Unpaid And Underrated - 001 : Unpaid And Underrated : First Blood Part II

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

This week we get to know another CRU memeber, Big Chris. Get to know Big Chris this week as well as hear about "The other Podcast's" new drop and the upcomming Lift Hard Live Easy Classic (https://www.massenomics.com/meet). You can find the podcast at UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) or on Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) You can find this week's guest on instagram at @beerbelly_lifts (https://www.instagram.com/beerbelly_lifts/). You can find Big Keith on Instagram at @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) You can find Big Joey on Instagram at @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Chris.

all right everybody welcome back to the second episode of unpaid and underrated it's actually the first official uh episode because we're counting last week as a pilot so we're going to call this unpaid and underrated first bud first blood part two is a call back to last week's has he seen it and uh let's get right into it guys's a callback to last week's Has He Seen It? And let's get right into it, guys. I want to talk about last week's episode. It hit live today, and we've been getting a lot of good feedback from all the crew. So how's everyone feel about last week's episode? I think it went pretty darn good. The feedback I got mostly was, again, in the beginning, we of like we're finding each other and then once we found each other they said like that second half was you know it was like i

think it was uh big chris or or somebody said that like it was an extension of the massnomics podcast which is like i was like i didn't know that's what i wanted this to be but that's what i wanted this to be and that to me made uh made me feel really good actually and i don't know that's what I wanted this to be, but that's what I wanted this to be. And that to me made me feel really good, actually. And I don't know if you noticed the new song that Big Nate worked really hard to get us. So that would have played, if you heard the original unedited version, you wouldn't have heard that.

But now if you've listened to it on a streaming platform, you've heard our new intro song. Yeah, shout out to Big Nate. We literally wouldn't be able to do this without him uh he is the uh backbone of this podcast as far as all our anything that requires technically a guy um and i we uh forgot to introduce ourselves so again briefly i'm uh big keith and my co-host here is my good pal i'm big joey i did forget to introduce myself i'm very sorry yeah my bad it's i'm like my in my job that's like the first thing you're supposed to do and it's always the thing i forget it's pretty ridiculous like i don't matter here let's talk about you uh we did get the new website up yep Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Unpaidinternpodcast.com.

We did change the Instagram to better reflect the name of the podcast. So that is now at unpaid.and.underrated. And it's a steadily growing Instagram. I'm moderating it and I'm kind of jealous at how much faster it's growing than my personal one did um you know big tyler effenstone oh nice followed that one today that's good stuff oh yeah sorry this is the only podcast um we have some guests watching i was unaware oh nice oh yeah i i have the uh i have people i have the non viewers blocked, the non video guys blocked. So I actually missed that. One of the hosts joined us in the video there. So that's kind of that is pretty nifty. I got I got a little notepad of some I have a little cheat sheet this week to kind of work through. That's one of the things as far as feedback for last week's episode. I thought everyone did great. I personally walked away after listening to it going like, OK, there's like three things I want to work on. I want to talk a little bit slower. There's some some some inside jokes I don't want to let slip kind of towards till the end. But I think just talking a little more clear and slower and as as as hosts not talking over each other.

One thing I did find weird listening back is there were a couple of times where I thought I made a joke, but someone else made it like two seconds before me. And I just didn't hear him because I was talking. So I feel that going forward, we're probably all going to have a little bit better pacing of not talking to each other. So I think we kind of worked through those kinks in the first episode. And we'll see how we improve weekly. And you guys can go to Spotify and Apple and all those places where podcasts are found and let us know if we're improving or if we suck or, you know, I feel that we're on the road to 69 reviews. So we'll see how long it takes us to get there. That's a very good point. Cause my wife actually did point out, she said that, um, that I was talking over you a little bit as well. And I said, well,

I was just trying to make it like casual conversation. Everybody's laughing, but it is a good thing that I'm also watching out for that and like tagging each other in right like that feels really i want to do more of that like that feels more intuitive uh so i think last week amazing that was the pilot episode we're at zero zero one today and uh let's keep going until this loses value and humor which can't happen my goal is to hit at least 702 episodes because i think they're on 701 so every week my goal will be to one up uh the the other podcast so you know if we make it to a thousand that's great let's do two a week yeah i mean we could we could uh just split it up and do half episodes, just two 30 minutes. That'd be so much more work for Nate. He would hate us so much.

He'd be like, you sons of guns. Ain't nobody got time for that. Jumping right into it. Bag or bag? What are you saying? The fact that bag is even considered to be used for the word bag, it's so baffling. Like, it's a bag. It's a baffling?

Yeah. Be a bag. There is no... Actually, it was funny. And then the other Discord, I actually, I just wasn't thinking. And I was like, beg is not a word. And then I was like, wait, well, clearly beg is a word, but not in referencing bags. So bag, B-A-G withg with a sound not an e sound and it's it blows my mind that anyone could say it differently

i just don't get it but that's what's crazy about different regions i enjoy that i'm driving and i'm listening to the podcast and i've mentioned this in the other discord i was just going bag do you want a bag with that do you want a bag with that do you want a bag with that do you want to do it like it's a bag of chips is it a bag of chips and i like i'm doing that that was like you know you all did that all of you listening but uh yeah i'm going with uh i i don't i don't know what i say because like as a canadian i might bag bag my bag with bag like it might flow sometimes if i've had a couple uh couple of cold brew skis i turn into a little bit of an east

coaster which has been commented on by several people in my life and then you know who knows what i'm saying at that point so um so i've had some i've had some friends tell me that it's like oh i'm originally from west virginia but i've lived in upstate new york for the last jesus 12 years or so uh when i'm drinking my southern dialect really comes out so like there's some podcasts where i sound like i'm just you know literally still from west virginia and there's you know like i i've been trying to cut back on you know if i if i am drinking i'm only drinking like one or two beers just because you're on an hour long podcast and you drink three or four beers, you know, unless you're cool with peeing in the middle of it in a jar or something. It's not the most, you know, it's not the most kosher thing to do nowadays.

So I think we're just going to stick with one can of sparkling water an episode. And that brings us to a topic right now. So I am drinking a Wegmans brand mandarin orange if you guys aren't familiar with wegmans it's a huge grocery chain in the northeast i think it's going all over the place but uh they've got cheap and very good uh sparkling waters and it's probably gonna i'm probably gonna be drinking this for a few weeks in a row honestly what about you jake i have a an aha we went with the peach and honey it is um my wife's favorite so she gets that one um not my favorite but it'll do there you go and aside from what you said i actually do have a

little coolie here i will probably enjoy a beer during this podcast not a bad idea now now i do want to point out this entire time we've been chatting that chris has been quiet so big chris what are you drinking over there i am drinking a lemon lacroix lacroix whatever you want to say lacroix lacroix the most mild of the flavored waters i think i've had and i don't know i'm for for for lacroix being like the the butt of the jokes for all the other podcasts, I just think LaCroix sucks. I think it's the worst sparkling water I've had. I believe it's essenced. That's what I like.

They drove by the water plant with the ingredients, and that's where the flavor comes from. Gotcha. But it's also the most expensive. Oh, yeah. That's why i still think tyler said it best when he said uh it was just delivered in a truck that had lemons next to it yeah that's that's a good one so i do want to talk about july 22nd absolutely i live hard live easy

massonomics should have been the jessica but like we'll we'll handle that at some other time i'll maybe i'll get a shirt that says welcome to the jessica and i'll just wear it myself uh i'm now i'm not actually lifting at that as a canadian i didn't want to join another federation for one lift one lifting meet but i do plan on attending and i do plan on partying with everybody and having fun like we did at the arnold uh how are you guys preparing for that i am i'm like 11 weeks out basically my coach and i we uh talked a couple weeks ago uh got our meat prep kind of like what my plan is um i'm not really looking to hit a big like i don't have a big total regardless

i'm like i'm like a you know on a good, I'm hitting like mid 1100s on my total. But this meet, like, I don't, I'm not going to hit it. I doubt I'm gonna hit a PR on squat. I doubt I'm going to hit a PR on lift. Bench is the only one I'm really, really going to push for because with the amount of travel we're all going to be doing, I think bench is going to be the easiest thing to be recovered from for the meet. So if I can chip my current bench PR, I'll be ecstatic and just have a blast with my buddies. I'm, I'm so excited. So big Dave posted the roster this morning. So, I mean, it's, it's been out a couple of times, but now it's under the XPC banner.

