The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
The hosts Mitch and Bart discuss fitness, fatherhood, and guy stuff to help men live a great life, have fun, laugh, and get a little more fit in this weekly Podcast.
The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
From Powerlifting Rankings to Book Launches: Our Summer Adventures
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We've just discovered our national powerlifting rankings, with Bart placing #2 in Texas and #20 nationally in Masters 2 division, while Mitch ranks #8 in Texas and #44 nationally in Masters 1 division.
• Bart spent time in Newport Beach teaching his son, niece, and nephew how to surf
• Mitch traveled to New York for a media tour promoting Nick Bare's book "Go One More"
• The book sold out within one hour of launch and now has over 30,000 copies in circulation
• Nick Bare's following has grown from 700K to 1.5M followers and continues to expand
• Bart booked a fitness modeling gig with Restore Hyper Wellness specifically for their 45+ demographic
• The production team created dramatic scenes including a "Terminator-like" exit from a cryo-chamber
• Both hosts are maintaining their training schedules and considering upcoming powerlifting competitions
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Welcome and Sponsor Shoutout
Speaker 1Welcome to Dad, bods and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.
Speaker 2Hey, I'm Bart.
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Speaker 1It's solutions for us and it'll help you as well. Thank you, guys, so much for listening Today's show. We are going to recap a little bit about what we've been up to these last couple of weeks.
National Powerlifting Rankings Revealed
Speaker 2Definitely, definitely. First of all, I think we should start off with the fact that you got some numbers from the Powerlifting America website on on you and me and because we're masters uh, yeah I'm masters two, you're masters one. This is masters two is 50 plus, you're 40 plus. So give us some of that information on on what that, what it looked like.
Speaker 1So I texted you your numbers, but it looks like bart is number two in the state of Texas in his division, masters 2.
Speaker 2Number two, top two, unbelievable Top two.
Speaker 1For me I'm a little less impressive. Mine for Masters 1 is top eight in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2Top eight, top eight. Well, you got a lot more people in your division than actually in the sport.
Speaker 1Still, but here's the crazier part. You talk about the whole US of A, in the entire nation. I am 44th in the entire nation. I believe you were in almost the teens.
Speaker 2I think I was 20th 20th.
Speaker 1Yeah, you were almost there, If you would have gotten like five kilograms more you would have done it.
Speaker 2That bench fail. That bench got me too dude, it killed me.
Speaker 1Anyway, so we are now nationally ranked.
Speaker 2I love it. Congrats. So we're. This podcast is called the nationally ranked pod dad buzzing dumb changing my instagram profile right now as we speak all right, so let's move on from that, but that was, that was a fun realization that I was, and I was in newport beach, california um seeing family just hanging out on the beach, got to teach my son and my niece and nephew how to surf.
Speaker 1Oh dude, that's cool, unbelievable. Did they get up and stuff and enjoy it? Yeah, they were just like immediately like got it. Of course. These kids, man, they're amazing, crazy.
Beach Trip and Media Tour Updates
Speaker 2So that was amazing. That was a big highlight for me, do you have any videos of it?
Speaker 1I'd love to see you surfing.
Speaker 2I, I didn't surf, I just cause it was really about like we just rented these you know big foam boards and they've got you know I push them into the wave and they stand up and ride it in.
Speaker 1That's cool. Yeah, it was awesome man.
Speaker 2But I I did a lot of boogie boarding, bought some swim fins so I could really get out there and just like tear it up. That's fun. I'm going to MIA for a little bit. Yeah, I missed you?
Speaker 1Yeah, me too, but I was in New York with a big city media tour with Go One More.
Speaker 2Nick.
Speaker 1Baer's book. That came out June 24th, on Tuesday, all right and within an hour. So we were in New York City together doing this media tour. We went to a Google event that he got invited to do it's called Brand Experience and he was like the keynote speaker. It was awesome. I got word that we had sold out and I was like, oh, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to all platforms, so Amazon, barnes and Noble Books A Million, all the places that you could ever buy a book. We had completely sold out within an hour of our launch. So great news we sold out.
Speaker 1Bad news was we didn't have any more copies so they did an urgent print. Now we have I think they just sent out our last 3,000 copies at the distribution center. We have over 30,000 copies out there. So today we find out where he's at with the list where BookScan releases there in the Wednesday evening really to determine how many audiobooks sold, because we can only see Amazon. Everything else is held through BookScan, so we'll really get to see the true number. So really excited because that means that we'll know if he's on the New York Times bestselling list or not. So all this work we've put into, especially him, into trying to promote it and get it done like we'll- find out.
