Unpaid And Underrated - 002 : The Mole Reveal

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

This week we talk to the man, the myth, the legend, Big Scants. Follow along as we "reveal" all the secret behind the mole himself. Joey and Keith dive right into all the great lore sorouding scants and his candadian heratige. 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 @Scants1 (https://www.instagram.com/Scants1/). 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 Scants.

good evening afternoon and morning everybody welcome to the unpaid and underrated podcast the podcast for crew by crew um i am big joey And I am Big Keith. And this week, we have our guest host. That's right, Mr. Beautiful Baby 1972. Big Scantz, the granddad of the crew. Welcome in, my friend. Welcome in. What's going on, boys? Now, right off the bat, tell me what it's like being mr beautiful baby 1972 i mean it's a title that not many people can hold uh a lot of training went into that

you know it's not something you just get off the couch and win it just you know it's all about getting down there getting a war with the bar joey as you well know and uh yeah that's about it boys i'd like to say nothing on the table if you're not uh here because you're not here we are recording video uh the look on your face when i said that was wonderful i really wanted that i enjoyed it first i was wondering i'm like dudes i was born in 1970 not 72 thanks for thinking thinking I look 51 instead of 50, whatever. I wasn't giving you your birthday. That's the year you won, wasn't it? It was, yeah.

Yeah. Those statistics came from Mrs. Gantz. This is the second week in a row I have slid into the DMs of the guest host's significant others. He's a lucky lady, boys. Oh, yeah. Bunch of trophy husbands here on this podcast. That's what the crew should be. You should probably ask her what it's like to be married to the most beautiful baby in 1972.

All right, guys. What are you drinking? Scantz, what are you drinking? Keats, buddy. It's got to be Keats. I've got a Keats waiting for me, but I always like to start with my sparkling water first to make sure I'm hydrated. I usually go sparkling water first, but I had a pretty gnarly sparkling water first to make sure I'm hydrated. I usually go to sparkling water first, but I had a pretty gnarly week, so

we're doing McUltra tonight. I got three of them lined up, so we'll see how many we get through. Fine. Twist my arm. I'll drink a Keats. I have no concept of moderation, so I'm jumping right into Keats, boys. I wanted to show off my sparkling water root beer from President's Choice. It is actually one of my favorites.

That sounds really good. It's a good way to get that root beer flavor without any of the sugar it goes really sparkling water yeah it goes really good with cigars or as um you know for big murph out there rut beer i believe she liked it stinking root beer yeah drinking a rut beer mr west to be proud of you joey who thought we weren't talking about that kind of stuff canadian joke don't worry about it keith you won't get it but we don't we don't talk about politics on this podcast this is gonna i i gotta say keith you're in for a doozy because like you're gonna number here and you're gonna end up asking a lot of what does that mean questions because i did somebody in the crew pointed out point uh that you know they appreciate when you ask for clarification when i use canadian terms so um get ready for some of that nice i'm not shy i'll keep asking now i've got a couple things on the docket here, and then we've got some questions for Scantz.

And some of these, I think, what I want to do, I mentioned earlier before we jumped in here this week, is going to do some general tack with our co-host, guest host, and then we'll do an astronomic-style interview with them. Because, after all, this is the crew podcast. So we want the crew part of all of it. I hope good boys. Yep. So tell me about something, something, the C team podcast, Keith firing.

Yeah. So I want to say kind of like the, the, the roots of our podcast, the Unpaid and Underrated podcast, stems back the last few months. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I was on the C-Team podcast as a guest maybe three months ago or so. And the C-Team podcast, if you're not familiar, it's a bunch of guys that are really good buddies with everyone from Let's Get Stupid and the Be better podcast and huck finn

barbell show and a couple others that are all just you know geared and there's a little niche world out there in chicago area uh so they had me on as a guest and their whole concept is like they are a podcast about a podcast at least that's how it started it's kind of evolved into something else now which my opinion is better than what it was but its roots was a podcast about a podcast and i'm like well i'm in this huge discord for massonomics you know they're a podcast i've been on a bunch of other podcasts and i've really enjoyed my time let's see if we can get a podcast going i think i threw something in the general chat i think it just must have been a busy day because i don't think it got any traction i don't

think they got any reactions to it and then a couple months later or maybe a month later i want to say joey said something about a podcast and then i was like yeah i i mentioned that a month ago let's do it and then i don't know and then it kind of springboarded someone made the uh you know one of the hosts made the crew cast tab and then we kind of went there for about a month and just pissed in the wind it didn't really get any traction and then you know five or six of us started doing a couple group uh video calls and you know a few months later here we are on episode uh two slash three yeah the hosts really pushed us to this i think uh i do kind of say that i got sick of talking about it and i messaged tanner one day and was like make an event i'm starting this and then

like it could have dwindled off but one of the hosts just kept saying you know like just kept saying it's gonna happen it's gonna happen it's gonna happen and would have made us look stupid if it didn't happen absolutely and you know i'm glad i'm glad we made it work i'm glad we're here we gotta send a big thank you gotta send a big thank you to scantz for you know helping us you know there's of course six of us i think or seven that really wanted to to make this go. Speaking of that, speaking of one of the hosts and, you know, the Mothership podcast, what are we wearing today, guys? I've got the 8-Bit Powerlifting T-shirt on myself. Boys, I kicked her back to old school.

I went to my first order ever placed, OG Huge Life. And, of course, my Massanomics going out hat and obviously a kilt because i'm not an animal i wore my kilt yesterday i have my um i have my massonomics is numero uno shirt going today i wore my kilt yesterday out into the world and i've never gotten so many compliments i had uh just other strangers walk up and ask me what my tartan is why i'm wearing a kilt and this other guy we went to go to a restaurant and he comes around he gets out of his chair and he comes running and he says my daughter's just about to turn nine and she's never seen a man in a kilt and she thinks this is the coolest thing ever so thank you and i'm just like i just don't like pants when you start getting the inappropriate comments, it's a,

what do you got under there? Nanya. That's what. Yeah. There's a, there was nothing better than a lady, you know, what are you wearing under there? And I'm like, what are you wearing under there? I can't believe you asked me that.

I'm like, you literally just asked me the same thing. Yeah. When I was kind of not appropriate. I don't think so. When I was younger and a bit of a party animal, um, women would just walk up and reach under and that happened oh yeah that happened enough times that i was like next person to do that's gonna be a fight because like so that's not how you met your wife it was not how i met my wife i met her at work wearing ridiculously tight khakis

put the put the bait out and got the fish. That buddy put that vibe out. More than just a vibe. I think you guys saw that in my deadlift video this week, exactly what attracted her. Profi husband, buddy. That's our M-Candy life. So what do we want to cover next?

Keith? Well, speaking of your deadlift, I think we all posted some garage gym competition videos this week. How did, uh, I can dive right into mine. So I posted my video tonight, uh, garage gym competition. If you're not familiar with it, Joe Gray puts it on every year, uh, more recently twice a year. So if you have a home gym and you like, you know, lifting, you can, uh, virtually submit

all your lifts over the course of a week, or you can do it as a mock meet, uh, enter to win a crap ton of prizes. I think it's, I don't quote me as five, $10,000 worth of prizes ish. Uh, so, you know, you don't have to necessarily go for PR, but if you do, that's great. I'm in, you know, we're always obviously in meet prep. So I just, I cropped all my videos and just took the single of a, of an easy triple this week and, you know, posted my videos tonight tonight uh everyone saw joey's post from yesterday where he uh you know was his his his member may or may not have been nice and uh full frontal there for us all i couldn't read he did not have a kilt covering that one up i couldn't redo the video because i just saw it and i was like i'm in meat prep i'm not even supposed to be deadlifting this much weight right now but i'm doing it just you know for the gram and i just had to like put that

video up there like this is this is my life and this is what brings my kids to life so one was called one to say it was a uh it is a thirst i'm gonna say it was a meat show for joey yeah that meat got prepped guys did you uh did you do anything for the ggc this year i did i just i haven't cropped my videos yet i kind of went out and uh i'm still a little banged up from the last comp so i did some unique lifts and i did a straight bar squat which i haven't done in six months and so that's a unique lift for me i did a bench press but now my shoulders have told me i'm a close grip bencher so that was unique and i just did an axle pull just again i'm just coming off some a little bit banged up so nothing nothing crazy just getting the name

getting some videos out there and whatever she's all good some token lifts that's all i think some of us are doing i'm i'm actually i'm 10 days away from my next meet yeah so i'm supposed to be sticking to heavy singles like every day instead i was like nah i'm gonna go ahead and do this i don't forget to mention too that for every pound lifted joe donates to the special olympics isn't it right yep yeah big time that's pretty well the main reason. Yeah. I mean, it's great for the growth community. Like, it's just fantastic seeing everybody get it. You know, I enjoy the fact that the random,

other than, you know, the new program, he's got a few key awards. But, I mean, so far, my little fellow won an award one year with his high squats. But but uh yeah he's won one and mrs skates has actually won one so you know totally randomized it's a fantastic program good on joe for getting her going yeah it's the roots of my it's the roots of my competing that's why i said in my in my post like i enjoyed doing the ggc so much i think it's what led me to joining a federation and actually competing in the next two weeks

and sometimes you need that little impetus to uh on the base where i work we once a year we do a fun meet it's in memory of fellow that uh young fellow he's a lifter that got killed a few years back but he uh it's under we have a big base powerlifting team of pretty high level competitors but we go out the team runs the competition anybody can come out and do it there's there's no rules there's no uniform rules we just do them under test conditions you coach the guys through it and uh it's all about having fun and you always get three or four guys afterwards come up and talk to you it's like hey listen you know i really want to get into this so it's it's just giving that little that little opportunity to uh just get that little taste

for competition could usually uh spur somebody into it yeah that's the progression i did is the the ggc and then an unsanctioned and then i was like that that's it. I'm in. I wanted to talk about something related a little bit to the podcast. And I've told this story so many times that I sometimes forget details. And this is, of course, just to make everybody hopefully laugh a little bit, because they were talking about that dirty Chinese food type of thing, where you go to the restaurant and you get your fried rice and your chow mein, and it's just Americanized Chinese food. So in the small town that my mother just sold her house in, in Cayuga, Ontario, there was this little restaurant that she just discovered one day. And we used to go out to the farm every year, and we had what's called the big corn roast.

