Unpaid And Underrated - 012 : Call a Crüber

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

This week Joey and Keith get recap the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic with a few previous guests. Listen in to hear the host break down all the highlights of the weekend with Big Scants, Big Chris and Dr. Big Jake... or is it Big Dr. Jake 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 Big Jake on instagram at @midwesternjakefrom_statefarm (https://www.instagram.com/midwestern_jake_from_statefarm/). You can find Big Chris on instagram at @beerbelly_lifts (https://www.instagram.com/beerbelly_lifts/). You can find Big Scants 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 Guests: Big Chris, Big Scants, and Dr. Big Jake.

and welcome back to episode 722 of the mass not not the mass economics podcast this is the unpaid and underrated podcast we are the lifting podcast about nothing and whatnot the podcast by crew for crew. And we have got a banger of an episode for you tonight, boys. It is going to be the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic Recap. I am one of your hosts, Big Keith, joined by my co-host, Big Joey. Hello, hello. And we've got Mr. Chris Daminger with us.

What's going on, guys? We got Mr. Jake, not from State Farm, with us. Hello. And we got Mr. Masters himself, big old Scantz. What's going on, boys? Well, I don't know about you guys, but after this weekend, I don't think I want any more alcohol, so I'm diving right into a cherry bubbly tonight. I'm just going to leave it at that. And we want to go around. If everyone has a little refreshing drink with them tonight, what do you guys got?

I started, I finally decided to try the strawberry bubbly. And it smells so good, but it's strawberry essence for sure. But of course I do have some Keats on standby because I recovered already. So let's go. What about you, Chris? What are you drinking? I just poured a Tonewood Fuego into my Silly Point from the meat. Nice.

What about Jake? What you got, buddy? Oh, I got myself a nice spicy, crispy Corona and waters in my meat cup two separate drinks of course not that mixed together do you do you lime your coronas i do that's the spirit yep line them flip them upside down my thumb's always too small and i end up just spraying corona everywhere so i had to like figure out a different way to do it scant what are you drinking there buddy yeah boys i was good to go the next day man i'm ripping crispy boys in the flight home right most

masters uh i got a local northeast ipa called party line and its selling point is it says strong beer so party line so is that is that something only me and you understand oh dude i think this is like southern new brunswick period so no so party lines are in the old days when telephone lines were first built the same number would go to multiple houses right so you'd you'd phone a number no party line and you would hope that you would get you'd hope you'd get the person you wanted but you'd usually end up getting their neighbor or something. And then there's the other party line, which is the call me. Just confuse the entire crew. Yeah.

You guys, you guys don't have area codes in Canada or where it's like, well, we didn't in 1902 when we're like around. I gotcha. So when, when, when scans was in a primary school, well apparently right after the discovery of fire. Yes. We moved quickly into court of telephones, so. Apparently, yes. I'm also masters.

All right. So today's topic and the reason we have gathered you all here is we're going to talk about what just happened and i think the only way to describe it is just is that way the thing that we all just did uh we'll go over some reviews some highlights hopefully refresh my mind about some of the stuff that happened at the zoo um you know as soon as big matt looked at me and said you ain't out janking me i was just like oh here we go and then both him and i went to bed early uh now full disclosure um i made it in very late on friday um i essentially flew directly in in a car so drove directly into the hotel and then then to Tanner's and was still late to Tanner's. So for the Thursday portion where you guys all went out and went to the gym the next day, I ain't got much to say. So I'm going to let you guys lead the way. And I am going to drink this drink. Thursday was awesome. We, uh, I think a fair amount of us got in Thursday afternoon,

uh, Thursday evening. Uh, I think one of us, uh, big Ryan got in Wednesday afternoon, Thursday evening. I think one of us, I think Ryan got in Wednesday, I think, and then just kind of passed out. But Thursday for me was awesome. Travel sucked, took forever. Got there Thursday night, pretty much, I think I saw it in the Discord thread within the first hour I was there. Everyone was meeting up at Pounders for dinner.

I think it was just two or three guys that went. The first, I think, was Damager, his old lady, and Ryan, maybe another person. So me and mostly Squat Mats went over there and joined them. And then it was just over the next three hours, maybe even four hours, there was at least another 18 people that probably came and went. I think the grand total was about 20-ish guys and girls were there over the course of four or five hours. Just a couple guys would come, a couple guys would go away.

The other host ended up showing up about 8 o'clock or so after we were already there and enjoyed ourselves for a while. I think we pretty much went there till about 10.30, 11 o'clock. And it was awesome. Just being able to... Honestly, that might have been one of my favorite. Just because it was a little more low-key than a lot of the other stuff. And there was less... It was the first time you were meeting a lot of the people. So there was the introductions and then just like that.

Then the entire newness of just being like, Oh, I'm literally at a table with 8 people that I'm friends with on Instagram. And I've only met like 2 of them in person before. That was really cool. That was just... I did end up... I wouldn't say graffiti. it's not the right word, but I did put an unpaid and underrated podcast sticker on their mirror, and I thought it would get pulled off within the next day or two.

But one of the guys from Strength Co. posted a story where he added his sticker to it as well, I think three or four days later. So maybe it's still there. I guess we'll find out in 2024. But Pounders was awesome for me what about you damager uh i know you you drank about 15 more beers than i did that night so um we so travel started off a little rough because we they go to scan our boarding pass and it doesn't beep and blink green it just was red and she was like oh you gotta get c assignment

or she was saying something about you had either print out a new board and pass or something like that so they stuck us all the way to back of the plane so my wife was pissed i was mad but we were like you know what let's just deal with it we'll get there when we get there well then they ended up saying there was two seats up front so we ended up being kind of in first class. So we had bigger seats, more legroom. We ended up working out. So flew into Sioux Falls, drove up to, well, flew into Denver, then flew into Sioux Falls, drove up to Aberdeen. And then as soon as we got there, we unloaded our stuff. I posted that we were going to Pounders,

and then Ryan Johnson met us down there, big Jack and Ginger. So walk in, look like you're looking at a mirror. Then I think you and Matt showed up when we got a bigger table. Then people started funneling in and out. I'm not sure what time you left. Then when Tanner showed up and Tommy showed up. I was at Founders until the very end. It was the zoo that I left

Pounders, we all left Pounders Within like minutes of each other That's right, because I drove back with you, that's right Oh yeah, Jesus Christ, he's trying to give me He's giving me a hard time for leaving Pounders early And I dropped his ass off at the hotel at 10.45 Yeah, you little guy Definitely, definitely had a good time

That day The way that Pounders worked out was amazing. Just to have all you had to do is post in Discord, and people just kept funneling in and out. It was amazing. And you were just meeting everybody that night. I want to say our table started off as a six-top, and we turned it into an eight-top.

And then we literally, by the end of the night, we had three tables all, like, rectangle together, like a big Thanksgiving table, and it was full. Like, you had Jonathan Oldham on one side and Tanner and Tommy on the other and about 15 crew in the middle. And Eddie and the non-drinking crowd showed up right at the end, I think, on the way to pick up Scantz and Waffle Iron at the airport. Yep.

Yeah, that was Thursday for us. I know a lot of you guys got in. Well, I know Jake didn't get in until Friday. Scans, you got in Thursday. So you want to tell us about how your late night went? She was a long one, boys. Yeah, I started about, I think, 6 or 7 in the morning and rolled in about. I met up in Minneapolis with Bigapolis with uh big waffle iron there

big steve and we rolled in our plane at like 11 30 so big eddie and big matt his wife jess rolled in brought in the cardboard scans to greet us so uh the two poor fellows that were working at the airport were staring at these four great big savages and this lovely young woman and a cardboard cutout of one of the guys anyways yeah for us it was just it was just getting our asses into the hotel and get the ground because uh it was uh it was i think about 18 hour day I had flying. So obviously I was very loose and limber at that point in time. So anyways, yeah, that was about it. It was very uneventful, just long old day. I was hoping to get them watching the boys all posting pics,

but being a pounders, I'm like, this sucks. I'm sitting in an airport. I was so mad. I will tell you, I was, we drove from about 10 AM our time our time till about 10 so about 12 hours um yeah so we ended up in madison wisconsin and first of all yeah i'm not gonna say anything i'm just gonna tell you i must have been the fattest person i saw like everybody there was thin and attractive throughout the entire drive-in like it like it was like the truman show in madison wisconsin but then the hotel was also over 300 for one night so i guess as steve said it was a big it's a big

hit but it was just a hilton but as steve said like that's because nobody can afford food that's why everybody is so small there but i don't. I was having a point there and watching all you guys at pounders. And I'm just like, cause I knew what was coming, which leads us into, I guess Friday, or do we have more to talk about? I'm good.

Yeah, I'm good. I think I did forget to put like weigh-ins in, but they can kind of go with the, make it to the gym. Like that was Friday. It was like weigh-ins. If anyone wants to,

you know, run with that. Weigh-ins are what? Friday morning? Yeah. So it to the gym like that was friday it was like weigh-ins if anyone wants to you know run with that weigh-ins are what friday morning yeah so like friday morning was like that that was like the first one everyone kind of like saw the od ice ring and was just like oh this is where it's going to be like i i don't know about everybody else but that was definitely the biggest venue i've had a powerlifting meet in um definitely the hottest venue i've had a powerlifting meet in towards the end of the day. But overall, they had it set up great. I couldn't imagine trying to do it at the American Inn. Like I dropped people off at that hotel and saw how small it was. And the parking lot wouldn't even fit as many people as we had competing.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I stayed there. It was a great little place. But the bartender was even like, oh, they're supposed to do that here. And I was like, yeah, they're not going to fit here. like oh they're supposed to do that here and i was like yeah they're not gonna fit here um so she said some some of you guys ended up um at the gym like did you go for a tour

anybody anybody you guys like did a gym tour on friday or because i know i wasn't there yeah we hit the weigh-ins for a bit there and yeah i went out with i know you i think right chris yep yeah that's right jen took control of my as a responsible adult we hit the weigh-ins and that was a pretty surreal experience walking in boom there's tommy there's tanner there's chris and uh jen there's big jen there's big murph. I was just like, holy shit, boys, this is freaking crazy. And, but yeah, weigh-ins were pretty slick and out for a bite to eat. And then the whole freaking crew of us all just showed up down at the gym and hung out for a couple hours, just cracking beers and playing around.

It was pretty, it was pretty cool. I saw those photos. Were you guys able to play with things in the gym that day? Yes. Okay. All right. Here I thought Sunday we went and broke some rules. I guess on Friday you guys, okay, that's good.

That's good. We were authorized one visit, remember? Well, remember Big Caden said if you touch anything, you have to pay. That was Sunday. That was Sunday. Yeah, that's not how that worked out. So one thing I got to kick... One thing I got to kick out of a lot was, you could tell on...

