Unpaid And Underrated - 015 : That’s A Salady Sandwhich

Episode Date: August 22, 2023

This week Joey and Keith get to know the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic's Silliest Goose Award winner, Big Bryce. They dive right into great topics like salads, lifting with friends, commitment to bits, doing it live, moles, and possums. 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 @perfectlilsweetiesgym (https://www.instagram.com/perfectlilsweetiesgym). 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 Bryce.

everybody welcome back to the unpaid and underrated podcast the podcast about crew for crew sometimes about platypus i am joined tonight by big keith hello and uh big bryce from little Keith. Hello. And Big Bryce from Little Sweeties Gym. What's up? We've been having a little bit of technical difficulties getting this off the ground tonight, guys, so bear with us if anything sounds a little choppy. We'll do our best and not... Well, we'll have

Nate do his best in editing to make it sound better, but we're all having... I'm having a little data issue, so I'm not on my laptop. I'm on my phone tonight, and Bryce is is in the basement so we'll see how well that works out and uh you know joey's holding the fort down up in canada for us technical difficulties we need that technically a guy to fix this for us yep yep all right um i think we should just dive right in you guys want to just dive right in should we just dive right in we should just dive right in. You guys want to just dive right in? Should we just dive right in? Let's dive right in.

Surprised they're not diving in right now. What are you guys drinking? I got an Es Pellegrino, and I'm not a fan. I've had a couple of these before. They're like, I thought it was sparkling water when we got it, but it's flavored mineral water. So it doesn't have that pop. It's just, it's shit. They're really not great, but it's flavored mineral water, so it doesn't have that pop. It's just shit. They're really not great, but they were cheap at Costco.

Flavors are... I've had this one before. It's okay, but thinking it's a sparkling water and then just having it being super flat, it kind of sucks. I think I just want to point out you knew it was bad. You knew you didn't like it, and you bought it, brought it on the podcast just to give it a shitty review.

I didn't know it was bad when I bought it. I knew it was bad before I brought it on the episode. But it's a lot of work. I think the hosts have it even harder because they've been doing it for a couple more episodes than we have. But trying to find something new. I've definitely had to repeat drink at least least five times but it's like because we just send them stuff well yeah they they have it lucky as far as that yeah us unpaid interns we just keep sending them stuff they don't have to do any work they just get to drink these delicious canadian pc sparkling waters dude the pc doesn't sound

delicious oh they've got a couple you go bother tommy he's got a couple. You go by their Tommy. He's got a couple. I'm drinking this poppy prebiotic soda. I don't know. I made a Costco run this week. They had a 90 pack of these. I was interested. They're bright colored cans. 90. This is the orange one.

I've tried the other flavors. They're okay. Decent crack of the can there. Prebiotic. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what prebiotic means, but I just get like,

I just see colorful packaging and I'm like, Oh, I'm in. It's my, it's my favorite color. Shiny. It's kind of like if it kind of tastes like if medicine wanted to taste, it tastes like an orange soda,

you know, it's, it's not very good but you know what i got 90 of them to drink so i'm gonna have to somebody's got to do it yeah 89 yeah 89 uh i am i'm actually very lucky today i have um something called the mckinnon brothers red fox ale um there's it's very hard to get around here but i made a specific trip to the only place i something called the McKinnon Brothers Red Fox Ale. It's very hard to get around here, but I made a specific trip to the only place I can get it.

And this is an ale that is brewed about three and a half hours away from me on a big farmland. When I first visited them, they brewed in a barn. Their bottle shop was a chicken coop. And this is actually brewed with ontario beets from here in ontario uh yeast from a bread company down the road from them and it's just very sweet it's a little earthy it's actually my favorite beer ever to the point that i've been to events where they were there and the rep once told me that he thinks I sold more beer than he did. Anybody says, Joey,

what are you trying today? And I was like, go try the Red Fox. Thank me later. So that's what I'm having today. I do want to point out so S Pellegrino used to be San Pellegrino. And I wonder when they decided to do the WWE style, lose the first name.

I don't see it. It's definitely just S-Dot. And then it even says, I don't know what the word is. I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's like essence. It's not essence, but it almost looks like essence. Which is funny for us. It's a senza.

It plays into the... So about your ale, I, would you say that you had an ale of a time getting it? No. Damn it. It would have been funnier. I tried saying it like 30 seconds or 90 seconds ago, but you went into

the Vespa-Lagrino thing. It wasn't funny to begin with, and it's really not funny when it was a callback. I know where to begin with, and it's really not funny when it's a callback. I know where to get it, and it's just hard to get there. Sometimes I actually used to make a yearly trip out to the brewery. Is it harder to get to than Aberdeen? No. No.

Oh, no. Driving through Minnesota, never again. Oh, it's boring sorry for all the Minnesotans lifting it's just so boring and then you hit a truck stop and it's just the weirdest place on earth and it's just like honestly getting into South Dakota was like a breath of fresh air

truck station dick pills and trucker hats and like swords for sale for some reason at truck stops swords there's like swords and like what a shirt that's like a wolf there's always three wolves and it says wolf on it even though there's three wolves because yeah yeah and then my energy drinks that i pay four dollars a can for here i went and bought four cans there because i was like we're gonna be there for a couple days i'm gonna want one of these a day and i paid six dollars american for four cans and i went yeah that's not right and she was like that's right

dude and i'm like no that that can't be right like come on man but no that was right i said i had to buy a whole case if this is this year what are you wearing? Who's got Masanomics shirts on? Who doesn't? Got the lift tee on, the classic lift tee. I don't even know when I got it. A couple years ago. Three, four years ago, probably. Classic. Very classic.

I just got mine. I'm rocking a Masanomics Essence shirt. I'm rocking a no-wine you know shirt you know i'm rocking a no wine seller shirt and i'll say it's essence with massonomics because there's been multiple crew members lift down here so i'm gonna say that it's close enough and my tanner just sent my buddy uh my my sunday morning lifting partner he said he sent him a thing and said something to the extent of like uh you know he sent up some notes you know some some smelly salts or something like enjoy these in the no wine cellar so i was like that seems

fitting to wear that tonight and i also shipped out 15 of these bastards this week and probably spent two hours handwriting out all the address cards because i'm too stupid to figure out how to do a thermal labor thermal label printer thing and i really don't want to spend a hundred dollars on something that i sell 20 shirts a year, so it's kind of a waste. No, no. I'm wearing my Body Break shirt. I might have worn it before, or at least we've talked about Body Break. We actually went to an 80s-style diner today, and the bartender

recognized it, and that was kind of cool. And then somebody thought I worked there because I was wearing this shirt. That was also kind of funny. I was just walking by, and they're like, hey, can you show me where my seat is? And was just like huh no i think i'm carrying my kid i'm like what no i don't think i'm i'm not i'm not overly familiar with body break but it is kind of fitting because you just you just had uh a dinner date with our uh our friend big ryan from iowa who is pretty much always body broken so they kind of uh is there any correlation there no um body so body break i think i spoke about it one of the earlier podcasts was like this uh

weird vignette done in between commercials where they would just give you like healthy yeah keep fit and have fun that was their thing i know but uh so a big grind from iowa regularly comes up to uh the city about 45 minutes from me. So this will be the second time where he's messaged me and been like, dude, I'm near you. So we just met up for some dinner and had a cigar. This time was a little more relaxed because obviously the first time we met, like we didn't know each other. And I brought my family and we had to go to like a restaurant. But this time I was like, meet me at the cigar shop.

family and we had to go to like a restaurant but this time i was like meet me at the cigar shop and we stood under the awning in the pissing rain just like smoking cigars and chatting he even got some serious talk out of me so i hope he doesn't bring that up um oh yeah he asked me a question about some things and i kind of off on it so like good, good for him. Good for him. So he's, he's, he's capable of pulling that kind of stuff out of me. Uh, and yeah. And then,

um, uh, we were actually having the picture I posted of us. We were having a Yager and actually Yager Meister Canada commented on that post saying that they were happy. They were happy. They could be a part of our meetup. And that was kind of dope nice so i guess they have some some some good pr people and some some some

people like that rather than uh apparently everyone in the massonomics discord's a rude asshole so maybe we have to you know take be more like the jägermeister canada guys and just not be rude in the discord apparently did apparently. Did you guys catch any of that? It was a very brief thing that popped up in Discord this week. I don't know how much you guys caught of that. No, I didn't catch that. Was somebody being rude? Somebody did a charge

back of their monthly subscription. Oh, what? So, yeah, they charged back the $3. And Tanner was just like like whoever this is screw you man and then like the discord just shot off on it yeah absolutely feral in there for a few minutes well roughly so so big big big moto guy did some research i'm pretty sure we found out who it was and like no one like went after him necessarily we just busted his balls after he'd already left

the discord but it was uh there was like nothing he posted like six or seven screenshots of like every interaction that person had before he left and there was like nothing even remotely close to like bust like not even mild busting balls like it was just hey put big in your name and then don't buy our hats that was like it and then so i i'm of the belief that he just... Because when the kid first signed up, he asked about the discount five times. If you just look at his post, it's just like, where's the discount code? Where's the discount code? Where's the discount

