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- I'm Jerry Peacock and born and raised Marietta, Georgia
just outside of Atlanta.
And that's pretty much me.
♪ Just an average guy ♪
♪ With the yearning I can't deny ♪
♪ Don't suppose you could fall for ♪
♪ Someone like me ♪
♪ If you just got to know me ♪
♪ But that's something I can't foresee ♪
♪ All this time I am wasting ♪
♪ This dream I am chasing ♪
♪ It's a silly thought ♪
♪ That you want someone like me ♪
- Curtesy.
Ready to go get sweaty?
♪ That I bask in your afterglow ♪
♪ Just hoping ♪
- I started lifting weights in earnest
when I went in the Air Force.
You know physical fitness is just part of the deal.
You're gonna have to be in shape to be in the military.
- Man he really was tall and skinny.
He wore his sister's pants and that was a 28 waist.
Well if he wouldn't eat their food.
- No that's not true.
- It was too.
- 'Cause you were runnin' me to death.
- I mean he's not an athlete, never has been.
I don't want him to have Schwarzenegger neck.
I don't understand the big thrill of it.
But that's not my call.
But he's different.
♪ You'd probably think that I'm crazy ♪
- Teacher called us when he was nursery school,
and wanted to know if he liked to play with toys.
Not very much.
I says he has a coffee pot that he keep in his bed with him.
♪ I can't help but ♪
- When I got this, you know like I said
it was just an off the shelf
and it needed a lot of modifying.
Thanks to Mom's sewing skills
she was able to tailor it in.
I guess make the sleeves smaller,
'cause they were like balloons hanging.
Probably the nerdiest thing about me
is my love of costuming.
Movies.
Boys avenge me.
And love of Dragon Con.
- It is Labor Day Weekend in the United States
and for friends and colleagues in downtown Atlanta
that means it is Dragon Con weekend.
Tens of thousands of cos players flood
five host hotels, several floors of a nearby trade center,
and every street in between.
- Ello baby.
Did you miss me? (Kissing)
- Nerdy-Graw.
That's what Dragon Con's often been called
'cause it's just an all out nerd, geek frolic.
- We are the largest fandom based convention
in the United States that's ran by fans for the fans.
(flute music playing)
- First time I went down there,
I get off the train at Peachtree Center
and I see, you know all, of these
interesting people getting off with me
going up the escalator.
People dressed up as anime characters
and I'm just like, people really get into this stuff.
- It's its own little niche.
I mean it's something that he enjoys
and he kind of fell into it.
- You know you looked around you, you see Spartans
you know see all the people who put a lot of
you know work into getting their body conditioned
for their costume.
But there's no real function at Dragon Con
to reward both sides of the equation.
So I put together something that could
and submitted a concept called
the Dragon Con Physique Costume Contest.
And I didn't hear back from them for quite a while.
- [Computer] You've got mail.
- Finally got permission to do an exhibition panel.
This is cool, this is exciting.
Where we have two contestants pitted against each other
and judge who's the best
as far as costume and physique quality.
Mr. Lee Cox who is the director of Dragon Con costuming
said we could really well with this initial competition
as kind of a proof of concept.
I can build it into a full fledge competition next year.
- Life is too short to just do nothing.
When he was four years old he told his grandmother
that he wanted to do something great.
So we're behind him 100 percent what ever he wants to do.
- My whole life, you know just being a different,
feel like others never really noticed me.
This competition may be my last opportunity
to carve out my place in the world.
(gentle upbeat music)
(sighs)
Third and final.
(grunting)
My ears are fallin' out.
I'm just gonna drop 'em.
Since the contest was originally conceived by me
in an effort to keep everything objective
I'm not going to be one of the judges.
You know I'm simply the presenter.
(grunting)
(sighs)
However, I do need two of the best contestants
that I can find.
- Oh yeah.
It's about a $200 deck right here
and this is one of the cheaper ones.
Real cool stuff.
This is one of the iconic cards of Yu-Gi-Oh.
This Raigeki card right here.
It's Yu-Gi's favorite card.
Anyone who's ever watched Yu-Gi-Oh
will recognize this card.
Original print, Legend of Blue Eyes,
it's whatever.
- Billy is, you know he's a great friend
and the absolute epitome of the Muscle Nerd image.
- (chuckles) I'm still doing the same dang thing
that I was doing when I was 14.
Playing with Mobile Suits, building my models.
17 millimeters.
Playing Yu-Gi-Oh.
Hey, who's playing Yu-Gi-Oh?
And Pokemon. (Pikachu Noise)
The only difference is, do a little bit of lifting now.
(grunting)
Got to hit some chest and back tonight.
- [Jerry] No legs?
- [Billy] Not tonight.
- [Jerry] Will there ever be a night?
- [Billy] I hit legs two nights ago.
- [Jerry] Two whole nights ago.
- [Billy] I'm just getting to where I can walk again.
- [Jerry] Mm-hmm.
- [Billy] Why you here again Jay?
Why are you in my room?
- Well found out from Mr. Lee Cox,
who's the head guy of costuming at Dragon Con,
that our basic idea for a competition has been approved.
It's not as big as we like but it's something.
So we can do a proof a concept,
might open the door to bigger and better things.
But I need two really awesome competitors.
And so I was hoping you would consider
being one of the guys on stage.
I think it'd be good for ya.
Good to get your feet wet
with actual physique type event.
And it's pretty liberating to be in character,
even up on stage.
(sighs)
- I don't man.
(gentle music)
Losing Mom was definitely
a staggering blow.
That's Mom, that's me,
that's my sister Chessa, my brother Brandon,
my dad, my sister Kim, and Tom, my brother-in-law.
