagram, like, not consistent, but like enough for like where I kept to kind of alive. I always just loved it, you know, even if I wasn't making anything out of it, I was like, I want to keep doing it. Like, I don't care.

You know what I mean? Like, I'm not going to be posting every day because that's just like, why am I doing that if I'm not getting anything out of it? but like I was posting you know I was still active and then TikTok rolled around I remember I gained up like 10,000 followers and I'm like damn it's pretty solid yeah that's pretty solid let's keep it going okay man I remember I got the 50k and I'm like that's the most followers have anywhere I'm like this is cool you know what I mean that's hype I have 50,000 subscribers like for anyone out there with 50,000 subscribers that's awesome man keep it going I mean that's just the start and then I got to 100k and I'm like this is legit and I'm like I'm famous now no I didn't really think that but I was like 100k like that's cool when you're coming from like so someone with, you know, 14K on Instagram and you've been at it for a minute and you know how difficult and the struggle it is to get like a bunch of followers, 100K felt freaking pretty amazing on TikTok. And I think after that, I think right then and there is around where like Jim Shark reached out to me and it became like, it became real.

It was like, do or die. Like, if this is something you want to do, you really put, now you have to put it 100%. You know what I mean? That's when I really knew. I'm like, oh, this snowball's rolling, you know? Let's try to, like, try to make this thing dangerous. How long have you been with Jim Shark now? Over a year.

That's solid. Over a year. Solid. Two years? I think two years in, like, May. Right. Two years in May, which is insane. They were the first, they were the first fitness brand I ever wore.

I'll say that. Oh, yeah, me too. I actually cut you off right now. I actually wore Jim Shark before they were ever, like, in the U.S. really when i was like 15 working out at retro fitness when i was like a junior in high school i got gym shark when it was just like a uk website that's that's how i remember it like it was a year it was in euros like it wasn't even american eyes yet right and i was like and i was cool i had gym shark no one really knew what it was yet it was just like if you know you know and

i remember feeling really cool right i think i had like one cut sleeve and then the rest i would just like cut my old t-shirts yeah into like uh like drop drop tanks yeah but um no so young LA, I'm with Young Alley guys, by the way, but it was always more... You can't tell. You can't tell. Coach Shreds, by the way. It was always more my style, nothing against Jim Shorick. But if you go back, because I was looking at this the other day, one of my first videos, I rated...

So I'm not just capping when I'm saying it's my style. I rated Alphalit, Jim Shorke, versus Young L.A. And I rated them all. I gave them all pretty good scores, but Young L.A. was the top of my list. I rated them the best out of the three And I was 20 Oh shit

Yeah so it was always more of my style And it's 2024 now Yeah It's 24 It's 24 now Damn yeah I didn't even know young olay was that old I don't know why I felt young all

It was like three years old No no The fact that it's been around for that That was like when they were pretty new Their website wasn't nearly What it was now They had a few I think they might have had

Like a very limited option And I didn't even know, like, who, I didn't know if there was a big name behind it. I just seen Young Allay and I was like, I like that. And then I ordered a shirt and it fit perfect. Young Allay sounds cool. I'm not going to lie. Like, just the Young L.A., just like a very, like, I don't know how to describe it. But that's pretty cool.

So, like. It's very appealing to, like, the younger. Because. 20-year-olds and shit. Those were, like, my three, I would say sponsors that I would like to work with. But Young L.A. was the top of my list. So when I got. with them that was pretty dang cool and same thing with you like gym short getting with jim short

after like rocking them when you're younger it's just like damn oh yeah that's like people people that get into the fitness scene always dream about getting with like their brand that they that they rock 100% and same thing with ghost that was the first ever that was the first ever product i bought gym related at my my local gnc no shit my first pre-workout and then dude back then look at that look at that I could barely, I had like 40, I was broke in college, had like maybe $100 that my mom would put in my account. Nice. I remember I had like 50 bucks and I bought their pre-workout. It was like 49.

Worth it. After tax. Worth it. And I was like, screw it. We're going for it. Yeah. But no, I just always think about that. And it's like, it's cool to see how you started it all for something and now you're working with that brand.