Speaker 2So shout out to him Like he. Uh, he was on the Gabby Reese show. Uh, as I'm sure as well as many others, but uh, my, my wife listens to Gabby. Reese and she's married to Laird Hamilton and she's got her own podcast.
Speaker 2But she she's obviously a professional athlete, former beach volleyball player, but so she's really good at interviewing, but she always gets into kind of the heart of a person, like their kind of relationship with their spouse and kids and all that kind of stuff and he did a great job at really, you know, giving the whole story and like all those kind of other pieces of his personality, not just the athlete and the kind of mindset which I think, uh, you know, it's to me that seems like something that he's really developed and kind of learned how to, how to just be better at communicating, you know. Yeah, it's good I think.
Go One More Book Launch Success
Speaker 1I think it's. You can see it because he started youtube and he's been on for 10 years and you can go back and see those first initial YouTubes to where he's where he is. It's like night and day. But when I first talked to him three years ago, two and a half years ago, um, he had like 700,000 followers and now he's and I knew he was going to be huge. You know, it was like one of those things was like this guy is gonna be the guy and now he's like a million and a half followers and he's gonna be over two million soon, because the exposure of this book has put him in different. He's been on so many different shows that he normally wouldn't have been on, right, um, and something that he normally would, um. So, and there's still more coming out, so a ton of podcasts. Um, he's going on gary brekka's podcast soon in mi, miami. So there's just going to be a lot more. It's not stopping.
Speaker 2So the train is moving. That's great. I mean because when the book's about to come out, you want to get on those pods.
Speaker 1It's more important when the book is already out and people can go out and buy it immediately. It's super cool.
Speaker 2yeah, that's so often how I'll find out about a book. It's like someone's on a pod and you're like listening to it. You're like, oh, I love this guy. Oh, he's got a book, I'm like click, yeah, absolutely you buy it.
Speaker 1Same way Get an audio book, get a hard copy. So it's interesting, we went to Book People in Austin. And they had some. You know it was a limited number. It was their entire stock and he had posted on his story. Hey, I'm heading to book people to sign some things. We got word the next, like that evening, that he sold 250 books just from that story. And so we had to go back and it would be like 300 books we had to go back and sign.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1And that I mean just shows the impact of how people want to be a part of a community like that Like it's. It's different. It's a different style.
Speaker 2You see more and more at the gym like the go one more shirt or hat or something like that. Just like the, the brand and that, like that vibe around, like you know that effort and just like mindset. I'm wearing one of my go.
Speaker 1One more hat. It's a shirt. It's a little different. It's a kind of a cool vintage vibe. Stay in the fight he hooked me up with some BPN stuff. So I'm going to be only wearing those forever. So it was a great experience. Man, I'm excited.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm excited for you.
Speaker 1Cause this is, this is a big deal for you as a, because you're kind of big fish. This is what we do. This is why we do, man, this is why we do, and hopefully the next year, two years, it'll really just explode into something even bigger, which it will? Yeah, I had a really cool thing happen.
Speaker 2I got hired to be a kind of fitness model for the store Okay, the store, hyper Wellness, they needed a 45-plus guy.
Speaker 1Let me be clear Masters 2? For wellness, they needed a 45 plus guy. Let me be clear masters two, yeah, basically they're like we need a masters two, no guys. So anyway, that's cool, uh.
Speaker 2So and it was like two day shoot.
Speaker 1We were over at lyft atx yes, it's like getting a whole bunch of video of me. When does that stuff come out?
Speaker 2uh, I don't know. It's gonna be on our website and it's a it's a. It's a nationwide company and it's franchised and so there's. But so a lot of the stuff will be like used for the website, used for like promotions, you know, using the red light therapies your short list you know boots and IV drip and all it, just all the things they have a they have a video of me coming out of the cryo chamber, like from below, with the lights off and all the like.
Speaker 2You know the the smoke yeah the, the evaporated ice comes out, and then you see me walk out with like, with just a robe on and like and it looks like the terminator.
Speaker 1It literally looks like full monty I mean they're, they're.