Mom was my rock, she made my dad buy me a gym membership
at 16.
He didn't think I was gonna go anywhere with it
but Mom told him he was gonna do it
whether he liked it or not.
And that was the kinda person Mom was.
She was a go-getter.
But you know I lived here all my life.
Done a little bit of traveling,
but like this is it.
This is my comfort zone.
But Mom knew I wanna potentially compete in bodybuilding.
You know maybe this will be a good stepping stone
to see if I have the gall to do it.
Who's the other guy?
(upbeat techno music)
(barbells crashing)
- Oh Jonathan Carroll.
- Originally hail from Land of Asgard.
Sorry.
My name's Jonathan Carroll,
I play Wolverine for Super Power Beat Down.
So the silence fell on big breasted women, huh?
- Just focus on the mission, Logan.
- Scott, when are you gonna stop being such a di--
I am the biggest badass you're ever gonna meet.
(grunting)
- Way back when it was still Myspace,
came across his page, which he titles The Monkey of Steel.
Was really impressed with his physique, his costuming,
how he put the two together.
You know he's been both bodybuilding
and costuming for years and years.
He's very experienced at, it very established
in both worlds.
(yelling)
(alien yelling)
- Guys a wrecking machine, Rock stay out of the ring.
(gentle music)
(grunting)
(people on computer talking at once)
- Can you see mine?
Yes, no?
- [Russell] Yeah I can hear ya, Jerry.
(people on computer talking at once)
- I do try to give, really talented people
a shot at doing the panel.
And they tend to, they tend to be worth the investment.
But sometimes you get these new folks
like Jerry and his event.
They don't understand the preparation
that goes behind doing a panel, that kind of thing.
That is probably the worst case scenario.
- You sound like you're in bell jar
but it's clear, clear enough.
- All right this is the best we can do.
- Really just to start so this is
our first time doing a panel
so I just was curious if you could kind of just
walk us through the process?
You know like is there a check in process?
Or who are we supposed to meet when we're there?
- [Lee] You just arrive at the Costuming Track Room--
- [Russell] Do you know what room that's in?
- [Lee] Yes I do, it's over in the Hilton,
it's rooms 302 through 305.
(gentle music)
- We have all those rooms?
- [Lee] The walls are opened up between them.
- That makes things curious, you know
what Dragon Con would consider a success.
You know where they would permit us to come back next year.
- The goal is to get as many butts in the seat as possible.
And we've been pretty successful.
As a matter of fact they had to move us
from one event space into another event space
because not only was all of our seats full for every panel,
but we had a line that was taking over
the little air walks between the hotels
and that's not a good thing
from a fire marshal's perspective.
So our definition of an unsuccessful panel
is if there are less than 80 percent people in the room.
It will seat approximately anywhere from 450 to 550 people.
- (gasps) Really?
- [Lee] It's a very large room, yes.
- Hm.
So the room, I didn't know
it was quite that big.
(slapping)
(grunting)
- I really didn't have very many friends
in middle school and high school.
I was made fun of, I was pushed around.
It kind of created this social anxiety for me.
So I started martial arts when I was 11.
I started weight training when I got to high school.
And I started standing up for myself.
(grunting)
I hate that I've had to put somebody on their ass.
But they never picked on me again.
I'm very much Drax,
but I really don't want people to know that.
I want people to think more I'm Clark Kent.
Pretty sure I'd walk up on stage
after a quick spray tan, take something home right now.
- How bad do I look Jay?
- You look better than you did last week.
- I don't know about that man.
- Huh?
- I don't know about all that.
- I think so.
Ready? - Yep.
- Relaxed.
- People are like aw man, you're huge, you're big,
you're jacked, no I'm really not.
I was always the kid who couldn't even climb the rope.
I couldn't even, I was too fat to do the monkey bars.
I don't, I don't think I see what everybody else sees
and that's something I'm gonna have to overcome.
All right Jay, was it there's the crab?
- Crab pose was good.
Hand over fist most muscular,
hands on hip most muscular.
But you're bending over too damn much.
Hold and then you come back in (grunting).
Posing is necessary 'cause you gotta highlight your body.
You know you gotta present yourself
with the best advantage for the judges.
And it takes so much power endurance
to actually be in a bodybuilding competition.
'Cause they will have you locked into poses,
you know a minute, two minutes.
I've seen guys actually collapse on stage.
Because you've gotta stand up there,
all muscles clenched and try
and make it look graceful and effortless.
- I look like I'm constipated.
(laughing)
- You know the whole stage layout is a worry for me.
Because you see--
- We'll just have to feel it all out.
Obviously the room is pretty large.
Might have this problem,
because I've been to plenty of panels where this happens,
we might have mic difficulties.
Some issue-- - (mock shouting) Welcome.
- Has happened in several panels that I've been to
where it ends up being that someone has to
just speak up very loud.
So you might have to prepare
to project your voice. - But I don't wanna
go into the negatives.
- We should probably talk about
the judging criteria though.
- [Jerry] Yeah.
- So how will we come up with the score card?
- If we got presentation,
overall you know costume and physique.
- I guess performance would help lead into that.
Like how would they?
- Presentation is gonna be under that.
You know how they do character poses,
and how they bring their character to life as it were.
We've defined how the competition
will be judged in three areas.
Overall quality of your physique,
presentation.
And the third area is the costume.
How well the costume is made,
you would have a phenomenal physique to go with
like a spartan outfit but if it's just,
you know you just threw on a pice of red material,
and some store bought helmet,
you're not gonna get many point for that, you know.