Yeah, no, it's pretty crazy. It almost feels like a different life at this point. And that's all you got to do, post cringe videos and you can work with some of your favorite brands. pretty cool that ass i mean some would say some would literally say that yeah right dude just keep at it i mean it goes to show like we're two prime examples of like you know people that probably thought they would never make it right that kind of are here now and it is funny because you know in a weird way not many people i guess there's a there's a good bit out there but not many people pop off due to humor based content yeah that's probably why

maybe I strayed away from like ever doing it because it's intimidating if no one finds you funny I mean like damn right that's hard you know and some people they might think you know bodybuilders you know actual like pro bodybuilders watch our shit they might be like corny yeah cringe yeah because we get it you know they don't like us it's cool we don't care it's all good it's all good I think we're why we relate so much is one we find humor based stuff fun so like you know Yeah. I like to hang out with people that make me laugh. Yeah, 100%.

I think laughing is probably one of the best feelings you can get. I think that's why we clicked. And we'll kind of go into how we met and everything. But I think that's why we clicked. We're so relatable because we're just typical gym bros. Like, you don't plan on competing or anything. Nope. I get the question a lot, and I'm flattered.

Thank you for anybody that thinks that I have the capability. I think you need to get shredded. You look amazing. You have so much muscle on you. I like to eat and I like to be strong. I don't feel strong when I'm like lean. I feel like my tendons are going to snap. It's because I like to lift heavy.

That's what it is. If I was able to like sort of shut my ego down a little bit, I think a cut would be a lot more pleasant. I think because I'm always trying to like keep the exact same strength and then I like end up stressing some muscle out or I don't know. But I just want to mention this really quick though. Like we're as goofy and funny, we like to try to be and be to some. we do take working out really serious we don't come in here you know filming with their phones and

like Brody doesn't I don't we come I come into the gym and I'm all business like I might just some days I don't look at anybody and I'm all about my workout you know what I mean I'm gonna I take that I take that shit serious and I think a lot of people I don't think a lot of people realize that like I'm an actual lifter right because like in my skits I don't really try to showcase my muscle like I'm not flexing on people I'm not you know I'm not usually I'm never shirtless in my video either that's true that's you know I don't know why you don't incorporate more of you could bench 315 and you never like incorporate it because you probably don't want to be benching 315 and fuck something up because you're you're messing around for a skit yeah I tore my

peck tendon doing less weight when I was stronger on the bench press like during the time I tore it like I was able to throw 315 up probably five six times I was really strong but I tore it doing 275 and I was on my second rep but I was like you know I was like you know explosive bouncing and trying to get, but still, I was still surprised, because that's kind of like the style of bench I was doing at the time, so my body was used to it. It wasn't like I was used to pause repping, and then one time I decided, like, oh, I want to rep this fast, and then had popped. Dehydrated that day? You didn't stretch properly? What happened? There was a lot of different things. One day, for one, it wasn't chest day, which I'm, I don't know why. I was

like, let me get a chest pump. You know what I mean? And then hit arms. So that was already off. Nobody was at the house. It was cold. and I was shirtless, doesn't mix, does not mix, especially darn bench press. I don't know what I was doing that day. I remember feeling like, this is different, but I want to do something different today to switch it up. Maybe I was just bored.

And then when it happened, I'm like, oh, my God. I wasn't even supposed to bench today. I probably would have never tore my pack if I didn't decide the bench on an arm day. And I probably wouldn't be sitting here because I'm sure whatever, I'm sure that if I never tore my peck, a lot would have been different because I remember my whole perspective changing after that

why you say that what would have changed I don't know but I think things would be different how so because I think it was it was kind of traumatic for me mentally it was hard to get past that because I was all about lifting every day and PRing and just getting stronger bettering myself and then that huge setback was a big mental fuck to be honest because I don't even want to say this but I've never had like a setback like that. That shit sucked. That shit sucked. That's what you do.

Knock on wood when there's a wood around. I mean, listen, I tore my peck. I was like, fuck, I knew I fucked something off. I remember like I couldn't move my arm away from my. I guess so. You had it on video. I have it on video. It's on YouTube.

Yeah. People still DM me about that till this day. Ask you for advice and patience, man. Patience and don't try to jump into it. Jump back into it really quick. I had to start doing pushups off my knees. Fast, rewind two weeks before that, I was doing like 100 plus pushups. Swear to God, like, my pushup game was crazy.

Like, I was able to just to do so many. My chest was always, like, such a dominant part. My chest used to be bigger than it probably was now. Maybe it's just in my head because that's helped. No, you have such a massive chest. Thank you. It's so annoying, just, like, we're chilling at the house, and he just looks like a boulder. And it's like, dude, I have to get a pump and, you know, good lighting and everything.

