Unpaid And Underrated - 014 : Cow Plasma

Episode Date: August 15, 2023

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Kolten. They dive right into some heavy hitting topics like popular midwest statements, the importance of drink safety, and science. 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 @kgoody66 (https://www.instagram.com/kgoody66/). 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 Kolten.

all right everybody welcome to episode three of the unpaid and underrated podcast i am big joey i am of course joined by big keith hello hello and big bolton all right we have the crew together Big Keith, hello, hello. And? Big Colton. All right, we have the crew together this week. The first thing I want to do is I want to take a second to congratulate Nate and his family, our producer, who you heard a lot from last week. More than you normally would if you hadn't listened to episode 000. But Big Nate had a baby so we are welcoming big louis david ekberg born august 1st at 3 21 p.m weighing eight pounds and one ounce so that's a fantastic thing welcome big louis um welcome to the crew uh i also should probably quickly mention uh i it was me that posted that video of big matt on on our instagram where he um was essentially in front of a green screen

uh threatening to ransom our podcast i don't know what that's about i don't know what his problem is we've been trying to get him on he He's not answering our messages and our texts. Every time we record, he's just not even picking up. So whatever's going on in the Big Matt world, hey, man, we love you. Reach out anytime, buddy. He has a direct line to me. You know, you guys, I posted the screenshot of the text I sent him. I don't know why he never got back to me.

Well, I feel like he's just ignoring us sometimes. He could be. He just left text i sent him i don't know why he never got back to me well i feel like he's just ignoring us sometimes he could be yeah he just left me on red i don't know why unacceptable you know that's a big math thing to do yeah i wonder if all the i wonder if all the mats do that or just how how many mats are there there's like seven plus just seven mats i don't know if there's seven there's at least four or five wow this crew's got more mats than How many mats are there? There's like seven plus. Seven mats? I don't know if there's seven. There's at least four or five. Wow, this crew's got more mats than a rug store. Nice.

Guys, what are you drinking? I'm already ready. So I'm actually really excited to get into this one, guys. I've got an orange cream bubbly. I'm always a fan of anything orange, but the orange cream, I'm very excited to see what it tastes like. And it's, wow, that's good. That's the closest thing to like a soda that literally tastes

like an orange cream soda. That's so much better than the President's Choice. Well, the warm President's Choice. I was going to ask you to compare the two because it sounds like the same flavor. This being ice cold, it might kind of be apples and oranges. Just kidding. This is a solid 8 out of 10.

You know the science behind drinking cold beverages, right? Is it just more something, I'm assuming it's more palatable because it's satiating? It's freezing your taste buds. It's actually muting the taste that you get. If you don't like something warm but you do like it cold, thening the taste that you get and if you don't like

something warm but you do like it cold then the idea is that you probably don't like it at all interesting but because it's freezing your taste buds here you're kind of tricking yourself into liking it big colton buddy what are you drinking uh i just got some water in a custom that's some there's some bougie water or is that a that's a like oh okay tumbler gotcha gotcha gotcha well I am drinking a Keats because I just worked

eight days straight came back from vacation and just did eight shifts in a row and thought yeah I'm gonna have a beer I do have an iron brew so if you guys

could remember iron brew which is the Scottish soda it tastes like bubble gum I've got one of those in there because that's next. I've been waiting to get to that all day. But I do love those. I have had to wear today because I wear my work shirt. And then I came home and I put on a Norse fitness shirt and I went into the gym and that it just didn't survive the gym. We won't get into why it just didn't survive. So then I put on another Norse fitness shirt and then gave my kid a bath and

ended up covered in kid bath. So now I'm wearing my squats shirt and you know i earned it you're right right i was having a bit of a stomach issue and i said buddy just like i'm just gonna sit in the toilet for a second he's like no you're not and he just spit water while i was on the toilet and i was and i was like you want to be mad but also like you earned it. You, you sat there while he was in the bathtub. You kind of had it coming. Yeah. The bathroom with the kid in it is,

uh, just a flat zone. Yeah, it is. And, uh, so I've got my squat shirt on. And,

uh, what do you, you guys, what do you wear? We are sorry. We're all a little confused right now. Yeah. Who let this big foot fetish guy in? Big Aaron jumped in. So I am, again, not wearing a themed shirt as I should be.

I had a strength coat shirt on all afternoon when I got home. And I started doing the dishes. And I was putting the damn sponge up to the soap dispenser. And it literally jizzed soap all over my shirt. And I took it off and rinsed it off and actually hung it up to dry, put a different shirt on and then forgot to put the strength of shirt back on. So,

and right, literally right until I got ready to click, uh, what are you drinking? And what are you wearing? I was like, Oh shit, I'm not wearing a shirt.

So, or a math and geometry shirt. I failed again, dropped the ball. Sorry guys. What shirt are you wearing? It's just a plain like undershirt. They make those? Yeah, it's just a blue, unlabeled

$4 general shirt. Cold, what are you wearing, buddy? I think I already saw it. I got the 8-Bit Strongman. Oh, I'm so jealous. I should have got some of those. I'm going... You know what? We'll talk about that in a few seconds.

But I wish I had the Highland Games one. I'm going to my second Highland Games in a couple days. And like, I could have just had that shirt the whole time. Yeah, that one's cool. So did you guys, did anybody catch Tanner's

most recent YouTube video that came out today? The eggs and the, what the 1,200 calorie breakfast? I have not seen it yet. So basically, he's been eating the same two pieces of turkey bacon, a piece of regular bacon, six eggs, a little bit of cheese, oatmeal, peanut butter, and a half scoop of protein for like 10 years. I'm like, that's a lot of food. But actually, I watched that at like 4 o'clock when I got years. I'm like, that's like that's a lot of food. But actually, I watched that at like 4 o'clock when I got home.

I was like, oh, it's about dinner time. I have some eggs and I have some ham, so I kind of recreated it a little bit with eggs and ham, so that was a nice little breakfast for dinner. Were they green eggs, Sam-I-Am? No, no, no green eggs. They were not green eggs and ham?

I also have not watched the YouTube video because like I said I've worked forever and ever today left a little early and then just had to like do family things so that like your punishment when you take a week off is they they just schedule you eight days straight like you don't get like a five and a day off no it's because I came back and then I wanted to go to the Highland Games on Saturday. Okay, okay. So I needed to make sure that I positioned my day off in that sense. And the only way to do that was to just work a massive stretch. And then take two days off as soon as it gets as busy as hell at work. And be like, well, good luck with TU, guys.

So you probably haven't. Like a good manager does. So you might not have that much time to uh dive right into your starting strength book yet then have you no not at all no it's it's on the bookshelf and it'll be uh no it's actually on it's actually on the kitchen table because i haven't been so excited to read a book in in in so long as i am with this one because i think it'll make some of the stuff i've been doing make sense do you know what do you know what iteration that is yeah it's the third edition and uh yeah i just i'm already just started the squat section

already excited to learn things that i you know it's a weird. I've always said that if you can name your demon, you can exercise it. And that just goes back to the exorcism movies. Sometimes you just got to know what you're doing wrong. And, you know, my squats have always been bad. Just based on my poor hip hinge, my ankle mobility. So being able to read a book, doesn't matter how long you've been squatting for but having somebody look at like being able to tell you no no this is the thing it's it's worth it for me i wish i had read it at the beginning of working out but remember when i first started

working out i was like i'll put this heavy thing up and keep going and that's all i did for like three years so yeah it'll be nice to have some kind of direction on there but speaking of calling me out on stuff yeah that next section there you got that one coming and i do enjoy that it's funny because we said on the one podcast that this might be a skit or there will be skits coming and then i posted the video of you knocking your drink over on the stairs and coach carp was like, he even said like, told you the next level was skits or something like that. And it's like,