And there'd be a hundred of us out there and then everybody would leave and at night was like the core family and we'd all party and then get up the next morning go for breakfast so she said we got to go here because it's really cheap and it's really good so we all sat down this guy was not expecting this many of us it was kind of crazy um but he owned a chinese food restaurant who just wanted to open up a breakfast restaurant and if i'm gonna tell this story as it happened because honestly you'll probably think i'm making it up so i'm with a couple of my best friends my brother and you know some other people we all walk in and we sit down and there's the i believe two people in the kitchen

and then the owner is out taking our orders so he walks out and looks me dead in the eyes i'm not going to do the accent but i will tell you he had a very very um obvious accent uh like pronounced because i guess he lives in china for most of his time and he just comes to canada to do business and he looks me dead in the eyes and said do you want brown water and i went what he was brown water do you want brown water and i look at my mom i'm going what she leans in she goes he means coffee oh yeah yeah give me all the brown water in the world so he comes out he pours us all the coffee he's giving us the milk and then he comes up and of course we're all wondering where our menus are at this rate but who cares like i'm sure he'll bring

them in a second so no he comes up with a pen and pad and he just says breakfast one or breakfast two and i go i don't know and i look at my friend and i go breakfast one or breakfast two and he goes i don't know so i asked the guy what's the difference doesn't this man turn and point at a big sign on the wall that just says breakfast one 9.99 breakfast two 11.99 it gives you no details that's anything i that was probably the funniest thing well yeah i had it came with home fries i'm going to and it was like the funniest like i felt like i was in a skit i kind of felt i was being punked because he just had that ready with no help on the wall i thought that was a really funny story every time i tell that one i feel like it there's no way that

happened tell me that did not just happen. And then the bacon was ready in three seconds. So I think he just had like the biggest pile of bacon set up, just waiting for everybody. Anyway, that's my story. There was bright bacon in number one and number two then. Yeah. Yeah. So that's my silly story for the week.

Now you got me curious though. So around the table, was it kind of an equal number one versus number two to where you can actually see what you missed out on since you wouldn't know when you ordered well my mom ended up just yelling at one comes with home fries like we figured that out eventually but she was gonna let me suffer through and of course your mom had been there yes but of course it was me he didn't go to anybody else nobody it had to be me that he went to and demanded breakfast, wanted breakfast, too, so I could go. I don't know. So, yeah, that's my silly story for the week. And I hope that makes people laugh.

And I was one day I want to recreate that because there's no way that that just happened. Keith, what is this about a member of the gym? Yeah. So one of the hosts has talked about it a few times in discord i don't know that he's ever mentioned it on the podcast but uh there's definitely been some talk of dante culpepper being a member of the gym and masonomics in aberdeen because he used to play for a minute so okay so first i know scans should know i would hope scans knows who don't care what culpepper is right no football buddy oh well you the fact that you knew football, you know. Okay, so Joey, have you ever heard the name Dante Culpepper before?

No. Okay, so quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, which is the somewhat local team to Aberdeen, if you will. I know of football teams, right? So Minnesota Vikings quarterback in late 90s, early 2000s. So one of the hosts just mentioned that he was a member of the gym offhandedly. And I'm assuming it was a witty joke or banter in response to something else. But I don't know.

But he just brought it up again the other day saying that Dante was the only one that had his own private locker at the gym. So it's kind of like I'm assuming it's one of the dozens of just running jokes of like things that aren't really real that they always talk about. But I don't know. I don't know. I think I actually even Googled like where Dante Culpepper lives like currently. And it was kind of like ambiguous and didn't necessarily say. I think it just it was like a couple months ago when they first had talked about it. And I hadn't thought about it ever since until two days ago

they had brought it up again. I don't think you can just Google the quarterback's address. Yeah, well, more like, I don't know if it's Wikipedia. Currently resides in his hometown of such and such. Yeah, I got it. So and so. I would say no, because if you had your own private locker at the Madisonomics gym, why would you not have that in your bio top line?

Like, that's ridiculous. It's a missed opportunity. Yeah. Got my own locker, some football stuff or whatever. Anyways, blah, blah. You know, priorities, right? Now, on the topic of lockers. So the one host that recently moved away, if I was him, I think I would have kept my claim on my locker.

Because even if I come back twice a year, that's still my locker. I was one of the founding fathers of this gym. I'm on the podcast. I think I get a locker in this gym in perpetuity forever. So that was kind of surprising that he gave up the locker. I don't think I would have. I would have had a hard time doing that. I think that that particular host is just a nice guy. That's's probably why i wouldn't do it because i might not be he gave

that locker to that young version of him he passed the torch to the new top the new podcast host guy i wasn't the first one that did it almost got me i did it earlier i did it earlier but we'll we'll we'll figure that out. So if you have been listening, this is your timestamp. Where we bring on our guests. Should we get our guests on the horn? Yeah. Let's let's see if I can get him on the ringer.

All right. Big scans. Is that you? Hey guys, what's going on? Hey, welcome. You're live.

I'm paid and underrated, Mr. Scans. You're live. Is this live? Can we learn this thing you can so um i think that the first thing i i see our list of questions and there's some really really good questions um but first i think i just want to ask um who are you in 30 seconds or less? Who am I?

I'm an old dude that just likes picking up heavy stuff, showing off for my wife and my kids. That's pretty well about it. Not taking tough, too serious boys. Too old for that. And how are you kind of, and I will actually say that you are one of the reasons I'm in Mastinomics, I think, you know, because you were always kind of the most welcoming at the beginning there.

I think you reached out to me first about the GGC and I was already kind of following Mastinomics, but you kind of brought me in. So, you know, you are a great ambassador. of following massonomics but you kind of brought me in so you know you are a great ambassador uh so tell me about your role with massonomics in particular tell me what it's like to be the mole that was uh that was actually quite a uh that was quite a journey the mole talk came up i got asked about being the mole i'm like yeah that's cool boys i can totally take care of that and uh everything went silent for a while and then suddenly it's like i wonder if this is gonna happen or not and then stuff started bubbling up and it was like with all the mole talk and everything going on it's like i just started to self-doubt i'm like damn it am i the mole

am i the only one that doesn't know does everybody else know like and uh yeah so there was a there was a good bit of chaos and and uh self-doubt put it but there was i can't remember what it was to come up to um the boys had big plans on the next event and all that kind of stuff and and things started getting in the way and it just started stretching out a little bit and then i actually kind of thought it was done. And then it was like, somebody reaches out and he's like, you want to get this going? I'm like, yeah,

buddy, let's go, man. So, uh, yes, it was, it was good being the mall.

I was dropping some hints out there. Uh, not a lot of people. I don't think anybody picked up on it. Somebody fired it out once they had it. Uh, I think it might've been Eddie. Yeah.

I think it was, I think Jen was the first to call you out wasn't it hey big nate the editor of the podcast here to interrupt you with a very important fact uh i was the first person to guess it was scantz um i also guessed the contest exactly uh that it would be a reveal challenge so just needed to set the record straight all right back to the podcast i think i think it might have been but i i dodged i i did you know straight dodgeball five d's right yeah and uh yeah i ducked that one pretty well and got a confused look has keith seen it dodgeball 5ds what has big keith seen it oh my god keith what are the five what are the five was it i mean is it from the movie dodgeball yeah yeah i fuck i hate i hate that it's so dumb i hate stupid movies like i like

some stupid movies but some stupid movies like i don't know some of them are just too stupid for me like i i can't get on board with a handful of the really dumb movies, but then other ones, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah, but I mean, this is all about life. You gotta, you know, dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge. I did like when he threw a wrench at the person right in the face. That I enjoyed. That's it. Because if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

Yeah. That's it. So, yeah, no, it was fun being in the mall. It was great. It was cool just getting out there to announce it um yeah it was fun it was a fun time with boys uh let me get involved in that so i think everybody's money was it there was it was either it was eddie or matt uh i think it was eddie i think i i definitely definitely thought it was Eddie for the longest time, just because he had so much more inside scoop

and would show up everywhere they were. He had connections with like 20 different... He was in a picture with a different crew member every other weekend with all his travels and stuff. It had to be Eddie. It was a classic misdirect. There we go.

It was a classic misdirect. Yep, that's it. But it was good was good though I also didn't have to participate in any contest because the skills of the crew have generally outstripped my capacity to get beyond my 8-bit memes so yeah

well I won that competition oh yeah I won that contest and it was a. Yeah, I won that contest. And it was a great scandal, which is why two Canadians are now chatting. It's probably making so many people mad. And you're the second Canadian I pulled for something when we did the Strength Co. Halloween plates. Yep. Total random.

And I pulled Big Tyler. And I'm like, I am going to take so much frigging heat for this. Like, this is going to be bad. And it was Big Tyler. And I'm like, I am going to take so much freaking heat for this. Like, this is going to be bad. And it was totally random. And yeah, as soon as I posted it up, I started getting, this is bullshit. It's Canadian. I'm like, dudes, no. So it was, yeah, that was good.

That was a couple of good contests to get into. But I mean, especially that, you know, for the people who don't know that the massnomics video contest they had for that it was i got to help judge on it that was probably one of the most grueling things i've had to do in a long time man all the videos were fantastic and then i even brought mrs scans in as a tiebreaker i'm like what do you think of this what do you think of this and i gauge that little point one on her reactions but it was like that was freaking brutal i was sweating it and uh the other fellows were just like nah nobody gets a five and i'm like dude there's definitely five out here man so yeah that was the the start of the disappointed masonomics wife jokes the annoyed masonomics wives. Isn't there better than the wives getting flashed?