You're just chilling. I know, but I don't sit down and have, like, you know what I mean? I don't sit down on I'm not shredded though you know what I mean like that's the difference that's a sacrifice like I have like bulkier muscle sure but I'm also not shredded um I have to be like standing up flexing my ass off under good lighting to see my abs right now right now but um yeah like what I was saying though um right so we were just kind of talking about you know being typical gym bros and um everybody exes me too if I'm gonna compete and I think I will one day for content because I know I could get down to the body for the correct

compete the correct body fat percentage to compete yeah I think I could get low I've never actually got to test it like accurately when I was low right I think I was down there yeah I think I think I touch seven sure I think I touch seven you if I'm being honest you for sure can compete but anyway it's just that's not what I got into it man I just wanted to look good I was insecure of like you know I would wear tight-ass shirts roll up my sleeves and I'm still not massive anything but I can tell you it changed me mentally big time confidence wise just social skills too man now i could like talk to anybody in the gym back then i was like right right i was so scared of like i remember you feel like it to be a certain size to talk to certain

people yeah i feel like uh like even back then my brother wanted to me to get into it in high school yeah and i just would like wait in the core and do my homework while he went in the gym because i was just scared of others like just looking at me doing dumb shit that's like the worst thing it's like you want to get bigger but you're too afraid to like start because you're so wherever you're wherever you start you're just self-conscious You're like, I don't want to be judged by other guys for better myself, which is like, it's a complete opposite when you come to the gym. 99.9% of the time, everyone wants to help you, you know what I mean? If I saw someone that looked like, you know, either significantly overweight or significantly skinny trying to put on size or lose weight, whatever it is, like mad respect for them in the gym.

Absolutely. Like, I want to help you. If you come up to me and you're asking like about some workout or like an attachment for the cable, like I'm freaking honored, you know what I mean? like it's my pleasure to help you out you know what i mean like you're already in the gym respect man because i know it takes balls and i know it's tough um but for everyone to be out there man it's some it's one of the most safest places yeah that's literally what i was going to say the gym community is so much different than what you know you see on social media yeah like people are just there to help you and you'll meet some of the best people ever over here people that generally want to

help you yeah help you better your life and then i wish i could go back and just start early man i I mean, getting started at 19s, not late, but man, dude, I could have started at like 15, 16. For sure. Because I always wanted to. I was just, it wasn't really popular then to, like, start that early, though. You know what I mean? To be honest, like, it really wasn't a thing until, like, the last two, three years before, like, gym became, like, trendy. You know, gym clothes is trendy and it's cool to wear.

You know, like, people that haven't even, like, stepped in the gym yet are going to buy the clothes first. You know what I mean? It's like getting school supplies. That's true. become way more of a trend and finish thing glue up it's cool i mean some people some people actually want to like get to the gym to better themselves and they think it's cool like the gym clothes is cool and now i want to get in shape dope some people just get the gym closed get a tripod and get in the way of everybody and that's the difference like i like i'm all for making content and everything

like that but it is definitely tough when you see like those people that hardly lift but they are taking up space in the gym trying to pretend like something they're really not yet that's the cringy thing. You know what I mean? There's a difference. There's like, there's a difference. And it seems like a lot of those guys are the ones that complain when somebody walks in front of their tripod too. True. You know what I mean? It's the guys that just started lifting. They were like, maybe just trying to get some easy content, but like that's more more likely than not. Yeah. You see the buff guys. They're like, no, yo, you're good. You're good. You know what I mean? Like, they've been there, done that. You can walk through my camera a hundred times.

Yeah. That's one thing I would never want to do. Be, like, annoying or be in the way. of someone trying to be like actual lift and that's why when he was saying that we take our live series i don't lift and film i think you might do it like back to back but i just i used to do it at the same time and during my workout my bad during my workout i was trying to think of skid ideas the whole time and so i was like dude i got to break this up and so i started filming at night and also just camera angles i never want people in the background that may not want to be in there i never want to be an annoyance to someone So, yeah, so I filmed at, like, 10 p.m.

When the gym's closed. And everybody's like, why's your gym always empty? It's like, because no one works out at like 11 p.m. That's good to have a 24-hour gym, man. Oh, yeah, no, it's a clutch, super clutch. But, no, for me, like, there's a good, like, there's a good middle ground where I like, I like people at the gym, but not too many people at the gym. Yeah. I like that, I like to look like it's happening in real time and, like, it can almost look, you know, like it really happened.

