Unpaid And Underrated - 013 : It’s Foss Not Floss

Episode Date: August 8, 2023

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Paul. The dive right into great topics like weightloss journeys, deadlift bars, dental hygiene, and voicemails. You can find the podcast at UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) or on Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) You can find this week's guest on instagram at @paulfossrn (https://www.instagram.com/paulfossrn/). You can find Big Keith on Instagram at @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) You can find Big Joey on Instagram at @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Paul.

All right, good night, good afternoon, good morning, guten tag. This is the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. I am your host. Wait, not really. I'm just the editor. You're listening to episode 13 of the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. And for episode 13, we seem to have lost a good chunk of the podcast, including the intro. So, lucky for you guys, I'm the intro this

week. We're going to be talking to Mr. Big Paul Floss this week as the guest on the podcast. South Dakotan native. I believe he resides in Sioux Falls. So it should be a great episode. Just wanted to give you a little intro, let you know what episode we're on. I know the hosts kind of get a little crazy with that sometimes. Wanted to make sure I set that straight as the editor. Also, I received an email along with these files when I went to download the files. along with these files, when I went to download the files, it said it was from one Big Matthew. He went on and on about how he was upset that he was made fun of for the voicemail he left last week and yada, yada, yada. And he's keeping the first half of the podcast ransom, yada, yada. I kind of ignored it, just deleted the email. But Big Matthew, if we could have the first half of the podcast, that'd be great.

So, until then, this is your intro. See you next Tuesday? I don't know. How does this thing work? So, we are going to go into a steady segment that we've had uh where we go ahead and rate

last week's episode um keith you want to fill me in on who was on last week or was that the rate that was the right it was it was it was it was the recap it was the host and only those yep it was their version yep it was their version of our episode you know they they stole our episode you know we told them all along we were going to do a Mastanomics Lift Hard, Live Easy Classic recap. And somehow they recorded a night before us, released it a day before us. They stole our idea.

But what's family for? If you can't help your sister out, who can you help out? But I enjoyed the episode. It was very good. It was one of the few episodes I didn't get a chance to listen to at least partially live. We didn't want to ruin our experience when we recorded just by having what they said fresh in our brains. So listening to the full thing, actually, I very seldom will listen to them Sunday night via YouTube.

But I made a point. I think on Monday, I only had a really short commute to work and I wanted to be able to consume the whole podcast earlier than later. short commute to work and I wanted to be able to consume the whole podcast like earlier than later so I just uh I don't think I just basically laid in bed or maybe I was playing video games or something for like two hours and then just consumed the podcast that way but uh very enjoyable it was fun listening to them you know their their their perspective of certain things I would say we agreed with most of them uh so all in all for a uh for a non-guest episode. We'll go ahead and give it five J.D. Powers. What about you, Paul? How did you enjoy last week's episode?

So last week's episode, I usually am a dedicated listener when I take the dog on the morning walk every Monday, but I actually had a little downtime on Sunday evening, so I actually sat and watched the whole YouTube video of it. It was nice to harken back to the Lift Hard, Live Easy, where I got to meet all you guys in the flesh.

The one criticism I have, really, is neither of the other podcast hosts went top shelf. Pretty disappointing. I know Big Joeyey you were up there big bryce big mason and i were up there a bunch of the spotting and loading crew were up there but uh neither of the other podcast guests were it was a nice shout out from them knowing that

i was one of the last ones to leave the uh the zoo bar after drinking several froggers but overall i'd have to say uh five jds for sure and so a frog is a bucket no frogger is this uh neon green drink that tastes like bug juice and i don't know what kind of liquor they put in it but uh big bryce ordered a round for the table which was like five or six and his total was thirteen dollars that's hysterical they're like two dollar shots or less that's insane i love it yeah so he literally looked at me and we're both used to going out in sioux falls where drinks are a little bit more expensive and he's like well i just of course drinking for free now is it like a shot or a cup of like is it like no it was it was a mixed drink

oh okay so it probably was more like it was like their version of jungle juice maybe yeah i don't know what's jungle juice just uh you never had that in high school okay so no you know uh just to get a big like you know gator gatorade cooler or some big vat and do a bunch of different fruit and fruit punch flavors and shit. And as much cheap, clear liquor as you can pour in it. Isn't that just sangria?

No, sangria's got wine in it. Oh, okay. See here, I thought you were talking about Mississippi mud. Where you just take all the bottles. You take every bottle, whatever's left in it and you mix it into one big vat yeah that's what you drink jesus christ hank three's got a song about it no i was i was drinking jack and coke in high school like i don't know what you guys were

drinking i didn't have no fancy things there ain't nothing fancier than chocolate juice. That is usually a very rough, puking night. Have you ever had strip and go naked? No, I can't say I have. Wait, so are you having strip and go naked, or is it called strip and go naked? It's called strip and go naked. It's a 30-pack of Bush Light or Keystone Light, a handle of vodka cheap preferably and uh two frozen

lemonades uh like come in the cans you know and then you just put it in a big gatorade jug and you let it all mix together and then you just pour it out and it sounds terrible but it's very good have you ever had strip and go you ever had strip and go? You ever had strip and go naked? That's what you were setting me up for. So like Paul, I actually tuned into YouTube because that was the day I had to fast. And what else was I doing for an entire day besides running back and forth to the certain facilities? So I slapped on my headphones and I put it on YouTube. I actually watched the podcast, which I almost never do. Really good episode.

I love hearing that they're closer to doing it again next year than they are to not. That's good to know. Helps me plan out my year where I decide if I'm going to do the Arnold this or both. Beyond that, hearing they had as much fun as we did, despite the fact that they had to run everything, was pretty good to hear. So I'm going to go ahead and give it a 5, J.D. Powered Associates, for this week's episode. It's a fair rating. You know, I like to be really hard on my ratings, but this week I thought, you know, it would be a little light with that 5.

So you would call that a flaccid rating then, potentially? I'm more playing into it now. You made it a thing, so now I'm embellishing it and stuff. It's kind of like the orange. Everyone associated me with the orange.

Let me just go full tilt with the orange. It's like, oh, apparently I like d oh apparently leaning hard but is is orange better than being the penis guy i don't think it is would you would you rather be orange glaze or big dick liquor but moving on to our sponsor read of the week big paul Foss decided he would take it out of our hands this week. We didn't even offer it to him. He just said, listen up, you sons of guns. I'm doing the sponsor read, and here he goes. All right.

Well, today's podcast is brought to you by the Massanomics Podcast, run by two of my own brethren from the 605. Just a bunch of podcasts about absolutely nothing. If you want to learn about lifting, you might learn a little bit. If you want to learn a lot about screwing around, you're going to learn a lot of that. You can be a supporting member for as little as $3, and then you get to make real adult friendships like I have, and you might end up on a different podcast.

So tune in, subscribe to come up with a supporting member. Thank you. Thanks also to Mastonomics. You know, I was out talking to somebody who's not crew, but like crew adjacent. And, you know, it was really cool to be able to explain to them, you know, they're our main sponsor. Like we don't, they take care of everything. And it's really cool that they do that for us. So thanks for that. Uh, I'd read their Paul. Uh, is there anything else you want to cover? Or should we dive right in and get our guest on the whole guest? I think it's, I think it's time to get him on the phone.

All right. Now let's see if we can get him. I think he's in the waiting room. Um, big Paul, is that you? It is. I, Hey, welcome. You're alive on the unpaid and underrated. We're going to jump right in.

We don't want to leave anything on the table. You know, we don't have any, we don't want to miss any gold. So we're're going to jump right in we don't leave anything on the table you know we don't have any we don't want to miss any gold so we're just going to jump right in without any practice head first like always head first like always we ain't preaching this one we're going right through um so what brought you to massonomics you've been here a while i think i so i've been a loyal massonomics listener and customer for many years. I think I bought my first shirt in 2017, 2016. I was actually a flight nurse in New Mexico at the time. I was flipping through Instagram and saw the original lift shirt.