Nope. He sent me that video completely innocently. And I went, I'm getting him with that one. Yeah. He, I was completely fine with it. It's hysterical,

but like, I was so, I was so confused when he said I'm stealing that and posting it. And I was like, wait, what? Like I, cause we we were i think right before that we were talking about a different video oh because it was uh because we got the video from uh the week before where uh paul floss his head was just floating in the dark and i still haven't done anything with that yet but uh i was like wait you already are dealing with paul's video and then i opened

my instagram i don't know i see what he did there Because it didn't even register. So anyone that hasn't seen it yet, I had my pre-workout on my stairs. I went to go pick it up, take a last little sip of it before my top set. And I just fumbled it and spilled a shot glass with the pre-workout all over my floor. Then picked it up and had

just a hair left in it and chugged that and went along with my set and then playing into the whole drink safety and using a drink spotter. And for clarification, just a hair left in it and chugged that and, you know, went up, went along with my set and then, you know, playing into the whole drink safety and using a drink spotter. And for clarification, I do own two drink spotters. I was just, there's not one stationed near my bench press. I think the one that is stationed in my bench press holds my, my, my,

my chalk brush, my barbell rescue chalk brush. So, you know, which I, usually I drink my pre-workout right at the beginning then it's like completely gone and it's like it's not an issue but i just happened to have like i knew i had a little bit left and i was like oh i'm gonna go drink that fumbled the shit out of it and can i just tell you honestly i made myself laugh so hard as soon as you sent me that video and the drink spotter idea came into my brain i went red laughing and my wife was like what is so funny and i was like oh this is gonna be classic and i just said if there was only a product that you could have had to not have

this happen and it was really it was honestly really funny and then to have the massonomics post say rookie mistake, maybe you should listen to the backlogs. Oh God. Yeah. That was, that was great. That extra jabbing kind of leads us right into the, so we've been, we've been pretty active. So since, since, since the meet, like for the first few months, Joey had sole, you know, ownership of the Instagram and we kind of started sharing it after the meet

and I'll, I'll, I'll get on there and throw up a poll or a random story asking questions or something. So if that's something you guys like to see, just, you know, just, just keep on being interactive with it.

You know, as long as, as long as people are responding to the polls and answering the questions, we'll keep throwing that stuff up there. Cause you guys seem to be enjoying it. And hopefully you're liking having basically two people help kind of manage the, the,

the, the account. So, you know, if you, if you don't like it, if you don't like anything that you're seeing having basically two people help kind of manage the the the account so you know if you if you don't like if you don't like anything that you're seeing it's it's it's something probably joey posted yes i have known to post controversial and angering things i actually uh speaking of that i just deleted twitter i threw it in the disc i saw that yeah and for me that's a big deal like if anybody's ever known me for the past 12 years I was Twitter I was on Twitter

so much but it just became such a bad news machine even a feel bad machine I would even call it so yeah I finally got rid of that and somebody was like join Reddit probably not going to do that a feel bad machine, I would even call it. So yeah, I finally got rid of that. And somebody was like, well, join Reddit.

And I was like, eh, probably not going to do that. I joined Blue Sky. That's probably worse. It's way worse. And even TikTok, like, just don't read the comments. Social media attracts such stupid people. So have you invested that time that you were spending on twitter and uh threads now or are you just kind of limiting social media in general i did yeah i'm limiting social media twitter was where i was um like political where i would do the

controversial stuff i would never do with the crew and with the instagram because i used to be really involved in politics in my city so i had a municipal kind of following here and I was just, now I'm just done with it. Done with humans. Did you delete the app off your phone or did you delete your account? And there's just no turning back. Both. Oh,

wow. That's deactivate, delete. And you know what? It was just, somebody said one really stupid thing to me and I doubt he's listening to this. And it was just like, I was looking at it and i wanted to

respond because you know you know get that like you flare up and you're like how dare you speak to me like that and i know the guy and i just went you know what i'm gonna take this one step further and not not respond to you and deactivate and delete and it was done within like 30 seconds i was like hey oh i fixed my desire to engage with your flame or whatever you're doing so yeah everybody find that happy place get rid of the get rid of the bad news machines in your life colton what do you what are you what are you on so you're on discord for sure yep um. On Instagram. You have a Facebook because I kind of deep-dove that,

but as not being your friend out there, I can only see your public shit. So you didn't have a whole lot on there to pull from? I'm not much of a poster on any social media. I mostly get tagged by my wife and stuff. Nice. Yeah. Most couples are kind of like that. Or I don't know, from, from what I see, there's, there's the very active social media person and there's the very inactive. It's I'm sure you're going to have couples that are both the same, but you know,

at least in my family, like I'm definitely the more outgoing on social media. And then my wife, like she has a private account and you're like, know only follows like 80 people so it's just she's happy with that she's you know even even within that 80 people it's just like oh god these people are annoying but uh you know everyone has that i think that was really funny because your drink was still blurred as you pulled it in and i actually thought that was your wife walking behind you for a second. And then I was like, oh, he's getting kicked out of the office. Yeah. So if I sound any different this week, I am. I'm not in the cellar.

I'm trying to record in the office because I know my audio has been kind of wonky. Just how echo echo it is in the basement. And I tried like throwing up some yoga mats and stuff. But unless I probably spend some money and invest in some soundproofing, I don't know how much better it'll be, but we'll see if this is a one and done upstairs because I can't really keep my wife up just for the sake of a podcast.

So we'll see. He's in the no wine office. Yeah, there we go. You just gotta just eat more eggs. You just saw that YouTube, right? Yeah. So just eat more eggs and hang those around the walls. The egg crates. It took me a second. I got you.

Yep. Atta boy. Oh no, I've looked up like the, the sound dampening things on Amazon and like, well, can I just put a bunch of these up in my floor joist and like that? Cause I don't want to change the,

the visuals of my basement. I don't want to have anything permanent. So it's like, there was some hanging curtain things that are supposed to be like sound absorbance. It's like, I don't know. We'll see how this week goes and, you know, get back to you. But what did you guys think about last week's? So we have this segment that Joe usually introduces, but I'm just going to step on his toes and talk about it.

So we're going to go ahead and rate last week's episode of the podcast. It was the Mr. Chris Duffin, Mr. Kabuki. Mr. couldn't really pull any words out of me. You know, he was just getting the one answer. It seemed like that one word, that one word answer. So Colton, what did you think about Mr. Chris Duffin's episode last week and how the boys handled it? Oh, let's see. Very good use of his brother. almost too much but uh you're allowed

um so a lot of geography which is always a good thing um and yeah i think think if I was going to give it a rating, I would probably say 5 JD Powers. It's a good rating. It's pretty fair. So I enjoyed it overall. I actually was able to listen to a good chunk of it, I believe, on the drive home from work one day. Was that the one I think they recorded? Maybe I'm misremembering. Was that an early afternoon recording or something?

I can't remember. Yeah, it was like 2.30 on a Thursday or something. Yeah, I think I randomly caught it and was able to listen to the whole beginning, which was kind of cool. But overall, I wish there was a couple of things that I had asked Tanner to ask him. He has a notorious shit bucket from his youth where he like you know when he was talking about living in the woods with his family and stuff that you know though he was on another podcast where he mentioned happened to like poop in a bucket and just like with his family that so it was just kind of a running gag that you know i asked about

his kabuki bucket uh you know that i didn't get that content i was really looking forward to it but uh other than that they did a pretty good job with as little as he was talking, they still was able to manage to get a good two-hour podcast. We'll go ahead and give it five JDs this week. You know what? That's pretty fair. Both of you are giving it five. Everybody likes

to mock me in the Discord for not knowing anybody. I don't know influencers and things like that but i will tell you chris duffin is one of the ones i know i actually love chris duffin i read his book met him at the arnold i've been following him for a while uh just everything that guy does, it just resonates with me in a certain way. It also is fun that he alone is like 30% of the Masonomics sponsors. Because I didn't know he was involved in the Build Fast. And he's involved in Barefoot. Once Kabuki gets in, this is a 50% Chris Duffin podcast.