code? I think he used the 20% discount code that's supposed to be one-time use, did a big order potentially, and then just got butt hurt and didn't want to pay $3 a month anymore. I don't know. It seems really weird, but it's a very odd thing i don't think we can assume intention at all i think we can just say the kid came in yeah and didn't want to be a part of it anymore and rather than cancel he decided to charge back which is weird but whatever good riddance to bad rubbish indeed

so apparently we're all rude but I think we're all pretty tight-knit in there so I just thought it was amusing out of all the chat what are they called channels on discord yeah so

the five or six channels I'm on in discord the massonomics one is by far the least rude when i'm in and the most supportive one i'm in by by far so uh you know again we can't assume that was the issue like unless he acts true yeah specifically was like you guys were mean to me it could just be he wanted the 20 code and then bailed why that i think he's there was a follow-up where i think he specifically like put the discord was rude or something i don't know if that was a follow-up to the credit card company of why he left or a dm to tanner but i didn't see like he's physically typed in they were rude or everyone was rude or something so that was just amusing just too soft i must have missed that part yeah no that's that's the whole

like that's that was the whole gag on like you know the whole rude thing that's why i was said it like nine times because i really just blew me away because we're the least rude people i know on fucking discord so it just baffled me too soft for the discord that refuses to talk about anything serious yeah so that was our chargeback talk this week. Let's see. While we're on Discord, there's been some... There is a secondary Discord that if you ever

are lucky enough to be on this podcast, which if you're listening to this, there's a good chance in the next three or four years you're going to be on the podcast. So we have our own side Discord basically just for Founding Fathers and then there's another thread with just former guests and Nate

finally got around to making a couple extra reactions on there. So Joey has his second one now, I think. I got my first one and then Big Moto got one with his foot. So it's just, that was kind of funny. I got a big kick out of that. And then there was some debate on if my name is k-e-i-t-h or k-i-e-t-h it is k-e-i-t-h

f-y-i well and so like i gotta say that secondary thing where it's like where every time we have somebody on we like continue on that chat is pointless because eventually that's just going to be another discord of the massonomics discord. Yeah. If, if all we're doing is pulling people from there, putting them into this chat and then being like, this is ours now,

that's just going to be another. So that one, I'm not positive that I understand. I think that it's good for like this week's episode, but it's weird. Which is what I use it for mostly. I mean, yeah, it's just, I think it's weird to to continue it we should be even more rude in there take it to a new level yeah just

start tearing people's totals apart for no reason yeah just the we're so rude we're so rude my last discord comment here was uh joey you do have disco night or disconnected discord nitro is that worth it how much is that i do have disco night yeah you have disco you know night of the night of the rock berries um so is that is that uh is that is that more or less than your mass economy supportingon supporting Discord membership? Roughly the same. It's about 130 Canadian a year. Gotcha. And what are the boons of that? I signed up for it one day on a whim.

I think it was right in the middle of the pandemic, right when the Discord first started. But it's a subscription. And then I got a thing going, oh hey, it's going to renew. And I was like, no, no, no, no, it's not. I'll remember to cancel that, and then I didn't cancel that.

So the $130 bill was like, all right, I guess I'm Nitro again. Some of the boons, some of the perk cities, I guess, is like I can use emojis from one server in any server, so I can pull the emojis you talked about in our server and use them in the other podcast Discord. I think I get five super reactions a day.

I can offer Nitro Boosts to the Discord I'm a part of. So I think I get two or three free Nitro Boosts. discord i'm a part of so i think i get like two or three free nitro boosts and um if more people boost the actual server itself we all get access to things so right now i think massonomics is just in the second threshold i think if you get to the next one it's like you can upload higher quality video have more chat groups or something like that that just like the more the more people give their nitro boosts to the the discord that we all get perks out of it um it's big i feel like that definitely happened somewhat recently too because like you can we can we can upload like a 30 second clip now without having to like minimum because before the only way i could like post more than like a three second clip was to

post it as a story download the story from Instagram at like a super low quality and then repost that downloaded story into into discord so I got it was very much I only did it a few times like it's like an extra like 45 seconds of my life I don't need to spend so that's for that's kind of cool I didn't really understand

the whole nitro thing but now I do the more you know. Yeah, there's currently two boosts for Mass Anomics. So we're level one. Our next level is seven boosts. So if we get five more boosts, we'll get 1080p stream quality, 50 megabyte file upload, custom roll icons, and a server banner. Right, so we just need five more people to give

Mastinomics more money. They please take all my money, Mastinomics. They are known at doing that pretty well, so again, it's only a matter of time. Alright, what's next? We had some food talk i know we like our

food talk around here did you put that in or did nate put that in i wasn't sure must have been nate it wasn't me that's what i figured because i was like the fact that it has uh quotation marks i was like joey would never put quotation marks or parentheses whatever no yeah i think joy wouldn't use those you would just type a sentence no i've yeah i type way too fast i don't i don't parentheses things i'm not hugging my sentences yeah yeah i was like that had to be uh so no it's a follow-up i think uh they're the other host on their on the other podcast on the sister podcast, where whatever it was, it was talking about getting chicken or beef at a restaurant, I believe. And I made the comment on the

live recording that bad, low quality chicken at a restaurant is typically going to be better than low quality beef. Like, I'm thinking more like a China buffet or I don't know, man. Like, I've had some really bad, tough, shitty steaks versus, like, chicken's going to taste like chicken.

Like chicken's going to be like a six or a seven, no matter what. Whereas steak could be a nine, but it could be a two. So like that was the my, you know, kind of comment on that. So I had opinions or thoughts. I see what you're saying. So you're saying like, like bad quality chicken, but it's it's like general sales chicken is better than like a bad steak i thought you just meant like a bad like really dry chicken breast is better than like a bad steak i'm like no no more i guess more of like i think it was specifically talking about restaurants like i've had i've had better

luck with with just chicken always being okay at a restaurant, whereas sometimes steak at a restaurant can suck. I'm thinking more like not a steakhouse for steak. Right. But I think the general consensus was I was wrong by everyone on the podcast and

in the group chat, but Nate thought it was noteworthy or Nate-worthy, if you will. Steve will even tell you, because Steve's my resident barbecue expert, that going to steak houses is a waste of your money because they're just going to charge you for the same steak that you could make at home. They're going to slap its ass, put some salt and pepper on it, and send it out to you. So he'll tell you all the time, you're wasting your money.

Don't go to steak houses. out to you so he'll tell you all the time like you're wasting your money don't go to steak houses and like having traveled i went to the the beef capital of canada in alberta and i was like i'm getting a steak i'm getting some burda beef we call it up here i'm getting some burda beef and it was the worst it was the worst steak and it was the most expensive steak i've ever had i even ordered the bone marrow and it was trash. But here I am in the middle of like the supposedly best steak places. So like, then I come back to,

I come back to my city in Ontario and I go to just some chain and I order just whatever, like give me your, your quarter or whatever. And it was amazing. It was so much better. So he just says, don't bother with steak houses. Make it yourself. I don't have any insight to chicken.

Chicken is chicken. Chicken's either rubber or delicious. Like, I don't have a... It's fine. Yeah. Sometimes you get the chicken wings that were clearly not blanched, and sometimes you get the chicken wings that were. Like, it's... going to eat it. It's fucking chicken.

Throw some hot sauce on it. It'll go down. Oh, I swore. Well, Jen, whenever Jen tells us she's ready to get on, she can yell at us all for swearing. I feel like we've kind of pulled our restrictor, please. I was doing so good not swearing. I do always love. I know they try good not swearing. I always, I do

always love, I know they try to keep their podcast PG-13 nowadays, at least on their end, but when they do F-bomb this or F-bomb that, it always sticks out to me so much now, and I always get a good chuckle out of it. Wasn't it like a little more,

they used to swear way more in the really old episodes. I've never gone back and listened listened to like the early episodes oh oh yeah you would enjoy them um there are there's a decent sized backlog and it's there's like three or four different eras of the podcast basically so like ever i mean i love today's era but i love two years ago episodes three four years ago i mean it's like years ago. I mean, it's like, there's literally like, like seasons essentially of like, you know, they're just completely different.

Um, it was obviously different when Tyler was there, but even when Tyler left, they had like a transitional phase of like still just them having banter and talk. And then they started getting guests on kind of right around COVID. And then obviously it's been like the same format the last like three years,

but there are some gyms in the backlog. There are some, there are some ones where it's just like the same format the last like three years but there are some gems in the backlog there are some there are some ones where it's just like oh i don't know i don't know if you should be saying that so you know take everything they say with a grain of salt but it was like seven eight years ago potentially right right well i don't want to ruin my squeaky clean perception of the podcast hosts by going back and listening to those. Me neither. I want them to be good guys in my mind. Oh,

I wasn't trying to paint them into like, like it's nothing bad, bad. It's just more, it was more like locker room talk, if you will. Uh, kind of.

Yeah. Can't say I have a lot of patience for that so that's just me but uh well i don't think tommy had much patience for tanner the other day because at the very end toward the end of the uh live so not two weeks ago was episode that we're going to rate here in a few minutes but the episode since they recorded the day early we listened to like and they let us they let last night's episode ago? Yeah, two nights ago's episode run for like the full two hours before they kicked us out right at the very end. They were going to have their post show. And Tommy booted Tanner out while he was kicking everybody else out.