I think that was my first order. So I bought that. They sent me a pack of stickers with it, which I thought, well, that's pretty cool. Didn't, didn't deserve that.

They called me a big Paul. Great. So I slapped it on my, uh, one of my water bottles and I was doing a patient care flight. He got back on a dead leg, had it up and had it tied to my flight cot, took a picture of it,

put it on my Instagram. And it was the original yeah buddy sticker and uh said put it on my instagram story got shared and liked by massonomics which i thought was a big deal at the time so now all those years later here i am on a podcast about massonomics and i i actually didn't know that they were from Aberdeen when I'm originally from, I've lived in South Dakota all my life, except for when I was down in New Mexico for a little bit. But I had no idea they were from Aberdeen when I made that order until I got it in my hands. It was Aberdeen, South Dakota. And I looked at it and I couldn't believe it. Just, I've been to Aberdeen lots of times. How have I never

heard about this? So we've all been to Aberdeen and I don't think a lot of people have heard of them either. So you're, you're, it's not just the fact that you're like a few hours away at Sioux Falls. And I was like, Oh, that's weird. Like, like they're huge in our world, but I think like in Aberdeen, you know, they're just, you know, some dudes that own a gym that have like 50 members. in Aberdeen, you know, they're just, you know, some dudes that own a gym that have like 50 members. And the old Aberdabber. Yeah. And that's everybody. And so I, in Sioux Falls,

we call it Aberdabber and I wear their shirts and stuff to work all the time. And people are like, what the hell is massonomics? Like I could try to explain it to you, but it's probably just easier to become a supporting member. All the answers that you want could be yours for $3 a month. So I think what I got from that though, is you've been a long time mass economics, you know, patron,

but are you somewhat new to actually being a supporting member or are you just new to discord in general? I, I think I've been a supporting member for, I think going on a year now. And, uh, you know,

I've, I've heard about this court on the other podcast and Instagram stories and stuff like that. So I finally have become more involved in it now since the meet, I've been more involved in it. And, uh, you know,

really it's just cool. Cause there's a bunch of other dorks like me that love to lift and, you know, be goofy, try to be serious at times times mostly just be silly and make you know dumb jokes and dumb memes do you find it easier in the discord now that you've met most of us like did you find that easier because for me it was the other way around i found meeting people easier because of discord or just like i think now that people have kind of put a face to a name, it's easier.

Like, uh, Chris Derringer. Now that I know him, he's a nice guy. His, his wife's a lot cooler than him, but you know,

that's pretty normal. He knows it too. And so does she. Yeah. So speaking of discord and Instagram, do you want to share everyone? Well, at least your Instagram,

uh, you know, we always do at the end, but it's kind of nice. People can kind of, you know, if they want to share everyone well at least your instagram uh you know we always do at the end but it's kind of nice people can kind of you know if they want to look you up since we just got you on the horn on specifically your discord and instagram if you just wanted people to find you there uh so i think i can't remember if my discord i think it's just big paul i think i'm the only paul in the discord actually and uh yeah, my, my Instagram is Paul Foss, RN F O S S. I tend to kind of mutter and slur my words a little bit. I've had that ever since I became a nurse.

So it just has been my handle for a lot of stuff for a long time. It's not Paul floss. Nope. Okay. All right. I hope Nate's listening. It's not floss. I hope Nate's listening. It's not Floss. I'll get back to that later.

Okay. So how was your long walk home after going top shelf? You basically, I'm assuming how early into the night did you decide I'm not driving. I'm leaving my car here because I hope that was. And now you didn't walk back to Sioux Falls when you say home. No. The hotel.

I walked back to the Super 8, but I walked from the Super 8 to the Zubar, and then I walked back. Oh, okay. I think it was Chris that had decided to get an Uber or something that night and then had to walk back to his car the next morning, I believe. Okay. That's exactly what I was trying to avoid. And my back was super tight from lifting. And I was like, man, I need to even myself out a little bit. So it was like 1.9 miles.

And about halfway through it, it was hotter than shit. So it was like, oh, man. I was wearing the five-pack tee. So it was black in very tight denim jorts and flip-flops so about halfway through it's like this was a mistake but i'm too far committed to this but at least uh in the morning hungover and sore i didn't have to walk back to the zoo bar or try to get an uber at eight o'clock in the morning well you walk a lot anyway, right? And you know, I, I do. I don't, I know we like to be silly gooses around here. Um,

but you have an incredible story about, uh, weight loss and adversity and, and things. And I do think that you're walking as part of it. And I saw the face you made and I love you. Um, but it's probably worth sharing,

man. Cause people go through this kind of stuff all the time. You don't have to touch on anything that's uncomfortable. But tell us, man, what happened? Why? What? Obviously, it was a big enough story that somebody else told us we should bring it up. So I'm going to guess Big Matty, my wife, probably told you about this.

But at one point in my life, I was a big fat bastard, as I tell her and tell everybody. And most people don't believe me looking at me now. One point, I graduated college, and I was about 330 pounds. But I started working as a nurse and just was kind of very unhappy with how I looked. So I decided I'm going to start working out. Started just the bro split, you know, I hit a major chest, major back, major leg every day. Then I finally developed into powerlifting. I've been doing the big three for the last training,

training consistently for the last five years. I competed at 242. I weighed in at 237. I've maintained 100- pound weight loss here there since that point uh but yeah i now i have the excuse that i have my dog though he needs to be walked and exercised but i walk probably five and a half six miles a day but uh that's about what they said now what what was the do you mind what was the catalyst for, that's it, I'm losing this? You know, kind of a serious goose deal here, but it's like, you know, you just wake up enough days in a row and you're just very unhappy with how you look.

And like, I was 20, 22 years old and chicks don't necessarily dig the dude that's big and fat. So I was like like i need to do something about this and so now i uh you know replace my crippling addiction with food with working out and walking my dog so it's probably a better choice i agree i agree what was first um diet or exercise i kind of did a combination of both, but probably more so diet first. You know, I kind of lived at home, lived in the dorms through college. So I just ate crappy. And at one point when I was in school, when I was in college, I had a girlfriend at the time that kind of pressured me into crash dieting, eating like 1200,200 calories a day and running.

And to this day, I still hate running as a result. And I lost so much muscle mass and just was a shelver man. And then I went back to school and started eating a bunch of shit again. So gained it all back. And then I just graduated and started to clean up my diet, cut out a bunch of sweets and just, you know, bullshit that we're all guilty of eating. And cutting it back, you know, you can have it once in a while so i kind of do the 90 10 split of clean eating so right it's not a diet first it's not a diet it's your diet right right right right you know it's

one of those like oh i hear this is bad for you but in what way um but you know it's your diet uh well it's really i just i really wanted to talk about that i wanted to hear about it because you know it's one of those things i heard and i know that's not easy and i wanted to just commend you and say hey glad you're here glad you're finally happy if that's what you are um yeah for sure i never thought i'd be uh 230 240 pounds with uh four packs so got that going for me oh yeah four pack i've got the keg there's there's muscle under there but there's a lot of layers to protect it that's that's what i always joke uh the reason i asked about diet or exercise first is i've heard about the transference effect

that sometimes if you just do some exercise eventually you'll step up it's like arnold was saying you can't outwork a bad diet but like you kind of can because if you keep working eventually your diet will start to suit the needs of it just because your brain will start going well you're already doing this do the next step start doing that and that's still why i eat so clean now it's because i i really do love strength training and you know, it's a pretty big part of my life. So it's like if I can fuel it with good shit and then I can perform better,