(gentle music)
- Where as most people have clothes
that they hang up in their closets,
I'm a little bit nerdier
because mine's full of costumes.
This costume is actually really cool.
This is the last costume
my ex-wife and I ever made together.
It's Goku from Dragon Ball Super.
This, this is literally one of the coolest things
that we ever made.
This is my Batman cape.
The outside is a slash-proof leatherette
and the inside is a flame retardant material.
When you throw it, it moves through the air
like it has a soul of its own.
And it's not happy.
This is a costume that I didn't ever think that I would own.
So to actually have it, I'm very excited.
This is a screen accurate
Superman Man of Steel costume.
Everything's accurate even down to the printed level
of the texture on the fabric.
This costume is from In Disguise Designs.
And I hate to talk about how much things cost typically
in a costuming sense
because I feel like it's almost unprofessional.
It's $3,000.
So if you wanna be the best, like no one ever was
don't play games.
You go big, then you go home.
Then you go get big again.
- With Jonathan you know he does his usual Superman outfits
and those show that he's a muscular guy
but it doesn't highlight the physique quite as much.
We'll see what he comes up.
- Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me
the day I held aloft my magic sword and said,
by the power of Greyskull.
- I am gonna do He-Man.
- I am the power!
- He-Man could transform from this weak individual
to this incredibly powerful one.
Going even back to my high school days
when I made that switch from being bullied
to I don't wanna be bullied anymore.
I was almost like holding up that sword
and gaining the power of Greyskull.
To become you know, this titan that I am today.
How big is he?
- 6'3?
- I can put--
- The costume is built for somebody who's 6'4.
- I can be 6'2 with my lifts.
I didn't say that I lifts in my boots, shut up.
Everybody on the internet thinks that I'm 12 feet tall.
- All right arms up.
Do that wing span.
47 and a half.
- Say 30.
- 18 and a half.
- So I mean if you look at this
you can see where the skirt
is actually split right here.
What I would almost wanna do
is bring that slit all the way to the top,
that way I could take my leg out of it
and show more.
- Okay.
- I mean I am going to be wearing something under it, so.
- Sure, right.
So knowing that we have more coverage of your body
we wanna give you as much ability to still show
as much of your physique as possible.
- And I can't help but notice that He-Man
has a mane of uxorious blonde hair.
- [Jonathan] I know.
- And I didn't know what you were thinking.
Because this is one of those pieces
that we could do a bang up job on this whole costume
but if the hair isn't right
it could just destroy it all.
- The other guy in California is gonna be paying
probably 3 to $600 for his costume.
(laughing)
- Looking like 3 to 4,000.
- Oh now there's not even any comparisons.
I could no more put my quarter horse
up against who's running
in the Kentucky Derby for loving or money.
There's what we are.
They go for the costume.
Just like walking down the Red Carpet
for the Academy Awards
they look at all those beautiful dresses.
Might not be able to act their way out of a bag
but they got a beautiful dress on.
(laughing)
(engine revving)
- So we are approaching a level 10 gym
with a lot of very, very strong defenders.
And it's about 100 yards down that way
and we're about to go battle it.
So I'm Team Valor, peace be power and strength.
These Mystic guys they're like the weirdos.
But I really, really think
we got a solid chance of taking this.
All right so the gym is gonna be right over here.
All right so this is a level 10 gym
with some exceptionally strong defenders,
we're gonna go in through here and pound 'em down.
We're gonna break 'em down one by one.
(video game theme music playing)
Ready when you guys are.
- Poke Balls go.
(video game theme music playing)
- I've definitely been interested in Pokemon
since I was a child, like cartoons came out
and couldn't get enough of 'em.
Played the Pokemon trading card game for a long time.
I used to actually hustle 'em back in school too.
Like that's how I made a living when I was
a middle school kid.
Played the game, built some awesome decks.
And just really built up my collection.
I still have a binder full of extremely old cards.
There were the rares back in the day.
I got like a first edition Shadowless Blastoise,
the Charizard, the Venusaur,
all the good stuff, all the valuable stuff, so.
- When Billy first told me what costume he was doing
I was both shocked
and at the same
you certainly get points for originality on that one.
- Charmander, go for it.
(Pokemon music playing)
- The costume that I've chosen for the competition
is based loosely off Ash Ketchum, his name is Trainer Red.
- [Professor Oak] Well, Red, I'm counting on you.
- Right.
(gentle music)
- See it's not like my character.
- Oh you're, you're going as Prime again that's right.
- I am doing Prime for real this time.
- [Billy] Good.
- Stand up straight.
36.
- Yeah.
Yeah, well, can we bring it down a little lower maybe?
- You don't wanna cover up your--
- No, okay.
- It too long.
- Okay, that's fine.
- 'Cause otherwise.
- Yeah that's true.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Did you see I was kind?
- Yeah thank you.
(laughing)
so I feel like if we do a belt that goes across the chest
that's definitely gonna take away
from some of my definition and stuff.
- [Jerry] I agree.
- I was kinda thinking it maybe come down
at like a slant from hip down to like right like
kinda, kinda lopsided, like diagonal running
instead of just straight across.
Like a bandoleer of grenades.
I thought.
Yeah of Poke Balls.
I kinda thought that was kinda cool.
- [Jerry's Mom] Why don't you put the Poke Balls on there?
- Yeah that's what one of the plans.
I've gotta find Poke Balls though
that we'll be able to modify to fit.
They have big Poke Balls.
- Can't we can make out of ping pong balls and paint 'em?
- Ping pong balls would be a little too small.
These are probably gonna be
at least 60 millimeters in diameter.
- In imperial please.
Two, two and a half inches?