Because you see people actually in the gym I think it sort of helps Set the scene a little bit I do miss the aspect in some way And I don't have a 24 hour gym So that would be impossible You kind of have to Yeah

And you have like what A 30 minute drive And a 30 minute drive Yeah So I film after my workouts But that's when I feel the best though It's almost like thinking I want to pump To be honest

Like I have my pump So sometimes I could focus And be a little bit more funny now Like I'm good You have the workout done Let's get weird You ever get like not embarrassed but like almost intimidated so not here obviously because everybody

kind of knows you but intimidated to like so we went to um what was it uh roman roman empire roman empire like somewhere somewhere that where we're like never been to the gym is it harder to bust out a skit over there it really depends on my mood i would say the most because nobody knows you and they're like who the fuck is this but like you know yeah it definitely helps when you have something going for yourself, you know what I mean, where it's like, like, and now I have, like, established followers and stuff like that, that kind of brings confidence where it's like, if somebody's like, yo, what are you doing? I'm like, well, you kind of have a career doing this. So it's definitely tougher from when you're starting out, because I was there

starting out where you don't have, like, the backup, like, you don't have, like, the followers to back up what you're doing. So it's tough. I remember. I get it, dude. And it still is tough for me till this day because, again, I hate getting in people's ways. I'm always like, dude, your lift is way more important than this bit. I could do this in 10 seconds from now when your set's done. Like, finish your set. Absolutely. Keep your pump.

Like, I don't want to ruin your workout. Like, get your workout in. If whatever, I have to change, change where my bid is and figure it out. But never prioritizing that over somebody's lift. And for me, like, intimidation. When I started lifting gear, I was a little intimidated. I didn't know anybody here yet. And, like, you know, I'm not trying to have everybody hate me either.

You know what I mean? That's true. It's important to me to go to a gym. and, like, you know, have friends and acquaintances, like, we're smiling at each other, dapping each other up. That's a good environment. I'm not trying to ruin that by being that, you know, the douchebag with the camera that thinks is better than everybody because that's not me at all.

That's true. So it's very important to, like, also, like, to always be respectful when you're filming, whatever kind of content it is. Before Joey Swole gets on your ass. Seriously. And me and Joey, I know him personally now, and I can hit them up. I can hit them up. So you better watch yourself.

Yeah. If you're not banned, you're exposed. I remember I finally got over that hump of, like, you know, not caring what people think about posting. But I was still a little intimidated to, like, because nobody knows what you're doing. Right. So, like, me doing, like, you know, maybe over-the-top exaggerated bit in the corner. I was, like, kind of intimidated of people looking at me. Right.

Honestly, I got really good at just, like, shutting everyone off. I don't know what it is. I getting, like, just France. Does that make sense? Trance. Yeah. Where I'm just like, I'm like, it's like. like, um, tunnel vision.

Right. When the camera's on, I don't focus on anybody else's reaction. I don't wait for their reaction because I don't want to know their reaction. I'm better off just staying focused, just focusing on the camera, the bit, the whatever. And then at the end of the thing, no one's even paying attention. Right. Don't notice that too. Like everyone's got headphones in.

They might be looking over. Maybe they're thinking something. Who gives a shit? Nobody cares because, nobody really honestly cares. They might judge at the beginning, but when you're doing well, they're like, oh, I love your videos. I love this. and then, you know, they kind of glaze you in a way. Yep.

But, like, like, there's, you know, there's some, I go to a gritty bodybuilding gym. There were some guys I thought hated me because, you know, I'd be in there sometimes with a tripod, doing my content. And then, you know, the first time I speak to them, they'll come up to me is like, dude, I love your videos. I'll be seeing them on Facebook, something like that. I'm like, dude, I appreciate that. Yeah. And then, you know, people aren't really judging you like you think. Yeah.

