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Off The Record: Barbell Brigade Shorts Made NY Mag's Top List!

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to careful boys where we are very careful boys so ████ careful bart has an announcement yes it took us so ████ long how long we just restocked on our amphibious shorts for variable games i love it i finally get some i'm getting steve some i'm getting anthony jordy has some he gave me like every single color they're honestly the best shorts they're very they're very comfy it's been stuck at the porch like we had it already it was stuck at the porch for like two months old wow they didn't let you just swim over there and be like can i open the ████ cage no honestly we asked them that was it long beach yeah because the covet rules like you can't even go to the container you can't they have like crazy rules that's

0:50 so they finally came in i'm super excited we have them seven colors black vapor all of this one's give me blue i don't even know what color vapor is yeah it's like a light like cream looking color dude but the cool thing is about those shorts i wear i wear it without underwear and it's so soft and i've been having a lot of bonus from it a lot it's just like the on your dress so you just got pre-cum all up on the inside yup and it's it's easy to wash oh could you help with your itchy ████ is that no my butthole just itches oh you think that shipping ████ is a little bit of a conspiracy though honestly i don't know dude we had rick here he was sitting here he's like i can see all the containers like out because he lives by the beach now because like all of our all of our china production as well like all stopped like we we've had to resource all of our stuff for our clothing line and whatnot so it's kind of like i was inefficient i watched um

1:42 why that ████ went down and it all started with that ever ever grande all right yeah really you know what the what is that tell them about it tell them remember during kovid everyone was making memes about the ████ container that was stuck at the panama canal yeah that big-ass container ship right they backed up ████ so hard because of that that that whole fiasco how long did it take him to get that out of that position like a week or something weird yeah but it it other now like ships had to make the decision that they're like should we go around like the you know africa or should we like what should we do do we wait and then that ████ up a lot of ████ and then the ports on uh on our end they were backed up i mean uh they they didn't have enough staff to unload oh ████ because the first what five months or something right

2:33 there was no shipments coming in because everyone's like yeah we don't need to and then people were doing stay at home amazon buying or like retailing yeah that's something that no one could have predicted that sales like online homeowners are going to go through the roof it's through the roof to the point where america's never seen any type of consumerism at this rate so then then they started putting in all the orders right so all of a sudden just a rush of orders came to the ports and then they didn't have enough people to ████ unload them yeah it got crazy it was so crazy like a lot of our sweatpants so it was like in the summer time people were blowing through sweatpants like crazy because everyone's chilling at home now yeah so we were expecting like a low amount of sales and like our sweats and fleece and joggers but all of our sweatpants sold out like in

3:23 july and ████ we're like what the hell is happening like this it was the craziest like sales patterns we've ever seen might have just announced that they're gonna keep the ports 24 7 now finally so they're unloading 24 7. oh they weren't 20 no it was just regular like like work hours what the ████ i know they should be right it's an intern it's a freaking port and uh maybe it's because i was i definitely was trying to buy the shorts at one point these guys yeah i was trying to buy you so much dude pandemic and it was like all sold out and stuff um but i think it was also like right after you guys got in like i don't know if it's like a new york fashion article oh men's health men's health was that wasn't itself yeah oh yeah yeah sure you guys were immensely ████ congratulations ████ what's your problem yeah man dude how did you know they were on men's health it was like ████ what like top like uh fitness or or at home workout

4:13 because that was a huge thing like he said like during the pandemic there was like a ████ unprecedented rise in like at home workout slash uh athleisure type of like stuff so then they did this article on like maybe like 10 top nation ████ like workout shorts or some ████ and barbara brigade's uh amphibious stress was on there and they're with nike and lululemon that's what i'm saying it was crazy these shorts are good man buying those sold out yo that's crazy you went from ████ printing out t-shirts from that one to like now getting your own shorts right next to nike and ████ we it took us nine months to develop these bad boys nine months nine months yeah go to barbell brigade.com we'll put a link in the description below but yeah yeah what why does it usually take that long or is it because like you have a small operation these are very unique that's also really really good fabric yeah like