So they're trying to, you know, push everything under the, on that Instagram page now. So seeing all the posts again and just kind of exciting to see, like, I, I know at least have at minimum i personally i've had conversations you know either dms or in person with like a third of the people on the roster probably so that's that's awesome like that's the fact that we're driving like you're flying 20 states away and we're going to do a meet with like 30 ish people that you kind of know somewhat like that's that's amazing and then another like like you and steve like there's another i don't know half dozen to a dozen guys that aren't competing that are still going to be there helping out, having fun.

And I'm assuming you're going to have some fun at Massanomics Gym either Thursday, Friday, like trying to, you know, maybe not PR or anything, but I'm sure you're going to be like, I can't be in Massanomics and not like, you know, do something fun, something heavy. I do want to jump into those. So I've never had an Atlas Stone. I've never held an atlas stone i've never even tried and i i do believe that the massonomics gym has some because i see a big megan lifting them on her instagram i do i am a little interested in that um but i do want to point out of as you were talking about how some of us are attending but not lifting would we be the la croix of of the lift hard live easy like are we the essence flavors of the the essence crew just kind of there yeah just kind of there like we drove by in a truck that was uh with the crew lifters how about you big chris uh i was actually curious if you joey were uh going to go go to participate or not i know you had said that you might but then kind of couldn't i wasn't sure if you had jumped on when somebody backed out or not or what was going on um i i did get uh some encouragement uh even from one of the hosts

but as it stands at the moment i have a i have a meet in two weeks and last month i got really sick and i've lost 25 pounds off of each lift. A month ago, I did 450 for two. Today, I did 425 and felt like maybe I could do another. My bench went from probably pushing 200 down to maybe pushing 180. And it is what it is. And I said to somebody today, like, the point of strength is to just do what you can. It's not how much you lift as long as you lift how much you can. So at my meet, I was hoping for a 500 pound deadlift. I'm not going to get there. I'll be lucky to, I wanted to do double my body weight,

which would have triple my body weight, which would have been close to 480 or 490, depending on what I weigh in. I'll be lucky to get there. Like my third attempt will be that, and I'm probably going to fail it. So knowing that and knowing all of my squat injuries, I don't want to, like I said, join a federation that'll never lift in again, fly or drive for 24 hours with no prep, just to,

to fail some lifts in front of some friends. So I think that that's kind of, I was talking to a potential vendor about representing them but they are kind of wishy-washy at the moment so i might just be there to to cheer load and i don't know maybe i'll bartend i'm gonna be there it's in some capacity cheering everybody on. We're all there. That's all that matters. But I was curious about that. Thank you. I started off the end of last year,

I stopped following a program called Power Build by Colin Whitney and jumped on Juggernaut because I was actually able to program in the date of the meet, which helped out a ton. But I've had some off days, and I wanted to go in and hopefully hit 1500 before i hit the age of 40 which is the christmas of this year uh and i just don't um the way that squats feel are awful right now um two weeks ago i deadlifted and hit 560 per triple and then last weekend i couldn't budge 560 off the floor dead deadlifts suck like that man like i i have my deadlifts like 100 pounds less than that but it's the only lift that i can uh i'll i'll literally miss a warm-up at like 90 get pissed

off smack myself pinch my legs and come back and fucking like hit 98 for a double or something like 10 minutes later whereas bench and squat good fucking luck doing either of those like that sorry to cut you off i just had to get in that's one of my one of my irritations with deadlift is just how crazy it can go up and down and fluctuate like that very very humbling sport i'll tell you that my squat did the same thing i was supposed to be able because in all fairness what i was aiming for and if i if you'd asked me a month ago i probably would have broken a thousand pound total. But I chose not to do squats at this meet.

And then I got sick. And now because like if I was able to do, let's say, 750 between bench and dead, which at the time, maybe. Right. Yeah. Or even 650. Let's say 650 is actually more realistic all i had to do was do a 350 squat which okay do one 350 squat i break i get to a thousand but then like between the injuries today i was even doing lunges and my my right leg just like nope and because of that mcl injury right so i So I've just, it's what it is. It is what it is.

I mean, it's just unfortunate. Yep. Now, go ahead. Have you, did you guys see all the awards that have been circulating on the gram and the, the, the, the potential trophies and whatnot that they've gotten the works? They're pretty nifty looking. I did see them. They do look good. The sword awards? They're so they're not swords. It swords it's it's more it's like a medallion

but it's got like massonomics lift hard live easy okay i don't have it in front of me but it's they look cool they're not just your typical like like most uh medals that you'll get at like your usap l uspa those uh it's basically branded with the federation more than anything else these are very massonomics uh you know lift hard lift easy kind of you know right in your face so hopefully hopefully everyone's in enough of their subcategories and masters and submasters to where at least most of us can walk away with some kind of trophy are they made from aluminum grade airport grade uh airport airport grade metal airplane grade like was it 50 caliber

what what whatnot airport grade it sets off every alarm speaking of that um they had that big drop last week speaking of the other podcast um they had that big drop last week and i hope everybody was able to pick something up that wanted to pick something up. But most importantly, I want to just mention, if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably already a supporting member. But if you're not, and you've been thinking about it, just remember to head over to massnomics.com slash join and jump in. And we've got multiple levels that you can join in, and you can become a member of the

Discord crew. And the Discord crew, I will, you know, let's do our quick advertisement for the discord crew supporting our supporting members. We'll call it supporting members, supporting other supporting members. I was saying to my wife, my wife, you can't do that now. I said, I feel like I never say it right. Like I I'm probably the only guy in the chat that hasn't seen border at, but I was like, I think I've seen the clip in like memes or like,

you know, like stories, but I can't, I can't bring myself't seen Border at, but I think I've seen the clip in memes or stories, but I can't bring myself to watch that movie. So I don't have a really good fallback. How the hell am I supposed to say it? So I'm just using Tanner's bad interpretation of it as what I'm gauging it off of. So you're a meme. You're actually memetic.

You're doing a copy of a copy. Yeah. That's fantastic. So you say Arnold Schwarzenegger, right? No, that was terrible. That sounded more like Grover. My housekeeper. But you can join.

And I was saying today that one of my favorite things about that Discord, because I'm in one or two other Discords that are not as active, is that it's mostly just except for one thread. It's mostly just everybody trying to make each other laugh. And I always compare that to, speaking of last week's episode, to Friends versus a show like Letter Kenny. Friends isn't funny. Friends is a series of one-liners with no setup, no punchline. It's repeated jokes.

It is my least favorite TV show ever. Whereas Letterkenny is people making each other laugh. You can tell that those characters are being funny for each other, not for the camera. And that's what I love about our Discord is it is today when I was just ripping on cottage cheese because it's the worst thing in the world and big jeff goes how much how much protein are you absorbing when

you vomit it up three seconds later like i laughed out loud that was so funny to me and that's again what i love about being a part of this discord so if if you want to be part of the Discord, massnomics.com slash join. If you're not already in there, if you are in there, or you get in there, there's probably a chance you might be called on to be on the Discord. Right now, we're going to be cycling through

some of the people that have helped build this podcast. On the podcast, not the Discord. On this podcast, yes. Podcast, Discord. Right now, we're cycling through a couple people who have helped build this podcast but then we will be reaching out to some of the members including the chocolate chips and everybody to try and get them on this podcast to uh hopefully not talk as much as big chris is not

talking right now so let's fix that yeah let's uh talk over everybody so well this is the now we're entering the Chris Dama Denga Linger 20 minute half hour segment of the podcast so first off buddy what the fuck is your name I'm Big Chris Daminger it is

Daminger Daminger is more of a J I've always said Daminger so I'm is more of a J. I've always said, I've always said Daminger. So I'm glad to know that I was close. It is close. So the funny story about that is if somebody would call the house when I was younger, that's how you knew it was a telemarketer because they never got the last

name, right? You've seen my last name. Yes. Remember the first time Tommy, one of the hosts almost had me. One of the hosts tried to say my name and he just went nope too many consonants so i hear you i feel you on that one but yes it is damager it kind of just

flows it's as i described it to one of the hosts it's a soft j soft j nice not as much in the in inger you're the minger and and why we're on the topic of your name uh i i don't think any of us follow your wife but you're always reposting what she posts uh she literally calls you damager in everything you post like this has your wife ever called you chris has your wife called you chris more than 20 times in your life uh chris comes out if i've messed up okay so when i so so if you're having a good day you don't hear your name at home yes yes that's that's very interesting that's uh you don't get that a whole lot like where you're you know you snippet other just now is it do your friends call you damage or two is like is that where it came from or is she just like my entire life that has has never been chris it's always just been my last name

that's it so everybody and it's ironic that now is it just the massonomics crowd and the discord the fact that like we've only ever seen it as a screen name that we don't know how to that no one that it's such a struggle uh pronunciation or has your friend, like, has your whole, have you been explaining people how to say your name your entire life, I guess? The long way to say a very short question. For the most part, it's been, I'd say about 80% of people get it.