And so. It's really, you're in your head judging yourself more than you. you that person's actually judging you and i think that's what stops a lot of people from get into content so do your dang yeah do your thing patience and consistency is going to get you everywhere as patience it's not going to pop off right away you don't want to pop off right away you get all these followers at once it's going to die out eventually yeah no you don't want it like i'm i'm kind of more i take that back you might not die out you might be able to ride that high yeah like samsolic for example like he really took off i think he's going to be around forever

as long as he wants to be that's true if you want to be on forever i think you that's a good example and i'm not going to shit anybody but there has been people that got millions of followers so easy on ticot you know almost overnight and then it's like their views are less than 10k now yeah which hey they had their moment but it's hard to ride that high some people can like sam but and then consistency yeah his is definitely totally different ticot and youtube totally different like 100% yeah but patient's at consistency and they consistency authenticity too well yeah true true be a really be real to yourself because I always say this if you're being your true self you're different

than everybody else no one could be who you are absolutely if you could like get that inner inner real out of yourself and you're able to display able to like project that on camera you're going to already stand out right and it's all about just being consistent enough so the algorithms to help push your videos out and if you love it it won't be an issue I believe if we weren't authentic and we weren't like we portray ourselves like our humor and everything we wouldn't be here right now because like if i met you and you you were a douche in real life right i would i would have like hit you up again yeah like dude he's a piece of shit he's nothing like his videos no seriously no dude buddy's probably the most down-to-earth real person um that i've met

especially with the followers he has you know when you see a lot of fake motherfuckers you know industry in this industry shady uh snakey and that's hard because i don't think me or you really have an ego at all i think a lot of people we have a we have an alter ego for the camera yeah that's true but like an actual ego walking around normal person like we're just honestly i don't feel any different than i did a couple years ago like i know um what i have is different but like the actual feeling i don't feel like i don't feel like i'm cooler than the next guy i don't care i don't think i'm happy to where i'm at but like i don't i don't you know

I think a lot of it's due to our age as well. We're just a little bit older than a lot of these guys with followers now. That's true, because these 18-year-olds get all these followers, like, think they're to shit. Yeah, it's like being the popular kid in high school. You know, this is going to be weird to say because we do like our gymskits and all, but I think we're a little bit more matured the most. Funny enough. Yeah.

Ironic. Yeah. We are, though, I think just due to our age and that we weren't exposed to just this. Right. We grew up without social media. We worked a blue-collar jobs. Yeah. You know, we did life.

We did, like, you know, we, we, we, I think we learned a lot more than. We didn't, we weren't tablet babies. Yeah, that's true. You know, we weren't tablet babies. We played outside. We played backyard football, friend yard football and shit. A lot of these kids, dude. They even climb trees.

They're just gaming and, I don't know, man. They're just, it's different. Their brain's exposed to, like, so much different things than we were. Like, we only knew our neighbors and then, like, our friends at school. Now everybody has, like, friends online at the age of, like, 12. They have social media friends Like Instagram friends Like which they're probably

Consider real friends True Which we wouldn't necessarily You know like I have my true friends Like you're my true friend at this point I wouldn't have let you in my life As much as you have been if not But like

True But now like You know people consider like Instagram followers their friends Especially at the younger kids I'm sure You know what I mean? I don't think I wasn't it

When were you introduced the social media Because I don't think I got Facebook To I was like 13, 14. Facebook was my first platform. Facebook was my first platform. Facebook was my first platform, too. And I just wanted one because my older brother and the sister had one.

I wanted one because I heard girls were doing. Farmville. That's why I got it, Farmville. I wanted to get Facebook because I heard girls were doing, to be honest, and rates. That was always tough, too. And I was like, you know, one of my crushes I heard was doing to be honestes. Yeah, to be honest.

I was like, I'm going to make a profile. And I went, her next, to be honest, I went like it. And she said, to be honest, Brody, you're cool. We should talk more. That's actually better. It's better than you're really nice. And we did talk more. To be honest, you're really nice.

We did talk more. That's good. Yeah. There you go. Never dated her, but. Well. Yeah. But kind of get into, you know, seeing each other's true personalities.

Do you remember how we met? Because I got the DMs pulled up. That's why I was on my phone just now. But how we met. I know we got a house in Texas. Right. I wanted to talk about the original DMs. Yeah, let's do it.

So, this was before. I don't remember. I don't remember. It's because we were trying to link up. Luke texted me first. Adorable. Because I'm scared of reaching out to people. I got bigger balls.

That's all it was. As was. But, so the first message, Luke sent, yo, bro, I fuck with your content heavy. What state you live in would be dope to link up. I think I might have glazed you here. Bro, same to you, man. You kill me.