But I just love the guy uh hearing from him he's chaotic he's funny i think he gets it like i think he gets massonomics um which is always better to have that as a guest um the the the chart the shared chart that he brought up and the whiteboard full disclosure sounded a bit too much like a conference call at work and if anybody who knows me knows that I absolutely detest conference calls at work especially if they're supposed to be development calls, because they don't develop me in any way. So I kind of heard some of that stuff in there, because remember I brought up Simon Sinek and all that a couple weeks ago? It's kind

of what this came across as. So because of that, I can only give it a 5. It can only get a 5 to any power associates. That's harsh, man. I don't know. I don't know how they're going to recover. Sometimes I've got to use my druthers, and I know Chris would say the same thing.

He would say a lot, that's for sure. If you guys haven't read his book, I think it was the last book I actually got all the way through. That dude has quite the past. He wasn't lying about anything he said on the podcast about the child trafficking ring

that his mom exploited, not exploited, uncovered. about anything he said on the podcast about the child trafficking ring and child trafficking ring that his mom exploited uh not exploited um uncovered right when when they tried to take the kids from them and everything that's all in the book and you read this stuff and you're just like come on like really and it's all there it's all true like he's he's had a wild wild life so i love hearing from him any chance i get yeah i know he had he had mentioned something about the sex ring i didn't like so because he was as a kid they were taken away from his parents so what was the like was there a 90 second version of that that yeah i can read the book yeah his um so yeah the the the children's something came in to take

the kids away because they were living exactly as you kind of described. They were just off the grid, kind of just in the drug trade off in the woods, which is wonderful. Like I did. Sounds great, except for the illegalities of it. And so they came to take the kids and his mother. I don't know. I don't quite remember why, but she just didn't like the one cop. She was just adamantly sure that that one cop was up to no good.

And that cop actually cycles through a couple times in the book, which I think is what led to the distrust. And it turned out, so she ended up going to a lawyer and saying like, something's up, they're taking my kids and it's not for good reasons. And it turned out that that police officer was selling children from, he was taking them under the guise of, for their welfare and selling them into child trafficking rings and his mom adamantly to her own detriment fought and got the kids back afterwards and then that cop ended up being another he ended up showing up as a cop in another town or something

like later we won't get into the politics of how that works but it is it is why we don't do that no politics here i'll figure out a way to i'm gonna reach through a mute you yeah but so like that's but it's it's totally amazing and it's just like that's the kind of stuff that chris went through as a kid you know barefoot in the woods and stuff that's why he just understood the barefoot aspect right so anyway expect, right? Anyway. I've moved on to this Iron Brew and oh my. Oh my. She's carbonated.

I think our viewers might have caught a little bit of a Joey Canadian belch there. Oh, I'm so sorry. I tried to like back away. Microphone's too good. Micro microphone's too good the microphone's too good well do you want to go ahead and see if we can't get our guest on the horn uh do you want to do a sponsor read or get the guest on the horn oh yeah yeah yeah we i'm i'm bad at this i already yep yep they're your shore notes uh sure like jersey shore do your sure nerds like you should know this i had

i had because i scrolled down too far uh so big colton did you want to do the honors this week and do a uh massonomic sponsor read this episode of the unpaid and underrated podcast brought to you by massonomics tn mass and massonomics.com where you can find, uh, believe it or not, a drink spider and drink spider light. Uh, better safe. These didn't ever be an accident. Uh, you can buy your own at mathonomics.com.

Well, thank you, sir. Then that's, uh, they are our loyal sponsors and friends, and we really appreciate all they do to help us keep us going. So appreciate you guys.

Go check them out. If you haven't. No. And also keith try and get a drink spotter man like you gotta take you gotta take care of that stuff it sounds like you need a third one i do i need a i need one that's specific to wooden stairs i actually tried to put the uh the magnetic one on to like because like on the stairs there's there's like nails and screws and shit so i was trying to like find a cluster and see if it would stick it would like stick but if you put a feather on it it would fall off because it was literally like one nail keeping the magnet on the stairs so it didn't really work out but

I'll figure something out alright let's get our guest on the horn yeah let's see if he's still in the waiting room or if he gave up on us no we're going to kick Aaron out of the out of the discord and if only we could he's a good guy we'll bring him on in hey colton is that you yeah i'm right here hey buddy you're live on the unpaid and underrated podcast the podcast about crew for crew by crew featuring crew written by crew and um um, just a big shout out, uh, founded by crew.

And I do believe that you are one of the people that were there from the beginning. So, Hey, welcome finally in welcome in to the podcast that you helped create and helped guide by the beer. Uh, so first question,

how do we find you? How do we know who you are? So tell us who you are on discord and tell us who you are on instagram i know i asked uh earlier during the roundtable but like give us the rundown on who you are so we recognize your name uh discord i believe i am big golden uh with a k and uh instagram k goody 66 and do you want crew to come follow you i was like looking through your profile and like because i as i was trying to figure out like who to ask you who asked questions about you i was like i only saw you know you had a for being a long-standing crew you need to spread your crew wings and start following a lot more of the guys uh and the gals that is i think uh once you posted that i was

going to be the guest i got quite a few followers oh nice nice started following me i didn't know there was a crew effect is that i wonder now if we should we ask that every time like oh if there's actually a push yeah i mean that i try to do that for everyone like i'll i'll post their instagram handle in the discord like a few days before you know because then that's me trying to get people to actually ask questions stuff but the the secondary is helping everyone just spread like just like spread the network of like crew being friends with crew on instagram like it's more fun you know everyone likes getting likes so if you have an extra five or six people

that are your you know massonomics adjacent to then you know they're gonna like all your shit because most of us aren't assholes so follow as many crew as you can most of us aren't assholes yeah you might need more than eight posts though colton yeah i don't even i think you're being generous with the eight. I think there's like six. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a poster. That's fine. You lurk though.

Yeah. Yeah. One at one of them lurkers. That's all right. So what brought you to, what brought you to massonomics? Tell us about your massonomics first time experience. So I was getting really into Strongman.

That started from YouTube. And I want to say like some of the Eddie Hall eating challenges, if you've seen those. And then I'm like, oh, this guy's pretty funny. What does he do? And like, oh, this guy's pretty funny. What does he do? And like, oh, he was a strong man. And I remember that back from when I was a kid, always watching that on ESPN.

And so I was just kind of just getting started listening to podcasts and saw the one with Derek Poundstone, I believe was the first one that I listened to. And then kind of cherry picked some of the guests that I had heard of, which was again mostly just the Strongman and other Strongman related things. And then kind of just decided to uh listen to the back catalog and once i i think once i finally got through that i joined the crew all right now you brought up buddy hall i just watched um a video of him responding to Grizzly Capiculus whatever his name is

but I watched it on mute and you know what I could still hear Eddie Hall's voice and that's wild to me that I didn't even have to hear him talking and I'm watching this video and I can hear him and his accent and everything and I was just going like really of all

of the famous powerlifters and lifters that I follow you're the voice that I can hear in my head between like you Ronnie and Arnie like I can just hear you but speaking of strongman you just did a show yeah yes yes I did you just did a competition tell me about that

so I in Sioux Falls, or Crew Falls. And I think I looked it up. I was just randomly searching Iron Podium, where a lot of strongman competitions are on. And I just searched my area code, and there's one, like, 10 minutes from where I was living at the time. And I'm like, oh, this is in town.