And then every once in a while, I have to be like, like I did an RPS meet and I was like, you got to say Daminger. It's not Demingeringer it's not at all that's funny well i'd say moving on from your name uh what do you what are you wearing tonight buddy i can i can see it because we're on a zoom chat and i know what it is but tell the audience uh what's your wear and how you got that i uh i'd have my frankenstein bench heavy shirt on that I won for doing the Mathenomics meme contest and

kind of being Swimhack from Wish. That was great. I'm happy that won. I'm happy you won that. I'm excited for the next thing we have going on.

I don't know what it is yet, but I'm excited. I think any of us do. I think if anybody knows, it's the mole. One of the moles. One of the moles, yeah. There's multiple moles because

everyone has a little bit too much insight, information. Well, with us being hosts of an affiliate podcast, we're probably going to start getting named as moles. Possibly. Also, here's a good benefit that came out of last week's podcast that proves to me that one of the hosts of the other podcast actually listens to our episode. Do you remember last week? I think it was towards the tail end. I asked about the Chad Leslie Smith visit to Aberdeen.

And if there was any content from that, and I was like, Hey, Tanner, if you have that, send it over. And like, you know, this morning opened up my DM from Tanner from one of the hosts. And there it was, there was the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the juggernaut recap of their, you know, hanging out at Aberdeen. So I'll have to watch that this weekend, but basically that that's one of the benefits of being on the podcast is uh other people that do podcasts will listen to you sometimes now where was that was it on juggernauts yeah yeah oh i i i saw when i was very busy at work and i was just like oh that's cool i got a

dm from you know so and so and i was like oh, let me, I'll circle back to that when I have a little bit of time. But yeah, it was definitely, it was a juggernaut specific video. And speaking of YouTube videos, we'll get into another little ad right here briefly. So if you've noticed, Mastinomics has been really picking up their YouTube content, not just posting their podcast weekly. So I'm sure everyone's, you know, if you follow along, you've been enjoying it. They're, they're pretty, they're, they're quick and digestible i know a lot of people have a you know for that very short attention span and can't do anything more than like an eight minute video so i think for the most part other than a couple of their longer blogs they've all been you know five six minutes so make sure to follow along at uh the massonomics youtube page and uh check out the

instagram and all that good stuff and uh you know if you're short of any t-shirts, go check out the last drop. Which actually the, the, how to use a bench block one was probably my favorite so far. That one almost annoyed me, but solely because like, I'm such a, I love bench block. Like I use my bench block like weekly. I feel that it's added pounds to my bench press and i actually met the guy that built the bench ball that like owns the company that built the product i met up at home gym con last month uh so like coming off of that being like i literally

like shook this guy's hand and hung out with him for a few minutes and then like the realizing that the entire video was a gag and i was like ah damn it you reeled me in and i was like i was hooked and then it was just like you're really just gonna call it a god dang uh a phone holder first five minutes and then just say bye i was like it was it was it was peak mass economics i mean it's what i expected from them but it was just like that was like the one time where i just wanted them to actually give us a little bit of uh you know sets and reps basically and they kind of pulled the rug out from under me but it was it was it was hysterical but it was just like oh damn it they got me like i would have been disappointed if they did do something serious it's funny because i was working outdoor in that one and i just had it on the

background and they're they're going to go and they go and i'm like all right they're just talking about you know board press and bench blocks and then i start hearing them talking about how to set up phones and stuff and i am dying laughing trying to get through my steps nice so you you you regularly can uh like listen to you you can consume media not music while working out because i cannot do that with the exception of cardio it depends on like when i started it so if there's only like 15 minutes of the podcast left, I'll go down and start warming up and I'll just throw it on as I'm warming up. And then once it stops, even if I'm in the middle of a set,

I'll just stop. I'll climb out and change it to music or something like that. I can't do what Big Jen was doing with Small Town Murder. Yeah. I don't know how she lifts. It's just that big wide open garage with like, it seems like it has no acoustics and all you hear is the podcast and I'm just like she's doing like max effort rpe 10 squats just listening

to a podcast like I can't do that man because like especially like if you're really listening to it and like you're in the bottom of the hole and someone says something hysterical like how are you not busting a gut laughing while you have like a big weight on your back like i almost would be afraid to do that just to not be in the zone

yeah i i mean it's mostly 90 music and now i love it because i'm not in a gym so i'm not tied down to just putting in headphones in all the time i can put on just put on bluetooth speaker and go to town nice so you've uh you've volume or anything so you've transitioned mostly to the home gym i think when i first started following you a couple years ago you were you had just started the home gym maybe but you were still commercial gym most of the time and i'm trying to think back when the last time i saw you at a commercial gym was it was uh i'll say it was it's probably been about four months now since I've actually been in a commercial gym I still hit we have a tillis out here and on Saturday mornings I go to a tillis and deadlift because I don't have

a deadlift bar and that is like a mental break for me because that is where everyone I started lifting with goes on Saturday mornings and we go we hang out we laugh we have a good time I deadlift that day some guys just do speed days that day uh it's just a random day for most people but we usually have a good time sometimes we'll go out for breakfast afterwards this ends up being a good day nice i i think we can all appreciate that i mean i know i touched on it last week but like that just resonates with the whole community thing like i'm on this discord because I want to be in a community. I'm doing this podcast because I want to grow my circle. I want to be a part of the community.

Like the fact that you're doing that at a gym, like nothing makes me happier than knowing like people that have gym friends and actually go and do stuff with them outside of that, too. Like that's that's like I that's a very enjoyable thing in my life. So I'm glad other people are partaking in that as well. What about you, Joey? I know you have i know you are mostly training in your home gym do you i know you're you have a is it your steve your buddy is the one that lives by you guys do you guys train somewhat regularly together or is that kind of a rare thing we wanted that camaraderie lift yeah we wanted to but our schedule is just like he works and my schedule i i don't have the same days off. So it's really hard to establish that it is ideal. And we have said, like, let's start doing that because I'm a little more disciplined. Plus, I have the juggernaut AI program, which is, you know, a messonomics supporter as well. So I am on that. But like, personally, because I'm on a program, when somebody says, Oh, come work out with me,

like what they really want to do is they want to push their maxes with me. And I don't want to do that. I don't. And that's not Steve. I got to say that's not big Steve. He's never done that to me. He can actually out bench and out squat me. Um, so like, he's never going to push me to hurt myself or do anything outside of my program. But like when my buddies are messaging me and they're saying like, Oh, come work out in my gym. so like, he's never going to push me to hurt myself or do anything outside of my program. But like when my buddies are messaging me and they're saying like, Oh, come work out in my gym. And like, what am I going to do? Like, sorry, I have a program.