Yeah. Kevin did flash his wife. Yeah. Hopefully that was his wife. Yeah, it was. Hopefully that was Kevin. Stunt car.

That's good. I'm waiting to see the next contest it's got to be coming up soon boys they've been hitting at it but I'm curious if it's all going to play in with the July meet or not because I mean it's getting to where I don't think they can run a contest leading up to the meet like it's so close

they're going to be so busy doing meet stuff I don't know maybe they will but I honestly think it'll be more of a late summer thing and they just gotta power through to get to them get through the meat well and you gotta you know you want to space it out a wee bit too you know what i mean uh again when we when we did that video contest it was i can't remember it was if there's a few things that come up and it was like there's no use overwhelming it with everything that's going on let's you know spread the spread the contest and stuff out so yeah i don't see it's going to be tied up to the to the classic the lift hard lift easy classic live easy classic so but yeah probably late summer or something i think they mentioned it might be tight i think i mentioned

it might be tied to a product right like they did the drink spotter um bouncy ball thing who um somebody who's not even active anymore won that one and really all you had to do was just cheat and do the green screen thing that people on tiktok do i don't know why nobody did that because what you do is that kid you put somebody in a green suit and you just have them move the ball around and it looks like you're doing great trick shots but it's really just somebody moving the ball around for you and wouldn't you have like the background too or is it that you can just edit out the green that so the green suit is in place of the green screen i gotcha yeah okay yeah that's how they do those trick shots on on the internet i think turner actually was pretty good at it where is i haven't seen yeah you had mentioned like he

he fell off the face of the earth i don't know where he is... I haven't seen... Yeah, you had mentioned, like, he fell off the face of the earth. I don't know where he's been. I haven't seen him post anything in the Discord in months. No, he's posting a lot on Instagram. You know, hopefully he's keeping on, though. He's a good kid. Yeah, he's got a lot on the... He did a lot on the plate there. I think he was changing jobs and a few things like that there, too.

And, I mean, technically, it was his missus that landed that shot, if I recall. Well, then i hope she got the gold spot uh i've got some questions from the instagram story um you know speaking of the instagram story uh posting memes so that meme about just everybody wanting to talk about scans being old i thought was really well done I had fun making that one I was standing at work during a slow period giggling like

a ninny staring at my phone technically at my age you could ask me the same question again and again and I'd just think it was a new question like wow that's a good question boys I mean think about that that's a good looking question if we get scans on like six months from now or so we should literally just keep the same show notes and see if he notices.

Because he's not going to remember that I just said that. Oh, dude, we could probably do it. We could probably do it an hour and a half. If you guys want to film another episode, you can just put it later. All right. Hit me, boys. What do we got? Yes. Old. later all right hit me boys what do we got yes old uh i've got one here from um big keith honeycutt is it i might be saying that wrong that sounds like a fate that sounds like a fake name he wants to know uh where did the friday garage reveal inspiration come from and if you are listening and you don't know scanty's garage reveal on friday that one actually came with uh

this is this is a deep cut way back in the days when a certain uh a certain member of a certain podcast used to do uh the weather forecasts in aber in aberdeen and i was sitting there one day and i was just getting ready just goofing around on a friday getting ready for a deadlift session and uh i was like maybe i'll do uh our own forecast because it you know there was the you know western northeast south dakota weather forecast so i decided to do my own lifting forecast one friday and i can't i think the first one i just had like my deadlifter shirt it's like you know guess what the forecast calls for uh so it started and a couple guys laughed at it which i will put in hours of work to make somebody

knows laugh like i mean and uh yeah it's it's quite funny it keeps i keep going i've had like random people who i don't even know each other like dude i look for this every friday this makes me laugh i'm like shit you're on boys i'll keep her going as well as i can so it gets a little trouble not troublesome it gets a little uh tricky sometimes if we're traveling or so i've had to make do a couple times coming out of the ocean or coming from behind curtains at a hotel or the british tube one time that was sending my wife on the tube ahead of me it's like okay get ready because i'm gonna be in this car and just be there for the door to open and so anyways yeah it was uh i don't know it just started with that and it became the uh

i don't know just kind of something i do i hope so uh mr scans have you listened and i'm gonna judge you very harshly on this uh depending on what your answer is have you listened to every episode of the massonomics podcast of course i have attaboy that is the that is an answer i appreciate one of my one of my good friends hasn't had a chance to go through the whole backlog yet uh and i just personally feel he's missing out on the full experience first of all i'll put the caveat in here it's um so i don't know if the question will come out because we have before like how'd you come on the massonomics itself so i had um you did what to him like how did you come on to the yeah i got that how'd you get across it how'd you pick it up so

i never uh i was my wife and i got in we got posted to ottawa so we were sent to ottawa and how'd you get across it? How'd you pick it up? So I never, uh, I was, my wife and I got in, we got posted to Ottawa. So we were sent to Ottawa and I worked at a job that was a 10 minute drive from my house. So I didn't even bother listening to the radio or anything like that. And then after a few months, it's like, yeah,

so you gotta go work this other place now. It's like 50 minutes each way. And I'm like, you know, within three days of listening to the same tunes again, again, I'm like, dude,

I gotta do something else. So I was like, let's, within three days of listening to the same tunes again and again, I'm like, dude, I got to do something else. So I was like, let's do all these podcasts. We'll see what this is all about. You know, this is back 2016, 2017 type of thing. And I'd read some of the boys' articles and stuff before. I used to follow, you know, the Massomics, Joe DeFranco, long time follower, lead FTS and all this kind of stuff. Right. And, um, anyways, I started trying to figure out, all right,

I'll listen to some podcasts and see what kind of appeals to me. And the first two I went with were the industrial strength show and the massonomics one. So that was relatively early on. I can't remember what episode number but this would have been 2017 and no more than 100 i imagine at that point no i think it's double i think it's double digits right so yeah i for me to go back and check out the back catalog was not uh you know it's not like if somebody picks up the the podcast now that's a that's a hell of a freaking workload oh yeah it's very down to right yeah was it 370 some episodes right now that's it and some of the earlier ones obviously were shorter but then you know

you look at how it's evolved uh after the lockdown like getting into two hour episodes and stuff like that you know so it's um but it's it's funny too i think the best way to do it is if you went reverse order went back so you you know you wouldn't realize oh yeah yeah you go back to podcast number one like you go back to the original party cast you're like holy shit man this is utterly chaotic dude i can't even track what's going on here right so it's a big difference of stuff they could get away with saying five six years ago that they get canceled today for sure so you have to take it all with a grain of salt when you're listening to it in 2023 this was all recorded in 2016 2017 2018 you know it's just what was uh politically correct has definitely changed a lot in the last few years but even beyond

that same as you're going to see here you saw kind of the phases like as um their banter got down oh you know when tyler left it it caused a shift in the dynamic and the boys had to get the rhythm back and same as anything else same as here our the dynamical change every additional up so until you know you kind of settle into your groove type thing there so and into your groove see what i did there i did we all saw that thing i have uh go ahead no okay i was just gonna ask if you i have one from recentonomics sorry keith i feel bad now i have one from recentonomics okay hit me um what do you take in your coffee and what sides do you prefer on your coffee so like breakfast foods maybe oh um i eat breakfast every meal god damn i love breakfast uh what do i take in my coffee a little bit of milk and uh deerara sugar it's a little bit sweet no christ no just milk not

not cream i can't um but i just i take a few years back i started taking demerara sugar it's like a brown sugar so you use a little less of it to get a little bit more of the sweetness so uh but what i have with my coffee um not much it's all morning i don't drink coffee after lunch so i'll have two three cups of coffee a day generally one of my drive-in listen to a podcast if i can and uh yeah that's about it now would you normally have a hard-boiled egg with that i have four every day hell yeah i get to work and that's my five minutes of serenity having a little four hard boiled eggs and a little bit of hot sauce and if it's a lifting day i have a bagel or something on the side a little caribou as so being canadian we didn't experience any of

this egg shortage so we're oh my god no living like kings oh my god i was throwing eggs out just for dirt i'd buy two packs and throw one out so i've got a two-part follow-up here um kind of get a little sidetrack here all right so canadian breakfast versus an american breakfast is there so that's part one and then part two is you guys are six hours apart or so right you know you're mid you're mid or middle canadian 18 20 hours okay okay so so right? You know, your middle Canadian needs. 18, 20 hours apart. Okay, so completely different parts of the country. So is there a difference between your typical Canadian breakfast and Scant's typical Canadian breakfast? And where would that compare to a traditional American diner breakfast?

Or are they all basically the same? I think breakfast is breakfast. I'll normally, I'll have some scrambled eggs, some avocado. I don't like bacon as much as some people do because I find that I taste it all day. So if I'm lifting, I will not eat bacon because I do not want to taste that bacon halfway through a deadlift. So it's usually some eggs, some avocado. And I actually had to recently start eating toast with my stomach issues. But before that, I had no patience for toast, no patience for bread at all.

I would say the one difference, and you brought up the word diner, I'll throw that. I am, my wife and I are diner aficionados. We have gone on trips based literally on the diners we're stopping at. Went down to Big Chris Damager's neck of the woods, New Jersey, Diner Capital in USA. That's a seven or eight day trip we had where we knew every diner we were going to stop at. The big issue, the big difference, the Americans use the shredded potatoes.

