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Jan. 15, 2025

If you could start a business with zero risk, what would it be?

We’ve still had some holiday and non-holiday travel going on, so we’re dipping into the vault again for a One Good Question episode to fill the gap.   FRESH 2025 EPISODE NEXT WEEK.   A listener asked, “If you could start a…
Jan. 8, 2025

Do vegans crave meat?

We’ve got some holiday and non-holiday travel going on, so we’re dipping into the vault for a couple of One Good Question episodes to fill the gap.   This episode features one of our gym members who is a practicing vegan, N…
Jan. 8, 2025

How to make new friends in the gym?

We’ve got some holiday and non-holiday travel going on, so we’re dipping into the vault for a couple of One Good Question episodes to fill the gap.   A lot of people are joining gyms at this time of year. Some for the first…
Jan. 1, 2025

Top Fitness Trends for 2025

It’s a new year, and it’s time once again to examine at least one publication’s ideas for fitness trends in the coming year. This time, we tapped into a more serious -- and less pop culture – source: the American Council on …
Dec. 25, 2024

Lethal Weapon (1987) | A 50% Facts Review

Is this the most Christmas movie of our little film festival? Probably. Is it even better that we’re dropping it on Christmas Day? For sure!   Mel Gibson and Danny Glover starred in one of the first really great buddy cop m…
Dec. 18, 2024

Just a quick little break in the action

Well, we had some confusion about the movie we were planning to cover on that day, a guest who couldn’t make it, and an acute shortage of time. So, we punted with a quick discussion about the state of streaming services, a c…
Dec. 11, 2024

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) | A 50% Facts Review | Christmas, not Christmas

There’s a Christmas in the first Harry Potter? Yes! Three of the eight films include a bit of Christmas. This one seems to show Harry’s first Christmas gifts ever. There are a ton of other firsts as well.   This film set th…
Dec. 4, 2024

Die Hard (1988) | A 50% Facts Review | Christmas, not Christmas

So, whether or not it’s a Christmas movie, Die Hard definitely happens at Christmas. Is it the original action-adventure hostage film? We can’t think of an earlier one. Beyond that, Bruce Willis would never have become a mov…
Nov. 27, 2024

Iron Man 3 (2013) | A 50% Facts Review | Christmas, not Christmas

Continuing our festival of films set at Christmas, but not about Christmas, we take a critical look at Iron Man 3. Is this the best Iron Man flick – even though Tony Stark doesn’t spend much time in the suit? How hot is Pepp…
Nov. 20, 2024

Batman Returns (1992) | A 50% Facts Review | Christmas, not Christmas

We’re heading into the holiday season, and with that always comes a couple of things: travel and holiday movies. Because of the first thing, we’re diving into the second thing. We’ve got another “film festival” of movies set…
Nov. 13, 2024

Are microplastics stealing your gains? Plus, CrossFit athlete’s cause of death revealed

Plastic was supposed to be inert, right? I mean, it wasn’t supposed to be able to cause real problems for humans, except maybe the whole issue of disposing of them. But plastics are a lot more complicated than that, and micr…
Nov. 6, 2024

Why are federations always in turmoil? | WRPF drama

Why are there so many federations? Is it just because people can’t get along? Without getting too far down in the details of each incident, you must ask, “Why is there nearly always some kind of drama within federations?” No…
Oct. 30, 2024

Kickass-tober wrap-up

We wrap up our kickass movie series by discussing things that are kickass, or could be, in the real world. Join our Discord for free at goodcompanydiscord.com! Check out our gym (Third Street Barbell) at ThirdStreetBarbell…
Oct. 23, 2024

Logan (2017) | A 50% Facts Review | Kickass-tober

It was the end for Wolverine and Professor X. At least it was supposed to be. Instead, it’s one of the most realistic movies ever made about...mutants with superpowers. High fructose corn syrup has killed off most of the oth…
Oct. 16, 2024

John Wick (2014) | A 50% Facts Review | Kickass-tober

The moral of this film could be as simple as “Never kill a retired hitman’s dog.” In The Matrix, Keanu Reeves helped change the sci-fi action genre. In this one, he helps entirely redefine the revenge action genre. With a fi…
Oct. 9, 2024

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) | A 50% Facts Review | Kickass-tober

All this month, we’re watching (some of us for the first time) some kickass flicks! Following up last week’s look at The Terminator (1981), we dig into its first sequel. This time Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a good guy, and …
Oct. 2, 2024

The Terminator (1984) | A 50% Facts Review | Kickass-tober

All this month, we’re watching (some of us for the first time) some kickass flicks! First up, the movie that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger as a bankable Hollywood star and launched a multi-billion dollar film and TV franchi…
Sept. 25, 2024

Unforced errors

When we recorded this, the leaked IPF with “tips” about coaching women hadn’t surfaced yet, but we did get to talk about other bad behavior and unforced errors. Diddy had 700 dildoes, Vince McMahon may have manipulated women…
Sept. 18, 2024

50 PF 9-17-2024 C-1

Sometimes, we need to take a minute to look at what people outside of powerlifting think about the sport. We take a look at a powerlifting quiz published by a fitness site. Some questions were easy, and others…a bit harder e…
Sept. 11, 2024

A shocking loss for powerlifting

We were saddened to learn of the accidental death over the weekend of Kim Tran AKA Kim Valentine. We discussed some of her accomplishments on the platform and the role she played in bringing women and Asian lifters into the …
Sept. 4, 2024

Why isn’t there an apples-to-apples way to compare deadlifts?

You probably think that pulling sumo is the biggest variation between deadlifts, but there are many more. It can even be challenging to tell the conditions of a particular lift, let alone compare them. Is it wrong to “game” …
Aug. 28, 2024

CrossFit athlete association demands assurances of safety and change

Understandably, the fallout from the death of CrossFit Games athlete Lazar Đukić is far from over. We discuss some posts and articles about the private meetings held at the Games concerning whether to continue and the demand…
Aug. 21, 2024

Gen Z is showing up in record numbers at the gym. Does the "no show” business model still work??

Zoomers are making gyms the “third space” of their generation. We see it in our gym, but it’s happening everywhere. How are gyms that have been designed to accommodate far fewer members than they’ve sold memberships to going…
Aug. 14, 2024

CrossFit tragedy: Who is responsible for athlete safety?

The unthinkable happened. CrossFit lost an athlete during the games. Without having all the answers yet about exactly what happened when Lazar Đukić drowned, clearly sufficient safety measures were not in place. Athletes hav…