And if I come work out with you, you're doing my program or we're not working out together. Like, so no, uh, I don't really do that, but I will say that I don't really have a desire to do that. Uh, you know, you guys talk about what you're listening to in the gym. Uh, sometimes i honestly will just put on viking beats and it'll just be a steady drum for two hours whatever as you now that's when you prepare to go to war right that's when i prepare to go to war with the bar but no it's because that stuff it's just like entrancing it's just in your head it's it's in

your chest it's thumping and it's because i'm there to just do the job i'm not there to to you know freak out and scream but then other days i dance and listen to like techno and stuff like that but no i don't really have a desire to work out with people or work in with people or work out near people or even be around people most of the time i would much prefer to be in the backyard smoking a cigar, staring at the sky, than being in public. I did a job fair yesterday for my job. And can I tell you

that that was the most psychologically and socially exhausting thing I have done in months. Probably since Christmas. Because it was just, oh. It was like on-the-spot interviews doing 30 an hour for four hours at the end of it i just came home and i said to my wife i'm like i need to go bench i need to go hit the bench like leave me alone like i had to do that so not to put you on the spot or anything but do you have any so don't say anything that gets in trouble obviously do you

have any like do you like one good story of like this stupid son of a bitch wanted a job here and this was his resume or this was his appearance or was there anything that just made you go you came to a job fair and this is how you presented yourself or this is the words that you spoke anything like that that you're privy to say but don't do anything it's obviously going to get you in trouble when we can just move on no no um i would actually say that i actually interviewed uh a couple people that in the middle of the interview just telling them what i do ask them how they feel about it do you think you could do that and there was at least two or three people that and then my boss was there to do a second interview right like he was kind of in the back

then if we had like a fish on the line we'd go okay i want you to meet my boss he's and i will say that i found two people that i immediately, it was just like, you're moving to the front of the line of the second interview. And I want to say I hired both of them. And because like, they were, they were top tier. There was a weird story. I don't know how much I want to get into it, but some guy came and started asking about why newcomers to the country aren't able to find work.

And I felt like he was trying to trap me into saying something that I shouldn't say because I was, but I'm not stupid. So I just said, well, I don't know, like a lot of the time in our role as, you know, sales, sometimes a barrier is language or communication. And I can't speak for all of them because I will say all of the people I hire

are newcomers to the country. But I just want to say, like, maybe that's what's stopping them. But I do kind of feel like that dude was trying to trap me into saying something. And then he just left. So he clearly wasn't there for the job fair. He was there to try and, like, cause a ruckus. Again, like, fuck you. You don't even left.

Like, it was that Arnold. Like, it's that Arnold meme. It was like, look at at you you tiny little man uh but no actually it was really successful thank you for asking it was like i said exhausting we did lose somebody from my team that i'm very sad to see go but i am also very excited that my interview skills and my first intuition when meeting people has so far been extremely successful. Nice. I feel like that can't hurt your venture into being a podcast host with me here. Like just this just daily, just being able to talk to people more and more.

And then people you don't know. I mean, I know it's to me, that's I have to talk to people briefly at my job, but it's like I don't have to be very personable with them and it's just you know yes sir no ma'am just kind of i'm here to do a service get it and get in and out of your home as quick as i can i'm not making conversation so like just the small talk that we have to do here it's it's uh i'm getting better at it i feel like uh you know i think each week will progress i i i feel like we've we've almost been talking a little bit too much and we've got to try to refocus back on our crew of the week. Chris here. There's a podcast going on.

Yeah, sorry about that, guys. We know you want to hear about Mr. Damager. He seems pretty – He said that wrong. No, that was right. Damager. It's like Dillinger, but with a dam. Dillon Dam.

Dillon Dam. Dillon Dam. That's the joke I was talking about before recording yeah that was that was top tier fun so chris you the floors if yeah i mean well we can turn through some of these questions but uh like what do you uh you know tell us about anything you want to say you know i hate to put you on the spot but we're kind of uh scrambling here with our questions we didn't we didn't get a whole lot of help from the crew to i've got one i've got one let's not let's not like okay it's not dance monkey big chris dance monkey let's let's ask i know i'm too self-deprecating

so let's let's see how i've got two is this the silly question no that one we're gonna go with uh last i hope because i feel like that's gonna we're gonna be able to spiral off that for a while probably what was your first massonomics purchase oh and why how did you find massonomics uh talking about the gym that i go to on saturday mornings probably about i want to say had to be over a year ago because i was working at the job I'm at now. So, uh, he, one of my buddies that makes shirts here, uh, was like, I'm shocked you don't have these shirts yet. And he showed me mass. As my friend, Brian, good guy makes awesome shirts. Uh, he shows me mass. And I was like, well, now I need one. Now he showed me the lift shirt and a few other shirts just scrolled through.

I'm like, well, now I need one. Now he showed me the Lyft shirt and a few other shirts and scrolled through. I had no idea about the podcast until I actually went and bought the neon Lyft Hard Live Easy, which I no longer have because there was a giant hole in it. There's three holes in it. That's where your arms and head go. Yeah. That's the scant dad joke of the week.

That was the first one I bought and then after that I was hooked like I liked the material they used the shirts they used everything they all came in and then I think I went huge life after that that one's that one's a banger it fits a little different but it is a banger

yeah it's definitely like an extra you know it definitely fits like 1.25 percent of the other ones but then some of the other ones fit like 0.75 i feel like the uh the massonomics metal one like i almost can't wear because the arms are so small and it's like i i get it i know i'm fat but like my wardrobe tells me that every day so like i basically cycle through the same three or four shirts because they're the only ones that fit kind of perfect and there's a couple other ones that like okay it's the exact same shirt for some reason it's just cut like 12 percent smaller or something i just like i don't i'm just way too self-conscious

on it but uh we forgot to mention tonight i'm wearing i am wearing the uh the ouch everything hurts acdc uh parody shirt that is that is my shirt of choice tonight what about you joey what do you got on i see a yellow i have i have the uh don't curl in me i said it was i knew it was gonna be one of those two and it's uh it doesn't fit that well because one thing about joining juggernaut ai remember to use code massonomics and sign up on the website not on the app and save 10 off the lifetime of your membership um I have gotten bigger. So all of my shirts that were small just don't really fit. So I thought this was a good opportunity to wear this because I don't have to worry about anybody in public judging me.

So I'm wearing this one now. But also because of that rascal advertisement where I think that they are particularly calling out Mastanomics yet again, where they said that they tell us not to curl in the squat rack, and then they have a biceps-friendly shirt. And I felt like I really wanted to stick that to them a little bit on this podcast they're never going to listen to. Yeah, Rascal and Omar Assmuffin has kind of been on my shit list ever since the whole George swore.

And, you know, obviously we have to support our team massonomics to anyone that kind of comes after us basically becomes our sworn enemy instantly. So we're either you guys around when, I mean, it's all water under the bridge now. And I, you know, I know some of the guys are rep fitness and that's great, but rep fitness had a little thing where they made a, you can curl in me. It's your squat rec kind of flag. And this was pre-discord i believe so it was just like you know it was just people you knew on instagram and like it was basically i think

it blew up in the uh i mean i think uh one of the hosts posted on the stories kind of calling them out uh because this was right you know obviously it was a it was a blatant ripoff of the don't curl in me flag uh which is a blatant ripoff of the you know the marines flag etc you know so you know everyone's just doing their own thing. But anyway, I just remember that this had to have been like 2019 maybe because it was definitely pre-COVID, I believe. And the Garage Gym Facebook group, a bunch of people posted it in there. We were just basically roasting Rep Fitness. And then within a couple hours, between everyone on Instagram tagging Rep Fitness

and memes making fun of them for copycatting this flag, was like off their website and down. And I'm pretty sure they just threw the stock out or gave it away. And like, that was, that was pre that, that was like the first time I experienced massonomics army and like, was able to play a small part of it. Cause I definitely made five or six memes and was like, like, you know, my buddy's memes that were just supporting massonomics and kind of shitting on rep. But like I said, I got friends from rep fitness, like they're, you know, they're water under the bridge and all that but it was just like really cool to see like massonomics army really like you know take something down it was like it was like an a you know like a million ants like just carrying something like a thousand

times its size away and just destroying it and i was like that's pretty awesome but i was i was uh kind of shocked when uh dan you know chris said he only kind of found us about a year ago. Like, I feel like you've been a presence in the discord for significantly longer than that. So that just goes to show, you know, it's not a, you know, it's not how long you've been here. It's, you know, just how, what kind of impact you've been making. It's not what you know. Yeah, I was trying to play on that, but it just, it didn't, my brain wasn't commuting fast enough how to make that a pun and make it funny. So I'm glad you picked up where I let down. The days are long, but the years are short, right? That honestly is so fucking true. Another day closer to Monday.