We use more of the home fries, like cut up chunks of potatoes. I do find if you ask in advance, because most places this is a pretty touchy subject. This is something I put a lot of thought into. Most places will have home fries or hash browns. And you have to ask, because every restaurant I go

to considers one thing and one the other. A lot of places will say hash brown is the thing you would get from McDonald's. Just like the deep fried potato log. Other places will consider that like they they'll call hash browns more of like the stringy potatoes, other places, old fries, or, you know, I never know what the, what the difference is until I asked the waitress. And it's not the same from restaurant A to B to C to D I feel

always always got yourself sorry a bit of the British trend to like especially in the East Coast there's still a lot of ties back to to Britain and all that kind of stuff so you'll get

tomatoes like if you go to a restaurant if it's an older older place you might still get tomatoes and beans and an optional black pudding or something like that right like the the tie back to the traditional uh english breakfast right a full english which you are not going to find blood pudding down down in the u.s yeah no everything you just said just went over my head as far as uh that it's not stuff i'm trying to find a diner down the street for sure yeah and you're probably not finding an upper diner in upper canada either you would that's more of an east coast thing we are very uh there's it's a little bit more related still tied back to to the uk so there

was a scottish restaurant here in uh where i'm from that when I was living downtown on my own young bachelor days, I'd always go for breakfast and they had a Scottish breakfast. So you would get your beans, your fried tomato, you'd get your square sausage, your haggis. Like you would get all of those and it was a giant plate of fried. So good. Back when I could eat whatever I wanted. I still think one of the best things I enjoy is the odd time we go to a diner. I started ordering and it's happened a few times where the waitress will be

like, honey, that's a lot of food you order in there. And my wife will just tap her. She's like, don't you worry about him. So yeah, I can,

I can go over all day long with breakfast, baby. so yeah i can i can go over all day long with breakfast baby so how was the last six months at fort badass was just you and your boy that had to be a kind of a brutal experience i'm sure uh you've was that the longest stint you guys have gone apart yeah um no i went overseas for nine months uh 11 years ago but it was it was before i was pre-kid too so that's probably right so that was a completely different scenario i'd imagine yeah so it was uh yeah that was a little bit of a different scenario but you know i was it was um a lot of work i mean very little time to train going into the grad gym at 10 30 at night to get a

couple of sessions in, you know, so it was, it is what it is, man. You got to do what you got to do. Right. So it's a big getting him to school and,

and everybody fed and it's pretty well about it. So, but it is definitely fantastic. She's back. So. Nice. Yeah. Congratulations with that. for those who don't know she yeah she was away for six months there so it was uh estrogen free house for badass speaking of uh famous mrs scantz um how did she beat us for first comment so first comment is something we haven't talked about yet which on is a race that um we stopped caring about about three months ago because one

person just keeps winning so nobody cares to try anymore he sold his soul to the devil for 15 minute headstart. You know what? Probably. And it is, it is crazy how much of a headstart that person gets. But one day Mrs. Gantz won and it was kind of crazy.

Dude, there is, there is, uh, I don't even know how to explain it with the algorithms there. I have sat beside her with like three iPads going like an iPad, a couple of iPads and a phone. Just like,

what is going on here? Trying to figure it out. And she's like, ding, I just got a comment. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? And literally like two minutes later being,

Hey dummy, it's time for you to make a comment. Like this is garbage, man. So it was, um, that's how I figured that big matt sold his soul that's the only way to do it so i just i basically get involved in the race race for ninth comment now because anybody can be first i've all been i've been first that's whatever man

you gotta get that niche ninth comment dude i get second a lot to matt um but again i mean i'm i'm doing it naturally he's he's over there you know he's an enhanced commenter yeah he's giving up over there yep well and there's the funny one too because you'll look and you'll see uh i'll do a refresh on it and it's like yeah joey shadow band or the canadians are shadow band or half the americans aren't there or something like that and so i'll post it up yeah keith will reach out he's like this bullshit man i got freaking sick and i'm like nope i got video proof man i'm first one up too so you can't deny it so but yeah it's like it's very weird we're all posting screenshots of uh like the top three and it's all completely different well you know we either post it to our stories or go to the

discord and post it uh mass economics discord if you're not a member go join uh and it's all completely different. We'll either post it to our stories or go to the Discord and post it, Mastodonics Discord. If you're not a member, go join. And it's just like, what the heck? I literally am seeing on my screen that I came in second place and then you see three Canadians jump ahead of you on their phone. And I'm like, well, that's just very strange.

It's the conversion rate, buddy. That's just, it's total conversion rate. Our comments are worth 1.6 comments. But I think we can all agree on that Matt cheats. So that's all we need to walk away from this segment. But Matt is a cheater. So this one comes from, I want to say, one of the chocolate chips. I didn't have their name written, but I want to know.

She wanted to know. have their name written um but i want to know she wanted to know how many different strength sports have you competed in which one would you like to try next if it's one you haven't done um okay if you include bodybuilding i did bodybuild a few bodybuilding shows bodybuilding a few bodybuilding shows uh then i got sick of the politics of that and i i used to work with a guy who was a powerlifter so i finished my last show on a friday night and i walked in one day i'm like dude you you eat steak in a bag of fucking skittles and i'm eating i'm licking an apple and eating two almonds for my meals what do you do and so he he got me on on powerlifting i'd always lifted and stuff like that but when again when i started back in the day there was no there was no um it was such a niche sport that you couldn't find it unless you stumbled over it so

um you know and the only people you knew were bodybuilders arnold and all this kind of stuff right so but then as as powerlifting started to come up in 2000 sorry 2012 13 type of thing i get into it there and starting pretty late i enjoyed i enjoy the routine i enjoy the monotony of training i like that ability to shut off so then i got uh i got sick of sucking so hard at bench because of shoulder issues and it's funny the master's life you'll see a guy with a 300 pound squat 150 pound bench and then a 680 deadlift but it's because of injury but it's because of injuries and stuff like that like i got guys that have knee issues that can't squat or shit that are benching 500 so i started you know i did my first deadlift at 43 years old so uh pretty far behind the eight ball and uh then i stumbled

across the straw man competition once and jumped in on that and i was like oh like me being not maximally strong and one rep maxes but still having to be able to run a bit for work i can kind of counter a lack of max one rep power with being faster in events than some guy that is strong as shit but can't move so that got me in a strong man and uh that's my main focus right now and then i was at a highland games event and i was like i wonder if i could turn a caber and uh anyways it was and it's kind of funny with a lot of these spring sports like again when you think of when i was back doing bodybuilding everybody thinks a bodybuilder is like you know 280 pound ronnie coleman and not realizing that well you guys

have both been to the arnold right you'll see a 112 pound bantam weight and you'll realize that it's it's literally at all sizes and stuff like that and the same as powerlifting everybody's not a blaine sumner uh you know you'll get somebody that's literally 110 pounds. That's squatting four times their body weight. Something ridiculous, right? Uh, strongman was good for that. We always think of Brian Shaw and Thor, but you watch the guys that are you eighties and you nineties and you're like, God damn boys, you're savages, man. So anyways, I thought Highland was kind of out of the, of the realm of possibilities

because those are big lads. And I'm talking to a guy at the base gym one day and he said something about, there's a very large, like the largest North America Highland games where I was at in Ottawa. And he said something, yeah, yeah. I'm going down for the tug of war competition. It's we had two regiments that did an annual thing. And he's like, I normally throw.

And I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, I normally throw Highland. And I'm like, dude, you're like 200 pounds. He's like, yeah, I normally throw Highland and I'm like, dude, you're like 200 pounds. He's like, yeah. And that's what it started. And I got him in contact with somebody else and I did my first games. And so now I do that. So there's four. What do I got left to do? We are arm wrestling. Maybe arm wrestling joints would not take that.

Absolutely. I think what else is left? You named like 90 of the uh strength sports that uh our friend you know us and our friends do so there's not a big freaking do anything man like that's pretty well a bit i just like i just like competing i like doing anything uh i don't like long sports like hey do you like golf i'm like nope nope i i can't pay attention that long so i like doing as much cardio as you do have you ever done any marathons half marathons 5k 3k anything like that that would be up your alley um to some extent for my job i had to run a lot especially when i was uh when i was still in the for those who don't know i'm in the army uh when i was still leading troops and stuff like that, you still have to, the military is a culture for running.

So I've done military events like a couple times in an Ironman. It's one of the basic, call it an Ironman competition. It's like a, what is it, 30, 32, 32 kilo run with a 50-pound rucksack. then uh you grab a canoe and portage at four or five k's and then paddle it for eight nine k's and then do another five six k run so military style stuff uh but not i think the longest i've ever run i've never done races but in training for stuff like that i do 20k runs 25k runs but i mean that was 175 pounds not 225 so i'm a more of a sprint guy now i'll take you out in 100 meters but at 101 you live to see another day so you're not going to run too many people down at 105 then right no honest to god i don't have the mental capacity to do that for long terms i'd be i'm just

too um my brain's too hectic and i can't have that much time to think i get right in my own head so just get it over get done and get into the next set in the squat rack so who knows what's next sir i tease my wife or maybe i'll be a triathlete you never know well olympic geez i forgot you can do olympic lifting oh yeah uh i don't think i got the mobility well if if his joints won't allow arm wrestling i don't think his joints are going to allow olympic lifting that is some that is some very uh over the hill as soon as you finished talking i zoned out and i was like what other strength sports are there i actually met on our a family of arm wrestlers at the pub i go to i sat down one day and and they i just turned to the one guy i was like you're kind of jacked what do you do and then

he was like oh my whole family we professionally compete in arm wrestling and i'm just like cool i am a mediocre power lifter that's nice to meet you it's fun well i'm fascinated by anybody in competing i don't care yeah i mean one of the girls at work uh work we were talking a couple days ago and she was saying how her partner we were talking about her partner lives elsewhere there right now and said some oh yeah when she's in competition mode i'm like what'd she do she is a goddamn she competes in lumberjack competitions. I'm like, boom, tell me more. Yeah. Like, I don't care what event it is, what sport it is. I'm, I'm so fascinated. If you told me you're a world champion chess player, I'm like,

how do you train for that? Like, do you have to do anything dietary different? Do you do like physical stuff, like to help improve your game and all that stuff? I'm just fascinated by anything, just any, um, how would you say it? Human endeavor thing like that. I'm always very fascinated when you see somebody that's competing or training at a high level in any event. I just, I enjoy knowing about it. You know, I don't diss anybody that, whatever. I don't yuck anybody's yum, as they say.