Tanner had mentioned, basically, he'll leave the gym unlocked for us, making a big scene about how he's going to make sure that it's not locked. And then you go down there, and there's no damn lock. There's no keypad. There's no turn lock. There's there, there has never been a lock on that freaking door.

It's just a passage knob. Like you would just have in your hallway. So that was very amusing when I saw that. And that kind of, that kind of stuck with me. And I just was like, yeah, that's just one of those many. Well, yeah, he, he, he, he, he did tell the truth on that but uh yeah we we went and weighed in uh went and got some food checked out the billboard did uh did like a quick tour of the gym uh and then just went back to the hotel and kind of just zoned out for a few hours before the

big uh shindig that night and then the big shindig uh fly like i kind of i wish i had a day before that big shindig like some of you guys did because i walked in there and i i hadn't even had a drink yet and i was already just drunk with just like people meeting me and getting names and trying to say hi to everybody i possibly could and then like the next day i feel miserable but there were some people i walked right up to and i was like did we meet yesterday and they were like yeah i was like i'm so sorry but it was just like every everything all at once in a good way like i'm not upset about this this was incredible to just suddenly like to go from only having met none of you five of you maybe to everybody being there everybody Murph and Keith and like it was mind-blowing and I snuck in um some Keith's I brought in a uh 12 of ice cold Keats and a couple of drinks that I think are going to be

shared on the podcast uh and I just said, hey, everybody, I brought these from Canada. I know me and Scantz talk about them all the time. Help yourselves. And I was like, but I also brought these waters. And everybody was like, no, Keats, please. And that 12 was gone in like the first hour. And I said, that's not Tanner and Tommy's first Keats. Like they had it before and must have enjoyed it.

So I asked for it again. So I had to go back and get the rest of that i think i only left there with about four or five out of the whole thing that was pretty amazing um fireballs with lou probably a bad idea the day before the meet but i wasn't i wasn't competing i don't care um and then just the last highlight is of course the other canadian treats that steve brought which were ketchup chips some maple cookies and coffee crisp and the ketchup chips were a hit that bag was gone in minutes 100 minutes and connor from the strength co was like oh yeah i've already ordered a taste like i'm already on amazon ordering them right now i'm shocked you didn't bring any maple water

uh yeah i thought about it but that shit's actually more expensive than Keith's. So we'll just have to call Keith's the maple water. Did you get in Friday for Jake? Did you get in Friday for Tanner and Tommy's? No, no, I didn't get there till 1 a.m. Saturday. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

Jesus, what happened there? Yeah. Uh, I, so I was actually seeing patients while you guys were all weighing in. So I had to weigh in, in clinic and then send, uh, send a picture of my weight to be good. That's how we went. Yeah. That's how we went around that. Um, and then I had a procedures lab until about 5 p.m. local Omaha time. And so buzzed through that. I got out a little early, drove back to the house, picked up my stuff, my cooler full of food for the trip and the dogs.

And we just booked it on up. And, yeah, I got to the hotel about like 1245, 1am Saturday. Yeah, we were up a few hours later getting ready for the meet and had to, right before everybody got started Saturday, met Tanner super quick, met Big Dave, had to get my heights for the squat and bench and just went from there. for the squat and bench and just went from there. So yes, I was exceedingly jealous of all the meetups because that Friday party looked sweet. Missed out on free pizza, free Keats, all the fun stuff.

She just told all those patients, Motrin and water, I got to go. I got to go. Change of socks, I got to go. case it's uh motrin and water i gotta go i gotta go yeah change your socks i gotta go yeah we were in in and out pretty quick in it in the clinic there i think the best food you might have missed out on was that pulled pork that was the biggest vat of like pulled pork i think i've ever seen it just like a family gathering like a like a family and friends gathering uh that was that was That was really very good. So big thanks to Mary for pretty much probably doing about 90% of all that for us.

Hey, Tanner went to Target. We know that. He suffered through Target. He suffered through Target. Now, did he actually confirm he went in or just went through Target? He said he went in. All the pictures were him. Tommy actually asked him. That was like a topic i think on last week's episode because he was like did you get that delivered or or did mary pick all that up and he's like no no i i wanted to go pick out everything now on the friday did anybody get a fulfillment center tour or was

it okay that was just you just you it was just me and steve and ryan so we all went down there and must have been early eh oh real early saturday yeah so did you get in um i got in i got in friday during the party so then when everybody left it was just like a couple of us and then i was like can i see the fulfillment center and he's like yeah there's you know there's enough people here that gone that i think yeah sure so we got a quick tour saw that we saw the slides that pop um you know i got my picture taken with those don't don't close my emotions it's okay grant took them um yeah i just saw some of the saw some of the you know the stuff because i think actually the reason we went down there is in in our hurry to pack steve actually forgot to

buy or to pack any t-shirts so he had the one he was wearing and nothing else so he bought one off of tanner like on the spot he's like i i need it tanner's like yeah i pick it up tomorrow and and he was like i don't have one to wear tomorrow. I need something. So we went down there and picked out a shirt, saw some things. Some things I'm not allowed to share. But yeah, I saw some things. And it's good to know that I got that sneak and some of you didn't. That's good news.

I'm going to lord that over everybody for a little while. But at least I'm doing it now so you can't call me the mole. You already know I know. That's fine. Yeah, I think first you had my attention. Now you've got my interest. All right, and that's Friday. Unless you guys have something else you want to add.

I will say that. What you got, Chris? I wish every meet started that way. With like a nice little pre-meet party the night before. It just like set the tone for the rest of the weekend. It was just, it was so good. I just laughed so much that it was, it was, I don't know. I really didn't go into the meet like super nervous or anything.

So it just made things so much better. It's like you're having a meet with your friends or as you know, I ever meet, I think Keith, you even said this to me, like you go to a meet, you might know one or two people and here, you know, 98% of the people competing. And then even the ones I didn't, I knew right away. They were all gym members away right they were all gym members like they were all like historic gym like i talked uh you know uh ryan defay and uh

matt rossmore and like all these guys that aren't really in crew or anything but they're just like have been massonomics adjacent and massonomics podcast you know they've just been part of the family for years so just like oh i know you but then they're they have like no they don't listen to podcasts at all it's kind of funny but it's just like you're still you're been part of the family for years. They're just like, oh, I know you. But then they have no... They don't listen to the podcast at all, which is kind of funny, but they're still part of that circle. Me and Bryce was really cool. I think my favorite part was

asking everybody around me who the big tall guy with the beard was and why he looks so familiar. It's Tyler Effenstone. Oh, yeah. The whole time I was going that looks really familiar like i know him but i don't think i've met him like he's somebody and then he walked up and he knew me and then i was just like i have damn it i figured it out like as he was approaching

me i was like oh it's tyler and that's when i was like hey man i don't know if you know who i am but he's like oh i know who you are and that that was really cool. But that just goes to show that even if you don't know him, you know him. Any highlights from the meet? Do you want to talk sets and reps? I think everybody's already going to do that, but we have some award winners

here. Maybe let's just talk about that. Jake, you are literally wearing yours, so we won't forget. So what did you win? Oh, yeah. Raw Open 90 kilo male division second place. Very nice. Pretty happy.

Pretty happy, not going to lie. No, that was exciting. I didn't expect to because I was kind of surprised the 90 kilo group had like 10 lifters in it. So I figured for sure that it would be pretty tough. But once they started going through the people, I was like, oh man, I might actually win this. That award looks sweet. I better win this. Sure enough, I got lucky enough. Yeah, it was a good meet.

It was 1289 point something. So 55 pound PR. Beltless. Ecstatic. Beltless. Beltless. Because you are, you are a fan of the beltless lifting.

I remember that. Oh my God. Yeah. Apparently that, that turned some eyes. I wasn't, I wasn't expecting to turn eyes with that, but here we are. if they listen to our

podcast they'd know they would and that's actually funny as i turn to steve's like yeah he lives beltless and then i was like actually i do most of the time too so we might see what i do next uh scantz you won a wooden award i think yeah to pull the pulled the most masters. I figured a couple of those guys were acting old, we're going to get it. Figured I was immature enough to not. But yeah, I pulled the most masters. Maybe that's why I

stuck around at the zoo, just to make sure everybody was home and everybody was good and out of the barn. Just full-blown dad mode, I guess. But still requiring adult supervision through. Good, net of the burn. Just full-blown dad mold, I guess. Oh, we'll get there. We'll get to talking about this. But still requiring adult supervision through.

Well, Murph had her eye, one eye on you. Keith, did you snag an award? I mean, I took second place in 275. Hell yeah. Submasters. Chris beat me by about 200 pounds. And then I beat, uh,

Bob by about 30 or 40. So that was, uh, we had a, we had a nice little, he, we kept, he kept coming up to me throughout the meet going like,

what'd you get? Cause he, he, he like, we were just, we wanted to beat each other. It was just kind of like, neither of us have a total that's worth talking shit about,

but it was just cool. Cause we were within like 50 pounds of each other, the whole meet. Uh, so, but yeah, that was awesome. I,

uh, squatted, squatted an all-time pr benched a meat pr pulled a meat pr and had a 33 pound total pr which was like the biggest jump i've ever made in a from meat to meat so i was ecstatic especially like going in like being extremely anxious about the travel and the hotel living and being like i don't know what i'm what i'm going to be able to do but But they ran a very easy-going meet. They weren't a stickler on the start command or anything.

So I think bench, I probably could have squeaked out a little bit more on bench just because I'm used to USPA and USAPL where you have to unrack and hold it for about three or four seconds, whereas this was like one second, a very quick pause at the bottom, and then they were being very lifter friendly with the judging. I actually, from the stands, I think it was a bit of a different experience. I think it was good judging, man. Yeah, I think that.

I don't think there was any gimmies. It was. There was a lot of red lights on those squats. A lot of red lights on those squats. And that's. And yeah, that was. Actually, at one point, I think I turned to steve and i was like you watch that one judge like and then we were watching and she was like eye level with your hips and she'd go down with you and come up like it was nice i think she

was on point i think yeah the commands were a bit fast but like good because sometimes that rack on rack and you're standing there shaking and they're like we're not we're not telling you to bench until you stop moving, right? I hated that. Yeah, but that's generally your lifters. As a ref, it's generally lifters' error. I've had to re-rack lifters in the squat. And what's going on?