Dude, I'm going to be 38 next month, and I'm like freaking out about that. Okay, Big Chris. Yep, yep, yep. Besides Dylan Dam, what is the weirdest way and the funniest way somebody's ever said your last name i would just say well tanner had a really good one because he over enunciated it all well the host we all do it it is what it is yeah we'll get there he was like dominger i'm just dying but usually that's that's how it is like it's just that way no matter what because i get where it comes from but that's how just how people say it and that's usually 90 percent

of the time sometimes people add an extra n in there somewhere what i have no idea where they get that from demininger demininger okay i'll share something with you on that because we both have um last names that are um for some reason difficult uh for my entire elementary school so my last name is mleczko it's a polish last name it's there's a whole history behind it but for some reason through all of elementary and more part of middle school they had mleczko so me being the smart ass that i was one day i went into the principal's office and they were like oh you got this and i looked at it and i was like yeah that's not me and i just pretended like the sorry that's not my last name i don't have to

talk to you any of you or anything about this um so i got fixed pretty quickly to be honest with you de minninger de minninger i like that de minninger it's a it's usually just hell that sounds more evil doesn't it de minninger i mean? That sounds like a bad guy from a 1984 novel. Like Diablo or... I mumble quite a bit, if you can't tell. You're coming through pretty clear, bud. You're doing good. You're doing good.

If I get talking very fast, there's been some people that swear I say V's. And then I'll go back and I'm like, yeah, I can see that. So it would be Davenger. What? I don't hear that. Yeah. There's some times where I've caught myself and I'm like, oh, man, that does. Yeah, I can see where you're coming from with that.

That one sounds a bit less evil. Like that one's more of a librarian. Davenger. What is that beeping? Is that me? I don't hear anything oh cool hopefully the recording didn't just destroy us or die on us but that's fine um okay i have two questions if you don't mind me taking the lead for a few more minutes there okay um so do you guys want um the silly goose question of the week or would you like me to go to the kind

of canadian specific idea that i had um is the i kind of like the idea of this probably the silly goose well i don't okay yeah you're right you're right because the canadian one might the canadian one might fail okay yes we do always talk about the differences between the canadian and the u.s discord crew and you know i'm south of you blah blah blah um so i'm actually wearing some clothing on my you know bottom uh from something that we used to have up here that was called body break so you might be closer to me so from new york you might have heard some of it so body break was two people hal johnson and Joanne McLeod. And they would be during your afterschool or lunchtime schooling. They would just be there to show you some healthy eating tips, show you some quick workout tips. And it

was all keep fit and have fun. So if you ever are on YouTube and you want to see some really great stuff from the eighties and nineties from these two two and they still live in my area um that's worth looking at do you guys have like any of those memories do you remember anything like that from your childhood that you know where these weird little like just almost psas but maybe childhood tv shows that would like remind you to eat more carrots and get healthy? I don't know if I think about that. I watched a ton of TV as a kid, and I'm sure 20 years ago I'd have the perfect immediate answer, but I'm drawn up. Everything.

I'm still not a science guy growing up, but that was all science. I feel like there were some Saved by the Bell episodes where they were like basically don't do drugs and shit like that, but uh that was more like psa kind of thing okay didn't didn't nbc have a bunch of like like not necessarily a commercial but like in between the episodes they would just kind of be like just like a don't do stupid shit as a kid kind of act with them maybe i'm completely misremembering that i don't know we had a robot we had a robot here in canada um who would remove her arm and then she would tell you i can put myself back together you can't stay safe while you're out

there we had some rabbits too that had a weird stay alert stay safe thing so is that like just strictly a canadian thing where you're just reminding your kids to not be dumb or like i mean we had a lot of like amazing i most of our stuff i guess like that would have been all like drug and alcohol related and like don't drink and drive don't do drugs day yeah dare was really big uh um that's as far as just like don't do stupid shit that's not drug and alcohol related or like don't smoke you know i think i grew up when like there was like the war on you know i was a kid in the early 90s so it was like the war on drugs and all that shit so i think that was the biggest thing that i remember now it's now it's all like don't don't vape and don't do all this shit that i don't even like

it's like i don't know anyone that vapes in my life it's like it's like it's just like if it's a fucking pandemic and i don't know anyone that does it it's kind of weird all right well that is not the answer i was expecting so i'm glad i didn't i didn't know i'm glad i didn't go with that one last yeah that would that would have been uh uh before you get to your last one i want to i got one to chime in so uh let's talk uh this is one of the other tabs there but uh chris have you ever met uh either of the hosts of the podcast or if you haven't met of the hosts of the other podcasts? Or if you haven't met them, tell us about the other. I know you've met some crew in person, so fire away on that. The only person that I've met so far is Big Eddie. Okay.

I think it's Big Johnny POV. Yeah, he's the one outside of New York City. The strongman guy. There was two guys at one of the strongman events I did, and they both recognized the hat. They thought I was Jackson Ginger. I was not. So you were not on the HBO TV show recently?

No, they did the beer muscles strongman event that I completely shit the bed on. And I was just miserable that day, but meeting those guys was cool. I can't remember the other guy's name. I know they're both from New York. That's about all I can tell you. I've not met the host.

That's one of the things I'm looking forward to is going to the meet and everything. Obviously, meeting those guys, being able to go all middle-class fancy on everyone. Hope is going to be said a lot that weekend. So you said you had to, you said you have done a strong man. Have you done a powerlifting meet in the past too? Or is this going to be your two powerlifting meets? Nice. Okay.

And two strongman events. So you're in open powerlifting. So you can there you go that's that's good stuff i love it brutal that's the only thing i can say is you'll go in do your basically you'll go into your power lifting and then you'll be like oh you know what let me throw some log press on the end end of this it's, I've never been so beat up in my life than when I was getting ready for Strongman. It looks fun. I just, I don't really have access to any of that stuff. You know, it's, but I don't know. I'm too OCD to the point that like, I like things that stay the same.

Like I like variations in like the 20 lifts that I already do. I don't, it's already over, I already have too much variation almost because I'll, you know, high bar, low bar, Buffalo bar, safety squat bar, neutral grip bar for bench. Like I track all those and like Paul's the versions of it and touch and go versions of it. So to me, adding strong men in where I can't like tell you exactly what this ways or exactly what that ways, it would just, it would drive me crazy

to not be able to like just track things on a spreadsheet perfectly of like exactly what i did i don't know that's just that's just my ocd brain i don't think i would ever mesh with it well i that's why i'm like i know i'm gonna squat i know i'm gonna bench i know i'm gonna deadlift you could go to strongman and they could be like well this implement is not working the way we are so you're gonna lift it this way instead see i maybe it's just me but that sounds fun as hell i remember i was out um at a manager's meeting with a couple of we call it manager's meeting because all the managers from around ontario all of ontario come together we go for dinner and we were at a restaurant and they were walking by and one of

them pushed on this little bench and was like hey that's pretty heavy and i was like bs and i went just picked it up and he goes do you just like look for things that are too heavy to lift up and i'm like yeah you don't and so i think that it would be really fun to to kind of do something like that so i do like i said last week there is a likelihood of me being in Strongman. My wife also likes to joke that when we're driving, and there's like... My wife, and there's like a big pile of rocks in a field. She's always like,

so you're going to pull over and lift those or what? Because, yeah, I bet I can lift that one, and I think that seems kind of fun to me, so maybe that's just me though. He does those trail walks with that guy that they just wander around and pick up stones.

Yeah, that sounds great. That's stuff you can do with your family too. I see your kids are going to watch you picking shit up for that for years and they probably will imitate you. I imagine some of your kids have probably been like, I see a rock, let me be like daddy and try to pick it up. Yeah, can't wait.