it just makes more sense. So if I want to go out with my wife and have a banger of a dinner and I'm going to, but it's not something I'm going to do all the time. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely happened. I got a break. Thanks for sharing that. And you know, I, um, I hope that wasn't stepping on any toes but it was something i was interested in so what's next absolutely not what's next you just did the live hard live easy some strong man maybe in the future like what's what's going on i've always

so uh when i first started getting into shape uh i did an amateur strongman in a little podunk town which is actually southwest of where i live now in Sioux Falls. And I got, I think, third place in that. Just kind of a fun little dick around one. Looking back now, if I'd have been a little bit better shape, I could have won it. But strongman would be fun. It's just South Dakota. They just aren't real big into like athletic endeavors for whatever reason, the lift hard, live easy for untested powerlifting,

which granted I can compete tested, whatever. But you know, I like the deadlift bar. I like the squat bar. Do I squat or deadlift enough for it to really matter? No, but,

uh, that was like, that was about one of the first ones that they've done on this side of the state. They used to do one West river, but, uh, I would love to do strong west river but uh i would love

to do strongman but i just gotta find competition to try you brought up a point there and it's something i think i i want to contend a little bit and it's come up multiple times and it's the idea that unless you're doing over five plates you wouldn't notice the difference on a deadlift bar well i call shenanigans having lifted on a deadlift bar the kabuki and the texas power bar and my straight bar and even only doing three plates there's a difference there's a difference with the knurling there's a difference with the thickness there's a little whip even once you more than two plates you notice the whip right it's a little longer so i i would i would say that you're not the first to say it so i didn't want to like argue with you but like people in the discord have said it before and i'm like

no no man i noticed and i only did three plates because i was just having some fun right and i uh so i have a ohio deadlift bar a row board in my in my home gym which i'd love to get in texas but uh i just gotta save up the for it. I got one for sale for $250, buddy. I'm not shipping it, though. You got to come up to Rochester and get it. I'll even give you the crude discount of $200. I have in-laws that live in Rochester, so I could actually try to bargain my way to do that with my wife. We could do that, buddy.

The first time I ever pulled $500 was on a stiff bar, and then I pulled it on a deadlift bar and i was like oh there is a difference yes yep the for like i'm at home and i'm using the stiff bar which is the bells of steel bare steel and it's like four plates was hard sure you know a little higher it was hard and then i'm picking it up on the deadlift bar and it's like this is way easier like and it's only four plates so i think, alright. You could always come to Canada. We apparently have a ton of Strongman stuff. I don't even compete in Strongman, but I've just been following Mitch Hooper and

looking at what he does. We apparently just have Strongman everywhere. I'm in a contest right now to win a Mammoth Bar attachment from some Strongman company out in Newfoundland. So you can always come up here. We're not that far. And I'm sure there's a ton of strongman stuff up here going.

That reminds me. Do you guys remember when JF Coron blew his legs out maybe a year or two ago? Yeah, I saw the video. That was over a year ago. Is he retired? Is he fucked? Nope. I haven't actually followed up on that. But it was at least...

Was it the Arnold 2022? That had'd be the arnold 2022 right was it quad tears that happened to him or i think it i think it was a double yeah he dropped the uh he dropped the log on himself didn't he yeah i believe yeah yeah no he's actually he's he's still at it i saw somebody i saw him a big squat maybe i can't remember what it was now yeah i swear he dropped the log on it but no he's still at it i saw somebody i saw some big squat maybe i can't remember what it was now yeah i swear he dropped a log on it but no he's back he's uh he's not obviously at top um but he is rehabilitating he is working um i saw him doing some heavy lifts the other day but i mean what's the point with mitchell hooper demolishing everybody like Mitchell Hooper was doing 2,000 pound leg press for 10 reps today on Instagram

to prep for because he's going up to the Shaw, right? So yeah, he's as much as Jeff Krohn, one of the originals with Mitchell Hooper there. Speaking of leg presses and other home gym pieces of equipment big paul i saw that you

just got rid of one of your squat racks and you were uh debating on what next piece of equipment to get you would ask about you know a lat pull down or a functional trainer what this that and the other because i think currently you have a a power rack leg extension leg curl combo and you know that's about it right so what are you looking to add to the gym? Oh, I'd like to just outfit it with all the best stuff, but, uh,

I really think a lap pull down with a low row is probably going to be my next. I do, you know, I try to keep training as simple as I can. Uh, I got, you know,

safety squat bar, deadlift bar, Olympic bar, power bar, my leg extension, leg curl. So I think getting something upper body would be nice i have the room that i could do a lap pull down and if i could

find a screamin deal on a functional trainer i probably would but uh i think a lap lap pull down is probably going to be my next purchase nice how much square footage you're working with out there uh it's 14 by 20 uh inside so and i have a i could cut down my platform a little bit because i have my squat rack on a deadlift platform that's a full sheet of plywood long so whatever eight foot eight foot eight foot deep and then you deadlift in front of it then i'm guessing yeah and it's so i kind of have a franken rack that's a titan squat stand that i bought the extensions off the back just to make it into a half rack, which it works for me. And so and it has all my weights on it.

But eventually I'd like to upgrade to a six post because my wife actually graduates PA school on Friday. So she wants to get back into lifting with me. So I think I could probably swing upgrading to a six post so we could lift at the same time and not have to mess with heights so and then she would like a probably like a lat down on a functional trainer so there's i really just gotta talk her into making it seem like her idea well you train with her once and you realize i'm assuming you guys aren't similar heights so benching and squatting together is not really going to work out. No, she is

5'4 and I am 6'3. That's not the same height so yeah. You can sell it all and get a combo rack but then they're not overly safe and shit if you don't have spotters and whatnot unless you do some kind of harnessing feeling. I should try to talk her into buying a mono.

Yeah. I don't know. some kind of like harnessing feeling and i should try to talk her into buying a mono yeah that's uh i don't know i've never been a fan of monos personally but there's a lot of guys that like it um you know they're just you know different strokes for different folks but in america we walk out squats absolutely did you earlier you were talking about when you were quote-unquote building out the shed um did you actually like do some reinforcing for deadlifts specifics because you don't tell if you're just deadlifting on the stock floor i can't imagine this going well no so i actually watched the original massonomics how to build a deadlift platform video so i have uh two sheets of three quarter inch particle board and then stall mats and then my

middle finished piece of plywood so I haven't had seen any cracks come up yet so perfect that's good that's good but I've dropped 585 on it once and it hasn't done anything so was that uh was that at the top and she slipped out or did you do one of those uh oh I stood up with it and you just kind of got over overzealous and just threw it down uh the tunnel started closing in so it was kind of a it was it was controlled but it wasn't controlled might might have got at least one red light at a meet yeah as i just black out and fall down so speaking of the meet, though, how was your experience as far as your numbers? Did you hit PRs? This wasn't your first meet, so did you hit new meets?

This was my fifth meet I've done, and actually I PR'd in all three. I had an 80-pound total PR, squatted 430, 310 bench, and a 575 deadlift, so I was pretty happy. It's a big deadlift. I was very happy with it. I'd hit it once in training, but it probably didn't lock out. I kind of had a soft lockout at home, so it was kind of shaky whether I wanted to go for it. It was all I had in the tank because I watched the live feed.

There was a couple shakes on the way up, so I was like, yeah, probably a good thing I didn't push it any harder. Well, it's good to see that that really long commute you had from Sioux Falls didn't affect you negatively. Right. That's, you know, a whole three and a half hours. I had to drive 85 and then I had to slow down to 45 a couple times. Now I wonder that there's a lot of guys in Sioux Falls now. There's multiple other crew in Sioux Falls. Are you going to make any attempt to meet up with them?