It's like, dude, your freaking knees are bent like 10 degrees. Block your bloody knees out. I thought it was really good reffing. it was i thought it was really good i thought it was really good reference yeah the the pyrotechnics was literally the most insane thing i've ever experienced lifting in my life uh i was like i was like oh my god is this gonna happen like i was nervous because i'm like i don't like change anything that gets me out of my rhythm just messes me up it's hard for so i was like man they're gonna they're gonna light that pyro i'm drop my third attempt i'm gonna be so pissed and you know i i locked out my third i was like just grinning ear to ear and they fucking flow the throw the flames out and i thought my damn eyebrows singed

off and i was just like ah i think i think if you watch my video i actually like mouth i better not drop this or something to that extent like i may have just been like holy fuck or something but it was uh it was awesome i got such a k K in a Russian meat. Machine guns firing. Not to cut anybody off, but we actually did there. Chris, you won one or two awards. I got second place

Submasters Open behind Flying Ryan DeFay. I forget what his total was, but I ended up with a 501 squat, which tied my PR. 303 on bench, which was

a 43-pound meet PR. And I missed 606. I think I hit a 589 deadlift, but missed 606. So it gave me a 1394 total, which was nice. I was still a 34 pound meat PR

on total. And I got second in submasters open and first in just submasters. Ryan had 1427, so you weren't that far behind him, honestly. Yeah, not too far behind. Do you have a spreadsheet? Do you have a spreadsheet? I have fucking open powerlifting on my phone. It's always the spreadsheet. him honestly yeah not too far behind do you have a spreadsheet numbers do you have a spreadsheet oh

i have fucking open power lifting on my phone it's always the spreadsheet my spreadsheets came in handy my spreadsheet's gonna keep us in podcast guests for the next six months so hey we're doesn't mean it's not something i'm gonna laugh about uh i didn't compete and i've made that pretty clear so um what i wanted to do was be useful in other ways so one of the first things I did of course was buy the gear which I'm sure we'll get to in the conversation at some point in the conversation I bought you know whatever was that I didn't have including the shirt I'm wearing now which is the original blue lift shirt but I thought I just wanted to be useful in some other way so I started just kind of checking in with the lifters, doing some content for our Instagram

page. Um, I was doing a little bit of liaison between barefoot and the guys cause they were running the meet barefoot had questions and I was like, just send me to run. Like I'll run back and forth and get all this stuff handled. Cause barefoot showed up a little late. Um, doing some filming for everybody scans. I did yours. I did, um, Keith,ith i got a couple videos of you

which i have have i sent to you yep yep yeah you got a you got a good like uh down up angle yeah jake i grabbed a couple for you as well uh chris i think jen was handling you um and you know me and jen essentially once i got front row so steve left because he was exhausted. And I had a beer because Big Lou had a beer. This was like halfway through bench. So I was already feeling a little loose. And I just kind of just at that point just became hype. And Jen was there with me the whole time. We were just shouting and screaming and having fun.

Got in trouble from the guy next to me for having too much fun at a power lift. I heard, I heard that story. That was funny. Yeah. You better sit down boy. It is what it is.

I don't live there. I'm going to give that guy the respect of he does. And I don't just like, don't come to a power lifting meet next time, man. Like if you, if me being in your way, cause I'm cheering on my friends is a bad thing. Maybe next time you don't come to a power lifting meet next time man like if you if me being in your way because i'm cheering on my friends is a bad thing maybe next time you don't but that's neither there

nor there um so uh there was one point um and i'm still reliving this because it's one of the funniest things i think it was right when me and jen finally like clicked so chris is looking out and like me and jen were like having fun and chatting and chris goes like he's gonna go 606 i think was your second or third attempt uh third attempt dead was the yeah and jen says just breathe baby just like focus breathe and then i stick my head in front of her and i scream don't listen to her rip it and rip it and fucking send it bud and then she's like don't listen to him and it was just really funny because yeah that at that point me and jen were just synced for pretty much the rest of the day there and i oh i got to uh baby powder larry the legend nice yeah I went back to ask somebody something

and he was just like hey you're not lifting can you help me out and I was like damn right it's my duty sir yeah me and Larry was pretty cool like I was definitely on my bucket list uh he did not he you basically had to pry anything out of him he was very uh soft-spoken didn't I mean I'm sure if he knows you a little better he'll talk but it was also i think when i met him he was like right after you know it was literally right when we were about ready to go live so no one a lot of people were kind of not as talkative in that zone but yeah the meeting larry was pretty cool i talked to him a little bit at the zoo later that night too but uh that was definitely on my bucket list to do all right does anybody want to add like what did you get out of this like so much some of you are

already wearing i can tell what you bought um you got your meat shirts i'm seeing the lift heavy metal shirt uh the jefferson deadlift shirt i grabbed the ammonia the silly pint um talked to myself out of the shorts for some reason the cam camo shorts, and said, like, I'm going to get back to Michigan, like, halfway home. I don't even like a shit about those damn shorts. But I didn't. That's fine. I couldn't do it. I don't wear camouflage.

I know. I always joke about wearing camouflage, and I only have, like, one pair. No, unless I'm getting paid, I'm not doing it. That's the spirit. That's work. That's work. This is not work. Yeah, it's with me and dress shoes.

You're paying me extra for wearing those. But is there anything that anybody thought that they got? I love the meat shirt. I initially was going to get an extra large, and then my wife went to go pick it up. And I think Tanner knows that I've criticized the sizing enough that he's just like are you sure he doesn't want a 2x and he basically made her take a 2x for me and it fits perfectly uh and then when i bought a lift shirt a little bit later he was like well this is this one you can get an extra large so he like basically self-admitted that like their shirts are a little wonky on the sizing so i gotta get a kick out of

that so yeah uh love the meat shirt you know i'm debating on buying another meat shirt just to hang it up on the wall but i got the poster so i think the poster will you know serve you know suffice for that uh got a the lift shirt and bought two pairs of lift shirts uh just in bigger sizes uh than what i have currently and then i traded with uh one of the uh one of the guys there um a pair of curl shorts that don't fit for a pair of deadlifter shorts so that was a little swap a little swap going on i did end up grabbing the collars from strength go um yeah that they were they're gorgeous and they're not what i'm used to so i'm still having some trouble like one-handed them like i haven't quite figured out that fold and snap um but i'll get there but they're they're gorgeous they're they're pretty cool i've always wanted those smaller colors

right because right now the ones i have are those big round ones and i'm not using those spring colors like come on and uh yeah that was it then go ahead i think according to uh have you did grant show you how to use those because i remember he had a video that like you have you have to have the the thicker side up against the plate or they they walk loose so yeah i'm curious how many people didn't gather that when they were trying to use them no no that that part made sense it's just it takes a little force to hold like to actually close them yeah i used them in the weigh-ins they were they were they were snug yeah it's hard to do with one hand that's all warm-ups that that is, not wieners. But yeah.

The meet itself was great. I mean, it couldn't have been set up. Did they actually, were they serving beer there? When I watched them, were there people actively drinking throughout the whole meet, like fans? That's pretty cool. And lifters. And lifters. That was one thing I found crazy um how many

guys drank for like 48 hours straight and competed and put up a total 400 pounds better than mine fuckers like like so big matt drank i've messed in the hotel the same hotel i just wanted to show from around most of the weekend that dude drank like 12 beers on Thursday, 12 ish beers and bourbon on Friday, you know, competed at a great meet, you know, I just, I can, I couldn't do that. And I'm sure he drank all night, you know, at the zoo. I don't really know. But yeah, just how many, how many guys like, like just, just drank like Chris, you, you drank a fair amount

and competed like i couldn't do it uh you know jack and ginger drank a lot and competed uh sounds like scans drank a fair amount and competed like i i can't do that i but i but i don't but i don't drink regularly so it's like if the guys that drink semi-regularly can do it and still good meat but man i was i was there i put too much in my meat prep and i know i'm i might have been in the minority like i'm more of the serious goose when it comes to the lifting so i was pretty happy uh but i had i i had such an amazing meat like if i had gone out there and gone like you know six for nine and shit the bed and like hit 50 pounds less than what i did i would have it would have ruined my fucking trip so having the three or four beers throughout the whole weekend i did i i'm still had a great time see that's why you gotta move right before the right before the meet because then all your

numbers drop you just hit fuck it you're just like we're going prs or er here send it it's the way to do it but so like imagine though that you didn't have all of those drink like you didn't drink and you didn't do all that stuff and still had a shitty meet like like there's always the possibility so i would always err on the side of just have a good time i got you and if that's some drinks that's some drinks if it's not it's not right so i do understand because like when i woke up i was like i'm not lifting a damn thing like i am exhausted from driving that's another reason i didn't want to plus i'm pretty sick so i'm really just keeping back right now so master's trick is if you're always hurt

you never know when you're hurt yeah this is it's when you're not hurt yeah it's a really rough shape it's just tuesday bud i'm good yeah yeah this knee just don't work that's that's what happens when i go to somebody like jake they say, what's your pain level? It's like normal, six, six-ish maybe. And what's the normal pain level, Jake? Zero. Apparently, a nerd has a zero. Now for my fellow Americans,

had anybody else ever been to a powerlifting meet where they sang the national anthem before the meet? Because that was a first for me. I just wanted to give a big shout out to our buddy, Big Zach, I believe an Aberdeen native and gym member that stepped up and sang the national anthem for us and got amazing pictures of like almost all the lifters and sent them to him. So I really appreciate that, buddy. But yeah, having the national anthem before the meet, I was like, wow, this is serious. We really are in God's country out here aren't we i've never been to one like where they did sing the national anthem beforehand it's always just been roll right into it that might have come out of zach but we were

chatting on the discord for a bit about it and the boys today you know you're you do sing yeah come on give her i'm trying to get him to sing old canada but yeah i don't know the words nobody knows the words i just said say it three times chug some maple syrup apologize walk off yeah that was that was a really good meet and i probably if i'm still around next year i'm definitely uh putting my name in the hat to compete at that one i'll probably fly out if i do that though because i don't want to do this steve was like no i'm driving again next year i was like putting my name in the hat to compete at that one. I'll probably fly out if I do that though, because I don't want to do this. Steve was like, no, I'm driving again next year.

I was like, I'm not. I'll meet you there. I'm not doing 21 hours of driving and then lifting. That's insane. Especially with hotel gyms. All right. Anything we got to add? Anything you guys want to talk about directly at the meet?

Any silly goose times you had? All right. So directly after the meet, silly goose times you had all right so directly after the meet um we went back to the hotel i caught a ride with ryan uh because steve was still sleeping and when steve was not awake yet um i went and had a drink with big murph and then we all went to dinner where we drank more. And that was when, for me, I think the dinner was when I finally got to sit and, like, remember. This is embarrassing. I finally got to sit and remember who all of you are. What we've talked about in the past. We're the whole time at the meet.

I'm just everywhere, right? And then finally I sat down and I was going, oh, that's Jack and Ginger. Oh, that's Jack and Ginger. Oh, that's, Oh yeah. Like it was like, Chris, I swear like until I sat next to Jen, I didn't recognize you for like half of the time at the meet, despite seeing you the night before and knowing exactly who you were. Right. But it's just that face blindness that HDH, the ADHD gets you were just like, yeah, it wasn't quite,

but I think that the dinner was really fun because i had called i tried to book online and they just they refused it so i called and the guy's like oh yeah we don't do reservations and i was like cool you got about 30 people coming your way that are all hungry after doing a power lifting meet and we're all going to spend some money so you might want to maybe get a table right and sure enough we all showed up we had half the inside then we all took out the entire outside um i know that keith didn't have uh anything there with us you know separately yeah i was so hungry after the meet uh we i think – I'm pretty sure we dropped Matt off or maybe he got to ride with us back to someone else. I can't remember.