And before he kicked me out, he was like, oh, shit, I kicked Tanner out. And then it's just like, that's where it would have cut. So I just got a really big kick out of that. The only thing that sucked about that is I was super wired. I'm always wired after I listen to the full episode at night. So I didn't get to bed till like two in the morning because the episode, I think, went till damn near midnight. And then I was just like, I just needed to come down off of it because it was a very interactive podcast. So if you missed that one, you guys definitely missed a good one.

So tune in to that one in two weeks, I think. No, next week. It'll be next week. And I find that... Well, actually, so knowing what we know, it'll either be next week or the following week because they have that big trip to Detroit planned.

Yeah, yeah. So there's a sneaky episode coming. Probably. And maybe that was was i'm not really sure if that was because i'm assuming that they recorded early because they're traveling now possibly i i don't know i haven't been keeping up on their there's a sneaky episode coming i know it all right so let's move on and uh rate last week's episode with big jim yeah ben is it cold i think it's cold right yeah cold yes yeah so that guy he benched what for 13 or 1400 pounds recently as a as a multi-ply bench presser literally has the biggest power lifting lift by like 250 350 pounds like yeah like such a such a large margin and it's a bench

you'd think the biggest lift would be a squat or a deadlift. It is the bench by like hundreds of pounds. So it was really cool to listen to Big Jim talk. I enjoyed the episode. I think my favorite part might have been when he kind of was like, well, I see the relevance

and the positives of conjugate, but then he said said but i don't like accommodating resistance and so i got a kick out of that because i personally like to wave my bars and like you know the intensity and shit but i don't necessarily have any i don't put a lot of stock in accommodating resistance personally i don't it's not something i do in my gym so i was it was fun that jim also felt that. So that was my favorite part. So for all those reasons lifted, I'm going to go ahead and give Big Jim's episode five JDs. Yeah, I got to do the same.

Five JDs. I mean, like Jimmy Cole, I love his stuff. I've listened to his episode of Table Talk like probably three plus times. I listened to the Massanomics one like over again. Like he's so cool. He benched 1401, like 1300, 1200,

1100. I don't know. Just, it's just cool to hear about him. And then he kind of lets you in on his goals. Sounds like he's going to do full power. Like that's, that'd be cool to see.

If you can join the three K crew with Dave Hoff and Donnie Thompson, that'd be crazy. Five JDs dude. Uh, so like without getting too political, I'm not really that into multiply. I understand it. I appreciate it.

Just not me. Uh, so congrats on the world's biggest bench. That is a huge, crazy number. I just wanted to, to kind of create the difference that, um,

a lot of what he said from a personal standpoint and a training standpoint actually was awesome like i wasn't i've never heard of the guy before this obviously because i don't know who anybody is but i do distinctly like remember listening and going damn man yeah yeah yeah i'd be like exactly um so you know with those two disparities of know, a lot of sets and rap talk, I'm going to probably have to go as low as a five on this one. Five JD powers, guys. I know I'm, I'm always the host that gives it the worst rating.

Only five. So that's, that's why they don't like us over there at the sister podcast. But, uh, my one, my one followup was my favorite part. Well, I think of the episode was when jimmy uh was like shocked by all the overrated underrated because he didn't grasp that they were specifically for him at first so he was like just like he was just he was thrown by it and it was just like it's just i don't know it's just like that just i really appreciate it they were like they were like montana he goes I was born there he was like

how did you what's the likelihood that you would have asked that question that's so random you know out of the 50 states you picked that one I live in Ohio he actually brought up and I'm glad you brought that up about paranormal activity and

I guess i think we've either spoken about it here or in the discord i also believe that paranormal activity is one of the most game-changing horror movies of our time and uh it was fun when he said that because i was just like i yeah as i say it all the time that never has a movie made you afraid of a moving door a door moves and the crowd like screams and that was crazy nobody had ever done that before I have like watched the beginning of it I just like refused to watch any more of it I just couldn't take it it is so weird and and like it's like they psychologically did stuff with like the music so like when something bad was

going to happen they would put a droning sound into the soundtrack and droning is one of those like ancestral feral sounds that get in your head that's why bagpipes like make you think of your ancestors that's why like certain um like other things like there's a song by halen and they have a droning in the background and it just like your brain just needs to pay attention and paranormal activity did that and i think that's one of the things that people don't like appreciate about it and then like the door would move and then you'd be like that's it like i'm done what was it the door on a string like it that's all it was there was a freaking fishing line moving it yeah horror movies can definitely get the best of me at times uh like i'm like like a 30 year old and grown man

and if i'm watching a horror movie by myself at night like I literally have to like mute scenes just to like not be scared shitless like I don't know like I just it kind of takes me out of the moment but it's like I love movies and like I'll watch pretty much anything but like sometimes I just gotta like man I don't want to be jump scared right now because I'm very skittish too so like

the jump scares that Joey probably absorbed and goes eh like make me like almost piss myself so I gotta got to preemptively mute this like, like dark climax scene that they're about to just like do a jump scare. So like, ah, no, thank you. of my house can't handle them uh and i very rarely i don't watch slashers i don't i don't watch movies uh about rape i don't watch things that are like they call it i think they call that fridging right or bridging one of those two i don't watch those style of like that stuff i watch the supernatural and the uh high anxiety stuff the stuff that just like makes your brain panic. But again, it's because I have anxiety in real life.

So when I have two hours to control what's making me anxious, rather than the headlights in another person's car, driving my anxiety, like I'll take that. So that's what I. Speaking of headlights, how many, how many,

how many cars did you pass this week with Up for Diddle with just one headlight? Didn't watch. Didn't count. You didn't pay attention, did you? I'm too busy making sure people don't kill me. That's good. They're such bad drivers. Everybody's such a bad driver.

My last touch on horror movies. I watched one this summer that I can't get out of my... I'll never watch it again just because there was a scene with a cat that I'll just never get out of my, I'll never watch it again. Just cause it's like, there was a scene with a cat that I can just never get over. But, uh, the smile,

I think it was. Yep. Maybe it wasn't. Yeah. I'll never watch that fucking movie again. I love it. Oh, it was so you take the,

you take the cat scene out for me as a cat lover. Like I can't do that. Like that'd be like you seeing a bunch of dead kids or something. Whereas I'd be like, Oh man, some dead kids, but I can't fucking see a dead cat like that fucking that fucked me up

like hard like I was like swearing at the fucking screen in the theater I'm like I was like I was that obnoxious asshole but yeah don't watch that movie if you like cats but it was a very scary fucking intense weird take on things so but we will probably close out on all that

and I think Mr big joey has a prepared sponsor read for us this week that he wanted to dive into uh yeah i actually do i'm gonna do this as a rare occasion um i've been sitting on this one for a little bit courtesy of someone in the discord um in the early to mid 2000s a group of young men began lifting weights in western northeast south dakota eventually they settled on lifting at the aberdeen ymca known for its plentiful supply of toilet paper in 2014 they thought it would be kind of cool to have a youtube channel after some confusion over the name a week later a logo was created in 2015 having outgrown their current gym a group of powerlifters and crossfitters looked at gyms

with the intent of changing them for the better and opened the Massonomics Gym. In 2016, two guys and another guy, who literally just met one of the other two guys, bought their first set of podcasting equipment to begin addressing the known issues with existing fitness podcasts. With a purpose to help the fitness community get strong, stay strong, and use their strength, the guy set out to just basically talk about gym stuff,

and the Masanomics podcast was born. It's a podcast that you listen to with your ears, with the best guests and the silliest geese. The self-proclaimed lifting podcast about nothing. It's like the overwhelming relief of successfully evacuating your bowels after being constipated. thing. It's like the overwhelming relief of successfully evacuating your bowels after being constipated. Hundreds of overrated, underrated, and JD power-rated topics have been discussed both with and without druthers.

So grabbing a piping hot LaCroix, put your tray tables up, and make sure your seat is in the upright and locked position as the Mossonomics podcast takes you to 10,000 feet view. New episodes on YouTube some days at 7 Eastern, 6 Central. That was fucking amazing i feel taller i feel like i could run through a wall i think my back grew hair

that was courtesy of big je, my financial planner, Jeff. That was, yeah, he sent me a couple of versions about a couple of weeks ago and I was like, well, I'll just sit on that until, you know, until it's my turn to do an ad read.

And that was a, yeah, that was fantastic. I don't think you can get any better than that one. There were like 30 Harkins in there, like legitimately, like every sitting. Yeah.

It was all Easter eggs, all Easter eggs. I don't even know like there might have been a couple filler sentences just to bridge a from point a to point b but like damn that was i'm curious how much that was chat gbt or he literally just like put some effort into that because that was uh we appreciate that big jeff thank you buddy that was good uh the sentence i got i studied up on episode 82 while walking the dog. So it sounds like it was all him. Nice. Yeah, Big Jeff, I think he has been talking about it.