- Yeah maybe like.
- That's about three inches.
- It's three inches.
- That's a big ball.
(laughing) - Yeah, yeah.
- We can just name this costume Big Boss is in Town.
(laughing)
- Ooh, kay.
- You're blushing.
- You asked for it.
- Yeah, I know.
- Of all the characters that we have to choose from,
and can make you glitzy,
why this dude?
- Oh boy, Trainer Red is a
it's like an icon for the Pokemon franchise.
He trains hard and nobody really expects him to win.
But on the other side you know it's very original.
I could have chosen an Athenian, like the Mystaclese
or a Spartan like Leonidas.
- But that's obvious.
- At the end of the day I wanna do something
that's unique and original.
- Good plan.
'Cause we gotta go to win,
not just to go out there and dilly-dally.
And this is gonna cost us probably about $40.
Okay?
- [Billy] Okay.
- And we show up with a $3,000 costume.
- He's paying three grand for his costume?
- Well if he's having some designer make the costume.
- Oh boy.
That might be a problem.
- Your path ahead is full of strong Pokemon
that will not be defeated through normal measures.
It will be impossible for you,
unless you are as strong as the Pokemon League Champion.
(upbeat music)
- Hey guys, currently filming
for Quest of the Muscle Nerd.
I love my job.
Get a lot of fan art.
This is actually a piece that was done by Echo Chernik,
Echo X.
It's a painting of me as Icarus.
Several of my neighbors have recognized me.
"Were you Wolverine in Super Power Beat Down?"
It's me.
(grunting)
I know you're a squeaky toy.
It makes me so happy
to see these tiny little pay impressions in my couch.
My mom is worried to death
about me living out here by myself.
And it feels a lot more like home having my boys here.
I don't know that she knows how well I'm taken care of
by the friends that care about me.
I just, I feel really blessed.
So congratulations to Blue Whale Studios.
They started work
on a major production in Atlanta,
which I'm super happy for them.
I know that bumps me to second priority,
I'm hoping second.
(gentle music)
- Now we're just putting in some details
for the shoulder blade,
or the shoulder armor for He-Man.
I gotta grab this call.
Hey Mike.
How are ya?
Fantastic.
'Cause what I'm doing is I'm making a list
of all the life casts and you know
based on what the numbers we had in the budget
then I'm just gonna at the end of the life cast run
we'll send them an added budget
for any expenses past what was already in the budget
all at once.
Thanks.
- [Cameraman] Sound busy.
- We are slammed.
We are slammed.
- [Jerry] It's weird being in here
without 80,000 people all around you.
Who are we waiting on?
- [Russell] Trey.
He's like the space manager here.
- Or is he just the spacing manager?
(gentle music)
We're doing a little recon to check out
the room we've been assigned for our event.
And to get a good lay of the land prior to Dragon Con
so we can have everything planned out.
(sighs)
Maybe it's just like, ignore 'em and they'll go away.
We found out, just not too long ago
that they rescheduled our event for about an hour and half
after it was originally planned for.
Which helps us out a lot.
It'll be at 11:30 AM now instead of 10:00 AM.
Now people have time to get in from the parade,
you know get settled into the actual con scene
and can make it over to our event in time.
Assuming they don't move it again.
Let me get my shoe on and then we'll see
how far we can put it up someone's ass.
(gentle music)
- [Billy] So how does this work?
Is there like a?
- What?
- [Billy] It's like a filing cabinet for patterns?
- Yeah.
- [Billy] Wow.
- How big are you across here?
- [Billy] I think 52 maybe.
- Okay, we're moving up.
All right we gotta go 2X.
It's all in here, it's the same.
- Okay.
- See it goes all the way up to 5X.
- Wow.
- So there's the pattern.
- Okay, come here.
This is like a balloon.
See this?
This is a throw away vest.
- Okay. - Okay.
This is much cheaper.
But feel that.
It will work fine.
- Mmm.
- You're not going to the Ritz.
- I know but I want it to look like top notch
and I'm probably gonna wear it more than once.
- You are, okay.
Well then you're gonna have to go with top notch $20 a yard.
- That's fine.
(voice on TV narrating)
- [Jerry] Is it Leo?
- [TV Host] Lisa? - What is Leo?
- [TV Host] Right.
This cloud of icy objects at the edge of the solar system
begins at around 200 billion miles from the sun.
- What is the Oort Cloud. - [TV Host] Lisa.
- [Lisa] What are the Magellanic Clouds.
- [TV Host] No.
Pat or Britney?
You know what it is?
What is the Oort Cloud.
That would have been your second choice, Pat.
- [Pat] Founding Fathers, 400.
- This call is with Mrs. Ann Chrissy.
And she's gonna be helping us do some flyers
and various promotional material
to help us promote our competition at Dragon Con.
- [Ann] Hey there.
- Hello, how are ya?
- [Ann] I'm good, how are you?
- I'm still fooling 'em.
- [Ann] Cool.
- And so I just emailed you a big chunk of pictures
that I thought maybe, like I said
I had the idea of maybe doing a photo collage of everybody
but-- - [Ann] I could do that.
- I'm open to suggestions.
- [Ann] Okay, yeah I just got it.
This is gonna be really awesome.
- This is cool, this is exciting.
And you guys are gonna be there, right?
- [Ann] I might not, I may.
I don't know I'll see how it goes with the AWA
but next month and then Ryan's got his show the next month,
you know what I mean.
It's not like my plan, you know.
- A good healthy turnout, if not pack the room,
yay that would be best case scenario.
But I am wondering how many people
actually wanna come to see this.
You want the whole thing?