We went right to Maverick's. Nice steak dinner. I promised my wife I'd take her out for a steak dinner. It didn't happen the night before. So really good, really good dinner. One thing I noticed – I don't know if anyone else caught this. Any time – everyone in the service industry was like young ish like not overweight and just friendly like i don't have that in upstate new york like everyone that works

in service is just fucking miserable people that are the rudest fucking stony fucking douchebag like just dip dipshits and i'm like i'm not even just like going to mcdonald's like jesus buddy what's going on up there? Yeah, I'm just saying. Based on the way you're talking about them, no wonder. I'm going to drive down to New York and do you all, man. When I pay like $35 for a fucking sandwich or something

and I like, I have to, I don't know. No, you're right. Except for the guy at the pizza place we went to. He was just, he was actually like a fun miserable right where he was just like what's your what do you what do you want and i was like i'll take the 16 ounce and the whole table looks at me funny and he's like just get the 32 man stop fucking around like like that was really fun too right yeah he was a bartender right he wasn't he wasn't

a waitstaff he was a bartender yeah he was out of his element yeah and i hope we made it a little easier uh oh yeah having to do multiple runs once we settled in he he kind of like leveled out a little bit and had some fun with us man yeah he's good definitely good as soon as he realized he was a bartender he read the crowd and yeah boom straight in as soon as he realized we were not there to cause him a problem right We're not going to leave some negative Google reviews on bullshit. Just give us some food and beer. That was really cool. That place was decent pizza. Decent pizza.

The woman we had at Nilsson's was great. She was awesome. She was on point. The food at Nilsson's was fantastic. Scant's got behind the cash register for a little bit. That was actually people out. Some sweat equity, baby.

A little manual labor. They needed a greeter and stuff. That's really funny. Somebody should have got a picture of that. Oh, there is pictures. No, there is. And it's like he's looking down at it like your grandpa would be like reading the newspaper it's freaking hysterical that was there was so much

there was so much good activity i was gonna drive stories and this one or drive down and beat your ass oh my god what's going on did you did you see the picture i posted the scans when he had the the regular glasses down at the bottom of his nose, and then he had the sunglasses up above his eyes. And then he was doing the whole faraway phone thing. And I was like, were you doing that so I would get that picture? It's called style, buddy. Read a book, man. It's called style, sweaty.

No, I did that the first Strongman competition I was helping scoring at last year. It was frigging braves blazes out and i got sunglasses on but i need glasses to read and uh i'm like fuck i'm not sitting out in this blazing summer no sunglasses i'm like shit my glasses fit my sunglasses fit behind my uh reading glasses so and that's it boys that's how a style was born and then yeah we all settled up one by one and it was a painful experience and then um that's it, boys. That's how a style is born. And then, yeah, we all settled up one by one.

It was a painful experience. And then somebody lead us into the next part of the weekend. Church on Sunday, I think it was. The zoo. There's 12 hours at the zoo, Scantz. Yeah. What do you mean? Scantz went straight to church yep right there on first street

that's how it goes buddy pure pure we uh uh i don't know maybe i feel like i'm talking too much but i also just love telling stories so we go over to the zoo um we're all already lubed right like nobody's drunk but like everybody's had more than one. And so I go to get a picture. They had put the meat poster up on the screens. So I go to get a picture and I go to the people that are sitting at the table and I said, hey, I'm sorry guys, but you're going to end up in this picture. I think just want to let you know, I'm posting it on Instagram.

And they were like, like well we'll just send you this picture and i went what who are you and they're like oh we're the owners and i went do you have any clue what's about to happen here and they were like no i was like do you listen to their podcast and they were like no and i was like oh so i gave them like a brief rundown on why they get talked about all the time for having the best party spot in in aberdeen and all of this i was tagging them up in stories all week yeah they got to know who you are then but then i was just like so you know you're gonna get from all over north america um you know scantz i think came from the farthest i'm in the middle

i think there's somebody from Texas here. And all of these people know who you are. Like, they know this little bar in Aberdeen. And we're all so excited to come here. And it was so funny because they were just this elderly couple. And I'm talking, like, not masters. I'm talking a little elderly. And they were just, they were like, nope, we have no clue what's about to happen.

And then I asked for karaoke and they said that we were there the wrong day but then they would get a dj uh yeah and that's when everybody started trickling in and uh i ordered a round of shots and big matt was like no i got to get up early and i was like oh okay and then i kind of gave him a look and that's when he was like you're not drinking me tonight and then i was like sure he's like no no way it's not happening so he drank the shot and then i went to the bathroom and then i came back and he's ordering another one because i guess now i i pressured him a bit and then i turned around and murph's got a bucket i was like i didn't know i could just order one of those on my own um but then she just kept feeding me beers.

I don't think I ordered another beer later that night until I cut my finger. Heads up, Murph. And then she almost passed out. Yeah, big ups, Murph. Cannot handle blood. Because I was just like, I'm just walking around with this cut. I got a napkin around it because whatever, it's a small cut. It was not, by the way.

I got home and investigated that later. That beer bottle did a number on me oh yeah and then uh most of my night was just so jen ended up messaging me and saying hey do you have this picture uh with tanner where he's like squatting so we're the same size i was like huh and i went and opened my phone and i had like six or seven photos i don't remember taking because the night was just so wild at some point i put my phone away and i was like i've got to stop doing this and like be here um so that's when i started to do my goodbyes because keith took 45 minutes to leave he was like i gotta say hi to everybody you're buying everybody make sure i get them on the podcast and then i was like dude good say hi to everybody or bye to everybody and make sure i get them on the podcast and i was like dude good luck and then i just like left him to be they were still half an hour later well my my wife was him and her all about going to the zoo in general and then i

was like well i don't want to get a dui and i don't want to commit myself to just drinking a beer so she ended up coming out she was going to drop me off and she hung out and then she was kind of like all right it's too loud the music sucks i want to go home like okay i i fully understand that we had to we had to be up in like six hours to go to the fucking like she kept on looking at the clock me like like we do have to literally be up in six hours now and i was like all right i'll start saying goodbye to people whatever time it was i gave myself like a half hour and i was like i'm going to start making the rounds because i want to shake one's hand and say goodbye you know and then i but then i that kind of gave me the excuse to actually talk to people because like as much as i talked to people there was probably 20 people that like i only knew by

their face and i was like i haven't talked to this person once or i did it was very brief or whatever so i wanted to actually like get a solid minute or two with everyone and that minute or two turned into five to ten minutes with like you know every single person so i'd like you know five minute conversation time 15 people and then everyone that i said bye to at 10 o'clock when they saw me there at like 10 30 or whatever the time was like 45 minutes later like i thought you left an hour ago i was like i'm trying uh but yeah we we got out of there after about i was i think we were at the zoo for about two two and a half hours maybe had two or three beers had to decline joey's uh shot uh offer and um i would i would save this for the funniest thing i said at the meet but it happened at the zoo so i gotta i'm gonna just tell

my whole little story here so uh i think i posted something in the discord throughout the meet when it was a picture of me and that and uh the handoff guide uh looked a lot similar to to to tanner as far as just having really long hair and kind of a beard. But he was a fair amount shorter. He wasn't a skinny guy, but 6'200 pounds compared to 6'3", 6'4", 275

pounds is a big difference. I tagged him Diet Tanner on Discord or something to that extent. And then he's actually in Discord and it was just a whole thing where he actually changed his handle to Diet Tanner on Discord or something to that extent. And then he's actually in Discord. And it was just a whole thing where he actually changed his handle to Diet Tanner and said it was like a compliment or whatever. And then I got a picture with the two of them at the zoo together with me in the middle. And I thought that was hysterical.

So that was my zoo outing. Just getting to meet a lot of people and having my little spreadsheet out and adding every one of the podcasts and giving out stickers and trying to remember names. And there was probably at least 10 or 15 people there, not in the zoo, but throughout the whole weekend. I know they're in crew, but I didn't get the opportunity to meet

them. I don't know who they are. I feel bad that I didn't get to meet them, but I feel like there were so many people that either were fresh to Discord and did the meet or they were just lurkers and didn't really say anything until the meet time because i'm just like i've never seen your handle before and somehow you're at the meet that's crazy so well that actually leads into um big gen uh grabbing me and saying um we have to go meet everybody and i was like i'm like at this point i'm ready to go she's like no come on jen i don't know if any of you experience this is very

good at peer pressure and i don't usually fall for peer pressure but for some reason when jen asks you do it so we're going around and we're just meeting uh to people and just like this happened for probably an hour um of just jen like leading me around and making me meet all of these people or she didn't know them like making me introduce myself it was it was actually pretty amazing to hang out with jen but that was about the time where we left because oh boy but on the way out the door doesn't big bryce grab me and if big bryce grabs you you're it's a big man he's a big dude he goes you're not leaving are you i was like yeah and he's like not without going top shelf so he dragged me onto that sticky damn floor shut your mouth

oh i'm glad i wasn't wearing my barefoot shoes because like that was worse than theater but like i get why like it's not a knock at him it was just sticky floor but it's hard to dance on a sticky floor because you got no shuffle so you're just like you're pretty much just up there you hit your knees going everywhere and you're trying to look like you're dancing but you're me so you can't really dance but yeah that was about the time i finally tagged out yeah what a dumb night I heard Scantz and Murph were up to no good after no just to drive home yeah

she's playing shenanigans when I say up to no good I just meant like you guys just stayed later than all of us yeah there was yeah Big Ryan Jack and Ginger, me, Murph yeah there was um yeah big ryan jack and ginger me murph um i think we're the last ones left i think that was it uh

i'm racking my brain but yeah i think we're the last three uh still standing ryan's driving so we all hopped in and just was just boom, drop off, drop off. And then he punched out his hotel. But it was freaking late. It was like 2-ish or something. I don't know, man. It was late night. If anybody... I'm pretty sure all the kids were gone to bed though. You guys all right? Yeah.

Everybody got to drive. Well, we still... We went and sat in the hotel courtyard. Me, Jen, ryan and uh other jen and we actually had a few more but we just wanted to be walkable to bed i think they were my ride and they were leaving that was essentially what happened and i was also just exhausted i tapped out jen's like no and i was like no you're not doing this again i'm out i'm exhausted so if you guys have any stories if anybody's listening they want to they want to shoot some stories our way

um nothing embarrassing it's not what we do here so but anything fun you think that we've missed out on here because i can only give my perspective i can't get everybody's um does anybody have any like fun stories they want to give me i was not there long enough so we went out back with ryan and melissa and played cornhole for a little bit and then we came back inside and i was about to grab i think a third beer and i was talking to one of the host's wife and uh we i grab a beer counting that one down i go to grab another one my wife looks at me and it's just like we we have to be up early just remember that you you've done the meat we're already drinking out back we need to be up early so she was like i'm closing out your card she closed out my card

saying goodbye and that was it and i think we were there maybe an hour and a half, I think. And then we didn't last that long. So I walked outside and I was like, oh, there's no windows in that place. And there was still light out. I'm like, yeah, I was going to say, I think you and Jen left while the lights were still on. Because at some point the lights went out to go into dance mode. And I think the lights were still on when you guys were leaving. Yeah, when we were leaving, they were still on.