If you like doing it, I'm interested in how you do it. So, I don't try and sell me on it but tell me how it's better than mine or yours or whatever that's i don't care about that enjoy your own stuff but yeah i'm very fascinated when we are probably moving to europe next year when i retire and very close to spain and they have a uh basque stone lifting is one of their big cultures it's uh something i saw netflix got and i'm like mark can't have a uh basque stone lifting is one of their big cultures it's uh something i saw netflix got and i'm like mark hans had a video about that i think in the last couple months that was very intriguing and that's one of our questions that we didn't get to was uh you do have a big so

you said maybe uh i thought earlier it was pretty much no we're going okay okay so what's yeah feel free to tell us anything about that if you want. I remember you just saying it was going to be a very big time zone shift and obviously a complete cultural shock. And why that location, I guess? No snow is a big one. So we're heading to Portugal is where we're going. It's good for expats. It's good for good quality of life, good health care. It's kind of like just overall, we were trying to find where we're going like there's a it's good for expats it's good for uh good quality life good health care it's kind of like just overall we were trying to find where we're going to land

um when we retire and so we're just you know we're both east coasters um the province i grew up on if you can survive uh prince of rhode island winter you are already stocked they are it's a beautiful island in the wind in the summer it's very touristy it's a tourist driven island guys like oh my god I'd love to live here it's like just come over for two weeks in January bud give or go because it is once you see your first 22 foot snow drift and then grass 15 feet away it's uh it's pretty daunting so we're like yeah let's let's get into someplace warm but someplace unique you know and it ties up with laddie boys shift into middle school and so we're gonna we're looking at a place you know we we shopped around for some towns my wife likes doing all the staff work and all that

stuff she likes checking out uh she was doing the research so i just i just sit here and lift weights and cook her meals and she does all that stuff for me and anyways yeah so uh the one thing that sucks is there we did a trip there a couple months ago when she had a couple weeks off and there's almost uh what appears to be very little uh strength community there type of thing. There's a couple of gyms, a few little small gyms, but it doesn't seem, I couldn't find anything about competition, Paralyzed and Strongman, anywhere close. It looks like they do one national level Strongman competition,

but it looks like pretty high level stuff versus. So anyways, so then I got looking at that Basque stuff and I'm like, dude, I wonder if I can lift one of those rocks. So who knows what I'll do, boys? Who knows what I'll do? Maybe a Lift Hard, Live Easy classic in Portugal. Maybe my own. I may be the first affiliate gym in Europe. I mean, we got Big Matt over there in Amsterdam.

He may get the first one if he gets it. He may get it before me. With nowadays, so many virtual meets and uh different i mean obviously we talked about joe and the garage gym competition but i know if you're on the discord they put two or three different meets on a year and the home gym discord and i mean there's there's a variety of different things you can get into virtually to compete to still get that camaraderie and that like kind of just lifting an environment if you're completely solo and down there how are you are you looking to basically try to just ship all your gym equipment down there and spend 30 grand in a shipping

container or are you just going to try to figure all that out no don't don't give him any ideas don't don't give him ideas because all those strength gold plates are going to make their way right over here to Ontario it is uh that is the biggest part that we have to look into for that. Like just thinking that the one thing saving grace, but I haven't having a, most of my stuff is strong man is it's not a lot of volume, but it's a lot of weight, like pile of plates,

you know, all my sandbags can be emptied out, all that kind of stuff. So how to figure out the move is the biggest portion. So, but I've put it to stipulations. I just need a grad to put my gym in. I don't care about anything else.

No basements. You wouldn't be okay with the basement. Uh, are there basements in Portugal? No, I can't imagine there would be right. No, there are,

there are, uh, the biggest issue was, so I used to lift in the basement when I was in, uh, when I was in Ottawa and I had a literally like a six by eight chunk in this little tiny closet downstairs and i competed a power lift and i did all this stuff when i switched to strong strong man it became a pain in the ass because of moving events so having to haul four or five hundred pounds of

plates up the stairs every day and and sandbags and this and that. So and the ceiling was very low, so I couldn't do overhead work. So that was my shift to the garage. And then once I got that, I'm like, dude, windows, doors open, sun going. Oh, cool, boys. I like this. So how did you say the word garage? Was that just like a slip or was it a dialect thing?

It sounded very unique to me just now? I say garage. Oh, wow. That is a, this is another big bag situation. I think on our hands, it's garage or garage garage,

the mini barn, the mini barn out in the back. Yeah. So it's a, so speaking of affiliate gyms, i think we should do our ad read uh so today's ad read is obviously going to be about massnomics.com slash join to become a supporting member join the discord crew uh have the potential of being called up to this podcast and doing what you know we're all doing right now which is talk about each other and ourselves uh but i did want

to kind of talk about a product and i see some notes here i really like this so whoever came up with this one good work um your banners what massonomics banners do you have which one is your favorite or which one did you wish you have? Me? Everybody. Let's all talk about it. Oh, shit, dude. I gotta go take a look and see what I got. Well,

you think about that and I can answer if you want, if you think, uh, so I got a don't curl in me. I got the mass economics podcast flag. I got the mass economics, uh, pennant.

I got the bench heavy banner. Uh, yeah, that's a, the mass economics, uh, just their, their actual logo, pennant. I got the Bench Heavy banner. I've got the Masonomics just their actual logo, but I had it custom made in orange sort of black with orange text and whatnot.

That was super dope. I like that one, dude. That might... Oh, I've got the lift banner and a lift flag. If I had to mention my favorite, I would definitely go with the bench-heavy banner. Love that thing. I think the bench-heavy banner gets the most appreciation.

I mean, the don't curl in me flag gets the most snickers. But, like, I don't know. I think I gravitate towards the bench-heavy the most, I guess, just because I grew up drinking Bush Light. So it was just like, to me, it just kind of resonates a little more for me personally. Scantz actually got up and is going to the garage to look to see what he had. I had to, dude. I had to look, man.

Lift Hard, Live Easy, the podcast, Big Jonathan, Daddy's Home, Still Curling Me, the 8-Bit Strongman, Lift Shift, Curls, Weights of Number. Of course, I got my Streg Co. Training Continues, my Obsidian Ammonia, Silence, Ple of number. Of course, I got my strength co-training continues, my obsidian ammonia, silence plus violence. I got my... Those aren't our sponsors, Mr. Chance. We got to stick to the sponsors. We got to stick to the script or they're going to cut our funding. It don't matter. He's just so overwhelmed and

happy in his happy place. The problem that we have with the vinyl banners is shipping them across the border there was a lot of them you can't get because of the size like the shipping is just absolutely redonk so probably the one i mean it's pretty easy to say which one is the one that i that we missed it's the original uh crispy boy lineup with the illegal i should have got that one we had the chance yeah i actually don't i only have two masonomics banners i have the podcast one that came out for the 300th episode

and i have the pennant and i have the pennant signed by a bunch of people at the arnold on the sunday that i had a few drinks and thought hey everybody come sign this or it might have been the end of saturday i don't know awesome i don't know but uh there is one i have and it's actually again the story i always tell of how i got into massonomics uh which is the band the band one so that is actually the not hanging in my gym but that is probably my favorite one which one is it yeah i'm i'm drawing a blank on the band one also uh oh the b-a-n-n-e-d yeah gotcha we're not we're not gonna talk about it we're not gonna talk about it but i'm like i've got an acdc shirt one is that what he's talking i'm so confused the the boys got a band no that's that's my favorite

and it's actually the one that got me into the podcast so nice yeah that would be uh i actually laughed my until the huge life came out uh my first order they were all gone my first orders was the curl hard the the band and uh again the huge life so somebody commented something a bit like you know recreate your first order i'm like in full sadness i can't yeah can't uh yeah this shirt actually the the numero uno and the huge life shirt uh were the ones i always wanted and i've always i always see them and i was always bugging the hosts like when you're bringing them back like that's and i actually don't think i've ordered one since if there was a banner that i would want it would be the pursuit of strength

i found that i still can't believe that you didn't get to that joey i think it it is the it's not overly silly but silly enough but just like rain's true that the pursuit of strength never ends there's there's just once you start doing it it just becomes more i need more and i'm still waiting for the master's version of the, you know, master's in age, but old is a feeling. Age is a number, old is a feeling. That's it. So I do want to call back briefly, Scant. So you said you started powerlifting in like 2012, 2013, and you were literally already a master's.

Like you were over 40 when you did your first meet like that's impressive like to have the like i mean i always think i was late 20s and i already thought i was kind of almost like you know everyone else at the meet was freaking like 20 so i was already like 10 years older than half the people so you walked into your first meet virgin meet like literally 40 ish that's that's that's impressive i'll give you kudos for that my friend uh but i mean like i said i've been lifting weights since i was 16 when i started lifting early 40-ish. That's impressive. I give you kudos for that, my friend. But I mean, like I said, I've been lifting weights since I was 16 when I started lifting weights.