I think I'm drawing a blank on people's names right now, but I know at least three or four guys that live in Sioux Falls. Bryce, Tommy, should we be calling it Crew Falls? So, yeah, pretty much. So if you peep the Masonomics Instagram story the other day, there was a text conversation that was about making is this how you make adult friends and it only costs three dollars. That was actually big Bryce and my conversation. So we're actually planning a time so I can head over to Little Sweeties and get a get a lift session in. And I could probably learn a thing or two about conjugate from bryce uh he's he's a big boy big and strong uh big mason he's coming down he's actually sort of my neighbor he lives about three blocks away and uh so he might have to come over to the shred shed a little bit and teach me how to bench and i i still have yet to see big tommy uh walking around town with his couple kids and

his dog he lives on the kind of sioux falls is split down the middle of with his couple kids and his dog. He lives on the... Sioux Falls is split down the middle with the interstate, and there's east side of Sioux Falls, west side. I live on the west side, which is the best side, and the east side is where Tommy and Big Bryce live, but I'll make an excursion. Big Grayson

is out there too, isn't he? I think he is. I haven't met him. Okay, yeah, that'd be cool. He was at the too, isn't he? I think he is. I haven't met him. Okay, yeah, that'd be cool. He was at the meet, wasn't he? Yeah, he was. Well, that's the thing. There was 60 of us there.

So I know I didn't shake the hands of at least 20 people that I probably should have and met and introduced. So I guarantee that there's... Yeah, that's funny. Grayson could live a block away from him and they never met just because there were so many fucking people there. And if you just didn't have to cross, if you just weren't introduced, you know, I, yeah, there was too many. I, Paul, I don't even think you and I spoke much at all on the weekend. I think just maybe a little bit in passing, but it was just

it was chaos. Yeah, it was almost a year, right, Keith? It was impossible. It was utterly impossible to talk to all of the people I wanted to talk to. And then somebody would be like, oh, hey, that's it. And I'd be like, oh, I want to talk to that guy guy but then he's like going up for his thing and then i get described like i distracted it was it was crazy i think i asked paul three separate occasions if he got a sticker if he listens to our podcast because i was like did i add you to the list yet

so like well yeah he had his long hair then so yeah he stood out then you're you're a different person um so i just blend in there was a there was a how do i word this in a way that doesn't get me in trouble there is a plethora of people that look mildly the same at that meet and it bearded bearded with long hair and taller than us well there was a couple of those but there was generic like clean shaven short hair muscular in white t-shirt guys and i was like even wanted to i'm like did we did we meet already and they're like yeah last night i was like i'm so sorry but like the people that have like distinguishing features like paul's long hair he stood out to me the entire time right But now you don't have that long hair.

That's less than two weeks later. So what happened? So my wife and I got married two years ago and then she started to be school to be a physician assistant. I told her it's a two year program. I said, I'm not cutting my hair when you're in school. So she graduates on Friday. in school. So she graduates on Friday. And last Thursday on my day off of work, I went to the barber and got my hair cut off. And I had the idea that I was going to cut it off and donate it. So I ended up doing that. It was 14, about 14 inches of hair that I cut off.

So I came home and I didn't tell her that I had cut my hair and she was just at home, at home studying and I just show up and she's like, what the fuck did you do? Like, oh, I cut my hair and she's like was almost tearing up. She's like, I started to really get attached to your hair. It's like, yeah, it's time. It's hot.

Yeah, it'll come back. Yeah, it all hits hair to grow back. Yeah. Have you noticed anything that's just easier now without having like you know two foot of hair like is work easier or is showerings probably way easier not having to wear it in a bun at work has to be great yeah showering is immensely easier working is really nice not to have to put my hair up all the time because i'd go to work like if i had showered even the night before it would still be wet when i got off work the next day it just held water and like it's just

hot and then just it's like brushing it and i don't know how women who have long hair do it or guys that keep long hair for a long time because two years i was at my wits end but yeah i mean it went to a good cause and actually uh i got i sent to wigs for kids which uh when alan thrall cut his hair years ago uh he had a instagram post about it saying that uh locks of love actually don't or charges kids for their wigs that they get from them and uh i was like well i'm not gonna donate to something like that so he donated to wigs for kids and that's where i did it and actually uh today i had a a coworker that donated a bunch of her hair to him, too. So it's kind of cool.

That is awesome. Very commendable. So speaking of your coworker, you say you've been a nurse for a while. Have you done a couple different – at one point you were a flight nurse, and now you're in – what do you specifically do now, if you wanted to mention that? Or how has your career evolved what keith really wants to know paul is what's a catheter and a penis like i did not say that well someone someone i think i think big bryce asked what it to be a work in the cath lab i think but i'm not sure if that's what you actually do. Yeah. Yeah. So I work in a cardiac cath lab. So basically my job is the most intense part that I do is if you have a heart attack, you come into the cath lab.

We put either a line in your arm or in your leg, and we go up and we shoot pictures of your coronary arteries. We shoot pictures of your coronary arteries. And if you have an occlusion, we balloon and stent to open it back up to kind of decrease the damage that you've done to your heart if you have a heart attack. So for nursing-wise, it's a pretty great job. I work four tens a week, so I get one day off. That's not bad at all. I work a little bit of call, but I do a lot of sedation. We do conscious sedation at work. So basically, I get to put people

to sleep and if i do my job right they don't remember my name so i can never do a good or a bad job you know was uh never was they never remember they never remember me well so was was big nate one of your uh patients previously is that why he thinks your name is floss potentially he might have a little piece. I really thought that was going to land. That did not land. Damn. It took a second.

It took a second. Well, that's yeah. No, I got put under for my thing I did this week. And it's actually kind of a funny story is they're asking why I was there. And I was explaining that I was losing strength. And as a lifter,

I track that kind of stuff right so the anesthesiologist comes in right and they tell her he's a lifter so I swear she's like lay down face this way she goes so what kind of lifting do you do Olympic and I was like well thank you but no

this is not the body of an Olympic lifter it's like I do power lifting she goes oh me too goodnight and i'm like why would you wait until you put me out to tell me the coolest thing about you and i was just out in a second so uh if you're familiar with the uh happy gilmore movie ben stiller the nurse and that uh that you'll go to sleep or I'll put you to sleep. That's basically the running joke at the cath lab all the time. We get people that tend to complain a lot. So we get them to go to sleep.

And then as soon as they close their eyes, like you will go to sleep or I'll put you to sleep. You're in my world now, grandma. Nice. One of my co-workers used to have his ID badge. He cut a picture out of Ben Stiller from that movie and put it over the top of his picture. That's awesome. And it was the greatest thing. Yeah, that's funny until the boss notices, if they notice.

Well, the people I work with are all silly gooses, including my boss. Outstanding. So outstanding critical care areas and you'll find in the hospital or wherever you kind of have to have a pretty different sense of humor, I'll say, to work in those because it could be really high stress. And then you got to go eat lunch after you had something terrible happen in front of you. So you kind of just start to slough stuff off. And that's why a lot of us go to therapy. But, you know, it happens. So is so obviously obviously you you know you weight train for mental health everything do you play the guitar for mental health as well

i do i uh i like to play guitar i wish i was better it's one skill i could probably stand to practice a little bit more but i tend to serenade my dog in my basement and I tool around a little bit but do either of you guys play anything? I do not, no. Nah, I sang for a couple of years. You're not skin flute players? Oh, here we go. It does seem to be pretty popular though we've had multiple guests that have played some instrument

or another so it seems to be a very running theme. I think the crew could have a pretty decent sized band just be like big zach singing i don't really care would you be like that's got some pipes on it doesn't it uh for sure i got one from big jen who noticed that you seem to do archery obviously you're hunting but have you ever done a competition for archery i yeah actually uh when i was in college i was actually a national champion archer we won a national championship in a team round when i was in college and i was academic all-american a few times and all-american uh back before the little liberal arts school we before it was a varsity

sport we were a club but we would go to national tournaments and shoot against like texas a&m and penn state and some big schools and we were a school of 380 kids and luckily where i grew up in yankton is the national field archery association headquarters so we had this this baller range that we could go and train at and shoot and uh at one point i had aspirations of being in the Olympics, but, uh, I tore up my shoulder and it had some weird pants,

like a burst of sack rupture or something. And I couldn't, couldn't shoot the bow as much as I needed to, to keep training for that. So that went away, but I still try to hunt and I still enjoy, uh, shooting,

shooting competitions every now and then just a lot less than I used to. That is so cool. You mentioned Yankton. That is a little river town on the Missouri river. So you basically grew up as a river rat. How was that? I, I am,

I was an, am still a river rat. So my grandparents had a little acreage on on the river so i kind of grew up there it's we i still try to spend a lot of time down there fishing and hanging out on the beach and having campfires and stuff uh have a little boat they take out fishing took my wife out the first time when we were still dating and was going 30 miles an hour weaving it out of logs just full tilt and she was not as big of a fan as I was. And I thought it was pretty funny.