You got me one of these skits again, L.O.L. That's what I did. I remember that. Because I, you know, was doing more of the. Yeah, yeah, yeah. trends and stuff but i said l-o-l that's what i did for a while when starting my account you're hilarious bro i'm from louisiana how about you hey hell yeah this is look hey hell yeah i didn't always film skits but that's what's popped off for me and i started to really enjoy making them

are you still living there now i'm in new jersey yeah man i live a i live as about as four south as you can go are you headed to houston for summer shredding i brought up houston that's crazy i brought up you so you reach out to me first you know what's funny i think we might have been already thinking about the house before i've been invited you i'll be honest bro i'm gonna keep it a buck with you i remember hesitating about inviting you too that i thought like when i found out with dead ass just just because like i prejudged you i was like i don't know if i'm gonna click with this guy like i'm jerseys louisiana that's true i was like i don't think we're gonna like click you know what i mean like i thought we're just two different people just based off of where we live

which i was proven wrong which is weird because i only went because i knew you were gonna be in the house and i was like you're the you're the only creator at the time that i was like he's generally funny. I love his content. He said that to me before off camera, but yeah, no, he's a real one. So, um, it kind of phased out. That was in March, uh, early March. And then you texted me May 2nd. Yo, bro, I think I'm gonna go to summer shredding. I left Texas yesterday and I'm itching to go back. You still plan on going. And I didn't respond to you to two days later. I said, damn, my bad, me, just seeing this. And said, yeah, I plan all going. And then anyway, you invited me to come to the house. Yeah.

It was kind of like I had a few friends I already made in the space And this is a little bit earlier on This is also so new Relatively, like It's only been going on for like a year and a half Right

Like all the traveling and shit, collapse You were going with Abe, right? Yeah, some of the ABE people Rachel, Brandon was there Brandon And No Brandon Brandon, Brandon and Rachel

I already knew through Abe Yeah, we already So we got them in the house And it was about kind of just adding more people that we think we'd fuck with, you know, and... I consider both of them friends now, Rachel and Brandon. Yo, good, I love them. Love you guys.

If you guys are watching this, love you guys. Real cool people. Yeah. Another, like, genuine people that, like, just seem transparent. Like, that just didn't seem, like, stuck up assholes. And they're not. Like, at this point, like, I already know they're not. Right.

Because I've been with them. I've lived with them. You could really learn about people when you spend a night or multiple nights in the same house. You find out a lot about people. Yeah. Especially when you mix liquor. dude okay that's all i'm gonna say yeah so um yeah so like i said we are gem bros um you know i take i think i take meal meal prep in and stuff a little bit more serious than luke but you know

we still have our fun we still we we're 25 26 we drink okay if you don't think we ever touch alcohol now do we do it every day absolutely not nah can't stand the hangovers anymore yeah but when we have events and stuff you know we travel we dabble and um the going out we dabble and going out and would not because it's just an experience it's it's all about the experience and it's um like i'm when i'm home in jersey you know unless it's like somebody's birthday or like a special occasion my holiday whatever it is i'll go out you know right i'll go out but i don't go out every weekend or anything like that anymore because like i can't take the hangovers and it just it's fs me for the whole week oh like i feel like i'm always just trying to recover then i'm

trying to catch up and then i finally catch up and it's like three days in the down the drain because i wanted the drink not worth it i've already been to all the bars been all to the beach bars like Like there's nothing different. Nothing different is going to happen. You're just going to wake up and feel like shit again. That's one thing that's going to do. Yeah. I'm not the type to just have a beer when I go to dinner or something like that.

No, I mean neither. It has to be like an event. If I'm going to drink, I'm probably going to get at least buzzed. Right. And so, yeah, no, that first trip was really fun. So, okay, so when we first met, what was like your first impression of me? Um, my first impression. I remember the first thing you said was like, oh, you are real.

yeah yeah yeah yeah so you didn't look real like you definitely had he Rody has definitely one of those looks where it's like video like like the TV look yeah to me at least like where like you almost look like a character in a TV show so when he pulled up and looked identical

to his videos I was like damn you are real you know what I mean because he does have like the hair and everything and I don't know he's a look he's a look to me that just looks surreal in real life now I'm used to it now it's basic ass motherfucker but my first impression He was like, oh, he's close to my height.

You thought it was taller? Yeah, I thought you were massive. Oh, wow. Because you feel out of the red polo so well. I'm sorry, you are massive. But I thought you were like this towering 6-4, dude. Nah, man. I wouldn't even want to be 6-4.