Might as well sign up. And I think I was the first one signed up for that show or competition. And that was... signed up for that show or competition. And yeah, it was a good time. It was the second one I've done. And I think the guy putting it on is doing another one in September that I've already signed up for. Now, do you, do you have a commercial gym that you train at that you're able to do

strongman stuff or do you have a home gym? Uh, most strongman I've known seem to all have home gyms to have that, you know, apparatuses. I do not have a home gym because currently we are renting a townhome. It's a little hard to have one when you're not a permanent resident, but I actually work out at the same gym that uh one of the hosts works at works out okay that's that's cool have you uh that kind of leads into something so have you have you actually ran into tommy at all out there or any of the other

crew uh i've ran into tommy once um and he he just kind of kind of in passing i think he had to get out of there right around the time right when i was getting there so uh gotcha chatted for a bit also happened to be the one day that i didn't wear a mathonomics shirt he did mention that yeah yeah so i don't know if you you've heard last week's episode we were talking talking basically about how many, so many guys live in, you know, in crew falls. Um, I'd be kind of excited if I were you guys, because how big is Sioux falls as far as like, I know the last week, we were talking about, you know, or, uh, Paul, Paul was talking about how it's pretty,

there's an East side and a West side or something. So is it kind of, is it like a half hour to get from one side to the next or is it not that big or. Um, from about from where we big? From where we're at, it's about 15-20 minutes to get to most places. 20-25 minutes you can get anywhere.

Back to what Paul said, I think he's on the west side of the city and I'm on the East side. Um, don't really get over to the West side much, but yeah, sure. Yeah. You guys got to do something about getting all of you guys together.

Like, I think there's like, there's like six or seven of you. You like, just get like, you know, even if it's quarterly, just like figure out a way to like all train at the same time,

like one Saturday, every few months. Like, I think that'd be awesome. like I would, that like figure out a way to like all train at the same time, like one Saturday, every few months. Like, I think that'd be awesome. Uh, like that guy would, that's the fact that you're like, you're that close,

like you're within a half hour of a half dozen people that like, that get it, that all lift, you know, it's just like, you know, the, the pseudo massonomics gym.

I think that would be awesome. So I think you guys, you know, hopefully this motivates some of you guys. And I think, uh, we'll have basically this motivates some of you guys. And I think, uh, we'll have basically three weeks in a row. We're going to have a crew fall guest on,

uh, with, with next week's guests. So I'm just going to keep churning this into you guys and hopefully, you know, it happens. Now I have a brief question and it might, I might ask this next week as well,

but I want to hear your take on this. Now when separated by the East and the West, right. By some interstate in the middle. Yeah. Yeah. week as well but i want to hear your take on this now when separated by the east and the west right by some interstate in the middle yeah why does that matter so in the town that in the city i live in i'll tell you um we have an escarpment that runs through it's good we do we're in what's called the green belt and the escarpment is like a small mountain where the plateau kind of lifts up and our city is for some reason separated by downtown and up the mountain we call it but like ultimately there's no difference right economic disparity exists on both sides the car the side closer to the the water has to deal with some of the factories but like

for some reason just in your head growing up here the up the mountain crew to the the water has to do with some of the factories but like for some reason just in your head growing up here the up the mountain crew and the down the mountain crew like we're just not we're so separate so what is it and why like what's the difference between the east and west side like is there better restaurants on the one side or like more public washrooms on the other side like what's or is it just like'm saying, where it's just like in your head, I grew up here, therefore we are separated? I think for the most part, it's kind of in your head.

I've actually only lived in Sioux Falls for like two and a half years now. Okay. So I'm not from Sioux Falls. Okay. I actually am one of the many from Iowa that now doesn't live in Iowa. Did you, uh,

where, where did you get my show notes from? You're, you're answering all our questions. No, that was something, uh, I want to say it was big.

Jeff had mentioned that you're, he knew you were from Iowa and that there was a high number of crew with Iowa ties. So that was just something we did want to hit on. So are we that close to getting Slipknot on the podcast? So Slipknot's from Iowa, Keith. Slipknot's

from Iowa. I gathered. I do have a little Slipknot. They have an album called you know what? They have like a 15 minute song called Iowa. Yeah and half of that song is um like half probably all of it is all improvised and it's just him yelling a lot i guess he hates iowa which yeah tracks nobody likes where they grew up right uh so big colton you uh studied uh

biochemistry in college and now you're working for a medical research company. Is that, uh, you're doing what you went to school for and you're, you know, is that, is that, is that why you moved from Iowa as well? Um, no, it's not why I moved, but it's, um, really good coincidence, I guess. Um, I moved to Iowa because my now wife, fiance at the time, uh, just got a job at, um, uh, a hospital in Sioux Falls. She wanted, she wanted to, uh, we're both from really small towns and she wanted to actually use her nursing degree and more than just a tiny hospital. and more than just a tiny hospital. Get her nursing, use her nursing. And which hospital branch is she at? Because we had some controversy last week between there was the good side

and there was the boys in blue and the boys in green, I think it was. Sanford and what was the other one? Vera. She worked for Sanford. No, here we go. Maybe it's this. Okay, so here's a follow-up.

Is Sanford and Avera one west side and one east side? No, they're both all over. Okay, and which one do you work for? I don't work for either of them. I work in the building that Sanford owns. Oh, okay. So Sanford adjacent, though. Sanford Essence.

Sanford Essence. I like that. Nice. Alright, let's talk some astronomic stuff. You know what? Actually, forget that stuff. I want to talk about something. Just tell us about Jack.

So, Jack is my one-year-old son um see what do you want to know and just uh how are you finding fatherhood oh it's great uh he's just now kind of recently started sleeping through the night, which is so great. That's the best, when they suddenly start doing that. Yep. Alright. You guys thinking you're going to have

another one in the future, or is this a one and done? I think the plan is to have more in the future. Nice. Yeah, we did ours two years apart apart it seemed like the smart thing to do and then one yeah two years i think now is does jack take after you and do you guys do you do uh does anyone in the family call him jackie as as people will call you Colty? No.

Really, only my wife called me that. Yeah, yeah. That was the singer I was waiting to get at. Yeah. So he's actually named after my grandpa. and my grandpa's name is actually jackie it goes by jack um but um we his name is just jack not jackson not anything well sometimes call him jackery because that's kind of funny. That's a good one actually. Yep. That is pretty silly. Good.

So I like that. Okay. Now let's talk some astronomic stuff. So you've been in the crew for about two, two years or so. Uh, I think I've been in the crew for about a year. Okay.

So did you receive the, do you have a card? I do not have a card. Okay. All right. That, that makes the timeline for me. That's so you got the patch though i got the patch yep got it on some velcro and have it on my gym bag right now and thank you nice take it off and put it on my soft belt for strongman

very nice very smart more to come about that later. So, pop question. Pop or soda? Okay. I got that on your Facebook. Trying to pull some more dirt and data

about you. How many Masonomics shirts do you think you have? And what's your favorite one? I probably have six or seven. I really like the 8-Bit Strongman. I like the Squats and the Varsity Script. I wish I had gotten the varsity one.

That's the maroon one, right? Yeah, with the western northeast South Dakota on the back. Yeah, yeah. I always, I don't know, there's so many drops that when they first come out and you're like, you know, I got a lot of shirts already. Do I want to spend $35 today?