But she doesn't quite understand that I've been doing the same thing since I was eight. So, you know, you get a little experience under your belt. But, yeah, Yankton's kind of an interesting little town. It's about an hour south of Sioux Falls. So it's about four and a half hours away from Aberdeen, right on the Nebraska border. And was it at eight years old that you decided you wanted to be a chef and that just never came to fruition? Man,

she really set me up for some zingers, didn't she? And the reaction that you just gave us with your face is why I slide into people's DMs because without like, without people's spouses giving us this dirt and it's like, it's not even like a, you know, just your,

like there obviously is a story there and you're just catching you off guard with it is why I love fucking doing these podcasts. It's great. It's my favorite part. So, so little, little Paul, before he was big,

Paul was a little chubby kid. And, uh, I love to watch food channel and all the cooking shows. So I would make, just make shit all the cooking shows. So I would make just make shit all the time. And I had a single mom growing up. So it's kind of up to me to cook a lot of my own food. And so I'd end up cooking for her, cooking for myself. And for a long time, I had aspirations of being a chef until I was actually in high school when I started to look into it more and

just realizing that the business is just a nightmare to deal with and just dealing with people, which I'm not a huge fan of doing anyways, and trying to run a business just realizing that the business is just a nightmare to deal with and just dealing with people which i'm not a huge fan of dealing doing anyways and uh trying to run a business and all that stuff and i was like ah that just sounds like way too much work for me and like i don't want to be married to a business so uh i still love to cook uh i try to cook for myself and my wife i meal prep for myself but every sunday i try to usually do like steak and risotto or something fancier on kind of like a nice sunday supper have a nice glass of wine and talk about our week and what's coming up so i still love to cook but my aspirations of being a chef have died uh speaking of food uh you're you're obviously a sweets guy so not

counting like fatty unhealthy shit is there what do you consider a sweets guy. So not counting like fatty, unhealthy shit. Is there, what do you consider a good, healthy, sweet, like not fruit, like something that what would you like, what do you like go to for a healthy treat? Oh,

healthy treat. Or is it even like, like, like, like, I mean, basically it could be like your favorite protein bar or something. If it has a little chocolate or peanut butter or something,

but if it's, you know, if nothing jumps out to you, then it's probably, you know, actually not worth mentioning. Or even if you're having trouble answering that one, somebody in your family was a pastry chef. So my mom was she actually used to be a cake decorator when she was one of her jobs that she had. She had a side business decorating cakes and she's an excellent baker. And that's probably part of the reason why I was a little on the heavy side as a kid. But everything she makes is good. Just scotcheroos, brownies. The story that you probably want to hear is when I was a flight nurse, at one point we were down a nurse at the base I was at. So I worked five weeks straight of 24s, took a week off and worked four weeks after that. That week off was probably the most unhealthy week of my life. I went to the bar every night and

I got home and just eat crap. And at one point I just stress ate an entire uh tub of monster cookie dough wow so monster cookies are still my weakness you think after something as stupid as that i would never want to touch them again but oh i can't say no what's um what's a monster cookie maybe i'm missing it so it's like half chocolate chip cookie there's some oatmeal in there it's there's a bunch of peanut butter in there then m&ms and chocolate chips and they're just they're just the tits man that sounds amazing it's that sound really good and imagine drinking like six ipas and then coming home to just cookie dough of that you just can't you can't not today um my my wife she made something uh all this food talk and i i gotta throw this out there so she made um stuffed squash sprouts so did you know you can eat the the little flour of a squash

before it turns into a squash i didn't so she made those she stuffed them with ricotta and coated them in batter and i deep fried them outside and like shit i could eat those all day that sounds amazing yeah she likes to do this weird stuff every every couple of uh every bit but it's no tub of cookie dough i'll tell you that i don't know cookies go ahead uh mention you mentioned scotch a ruse That's a word I never heard until I saw Tanner's flyer for what was on the menu that night. Is that a Midwest

thing? Is that a South Dakota scotcheroo? I think I had one. I can't really remember why. It was a tasty treat. Have you ever heard of a scotcheroo before going out there, Joey? No. A scotch roux before going out there joy no same so a scotch roux is a rice krispie bar but instead of just marshmallows and butter to keep everything

together it's uh basically you make caramel and then you put peanut butter into it and then you add chocolate on the top with peanut butter melted into it so it's just uh it's basically heaven in Rice Krispie form. And yeah, it's, if you go to any potluck, any, you know, like church function, school function, you go over to somebody's house and they're like, oh, what should you, what do you, bring something. Somebody's going to bring a pan of Scotch Roos. And I will always go for a Scototch ruse first round because it always happens in the night people drink people start to just pick and they even out the edges and then before long all the scotch ruse are gone and we're going to regret not getting one no i shouldn't heads up next year get one no absolutely i regret not having one now so is uh is i just want one more thing uh

tiger meat is that a delicacy that you uh and had out there as well i am a fan of tiger meat okay i i like to eat my steaks like blue rare rare so that doesn't you know the raw meat aspect doesn't doesn't uh throw me off in South Dakota, make a lot of really good beef and grow a lot of good beef. So there's actually a place that's just North of my hometown. It's called the Meridian Meridian bar because it sits on the highway 18, highway 81, which highway 81 follows the 81st Meridian. So that's why it's the highway. It's why it's 81.

So it sits right at that corner of those two highways, and they serve tiger meat, and that's actually pretty good. Hmm. No, I didn't get to try that when I was down there either. So there is one thing... There's always next year. There's definitely going to be next year.

I'm going to know so many more people by then. So there's one thing I wanted to do, and this requires a little backstory. We've already spoken about it. And I want to leave it here. Because I think it is the silliest thing I've ever heard. So Nate messages us earlier today.

We have a group chat going. And he says, and I quote, Can we do a floss, floss floss or floss segment where i'm going to bring up three types of floss and ask you to rank them and i half zoned out i'm like yeah that's a great idea thinking that you somehow worked in dentistry keith interjects and goes you guys know it's boss and not floss right and i said i don't care i'm keeping it i'm throwing nate under the bus so this is for this is from nate it is irrelevant to anything we've discussed but i'm keeping it just to make sure that nate stays on his toes a little bit while this baby's around.

So I'm going to give you three types of floss and you're going to rank them. All right, let's do it. Dental floss, the floss dance, and voodoo floss. Do we know what voodoo floss is? Do we have to discuss that? Nope. I got you. All right.

Rank number one, the floss dance. I cannot do it. I respect those that can. It's so fun. I'm not good at doing it, but I'll be darned if I'm not going to try it all the time. Number two, dental floss. I try to floss twice a day. Usually, I can get it once done a day i'm told it's important i don't know i'm afraid of the dentist so i try to floss to avoid going

to the dentist correct uh and voodoo floss i don't know it's got to be the third because i think it's just smoking mirrors i don't really think it matters. I tried it. I just don't think it really matters. Maybe not doing it right, but it's never helped me. All right. Well, thanks big Nate for that suggestion. There's a couple of crew members that are like on every episode and whether

or not they are on the episode, they're always here. And I wanted to make sure that he somehow felt a little bit of that embarrassment that I feel when one of my questions goes wrong. Well, that's for you, Nate. I love you.