When you're bent over, moaning and wailing
you lick your palms.
It's a little childish and stupid
but then again, so is high school.
- [Cameraman] What's that from?
- Ferris Bueller.
A movie that spoke to a generation.
(chuckles)
You know I never subjected
to the cliche bullying and stuff like that.
You know I didn't get my head shoved in toilets
or you know packed into a locker, or anything like that.
But it's just, I guess the loneliness, the isolation
that this place always seemed to present.
That's where the gym used to be.
(gentle music)
- It's the class that got you off your ass.
A new study suggests that our memories of gym class
are connected to our feelings about exercise today.
In other words, if you have positive memories of PE
you may be someone who looks forward to physical activity.
On the other hand if gym class reminds you
that you were always picked last for the basketball team
just because you weren't tall
(laughing) then maybe you don't enjoy exercise.
Scientist conducting the study hope that...
- There's a lot of negative stigma
among the nerd community and culture
against physical fitness.
You know where they always felt, well I can't do this.
You know I'm not that guy.
I'm not that star track player, so why should I even try?
At worse be humiliated.
- I never really wanted to be part of that community
'cause I just, I was more of like a loner at school anyway.
- I wanna build a fitness community
for someone who maybe never considered that their body
you know and their physicality
could be part of their costume.
That they could say,
hey I could diet I could work out and get lean.
But it doesn't be for a bodybuilding competition
I can take that and reflect into the characters
I portray in cosplay.
- I had a pretty negative experience with gym teachers.
So I imagine anyone that feels that way
toward anything that they suspect is going to be
about body perfectionism would not go.
(flute music playing)
- If no one winds up coming to this event,
it'll be like being back here in high school all over again.
And feeling, once again, kind of pushed to the side.
Hoping not.
All right hold still.
This is gonna tickle.
- I am not ticklish.
- My ex delighted in that fact in me.
This is to help promote, get the word out
for Dragon Con's bodybuilding for Cosplay event.
And, turn around for me.
We're gonna try and use Ryan here to get the point across
of. you know, using physique and cosplay together.
Just try a little bit of twist.
- [Ryan] Which way?
- Just a touch.
Yeah see, when you twist you get more of your core in there.
I had thought that the parade was still classically
the same time it's always been at 9 AM.
But they moved the parade to 10:00 AM.
And we're gonna be competing to get people
to you know come straight to the panel
from the end of the parade.
It's, like I say it's not perfect
but you know it's as good as we could have hoped for
for this first time.
(machines running)
- Each section you see is about 15 hours of printing
over like eight machines.
So by overnight we had all the pieces for the sword.
And then we bind it all together and body work it smooth
and it came out looking great, but it was just too small
and we kind of stacked it against how big Jonathan is
so we reprinted it and now it's
about 30 percent bigger.
Just so that it looks nice and epic in his hands.
Now we're about to take it in the spray booth
and coat it with an auto primer.
Which will fill in any more little bumps or divets
and then we'll body work that and take it to molding
and make the master copy.
- Yeah, yeah turn around.
Just remember now it's gonna have
an inch band on the bottom.
- Okay.
- Is that far enough?
- Uh, I don't.
- Do you want more?
- I'm gonna have to have, yeah I think.
Maybe like that.
- Not that much.
- No? - [Jerry] Yes that much.
- Oh really.
- I'm gonna have to have my abs showin'.
- Well why don't you just go naked.
(laughing)
(sewing machine running)
(upbeat music)
- [Announcer] You're going to love this, trust me.
What you're seeing now is my normal state.
This is a Super Saiyajin.
And this
this is what is known as Super Saiyajin
that has ascended past a Super Saiyajin.
- We're trying to build up as much interest as we can
so we can get as many people as we can.
They see this they say,
ah yeah that's the panel I wanna go see.
- Well okay.
I think that's quite clever.
But you really don't see much of his face.
- Eh.
- Well what's his character?
- Goku, from Dragon Ball Z.
It's a Japanese cartoon.
- Will people know that?
- Yes.
Yes I'm quite confident they will.
- Okay.
Your mother doesn't.
- Yeah.
- I guess that's not important.
- Yeah, it still gets the point across.
- I guess.
- I remember my first competition,
I just sat there and I had a blanched chicken breast
and it was my last meal for the day.
It was 7 o'clock and I was starving.
I looked at the empty plate
and I just had tears rolling down my face.
My wife asked me what was wrong.
And I said, that was my last meal.
I won't get anything else 'til tomorrow. (laughing)
I am feeling exhausted,
I'm feeling smooth,
I'm feeling fat.
And I mean I'm right on track
for being in competition.
I've actually defined this point in diet
as overly critical mass.
Just me being overly critical.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday dear Billy ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ And many more ♪
- Ever since Mom passed away, Kelsey has been my rock.
- I tried to put Happy Birthday Billy on it
but he wouldn't let me.
Then I tried to give him candles that said 27
but he was like, either way you arrange that
they're gonna think it's inappropriate.
72, or 27.
- None of this would have been possible without her support.
I've tried to talk myself out of doing this so many times
and she's always been right there, pushing me right back in.
(grunting)
My diet's been crap for the past few days.
I'm definitely retaining some water.
Puffy 'cause the carbs.
But hey, can't let anything stop ya.
Just gotta keep pushing forward 'til the end.
- Bodybuilding is really tough
both mentally and physically.
'Cause it's so easy to quit.
At the end of the day you have to lay there in your bed
and you have to come to terms
with you being the master of your own fate.
You're the only one putting your body
through this immense hell for a $15 trophy.
(gentle music)
- You open up, you know we just, you know the normals.