Like, man, maybe. And then it's like six months later, you're like, man, that shirt does look really good. And you go to get it and there's like, there's like one extra small left in there. Fuck. It's like, I guess I'm not getting that shirt. So I've kind of learned to like, if there's any inkling of like, yep, that's kind of cool. I just, you know, I try to get it right off the bat. But I also live by, I think it was, i was listening to one of tom callous's podcasts

the other day and he essentially he was talking about how like it was just his way of summing up life decisions uh the an easy way for him to do it was it's either fuck yes or it's a no and it's just simple as that if your answer to your question isn't fuck yes then it's no so you know there's that there's that caveat too. So things that might not be that hardcore yes end up being that hardcore yeses at the end. But, you know, you don't always know right off the bat. But how would you describe Masonomics to and crew in general, to your family and friends? Like, you know, I'm sure that's come up before.

What are all these shirts you have, Colty? And then you just have to... For the most part it's uh the podcast that i listen to um and most people kind of figure it out from there um it's i don't know i have a hard time kind of explaining things to people so like what i do for a job and other than uh just medical research is that as deep as is that does that sum up what you actually do or is there uh anything specific are you in like a certain field yeah so i'm uh biotherapeutic um so what yeah I don't know what that means. Yeah. For the most part, what the company I work for does is make antibodies from cow plasma that the cows had been genetically engineered to have a human immune system. So they make human antibodies because cows can have a lot more blood than humans. And then we take the plasma from the cows and we purify it into antibodies. For research purposes or stuff that's actually getting used like in the medical field?

Had a couple clinical trials go on. So it's actually being used like in the medical field um i had a couple clinical trials go on so actually being used oh sweet and it's just that's uh an easier way to get blood with those antibodies in it or is there like is there a plethora of reasons why that's better or something they're trying to figure out um so the reason for the cows is they just have a whole lot more blood but i meant like the uh the artificial antibodies is that that's that's the whole gist is you're trying to so we don't we're not like we don't can't prevent any of the diseases that we do think for it's just uh uh a therapeutic that helps people with kind of compromised immune system

help them get over it faster. It jumpstarts their immune response. Gotcha. Very interesting. It sounds to me like they just need more vassal blitz. Definitely more vassal blitz. Right? If humans need more blood, just take more vassal blitz.

That's what it does. That was... that provided some solid gold memes uh there were several that were you know alluding to the you know to the boners and all that it was pretty freaking classic well i i primarily take nitric oxide i don't take any. I take stem free pre workout. So I take nitric oxide for the most part. It's called pump, right? Because I guess the idea is it thins your blood and gets you a little more pumped up and all that kind true. I'll tell you that most of that's true. Remember on episode, I think it was like one or two when you talked about the squats raise your arousal. I think it was you that brought that up. And it's like, no, but squats and vassal blitz might. So being from Iowa, assuming you're a big football fan,

who is your favorite Iowa Jayhawk football player? Fuck, I'm not Jayhawk. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, yeah. Yay. Potato, potato. Oh, that is a tough question. You can go Mount Rushmore if you want.

I think if I had to pick because I've met him, Dallas Clark. That's cool. He was a Colts tight end, wasn't he? Colts when Peyton Manning was there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His heyday in the NFL was being the third option on like one of the better offenses of the decade yeah close behind is George Kittle

another tight end so there's this so tight end you there that basically tight end you nice and you still follow them pretty regularly even though you're in Sioux Falls now yeah nice it's so much easier to be a sports fan now and

be not in the vicinity because no one's watching cable games anymore. You're either paying to get stuff cast or there's bootleg streams and there's audio streams. You can consume any college game pretty much anywhere in the world. It's just a matter

of how much you want to pay or how shitty you want the video quality to be. Yeah. Sioux Falls is still close enough to Iowa that you can find, at least on the radio station, you can find a game. Nice. Now, the radio stations work? The radio towers still work up there with all the mosquitoes? Or is that just an Aberdeen thing? It's not necessarily a Sioux Falls thing? You know, there's a lot less mosquitoes here than in my hometown. So we did miss you at Aberdeen, though.

Is there assuming some biochemistry and baby stuff came up? You couldn't make it down to the meet to hang out with us all? Biochemistry emergency. My wife was in a wedding that weekend. Gotcha. So were you planning to come if that wasn't a thing? I don't know. Probably not.

We would have been on a... I think if we didn't have the wedding, we would have been on a family vacation. Gotcha.'t have the wedding we would have been on a family vacation yeah it's just just a busy busy time of the year for a lot of people so so with that being said hopefully the host you know let us know about nine months in advance i i know uh i think i think you know what i think tommy was saying how like he he thought they let us know in like november and i'm pretty confident it was like middle of January when they actually said it. Because I was like, okay, do I have time to do this, figure it out financially this year?

So ideally, if we can know by October, November, the latest, so then we can plan out financially for something we can all do. You have to give it 10 months, so you have that month to plan that you're not going to have a baby yeah oh that's actually smart yeah so the next crew gift is going to be crew chastity belts and for from the 10th to the 8th month before the next meet we're all just going to have to wear those to make sure you know that we can all make it to the next meet i think that's that's that's really good. Cause I think a big former guest and host big Kevin. Yeah. Like he,

he was said he was one of the first ones to sign up, if not the first one to sign up and then found out his wife's pregnant a couple months later and had to, you know, you know, waited, waited a few months too long to pull out of the meat, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. You pulled out the wrong thing, Kevin. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see you next year, buddy. Maybe. Pulled out the wrong thing, Kevin. Yeah, we'll see you next year, buddy, maybe. Pulled out the wrong event.

We're horrible. So earlier you had mentioned watching Strongman on ESPN. So I'm guessing that puts you about Submaster's age. It seems like everyone my age-ish always watched Strongman. So how old are you, roughly, if you don't't mind i'll be shocked if you're over 25 i will be 30 in september look at you you moisturize no really bad about that ah you look young to me but again once i hit 30 everybody under the age of 30 started just looking like teenagers. That's just like a thing where you just kind of, you're just like,

no, no, you're, you're, you're, you're young. Yeah. So how do your,

how do your two dogs like the townhouse, are they anxiously waiting for you to buy a house and, you know, give, give them a yard? Oh yeah. A fenced in yard. Are you, you're not fenced in where you are oh those poor dogs yeah uh one

of them pretty well off leaf train so we let her our german wire hair we let her out and she's fine it's our mini golden doodle that would run away didn't we have golden doodle talk last time? No, that was goldador. Oh, yeah, yeah. A mini golden doodle. So a golden retriever and a poodle? But somehow smaller?

Yeah, mini. Like mini action Jesus. What makes them mini? They're small. Yeah, I got that. I meant genetically biochemist. Yeah, you'd have to go to school for eight years to figure that one out. They're small.

I don't know. I think they take the smaller ones and keep breeding them together to make them. Oh, so you grew them in teacups type of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Nice crazy little crack. We have exhausted all of our culty questions, buddy.

So, I think we're gonna have to move into a silly question. Let's do it. I think let's do the silly question. Um, I have two. Okay. And I'm going to pick from them because one of them will be

We'll see. I'm going to go with the one that I think might get the funnier answer. Which Sesame Street monster would make the best roommate for you, and why? I will allow you to include Muppets.