Yeah, but trying something new in general at any age is always... I feel like the older you are, the harder it is to try new stuff. There's also... It may be, but once you get a certain age, you don't give too many shits about stuff either. There's a there's a lot of, uh,

that's true too. Yeah. As soon as I said it, I was like, eh, there's the flip side of that point. Yeah. No, that said, like, I, I kind of laughed at, you know, as I say that, you know, I'm just like, the lift hard classic, I'm just going to go hard. You know what I mean? If I, if I PR great, you know, but, but it's, uh, it's not a flipping attitude. I still, whatever I i train i go fucking balls to the wall there's there's no there's no going soft about it and uh but yeah i don't i don't sweat it if uh again i went out the other day there and and i was expecting a couple different

numbers for the the grad gym competition it was like the what well she's not the grad gym competition i'm like i can't understand you but it was like you know i'm not sweating it dude i just came off on uh quite a few months of very limited sleep and very limited training and stuff like that it's like whatever it's a little bit of different perspective so the days of beating myself up for missing a a top set that i was gonna hit hey dude you know you got three hours sleep last night and works been crazy and stuff like that perspective so but that said i'm still fucking 100 going balls to the wall but did you end up going all variations on that? Like you had hinted at,

I think the night, but I can remember at one point in the last couple of days, you had said you thought you were going to do a lot of variations for the lifts. Cause that's, that's one of the benefits of that comp is that it's not really strict as far as you, as long as you notate in the submission that you did a variation,

they're usually, Oh yeah. Well, I laugh cause they're, they're all pretty normal lifts, but for me there, again, I stopped bench pressing near four years ago cause we don't do it in strongman so i don't do it and uh so i benched

i think i did a floor no i did a bench for the last ggc and that was the first time i benched i think it was at least two years and i think i did a floor press the one before that so i went in and did a little work up there a couple weeks ago and i'm like i can't even do comp with anymore my shoulders aren't gonna take it so i'm now freaking team close grip so and uh yeah straight bar squat i don't usually straight bar squat because you it's not required in strongman so it's uh that to me i threw a set of wraps on i haven't used wraps and i don't freaking know when so that was my unique my to me unique was a straight bar wrapped so that's funny so your odd lifts were basically competition lifts for power you have been a uh when is the when's the last meet you've done when's the last meet you actually logged in the books like a like a sanctioned power look at me oh i think i am the it sounds

like this this july meet's going to be like years removed from your last one 2017 or 18 okay well yeah it's a good gap oh yeah well like i said i got i get out of it and uh where i was at there was a there was a little bit more politics that i didn't agree with no politics on here scantz well and that's the freaking thing boys we're just picking heavy shit up yeah the olympic organizing committee we're just picking heavy shit up stop taking yourself so serious so i just i got a little sour taste in my mouth and i walked away from it and uh down here in east coast it's a fantastic group um it's a lot smaller group so it's uh we all know each other so you know it's

great people and all that kind of stuff it's just anyways so i got away from it but yeah i enjoyed it i love doing parallel competition i love doing any competition so and uh yeah so i'm kind of looking forward to this one because i don't even have a i don't even have a clue what i can squat anymore for one rep max i have no idea what i can bench uh deadlift i can probably figure it out a bit but i haven't really maxed a straight bar deadlift in till the other day i did a lot of action a lot of action pulls i imagine axle or or block for like elevated pulls yeah so i actually did that the other day i threw uh i don't know what six inch blocks under and i think i did an axle axle pull the six inch block because I've got a, a silver dollar deadlift coming up in my next competition. So it's 18 inch, 16 inch. So there's no use pulling from the floor.

So anyways, my pull didn't go good. So I just dropped it to the floor, put a straight bar on and gave it another go. I'm like, no, you're still fucking stuck here, buddy. Take a knee. So, but, uh, yeah, I, I still enjoy the competition lifts except for bench press but that's just uh shoulder issues and shit make it a i can't i won't say i can't get past a certain level it just the juice isn't worth the squeeze so i don't enjoy the lift anyway so why do it that's why so i won't be squatting at my next meet i don't enjoy the lift anyway so why do it that's why i'm so i won't be squatting at my next meet i don't know if you guys you did both watch my video if you

watch the video of me squatting for the garage gym and you can hear popping in that video and i was like i'm leaving that in there but that was my knee that was my knee that essentially sounded like a cement mixer and that's where i I got you. I'm half deaf, so it sounded perfect. I can't recall. Are you a knee sleeve guy? Do you wear knee sleeves? Are you poised with knee sleeves? Or are you a bare-knees water?

Me or skits? Joey. I wear wraps. Not wraps, sorry, sleeves. Sleeves, not wraps. Yeah, sorry, sleeves. The ones that you... Did I say wraps? Shit, I meant to say sleeves yeah no i wear sleeves um i have spd sleeves i just got matching spd okay wow so if you have oh wow that's why the physiotherapy for

my knee um gotcha i think the year so 2021 the year my my daughter was born i was in a car accident several years ago and just ignored it as one does you know be a man and uh but it never stereo up it never really bothered me it just ever it never really bothered me but it was always kind of there and it wasn't until i started lifting and you know i would go to do a split squat i'd fall over because there was just no stabilization so i had to go and get that and we got up to the point where i can still squat three plates right as i did comfortably but like pushing it to 340 or 350 i the reason i squat high is because i compensate because i don't want to put any pressure on my right leg so if you actually watch me squat anything over three plates i hip hinge almost dangerously so i just

said you know what we're gonna push pull this one and live with it now if i had got to 750 between push and pull i might do a token squat to crack a thousand but i'm not gonna get there but thank you for asking yeah have you ever toyed with uh box squats do you do any box squats because i get i've made my limited issues with my knee i've had a tricky knee for years that's you know had issues on and off and uh i basically know like oh my knee really hurts i need to do a slightly elevated or a slightly above parallel box squat for like two or three weeks and then i can still squat some decent weight and have it be less painful i just didn't know if that's something you've messed with

at all i've done them but it's not really it's just there's so much damage underneath that you're anything outside of juggernaut i'm not generally messing around with gotcha unless somebody unless it's a sandbag or dinny stones when i'm just bored so i think that after this meet that i do i might just uh ramp down my juggernaut and start really focusing on doing dinny stones sandbags i've got 100 pound sandbag and 150 so i gotta fill the 100 and start really focusing on doing dinny stone sandbags i've got 100 pound sandbag and 150 so i gotta fill the 100 and i'm gonna start doing a little more strongman strongman implementation is it just squats oh yeah so we have this game we like to play you might be familiar with it you might be familiar with it if you've heard it before it's called overrated underrated and we have a specific um six sets of scant specific questions

success man that's a lot of volume sets and reps baby so um i i will preface some of this uh this is going to be a lot of me asking you and then probably poorly explaining because i get the feeling that with some of that you know pretend rivalry between americans and canadians that some of these questions might actually interest them so um again you have your druthers but you do have to ride one horse you cannot as long as i have druthers i'm cool your druthers are completely welcome but you do have to pick a horse you cannot ride two horses with one ass nope okay matter how thick scant overrated or underrated underrated all just chips i am going to say global context.

So if I was talking to our friends north of the border here, I would probably say underrated for us in Canada, I would probably say overrated, but I'm going to go with an overall, and I'm going to preface this. I'm not a chip guy. I don't eat chips a lot. If they're there, I'll eat it because, you know,

perma-bulk, but I'm not a big chip guy. I'm going to say, damn it, I'm going to say underrated. Although I don't appreciate them very much, they're good chips. But I acknowledge that they're good chips. And if I was a chip guy, I'd probably eat the living hell right out of them. So I'm going to say underrated. Especially, oh, my American brothers, you're going to get some all-dressed chips. I think someone needs to explain to the masses here,

massonomic is what is what the heck a all dress chip is okay so in all the flavor uh all just a canadian staple uh i believe and this might be controversial but ruffles makes the best ones now miss vicky's has stepped up but ruffles are the best and they are essentially three or maybe four different flavors all in one. So there'll be your salt and vinegar, your barbecue. Um, I'm no,

yeah, a little bit of ketchup, some sour cream. That sounds too busy for me. Uh, they end up going really well because they end up being just a little tart and finishing off really sweet. I find you kind of get like a ketchup.

He tasted them like a really spicy. You really pick pick up that that tomato kind of notes on it there but it's uh i will probably convoluted it's good it's very it's and it's got a bit of kick to it it's not yeah i mean it's not a habanero but it's just a little bit of buzz right so i'll see if i can remember to bring some for you when I come down to South Dakota. Come up to South Dakota. In the last year or so, I've been very exposed to Canadian culture in general just by being part of the Mathenomics Discord. There's – what is it? There's got to be at least a dozen Canadians there, right? I mean half a dozen to a dozen.

There's more than a handful of Canadians in the Discord that are active. Out of the hundred or so of us that are active daily, at least 10% of them are Canadian. But then also, Letterkenny is my biggest Canadian. Okay, so how accurate is Letterkenny? Some of the stuff where they're like, as they're like small towns, just like Letterkenny kind of sort of and like the rivalry that they have with the other towns as well is that a thing in canada joey you got to take this one buddy you're upper canadian man i'm i'm i have very little experience i mean i could talk trailer park boys with you so letter kenny is based on a town called listowall ontario which is just outside of Sudbury. And. While obviously a TV show. Is going to be exaggerated.

Yeah. Yeah. My brother or my cousin. He's one of the hicks. For sure. And I'm right there with him. You've got your skids that hang out. In front of the dollar store dancing.

Because they're on meth. I would say that it's. Obviously it's a television show. So it's a television show so it's not an overtly accurate portrayal but all of us know one of those guys gotcha that's that's the thing um another one you should probably watch is out for a rip okay yeah it's a it's a rap song and it's it's actually also like the first time i heard that i turned to my cousin i'm like you know that's you he's like yeah probably yeah that's funny one of the funniest things my cousin bought a house uh right next to a river so he's just out in the woods um

and this is again not proud of this moment but only baby onus um me and him used to be always we were always the last ones awake two three in the morning we're still drinking we're still you know shooting the shooting the breeze and proper gentleman should be of course so he goes you know i bought this house i've never looked in that garage and he goes and you know, I bought this house. I've never looked in that garage. And he goes in the opens of the garage and he's going, they left all this shit. And then he goes, let's burn it. So him and I stayed up for two hours, just burning everything in that garage. My hat bugged me. My hat ended up in the fire.

And that's just because me and my cousin were just skids or hicks that just like, we've got to get rid of this. It looks flammable okay so that's so yeah everybody knows your decision nope the hat was the dumb thing because he was like burn that hat i was like no i love this hat and then like half an hour later i was like i hate this hat and just tossed it in so it wasn't a methamomics hat was it because i don't think i would trust a i was you know how toxic and flammable all that methane gas stuck on that hat would be? Oh my God.

I wouldn't put that damn thing in the fire if my life depended on it. That's an explosion waiting to happen. Overrated or underrated? Alexander Keats. Oh. Damn it. I will say this.