Yeah, okay. You guys dipped out pretty early. I was beat. It sucks. I wish the flight wasn't at 6 o'clock in the morning but what are you going to do? There's always next year. Such a responsible

young man. Well, if she wasn't there, I wouldn't have been. There's always next year. Yeah. Such a responsible young man. Yeah. Well, if she wasn't there, I wouldn't have been. Such an irresponsible young man. He wouldn't have gotten ugly. Now, I added something to the show notes because Sunday morning, a lot of us went out together. We went to the place, the 3-2-2,

and it was a fancier than I expected place. So hopefully... You figured, Joey? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we won't say anything about it because I think it's going to be in one of the Strength Co videos. But I woke up in the morning under the impression

that we were just going to get something like fast food and then go to Massanomics Gym. And don't we end up in this fancy family-friendly place while i'm wearing probably the most offensive t-shirt i own to the point where i consider turning it inside out but at that point everybody's already seen it but i'm like walking with my hands up behind my back trying to cover up the shirt right like and i mean like as far back as they'll go just because so yeah i'm sitting with my back to the wall and then i got up and grant the strength to go sat down and i was like i am unprepared for this and i just hear from the back go yep and then and then i can hear the camera come out and joy is there anything on your shirt you want

to tell us about i'm like no, no. All the way from him. Had a decent breakfast, though. And then we ended up at the gym. And I think some of you might have seen we had a nice little surprise. So I got in there, and the first thing I wanted to do was deadlift. So that's what I did. I jumped on the deadlift platform. Scantz showed me how to log press.

I had never done that before. scans showed me how to log press i had never done that before so doing a cold 100 pound log press with scans coaching me uh also it's like a lifetime pr right i got my friend scans there my friend steve there in the massonomics gym doing a movement i've always wanted to do like it was it i don't know how to describe it other than just like, wow, just wow. Like that was an incredible experience. But then Megan Stone walks in the door because she heard we were there. And I was like, hey, congratulations on yesterday. But can you show me how to stones? So then we got a lesson from Megan on how to do Atlas stones.

So me, I think Ryan, so Jackson ginger, he took to it. That was like his favorite thing for the rest of the day. Um, and the, the same with the, um,

the strength go folks. I think I filmed a couple of these attempts. Grand was so in them. Connor was so into them. And that's like when we left, people were still just doing the stones. Cause like nobody would come to the dark side, baby. Yes.

Come to the dark side. Rocks. So that was actually a really fun experience, is doing all that with those guys. And yeah, that's when we checked out and decided to drive back the Canadian way. So we added an extra five hours to our trip. But got to see part of the country I haven't seen before.

And that's why. Yeah, I wish I could have stayed that would have been that would have been a lot of fun i went by myself after going to two different locations i finally found the basement yes i've been there and the music's playing and i thought oh man they just left the music on the whole night sweet this way to go and so i start filming like i'm walking around getting getting a video of the whole place and i was walking through the door to the back where all the racks are and some guy is walking through and i asked him if he was working hard or hardly working and he just like dead stare at me didn't say a word and just walked walked over to finish this workout. It's like, oh, okay. Got my stuff done.

But yeah, I really wanted to, next year I'll have to stay for the stones and some of the strongman stuff. Because I was in between doing stuff. I'd walk over there and look at it. This looks like fun. Nothing like picking up stones. Yeah, it was really cool. It was a fun experience. And poor Meg. Hi, congratulations congratulations on your meet can you show me how to lift stones like i hope she wasn't there to work out because she genuinely didn't get a single like thing in and showing us the stones

tyler showed up too and i think that at that point too yeah but i'll say honestly when you get somebody that wants to try something like that and you get a chance to show them how to do it. Yeah. Boom. All day long. I've set the gym bag down. Forget it, boys. Let's muckle up. We're having a freaking lesson here, right? Yeah. You want to see somebody doing it right and not, you know, if you don't pick a stone, right, you're blowing bicep tendons. Yep. You know, so it's always nice to get somebody onto that.

Yeah. To show somebody down the path. Right. So. I think with just the amount of living easy I did, I think I stuck, I stuck to the 120 stone. I don't think I went any higher than that just because I was like, I'm not. The last thing, and Steve even said that, he's like, if you tear a muscle, I'm not driving with you. Like, I'm not listening to that whining all the way back to Canada. Stones aren't linear either.

There's. Yeah. So. Yeah. That was a Sunday that that i wanted to add make sure we kind of chatted about because you know big thanks to scans for me and the strength co guys and uh and megan just for all showing up and making my first and only trip to the mass gym just unbelievable i think my biggest disappointment about the mass gym was that uh i guess dante was out of town this weekend so So I didn't get a chance to meet him.

I mean, I got, I got, I got a picture where there's a locker, but that was about it. So, you know, I will come back next year. Maybe, maybe he'll be there to, you know, show us how to lift. That one kid that was there, Ryan. There's so many Ryans. We've said Ryan 17 times in this podcast. And I think each time it's been about a different ryan because there's like six of them so this is the really young guy um so he joined us with his family and at that point i had set up the tires because i'd never deadlifted tires before they don't weigh anything but it looks cool as hell and he came in and then he was like

a little nervous and i was like buddy these these aren't 10 pounds each. Like I added weight just to make sure it felt like a deadlift. And he was deadlifting with us too. But he, he had such a, I told him, I was like, don't take this the wrong way. As soon as you say that it's going to be the wrong thing. Something offensive. But I was like, I'm a deadlift specialist like you. I was like, I watched your entire meet. You, I think your deadlift was like 200 pounds over your squat.

He's like, yeah, like that's my specialty. So I was like, well, then you're going to love this. Let's do it together. So that was really cool. Just hanging out with that guy. I don't think he's a member either. I think he was just there to visit too. And that's it.

That was the Sunday that I wanted to talk about. And maybe you'll see that shirt in one of the strength go videos and don't watch it with your kids. There's no swear word. And if you follow me on Instagram, you've already seen it. I bought it as a gym only shirt. And Morgan said,

where, when you go to mass economics gym, that'd be funny. And then I ended up wearing it through church service Sunday at Aberdeen. That, uh, well, I was really jealous.

I was seeing that pictures and videos of that sunday morning and it seemed like uh you know as i was going late layovers and whatnot there was like three people at the restaurant there were six people at the restaurant there was 30 people at the restaurant like it just kept growing and growing and growing like wow they just they just took over that entire restaurant so that was pretty cool to see so you missed out on calendars but it looks like you made up for with that that, that, that Thursday or that Sunday morning breakfast for sure. Yeah. It was one of those, like a couple of us said, this is where we're going.

And then I think not everybody knew we were there. Like some people walked in the door and just got met with a chorus of working hard or hardly working. And they're like, well, I guess we're joining you guys. And like, that's how that like, yeah, that's exactly what it was. And it was a pretty good time. What about just any, any other food or drink? Anyone really anything that stuck out to him? Any, any other meals that they had in Aberdeen?

Any, did anyone get the double dip wings? Cause we were trying to make it there. I think it was not the other place. The circus. Is that what the circus? We never made it. We ended up going to VW three. So I think it was right next to the hotel,

but I think the Circus would have been a better choice for food that day. I think me, there was five or six of us where at VW3 on Saturday, no, Friday before Tanner's party. There was a fair amount of us, but watching mostly

squats order the hottest wings on the menu and then tap out after four or five of them it was hysterical the motherfucker his fucking face went from like just he was sweating with within like two or three minutes he was completely profusely sweating and turned red and had to tap out and then put a whole nother order of wings in for like slightly less hot and i was just i i'm a bit of a hot sauce specialist in myself um and my whole family will tell me all the time that i'm broken and but i will tell you it's when it comes to wings i don't mess around because you're not just eating a hot wing you're

telling your fingers it's around your mouth it's getting in your nose like if you would take if i would eat a nine out of ten hot sauce i would eat a seven out of ten chicken wing just or i would order the nine out of ten on the side so i can control how much is on it which is usually what i do order a cajun wing give me your hottest sauce on the side so i wish i was there to talk mad out of that because that sounds really stupid and then you're gonna shit on the snow platform yeah we were talking about that yeah maybe I would have got first

place if you'd finished those chicken wings but yeah that was one yep I did try the chiswick which was just seasoned beef just seasoned beef comes with a dipping sauce and there it was good it was pretty good somebody got it at breakfast and i distinctly remember yelling what the f**k is chislik and then like it's beef and then i showed up was like that's

just beef like dog food chunks like it was just when he ordered it was just squares of beef is that all it is yeah it's that's pretty much all it is. Cool. That sounds delicious, actually. I was hoping somebody would bring tiger meat to Friday's party. Yes. I wanted to try that so bad. Yeah. All right, we'll have to add that to next year.

This will be our list of demands for Tanner's party next year. Everyone made it to the billboard, I'm hoping? Yeah. There's next year. Everyone made it to the billboard. I'm hoping. Yeah, really. I mean, there's only so, there's only so much to talk about with the billboard.

I think it was very cool. Uh, we definitely drove by it and had to like circle around it and shit the first time, but, I could get in a picture there. It was pretty sick to just, I don't know if it was definitely part of the lore.

Uh, I didn't make it to Brock the rock or Menards, but I was, I was pretty happy with the billboard and the gym and just kind of getting as much rest in the hotel prior to the meet as I could. No, I didn't get to see Brock. You probably drove past Brock

several times. I'm sure. Scantz made it to Mr. The Rock, didn't you? Yeah, we had a run in. Basically, terrible accident. Brock holds no mercy, boys. It doesn't matter.

Young, old, Canadian, American, it doesn't matter. He gave Scanson F5 from the video I saw. He's going to take out the trash money. That's what he does. No, if anyone watched one of Grant's, so Grant's already put two or three videos out from the weekend. The first one, I believe, was them getting to aberdeen and going to the wrong rock they just went to this like massive rock and had like had like a five minute scene with it too and then like

and then uh big d is like yeah we were at the wrong rock and they're like oh that's embarrassing when they when they in that video the first I says, that can't be because nobody's accidentally driving over that. No, not unless you have a monster truck. But then they, their video was, they even asked like, is this the rock?