He's going through the backlog. Because a lot of those were older gyms, too. I don't even know how many of those were running ads and up-to-date jokes. But damn, I enjoyed that immensely so let's kick everybody out and get our guest on the horn yeah he's been waiting in that waiting room let's see if we can get him on the horn as you say all right go ahead hey big bryce is that you yeah it's me what's up hey you're live on the unpaid and underrated podcast um we don't want to miss any more gold right we don't want to

miss anything so we're going to dive right in i'm right in let's dive right in happy to be here glad to have you buddy my first question i'm going to just jump right in ahead of keith because that's what i do sometimes um what brought you to massonomics man tell us about your massonomics uh villain story my villain story well i think the the first thing that ever brought me to massonomics uh villain story my villain story well i think the the first thing that ever brought me to massonomics was uh one of my strength coaches in college i played football at augustana it's a division two college in sioux falls and one of the strength coaches like had a shirt that he showed me he's like isn't this cool and then i was like yeah and so then i kind of became aware of massonomics and then just just like, that's probably like my freshman, sophomore year of college.

So like 2015, 2016. And I just followed the Instagram since then. But I didn't really dive in until the last couple of years. Just became a supporting member this January, I think. Oh, wow. You know me. Yeah. What was the hurry?

Probably when you signed up for the Lift Hard, Live Easy. Yeah. Yeah, wow. You know, yeah. What was the hurry? You know, probably when you signed, when you signed up for the lift, hardly easy. Yeah. But yeah, pretty much. Were you in the same boat as a big ball where you kind of already followed mess and all much for a bit before you realized they were a

four hour drive from your house? Yeah, dude, I don't even know. I didn't realize they were in Aberdeen for the longest time. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. I had no idea. I was like, this meme page rocks.

I thought it was just a meme page for the longest time. I was like, this meme page rocks, dude. These guys are killing it. They really get the Midwest. Yeah. Then they're just four hours from my house. Like, oh, okay. There's something else i want to introduce and if you don't mind keith i i added this to the show notes today and i think i'm going to start asking every guest this

i like it is is there a piece of massonomics clothing that you regret not getting something that maybe was released and you were like yeah i might want that and then it was gone um there's like a that banner that's like uh well it was gone? There's like that banner that's like, well, it's not clothing, but the banner that's like all the beer cans. It's like black, you know the one I'm talking about? I wish I would have picked that up. Or, oh,

Massonomics' numero uno tee. I wish I had that. Or Bench in 315. Those are the two. But if I had to pick, the numero uno one would be probably the one if I had to pick one. As soon as I joined in, I was just like, I want that back. I pushed for that for like two years. When they finally got it, I think I was like second order or something.

Because it's like, that was the shirt I wanted. That's the one, I think. All right. I love it. Yeah. So for me, one thing that I wish I had gotten in on. I love it. Yeah. Uh, so for me, one thing that I wish I had gotten in on, uh,

and it's kind of annoying too, because they did bring it back last year was the bench and three 15 shirts at the time I could know. Well, so technically I can not just straight bench press three 15, but since the shirt had went away, I'd have been able to, I didn't like one,

two and three boards, three 15. So in my eyes, that's close enough to be able to wear the fucking shirt. At least, you know, my, my, my regular bench, you know, 30 pounds off from that, but whatever. So the bench in the 15, I would love to have for sure. And that's, that's that.

And the, the mass economics varsity shirt, because actually seeing that in person and just that, that like maroon really pops. A lot of people were wearing that in Aberdeen and I would prefer to have that shirt. If I had to pick. I don't bench 315. I actually barely even bench half of 315.

I really didn't start focusing on bench until probably like less than a year ago. And somebody did ask me, why are you wearing that if you can't bench 315? And I said, well, why are you wearing a football jersey if you don't play football? So then, well, it's not the same.

It kind of is. All right. Go ahead, Keith. I think you got something on there. So, Bryce, where do you want people to find you? We're going to ask you at the end, but if you just saw people that are, you know, just if they're not familiar with, you know,

just us calling you Bryce, who are you on Instagram, uh, and discord? Um, big Bryce in the discord. And then I am the big and sexy 74 on Instagram. Sexy doesn't have an E it's just S X Y. I don't know. They wouldn't let me put sex in my username. And, uh, my other, my other IG, you can find me on is perfect little sweeties gym um that's just my like training page uh where i post like my gym equipment i'm finding on

facebook marketplace it's probably the one i use the most i can i can definitely relate to that as someone with uh dual profiles so uh, uh, yes, I agree. Um, if you, if you find it kind of a hard sometimes to, to manage both accounts and ways your followers pretty similar on both, or do you have like almost a different, like,

did you have like a different 500 people in this one versus your personal? Yeah, I would say they're pretty different. I think the, the lifting ones, like more like similar accounts that are just like gym, people's gym pages and like people that are lifting. And then my,

my other ones, like I've had forever. So it's like people I went to like high school with and college and just like people that I'd know in real life, I would say more on big and sexy 74. Gotcha. Oh, but did you,

do you have in your profile now though, that you are the lift, he lift easy, the you are the Lift Easy, the Lift Hard, Live Easy Classic, Silliest Goose Contest winner? Is that something that's in your profile? No, but I need to add that to my bio. That's perfect.

I think you should, man. And your LinkedIn. And my LinkedIn. Oh, yeah. I made a LinkedIn when I was drunk in college. It's just like my profile pictures. It's a close-up of my nose and my mustache. But I like what we used LinkedIn. It just says I'm a professional wrestler.

Like, it's not real at all. Well, speaking of wrestling, did you actually audition for WWE? Or is that one of your friends busting your balls? We got a lot of different, you know, responses from, I think, people you pretty well and i don't i honestly don't know how many of them are sincere and how many of them are like just like jokes so is there a wwe audition story yeah in 2019 um wwe flew me down to orlando and i tried out with like 44 other people um it was like 22 men 22 women and it was like it was weird. Everybody of all the dudes, like half of them wrestled on the independent circuit

and the other half were like football players. And I was the only one who'd never been on a pro team roster when I was like the youngest. And I was just like, I am way out of class here. I don't have it like these guys. Where did the talent guy just find you on instagram or something or like where were you how were you found essentially to even get the invite for that yeah so they posted like wwe uh posted like a ad like on some football website

like that my one of my old coaches was looking at like so all through college i was like just joking like i don't know why i'm in school like i'm just gonna be a pro wrestler and then i would just like joke about it but like i never did anything about it and my uh my old old line coach after i was done playing like found this ad on like a website where they post like football jobs and stuff and it was like wwe is like calling all football players so he like sent me the link and i just filled out this like you just put in your name your birthday like some like a few pictures of yourself like videos of you doing stuff so i sent videos of me lifting weights like just doing some rack pulls or something stupid and like didn't think i'd hear anything back i just sent it kind

of on a whim i was like oh whatever you know um you put your like height and weight in there and then uh a month or two went by and i was actually at this like symposium uh from nursing school like we had to present our research project and so like my research project got to go to like another college and we were presenting and i was like eating lunch and i looked at my phone and i had this email from. It's like, let us know by three days from now or something, and we'll get the flights and everything. And at the end of the month, you'll come to Orlando. And so I went to all my professors in college, and I was like, hey, I'm going to need school. I'm going to need like, I'm not going to be in class on these days. And they're like, why?

And I'm like, I'm going to Orlando to try out to be a professional wrestler. And all but one were like, yeah you're excused like one was like i'm not gonna excuse you for that but that's cool i was like all right well i won't be here so bye yeah priorities who was the uh who was the trainer um matt bloom i think was yeah he's like the yep yeah that's that's prince albert right yeah at the training center yeah yeah yeah mark henry was mark henry was there yep yeah because he was a trainer for a bit too yeah mark henry was super cool william regal was a trainer for a little while too i think think he was there too. Makes sense. It was really cool. It was one of the most brutal things I've ever

had to do. It was just like eight hours of rolling around on the mats and conditioning and stuff. And I just was like, oh my god. My body hurts so bad. Take a bump, then get up. Take a bump, get up. If you have any pictures or videos from that time,

send it either on the Discord or send it to us and we'll post it on our page. I think a lot of guys would enjoy seeing that. Right. I think I just have one picture. That'll work. I'll look. I'll try to find some videos and stuff on the Performance Center website for WWE. It was crazy cool.

You got paired with random roommates too in the hotel. You got paired with random roommates, too, in the hotel. And you got paired with a random group of people that drive in this rental car. And my rental car, the guy they picked to drive it, he was the first Albanian NFL player. Albanian-born NFL player. He was cool. And then my roommate was a running back at uh fsu when they won the national championship in like 2012 2013 he was super cool so it's just i don't know yeah it was a

really fun experience now the uh the rental car you guys had did that happen to be a uh a tahoe with a dvd player in it no dude i was. That's like, that's high class. That's the way to be. We hear you a lot. You're a big fan of those. Yeah, dude, I used to drive a 2007 Chevy Tahoe with a DVD player and I would tweet about it all the time. Like,

I just had Shrek and Jackass 2 were the two DVDs that I had in there. You just kept them on rotation. Yeah, just kind of fun if you picked up your drunk friends from the bar and you're just like, we're playing a movie. People love that. It was always hilarious.