5:04 the actual material so like you probably had to go through like hella sources what kind of sheep do you ████ have to shave to get that ████ a ████ cheetah dude ████ ████ now so like our design process so i'm like a shorts connoisseur like i have if you go to my house i have a ████ ton so i took like all my favorite pairs of shorts and we pretty much cut them all up circled all the things that we liked and we frankenstein something out of like 10 different brands that we liked and then from that you get the first uh prototype right so you send the the what they call like a tech pack in and then they send you a prototype and then from there we start making other like adjustments because you know depending on the fabric it could be the same pattern but if it's fleece or corduroy or whatever it'll sit differently so we would uh do another revision another revision another revision and then even with when they dye it even the dye can change

5:54 the how a fabric sits i don't know if you guys ever noticed but like let's say you have a black t-shirt of course i noticed a white shirt really i don't know i didn't notice so i'm really interested to hear it brand a black t-shirt will fit fit differently than a white t-shirt the even the die like it it changes how things fit so we had to custom uh choose dies go back and forth a bunch and then so finally once we get like a sample that we're 100 on then they're able to just make them wow did you also put into the design to help your bulge because i feel like it makes my bulge look very favorable support and like i said man it like rubs against my dick and makes me really i didn't do that but we have an internal apparel i didn't do that personally but our internal apparel designer is a pervert okay so she might have put that in there

6:44 to be fair like women like wear push-up bras and things that amplify you know the cleavage and like the sexuality of things not enough in my opinion all i'm saying is like i men should do it too i'm a fan of when that happens therefore if you know we want to be respectful and like do the same for you know our women counterparts i really think that you know the right clothes should help you look ████ emphasized dude just put a mag light in there what are you talking about you know what that's so 90s if you roll the quarters baby i wish it was the material is a little thicker because sometimes when i go pee i forget to like shake and then i put the shorts back on and then all that that's cause you're not wearing underwear dog like double duty shake that ████ wear some underwear you'd be fine and we wanted it to be thinner so people could

7:34 swim in them and stuff i like yeah dude that's one of my favorite things is because you can swim enough oh my god i have to get some now you know it dries fast i take that's all i take to hawaii i just bring two two shorts that should last me a month yeah look at the pockets i'm sorry oh it doesn't matter mesh so that the shorts uh the pockets dry faster too no because i wear one and then i swim and when i get out i put on the dry ones and then the wet ones they're already done by the end of the day they're dry i could just never rotate themselves this is good advice from the most disgusting person you know no but then after i go in the ocean i have to do the outdoor shower because that takes all the pee out yeah it's so true because you're paying in the ocean most of the time and

8:25 on those if you're peeing in the ocean do you hike up one side and like through the lake or you just pee directly into the shore it depends if there's kids or not what's the difference if their kids are for sure urine's out under the kids in the ocean because if there's people around they're going to dive and see my dick right so i can't be there like ████ scoring like this and just like that i can't do that face the horizon no we can see your dick boom if there's people i go inside and then as i swim i do one of these things and then i air it out i mean i water it out right water it out yeah if i pee in the ocean i do it while i'm like in motion while i'm swimming it farther out that's so hard let it go pee and swim at the same time yeah you're just kind of trying i'm not swimming like an olympic swimmer i'm just getting motion versus versus being that one dude is just kind of standing there by

9:15 themselves that's dude that's me no that's my stance is my stance is like oh that guy is definitely just peeing yeah i always see that and i'm like what am i not gonna do dude i'm always pretending to look off but i'm really like i go like that yeah yeah yeah oh oh what's out there oh yeah and then when i'm done peeing in the water i still shake a little bit that guy's finishing i'm taking my phone out there to pretend like i'm like vlogging or some ████ and you're like talking to yourself you're like hey yeah really you're just peeing oh that's a good move you guys are deceptive because then people start looking up when really down is what's happening oh that's smart when you're doing something like that how do you guys because you have a big team how do you guys just go i don't know you're going to say team but yes i i would only talk about him having a big team the only thing about him that's big is his team thank you awesome today's video is brought to you by feels all right cbd is not about what you feel it's about what you do not feel