Is this Brock the rock that people run over in Aberdeen? We came to Aberdeen to see this. And he's like, what? You came to Aberdeen for a rock did everyone else have a fair amount of like just weight staff and just like people saying are you guys here for the weightlifting competition or for the for the gym thing a few times i was decked out every day in full like bright massonomic stuff and even when i

was wearing stuff around the stores and things like that and i'd ask people some stuff and they're like what are you talking about it's like where's the billboard do you know the billboard no i don't know i was like really this town's like five miles wide the con the concierge checking us in knew about the billboard and and then the bartender in the red tap was apparently like used to work with tommy at tommy's first digital job or her and it's like her leah's sister-in-law's brother's sister or something like that like they had she knew of what was going on but beyond that no i didn't get anything out of anybody you already heard like even the zoo was like nope not a clue no clue what's happening and then i was like oh i'm sorry

in advance what everyone uh i i don't know how many of you guys actually drove versus were just like getting chauffeured around but like everything was just so straight and flat but like a lot of the uh it was really hard to make a left-hand turn out of like any side road or whatever like to the point to like we made a couple right-hand turns to then go to a light to come back around because we just kept getting like there was just there was no there was no gap to to to cross the lane and to get to like get back onto the main street to go back to the hotel or something so that kind of 26 000 people drove down that road and there was construction there was every every every other it seemed like every third road. And there was construction. There was every other...

It seemed like every third road was closed down with construction too because my GPS kept having to reroute half the weekend. So that was fun. We drove in from the Minnesota direction. And aside from when we came back to Canada because we drove through the Canadian Shield. So I saw Moose on the way.

I saw Bald Eagle. We saw... It was the best the best but second to that that drive on those back roads from minnesota and aberdeen was amazing i've never driven on a lake but when you're coming from that way you're just driving you're going you're going and then you are suddenly on a two-lane road in the middle of a lake surrounded by birds and fish and like everything and it was incredible i've never had that happen so um you know despite aberdeen being the biggest city in the area

third biggest i think in south dakota uh that that some amazing scenery. So you're right. It was flat. It was, but I've never seen a Pelican before. Then I'm watching freshwater Pelican. The hell's a freshwater Pelican. It's like the seawater Pelicans, except for freshwater, Joey. Thank you. I gathered that. He asked. Yeah.

And I could, that's actually really okay. So Steve's wife messages him. I hope he doesn't get mad for this. And he's like, where are you guys now? He says, Northern Minnesota. She says, I don't know what that means. And he's like, well, it's just north of Southern Minnesota. And I thought that was it.

I was like, yeah, that's a really good answer, Steve. You reminded me of that. That joke. That was his, yeah, it's a really good answer. Steve, that's, you reminded me of that. Um, yeah, that Joe's answer. Pretty honest answer there. So that's, that's,

that's my storytelling time. And I don't know who else has anything they want to add about this, but like, are we coming next year? I mean, I'm in. I'm in the try. Absolutely. 100%.

More than likely. I've already bought tickets to home gym con that I don't want to eat and I don't know that I can afford three, you know, if I go to the Arnold. My wife told me, she's like spilled the beans to me how much we spent this year on solely fitness. It's fucking 10K. I dropped 10K this

year on shit and i'm like disgusted at that but i can't i don't think i can do that next year because that's like a large portion of my income so uh but 95 chance i'll be there i was talking to steve about um if i have to choose between this and the arnold i'll probably do this. Yeah. But he was like, the Arnold like is six hours away, man. He's like, the first time we went,

we wanted to go early. We, I brought the kids or the blog. He's like, honestly, it's six hours away. We could go down there the day of show up in the afternoon and come home the following day.

It does not have to be the $1,500 trip. And I was like, yeah, cause I'm not bringing the kids next time. So we'll see. Cause if I do, if I am forced to choose, I'm doing this. No offense to the Arnold. That was a once in a lifetime thing. Fun as hell packed with people. I don't know. Smells terrible and loud and bathrooms are good though. Yeah. The bathrooms are the, the crew fast though, or bathrooms are the the crew fest though or whatever the lift her hard lived her easier whatever we're going to do next year i know everybody classic

well i think they'll have a different name next year or like part two hot shots called i would just be like 2023 2024 2025 2026 i don't know i just keep it simple like with powerlifting meets annual powerlifting meets like historically are usually the same name and it's just, you know, the date changes. And if there's one thing I'm positive is that massonomics does it like everybody else and does not make changes to make themselves and everybody

laugh. Yeah, that's true. So like, yeah, I'll probably, I will very likely see you guys. And like I said,

if I'm still lifting by this time next year, that's what I'm doing. We can chat offline scans. I have, I have some medical stuff that needs to be done. Come with rocks. That's probably going to happen to come Highland and throw rocks. Did anyone just basically a short answer of what was your favorite thing?

Like just throughout the weekend, you know, you consider the whole four day travel, whatever. What was your favorite thing? Like just throughout the weekend, you know, you consider the whole four day travel, whatever. What was the one thing that you were like, you kind of hit you. I was like, yep, this is why I spent the money and the time to get here. My favorite thing was, go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. Being at the meet.

So getting there so late Friday, I was like, man, I really regret this. I regret signing up. I knew I wanted to do it but I needed the weekend and it's like no no it'll be good and got up there got into the hockey arena oh yeah this will be sweet yeah yeah just being there was just awesome that was so much fun getting to pop a couple of fireballs with Big Lou, drinking some questionable pre-workout with all its glory. I think my skin was burning until Sunday. What makes pre-workout questionable? Did I miss a story? No, no, no.

We just went and I went up and they gave us the samples and she's walking us through it. I'm looking at the ingredients. And first off, it had like 350 milligrams of caffeine. It was tapped out on beta alanine. Oh, no, no, no, no. Hey, by the way, here's a free liter jug water bottle that it's got our old logo. And I'm like, sold. Sold.

Any other free stuff you got? We will sell some of that free. Yep. That sounds like, I don't do paid ad on them. I do hate paid ad on them. Chris? Yeah,

I, so you could obviously go the easy route and go, you know, meeting everybody and being at the meet and whatnot. But one of my favorite things

besides seeing Joey and my wife historical laughing up front uh was watching melissa who was about to drop out like she was on discord basically saying she's she's unsure about it she she really was getting starting to get nervous with some of the stuff that we were talking about and watching her go out and just absolutely kill it was was by far one of my favorite things man man. Cause we were all there for, we walked her through, uh, getting her heights set and going through weigh-ins and whatnot.

And she just went out and had a great first meet, man. And then winning one of the banners and everything, man, she, she killed it. She get a nice, it's, it's, it's that community behind it that just helps everybody that's it's awesome and it was great to see it powerlifting is competitive but i think that it's also a i hope you beat me right like i've never seen that in any sport that i've looked at been in you know you know what like when i when we talked about me setting the record or whatever the first

thing i said is i want you to beat me come and take my deadlift record like that would be amazing i said it i've done what i'm gonna do come and take it and i think that's really cool is that maybe she was expecting it to be a little different but then you add the level that we're crew yep right and it's not like you're walking in and hoping, I hope somebody knows me and might show me what I can do. And we're all just like, no, we got you. We'll walk you through this step-by-step and hope you beat us. That's a good call, man.

That's very good. Scantz? I'm going to probably tie the two in together. There was, given the fact that we all kind of knew each other before we landed, it was pretty surreal it was uh you know just an instant connection and yapping and not kind of walking around in a junior high dance friggin waiting to talk to somebody or you don't know anybody right and that was you know it was a you go to your first meet you know i did my first meet there was me

and my buddy went at the same time knew nobody uh you know so that's kind of hard to walk up some bruiser that's 340 66 and is in the next flight it's like what do i do with my temp card like but with everybody there basically being on buds and stuff anyways it was you know it was so easy to, that's it. We're guys are helping each other on with sleeves or, you know, you got socks and I'll hit, well, here's my socks. And just, it was just instant automatic. And I was glad that there were so many first time lifters there. So they were able to kind of, you know, pop that cherry with, I think there must've been about 10 that were the first time lifters.

And so they get to lift in that environment. I think that's just there is no better way to do it. As we've said, strength sports are very much inclusive. It's like I've done strongman i've done highland the entire bunch of dudes are just literally somebody sees you doing something wrong they're

gonna grab it hey man can you listen the way that you were you know casting that uh weight you gotta try like that or you know do try this when you're lifting the stone and it's you can't beat that because again it's something that we every one of us has done our first one plate squad. We all have that shared experience that not everybody has. So it's you know, and every one of us here has set a PR that we know that feeling when we set a PR. So when you see somebody else setting a PR, it's like, yeah. So I'm going to combine the two seeing rookie lifters uh smashing and having a

great time and then also just that that immediate uh boom connection interaction and just like world buds kicking off and chirping each other and doing what you got to do so there I'm all deep and philosophical and all that stuff it's yeah i just not to piggyback on anyone else's because i agree with all three of those i'll just uh it's hard to say it's my favorite thing it was more one of the funniest things i just wanted it was a little story i want to tell so big eddie the nicest guy in the world doesn't do anything wrong to anyone accidentally broke one of uh of Mary Baird's cactus planters. And like, I think he just turned around and accidentally kicked it or something at the party and like was immediately trying to clean it up.

And I was just, I don't know, that was just funny to me because like it couldn't happen to like, like, like the guy that would like feel the worst about it is who it happened to. So I just got to kick it on that. There's probably fear of having the garden association or coming after. So I think honestly, if, if with the sheer amount of cactus plants on those stairs, you probably would have got away with it. There were a lot.

I think that I, I gotta say that, you know, that the gym, the following day um having you know scantz and the strength co and meg and jacked and ginger and just all of those people like showing me how to do things i've always wanted to learn how to do um the things i wanted to learn how to do is one thing but learning from the people i got to learn with i think was like just

something i never thought would happen. And then the other one would have been probably arriving Friday, walking in the door. And it was just immediate. Like we just all were like, and it was fun. There was no awkwardness. Um, you know, you, you, you see some of these people's personas online and you kind of wonder, like, are we going to get along? And we do. Like, they're just amazing, right? Having a cigar with Matt and Dylan and Steve and then some of the other younger guys that were smoking with us. Like, that was so cool. Did I just drive 21 hours to have a smoke with people I'd never get to do that with?

So I think that those two surreal moments. And then there was one other two others um me keith and tanner i was just gonna talk about that one yeah talking about the future of what we're doing uh versus the future not versus but uh in alignment with what they're doing i think that that was really cool we got some really good ideas, some really good feedback on one of the things coming up. You know, I'm finally going to get Big Matt on. Like, finally going to get to Big Matt. He apologized for not being able to make it tonight,

but, you know, we're going to get him on eventually. Are we, though? Absolutely. We've been trying every week. absolutely we've been trying every week um and then yeah the little tour of the the fulfillment center um just i i wish i could tell you guys the thing he pulled out of a box he's like yeah i got this laying around and i was just like what is it a fart it's a fart just open the part um that would be great but yeah um so that's that's my input there uh one last one i'll uh close with on on that part um the group photos we got two or throughout the you know the group photo friday night i'm gonna get that i'm gonna i'm gonna

print that off as big as i can and put it up in the gym. I'm definitely adding both those pictures to my gym wall somewhere. I'm just a huge fan of big group photos. It's like, oh, that's a little part of history. Ryan E. He's holding the banner in the one at Tanner's backyard.