I haven't watched them. I think I've watched like an hour of that show in my entire life. Well, that's because Colty is a parent, so I thought maybe at some point Sesame Street came up. We have yet to introduce him to Sesame street. Um,

he has a roommate. He is vigorously spreadsheeting Sesame street right now. I see the red coming up. He's looking at Elmo right now. And the goal is to, you you said the which one you'd want to be roommates with or would make the best roommate yeah they wonder which one to make your best roommate obviously it's not going to be bert am i bird or ernie because they're terrible roommates to each other so would cookie monster be it's cooking like cookie monster would suck

because he actually cookie monster might be good because he would suck because he... Actually, Cookie Monster might be good because he would eat all the food so you wouldn't... Because I struggle with... If there's food in the house, I'm going to eat it. So if I have a roommate, that means my life... I'm not living with my wife and there's some bad shit going on with my life so I'll be pretty down in the depths

so I don't want an apartment full of junk food. So if Cookie Monster's in there, he's going to eat it all and then I'll just have to have my own food and keep it segregated. But there won't be just a bunch of junk food because that fat ass is going to just eat it all. So yeah, for me, Cookie Monster would be the best because he would keep me on my toes and eliminate some of the binge eating of the cookies. Now, it's also fair worth noting that Cookie Monster and Jonger also have a food truck in which they make very healthy food at people's requests. So that might be a very good,

a very good call on that one. Colty, do you have any remembrance of the Muppets or Sesame street there? Oh, looking up some characters. And you know, we all watched it as a kid. Right.

And so like, yeah, yeah. I have vague memories of it for sure i was such a muppets fan and i'm gonna just talk to give colty some time uh i was such a big muppets fan growing up and then into my older age that like i kind of have all this stuff at the forefront i'm still a muppets fan to this day i will watch everything they do because their comedy is so absurd when it's when it's done properly that it's just silly ghost times right dracula was a count was it yeah count dracula wouldn't be so bad if you actually could turn you if your if your goal was to be a vampire

well he was he wasn't count dracula he was the count that counts okay oh because they never actually said dracula it was all like they made it like, it was like just a play on math, wasn't it? Because he actually taught the other. Okay. So, but he was still a vampire one way or any way you cut it, he was a vampire. So if you want to live forever, you know, wouldn't be a bad choice for a roommate.

So I was originally thinking Cookie Monster, but then I realized that my crumble cookie budget might get thrown out the window at that. And I don't really remember too many other people, but Elmo, and I don't really want Elmo, like being tickled. Elmo would annoy me. How does Grover sound? Chaotic. elmo would annoy me how does rover sound chaotic like i feel like rover would destroy your house well then let's not go through

um i don't really know i guess yeah i think i'm gonna have to go with cookie monster just because I don't really know. I guess. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to go with Cookie Monster just because he'd keep the cookies out of the house. All right. My answer is Tanner. Tanner is my favorite Sesame Street monster. I'm just kidding.

I've been sitting on that all day. So there's I was like, is like is there a Tanner no Tanner's just so nice and helpful and cuddly so I would go probably with Big Bird because I think Big Bird I think is the oldest and would just make the more sense that

go in your own room we'd stay apart but still like maintain the bills and stuff like that so I think I'd go with'd stay apart, but still maintain the bills and stuff like that. I think I'd go with Big Bird. I mean, birds are good with bills. Oh. Some bird. I don't think he's a duck.

Platypuses, they have bills, don't they? They do, actually. They do. They're called the duck-billed platypus. We'll call back for the listeners. That was a good hearkening. Yes. That was a good hearkening, right?

You want to go into overrated, underrated? That is a game we have. Are you familiar with the Big Cold? I think I have heard of it. Well, you know that we have a pile of hand-selected, big cult-y subjects. We have a number of them. We're going to kind of pick through the ones that we think are going to really throw you for a loop. But ultimately, you do have to pick if they're overrated or underrated. You have whatever druthers you need.

Try not to pull up a spreadsheet and share your screen with us but if that's what it comes down to that's what it comes down to keith as usual i would like you to take the first couple yeah i've got i'll try to pick three of my four or five out of here that i really want to get to so mr big colton how about a little overrated or underrated on soft belts and for the listener we're talking about we're talking about like a softer weightlifting belt so more of like your strongman hybrid uh lifting belt so not like a hard traditional powerlifting belt not the breath belt yeah hopefully not the breath so what do you think about the soft belts and how you implement them and if you think they're overrated underrated i'm i'm gonna say underrated because uh at least the one i have you can uh have some pretty strong velcro that you can adjust the tightness you can have it on

pretty much your whole workout and for bigger lifts that you would normally need it you can uh tighten it up how you would normal belt you can add another like you can add a regular belt to it as well to really feel supported anyway and also the one i have has velcro and now my crew patch has velcro put that up so do you do you exclusively do you exclusively use soft belts or do you have a soft belt that you use in conjunction with the typical powerlifting belt or uh i have a pioneer belt uh that i use uh for when i was training for my last strong man one during my on juggernaut for all of the hypertrophy blocks I just used my pioneer belt then kind of starting at strength blocks i implemented the soft belt

because that's what i knew i was gonna have that on during the competition so my strength and peaking i uh did the soft belt and and also the normal belt so a a little, a little, a little bit of both, but you are a advocate for the softer belt. So good to know. Can't, can't use it for deadlift. It can't really get a good breath in with deadlift. Just like, it doesn't,

it's not tight enough or it's too restrictive because it's taller. It's like more like a seven or eight inch belt, isn't it? So it's, yeah, at least for me, I can't really, I think it's just a little too restrictive on where it's yeah it's at least for me i can't really i think it's just a

little too restrictive on uh okay where it's placed uh can't i can't get a good breath in interesting that's it so so definitely not the breath belt then no definitely not all right so we'll go ahead and mark you down thinking that soft belts are underrated all right my next one now this one i'm really anxious to hear a whole story about so please elaborate as much as you can oh no no so we have got for big colton this is uh one of your your your wife gave us some some good info and this would be it here so gas station tire pumps uh underrated if you need one overrated otherwise uh so why is this on the list uh when we were dating uh and so my wife was still in school. We took a trip to Sioux Falls to look at the,

at Falls Park, all of the Christmas lights that they have every year. And on our way back, I think I clipped the curb just a little bit and I had already had a slow leak in my tire. And so my tire pressure dropped way down and I was looking to get it fixed. And I think I drove to three gas stations to find a working air compressor pump. pump uh and finally on the one i did i it was working and i plugged or i went to go pump my tire up and it's like i didn't get anything from it and turns out you have to hit a button to

actually turn it on so when you need them they're great uh if you don't need them then yeah so uh maybe i'll i will probably stay underrated on that so the story we heard though is that uh you just kept releasing more air yeah yeah yeah you flattened it even more that's great that's good stuff i you know and when we're when we're done overrated underrated i'll share something where i felt kind of silly as well so just to make you kind of feel um like you're not at a place on making silly silly decisions like that all right so my third and final overrated underrated for you big colty is let's go with blacksmithing. Overrated or underrated? Blacksmithing. Underrated. It's

crazy taking just a regular block of metal and making something out of it with just a hammer. And feel free to take a couple minutes and explain your blacksmithing history here. So to harken back to a previous episode from the book Brisinger and the Inheritance Cycle,

there's a couple of crafters on him forging his sword. And I always kind of loved that chapter and see is quite a few years ago now but I was I think goes on Facebook and saw some blacksmithing videos of them making like a knife out of a wrench or something like that and it piqued my interest so i kind of like started searching for some stuff on that and uh eventually i bought a forge uh propane forge and a hammer and my uh left the propane forge and the hammer in. I grew up on a farm, so we had an anvil. So I grabbed that and cleaned out an old barn that we had and turned it into a smithy

and made a few things with that. Nothing really good, but I still made some things from just uh some blocks of metal i actually uh mentioned i'm going to the scottish festival in two days last year i bought this so they have a blacksmithing event there where you can just go up and they make things on the spot and this is a Ram's horn with an iron blade on it. But I got that and I got my wife a cape thing, a shawl clip. And it is so fun to watch blacksmithing.

It is so cool. The guys were so amazing and like making custom stuff like all day. That's really neat, man. Why'd you give it up? Just space? Space. Moved to Sioux Falls. To Sioux Falls against blacksmithing?

