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Massonomics you all do it social media uh website everything massonomics masonomics welcome everyone for episode 296 of the massanomics podcast Tommy I feel like you're

looking at something I'm sitting here the vibe is off and I look up and the damn lights on the wrong one.

So I'm going to turn that off once you start reading the ad here.

Okay, we left the overhead light on. We'll get that corrected, though. This is episode

296, recorded live from Western Northeast South Dakota. Got a big rundown today, but first, I want to run down a little advertisement for you all.

Today's show is brought to you by Texas Power bars. Buddy Caps first started lifting weights

in the late 60s and getting power lifting in the mid-70s. At that time, he was working for Image Barbell,

building gym equipment. Around 1976, a local machine shop started making Olympic bars for them, calling it the Image Barbell.

In 1977, Image Barbell became champion Barbell.

It was then that Buddy started looking at the bars with an intent of changing them for the better.

In 1979, Buddy bought his first laid to begin addressing the known issues in 1980.

His passion, drive, and purpose now had a greater mission.

But he set out on his own to make what he believed was the greatest bar he had ever seen and trained with,

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