Speaker 2It was just so fun because I really haven't done. You know, I was was an actor in New York and I've done some stuff with Iron Neck and stuff like that, but this was very different, it was just. It was just I felt so at ease and it was so much fun to do and they were just loving everything I was putting out there and the whole it was a great vibe so I was like it really made me realize that like I want to do more of it, you know, and I was thinking about, like you know, just going to find an agent in, in, you know, austin, and just for, for local type stuff.
Fitness Modeling Opportunity
Speaker 1I got a guy, there you go Brian Schmansky.
Speaker 2Let's go.
Speaker 1He was the. He was the Versace model for 10 years for their cologne. So he's in all their campaigns and now he's doing an independent thing.
Speaker 2I'll introduce you. Perfect yeah.
Speaker 1That's great man. I'm so pumped. Was it a paying gig? Oh yeah, oh yeah and.
Speaker 2I negotiated it up.
Speaker 1Yeah, you did. I got a triple what they were offering. That's great.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was a great experience. And shout out to my friend Howard, who he worked with Camp Gladiator. He was the CMO for a little bit there and he's now the CMO there at Restore Hyper Wellness.
Speaker 1So he was like he was my guy, that's so cool. He was like let's go, You're going to get more and more stuff like that. You're just freaking, crushing it out here yeah.
Speaker 2The team that was there doing it like they had hired a production team and they work out of Austin in LA and they were like we can't wait to work with you again. That's awesome we even did pickleball Nice. Went to the East Austin Pickleball Club.
Speaker 1Dude, that's so cool and it was just playing pickleball, it was just.
Speaker 2the whole thing was good vibes.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'll hook you up with Brian. He's a cool dude. Yeah, you'll like him.
Speaker 2Awesome. What do you got coming up in the?
Speaker 1next couple weeks Vegas with my best buddy, jesse. We're meeting up there talking business, but then I love gambling. You know I said I'd never go back to Vegas the last time I went, so I'm going back to Vegas for a few days. My kids have camps.
Speaker 2You've got to go see F1. I haven't seen it yet, the movie F1.
Speaker 1Dude I haven't seen any of my favorite. I want to see Ballerina, the John Wick.
Speaker 2Of course, quick, of course. I want to see the f1 movie because, freaking brad pitt, do you know he was in austin for a view of it and I totally missed it?
Speaker 1did you're gonna tell me you were invited to that and you didn't go I didn't go dang man we, we should be invited to that crap what is going on.
Speaker 2Well, when we we know we'll have gotten a little bit deeper into our world of like austin, you know kind of stuff if, when we start to get those, in yeah, we're not there yet.
Speaker 1Okay, I would be like, no, I'm good, I'm good, brad Pitt surprise, surprise everybody by showing up.
Speaker 2It wasn't on the.
Speaker 1I know, but see, I would have. I would have been the guy that turned it down and I'm sitting front row with Brad Pitt, yeah.
Speaker 2I think my wife would have been more disappointed to not see Brad Pitt than me. Dude freaking, I don't know you're, I don't know you're kind of a. You crush it on Pitt. He's so handsome, he's a badass.
Speaker 1He's 60 years old. I mean, come on, dude.
Speaker 2I watched the. My wife and I have been watching the Dax Shepard interview with Brad.
Upcoming Plans and Wrap-Up
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I've been, I'm gonna listen to that too.
Speaker 2Dax is so funny because he yeah. Anyway, well, let's wrap up. We talked about just doing a quick 12-minute check-in.
Speaker 1Yeah, because we're traveling in and out and it's nice just to see you and catch up, yeah yeah. So we got some stuff coming up and we got to do some community stuff. I'm looking to do another powerlifting show pretty soon.
Speaker 2Powerlifting competition Are you going to do the one in July?
Speaker 1I don't think so. So because I have to do the ipa thing. It's just different, different. So but I'm staying like today I lifted. I'm staying consistent. My strength's getting up there. I need to buy another 45 plate, because I'm repping out 420s on squat now and deadlift and anyway. So it's been going great. My, my bench is not going up. Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2It's been sad well that your bench is only going to go up a fraction of what your deadlift and squat can go up.
Speaker 1I'm feeling strong.
Speaker 2I feel ready to go. I might have to cut weight again, though, anyway. All good, brother, it's good.
Speaker 1Well, you have a good summer. We'll see you guys in another couple weeks. Of course we have new episodes, but we'll catch up a little bit after vacation.