I'm Jerry Peacock with Muscle Nerds
and I'd like to welcome you all to the first,
what we hope will be annual
panel of Bodybuilding for Costuming Becoming a Muscle Nerd.
And go through a few things,
I'll introduce the panelists one by one.
- Well you're awfully hairy.
- [Jerry] I always have been.
- I know but, you're gonna take your shirt off
and you're gonna be.
You putting that on? - This is just test, you know.
I'm looking to get waxed.
- We've got legs are based out.
We've got the arm plates based out with their trim.
Sword is ready for taking the tape off.
The gold handle and the silver plate.
Uh oh.
That's bad.
Looks like we've got some paint deliminating.
This usually happens when it isn't properly cleaned.
Which means like these are probably fingerprints or oil
from you know people's hands or whatever
sticking to the plastic.
Which means when you go to take off the tape
it takes, it's not truly bonded.
This whole thing's basically trashed.
We gotta basically lacquer it down back to the base
and recolor it from the start.
This is like a whole day wasted.
- Paint application didn't go smoothly yesterday apparently.
So we're in disaster mode.
- I tell you with these promo posts
I've been reading through the comments.
And most everybody's been you know intrigued
and enthused and stuff like that.
This one guy puts up a comment that says,
Muscle Nerd, makes me cringe.
I wanted to you know message back.
I'm like what is that supposed to mean?
- If the event is a success
and it proves to fit the Dragon Con model
Jerry will be invited back.
But if two people showed up, (laughing)
I won't have it the next year.
♪ I got the magic ♪
- I'm through playing with you boy.
I want Prime and I want him now.
- No!
It's Prime time!
♪ I got the magic ♪
♪ Gone let all y'all see ♪
♪ What I'm made of ♪
♪ I'm a brilliant performer ♪
♪ A mysterious sucka ♪
♪ I'm my own best promoter ♪
♪ Now your searchin' is over ♪
♪ No make believe ♪
♪ You in reality ♪
♪ Y'all know I'm taking these chances ♪
♪ Just to send you a message ♪
♪ It's not just entertainment ♪
♪ This the way that I'm livin' ♪
♪ No make believe ♪
♪ You in reality ♪
- Bow before your true master.
- Never.
♪ I got the magic ♪
- You're welcome to come, it's right after the parade.
♪ Gone let all y'all see ♪
♪ What I'm made of ♪
- [Announcer] From cosplay to sci-fi fans
there will be a lot of costumed visitors
crowding downtown Atlanta next week.
- [Announcer] This year's Dragon Con is expected
to be the biggest yet.
With more than 80,000 people set to attend.
♪ Never done misbehavin' ♪
♪ Why slow down when I made it ♪
♪ Never give up this blessin ♪
♪ Thanks the Lord I'm confessin' ♪
♪ This ain't a dream ♪
♪ You in reality ♪
♪ This ain't a dream ♪
♪ You in reality ♪
♪ I got the magic ♪
♪ Gone let all y'all see ♪
♪ What I'm made of ♪
- I won't lose to you.
Nafu!
♪ Gone let all y'all see ♪
♪ What I'm made of ♪
(cartoon grunting)
(triumphant music)
- So I just left my mom's house
where I was staying before Dragon Con.
And I had to leave my dog Seamus there
because she can't go to the con with me.
I miss her so much.
Didn't wanna leave her.
(honking)
- Myself and two of the panelist judges,
Vic and Jim are gonna be staying here
in these high-rise condos for Dragon Con.
(beeping)
What do you think, three trips?
- No, uno mas.
One more, one more.
Say again?
Nope, my first one.
- But this is my 13th Dragon Con.
- [Woman] So how many costumes do have total?
- Me, just one.
He got six. - [Woman] Just one.
You got six?
- With me?
Maybe more.
I might have seven.
- Is there room for me?
- I think you can fit.
- [Jim] Go ahead.
- Second floor.
- [Cameraman] So what are you gonna cosplay
tomorrow for the panel?
- Oh my god, don't even ask me that.
Don't even ask me that.
Because I still, I have no idea.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure which route I wanna go.
(gentle upbeat music)
- Why so serious?
- I just love watching him work, it's magic.
I accepted to do the panel.
'Cause I'm sure some people wants to hear
a woman's side of the story.
And I feel like I have something
to bring to the table for that.
And if they wanna get serious about their fitness
and what they bring to the table,
you know what they wanna portray in their characters
but as well maintain a healthy lifestyle
that's why I'm doing it.
Arrr!
- One, two three.
All right.
Say thank you.
Thank you.
(gentle upbeat music)
- Hey, Superman.
- You look good bub.
The first Dragon Con I ever went to
was a complete sensory overload.
- Ah, ah, oh.
Oh god.
He's all there.
- And being 16 years old it was a lot to take in.
After going through a lot of my childhood
and not feeling like I really belonged
I felt like I had found my people, my home.
I'm feeling ready for tomorrow.
I'm feeling, I'm feeling ready.
Confident, not cocky, just confident.
Sucks.
- [Man] Suit looks good on you.
- Thank you sir.
I'm having a heck of a day, so.
Got a text from ex-wife
and she asked her boyfriend to marry her.
And I'm 100 percent
great with her moving on, moving past
and falling in love and getting married again.
I'm 100 percent for it.
But she didn't have to ask him
on the same day that I asked back in 2013.
So it's a little bit of a gut shot.
(bells ringing)
- It's 9:40, our panel starts at 11:30
we're trying to get into the room.
The panelists right now getting their pump on,
working out, getting that early morning grind in.
(grunting)
You know you gotta do what you can for the con.