Six-foot would be cool. But, like, 6-4 is too big, man. You thought I have trouble fitting in the cars and shit. Everything's tight. Like, I already feel too big for, like, an airplane economy seat. That's true. You know what I mean? Like, I already have trouble.

Like, I already feel, like, tight in those. So I couldn't imagine being 6-4 and then filling out that frame. Damn. I think God knew what he was doing. He nerfed me because if I was 6'4, have you ever watched Blue Mountain State? No, man. I would probably have the ego of Thad Castle. Yeah.

Yeah, you probably won't. I'm sure some viewers know that Thad Castle. He was, anyway. Have to. But, yeah, no, that was kind of first oppression. But then by the end of the trip, I was like, ah, I can relate to this dude. This dude is cool as fuck. Yeah, really?

Yeah. Definitely, in my opinion, you know, I think I was, like, close. to you in the house, you know, once we were leaving that trip. Yeah, for sure, for sure, because Brody's just a chill dude like me. Like, he's just about... We are such go with the flow dudes. Yeah, like, there's not a lot that's really going to bother us. We don't really get pissed off at anything. Like, we figure out how to, like, just be cool. Yeah, just go with the flow. And that was one thing that would be obvious. We're always, like, ready. We're always ready and we're always just go with the flow. Like,

we're not going to complain. We're not really complainers. We're more just going to hang back and chill and if you know like in this our case at the time whatever the house was like down to do we're down to do you know what i mean if i was down to do something brodie's like sure chit-cha i'm gonna come chit-cha i'll do you want to do this he's like sure you know what i mean that's the term you learn from me shit shit shit shit i thought it was like chit-cha and then i realized it's shit yeah but he like merges it together it's his own slang that's uh kajun man we merge like dude dumb i'll say like brother instead of brother yeah i'm like shorter words yeah and people notice it in my skits but uh shit shit yeah instead of shit yeah shit yeah just like you

it's like daffua it's like daffua what's that daffua you ever heard daffua uh-uh that's what's up that's what's up that's what's up see i wouldn't say that yeah i got that from a streamer if you know you know i'm not even gonna say that's why we grubbing after this yes we are good yeah you have anything in mine super smash later super smash bros yeah who's your go to super smash brody tell the people Because we, like, when he came to visit in New Jersey, like, what, a month ago at this point, two months ago, whatever hell it was, we got into Super Smash. If you're on YouTube or wherever you could comment, comment your favorite Super Smash Bros. Character, this is big. Yeah.

Because we kind of go back and forward anyway. So, yeah, first time I came to Jersey, we just played Super Smash every night. Yeah, and I wasn't playing before he came. We kind of just, like, thought about a game that we could play with a lot of people. Because Colin was with us, Nardo was with us, his film guys, his film guys. home friends, my friends, too, at this point. Like, I love those guys. But, yeah, no, like, we literally unlocked every single character almost within, like, the week span together.

True. And we got sweaty. We got sweaty. We did. But who would be your go-to? Like, if you're going to represent yourself and just, like, you're in a tournament, 500 grand's on the line, you're going to have to pick one character to play with. Who are you going to win with? Seriously.

Real question. He's O.P. I think it's a he. I think he's O.P. People might make fun of me for it, but I'm going Kirby every day of the week. I think a lot of people would honestly agree with that. Oh, dude, his hammer, his little, he turns into a freaking, like, solid block. And when I'm with Kirby, I don't see me losing.

Like, if we had to put, like, $10,000 wager, me versus you, and I got Kirby, I am not losing. Sorry. I'd say, who are you going with? Dark Suit Sammis. Dark Suit Sammis. I think that's his name. I think that's how, I think it's, I don't know if it's dark suit or just dark Sammas. Yeah.

But pretty beast, man. You just got to play with that person enough. Because I also like Pikachu. I like Bowser. I like Snake. So, anyway. It's just a fun game where you get to play with so many people. Like, it's just like, and it's so competitive but not serious at the same time.