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11:48 50 off your first order and free shipping that's 50 off your first order with free shipping go to fields that's f e a l s dot com slash off the record to get 50 off and free shipping uh no but how do you guys go like okay this is done what's finally finished or like how do you refine that we actually don't know so this is our what we call our mark twos um our first one uh we thought that was perfected and because we tested all different ways all kinds of different training methods like lifting swimming running whatever and then one big problem that we had was uh when you put something heavy in the pocket like we tested like keys and stuff yeah like it'll come out the bottom like a lot of shorts yeah i have that yeah and uh we're like oh ████ so we shortened and tapered the pocket by like two inches and then one of the

12:39 other problems that we had was uh the drawstring and laundry would pull out yeah oh yeah i hate that so we fixed those and then now after another year of having the mark twos we're like okay that's right the first version of the shorts you gave me i told you that that it happened and i lost the stream boom new york mag right there boom amphibious shorts mark ii new york mag uh in top 10 shorts who's wearing it i give 10 000 lululemon all these ████ shorts right road roan or whatever fabletics and we got ████ barbell brigade dude these are very good shorts i don't feel like i'm a good friend because i'm not wearing bart shorts right now i'm wearing my visitors you're wearing my friends that's cool too but those shorts are actually really good they're so good i like those shorts that i think barbell should steal this for version three i almost got that same pair shout out to matt vincent he makes

13:30 great shorts too his shorts are really good i just want it to match today right here just so everyone else can see there it is that's the best shorts really dude i ate that ████ the other day it was good you know what ████ sucks dude so like i think like my brain is kind of like you're talking about uh mr was it doctor dr hyde jekyll yeah yeah yeah dr jekyll who ████ that yeah yeah or you have multiple personalities right so there's a side of me that like is super into like training and there's a side of me that likes to be in like what i call ████ ████ town and i was like i was like how touch that patrol like because we're coming out with new patterns right i'm like how dope would it be if i made the kovid 19 shorts so all of them it's just a repeated pattern of like the little virus all over the place but then i'm like ████ is it not good when the two worlds

14:20 collide because then people like are you trying to profit off of them like no i'm just trying to make funny shorts i think i've seen coveted t-shirts where it's the ████ like the virus yeah like virus or like whatever yeah or when people give you ████ about the virus just be like it's not the covid virus it's a different virus yeah this is delta these are the delta different dude the variant shorts so no matter how much they change it's still a variant yeah three dude why not but if i get in trouble huh if i came out with now if you call it the variant i think it's cool because that's like it's like a half step towards it but it's like you're so clear it's amphibious dude you don't call it the covet short but the low but the pattern is going to be a little viruses all the way across i think that's already there's already clothes like oh really yeah under a microscope dude it's all the same oh god i've seen it at hot topic yeah okay yeah those are hot topic shorts

15:10 i don't know you want to be the first one on the market with that no i'm scared right now it's 64. how much how much would you say uh in terms of like barbell brigade's brand because like obviously from an outsider when i look at barbra gate i obviously think about the gym i obviously think about uh apparel and clothing and i also think about things like your protein and your pre-workout and stuff like that is there another sector that i'm not thinking about outside of like content creation and stuff like that no that's it okay so out of those what would you actually say is like the the true kind of bread and butter that like lets that brand kind of survive if you will the true bread and butter i would say it's actually probably the content first i'll be continuing yeah because that's like both the marketing and also the thing that like continues to bring in and i think that's what people uh connect with the brand where i think uh

16:02 the brand we feel like it's we like we all like to train hardcore but then we're pretty down to earth and we all ████ around so all of our content is a little bit different than like the rest of the fitness let me rephrase just for fun what makes y'all the most money how it makes the most money apparel clothes but if we did it right it should be supplements why is it ████ ████ town in your head what's up with that ████ ████ town yeah that's why i like to party well why isn't it ████ city which is a porno oh a dame to come for oh my god wait that's a parody that's true yeah sin city is pretty good dude maybe ████ ████ city in your head maybe not it's ████ ████ man yeah like i i know i'm in the right area