That'll be good stuff. My dad went and filled a bunch of uh the blue boxes and stuff with um with compost because the city was giving out free compost and then he's like okay well wait for me we'll get those out of the back of the truck and i was like no and i just started carrying them all out of the back of the truck myself and then the one was like a big v shape and i was like honey it's a josephal stone and i just started like walking around the deck with it i gotta i gotta have you follow up with that you said a blue bin was that a recycling bin a trash bin a canadian thing okay yeah the blue bins are recycling bins yeah no okay that's okay i didn't i yeah i put my blue bin out to the curbs last night i just uh i guess i've never heard a call to blue ben like just in a quick conversation like that i was like is that so anytime i'm having i've been so exposed

to canadian like my canadian friends this last couple years uh you know via the discord and now via this podcast so it's like okay i there's just certain things that i don't you know know that that people talk like that you know like i've been on a couple uh like like will you uh prior to this podcast um starting we've had a whole bunch of different uh in the mass in the massonomics discord there's there's uh the the intern lounge you can just get on there we'd have like seven or eight guys in there one night just on a group audio chat uh and then anytime scans would get on it but you had to like really like he's a really good speaker but it's like just his his i'm not gonna call it a twang but it's just like his what what is what what what are we americans call the canadian dialect i don't know but it was just it's so strong and scans that where yours is much more muted than scans so i don't know if that's

how far away are you guys and like you know distance ish uh i am in the middle of the country okay and he is on the almost furthest east you can get before you get into ocean um but he was in ottawa when we first started talking um but i believe he is an east coaster born and raised and i am just an east coaster at heart who happens to live in the middle and not near any ocean i do find a lot of new canadians who will ask me if i'm from out east i get that sometimes but now i'm now i'm self-conscious and i'm kind of like trying not to do it no it's it's like it's unknown it's not really noticeable uh i'm curious if you were to drink more if it would would be more obvious or less obvious. I'm assuming if you're tipsy, it would probably be a little more Canadian.

It depends on how fast I'm talking. The last time it came out is one of my coworkers who moved from out east to work with me here. And I think I had just said something like, get fucking wrecked, bud. It was just something and she looked at me and she goes see that was kate bretton right there and i was just like yeah it just comes out like it just comes out sometimes turn star flow and more canadian comes out right well actually that was stone sober at work something annoyed me and it's like i forgot to be polite for a minute and just went

into the east coast like like fighter fight or fight response okay um it is time for the silly goose question and i do want both of you to answer this and i want to give a little bit of backstory to how these are going to go every week. This week, I was playing the new Star Wars game, and Morgan turns to me, and she asked me the question. Morgan his wife. My wife. She asked me the question I'm about to ask you guys.

And naturally, my first reaction was to ask her if she just had a stroke. And then I was like, no, that's a really funny question. I'm going to put that into a notes to ask on the next podcast. And now she wants to be a part of that so she can add more questions. But I want to say in her brain, because she had already seen somebody talk about talk about this on her instagram was a completely legitimate question now this is how much i love my wife so i want you guys to tell me if you were gifted two baby praying mantises to adopt and raise what would you name those two baby praying mantises? And why? Use your druthers. And why?

Praying mantis. This is all around a Star Wars game, right? Nope. She saw somebody on her Instagram who had adopted baby praying mantises, named them what they she thought was hilarious names and then asked me what i would name them and i was like what i would never even they're paying mantises i don't need to name them they're not going to come when they call

but that's very true it's out there now like now you gotta think about it like what would you name baby praying mantises come on she called hardly never um man i don't know i uh the only thing i don't even know i haven't even seen a praying mantis in years they're so rare hmm something something i don't know what were the two are the dinosaurs names at land before time so it's the only like the dinosaurs are kind of lizardy ish thing so was it spike and littlefoot i guess i don't know that's where there's two of them like spike the uh spike was the guy with the tail and then uh littlefoot was the the main character yeah so i would go spike and littlefoot solely because that's like the only thing i can think of and i'm not a i'm a huge pet guy but i like i don't consider a i don't know he's a bug a pet like

what do you do with a praying mantis? And the praying mantis, it's got to be two males, right? I mean, is it an old wives' tale? It's a literal thing. The woman will literally fucking eat the head off the guy after it's coined, right? I guess that's a thing. So if it is a male. Yes, they actually are males.

She told me that I had to ask that in particular because females already have a bunch of nicknames because they are like murderous monsters so yes she did want to say they are males so so chris what would you name these two praying mantises that are forced on your lap and you are forced to love and raise them i will go full-on office and go the two most underrated office characters and say Creed and Kevin. There you go. There is things that Creed and Kevin

do in the background of the office that get me every time. So I will go with that. There's my brothers. I really can't go off on it besides the fact that we have prying menaces everywhere down here. Aren't they wonderful? Everywhere.

So I could walk out, I could probably walk out to the woods right now and probably find some. They're rare around here, but, you know, before once COVID hit and everybody kind of just stopped destroying the ecology for a little bit, they did start coming back out here yeah so did the

fireflies um i think that my dad said he hadn't seen fireflies in a decade and we got fireflies out here again so he tried to or i tried to uncover the grill one day and then i looked down and there is maybe five or six little tiny baby uh praying mantises crawling all over it yeah just scoop them all up and move them because i can't kill them no that's not the cover off because somewhere they're in there they were all living they eat the things that i don't like like i'll keep them around all day so that is our silly goose question of the week and i want to assure you they are going to continue in this weird just superfluous non-sequitur kind of silly things that i hope i get the same reactions of just utter confusion yet somehow you got to answer i wish i could write more on the answer but that's a tough question yeah it's so random

uh and i feel like nothing i didn't have anything that triggered me tonight yet hopefully we can uh i know we might be towards the end here but maybe we can find one thing that'll trigger me because i know that was uh that was always a good segment we've enjoyed but i'll get back to one thing i'll call back to uh what you were saying a second ago did again so you said uh fireflies do you is the lightning bug interchangeable with fireflies with your head or is that a, okay.

Okay. Cause I was like, I always like to like, you know, it's cool to see like what is regional to some, like a whipping a shitty is something I've never fucking heard anyone use in my life until podcast. So like,

that's so it's a, it's a donut. Like I had, I had never heard whipping a shitty until the one day I'm driving down a country road and there are two young ladies selling girl guide cookies and I happen to have cash I never have cash I looked at my wife and I was like we're turning around and going to buy those those cookies because those kids were just so cute and I was like well I'm actually going the other way and the mother actually went oh just turn in the driveway and whip a shitty and if she had said that to me before i got into massonomics

i'd have been like do a what but yeah so that's that's it uh massonomics has expanded my vocabulary lightning bug is interchangeable with firefly but because of bray wyatt everything is fireflies now is it Lightning Bug? is it Lightning Bag? or Lightning Beg? Lightning Boog you put the umlaut over the U nice

do you want to jump into overrated, underrated with Chris? yeah I think we got yeah we can okay Chris we can probably have this be one of the last segments here. So these were some, actually, no, we had a question I think we missed earlier that one of our, one of our loyal listeners had asked, Chris, what is your favorite meat to smoke? Like, you know, implying that you smoke meat kind of manner. And you know what I mean?

So that was how it was posed. But you're a big barbecue and grill guy, it looks like. This one I can elaborate on. Yeah, let's have it. As much as I love a brisket and I love ribs, but smoking a brisket is just a pain in the ass. ribs but smoking a brisket is just a pain in the ass like just the fact that you can you got to throw it on for two to three hours at a certain temperature then you take it off you got to wrap it put more shit in there with it then you got to put it back on it sits on there for four to six hours and then it may stall and it's just a it's a pain that sounds horrible uh but chicken turns out phenomenal full chickens on there turn

out great uh chicken thighs are awesome on there uh pork butts are always amazing but i'll go chicken and pork have to be just because it's it's super simple it's kind of just season them toss it in there and you're done yeah What was that? I think you cut out, right? Did you say chicken and pork or was it just chicken? Chicken and pork. Yeah, absolutely. I'm still not hearing it. Chicken and pork. Chicken and pork are his two favorites. Okay. Well, well it's, you, you have your druthers to an extent,

but it's, it's one. So chicken or pork, shit or get off the pot, chicken or pork. We'll go chicken because it's because it's a lot easier. They come out perfect. It seems as though no matter how long they stay on there, they're just so good. Do you basically debone it or do you just eat it like

a rotisserie chicken kind of thing? I've never had a smoked chicken, I guess, if you will. You can spatch them so you can cut the spine out and crack them open. Or you can do whole chicken, just throw the whole chicken on there. And you just tie the legs back and kind of just throw it on there. And it's usually about three hours and they're done and you're good to go. Nice.

So good. Okay. The more I look at the thing, the more I see. There's like five questions we missed. But another one here. What about your favorite beer? We had some, I think there was an Anheuser-Verse, Coors, Miller kind of stuff. I don't know if that was more of a gag or like what it would tell us.