I guess he was trying to shout something. This photo where everybody is perfectly posed he looks like he got killed in the grudge yeah his mouth mouth saw half open yeah he pointed it out to me uh yeah and me and scans both showing up in kilts that was really funny that was good because you had your you had your patch on, and then I was like, oh, I forgot my patch. Or did I? And then I cut the tattoo up. That was a little good video there.

Oh, and another – what do you got, Scantz? Pants suck. Well, we're not going to ask you what you wear underneath, though. We learned that last time to never ask a grown man what he's wearing. Flip flops. Nice. Another funny story I wanted to share from friday night was uh uh so big big matt and big scans got their singlets and then they picked up at the fulfillment

center friday night and uh scans had taken both of them and put them in my rental car and just basically forgot that he had matt's in the car so we're getting ready to leave a couple hours later and uh matt's like, shit, I got, I got, I have to go grab my singlet. And he's walking around for probably 10, five ish minutes. Like after we're pretty much already in the,

you know, we drove back and like he was walking around. And then finally, when we saw him walking in the garage one more time, scams like, yeah, yeah, I, I it's,

it's been in the car for like two hours. So that was pretty amusing. Actually. And the reason why was because when i originally went to throw the name matt's like no no just leave it here i'll get it i'm like dude i'm going to the car well just so there was the very canadian argument of no it's okay look i don't have to do that i'm like dude just give me the goddamn segway we'll put it on the car it's done so when we landed in there i was like oh yeah he was freaking

pissing me off about not wanting to not wanting to just leave it here. So that was his punishment for just not saying OK the first time I asked. And Scantz, you you tag Tanner's driveway. Was that something we were supposed to do or was that just what his kids just happened to have sidewalk chalk and you were just like, yep, that's happening. There's freaking chalk out there. I like how that i like tanner saying this was the understatement of the night um but did you guys not notice where the friday reveal was oh yeah yeah that was good yeah so scans did the friday reveal in tanner's garage

and i was like i was like what let's go do it again but like with a bunch of us and he was like yeah i'm not gonna do that but like the original plan was all together i wanted to get everybody in the garage doors see if i get married or somebody to kind of like zoom in doors go up and then just boom zoom out everybody was there but we went straight into party mode and then i'm like there's no freaking way i'm breaking this up yeah so i ran in i'm trying to find the freaking button and i'm like jesus like no uh tripod or anything so i got like a beer can sitting i think it was tommy's car with him yeah it's gone so we just made her do boys it was it was a good call and yeah i think you would have been hard pressed to get people to

no i didn't want to i didn't want to break that up for some foolishness so well that's our recap didn't talk about the barefoot shoes um check out the discord for that uh or ask me i took a couple pictures they are very good looking they are very stylish um i hope they do really well um mine arrived good the gist on those is just they're in they're just bright red like i didn't really so they're black they're black with red stripes uh and then one side has the barefoot so logo and the other side has the massonomics m okay i missed that yeah no they're they're gorgeous especially if you like if you want barefoot shoes and kind of want you know to rock massonomics and the black and red is like my aesthetic right like that's everything in my basement is one of those two colors it pops it does pop that's a good call that's a good call

um so i think we should do our sponsor read which i believe we are uh we are tagging uh chris dillendam in on i'm a dicklinger uh So, I was just going to go off the cuff with it and say, you know, this is an extension of the Mass Anonymous podcast. If you guys really want to dive in and get right into it, listen to the Mass Anonymous podcast.

You can become a supporting member for as little as, what, I believe $3 a month. And there's varying levels to that but then you get into the discord where then you have the community we just talked about and helped everybody through this powerlifting meet and uh basically when i described the mass dynamics podcast to people i go just imagine you got together with some of your lifting buddies

and you put something down and record yourself and you just press record and shot shit all day and that's the massox podcast uh there's no real the the uh interviews are not what you're gonna get you're not gonna get yourself sets and reps out of anything but uh yeah that's pretty much all i got that's pretty good all I got. That was pretty good. I think next time I'll get Jen to do it, though. No offense to you. She would have been a lot better. She would have to go from what she knows. We wouldn't even tell her. I'll just phone her

and be like, say something about the crew. And she'd kill it. She would somehow kill it and make me look bad yeah the sponsor read is underratingly hard like a lot of people think they're just going to kill it and then it's just like like i mean i think everyone that's done it unless they had a script it's been kind of like stuttering up like you know you just you're it sounds perfect in your head and then when you try to verbalize it it's just like horrible not Not horrible, you know what I mean? Oh, here we go.

Oh, Jesus Christ. It wasn't a dig. Sorry, Chris. Oh, Jesus. No, every time that I do the ad read, that's how I feel. And even today, I was like, oh, I'm going to do the intro. It's going to be great. And then I literally said, welcome to the Masked Comics fucking podcast.

I just butcher it. It's just like, any anytime I overthink something I just I screw it up so I'm definitely a little better off the cuff but no it was great Chris we really appreciate you buddy I tried to write something out and I was like none of this sounds right at all dude I'm just gonna say what I like about the podcast

and what it is we appreciate that I'm sitting on some copy from a friend so next week we'll i'll do mine i'll do that version of it i'll adjust it i'll mess with it or i'll have somebody call it in or something like that but i'm sitting on some copy of what might be an official one going forward that'd be nice that would make it a lot easier just have a stock one because then we can't just give it give it to the guest to be like here read this please you see i like to party so um speaking of partying i have this game i like to play with all of our guests

it's called overrated underrated um i have not given normally keith at least has these and our guests wouldn't have them so i've got them and they're all based on our experiences this weekend and i think i have just enough to ask all of you one do you want a round table lightning round where i ask it and the first person that wants to answer puts up their hand and answers or buzzes in or should i just like focus it on each one of you what do you guys think would be the best one to do call it out select the guy boom under pressure okay i like that yeah i didn't even i didn't even have that as an option and it's a better option than what i had you stick around you're good okay overrated i'm sorry do you guys know the rules nope okay so i have a list of handpicked Lift Hard, Live Easy classic topics.

And you just have to tell me if you think they are overrated or underrated. That can be from your angle, the world's angle, cultural angle, or you just have to pick a side. You have your druthers. And if you don't elaborate, I'm probably going to ask you a couple more questions,

because otherwise one-word answers are boring. So, overrated or underrated? Odie Ice Arena. Jake? Sorry, I'm sorry. Big Jake. Big Dr. Jake. From State Farm. From State Farm.

From State Farm. I would say underrated. That place was, I mean, it's a hockey arena, so it's got the smells. It's got the locker room vibe to it. But it was massive. We had so much room to warm up. The platform itself was pretty good size the seating was great uh just so much stuff going on and they were able to just put on a sweet show in there

so odes gets nice underrated i agree that was a very good little uh little place to do that in did you anybody see the santa claus hanging up in the corner i did i think i heard you even comment on it that was your favorite thing there that was the weirdest it was a santa sitting on a moon hanging up in the corner and it just stood like hung over us the entire time um yeah the great little place the beer was five dollars a can and all of the money went back into the team which is also really cool so any tips you left went right back into the team everybody was volunteers um downside this is the hottest hockey arena i've ever been in and being from canada but it was uncomfortably warm in there and i think that if that's where we hold it again next year

we might want to we might want to protest and add some some cold to that okay boys before we keep going i gotta get going but it was good talking to y'all hey man thanks for coming thanks for being the first that was good timing then yeah that's great keep talking keep in touch shake Jake. Take care, buddy. Bye. Then there was four. Overrated or underrated? Going top shelf at the zoo, Scantz.

Under. Did you go top shelf? Of course I went top shelf. I had to go top shelf. Maybe I'm up there with Big Mason. I to go shops top shelf maybe i'm up there a big mason i was up with the crew i'm up there man uh yeah how many people do you know that went top shelf it's zoo right now about four that's it i said it was six and a half million people yep that's it that was a good time especially just is price dragging me up there

and he's like you can't do without and i was going like i didn't know you until a week ago so every now and then i have to like show my ignorance some random massonomic score i'm assuming it's top like i'm putting it together with context clues it was just that like dance floor up top like I don't I don't I don't if you're not going to go back if you're not going to go back and listen to all the previous episodes to find out this kind of stuff sometimes shit slips through the cracks

I can give me trivia and I'll go I'll beat you 97% of the time on any massonomics trivia pre 2020 but yeah every now and then shit like it just happens man i don't know every now and then i don't focus on everything yeah you set that up perfectly you had i did that was good as soon as i said it i saw you but yeah no it's just that little stage in the back okay yeah so when the lights go out and the dj

kicks in and it's just the the boots and cats and boots and cats you go up there and you dance but like you're not supposed to do it until you've had enough like in my head it was always just like buying the top liquor like in that top shelf is just like like the higher end liquor so i didn't register them and then in my head that's always what i thought it meant and i'm just like what the fuck he's talking about a dance floor i'm so confused so now i get it that is the top shelf at the zoo cool got him no question under all right well how many are left here one two three so i guess i'll have to answer one myself which is fair um overrated or underrated mosquitoes, Chris?

Overrated. Way overrated, especially out there. Between the mosquitoes and the flies, it was absolutely I've, we get a bunch of mosquitoes here, but nothing like that. Tanner's backyard, it was like we were under

assault. And I'm wearing a kilt and a t-shirt and i'm just like i didn't even notice till somebody was like are you getting bit a lot and i was like is that what that is like what is their purpose anyway like they just fly around they're annoying and they bite you and then you're left with this red mark on your leg or your arm and it itches for days. They serve no purpose. Well, we're going to have to bother Caden the,

the mosquito issue at Tanner's yard. Did anybody, did everybody thank Caden as well for making that yard look so beautiful? I did. I did make a funny meme where there was like, if you zoom in on one of the like, like panoramic photos, Caden like kind of is essentially like pointing at the cart, the grass. So I made like the caption was like if you zoom in on one of the uh like like panoramic photos caden like

kind of is essentially like pointing at the cart the the grass so i made like the caption was like you see that i did that it was pretty funny it was kind of it was kind of blurry but it was good when tanner posted the photo i was like i'm getting my backyard ready i tagged caden and was like hey man good work nice all right caden's big he's tall like he was he's a big guy that's a big dude all right so mosquitoes are underrated now are the mosquitoes overrated the mosquitoes in tanner's backyard are yeah the worst like it was it didn't ruin the experience but i thought it would be funny to just remind everybody about it um interesting keith is going to get this one because it's the last one overrated or underrated aberdeen insider

uh so yeah big big scants now now that so for clarity that was well that was just the one that article was in not the magazine but it's like it's the one that the article was in, not the magazine. But it's like it's the sister company of the magazine. So I thought it was a cool article. Scantz did basically tell me they butchered where he was from and that he hasn't been a tank driver in 20-some years, I think. And I believe they referenced it as a, uh, like they didn't say meats, like people, like people never say powerlifting meat when they don't know what they're talking about.