You went there and they were like, hey, if you're moving here, no blacksmithing, sir. His HOA in his townhouse might be, though. The HOA. They might not love that in the townhouse. It says here, no blacksmithing in case that ever comes up. Colty's like, aw. Now, do you still have

your stuff at your family's homestead or anything in Iowa? My parents' house is still there. So it's something you might be able to dabble back into once you guys set down some bigger roots and get a little land and all that jazz. That's cool. Yeah, get an outdoor space that I won't disturb too many neighbors. some bigger roots and you know get a get a little land and all that jazz that's cool yeah get a

outdoor space that i won't um disturb too many neighbors it's not quiet or disturb them disturb them because you're making swords who's gonna say anything that is true. Go ahead, Karen, call the cops. All right. So this one comes from one of the hosts, uh, overrated or underrated falls park. Um, let's see.

Kind of like the only touristy place in Sioux Falls, like that people would go to just watch. There's other places you would go when you're traveling here but sites wise it's about the only touristy place it's really cool in the winter time with all of the Christmas lights

up but honestly I might say that it's overrated oh controversial why is it overrated uh just a kind of a river with some like fall like small waterfalls are we talking like like like a two-foot drop drop or like a six foot drop or like what's the biggest yeah like six to ten feet i think okay um a shower it's still really cool to go see uh but i think it's kind of the whole if you take the general opinion of it, I think it's okay.

So if you've ever seen a park before, you've seen this park. You're not going to travel from another state to go check out Falls Park? No, but if you're in Sioux Falls, you can check it out. Okay, that makes sense. It's not somewhere where you are going to go just to go see Falls Park. Yeah, I'm not going to drive six hours to go see Falls Park. Yeah. Okay.

All right. The next one comes from our ever-present, non-present host, Big Jen. Overrated or underrated? Butterbraids. Ooh, underrated. What's a butter braid? I think I have an idea of what it is. It is a pastry

that is filled with a filling in it. My favorite's the apple one, but there's strawberry cream cheese. But the top of it is three pieces of pastry that's braided. Um, the, I think the reason she put that is because they are actually made in the town

that I went to high school in. And the only way that you can get them is through school fundraisers. That's so cool. How does she know this? I think I put it on the Discord a while ago. And she remembered? I think she pieced it together

because it was an Iowa thing and I'd have to go back and read what she had sent. But yeah, it was something she pieced together from context clues. Let's just assume Jen is scary. We'll just leave it at that. Jen's coming for you. All right.

If you've ever seen the show How It's Made, there is an episode of How It's Made on Butterbright. Cool. I used to love that show. Just watching machines at work is so much fun. Yeah. Okay. Overrated or underrated?

Slipknot. Granted, I don't really listen to rock music. I listen to country music mostly. Hearing Slipknot called rock music is right in the dad feels it's not country music let's just go with that uh i do like a few of their songs uh i think snuff is probably my favorite that's actually one of my favorites and i enjoy heavy music oh and and they're from iowa so gotta take that into account see who's the lead singer Corey Taylor Corey Taylor yep okay I think

I'd probably say underrated just because... I mean, my perception of it is I don't really know too much about them. But, I don't know. I'm just going to go underrated for my own. All right. So I'm going to call it there and say, I think you passed overrated and underrated.

But I have an audible I want to throw in because of course you do Strongman. I'm kind of slowly getting into Strongman. I'm Canadian. You know where this is going. Overrated or underrated.

Moose. Mitch Hooper I mean it'd be hard to say that he's because he's the top like he is the world's strongest man and he's the Arnold strongest man he's and he won the Arnold and he's been like and he won Australia he placed first in Australia's Titans or whatever they're called pretty much everything he's been in for the past year and he's only been in Strongman for like

a year two years it'd be hard to say that he can the general perception is he's the best so But it'd be hard to say that he can – the general perception is he's the best. So he can't really be overrated. Oh, no, he can't be underrated.

He can't be underrated. Oh, Keith has an opinion on that. Well, so my – can you be the best at something if you've been in the sport for 18 months? I mean, yes, you might currently be the sport. But until you've, I give a little more credit to longevity. Give him four years, like being, like letting him like finish top one to three in the next four years. And yeah, but he can't even like, he's not even in the top 10 all the time right now.

So it's like. But who's ever done that? Just whatever. I mean. Yeah, I have four years of podiums no that person's dead you can't keep doing that your whole life unless you're Brian Shaw

unless you're Brian Shaw Brian Shaw's a freak and Big Z and Pujanapki that's what I'm getting at we just named five guys that are better than him I'm not saying are they better than him, though? Not currently, because they're all 50 years old.

That's not exactly how Strongman works. He's not going up against these guys in their prime. Anyway. I guess currently, based on that he has been basically the number one strongman in the last two years, he would be overrated. But from what Keith has said about his longevity and overall, probably underrated. He's really good. he's really good he's really and I kind of excited to see where he goes in the future I think we all are it's nice to have like a a face of the sport in general it's like you know a lot of the the older guys are pretty much you know barely barely in the top

five anymore it seems like so it's being able to if someone can actually like you know lead the sport to higher levels by just dominating it against like good competition that'd be kind of cool to see but it's hard man it's hard for the guys to to stay injury free for more than a couple years at a time it seems like everyone like looks like they're going to be the next god in the sport and then they blow out a tricep or blow out a knee or something and then it's like a it's a two-year recovery and they're just like you know barely competitive in that time even at the at the arnold the polish sensation the big dude there the guy with the the wingspan the size of a hawk i just i watched him injure himself yeah and that cost him he just pulled out of the shot classic yeah he he's he's going hard right and um i think my only worry about mitchell hooper

is that he's going to do it for a year be the top and back off i think that i think that that if that happens you'll probably see my opinion change but right right now, he seems unbeatable, right? He got beat a little bit at the Stones at the last one he did, because he's coming now up to the Shaw, right? Yeah. Right? So he did. Last year, I think he didn't even podium.

I think the highest he did was fourth. And then this year, he did first place at Arnold, first arnold first place world's strongest first place at the australian and giants live he was third right that's right yeah second or third and then the shaw is the last one and he said he's gonna do all of them this year and the the rogue invitational i forgot about rogue i forgot about rogue but i mean it's shot better than rogue yeah i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah i would say i would say that the shot is probably i mean they're both about the same they've been around for the same amount of time yeah they're both really new in the overall sport of strongman okay so is it john wick was a better movie because it was made by stuntmen so is nishal better because it was made by a strongman like that would be the argument there that yeah nobody's nobody's

throwing rocks six feet up on a stage and trying to call it a spectacle better than a car that event's got so much hate I love it it's literally an inch further than the last person nobody up here can tell that we don't care we have no perspective of how far that rock flew

in this stage I didn't even watch that actually I left for that that's actually the funny thing um we watched we watched the deadlifts and then i was like so i'm gonna go hang out at the strength co and then i came back for the oak or the no i came back for the the ramp at the arnold because i was like i'm just like they're doing what they're throwing rocks yeah i'm i'm not watching them throw rocks and i went and hung out at the Strength Co. during the deadlift party.

Alright, so I just wanted to... That was my last one. It got some good conversation. Don't look at me like that. It did. No, no, we needed a little spark. I like that. It was nice to get something we can all chat about. Well, then maybe the next one. I think it's time

where Colty can ask us some questions. I'm calling you Colty this entire time and probably going forward forever. Just so you know. Oh, I said I would tell you about one time where I did something silly like your gas station thing. And this is a story we tell a lot between me and one of my best friends. We were at the pub, which is where all of the fun stuff started. It was back in my early 20s uh and the table we were sitting at the candle had gone out and the table beside us still had a lit candle so i probably spent a good three minutes

trying to remove the burnt out candle from the candle holder but it was stuck because of all the wax and i was getting increasingly frustrated obviously right and then like i can't get it out and then looking over the other one and i was like but that's hot how am i gonna get that one out of the candle holder? This is three minutes of my life I spent doing this until I suddenly went, you just switch the candle holders with the candles in them. Whatever you're going with that. I was like, it can't be that. Like the obvious answer can't be the joke. Oh, yeah, I could.