Well, speaking of bars, you had a pretty good time in Aberdeen, the go on top shelf and all that. What was that? Dragged my ass on top shelf and all that what was uh dragged my dragged my ass to top shelf so we we know you like your froggers and you went top shelf and all that jazz but uh about the meat specifically what was what was your favorite part about like the actual meat at the ice rink my favorite part um i would have to say just honestly just seeing jonathan oldham put up like huge weights was like probably my favorite I would have to say just

honestly just seeing Jonathan Oldham put up huge weights was probably my favorite part it just got me jazzed up dude pulling 716 I'd never pulled 700 even pulling 716 was cool that's an awesome PR to get

that's probably the top yeah and the fire the fire was pretty sick yeah the fire was badass those were were you intimidated well were you nervous about those going into it because i was personally nervous that they were going to like throw throw me off like like visually or mentally and i would drop my fucking deadlifts. Did you have any concern about that? Or were you just like, they were just kind of there and you didn't even pay attention? I didn't really think

about it, but I mean, there's already a few flights before me too, so it's kind of like was true. I was just expecting it. I was like, okay, that's going to happen and I'll be fine because everyone else has been fine, so I'll be fine. I would say for a better picture

they should actually do the fire when you hit the lift when you put it down because as soon as you drop it and then you get to like do the flex and scream and proud of yourself that would be way better pyrotechnics i do like that idea rather than you're doing this face and you're trying to pull back and like lock it out and then fire hits and you're just like well now i'm hot just trying not to die yeah pretty much personally didn't watch a ton of the like when you're competing it's so hard to like watch your buddies lift so like how many guys got the flame on like missed deadlifts or drop deadlifts because like because i would just feel like like that would just be like an extra level of like man this fucking sucks and like the flame goes off and you'd like drop

like or or they they they hit it like and you were like only three quarters the way locked out you just couldn't stand up with it and it's just like ah not many not many but i'm assuming dave did a real good job of like only hitting it right when you actually locked out because i mean on mine i was like fully locked out and then they went off. I thought it was a little more interesting that they did it for the first attempts at all. And then for some of the third attempts, nobody was doing it. I only got it on my third. Yeah. So at some point, Dave stepped away and Tanner was doing the announcing and nobody was getting fire.

To the point I started going like, where's that button like i'm just gonna do it like this is somebody needs to keep giving these well it's just like how come some people got it and some people didn't like i assume some people might feel bad so i was like i'll just go and do it myself because it looks like nobody is but then somebody stepped up and started doing it again for the third attempts but i thought that that was... I don't think anybody got it when they dropped or failed. I don't think so. Good to know.

We heard that you had the mayor and the football player that Keith constantly dreams about to your gym. Tell me about that. I think he is the mayor. No, Paul Floss is the mayor.

Unofficially. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. There I am. Paul Floss. Oh, God, we leaned into that so hard. Everyone has to call him Floss indefinitely. Floss, man.

Yeah, the mayor and Coe Keefe came and lifted my garage. I feel like Coe and I have followed each other on Twitter probably since he was in college, like sophomore or junior college. I don't know. He DM'd me a few times over like, over the years to be like, hey, I'm in Sioux Falls. Like, you want to go to the Crowbar? And I was just, like, working or something.

Like, it just never worked out. And then, like, I don't know. He reached out and he's like, we're talking about it. Like, so he came and then I just tweeted at the mayor and I was like, hey, this guy's coming. Cole Keefe's coming. You want to lift weights at the mayor and i was like hey this guy's coming co keeps coming you want to lift weights with us and he was like yeah so we just drank miller lights and weights in the garage it was awesome it was like 30 degrees out we had the door open it was it got weird does the mayor lift or did he just show up and lift with you guys like the first time he he lifts a little bit uh

he he was benching like 205 for triples if i remember like he's pretty strong he does like he does like iron man stuff like he does like biking and swimming and running and like he's like in way better shape than i'll ever be one of the hosts you know he has a beard and long hair he wanted to know does cokeef wear a masnomic shirt underneath his football pads it you know if you had the inside track and had that information i would think he does i bet he wears like the i bet he wears the raw power buffalo one which is another one i wish i had yeah that's a that's a seems to be a pretty like cult popular one kind of i think i it, but I got it in small.

So now I can't really wear it that often because the screen printing doesn't expand. So some small shirts are fine. Others, yeah, you're just going to rip through them. Yeah, if I had to guess, he wears that one. It's probably got the sleeves cut off, if I would have to guess. So just in general, do you typically have people over at all

or is it pretty much you training alone outside of the occasional kind of having some buddies over? What's that ratio look like for your training in the little Swedish gym? So somebody can give me lift off or something like that. I would say my friend Zeb comes over probably one to two days a week and trains and um i would like it to be more i would like to have like a more steady training partner you know like somebody that kind of has like similar goals and you know like wants to train a similar style like we don't have to be doing you know we wouldn't have to do the same thing but i would like to have like a more consistent training partner for sure um but yeah i'd say probably like once to once to twice a week someone someone comes over

that's pretty sick now as far as them being consistent do you think it's is it more schedule or more just they're not serious lifter kind of like they're just they don't lift as often as you do kind of thing um i think it's kind of his schedule a little bit like gets in the way um yeah i don't know my schedule i'm pretty much i pretty much work like 6 a.m to 2 30 almost every day so like my schedule is pretty consistent um that's a great great schedule i would i would love if that was my schedule yeah it's a fantastic schedule one day a week i work like 11 30 to 8 but that ruined it for me yeah but i mean i don't know what one day a week i sleep in and eat and eat cereal with my dog and watch tv like it's it's pretty sweet. I don't know. Nice.

I think that's it. I just don't really... I don't know. Do you have the space to have more than a couple guys over? What's the square footage of little sweeties? It's like a two-stall garage, but my girlfriend still needs to be able to park in one stall,

but I back it out when I'm training. So, um, I mean, it's like two guys, two to three guys would be three guys would be really pushing it. Two guys is fine though. Have you had any crew over yet?

No, I haven't. Um, big Mason was going to come this week, but he hurt his ankle Masonomics. And yeah, Masonomics, big Paul, you don but he hurt his ankle. Masonomics. Yeah, Masonomics. Big Paul.

You don't need an ankle to bench Mason. Yeah, yeah. It's called Larson Press, buddy. Yeah. He's doing his thing. He'll come over eventually. And then Big Paul, at some point, we're going to get together. I might go to the Swole Shed.

He's going to come here. Oh, the Shred Shed. Yeah, you guys are going to close that Sanford and Avera gap and finally unite the system. I got to get him to come over and join the Blue Crew at Sanford. I think he'd be a good addition. Can he just do the

same job? Yeah, he could. We're in the Cath Lab. He could come work in the Cath lab here that's great here at sanford yeah maybe i'll i'll have to talk to him about it you heard it here first folks bryce is going to start poaching from a vera yeah exactly you heard it here first well hope hopefully you heard it here first because i was one thing I meant to mention it in our pre-show. We're not pretty sure about our our intro was I got some. I can always tell when one of my buddies is like finally catching up to some of the episodes because he'll bring up something from like two or three episodes ago.

Like like my buddy Chris just texted me today something. I remember what it was. oh it was about how i think that the servers in upstate new york are all assholes and how like aberdeen had like really like nice pleasant like staff like customer service people throughout so like he's like obviously three or four episodes behind because that was that was the massonomics uh meat recap so it's just it's just funny that like and i and i see it too like in discord someone will chime chime in with like an answer to a silly question from like three weeks ago sometimes and it's just like it harkens back it's just like it's it's cool that like people are like you know you guys don't have to you know if you don't listen up to date that's fine there's

there's fucking a thousand podcasts you follow but if you're getting to us at some point that's cool too you know we appreciate it i actually uh last week with my sesame street question i had said on the podcast that I will allow Muppets. And then being a week later, completely forgetting I said that, people in the Discord were saying, well, what about this Muppet? And I was like, well, Muppets aren't on Sesame Street.

And then I was listening back on the podcast, I was like, oh, I totally said they could have Muppets. That's funny. You're like, oops, I'm an asshole. No, I don't actually get like are there i didn't i didn't get that reference about them i don't i don't know shit about shit when it comes to sesame street so like i didn't understand what you meant by muppets they're all muppets to me so i don't i don't get it no so sesame streets are humans and

monsters yeah okay and then they have some animals and the muppets are muppets and animals and humans all right so there's like just there are actual like like the live action humans in costumes versus well wouldn't help how's elmo not a muppet though he's like fucking this he's like a because elmo's a monster because elmo lives elmo's elmo's monsters live on Sesame Street it's all Jim Henson isn't it yeah it's all the Jim Henson universe but then technically like you can include Dark Crystal

yeah the Labyrinth just the difference is like if they're on Sesame Street full time they're a monster and then if they're on the Muppets or anything else they're a Muppet or whatever that is is Mr. Noodle's a monster?

who the fuck is Mr. Noodle's? Mr. Noodle isn't he like Elmo's friend that's a guy? oh yeah and then there's like different variations of Mr. Noodle and then there's Mr. Noodle's cousin and then the dog the dog noodle

no he would be a person a really stupid stupid person oh okay he's a person and they're like show us how to put on a hat and then he's like putting on his butt and they're just like oh mr noodle and it's like mr, who is this neighbor that is being this stupid to your kids? Somebody get him some help. So, Mr. So that had to be who Tanner was talking about when he said it's a hat you wear on your head. He was talking to Mr. Noodle because he didn't understand what hats where hats go. That makes sense now.