It is a acquired taste. It is an IPA, but it's a classic IPA. It's not the new hipster kind of double, triple filtered mocha frappuccino bullshit erosis that are going on there. I am going to say, I'm going to say underrated. It's a great frigging beer. It's an East Coast beer. I mean, it's available now, but at West and stuff like that,

but for the longest time, you could only get it in the East Coast. The Bat purchased it. Yeah. The i purchased it and started spreading it out now they actually when i buy keats it's brewed here yeah yeah it's it's a recipe brewed here in ontario and distributed so it actually does taste a little different from when i had it out there it will yeah and i mean it's the same as uh get beers western beers like kokanee and stuff like that big tyler and big jess and then a little kokanee and stuff like that you could not get that until you were in ontario it just did not come east of quebec so i'm gonna say underrated i love it underrated it's an awesome it's an awesome freaking beer uh i wish more people enjoyed the delightfulness that it is.

I know. Alexander Keith is, of course, a Scottish import. He was imported, I believe, back in the 1700s or the 1800s. It'd be something along those lines. Because I think we just celebrated his 300th or something birthday or something like that and he came in and he started brewing uh his ipa based on his family recipe but then he became the mayor and he became the da and he became like he he pretty much ran halifax for years um and if you go to halifax you can still visit uh the original factory yeah and i think there's a little bit of good east coast boot laying in there and there's a few little uh

uh skirt in the letter of the law type of things in there that makes a good makes good east coaster makes good story of course and while you're in halifax don't forget to visit general ross's grave this is for my american friend uh general ross was the one who burnt down the white house he demanded to be buried on um british land which at the time halifax was so they smuggled him in a rum barrel and buried him in uh very fermented i bet by then by the time he got to the ground all right but on keats real quick i have always they're so i just so for clarity for myself there's not the only time i ever i'm assuming this is the same beer that i've heard people reference i've always heard it it comes across in my ear as keith's i don't know if i just because i'm vain and i want to so it does almost sound like my name to some extent there

isn't a keith beer on top of that it is alexander keith's okay it's pronounced k-e-e-t-s yes but it's spelled mine it's spelled like my name it's pronounced yep e-e-t-a okay that makes more sense it's the canadian accent i'll have the keats oh wow okay so that's my mind is blown get the india india we have a bit of uh we have a bit of a uh particular dialect and accent down this way in the east coast even amongst the provinces there's different there's there's some people you can't talk to them you have difficulty understanding the word of their mouths um all right thank you for that overrated or underrated 155 pound bodybuilders oh good god overrated ridiculous and why do you have that answer oh my god it was freaking

horrible it was a horrible existence it was uh well now that said i would walk around about 175 but i trimmed down to 155 for bodybuilding shows and it was uh i was so tiny i i enjoyed the process but i didn't enjoy the politics. But man, there's nothing better than capping 200. And actually, so I used to compete 93 kilos, so 204. So I would generally sit around 205, 206. And then when I shifted to strongman for Masters at the time, it was under 105 kilos, so1 and i pushed it up to 220 and i feel fantastic i i've soon as i get up at 200 i felt lifting felt a lot more better i felt a lot stronger

but then when i got to 220 i just i've pushed it up to 230 and i don't feel good my joints ache and i just i kind of have a little nice sweet spot where, yeah, good God, that 150 was terrible. So on local level bodybuilding like that, is there a weigh-in? Because it's like whatever the weight class is that you have to cut to, do you actually like show up like 12 hours before, a day before, and do a weigh-in? Okay.

Friday night for a Saturday night show, you'd uh you'd show up and weigh in friday night and it was way and they're doing dramatic weight lifting they're doing similar dramatic water cuts like you do in a power to be made so you guys have bigger smaller weight classes yeah it it would be well it's very it was enjoyable process because i enjoyed this the the science behind it like you set a plan, you follow your plan. So like, you know, in the weeks leading, it's basically control, control starvation, getting down to a weight. And you know, when you see, uh, you see guys, Oh, I'm doing a big, uh, what do they call it?

Cheat meal and stuff like that. And it like a cheat meal actually has a purpose of convincing your body. You're not in starvation mode. Cause your body will, you know, if you're gradually starving yourself down for competition, you know, in essence, your body at a certain point will start hoarding fat and deleting muscle because it goes back to its Neanderthal brain where, you know, we're going into a famine. We have to store our fat reserves. So you're going to trick it into keeping a burn in the fat so they're same as any other sport it's like you know somebody says oh squatting i was in with a physiotherapist once i was talking about my squat one time she's like oh you know so you slap it on you get up and down and i started talking about like externally rotating knees and and torquing this and pressing down with your big toe to raise your your arch and she's just like holy fuck you guys know what you're talking about.

And I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's not, you don't just grip it and rip it. And she was just like, and she's like, now I'm going to speak to you different. I realize, you know, you're not just, I thought you guys just, you know, pick it up and put it down. And it's like, no, there's a lot more to it than that, right? So, but yeah, you would, in the last the last couple weeks you're depleting all your carbs so like on that friday night when you weigh in you have zero carbs left in you you have zero water your skin is literally like as thin as tissue paper so it was kind of funny the first one we

did mrs skance was she was competing too that's how i got into it we moved in together and uh so as soon as you weigh in, you start this carb load, which basically will fill your muscles. Your muscles are just like dried out sponges, and they're just like soaking up all these carbs. But without the water, your skin is paper thin, so all your muscular striations and your veins and stuff are popping. So we're hammering cheesecake and all this other rich fatty food i'm

like this is bullshit man this is not working i remember i get up a bit two o'clock in the morning i go use the bathroom and the light caught me and i look in the mirror i'm like holy fuck i got these big abs and shit like this it was uh it was pretty it was pretty cool to see the science behind it work so but i mean i would weigh in at 155 on a Friday night, and I'd be 170, 175 on Monday morning because you're just loading the water and stuff. Like, it's not a, it is not a, but same as you see the boys do the 30-pound weight swings for a cut for powerlifting, it's not good for you. You know, it's, and again, if you're 400 pounds,

it's not the same as if you're 160 pounds trying to swing that big bullshit right so yeah 155 overrated af all right moving on what do you got next joy it's all right overrated or underrated tiger tail ice cream oh shit dude no i'm not a big fan i'm a moose tracks guy dude that's fair that's fair yeah i'm i gotta be i gotta be moose tracks um so you're you're going underrated or over i will go shit yeah i'm gonna go overrated it's uh i mean it's good it's okay but but i just i'm not a big orange fan and i am not a black licorice fan at all. I am a black licorice fan.

Yeah. So everybody knows my passion for Jagermeister. So for those of you wondering, Tiger Tail ice cream is an orange ice cream that has a gelled jelly, black licorice swirls in it. Yeah. It's not a fondant, but it's a weird gel texture. It's almost like a fudge type of consistency or something maybe.

It's freaking weird. I don't know what you would describe that as. Now I'm overthinking it. Either way, it's an orange ice cream with a black liquor swirl. It's actually the only ice cream I will make on purpose. Orange like sherbet? No, it's a straight up orange ice cream with a black liquor swirl uh and it is it's actually the only ice cream i will eat on purpose orange like sherbert uh no it's just it's a straight orange ice cream yeah okay so an orange

okay so it threw me i was seeing tiger tail ice cream on the thing and i all i could think of was a tiger meat the aberdeen specialty you know and i was like oh yeah tiger meat ice cream that is gonna be really really gross no uh but tiger tail ice cream is, of course, a Canadian delicacy. I would try it. I don't like licorice in general, but I love orange anything, so I would give it a shot if I was in Canada.

Scant's brought up moose tracks. Is that also Canadian-specific? Is that just like cookies and cream kind of thing? No, I believe that has peanut butter cups in it, thing or no i believe that has uh peanut butter cups in it doesn't it yeah little mini peanut peanut butter cups and uh i think i've seen it uh i think ben and jerry's has a moose tracks i believe i think i think there's a version of it everybody's got a version we just call it moose tracks um i think there's a little bit of fudge

in it maybe two or something like a little swirl or something i think i believe it's a vanilla vanilla chocolate swirl with peanut butter cups oh yeah speaking of uh baskin robbins had a ghost pepper excuse me a ghost pepper orange during this last winter oh my god it was incredible shit dude yeah morgan took me down i was like i'm not going to basketball i don't need ice cream right i'm not going to shut your mouth and do what she says eat that ice cream she goes yeah but look at that and she showed me the poster and i was like oh crap give me two scoops of that road to 200 pounds baby all right so overrated tiger tail ice cream yep okay and then i'll caveat it's good ice cream i just i don't have a taste for it i don't i don't i don't work for tiger tail ice cream so you're not offending me

i wish i did all right overrated or underrated thegan crew white and black no so i'm gonna say those are the best stickers i'm gonna say those are best stickers so i'm just gonna go overrated with that because morgan's are that much better yes i actually i've got a pile of them right here um yep those are badass now why did i ask that question do you want to do you want to use your drummers on those uh for those that don't know we've got our uh our crew stickers right there Now why did I ask that question? Do you want to use your drummers on those? For those that don't know We've got our crew stickers Out there Modeled on the NWO

And Yes, Joey's Lovely wife stepped in And threw her You have your own NWO, do you not? Yeah, we got our Wolfpack, the crew wolf pack all your all your gear lifters have that that's why i was asking because you guys are always uh and that dylan

that was the og man that was the og uh can't turn your back on the wolf pack boys and next is not the black and white NWO, though. No, it is not. There's some controversy on what you just said. I mean, the controversy is suddenly there's a T-shirt that somebody produced about a Wolfpack. Are we getting royalties for that? We're the Wolfpack. What's going on here, boys?