And I hope your new baby, you're having fun. He should enjoy that segment. I know I got a kick out of it. I was like, I was reading it and I'm like, is it funny? Because it's like,

it's floss adjacent, like his name's floss. Like, like that's, that's one of my, like a pun adjacent that people always don't laugh at. And then I was like, well, wait, no, he really thinks his name is flossoss adjacent. Like, like that's, that's one of my, like a pun adjacents that people always don't laugh at. And then I was like, well, wait, no, he really thinks his name is Floss, I think.

And I was like, let me, I gotta set this straight. So that was a, I really enjoy our group chat. That is not the first time I've been called Paul Floss. Well, and I'm just a dumb golden retriever going along with it. Right. I'm just having fun no matter what's going on. And it's just Keith, it's like, you know's not his name and i was like i didn't even think about that i knew that wasn't his name i assumed this was something to do something else so

oh dude i that's like pretty small potatoes and i think it's really fucking funny that's great good silly question of the week is making a return so So what do you got for me? Big us, big Joey. All right. Um, I actually reached out to Maddie to see if this one was going to land or not. And I think we're going to find out right now. If there was a, what fictional language would you want to learn? And this can be anything like fantasy science fiction i know you're a marvel

movie fan anything but i want to know why why that particular language i had friends that learned elvin back in high school when lord of the rings came out because you could just learn elvin right i know my answer my wife knew my answer before I had to say it. You said it had to be fictional? Well, you can learn a real language right now. Nothing is stopping you. What fictional language would you think would be the most interesting to learn? Star Trek Discovery when it happens pre-contact. Not pre-contact, but like pre-Federation-ish. The original

Klingon language. That guttural that when they say things like keep Klingon or stay Klingon, remain Klingon. That's what they say all the time. But that, I would love to learn. Whatever that was. But apparently it doesn't exist on paper because some of the sound effects they actually had to make up but I think that sounded so cool it sounded so just like harsh and angry and and like primal because that's what the Klingons at

the time were portrayed as that's my choice I think I would have to say just Klingon from Star Trek because my dad was a big Trekkie growing up. So just looking at that, a funnier answer, I think, would be to speak the same language as the guys on Letterkenny. But I know that's just never going to happen. I speak that. It's fine. It's easy. so i speak i speak that it's fine it's easy uh sometimes there's shit in the urinal and the what

so klingon that's two klingons but like would you go like star trek next generation Klingon. So that guy, so Worf, we'll talk about Lieutenant Worf. He is a hybrid, right? So he is a human Klingon hybrid because after Star Trek Discovery, they started breeding together and they had like that. So that's their Klingon. The Klingon I'm going, if you, you can hear the difference slightly, but totally would be, I think Klingon would be a fun one. And you can learn Klingon. It's on Duolingo.

But it's a fictional language. It's not spoken in the world. Right. Yeah, I just, you know, my dad was a Trekkie growing up, so I think I just have to go with that. I don't, you know. That's probably about it. Keith is Googling languages right now.

I was trying to see what jumps. Checking the spreadsheets. He's checking the spreadsheets. Like Dothraki. I would love to learn Spanish. I was a big Game of Thrones fan. Dothraki is a good one, actually. I didn't even think of that.

It looks like trying to Google made-up languages. It's pretty close to Klingon dothraki i think because they do the same all of those things like those older languages they all sound the same because they're trying to emulate that guttural heavy tongue that that we used to speak with in all of our languages right even you just said spanish there's a form of spanish called castilian spanish which is spoken mainly in madrid spain and they have a heavier tongue so their zeds are like they pronounce everything with that and a heavy tongue because that's gotcha but they also think they're better than everybody else so unless you're listening to this in which case keep doing what you're doing

if i was to go real language i I would be torn between, I guess, whatever is it, is it Korean that most, like all the Netflix shows, like there's like a million Netflix shows that are Korean and then you got to watch them on dubs and it's just a pain in the ass. And, but like maybe that, cause I've even got,

I got, like I watched a flick. I was like, kingdom is like the zombie. I'm not sure that might be, I don't know if that's Chinese or Korean, but there's like a whole, so I guess one of those two, if it was flip-flop between the two of them.

But basically stuff that I consume on Netflix that is in a different language, that's just a pain in the butt. Because then it's like, do I want to read it or do I just deal with it just not syncing up? And I think typically I just go with the English voiceover, just kind of deal with it looking weird. Well, I mean, you could just do that that's the thing about real languages and i know it seems hard but i'll give you a brief example so in my in my high school days i did french spanish english obviously and um i was actually set to get the scholarship for french and spanish languages in general but i ended up hating my grade 12 french teacher um but then i also just started implementing a little bit of um latin and now i just sometimes learn german for fun um but if it

it seems daunting but i'll be honest with you if you look at it from this perspective when you started power lifting that's a new language for you. You didn't know RPE. You didn't know RIR. You didn't know that stuff. And while it's in English, it's a new language. So if you're sitting here telling yourself

you can't learn a new language, you're lying because you've already done it. You've done it multiple times throughout your entire life. When you started going to school, you didn't know any of this medical language. And sure, it's all in English, but you learned a whole a whole new language man so if you are out there and you're thinking well i'd like to learn korean go do it go buy a book start practicing nobody's gonna make fun of you so that's motivational joey i'm gonna drink this beer and that'll lead us into one of

our favorite games here. A little overrated and underrated for Big Paul. Are you familiar with the game? You don't understand the rules. It's not your personal opinion. It's the, you know, you got to compare it to what the general pop, the general population think of each subject and then kind of come up with an answer that way using a little druthers.

As long as I have my druthers, I need nothing else. Then you do have to ride one horse you can't ride two horses with one ass hey so is there some trivia who was the first person to say that where did we get that I remembered it the other day I don't know

it was Marisa wasn't it from Juggernaut it might have been I think I heard it referenced in like a random movie or show completely on masonomics related like somewhat in the last couple weeks i think too and i was like huh i've heard that before so i think it's just an actual thing and well yeah how did it get into our world so if anybody's listening go ahead and correct me but i'm i'm fairly certain as marisa i never i never knew the word druthers or harken existed until masonomics and

now i like i hear i'm like every like every two days i'm like oh i know what that means now you're fucking oh yeah harken's a good one and it's so funny how often that one comes up right now oh anyway yeah we're gonna do overrated underrated uh some of these are they're all handpicked for you but they're all from different sources i have some of the sources written down. I know Jen sent me some. I came up with at least three of these. Keith has one of them, two of them. So, Keith, why don't you lead the way with those first couple? Number one for Big Paul Floss, overrated or underrated?

This is from our buddy Big Bryce. Sanford Health. So this is a real catch-22. So I work for Avera Health, which in South Dakota, especially Sioux Falls, there's two major health systems. There's Avera and there's Sanford. Bryce works for Sanford. I work for Avera. And I've worked for Avera almost my whole career. So I got to say they're overrated, but my wife may get a job with Sanford. So we might have a house divided. So I'm still going with the overrated because I work for the,

for the good guys, the good guys in green, Sanford wears blue. And, uh, I just gotta say they're, they're, they're overrated.

Nice. Good, good, good. I'm, I'm, I always like when we get, uh,

you know, some, some specific people to ask questions and it's actually like hits home. So it always makes it a little more enjoyable for us. So this next one comes from one of the hosts. He asked about, I don't know how to pronounce this properly. So I'm going to say it's Hy-Vee Grocery Stores. Because he did not spell it out that way.