- Whew, whew.
Getting it.
I'm gonna be looking for
presentation, it's gonna be big.
And then I guess costume body accuracy.
For instance if somebody was the Hulk
and they really looked like the Hulk
as opposed to like if a thin Hulk came out.
I'd give it to the bigger guy in that case.
Unless the bigger guy came out
and just laid down on the stage.
I met William, he's a pretty big guy, big chest.
Big arms, he looks good.
So we'll see how he does when I see the other guy.
(gentle upbeat music)
- I did not put on deodorant today
that way I would be more barbarian.
- I can tell actually.
- I smell manly?
- You smell musky.
- Musky.
- There's definitely a--
- Man.
- A manliness.
I don't know girls like I've found.
That like hint, hint of manliness.
As soon as it turns into BO you're just like screwed.
- I gotta practice taking this vest on and off a few times.
Ow, Pikachu.
(laughing)
He pika-punched me in the eye.
♪ I wanna be the very best ♪
♪ Like no one ever was ♪
♪ To catch them is my real test ♪
♪ To train them is my 'cause ♪
♪ I will travel across the land ♪
- Even if you shimmy a little bit
I think with the beat of the music
getting out of your vest,
the shimmy looks fine.
- I don't know.
- I mean I know it sounds stupid,
but it didn't look bad when you were doing it.
- [Billy] Okay, let's try it one more time.
- Okay.
♪ I wanna be the very best ♪
♪ Like no one ever was ♪
- Oh my god I'm so hyped.
Coffee's kicking in.
I'm ready to (beep) go.
(razor buzzing)
- I'm thinking you need to get rid of this shit
all the way down.
- All right.
You want me take it off or do you just wanna cut it--
- Oh no I'm gonna cut it while it's on you.
Just keep it loose.
- I'll take your word for it.
I got five of these shirts.
These are throw aways.
Keep it above here though.
- Above there?
- I don't know, whatever you think.
- Why?
- 'Cause I'm just critical of my body.
- Yeah but your body is (beep) bomb dot com.
Like you gotta show that shit off man.
Be proud of that shit.
'Cause you being this buff
will motivate and inspire so many
other like people to step up their cosplay fitness game.
You're an IFBB pro a reason right?
- It's kinda like tie-dye but with scissors.
- Yeah and then it frays in really cool, awesome designs
that you can't just plan for.
- [Vic] Is it good?
- [Jim] Yeah.
- So that lady at the front desk
gonna let me out the door like this?
Were you down there when she said I had to put my shirt on?
- What is she gonna say to this?
(upbeat music)
- Where's Jerry?
- Just in time.
- You excited?
- He's something.
- Yes.
- If we get half the turnout you're expecting I'll be hyped.
- Hey bub, get this thing over with.
It's panel time.
(crowd cheering)
- Where do we go?
- Dude let's just make a fucking go for it.
Let's just go, what are they going to say to us?
We'll get to the other side before they say anything.
- We got to get to the panel.
- It's gonna be tough.
(gentle music)
- It's wine.
It's wine, L Arginine sulfate yeah.
L Arginine sulfate and cripta hyra chloride.
- [Cameraan] What's the wine?
- Wine causes vascularity.
- [Cameraman] Makes you prettier.
- Makes you prettier.
- Where are y'all on being ready?
- We don't have to open the doors until 11:15, right?
- That's my-- - We'll take
as much time as we have.
- That's my latest.
- Okay.
- [Security Guard] Yo, hey!
- [James] Where do we go?
- [Victor] What's the easiest way
to get to the other side?
- [Security Guard] You need to go to the other side?
- Trying to get to our panel, we're hosting a panel.
- Panel, where's it at?
- Ask that guy.
- We're just trying to get over to the Hilton.
- Hilton.
- [Jim] Yeah before these guys get here, hurry up.
(Pokemon theme song playing)
- I'm running out of time.
- [Kelsey] So.
- I need to do it faster.
- Okay two things where I think you have extra time.
'Cause you're doing the scanning thing
for like eight seconds.
That can be shortened.
Scan for like two seconds.
Scan, back and forth, you're done.
I think most muscular with the Poke Ball
is just gonna be inconvenient.
- Yeah, okay.
- 'Cause you already did most muscular
and you're gonna forget it.
- Oh look how vascular you've gotten.
- Am I vascular?
Awesome.
- Ready bud?
- [Billy] As I'll ever be.
- Good luck brother.
- Thanks you too.
You look good.
- [Cameraman] How ya feel?
(yawning)
- Confident.
(upbeat music)
- Are you in range?
Tell 'em that we're almost there.
And we made it.
- How are you feeling?
- A little nervous, but a healthy nervous.
- Yeah.
- I hope we get a good enough turnout.
- Yeah.
Good morning, hi I'm Russell.
(gentle upbeat music)
- Ladies and gentlemen,
please do not enter the roadway or cross the roadway
until the emergency vehicles behind me have passed.
Thank you and we hope you enjoyed this year's parade.
(crowd cheering)
(door opening and closing)
(door opening)
(gentle music)
- And now, for the moment you've been waiting for
let me introduce Jerry Peacock from Muscle Nerds
our host and moderator for this panel.
(crowd cheering)
- Nice to see everybody, glad to see everybody came.
- [Woman] Mic!
- [Man] The mic.
(mic feedback)
- [Man] Try it now.
- Hey guys, nice to see everybody, glad everybody came.
I'd like to welcome you all to the first,
what we hope will be annual
bodybuilding for Costuming Panel Becoming a Muscle Nerd.
So let me bring out the first our panelists,
who's going to be talking about both cosplay
and fitness as well.