Okay. NWO white and black overrated in favor of crew that's right okay and the last one which is of course we always save the best one for last and um you know this will dictate on whether or not we publish this podcast yep worth all the marbles overrated or underrated carol stream illinois fucking carol stream they're so overrated with their little fancy oh look at me i moved it uh literally two streets over um it's progressing through our system and then they send it right back to the other place like it changes the zip code to one number but i'm not dumb carol stream i'm coming for you carol stream at some point i'm coming down there and how oh how do they

continuously find new places so it used to be like it would go from carol stream to this place up the road and then back to carol stream and then last time it went from carol stream to like elk ridge and i'd never seen elk ridge before made up name made up name right made it up i just don't understand how they're continuously finding new ways to screw around that's literally gary's house across the street from the us yeah he just took it over so he could inspect my shorts they throw it across the street and it's like yeah just call me whatever call me uh call me something something illinois yeah freaking jerks um so for those of you who might not be privy i imagine if you're

listening to this you are aware um whatever shipping method um the podcast hosts use is it goes through the carol stream sorting center before it comes to canada now in all fairness as soon as it leaves carol stream it's here in two to three days i think you said one day that they must drop it out of a helicopter as soon as it leaves chicago uh canada canada post is a bit of an arsehole for me they it'll take uh about seven days to get from ontario i could literally drive up there and back in a day for me at least being a little a little south of them uh but it's sometimes i think i i set the the record on 10 days in Carroll Stream.

And it would leave Masonomics and it would go south to some other place and it would go to Carroll Stream. And I think, yeah, my record is 10 days it sat in Carroll Stream. It's going back and forth. My record was it went to Carroll Stream and then Carroll Stream decided to send it to Los Angeles. Yeah, it totally was. I'm like, I'm sitting there and I'm seeing this post coming up and it's like getting

these things. Hey, big scantier, uh, your package arrives in Los Angeles. I'm like, did I order something else from somewhere else? Or like,

did, did my wife order something? And like, she didn't tell me about like, what the fuck's going on here. And then I'm tracking it back. I'm like, you arseholes sent it to Los Angeles.

It's like, you know what? This guy needs his package needs some West coast love. And he's a little bit of sunshine, tracking it back i'm like you arseholes sent it to los angeles it's like you know what this guy needs this package needs some west coast love and he's a little bit sunshine a little time down on muscle beach maybe there and and it took a long roundabout trip that one took about a month to get to me i was just like dude this is ridiculous i could drive to los angeles and back and i don't want you know while we're on this i don't understand because um if i order from ghost right which is the supplement company it's three days it leaves las vegas it's here in three days

and the ship it's leaving las vegas yeah has joey seen it i have not at least not since i was a kid um but it's the same cost and shipping and it shows up in three days. Uh, Norris fitness comes use SPS, roughly the same cost and shipping shows up in four days. So I don't know what Carol streams doing, but it is not efficient. So as it's like,

it's like they decided to take it for a drive and met Brock, the rock. So it's definitely made for good entertainment for all us Americans that get our deliveries in three to five days, I'd say. I don't think I've had anything in five or six days. Depending on what day of the week you order,

if you count the weekend and all that, everything's been within a week. Our orders show up. I do not envy you guys waiting up to a month to get something. I don't understand how Scantz couldn't live in a farther east and be in north america basically right like you are about as far as eastern north american that physically exists you'd have to go in another time zone you were not even in the eastern time that's one thing i didn't know there was a a time zone that was part of north america that wasn't eastern like the the

i thought i thought the the most eastern time zone was eastern standard that was part of north america and scans there's actually a different time zone that i didn't even know about there's one more past us newfoundland is a half an hour just had to be different they waited to join confederation and then they just waited that extra half an hour to do it. Yeah, and it's the only half an hour time zone. Oh, wow. That's weird. It's a half hour time zone to go to Newfoundland.

That's so weird. The Rock, we call it. That's never, I've never, that blows my mind. Newfoundland's wonderful. Newfoundland is just a gorgeous place. Can't say I'd live there, but it is one of the greatest Canadian provinces I have seen in full. Well, I think that about does it, boys.

How are you feeling? I'm good. I'm cool. I'm feeling cool beans, boys. Did you have anything, Scant? There's one thing. I know we're running a little late, but did you have any quick one-hitters for Joey and I? a 30 second answer anything that you want to know about us or thought would

be witty or funny or come across good that would uh basically flip the script and ask the host something for the other the other crew host that is probably not uh too much you'd be able to answer i just i'd be curious maybe what the other podcast hosts are, you know, if they're feeling the heat coming down, feeling the pitter patter, as we say in hockey terms where you hear that pitter patter coming up here. There's a lot of it behind you. I feel that our, I feel that the crew cast channel and the discord is pretty popping.

I mean, there there's mornings to get in there so there's like you know 20 30 uh new comments um granted some you know some of the original threads are you know might might have his beat but i think we're we're holding our own you know we're gonna it's it's as the boys say you know a rise and tide raises all ships so it's like there's nothing better i mean again throwback doing what i do masters a lot of times i'm competing by myself that's fun i still go hard but there's absolutely nothing better than having a couple guys there with you spurring you on and fucking chirping each other and and having a good go so yeah it's all good boys road 700 podcasts it's absolutely i think my favorite thing has been

seeing people who like comment stuff on the the public discord that like proves that they listen to the entire episode and they walk away with an opinion like like that's awesome like like jen had so much to say about like so many people like picked up on little things that like i wouldn't even consider a topic and then they like there would be like you know conversations about it and i was like that's pretty cool to like someone listened to us talk for 90 minutes and came away with enough stuff that they went to a message board and typed it in and was like that's like that's awesome yeah well and i mean it's the community we have too like it's very funny it's uh you know if you were to look at it somebody would say it's like again i got buddies like you're flying to south dakota to go to a powerlifting meet with a bunch of dudes you've

never actually met i'm like yeah well and what's wrong with you you wouldn't i've met these guys i talk to them every day well i mean that's what's funny like how many times have you know i i don't know i'm chatting on you know quick little side dm and stuff like that and and like you know just normal chit chat stuff like it's in it i guess you know funny for the old guy to do it but in the new world i mean this is how a lot of the unfollows get by and thrive and survive you know it's uh the online community all this stuff so there's nothing better than again seeing this and it's nice to see a pile of dudes and and our chips like just a pile of people that are not worried it's dude we're just here to have fucking fun yeah best part let's lift some shit and bang some friggin weights and crack some crispy boys and rock the house man

you know too many people get worried. I am so looking forward to the Lift, Hurt, Live Easy Classic, boys. This is going to be hey, everybody. It's like five bucks to get in. Oh, dude. I hear there's going to be explosives. Fireworks and whatnot. I hear that...

Just randomly do it. I think we can bring our own fireworks i heard i heard it was declared there's definitely some there's definitely gonna be some explosions in the bathroom i imagine every way it's uh that's it i mean it's normal but you know but yeah fantastic like i said it's great sitting in the discord and chit-chatting about nothing the discord about nothing. The discord about nothing. Does anyone else have to explain to people what discord is?

Like when they ask about Massimo, like, so, so you said, okay, so here's how I've had some conversations. So you're on a podcast. Yep. I do a podcast with some buddies. What's it about? Another podcast. Well, what's that about? You know, I, you know, it's about a bunch of random stuff, but we're also in a discord together.

Well, what's a discord? it's like a big group chat like it's so many different levels to explain like what we're doing to like outsiders that it's almost comical because it takes like like if i had to type it out it'd be like three paragraphs of like this is why we do what we do so like if you're not in the know you know you might not love our podcast but i think to the hundred or so people that are listening to it every week i you know we're going to keep bringing it to you guys so keep on uh giving us good feedback and we'll uh keep uh molding this into what we all want it to be because it is for us it is by us and for us and i mean i think it would depend too like if you get into a uh there is crawl you know there's that vending diagram of if you get some dude that's a gamer or something

it's like yeah you know do you know discourse or something, it's like, yeah, you know, do you know discourse? Like, Oh yeah. It's like, yeah, we've got our own discord now. Oh, okay,

cool. Gotcha. You know, it's, um, it's just that little crossover stuff. If you have to explain it, it doesn't,

do you know what discord is? No, it's like, it's like a mess. It's like, it's like a form, like a message board forum type of thing. Oh,

it's MSN for young people. Yeah, that's it. Or, or moderately old people yeah well um great talking to you scans um i think everybody can remember to find us on our new instagram which is unpaid.underrated.podcast um it is performing quite well i am um having a lot of fun um i'll tell you combating some of the the weird bots

because it's a podcast chat a bunch of the sex oh i haven't even though it's like hey that's crazy like i figured that like i always thought that the sex bots and stuff were like based off of who you follow like if you follow a couple like well being a fitness that's why you get all the porn. No, being a fitness adjacent podcast. Then we get, I still get like, just, oh, hey, or some of them are sexy, like thirst traps, but they just want to offer me financing tips. Or they'll be like, hey, you're looking to make a couple thousand dollars. And I'll be like, yeah, like I'm a new podcast.

Tell me. So remember though, we are unpaid dot underrated dot podcast. We have a website for banners. We do have a website. The website is unpaid intern podcast dot com. Guys, where can we find you? Find me at Keith Honeycutt 73 on Instagram. I'm just kind of hanging out.

Boy Scants one. Find on friday afternoons popping in the garage and i am freaking things i am at joey underscore melesco m-l-e-c-z-k-o of course follow our podcast page and follow massonomics and remember if you found this at all interesting and you're not already a supporting member become a supporting member maybe some good things happen maybe you join perk city maybe we see you in south dakota in july um of course i want to say maybe get a leg tattoo maybe get a dumb leg tattoo got me oh one new feature that we have uh is you can go to unpaid intern podcast.com slash two big underscore Matt. And that is of course our apology to a big Matt, mostly squat videos for not being able to get them on this week. You know, we really tried to work in that timing again,

this, but it just, it didn't work out so hopefully next week uh and keith you want to sign us off with our specialty sign off here all right so we pretty much have a set in a set in stone schedule we're going to be recording every thursday and all our podcasts will come out tuesday morning so see you next tuesday