And I was looking at it and I was like, H-I-Vee Grocery Stores. I don't get it. But yeah, Hy-Vee Grocery Stores. So Hy-Vee grocery stores. So Hy-Vee grocery stores. Hy-Vee grocery is a business that started in Iowa. So there's a lot of crew that probably shops at Hy-Vee. I hate Hy-Vee. They're way overrated.

They're overpriced. The only thing that would kind of decrease their overratedness slightly is they have really good american chinese food they're we call it high chai yeah so uh it's it's very good but as a whole i think hy-vee is overrated now is that like a hot food bar they have it or there's there like a dedicated little station where you can just like go yeah so no they have like a whole like basically diner they have like italian high or chinese and then like american food where you can get like mashed potatoes and turkey and chicken and all sorts of other shit it's like if you could you could eat an entire like day's worth of food there and eat something new for every meal that's hot and ready that you can just eat there i gotta ask keith when he sent you this did he just send you

hiv grocery it did i believe because i even like i even looked at it for a second and just paused and then i i had to google it and it was like okay and then i think i even responded to google hiv and was like wait a second because i even I even responded to one of the hosts. I was like, I thought you were talking about AIDS for a second. I was very confused. I was like, wait, what? But then it all made sense. So it should be H-Y-V-E-E.

Yeah, which is what he put it in the notes. The way he was describing it, it was like the HIV grocery. What the hell is it? That's how it was. HIV grocery. Unless I was looking at it wrong in the text I got from one of the hosts with a beard. I'm not shopping there.

I don't want what they're selling. Last one that I'm going to hit you with is Pop Country. Overrated or underrated? Pop Country. Oh, God. It's terrible. I don't know if you guys like pop country.

I'm going to assume no, but it sucks. I don't mind country music, but the country music I like is like Sturgill Simpson a little bit more like Americana, outlaw country stuff, which is sad that you have to like Americana outlaw country stuff, which is sad that you have to call it like Americana or outlaw country,

which is just saying country music that doesn't suck. Yeah. So completely overrated. Morgan Wallen sucks. Jason Aldean sucks. Luke Bryan sucks. Agreed. Hank Three, go listen.

Shooter Jennings, go listen. Bridge City Sinners, go listen. Scott Byram three go listen shooter jennings go listen bridge city sinners go listen scott byram go listen stick to all these guys and you'll love country music again but yeah this all the committee written colter wall colter wall a fellow canadian for you awesome yes love that dude actually um but i was like i I call it Chrome Country. Yeah. Right? Because these are the guys with the shiny pickups and the, that, you know. I understand the working man. No, you don't. You grew up in Atlanta, my friend.

Like, you don't know small towns. Anyway. I'm glad we agree on that one. All right. So that's three overrated. Okay. Okay. Get the feeling I'm going to get a three overrated okay get the feeling i'm gonna get a couple overrated

overrated or underrated dog breath you know i love dog breath i'm saying underrated i love dogs i love all dogs i don't care they're all good boys yes and correct you know i'll take a nice wet dog nose and a slobber kiss any day of the week it always makes me smile so jen wanted me to ask overrated or underrated gold adores underrated i have a gold adore they're the best of both worlds i have a great hunting dog i take him duck hunting pheasant hunting he does great hunts like a lab super motivated to go but then he sits on the couch and loves only like a golden retriever and he's just the happiest dog and loves everybody like every golden retriever ever met so it's the best of

both worlds i recommend everybody gets one that's why i mentioned earlier the golden retriever thing because it's just sometimes you just want to be that happy you just want to be happy and loving just walking around like everything's new and great and awesome. And I agree. That was all, that was like a one in a one a. So I'm actually going to turn these ones around. I'm going to read this in a different order.

So overrated or underrated Thanos. Thanos. That's, that's a good question. I, i uh for a long time at work i had a thanos sticker on my name badge much like my co-worker had the ben stiller and uh people would ask me why do you have a thanos sticker on your name tag and i just just snapped my fingers i just wish i just wish half these people were gone so i'm going underrated he is probably my favorite uh favorite character in that universe nice although i do know that

in actual like comic books and the whole mythology behind it thanos is trying to impress uh death and all that stuff but i don't know it's. I just like the characters in the movies. I think they do a pretty good job for him. And it's just that snapping my fingers trying to get half the people gone. But they just are always there. Well, they would have had to water him down for the movies, right?

Right. You can't have him trying to kill everybody so he can impress death. That's kind of a bad deal. And Marvel death is a sexy lady too right so right he's deadpool also has a crush on her yeah he's trying to get laid i mean we've all done bad things for women but all right you cut your hair off for a woman i believe so exactly okay so this is the one for all the Marvels. Marvels. Marvels. Ah, I see what you did there.

Yeah. Overrated or underrated, photo finish toilet runs after walking the dogs. My wife and I are going to have to have a conversation about this. She gave me a paragraph describing this. We had to sum it up into something that we could say on the podcast because she gave me so much information so i have a little bit of ibs okay and uh i used to drink a bunch of coffee before i would go on my morning walk and i walk like almost three miles every morning and uh there is a couple times where i would send a snapchat to my wife when she was up getting ready for school like you need to open the front door because i don't know if i'm

gonna make it i've been there that's the only reason i'm laughing there was times where i would like the dog would still have his leash on and he would end up in the kitchen and like i would leave my coat on and my shoes on, just run to my basement. Like I'm going to shit my pants. So we've all been there. I think they're underrated, you know? And it's same with that.

A powerlifting meet. Sometimes, sometimes you push yourself a little hard and you think I got out of this hole in the squat, but I might've, I might need a new pair of boxers. There are, there are literal times.

My wife will tell you, we will pull into the driveway and I will just jump out of the car and go. Like just pee in the driveway because like, nope, I'm not making it to that washroom. Like I'm going to burst now. Or even like, are you going to help me with groceries? And I'm already halfway in the door. No.

Because I relate is what I'm trying to say. So I have a lifetime policy. I never trust anybody that has not gambled on a fart and lost as an adult. That's happened. Yeah. Well, that brings overrated

underrated. It looks like you passed. Yep. We can air this one this week. We still got to figure out a closing cool beans alternative i'm on it i already know what i want it's just a matter of programming it make it happen cabin i'm gonna have to sit down with nate one of any like i don't know if you guys have ever installed things on a computer obviously you have you're not let it's like me um but it was asking for so many permissions and confusing things i was just like i'm gonna call nate like we'll face

time he can walk me through it. He should definitely have more free time now, right? That's what happens when you have a third kid, right? You just have more free time? Yeah, the big one watches the little one. He can't feed the kid. He's got all sorts of spare time. That's true, yeah.

And as somebody who has two kids about this age, fathers are useless. You're there to support mom you you're useless to the child right unless you're getting up at night or you don't have to work or anything like that i guess i will say yeah for the most part you're right paul it's i'm just here to get you things while you do the baby stuff like that's what i'm gonna do or i'm here to watch the other ones because this one's taking all your time all right so i'm interested to see what paul has for us so we're gonna flip it back on you and see if you want to ask us some questions or not i have uh one question that

i'd like each of you to answer a and i don't know if my wife had mentioned anything, but I love being outside. I love nature, walking, hiking, hunting, fishing, but there's one thing that I've always loved. And I, I related a lot to my grandpa and growing up on the river and stuff like that. But, uh, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be myself i would consider myself an oak tree i uh i like to think of myself as strong kind of slow growing slow to grow on you but once once i'm there i'm there strong and i kind of represent that strength i just kind of want to know what you guys think a little bit more of a serious goose question but all right so keith looks like he's programming so i'll go ahead and answer um interestingly i

primarily use tree scented things i love trees my beard oil is essentially um it smells like the moss of a tree like if you were to smell my beard oil when i first put it on you would think i was sleeping in the woods um i would have to say it's a toss-up uh between a willow tree um i love willow trees because they are gigantic their roots are spread far uh but they are strong they are strong because they are limber and because they are willing to move with the wind rather than against it and that's where their strength lies is in their flexibility and i think that as as a person growing that should be everybody's endeavor be like water as bruce lee said um i like it i would say that um or birch tree and it's only genuinely

just because a birch tree is so effing useful up here in canada like the the indigenous population use them for everything they're the cleanest burning wood so it's guaranteed that you can cook over it um you can pretty much use the bark for anything it has medicinal properties and it looks cool but the problem is they are weak physically. A good fart will knock over a birch tree. But they're useful in every other realm. I just thought maybe it was because you peel if you get sunburned.