Our first one is Mr. James Elmer.
He is a, (crowd cheering)
he's a personal trainer and established cos player
and former Army Ranger.
So welcome James.
- Hi guys.
Thank you guys all for coming out.
Wow, awesome turn out.
- Our next panelist is Mr. Joe Mikeson.
(crowd cheering)
Joe is a natural bodybuilding competitor,
die hard cos player, fitness enthusiast.
All right next up we have Miss Demaris Degan,
professor of graphic arts (crowd cheering)
and does some amazing cosplay work.
And last but certainly not least
is IFBB professional bodybuilder Mr. Victor Delcampo.
(crowd cheering)
All right well we'll start off with the basics.
If you guys wanna talk about
why you chose the particular costumes that you're wearing
and you know tell us a little about what went into 'em.
- For me I usually like to go with costumes
that are a little more difficult to build.
(laughing)
- Dammit.
- All right so we are to the point
of the Muscle Nerd showdown.
(crowd cheering)
So we have two preselected competitors
who are both gonna come up on stage and do their routine
to present their physique, their costume, their character.
Let me know when I'm supposed to introduce 'em.
- Okay as soon as they're out, and they all look ready.
Ask them if they're ready, show off the prize...
- You guys are ready?
(crowd cheering)
All right.
So we're ready to get to it with our first competitor.
Our first one,
summoning the power of Greyskull
put your hands together for Mr. Jonathan Caroll as He-Man.
(crowd cheering)
(He-Man theme playing)
(rock music playing)
- All right, let's hear it for Jonathan.
All right, so.
Our next competitor.
All the way from the gyms of Kanto.
Make some noise
for Mr. Billy Davis.
(crowd cheering)
As Trainer Red.
- I took a public speaking class in college.
And I don't know how I passed it.
I'm not good at dealing with crowds.
Really anything over like 10 people I just freeze.
(Pokemon theme song plays)
- [Jerry] Come on, let him know you like him.
(crowd cheering)
All right, thank you Billy.
All right as Billy Davis as Trainer Red.
So while the panelists tally up scores,
I'm gonna bring both of them back out here up on stage.
(crowd cheering) Jonathan, Billy.
Yeah, let 'em here it.
(crowd cheering)
Okay so we have our lovely trophy to present.
So results of the first, what we hope will be annual,
Muscle Nerd Showdown
our winner is...
- Jonathan went a little bit easier
with the selection of his cosplay.
He didn't really portray He-Man
as well as I think he could have,
considering he did drop the sword
right in the beginning of his routine
and then went straight into bodybuilding poses.
- For a person that's really into Pokemon
they would recognize that he was really trying to channel
the Pokemon character.
And you know I have a nine year old boy.
I think he would have really been excited
by his presentation.
- Our winner is
Mr. Jonathan Caroll as He-Man.
(crowd cheering)
♪ Never surrender ♪
(rock music playing)
♪ You were born a fighter ♪
- Looks like me with my shirt open,
but gold.
- Good job guys.
- Thanks again, I appreciate it.
Adrenaline hangover.
- Great job everybody.
- The nerves are starting to settle down.
I don't think I blundered anything.
It was a close match.
Billy came so far.
- I thought it was actually amazing.
I learned a lot of stuff that I hadn't even thought about.
I loved hearing about their stories
and how they got into it.
Hearing about how, ways that I can improve myself.
- They had amazing insight
and were very generous with their information.
It was wonderful.
- We're very happy with it,
the audience seems to be happy with it, so.
- [Jerry] The event went far better than we were expecting.
I'm feeling more and more confidence
that fitness does have it's place within the nerd culture
and that it can be accepted.
- Losing Mom was really hard.
During the whole process,
that took a lot out.
But overall it was really fun.
It was probably the funnest thing I've ever done in my life.
My girlfriend just moved into a new house.
We bought a new house in Kennesaw.
I'm also training for my first official
bodybuilding competition here in about nine months.
I'm doing it.
- Since I won the Muscle Nerd Showdown at Dragon Con
I actually got to be in a movie.
I would love to be Mr. Olympia.
It's called Bigger.
It's the story of Joe Weider and his creation
of the Olympia bodybuilding contest.
But I'd be lying if I said
it wasn't one of the most difficult periods of my life.
After filming Bigger
I was grocery shopping
I fell to my knees and was very weak.
I looked at my Apple Watch heart rate monitor
and it said that my heart rate was 187.
After the heart attack I moved to Savannah, Georgia.
And I started building a new life.
I'm gonna be okay.
Thanks guys.
- I wanna know when I can go
to the Academy Awards with you guys.
Yeah we've gotta go to the Academy Awards
for best picture.
It's gotta be better than La La Land.
Have you seen La La Land?
- La La Land didn't win.
- Well I know but
they won all kinds of other things for no reason.
- [Cameraman] I liked La La Land.
- You did?
- [Cameraman] Yeah.
- You did?
(laughing)
It ended dumb.
(upbeat music)
♪ I know it's not how we imagined ♪
♪ Dreaming always has a ♪
♪ Way of getting out of hand ♪
♪ But I know ♪
♪ If we hang tight together ♪
♪ It's only getting better ♪
♪ Better than we ever planned ♪
♪ Look around us ♪
♪ Everything we built ♪
♪ I don't doubt us ♪
♪ Yeah I know we will ♪
♪ Get around it ♪
♪ 'Cause we got the feels for real ♪
♪ I know we will ♪
♪ Stay young ♪
♪ We gonna ♪
♪ Stay young ♪
♪ We gonna ♪
♪ Stay young ♪
- Would I consider having Jerry and this event back?