It comes full circle. It's hearkening back. Oh, that was good. Yeah, it's a hat that you wear on your head. And then the next week, all of us ripped Tanner. And then two months later, I brought it back just to be. A jerk. When he sincerely says stuff and then it's just like it's just cannon fodder for like months.

Oh, it's just like, oh, yep, I'm putting that in the I'm putting that in the memory bank. And I'm going to pull that out in a couple months and everyone's going to laugh. Speaking of Tanner, he did want to know he knew you were right on the cusp and you were worried about it and you kept on going to the sauna and doing all this spitting

and everything and wearing a sweatsuit. Did you make weight? Were you able to make the super heavyweight class for the lift harder classic you know did you make the unlimited weight class were you able to make weight yeah i was just i was just a couple pounds like shy you know i mean of like the max so uh i did make weight though yeah yeah i was like 385 yeah so at 385 what's your height i'm hoping you're like... I mean, I was...

You and I, we didn't get to talk too much in person. We talked a little bit. You're definitely like 6'4", plus, aren't you? Yeah, I'm like 6'7". He's big show-sized. Yeah, that's... Oh, wow, so you're... I guess I just glossed over how tall you were in person then.

Damn. It's all the same. Yeah, everybody's the same size to me. Actually, one of my favorite things is not knowing who Bryce was at the beginning and then just watching him be really funny and then just at the end of it going to top shelf with him. I think if I had to share a memory of Bryce, it was going,

the fuck is that guy? He's a big dude and then like seeing you laugh and seeing everybody loving you and then i was like all right i gotta get to know that guy and then by the end of the night you're like you're not leaving without going top shelf and i'm just like i was like i was i barely remember doing that oh i was i was like one eye in it and just like jen and ryan and steve really wanted to leave and i was like all right i'm ready to go and then bryce was like no you're it and just like jen and ryan and steve really wanted to leave and i was like all right i'm ready to go and then bryce was like no you're not and he like grabbed me he's like we're going top shelf and he's like you knew my name and everything you were like joey let's go and i was like big man i just met i will follow you up and then i couldn't dance because the lights were

the floor was stickier than a frog's ass and the lights were blinding and just i'm just like up there like doing the mr bean dance right just like trying to dance uh but yeah anyway so that was my favorite thing of noticing how tall bryce was so you you touched on something that leads to another question there uh big bryce are this is a fan a fan slash friend submitted question are beans gonna make a comeback don't know the relevance of that story but maybe you do are beans gonna make a comeback my friend jacob grim and i we played football together we we made a podcast where we would just eat a can of beans. It was kind of, honestly, looking back at it,

it was kind of like what we do with the LaCroix's. We would just open a can of beans and each of us would eat our own can of beans. I would eat a cold can of refried beans and we'd just recap our weeks and whatever. One episode, we had his parents on and we just got hammered

with his parents. It was kind got hammered with his parents. Like it was, it was kind of a reckless podcast, honestly. Yeah. That's the one that you don't tell employers about. Probably, uh, probably a lot of things I should not have said on there.

Yeah. Do not. Yeah. I can't, I can't be too, let people know too much about that. How many episodes? So if you don't want people to find it,

that's fine. Is it, but is it still up? And How many episodes? If you don't want people to find it, that's fine. Is it still up and how many episodes did you put out? It's still up. I bet we put out I would say in the 15-ish episodes. We were really

irregular. We'd post twice a week and then we'd go two weeks and we'd do an episode. Yeah, I don't know. We didn't have many listeners but it was it was a lot of fun we just get together in the like basement and just eat beans if you could have seen heath's face when you explained that that was amazing it's the opposite of a keith eye twitch he that was that hit him hard there was a there might have been a delay, too, because I was like, is he going to talk? I think I missed the intro because it was just cutting out,

and then I caught, like, we just eat beans. I'm like, oh, that's a thing people do on a podcast. That's pretty cool. But no, that's ironic you made it about 15 episodes, because we are right around that number right now. I don't think we actually mentioned what episode we were on, so we're roughly on 15 episodes.

All the episodes are the same to me. But apparently we might have a little beef here with our big check business. Yeah. I didn't even realize that. I just saw it in the notes there. Oh, all right. We got a little zone. Is this going to ruin the sound?

Because I have to plug my phone in. It's like going to die. Is this going to go go plug it in we'll deal with whatever comes we'll fucking we'll do it live there's no fucking words on it that's like so just while you're plugging your phone in um when i was a bartender and uh that was actually my favorite thing is whenever anything would happen that like you didn't want to deal with or was slightly difficult. You would just hear me from behind the bar yell, we'll fucking do it live. And,

and that's just how you knew that just like shut up and do your job was about to happen. And that's still kind of like, it still goes to me this day. Like, I don't want to go to the gym just fucking we'll do it live we'll just go i'll write it there's no words on it what does that mean to play us out and i just that's just like how i motivate myself to just shut up and do the thing

i don't want to do and i'm gonna claim ignorance i don't get the reference is it like a movie quote or a song quote or something like the do it live thing i'm completely over my head on that one i've heard you say it multiple times and i just never i just play along i don't know um a famous uh talk show pundit who was a newscaster beforehand uh had a breakdown on tv that was recorded where they they were trying to get him to practice but because he didn't understand the words that were on the monitor he just lost his mind and i think the the i may have seen that yeah yeah the words were something like to play us out here's sting or whatever and he just got mad to play us, I don't know what that means. And then he just started yelling,

we'll do it live. We'll do it live! I'll write it! We'll fucking do it live! Just screaming at the staff. I don't remember his name, but it doesn't matter. It's genuine gold, but also motivational gold.

Now, back to this big check here. I thought I had the only one in existence. I thought there was two, but it turns out one of them is I have the only one, but you have your own. Yeah. One night my friends and I were drinking and we were like,

wouldn't it be sick if we had a giant check? And so we like all threw down like 10 bucks and it was like 30 bucks on Amazon we threw down like five or ten bucks and we're like we can each take turns with it like I'll start with it then it can go to your house and we can just like alternate weekends and we were like we were coming up with all these scenarios we would need a giant check for and it just been in my garage i don't know we were like we'll have a giant check party it was yeah i don't know i kind of feel like if you and i had a little more time together we could just exchange the stupid things we do while drinking with our friends yeah because it sounds like you're like me and you're just willing to commit to a bit as long as it makes one of us laugh

yeah absolutely I created an entire fake business okay around selling pubic wigs merkins? yep to the blue collar workers in my steel city

called working merkins and this was us sitting around 5 p.m been drinking since 11 sitting around a table just laughing at the idea of selling merkins to these like blue-collar dudes that have no clue what a merkin is and yeah and but then somehow working merkins became just like the actual thing i did every business venture under afterwards. Like that became my real business name. Really funny. Yeah, everything is just like a product of Workin' Merkins.

I was so dumb. But it's just one of those things that we just committed to at that point. Went on forever. I'll shout out my brother bryce i hope this one makes you laugh because this one is really funny to me so my brother is a calgary flames fan okay and um for years i drank with my brother in his basement like we'd go there every weekend and have some fun you go home and he's just got calgary flames and buffalo bill stuff everywhere and he had this thing that was it just said the man cave and it had the calgary flames thing on it and i'm telling you i've been down there for 10 years and my friend jay who's the other part of

working merkins walks in looks up and goes you guys have been drinking in the seaman cave for years and never told me and it broke all of us because yes that's what that sign said so then me so me and jay like probably like four years later sitting in my backyard uh ordered some like boston pizza which you know just some pasta and some pizza and are sitting there drinking second day in a row. And I was like, you know, I think he needs a Seaman cave sign for his garage. So we had a vinyl Seaman garage sent up and sent to him from our friend. And he gets it in the mail

like a week later. He's like, you guys are stupid. And we're like, yeah, yeah, we are. That's hilarious. I love my brother so much there's some silly excuse times you gotta commit to the bit like that's that's if it makes you laugh when you're thinking about it and it costs like less than like less than you make it a day just do it it's probably gonna be funny again right if it's day, just do it. It's probably going to be funny again. Right. If it's funny to only yourself,

it's worth it. My wife got me good on something like that the other day. I don't know if I talked about it on here, but she, uh, I'm always putting banners up in the gym and then she got me like just the most like preteen girl, unicorn flag banner thing. And like taped it up behind my deadlift platform without telling me.