I know who asked that. I should have never seen these because I know who asked that. I know. In the future, we'll probably, I'm sure the crew of the week probably won't be as much as in the know. So this will be a lot more like spontaneous rather than this is kind of our friend Chris has kind of had access to all our show notes just because he's been a very integral part of putting all this together and helping us in anything we need. He's been there to help us out and has been a bit along for the journey. So this is we're doing our best. so this is uh we're doing our best all right so if we're going uh anheuser-busch miller cores i will drink high life any day of the week oh wow i cannot do i can't do anything by anheuser-busch they brew with rice and it gives me incredible hangovers okay that's how i feel about budweiser

like i haven't i haven't drank budweiser since i was right like 16 or 17 but uh budweiser is brewed with rice yeah but like well i but i grew up drawing i drank bush light probably until i you know i drank bush light probably five or six years as a youth and then uh i think i switched over to miller and then all i'll touch you can touch anymore nowadays is mick ultra i know everyone calls it you know just basically water but that's that's my i don't know man i just i can drink three or four mAulters and like seldom get a hangover. So. Yeah. I can do Coors Light, but Miller, Miller High Life is always my go-to. Always my go-to growing up. It was cheap and it was good. But as far as craft beers go,

I know Big Matt loves other half and things from New York. Me and him talk beer quite often. And there's a... I keep meaning to send it down to him. There's a little brewery right around here. They're called Tonewood. And they have an IPA called Fuego.

And it is a very solid, not too hoppy, kind of... It does ride the line, middle of the road nice and ipa it's very good very good that's what you want out of an ipa i i don't like those i do kind of like them sometimes but i have to be in the mood for them those ones that i i my wife says they taste like um a grapefruit farted on your tongue yeah and she says that some of the ipas can get that way because they're just so

hoppy. So yeah. Interesting note. I wanted to point out and I've kind of was zoning out for just a moment. They're trying to remember what year it was, but I'll never remember it. So we're going to forget. I brought it up when FIFA, I believe was in Germany, the world cup or something like that.

And Budweiser was a sponsor. They actually got really mad at that because the Germanic laws of beer, you're only allowed to have four ingredients. But because Budweiser uses rice, they got really upset about it. I don't know if it was the Germans or somebody else, but that's actually how I know that there's rice in. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know what it is about there. And it has to be the rice because it's the only thing that's different, but man, it kills me the next day.

So you're not a fan of rice and chicken, Chris? Oddly enough, I love rice. Too many burritos, I'm hungover. Okay, I do think that might wrap up all our questions, and I know Big Joy had mentioned Overrated on Grader, so if he wants to start us off in that, and we can see what Chris has to say on some of these topics that were

handpicked for him. Okay, yeah, these are supposed to be a surprise so going forward don't look at our notes so overrated underrated uh overrated underrated sushi can i say oh you guys did your homework yes yes and do you need to explain the rules about you know you can answer the question as long as you don't ride the line you'll have your brother yes please i'm assuming everybody knows so um overrated underrated is a series of topics that are handpicked for big chris damager uh they

are uh asked of you and you have to choose either overrated or underrated you have your druthers but you cannot ride the line you do have to ride only one horse with one ass this cannot be a chicken pork situation you have to fucking answer big jen's gonna yell at you do you want you want the discord crew mom to yell at you again if if it's that big of a deal we can have nate spend another 12 hours next week bleeping us out but i don't know am i the only one every beep will be a honk am i the only one that's not the f-bomb so i think i mentioned it last week it's it's not my fault like i'm listening i i'm listening to the older episodes like that like i highly recommend it some i get that you're super you know you you're with your commute you can barely get the new episodes in but at some point consume just just just pick one randomly

because that'll be funnier because you were like it'll be so obscure uh just but i'm listening to the early episodes of the massonomics podcast and they were like it was it was a free-for-all like when tyler was still there like the the two main hosts that are still on the podcast you know the tall guys with the long hair and the beards like it was a they were saying fuck left and right and like i don't remember the last time i heard either drop an f-bomb on the episode so it's just it's that's in my mind because i'm listening to both podcasts simultaneously so to me it's like oh this is still like normal because this is the i listen to the podcast today and everyone's cursing so i don't know do apologize if my swearing offends anyone, but I really don't.

Overrated, underrated. Sushi. This kind of rolls back into the beer thing, whereas I don't like beer brewed with rice, but I love rice and I love sushi. It is underrated. Nice. It's underrated. I don't order it often, but when do on myself i will spend 60 on sushi

wow no this was brought out any place this was brought up for you being of course swim hack from wish famous meme what is your favorite sushi? I'll go... I like the crazy ones, but if I have to pick one, a volcano roll is always good, but everywhere makes a difference, so you can't just say that. And then

I will say a spicy salmon hand roll is by far... Is that the ones wrapped in the nori? Yeah. I hate those. I absolutely hate those. I'm a dragon roll man myself.

Yeah, dragon rolls are good. Yeah. Spicy salmon's up there for me for sure. Okay. Overrated or underrated? The boss, Bruce Springsteen I will probably be the only person from New Jersey to say this

but he is overrated first how dare you second who do you think you are tell me he's got a few songs that I like I do like the ghost of Tom Jones he's got songs that I do really like but he like the ghost of tom jode he's got songs that i do really like but he is overrated i don't want to go hear that he just mumbles i don't i don't want

to go listen to that i really don't but so does bob dylan and people like him okay so underrated all right overrated it's like it's it's got to be the region too because i hear it so much that i'm just like god just just kill me already i i actually had the pleasure of seeing him live okay when i was young um not that i'm like a super fan of bruce springsteen's i think i could name three songs so i don't think it is a regional thing he's he's big everywhere just not in your household not in my household i feel like he hasn't been like when's the last time he's had a new single like 1980 like i'm just on my off base on that like like does he peak in the early 90s and he blew the last song that i think blew up for him was probably streets of philadelphia with the philadelphia the tom hanks movie because that song that song skyrocketed yeah

then he had another one called devils and dust that actually i heard randomly so it must have been pretty good but i think that was early 2000s yeah because early early 90s is 30 years ago as sad as that is like that's like i don't feel again how dare you who do you think you are it was not um yeah okay so overrated bruce bingstein check overrated or underrated i have no clue what this one's about this one's for the discord crew i know i'm assuming this is something you know the philly sports fan all right so. So this is a difficult one. I'm not a Eagles fan. I'm not a Eagles fan. I'm not a Flyers fan.

Not a Sixers fan. But I do like the Phillies. So I can kind of play both sides on this because some of them are assholes. Most of them are assholes. They make it extremely difficult to leg another team and go to their stadium to watch another team play, especially if it's Dallas or the Giants. Anybody that's in their division in football, you might as well just wear an Eagles jersey because they

will never let you go. If we're going overrated or underrated, I'm going to say underrated. Because they are a fan base that will 100% always love their team. And if the team is playing shitty, they will let them know. Because they will stay there until the very end. They don't leave. And then when you're walking off the field, they are booing you. They're letting you know how bad you are are they are just they're totally never breathe when it comes to philly sports

okay spilly for philly sports fan underrated i had assumed that that was some sort of mascot so we will show that i have no clue what's going on in some of these i he was still when he mentioned the Phillies, he was talking about a baseball team, I believe. When you said Phillies, I think Joey's eyes kind of like, I don't know what he's talking about. I know the Eagles. I know, that's it.

He named like the big four sports teams in Philadelphia basically. Are you closer to Philly than you would be like the New York teams then? Yeah. I could be in Philly in like 15 minutes. Oh Jesus. That's crazy.

You're close to Big Frank. Where's Big Frank at? Jersey. I'm in New Jersey. Oh, sounds like a crew meetup on its way. Oh, you're talking Frank, right? Yeah. He's New Jersey. Oh, sounds like a crew meetup on its way. Oh, you're talking with the Eagle Frank, right? Yeah. He's North Jersey.

He's way up there. He's like Ramapo area. So he's literally like right outside New York. Okay. It just doesn't go through Carroll Stream. So I have no clue which direction it's from. Him and I can argue with pork roll and things like that all day. And then whether or not there's a central Jersey or not.