People probably just think we lift and that's literally it. Like last night we were just hanging out playing among us with. No, literally. Just got some friends and we were just playing among us all in the same. room on her phones she got a little heated I remember with those moments where I was like I can get mad right now but I'm a firm I'm innocent I was I was not the imposter and I was like all right vote me out I dare you to vote me out I was like vote me out I felt like Randy Orton right there

get into it I just get into it I might start doing that before I do Jim Lander skits yeah there it is yeah there it is a lot stronger than you he's not a lot stronger than me yo I don't know how you do the teeth there you go yeah

you need start doing that before you get into character I know I think it would help me to be honest I think it really would because I saw him doing that and I was like that's fucking real shit I'm like that's what actors do to get into into character like whatever it takes

and a lot of them they'll change their whole lifestyle that's true like for an important role yeah i think you should yep but that's also why a lot of like really serious um roles could fuck up actors and actresses well like thinking about the joker and shit for me i played the horro broken gym bro and when i was doing the interview scenes or my confessionals for my skit i was thinking of some really sad stuff to actually make me tear up yeah to like hit hit because i was like yeah it's just getting the mood because you can tell when like the actin's all off

And I don't know, I kind of like to portray the role really good, so. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. But, yeah, we'll work on that dad joke bit. Yeah, probably won't see it. Yeah, probably won't see it. You'll probably get cut out. So if you're wondering, what are you talking about? Don't worry about it.

Don't worry about it. This is brand new to us. But yeah, guys, this episode was a lot about just how we came together. Introduction to be co-host of a podcast together. Yep. But like I said, I think we're just like. typical gym bros that really just like to work out better ourselves look good and um we like to yeah we like to have fun have a good time we like to laugh yeah i know that sounds like but like that's you know

that's why we click yeah and we you know we thought it no i don't really know anybody else in the fitness this fitness space that you know both both podcast hosts are primarily comedy a lot of them or like bodybuilders or in like the bodybuilding space and physique and nutrition and want to talk about like science and shit oh don't get us wrong there's not a lot of gym bros out there that are doing this so we figured you know let's make a non-serious podcast basically right yeah no we're we want to entertain on this podcast don't get us wrong and when we have certain guests on we're going to have serious conversations it might get deep but we don't necessarily go in there thinking hey you know we want to pry someone open yeah price someone

I mean, like we want to have a good time with them. We want to see their personality. We want to express their personality. Hell yeah. So if we want this podcast to be something you listen to and you can actually enjoy it for like entertainment purposes rather than, yeah. Yeah, you might not, you might learn like you might, you're probably going to catch more chuckles than like maybe you maybe learning something.

But I think if you were playing this in the car, you probably feel like you're hanging out with us. You know what I mean? I think that's kind of like the vibe I'm going for too. Absolutely. We just want you all to come hang out with us as we talk. Like Luke mentioned earlier, we're not podcasters. We just happen to have mics and cameras. Yeah, that's all it is. There's nothing wrong with that, man. We're just trying to have some fun. I feel like that's the worst. We're on a podcast, making our own podcast telling people we're not podcasters.

But we're different, man. Yeah, I mean, we didn't, you know, that's just the name of what it is. Yep. We could do whatever we want. And this, you're seeing this is our first official podcast. But guys, stay tuned because we got some good guests coming, good guests in the work. This is not the first filmed podcast. This is the first podcast you guys are going to see. But I think, yeah, as always, bear with us because we will get better as we go on,

just like our videos back then. If we go back and look at our first videos, yeah, we're awful. Yeah, we upgraded, we upgraded, and we're getting better and better. So same thing with this, you know. Bear with us, because I know you might be like, yo, these guys suck. We might, and we might. And that's okay. And then we're still going to post this, but, you know, all criticism is appreciated.

Just don't be a dick, okay? Yeah. We don't plan to compete with Joe Rogan. We just want to have our own thing. Yeah, it's fun. And I just want to wrap this up by saying shout out to Paramount Jim for allowing us to use this space. Shout out to John. Shout out to Justin, the two owners.

Those guys are legends. They kind of did this for us last minute, too. We just popped in. We said, hey, can we hang out after the gym closes for an hour? they were super cool with it. So shout out Paramount Jim. Seriously. Always comfortable here. What? Paramount. Just say it because you just attracted me. In New Jersey. Paramount Gym in New Jersey. So this is my home gym in New Jersey. I'll say that. I love it here. They've been nothing but nice to me. They had me on their own podcast before.

So yeah, if you need some to train New Jersey, Paramount Gym. Check it out, man. Great equipment. Great community. And yeah, no, sick. First official podcast. pretty much done. Shout out your sponsors, brother. Yes, sir. So right here next to me, Ghost, Coach Reds is going to save you 20% off. And then Young L.A.

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