And it was just like as a joke. And when I saw it it i about shit myself laughing so hard and it was always just funny so yeah i i get i get that but uh to harken back to your story i think the biggest thing i took away from it it was a very funny story very i love the commitment to a bit what the fuck is boston pizza i've never heard someone refer to Chicago pizza, Detroit pizza, New York style. What the fuck is Boston pizza? Yeah, I forget sometimes. There's three things that are Canadian and I can remember the two off the top of my head, but Canadians

don't actually like taking credit for what we invent. Hawaiian pizza is a Canadian invention and we have just ham and ham and pineapple is like yep basic good i love it uh but we also have a restaurant called boston pizza so it's a sports bar restaurant so one side is a bar the other side is a kid-friendly restaurant tvs everywhere showing whatever garbage sports are going on replays usually

and it's just a menu of like pasta and pizza uh it's it's incredibly run-of-the-mill i think if i had to compare it to anybody i would compare it to chilies it's like the canadian version of chilies canadian red robin no red robin doesn't exist oh oh sorry but it's like the food is okay right they've got mats for the kids to color on the kids menu is bigger than other places

you can host kids birthday parties so like yeah it's it's more of a place than a thing it's literally a place not a thing yeah it's a chain restaurant up here Roger makes sense

because I was like Boston pizza like I don't know what that means but good to know I'm glad I asked that because I guarantee there was at least three or four other people listening that like consider themselves kind of like food connoisseurs and have never heard the term Boston pizza. If I didn't ask, it would have

definitely been asked in the Discord. You're welcome, guys. Translate Canadian sometimes. I get it. Yes. I do like the diversity. I definitely think how many Canadians

I've hung out with in life My cousin was married a Canadian for a while but they got divorced 20 years ago but I'm still friends with her on Facebook because she's the mother of my cousin's kids and shit so I don't know other than that I don't have a whole lot of Canadian influence I think technically my wife is like an 8th

Canadian maybe or a quarter Canadian I know her granddad is Canadian. So I guess a third Canadian then not, not quite sure how that works. I don't think there's a Canadian chromosome, but I hear you, but is Keith Canadian by marriage? Well,

just so like, as far as like, like, like her, her grandfather was born. You're not far from, you're not far away. Just come up.

It's fine. Currently. Yeah, we did. We should figure that out at some point. I don't know. I'm like an hour and a half from Niagara Falls, give or take. I think you're like four or five hours from there, aren't you?

From Niagara Falls? I'm like an hour away. So we are like three and a half hours away max. So we'll probably figure that out some weekend. We have to almost make it content worthy though too. It's somewhat of a commitment. So then we got to get some reels out of that.

I've been known to do that. I love I love Bryce right now because he clearly can't have his headphones in. So we are just looking at the top of his head. Yeah, and I can't hear that well. So I'm just like really just being quiet so I can hear what you guys are saying. Oh shit. Wonder if you need to turn it up higher or is it kind of just maxed out that sucks sorry i have the volume up all the way but it'll be fine i can hear you guys like the most part all right so tell us where uh so big waffle iron if you know him steve wants to know

where did little sweetie's gym name come from um i just thought it was fun like i was being kind of silly goose um i think like i think people with like the i think it's kind of your thing joey like the go to war with the bar kind of names of like gyms like i just think that's that's too cheesy for me dude i had to be perfect little sweeties like it was funny and i was like if my friends come over, they can be Perfect Little Sweeties. I don't really know what it came from, to be honest. No, I love that. It's like the silliest name I could think of.

Commit to the bit. Yep. Okay, I'm going to go your favorite host lift beer. Miller Lite. I don't know. I just favorite host lift beer. Miller Lite. I don't know. I just. Why is it Miller Lite? Yeah.

I'm a Miller Lite guy. It's great taste, less filling, I think is their thing. I actually am drinking a Miller High Life right now because I was looking at the price of everything and was like, that's like $4 cheaper than everything else. So I'm with you on that one the champagne of beers dude the champagne of beers all right i got two one of one should be quick um hopefully so what's the silliest max variation lift you ever tried in the gym like do you does it sound so it sounds like you do a bunch of accommodating resistance stuff possibly so what's the uh i don't know what's what's like the funniest weirdest lift you've done in the gym the weirdest lift i've done in the gym um

uh i'm i don't get too crazy with it i mean i'll do like reverse bands i'll do chains i'll do reverse bands. I'll do chains. I'll do banded stuff. But yeah. That's all good. If there's not an instant answer, I figured someone was asking specifically because they were hunting for something. So yeah, you're good. No worries about that one. Your sister gave us a lot of data.

So I wanted to honor her by asking one of her main questions. I believe it was yours. Maybe I'm mis of her main questions. I believe it was yours. Maybe I'm misinterpreting that. I thought it was your girlfriend that gave me the data, but I don't know. Anyway, from his sister, why is his mole always on my side? Oh, my God. That was my sister.

So when we were kids, I'd always ride on the side of the car that was behind the driver. She always rode behind the passenger side in minivans or whatever growing up. When my head's shaved, when I actually don't have long hair, there's a big mole right here. She would be like, your mole's on my side. She would make a big deal out of it. She'd be like, your mole's on my side. Get get your mole out of here it's grossing me out it's it's just like a like it's just like a small like very but i'm not that gross but that's really funny she'd make i'm really glad i asked that okay so that makes sense so your your girlfriend had to have got that question from

your sister that's why i was i was very okay i was like i was like a copy and pasted this but i definitely didn't talk to your sister so that makes sense now so yeah you better not talk to my sister keith i slid into a lot of big bryce's you know close personal acquaintances and honestly your girlfriend was the only one that fucking responded i think and your response was basically like my dad doesn't know how to use Instagram and your buddies. I think we're busy and their defense. They might've been some of the guys that responded when we tagged you in the story. Oh,

no one actually responded to my actual conversations. So, you know, but I think we've done a great job of filling an hour and a half so far. So I think that'll wrap, wrap up the interview. Well, I have a generic question.

It's not, it's not my silly question. And I feel like you might be my last Midwester for a little bit. My TikTok has recently been full of Midwestern salads. Now, I think that the guys don't talk about this enough. Maybe they're ashamed. And I know he's listening listening and I bet this comes up then. Um,

but Midwestern salads, um, they sound like a diabetic nightmare, Bryce. Um, tell me about your favorite Midwestern salad. Ooh, I'm gonna have to go snicker salad.

Oh fuck. Yeah. Is that the one with the apples and the Snickers? Yeah. It's like, yeah. App yeah apples cut up cut up snickers yeah i love that we call it a salad i mean there's a reason i'm in the super heavies man that's like a salad here in the midwest there's apples in it of course it's a salad uh keith you look so confused so no is that we're talking like a literal lettuce salad or this is like a joke on a dessert name? No, so a Snickers salad is cut up Snicker bar. A salad is just like a combination of like anything from your pantry pretty much, I think, at this point. Hold on.

Yeah. All right. All right. Maybe that's going to be the silly question. Maybe not. All right. We'll get into some of that because I want to talk about that a little bit. Just to explain what a snicker salad is so it's literally chopped up snickers bars chopped up granny smith apples milk vanilla

pudding and whipped cream and then you it's not donut and you eat that well no so that's the thing is no midwestern salad i have seen looks good to me at all the marshmallow marshmallow and raisins or whatever that one is it's just so tiktok has just been sending me all of these and i'm just like how have they never talked about this despite all of these ohio midwest all that stuff about midwestern that i don't care about i care about this so i wanted to know all right so snickers the snicker salad that's your favorite um yeah so there is there is a thing in our world that i sometimes bother people with because it makes their brain go funny um but maybe this i'm gonna use this as my silly question of the week are you aware that every food is either a salad or a sandwich

oh yeah i think i've heard this maybe but, that's crazy. Soup is technically just a salad. Chili is just a salad. Liquid salad. And then everything else is a sandwich. A wrap is a sandwich. Everywhere in the world is a Midwest, too. I ate like 12 ounces of steak tonight

only. How is that a salad? It's a sandwich with no bun. It wasn't a fucking... That's not a fucking... That's not a fucking... That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. It's not a sandwich. That's a... What did you have on it?

I was... So I had like... I guess technically I had a serving of rice and a steak, but it was mostly steak. We were out of... What was on the steak? Was there salt and pepper and the steak, but it was mostly steak. What was on the steak? Was there salt and pepper on the steak? Yeah, McCormick's

steak seasoning. So it's a salad. No, it's not. A salad has lettuce. No. Not every salad has lettuce. Because I know, like, macaroni salad, you know, tuna salad. A traditional Greek salad?

No lettuce. You're not supposed to have any lettuce in a Greek salad. No, because it's all veggies and cucumbers and olives. Yep. I did have ham salad for dinner last night. That was really good. So I had ham salad on a sandwich. No, ham salad's not that good. Yeah, but now ham salad on a sandwich yeah but that's just now

it's just a sandwich now a salad-y sandwich I don't know that's a very I guess what's the paragraph that explains why I'm wrong and you're right and things are salads and sandwiches only and how mint without a bun is a sandwich because fuck off with that noise

well I don't know if you put barbecue sauce on it it becomes a salad because It's a sandwich because fuck off with that noise. I don't know. If you put barbecue sauce on it, it becomes a salad because it becomes a soup. But anyway, that's not my silly question of the week. I hope not. I do. We can circle back to it at the end or something, but I do have a salad thing I want to get into at some point.