I honestly just went, come on. And then they screwed to the table or something. No, not at all. It was just that stupid. And my, and my friend tells the story where he goes, the worst part about that is not only were you stupid. I sat there watching you. Like it was a natural thing to do. And not one of us clued in that entire time.

So don't ever feel bad about those momentary lapses of judgment. It was a good, like, Iton. We've all been there. It wasn't good. I can't get this out of there. Yeah. Anyway, do you have questions for us today? I do.

For both of you, to bring back one of my favorite segments from the other podcast, Tanner Explains the Midwest since both of you guys have now been to Ohio it's some consider the Midwest and Aberdeen which is South Dakota so part of the Midwest uh you've been on both sides of it so I'm expecting I have high hopes for all of these I think I have one two three four

I think I have four maybe five so I'm going to give you a word or phrase that's common in the Midwest and I'm going to see if you guys can explain it to me with not being from around here.

All right. The first one is Ope. Oh, just going right past you. Oh, let me squeeze on past you. Oh, sorry. Oh, I got the buzzer. Yeah. Is this a buzzer type thing where I got to buzz in before Keith?

Keith, did you know that one? I didn't even. I thought there was like a blip in the audio. Keith, did you know that one? I didn't even. I thought there was a blip in the audio. I was like, oh no, that was the word. I never heard that word. Oh, just going to squeeze right past you. That's usually combined with this face.

Or this one. The tight lip. Sorry, people can't see us here. We got to eventually do these on YouTube with the tight. Let's see. So the next one is a midwest goodbye oh that that was uh that's what that's what i did right where it take 40 45 minutes to say goodbye to everybody yeah the the opposite of the irish goodbye i am a that specific night i was the killer at that you know i say goodbye to everyone for 45 minutes at least so i don't know i don't know how common it is uh i mean it's got to be common it's called the

midwest goodbye it's got a name yeah yeah it's but uh you know it's i don't know how common it was in aberdeen but i definitely uh you utilized it yeah i uh so this is what i have written down an extended goodbye usually inesclated with a slap on the knees and an exclamation of, Welp! Followed by, I suppose so. And it just keeps going on forever. Nice. Today at work, actually, it was a funny thing because I was in early.

So it was about, I think my mouse stopped working on my screen and I just did one of those like you look up at the sky and go I think it's about time I head out of here and my one co-worker was like buddy the wind shifts the wrong way and that's the first thing you do you just do the I think it's about time to head on out of here and that's how i feel that kind of up suppose so i reckon it's time to hit the old dusty trail all right so the next one is uh pronunciation one so how do you say the word uh spelled c-r-e-e-k creek creek yeah yeah i grew up probably calling it creek more than creek but uh in my mind if it's just the single thing it's a creek if it's named it's usually like something creek yeah it's like a street name or a like a road or something one of the the boroughs of where i live is called stony creek you wouldn't say you wouldn't you

just couldn't say stony creek like you like fanatically it didn't work but once i started listening to country music in my older age i started saying creek a little more often and radio the one that i always think of is uh 15 in the dark There's a line that says Crick. Alright, so next one is the game Padiddle. Oh yeah, I love that game. So you're driving down the road, you and someone in the front seat, if an oncoming

vehicle only has one headlight, one of their headlights is burned out, the first one to punch the ceiling of the car and say Padiddle gets to punch the other person. That's how we played it. Is that punch buggy? Like when you see a Volkswagen bug? Yeah, but it's with the gist being a headlight. A headlight

being out. Are headlights being out not against the law in the Midwest? No, they are. It's just... So now that we've said that, do you drive at night a lot at all? Like I'm assuming when you're driving in or out so pay attention

this next week, I bet you'll see at least two or three cars over the next week that have one headlight out you're not consciously noticing them necessarily but now that we've mentioned Padilla I usually am and I yell nice headlight prick now you can say Padilla will hit the roof of your car.

But just don't hit your family member. Sorry, Oren. Keith says I have to. I have older twin brothers. They're six years older than me. So I remember riding in the back of the car with them. And when they were 16 and 17, they would get aggressive. They'd fucking lay into each other as hard as they could

while driving. I'm like, well, that seems safe. It's okay. It's on cruise control. Crew control? Do you have another one? Yeah. I guess since the Iowa State Fair is starting soon,

the butter cow. Yeah, I know about the butter cow. All right, so it's a big, dumb, giant cow that's made out of butter. But now that's fair because they also have other butter sculptures. Don't they do a butter sculpture competition at the Iowa State Fair? I'm not 100% sure. I'm mostly just familiar with the butter cow. I didn't mean to say it's a big, dumb, but like it is cows are big dumb and stupid so uh but yeah so

it's just a cow made entirely out of butter yeah but i'm fairly certain that there is a competition of butter statues i could be wrong anybody listening wants to tell me? In past years, I think they've had other things besides a cow there as well. I don't know if there's been a whole competition on. Now, for clarity, these butter cows aren't full

of your jobs plasma now, are they? No, they are just made entirely out of butter. I know, I know. Vassal Blitz cows? That was fun. That was... That was a pretty interesting game.

I like that. Yeah, I gotta commend you. That was actually one of the more fun things, I think, we've been... that we've played here for me at least yeah so to our to our future guests it doesn't have to be a random question like you can get else you can mess with us you can kind of you know we've been we've played games we've done this that and the other so you know keep us on our toes dare i say big colty just set the bar yeah everybody's done really well it's always been really fun, but I didn't

realize we could also do that. So good job, Big Colty, man. Good job. I think I want to wrap it up. You guys ready to wrap it on up? Bring it on downtown. Yeah, I'm ready to dive on in. Ready to dive right in, are you?

Dive right into the landing that we're about to do? Let's do it. All right. Um, you can find us at unpaid and underrated podcast on Instagram and unpaid intern podcast.com. Chances are,

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uh, K goodie 66. Um, that's probably the only thing that you'd find me on. Awesome. Well, we appreciate'd find me on. Awesome. Well, we appreciate you having me on for a guest this week, my friend,

and hopefully a lot of people get out there and follow you. You know, they got to know you a lot better in this last couple hours. So, you know, go follow him on Instagram. And this is big Keith. You can find me on Instagram,

Keith, honeycutt73. Go follow my orange gym, the no wine seller. And until then, we will see you next Tuesday. Oh, you can also find Keith at the

No Wine office. Yeah, that's where I currently am. And then to follow up real quick, I know we're kind of lingering this on. What did you say? The Masonomic Extended Universe or whatever? Masonomics Podcast Universe. It's the MPU. Okay, because I was going to say, how about

the MCU as the Mastanomics Crew Universe or something like that, but that didn't... I like the MCUs because it's kind of funny and then we can steal their... Well, because it plays in the Marvel one, but I didn't even think of that. I didn't even think of that. You know what? I might start

poking at the guys with that one. Yep, yep, yep. Either way, we'll just hear it next week on their podcast. Yeah, they're going to play all our games and steal all our overrated, underrated. But I commend them. It's a lot of work to go for 300 plus episodes. And I know we always jest on what episode we're in, but we've been at this for about three and a half months, guys. So we really appreciate everyone that's been a part of it

as a guest, as a fill-in host, as people just helping us out in the Discord, people just downloading and listening to it, people sharing it. We wouldn't be here without you guys, and without your continued support, we probably won't be here. So keep it up. We really need everything we can get from everyone.

Again, see you next Tuesday.