Oh my god, do I ever. Purple. Wife was laughing at me the other day. You're going to go purple from this sunburn. Heath, what do you got? What's your tree, man? I don't know. What's the enormous ones in the big state parks

out west? You're going to call yourself a redwood? I got to hear this. I guess. The massive ones are where there's the people at the bottom. They look like an ant share. Yeah, those are the redwoods out in the west coast. I get it. Those would be

cool because they're the biggest and the best, I suppose. They're the most phallic shaped. I have to kind of feed into the orange beast. There are actual orange trees, right? I'd have to go with an orange tree, I suppose, just because it provides sustenance. Well, you're from New York. All trees go orange at some trees, right? So I'd have to go with an orange tree, I suppose, just because it provides sustenance.

Well, you're from New York. All trees go orange at some point, right? There's Osage orange, which is the hottest burning wood that there is. They make a lot of archery equipment out of it. It's Osage orange. And if you burn too much Osage orange in like a cast iron fire burning stove,

you can actually melt it because it gets too hot. Oh, wow. What makes wood actually burn hot? It's weird. It's got more something about its composure, what it's made of, that actually burns hotter. That's crazy. Somebody much smarter than me probably knows.

Yeah, I'm not an arborist. I'm just a monkey with a syringe, man. I'm a monkey with a syringe. We've got an arborist i'm just a monkey with a syringe man i'm a monkey with a syringe we've got an arborist in the crew we should probably hope they listen and answer this question for us i like this the something that provides sustenance and like oh you know food for other people i guess because i feel like that's kind of what i like to do with i like to provide a place i like to provide an orange sanctuary down here so a tree that provides oranges would be the same right i dig it the orange glazed tree uh paul genuine question and for the people at home i hope you

can figure this out how did it get so much darker that you look like the cover of a john wick movie well so i'm in i'm in my wife's office that uh i don't have the lights on because when i got home it was still relatively light out but now the sun sun has set and it's just I have no light behind me and I'm wearing a black shirt. So now it's just I'm a floating head. It went from full visibility to like shooting a queen video. Like you're just a floating head right now. Well, I think we would have started at 730 Aberdeen or Sioux Falls time. And now it's a little after nine Sioux Falls time. So if there's anything we know about South Dakota is that it gets dark kind of late.

So, yeah, that's I said as soon as I started, like the last hour, it's gotten darker and darker and darker in the last 20 minutes. It's just he is literally now it's almost like a meme. You're just a neck and a head. It's pretty hysterical. It's so he can hide from the mosquitoes. Oh, God. you're just a neck and a head it's pretty hysterical it's so he can hide from the mosquitoes oh god they i just saw so i have a big picture window in this office and i just saw a truck spraying for mosquitoes drive past so yeah yeah we have a mosquito problem yeah there you're telling me you know fly problems just regular they got the biggest damn horse flies that want to suck your soul. I never noticed that. And they bite. God damn, do they bite.

Yeah, I got lots. Because before I went to Tanner's, I bought mosquito spray and sprayed the shit out of myself. And I was like, cool, no mosquitoes. But then I still got bit by seven house flies. Oh yeah, it's a nightmare. Well, that

about wraps us up, guys. It's a pretty decent episode, pretty good length. But I do have a single question. Did you guys hear the end of last week's episode? Did you guys catch the Easter egg? Of our episode. Yeah, I did. I was looking on it, just listening to it, and I was like,

oh, there's still a couple minutes left, and it sounds like it's done, but it definitely was not. You got to listen for the goose honk. Yep. It ain't over until the goose honks. Can we give spoilers? Do you assume if they're listening to this one that they've listened to that one?

Yeah. Okay. When that phone started ringing and he and big matt was there can i tell you i think i was in the gym okay just finishing it up because we started it upstairs and then i took it downstairs in the gym i died i had to like lean over my barbell because i was laughing so hard. I think I was doing military press or something. What a next level.

And this is all Nate. I'll tell everybody. I'll tell you all. Nate actually didn't tell us he was doing that. That's really funny. Yeah. So when Keith commented, he was like, hey, that was really funny. I was like, now I got to hear it.

You know, as far as the future of the podcast goes, Paul, you've listened to all of our episodes. You know, Keith, we've been on all the episodes. Well, I have. To me, that was permission for the next level of where I think we can go with this. That was a full on skit. Oh yeah. That was great. Skit added to the end.

And I was just like, that's what we were missing. We were missing that next level of how to make things a little funnier. And I think that, yeah, I think you just got to keep dropping a little, little nuggies in there for, uh, the dedicated listeners that,

you know, I, I think it's worth it. And I think you could we could probably figure out a few more things through the discord to just kind of keep adding to the prestige of it all you know instead of just us talking all the time but having that little skit at the end i was like that's it like that was what we needed and if we do that every once in a while where we can just suddenly focus a little more on the comedy i think i'm ready i'm so excited i want to thank nate for

that yeah i thought i had like accidentally called someone because i was like okay cool the podcast is over and then it's like my phone's ringing and like i'm driving my work van from one job to the next and i'm like did i call my boss back or something like what the fuck and then there's nate's voice with our voicemail i was like oh this is gonna be great it's gonna be really good and then it was it was perfect so if you have is going to be great. It's going to be really good. And then it was, it was perfect. So if you have not listened to it, you, you know,

do yourself a favor, go back, listen to last week's episode. Uh, I know that goes to like all of Paul's hundreds of the followers that are probably only tuning into this episode. Go ahead and do yourself a favor, you know, like follow,

subscribe to the unpaid underrated podcast, go back, listen to our backlog. Um, cause that is important. So thank you for that. And, uh,

rate us and all that jazz. All right, I'm going to bring it on home. You can find us at unpaid and under unpaid and underrated podcast on the Instagram. But if you're having trouble with that, just go to unpaid intern podcast.com. That actually leads you to all the episodes, you can find whatever you listen to us on on the website, as well as some bios for me and Keith. Yeah. You have a new bio now you have like a three, like a paragraph bio.

And I still got the, the, the, the three words, but you know, they're both accurate. So you can't be too upset with it. Well,

you'd never know based on everything you see from me and that I used to write, I've been published by newspapers and stuff. Like I used to write all the time and by newspapers and and stuff like i used to write all the time and then they're like we'll write a bio and i'm like i don't want to talk about me so it took me like two months to finally get something reasonable um paul where can we find you where can people follow you on uh that's paul foss rn boss f-o-s-s not f-l-o-s-s uh so paul foss Foss R N Foss F O S S not F L O S S. Uh,

so Paul Foss R N on Instagram and then a big Paul on the discord, still the one and only Paul. Let's let's keep it that way. Uh, can people follow your dog? Uh, he has an Instagram. My wife runs it. So hopefully she'll be a little bit more up to date on things.

He is a Loki, the gold, the door. He's a gorgeous dog. I was, I was perusing that. And cause I also love dogs. I was checking that out.

To be honest with you, you can find me at, uh, Joey underscore Malesko, M-A-L-E-S-K-O. Um, but chances are you're already following me for listening to this. If not,

I'm probably going to bore you, but tune in. And I am big Keith. You can follow me on Instagram at KeithHoneycutt73. Go check out my orange gym, the no wine cellar. And in the meantime, we'll go ahead and see you next Tuesday.