It's always a powerlifting competition or a weightlifting competition. I'm like, no, it's a powerlifting meat. Uh, so that was kind of, you know, annoying in the aspect of it, but, uh, all in all to, to help build a little bit of steam for the, uh, you know, the lift hard, live easy classic 2024, as we're going to call it, because I said so. We'll go ahead and give it a... Let's see, how the hell does overrated and underrated work?

Give me a second. I'm going to answer one of these in a minute. So it is underrated. Yes, underrated. I didn't get to read the article because... I read it. I took a screenshot of it and read it, I think, on one of my layovers. I grabbed the last one in the lobby. Well,yan grabbed it for me because i didn't have my bag

and then we all found out that scans didn't get one so you got my copy yeah yeah so where's my copy so but i will say this but buddy crafted sentences whatever it's got me in quotations that's not quite what i said so there's even phrases i'm like i would never use that phrase in my life but the the gist was there he was uh i'll say this dude was uh uh rob was his name he was so excited for the thing he was seeing how he went down to the gym and he was talking to Tanner and Buds could not get over just the environment there of just all the dudes. And they were there when he got down and just how welcoming it was and all

this kind of stuff. So he was very excited. He showed up at the zoo, him and his buddy and his boss. He took them all down to the zoo so they could meet everybody. So, yes, my wife has never been a professional bodybuilder. I saw that. Yeah, there's a few things like that. So it was not exactly what I said, but a facsimile of what I said.

So it was a good read. Okay. So that leaves me to answer the last one, which is actually kind of convenient because I had crafted this before I knew anything. So overrated or underrated the massonomics fulfillment center me i had i had assumed you guys all went when i crafted this list um so i'm gonna say say

underrated because the efficiency through which it works i've never seen such a that on a small scale like that usually i see that on a bigger scale that efficiency as a podcast location way better than mine i got nothing on that and uh yeah like i said seeing something uh seeing some of the stuff i saw that i'll never unsee um some of the shirts left over you know just seeing how things work how everything is sized out like tanner gave us a full like it prints out here we get the address within a few seconds pull it it's right here it's right here it's right here like he showed us how he would do normally pull an order it was really cool it was i think that was um it was really cool to have that little thing and i i just hadn't realized that you guys

didn't all get to see it so that makes it even cooler for me i felt like it would be like i when we were all there there was like well there was 100 people there probably at least 70 so i didn't want to be the one guy that kept you know i was just super awkward i felt bad enough going in have to take a piss like i held my piss for like two hours and i was just like i'm either gonna go piss in the cornfield or i have to ask to piss in the you know but he thankfully had like they had more like a like a common area bathroom upstairs was you know it was fine to use but i was like i can't wait longer yeah i didn't want to you know be that invasive and you said you basically were there when there was like 10 people or something where yeah if it was if ever just think if everyone asked when there was 50

to 100 people there would have been so just awkward and i would have i wouldn't have wanted someone to ask me at my house no but i kind of thought that tanner would have been like a couple of you right like if somebody went up i was like can we see it like i'm that Tanner would have been like a couple of you. Right. Like if somebody went up and was like, can we see it? Like, I'm sure he would have been like, yeah, maybe like one or two at a time. But I just didn't know. I didn't know that. So, yeah, definitely underrated on that one. And I think everyone.

Good. Did everyone get a chance to meet Mary at all? Tanner's wife. I talked to her at the zoo briefly. She she does know about the podcast. You know, it was kind of cool to hear uh you know basically thanked her for giving tanner so much freedom to kind of run with this and you know build this community that we're all part of so she was very friendly she was at the booth um at the event but i don't think her and i chatted like we kind of knew each other on a first name basis but i don't think her and I chatted. Like we kind of knew each other on a first name basis, but I don't think we actually talked.

I think Leah, Leah and I had more words, I think in like a good, obviously good way, but yeah, you guys all met Leah as well, right? Oh yeah.

I didn't get a chance to meet her, but I, that's, that's Tommy's wife though. But it was funny. Was it, is it Bryce and her that worked together and didn't know that they were like, that they were both massonomics related? Like they, they worked at the hospital together and they had no

clue. I didn't know that. I believe that, yeah, I'm pretty sure the guy that won the silliest lifter. Yeah, Bryce, I'm almost positive. Yeah, the silliest goose. We should touch on that just before we do our closings. The Masonomic Wooden Awards. We got Best Package

going to corn fed. Big Eddie silliest goose was Bryce. The hardest lifter was Melissa. The world of corn scans got most masters and easiest living was big Lou Nutter. And I just want to say to big Lou, I know you're not listening. So I'm going to harass you to finally listen to this.

This is my last fireball from the States. Now that we've announced your award on here, I'm going to this this is my last fireball from the states now that we've announced your award on here i'm gonna drink this while these guys talk i'm at a boy so i think we're more or less uh either you two uh damage or scans have anything they wanted to say no buddy just i can't say much about that the meet the whole weekend was great meeting everybody meeting the boys and yeah that's it no better I got one thing and it is

he doesn't post a ton on Instagram so you kind of forget who he is and what he looks like but no one no one pointed out Professor Shams oh yeah and I was like why didn't nobody say that like no one said his name i saw tanner tall for a little bit but just like didn't put two and two together at all yeah not not until not until tommy said hey is this the professor

you know on on the youtube video we're like wait that's that's the guy from you know the first 50 episodes that has like completely disappeared off of the radar uh so that would have been kind of cool um digging to meet tyler that was cool shook his hand i got a couple pictures with him i think i would have had more opportunity to talk to him at the zoo because he actually was like actually like you know pat him in the back or something i said oh i'm gonna take off and he was gonna come back but then like we were on the way out the door anyway so i was like ah that would have been cool to pick his brain because not just massonomics but he's done he's done he's been doing podcasts for like 10 years as well so it's like different

podcasts so being able to pick his brain just on a podcast point of view would have been really cool so i think if i come back next year i'm gonna go out of my way to like just stay at shit longer that would be my one thing that i would change that i did um like not necessarily drink it more but just stay at shit longer like if that means i gotta like you know maybe not come with my wife or like uber separately or something just because i don't want to ruin her trip by making her stay up hours later but i gotta figure something out to just be at shit later but the travel sunday was horrible i know damager had uh a lot of the early flight that i did too but he was home and I was still

on my second layover with like seven more hours of travel you bastard I was so mad that was so brutal for you I felt so bad for you we got home at like I got home at 1am I left the hotel at like 530 the day before

it was fucking brutal it was disgusting but other than that yeah I think I think this is going to be a good episode I was excited I was really excited to record it it had been about a week and a half I feel like since we had recorded because the last one was like three days early having a couple guests on that we've had in the past

people that now we've met in person this was an awesome one I don't know we'll probably try to do shit like this like if we all end up going to the Arnold or something next year we might do something like this again but for sure you know next year for the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic Part 2 or whatever we're going to call it we'll definitely have another one of these

I'm excited for their podcast to come out because it's going to be and did anyone I know Chris did you listen live last night because I think the rest of us kind of abstained because I didn't want to have their podcast influence our podcast. I did hop on. I hopped on for a little bit because I was trying to finish up some bourbon and then ended up finishing too much bourbon. And then it felt awful all day.

I don't understand what that means. It was bad. I didn't think there was that much left in the bottle and i poured it into the glass and it filled the glass all the way to the top and i was like oh yeah when you're it's like that last one you're like i'm not gonna leave one drink this is stupid and you're pouring and it just doesn't stop and you're like oh this is even worse yeah oh i've been there i've been there i listened i listened for a little bit last night. I don't think I was on for the entire thing.

But it sounded good. I think I was the only person in there, as far as I know. Did they try my waters? I came into it kind of late. Got it. So we left them the root beer, the orange vanilla and some steam whistle so they had i remember when they were talking about beer in a green bottle and um they were naming them all and then like i'm shouting from my car like you guys haven't even tried steam whistle so steve bought them steam whistle and we drove

it all the way down there so they could try it and it's just make sure it's cold i assure you if it's not you are not going to enjoy it um but we'll see i know grant was drinking a root beer um pc water did any of you guys try those i you you gave me an orange i drank it there i believe i thought it was kind of essence like not great like it was just flat kind of like i didn't love the orange the root beer warm wasn't great the root beer cold was significantly better because i think we i think we'd like but yeah uh if i had to choose i'd go root beer over the orange on those but it was cool to try something different now it's president's choice just like you're like just

generic brand or is it like a like a is it like a to try something different now is President's Choice just like your like just generic brand or is it like a popular like name brand it's like Kirkland but from Loblaws company and Loblaws is the big corporate giant up here that steals all our money so yeah anything

you guys want to add I think we can wind it on down yep part of me wants to go for nine more minutes, so we break two hours. But I think we're good. I think this will be another 145, 150 episode, and it's going to be great. So I am Big Joey. You can find me on Instagram. You guys, where can we find you?

So go ahead and follow Big Jake. Midwestern Jake from State Farm. Jake, not from State Farms, his name on there. So go ahead and follow big jake uh midwestern jake from state farm jake not from state farms his name on there so go ahead and follow him he tagged out a little early so but uh be sure to go follow him if you're not i'm big keith you can follow me at keith honey get 73 go follow my orange gym at the no wine cellar more importantly go check us out on instagram at unpaid and underrated podcast and our website, unpaidinternpodcast.com. And then we got Chris and Scantz that are going to sign out. So, Big Chris, where you at, buddy?

Yeah. Big Chris Dilladinger. And you can find me at beerbelly underscore lists on Instagram. And don't forget to also follow jen at uh jen

damager uh on instagram but like i said i like we're basically best friends now so sorry so like every meet every time we're all together we're gonna be like hey chris that's what it usually is anyway. Scants? Yeah, it's Big Scants 1. What am I at? Scants 1? I don't know. I'm in there somewhere, boys. Follow me on Instagram. You'll figure it out. Just hang out. Get saucy with your mother and I'll show up in a heartbeat. That's how it works for Dad Mode.

Was there any mother talk this weekend? You met a fair amount of mothers this weekend. When it comes to mothers, we're done talking. On that note, boys, we'll go ahead amount of mothers this weekend. When it comes to mothers, we're done talking. Yeah. Well, on that note, boys, we'll go ahead and see you next Tuesday. Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. Unpaid and underrated.

Is not available. At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up or press 1 for more options. Hey, guys. It's Big Matt. I'm calling because we talked during the Littard Live Easy Classic about having me on, and you guys said that I'd be on this week. So I'm just waiting for you to pick up.

Just waiting, waiting, waiting. You guys are fucking assholes.