16:52 when i do something and i'm kind of scared of what's going to happen after i post something i see or if it comes out of my mouth i'm kind of scared of the repercussions but i like that danger you should just create a store called ████ ████ town that's separate and you get to do whatever you want like i don't know like a store but it's like you got coveted shorts you've got you also have vaccine shorts as well to have both probably gonna also need some ████ ████ money to like do that with because that's true kind of a ████ idea you could have the covet apparel like you could have a t-shirt that's like pfizer moderna ████ johnson and johnson it's called johnson's johnson like people could wear the vaccine that they got and ████ and then they got the coverage i've seen that like i got pfizer yeah yeah yeah it's like nike but like yeah you're

17:43 sponsored sponsored by johnson and johnson i think you should take that that's a good idea he just gave you gold right now and you're sitting sitting down not even writing this down i'm thinking about you like fiat dollar currency that might be a lot of like licensing conflict but if you change what is it like ten percent or something that was a parody law that yeah you can do in ████ ████ wizard doesn't have merch dude they got murdered oh i got the five zebra i'd rock a fight they should have visors oh my god dude i can't wait till the day that they have hooligans of like modern hooligans and ████ johnson johnson and then they go on fighting ████ straight up what vaccine did you get i got pfizer you got visor okay cool so we're on the same team we don't all right but we should get visors visor visors we should

18:34 have the non-boxers and then also too it's a visor with your pfizer vaccine like on top and then the card yes i could eat at this restaurant you ████ because when we were when we were in hawaii it was kind of like because they were asking everyone to show their backs card yeah and like i get it whatever you guys gotta do what you gotta do but it is kind of a pain in the ass to be like oh ████ and to have everything out but this way like you have you you rep your hood which is your vaccine and you go like that and then you flip it around and then you have your card right there laminated i love it where's your card dude my wife has it johnson and joshua should do like stuff like shorts too where it's like your car is like by your dick so it's like johnson johnson oh yeah yeah that's a job just good marketing or like it's like it's just it's just one time because you only need it one time oh yeah like yeah oh yeah

19:24 one time but then it's like a maybe a maybe on the back like maybe it works yeah maybe one time one hit or quitter you get a yeah you get a booster t-shirt they're loving their they're loving their physics dude this is whack bro the fact that they don't have a visor i think is so stupid they need to come up with a visor low-key a pfizer dad hat will be pretty cool like the shirt is kind of whack but the the the dad hat yeah i mean i mean i can't believe they have fizer merch or a pfizer fanny maybe it's for like um employee park day or something you know or like one of those like little pfizer balls you could put on a car antenna oh yeah that'd be cool they don't do those anymore huh the jack of the box is the best one hands down all the time do cars even have car antennas anymore like that no they're all short now yeah they're all like slowly choking hey i don't have an antenna or it's like all like in your window or something yeah dude nobody listens to the ████ of the radio yeah

20:14 getting the pfizer gang man yes yeah that's too cheesy bro dude they got coveted merch man do they have non-vax or merch okay this is what they need i guarantee you they got non-bags you guys gotta do a barbell do a barbell brigade collab with your favorite vaccine provider oh you gotta get all the i think you got to get all the vaccines dude that's my ████ idea right sir and johnson and johnson you don't have enough of them and then you need to have the covent shorts and astrazeneca yeah i wonder if like this is like her big break as a modeling career oh my all gosh you know what that looks like it looks like a stock photo that they just ████ photoshopped text on yeah but you know they they worked extra hard to make the text like assimilate to the fold of her shirt so i think they maybe just actually printed it because it's a you know those uh stock photos for like

21:05 like random clothing like target underwear or whatever yeah next to the barbell office there's a photo studio and i think that's where they shoot all that stuff no way they just have random models coming in and then whatever they're shooting it's oh it's like the same pose like oh buy this inner tube for the pool like it's always like that just generic that must be a sweet gig dude ████ fast like the models that know how to hit their looks yeah they're ████ they gotta practice that i did find the opposite side shirt what is it this girl runs on jesus that's tight that girl didn't get back yeah no no no she don't believe in facts i saw a model wearing that shirt exactly next door that's a powerful shirt concept like whoever really thought about that bud light live that's the best of both worlds i think bud light

21:56 lime is strong that's a strong position [Music] you

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