My, I have one experience in New Jersey. It's when I was on my hunt to finish my York brownhead collection that one of the hosts is actually on right now. So good luck to him. But I had, I was working out in Albany and there was some dumbbells for sale, like in Jersey. And I was i was like well you know i got a company truck might as well it's only like a six hour drive or whatever it was i didn't realize like i like literally drove basically past and through new york city to get to jersey and i'm like and i'm getting so much trouble i'm going through like like a hundred dollars worth of

tolls and a company truck using like a hundred dollars with the company gas and uh yeah i saw new york city from a distance and i saw new jersey uh that was my one experience in your state buddy so you probably came right down turnpike yeah it was uh it was the traffic was ridiculous there is weird areas up in the the northern part of new jersey where if you take a wrong turn somehow you cross the border and you're in new york but you're not in new york city you're in like the the rural parts of new y York that are on the outskirts of the city. It's it's so weird up there. I think it was my first experience with like the highways were like five lanes wide.

And then like there were two lanes all the way to the left that were like solely if you weren't getting on or off. And then like that in the first time they had incorporated easy passes that didn't actually have tolls. Like everything in New York now, there's no tolls for the easy pass. But like this was like five, six years ago. So like I was so confused, like driving through a toll at like 60 miles an hour. Am I going to like, is this going to work? We just actually got hit with the one from our little trip to Niagara Falls when we drove into Toronto. We drove down what is considered their E-ZPass and

did not have that thing. It was like $80. Yeah, actually, when I came down to the Arnold, we took our tolls, which is, of course, the version of the E-ZPass, and then I ended up on the way back doing the I-98, I want to say,

through New York. That's I-90, I believe. I-90, thank you. and then i ended up on the way back doing the i-98 i want to say through new york nine that's nine well i-90 i believe i-90 thank you okay yeah nine zero can i tell you that my toll for about less time was 35 dollars uh but to drive all the way across new york was three dollars so i will tell you that american tolls are significantly less expensive okay southern new jersey to new york you're going to be upwards of like 20 or 30 dollars yeah so so mississauga to toronto is 30 dollars yeah it's a 25 minute drive okay last but not least and this is when i added at last minute so i don't know if you saw this change overrated underrated wives who are active on instagram

uh-huh i went to the same thing we need to hear those druthers druthers it druthers it verbal verbalize the fans need to hear it i really can't say it's overrated because everything my wife does on instagram brings money in the house so it's all business related for her definitely definitely underrated definitely underrated especially if they're putting it to good use and it's and it's making money then they're underrated 100 underrated i also like being in the back of her videos i don't even post that much for myself so that's what brought it up is you reposted a bunch of of your stuff and i i think at one point i followed her but i don't know if i still do anymore and i don't know why but i assume i have to be a very hard

guest on the show because i don't post much whatsoever it's mostly just what she does and if i'm in the background i'm in the background that's all this so i was i was debating if i was going to get into this or not so I think this might be a good thing to Before you jump into that, let's just wrap this up. It looks like you passed overrated, underrated. Oh, yeah. We will air this episode.

We don't have any cool beans. Cool beans. Soundboard is coming. If we did, it would be the triple cool beans because we got to one up the other guys. But yes, sorry, Keith. interrupt just wanted to finish off the segment so we can move into the the last segment of the day i guess uh it was uh i mean it kind of correlated with the the last overrated underrated so big chris i'm not sure if you're aware but you know i slid into your wife's dms buddy i was trying to fish for some uh scoop little insight trying to get some because basically

like you know i i wanted some more over underrated i wanted to see if she had any suggestions and uh i hate to tell it buddy but your wife thinks you're kind of boring and she doesn't really have much to say about shit she uh i will 100 agree with her there you go okay well i'm glad that's not a shock to you um she says she loves you dearly you just uh you know you basically you you like to buy mass anomic shirts and uh smoked meats and you know a couple other things but uh i might save that for off air a little too risky i will say she was great she was a good sport but she just uh she couldn't think of anything on the spot really if it makes you feel any better although you probably feel fine about it um us men also

like to refer to that as consistent absolutely some might call us boring but the people who love us will call us consistent the clutch riot out in south dakota so we'll have a good time it'll be a hell of a time. And I can't wait to see everybody there. It'll be, um, I remember talking to big Jess and saying like, are you coming to the Arnold?

But because she was preparing for the Sheffield, she couldn't come. And I was like, yeah, it doesn't matter. The lift hard, the VZ is going to be way more fun anyway. Cause I do think she plans on coming.

And the Arnold was incredible for other reasons, but I do think that this is going to be just a lot more fun seeing the arnold is a lot of people who you don't know remember shark tooth like that guy like the people that just are there to take themselves really seriously they get in the way there's too many people and i think live tired live easy is going to be a lot of us that have no desire to take ourselves seriously and um that's going to be i think super fun for us it's so i kind of envy uh i kind of envy joey's situation i i don't envy your 24-hour drive or ride depending on how much but uh just the the no pressure to lift like uh we're we couldn't really justify staying an extra

day and leaving on monday so i'm like i'm catching a flight out of aberdeen at like 6 30 on sunday morning like we're probably gonna i mean i i have to give myself a hard cut off of when i leave the zoo on saturday but i'm like i'm gonna be walking away from a good time but it's like i just i can't be completely still drunk the next morning. So I don't know, like one o'clock midnight, like I'm going to have to call it quits at some point. So I'm kind of hoping that like we can have some crew meetups, if not definitely Friday, possibly even, I think a lot of us are getting in Thursday too. So we'll be, we'll be pulling in Friday afternoon. If everything goes right, that'd be a bit of a party night but it depends

on when weigh-ins and everything because like maybe the crew does not want to party friday night before the lift now luckily i am driving out so i might be able to just pay for you know an extended checkout um but i mean that doesn't say i'm not going to lift i mean i'm not gonna pretend that like i'm my deadlifts are i think relatively impressive for my body weight so i might like have some fun deadlifting with people but it doesn't mean i'll be doing it to cues and and standards and stuff right yeah i didn't mean to say you're not going to uh exert yourself physically i was more of the whole like i might pick up to me to me lift like lifts are our

meats are like it's you know 80 mental you know it's like a fucking head game it's like if you're not mentally prepared and in the right spot like you can really like shit the bed of meat if you're just not i don't know it's just especially me i'm i'm a i overanalyze everything so for me like it's uh meets are hard sometimes especially i've never done, I've never traveled for a meet. I've never done more than like drive two hours to go do a meet. So doing a meet after, yeah, no, I'm not looking forward to that at all. But that's why I think, I think, I think most people are going into it. Like, I'm not going to hit, I'm not going to hit a PR total. And if I am, it's like, great.

But I'm, I'm, you know, I feel like a lot of people are like, if I can hit like 95% of best day, that'll be a fun meet. It's just we're here for fun, not necessarily... Remember, Dan Bell's going to be there. Lindsey's going to be there. Jess is going to be there. The idea that somebody like me is going to go in and win anything is pretty silly.

I'm excited to see Old Ham. That's going to be fun is old ham coming yeah yeah he's on there oh i can't wait to see him again i'm gonna bring him some more canadian beer i owe him a couple beers at the arnold that man was just like here have one here have one here so i owe that man a couple beers as long as they still keep the the weigh-ins at 9 o'clock, I'm game for anything on Friday. Yeah, me too. It's going to be fun. Alright. I think I'm ready to wrap things up if you guys

are. We're ready to dive right in, guys? Ready to dive right into this podcast? Yeah, yeah. Alright, so I've already mentioned that our Instagram has changed, but it is unpaid dot and dot underrated now i just wanted to make it a little easier for people to find i am the

moderator so a lot of the time if you're messaging you are talking to me um remember the website which is unpaid intern podcast.com um and of course where can we find you guys well Big Chris where you at buddy Big Chris you can find me at on Instagram it's beerbelly underscore lifts and that's pretty much it because yes I'm on Facebook but I don't really post on there

so don't even go after that and then I don't really use anything but Instagram so that's pretty much it. Nice. So I am, uh, this is big Keith, big Keith Honeycutt Instagram Keith Honeycutt 73 and, uh, go follow mass economics on Instagram. That was a good call on that one. Uh, and, uh, Oh man, uh, sorry to big Matt, uh, mostly squat videos, uh, really wanted to get to you again this week.

Just kind of ran out of time. We will get hopefully to you next week. Once again, thanks for tuning in to the underrated, underpaid, crewcast, whatever the list of things you want to call us. Hopefully we will talk to somebody again next week. Absolutely. We'll see you next week, crew. Take care.

Take it easy, guys.