Do it. Do your salad thing. Okay. For me, I never called it this as a kid growing up but it might just be like what the more common name of it is have you guys ever heard of a pittsburgh salad no and do you know what that is okay so a pittsburgh salad so for me it was just it was fairly common to have on the menu in restaurants in west virginia growing up um so just think of of a really good steak salad or chicken salad.

Your basic house salad with a large amount of protein on it and some bread and shit. So take that and add a full serving of french fries on top of it. Okay. It's a reverse protein.

So basically french fries on a salad is like just if you were to Google it, I think a lot of people call it a Pittsburgh salad. I've never called it a Pittsburgh salad, but if you were to explain it to someone, that's the only way that'll come up, I think, if you Google it. But there are multiple restaurants that have really

good versions of that. And to this day when I go to my parents' house once every couple years, I go to on my way to go to that restaurant and have that salad that I've been eating since I was 11 years old when I moved to that town and found it. If you ever just make a really decent salad with steak or chicken,

throw some french fries on it. Tell me what you think. It's like steak frites. It's like a steak frites, but it's salad frites. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. So that was, if you guys are familiar with that, if you haven't, if you're a listener

and you want to try something new, just throw some french fries on your salad. Would you rather have bad chicken or bad steak in your Pittsburgh salad? Bad chicken. For sure. Bad chicken. 100%. I've had this. I know it's a joke but like i've had both and like the

bad steak sucks but like the bad chicken you can just like power through and it's just like it's just bad bad chicken just kind of is just like it's almost just like crunchy you know or it's just like eating a crouton or something it's just there where it's just adding bulk to the salad whereas like bad steak becomes like you have to choose so much more on shitty sake than shitty chicken. Yeah. Like the flavor, like bad flavored steak tastes worse than mediocre to bad flavored chicken. One thing we missed in this entire conversation is that the superior red

meat is bison. Oh yeah. I would agree if it wasn't so fucking expensive. I would, I would eat bison. I would eat bison steaks like three days a week if they didn't cost $24 for a serving and a half. Yeah.

All I would eat if I could is just straight up bison. I was actually at the Fergus games last week, the Highland games. I think I spoke about it a little bit. Um, but I ended up, I always look for the game meat whenever I'm at these types of festivals. Cause I love just trying different meats.

I ended up getting some crocodile pepperettes, some elk pepperettes, and I forget what the other one is. It might be kangaroo. Um, and because it's just like, it's one of those things that I just, I try and eat.

This is going to sound so bad. PETA's coming after this podcast guys. Um, I try and eat as many animals as I can. I just try and just add it to the list of things I have eaten. And a crocodile was, I've had alligator, but I've never had crocodile.

So that definitely got on the list. Uh, if you ever get a chance. Yeah. It's just for science, man. It's for science. Uh,

if you ever get a chance to try elk, I promise you, you will not regret it. Yeah. It's delicious. I've had elk steaks. I've had a ground elk, elk pepper rats. It's, it's delicious. I've had elk steaks. I've had ground elk, elk pepperettes.

It's like bison, but a little better, but like three times the cost. Oh, wow. That's outrageous because bison is already doubled or tripled what steak is or ground beef. Not around here. We actually, yeah, we have some bison farms around us. So bison is very, like it is expensive compared to, I mentioned earlier, the bird of beef in Alberta. a ranch quote unquote about the size of a small city and

it's essentially just a giant killing floor yeah so like everybody heralds this as the top tier beef in Canada but it's just a giant factory process killing floor so there's been times where one breakout of some

bacteria will shut down all of the beef in canada because everybody just focused on this one city uh so when you go looking for these little farms around us that's where you start finding the alternatives you've got your bison you've got your local grass fed you've got all that kind of stuff so i was able to source some bison farms around us like i said it's not cheaper but it's not whatever's coming out of that place some days anyway so i guess i'll do my silly question just despite my everything's a salad and everything's a sandwich well again like our hot dog's a

sandwich people get all mad about that question the answer is yes a hot dog is definitely a sandwich but right everything that i said earlier is not a super salad one thing you said possibly okay yeah um do you like some macaroni salad though. So I started, sometimes I'll just sit here and watch YouTube, right? Like when I'm just bored. Um, so I just wanted to ask the question, what's your favorite music video or a music video that has just lived in your

head since the first time you saw it? That's funny. I was actually going to kind of ask you, so you guys have similar question, like what music video would you lit would you pick to live your life in like you have to live that music video for a day but the music video that lives in my head the most is probably dmx's rough riders anthem where they're just like riding around like on the streets i'm like doing like uh wheelies on like

four wheelers and they have dogs, and they're like... It's just like... I don't know. It looks like a wild time. It's insane. Oh, God. I love DMX. Obviously, the weird part's about side, but that's a good call.

And actually, I was going to say my favorite video, but I think I'm going to save my answer of that for what you're going to ask, if that's what you're going to ask us. Keith, what do you got? Oh, God. I haven't watched music videos in 20 years. Right? I felt like we should explain a little bit to the younger people

what a music video is. It'll stick out to me the most, honestly, as Buddy Holly by Weezer, specifically because we got to come we got windows 95 in whatever year i mean i would say whatever year i was 95 it wasn't either or 96 it's just the way they do like releases of shit so like mid 90s uh with the computer came was it fucking incarta i think it was basically like this was a pre us having internet so there

was just like a pre-loaded disc with like an encyclopedia in it basically. And then inside of that, actually, no, that might've, that was completely different. But basically when you bought,

it was the first computer we had that had windows and there was two preloaded music videos. And one of them was Weezer's buddy, Holly. And as like a 10 year old, I was just like, I didn't even know. Cause I didn't have MTV at my,

at my house by, so I didn't like have any I didn't have MTV at my house. So I didn't have any access to any kind of music video. So just being able to watch music on a video was just so surreal at the time. So yeah, there was another one. I think it was, she wasn't even famous, but it was

every now and then, I honestly, I have to Google like Windows 95 music video every now and then to get it to come up because I can't remember her name or the song, but it was like I could hum the whole song in my head, but I couldn't actually say what it was. Those two honestly will stick out to me indefinitely because I watch those significantly more

than I ever watch the music video on MTV or VH1 or CMT or whatever. All right. I actually don't even have an answer for that question I asked you guys, which is really weird. I would say Tool Schism is one of the ones that I will never forget. The first time I saw it, first time I watched it, and then seeing Tool, because the models or the acrobats in the Tool video were from Toronto, which is right near me. the models or the acrobats in the tool video were from Toronto, which is right near me. When I went and saw tool,

they were there and they were dressed in the costumes. And now I've seen tool over a dozen times and they've never done that again. It was only that one concert in Toronto and they showed up in their costumes with the makeup and they were like hanging from the ceiling, doing aerobatics and stuff like that. So just because of that experience with the video i would say that that's that's probably my answer to that one um but it is just kind of interesting how music videos are still being made taylor swift is making music videos right now but there's no there's nothing like we had, right? We had Much Music up here. We had the Much Music One, Much Music.

We had Country Music. We had all of that up here. We had, interestingly, Youth Television, which was a publicly funded YTV, we called it. They had a one hour per week music videos and that was the first time i ever saw cradle of filth which was on the on the youth television they played her ghost in the fog and i think that's actually the awakening of my love of extremely heavy music and that was kind of funny is that you couldn't see that on the music video station but why tv would play it which was insane um so it's just fun that it's like kids

kids nowadays that's another thing anybody that says the phrase nowadays don't listen to them but like it's just interesting that they don't have the same um experience with music videos that we got to have i honestly think they might have it better though because you everything is on youtube like are so are there artists that that aren't putting out youtube videos to like promote their songs like on youtube like you they have to be right like does everyone know youtube's an algorithm youtube would have never shown me cradle of filth yeah right like yeah it might randomly show you things it thinks you like but you didn't have to sit through trash to see the one you like you didn't have to sit there with your finger on the

record button waiting for your favorite music video and then suddenly another artist of a completely different genre shows up and you're just like whoa wait a minute this is new to me right and i think that you know we can get all into that kind of conversation just where the algorithms just cater to you in such a specific fashion that you're never going to get to experience something that just shocks your worldview um so i i would say that yes with access to unlimited everything all the time you would argue that you could have it better but when you have so many choices you will always choose what you're comfortable with yeah if you've never seen cradle of filth if you don't know who i'm talking about you go ahead and go watch her ghost in the fog and that's a very heavy song it's probably one of their least offensive at the time um and

just imagine me as like a 13 year old kid who's listening to just whatever my mom and my brother listened to and like it was like the first time i deadlifted where it was just like right this is me now i love heavy music now this is my personality for the next two years well anyway that's my silly question of the week they're not getting as silly as they are just like let's chat about stuff for a few minutes i'll try and get back into the silliness of them we've been hitter like they've all been kind of hit like you i i feel like there's some that you let's chat about stuff for a few minutes. I'll try and get back into the silliness of them. We've been hit or like, they've all been kind of hit.

Like you, I feel like there's some that you thought we're going to like, I mean, same with that. Like everything I think we've done, some shit we thought was going to like blow up and like be a half hour conversation. And then it was like 30 seconds. And then like vice versa,

you're just like, oh, this is going to be stupid. And then we talk about it for 45 minutes or something. So as it is, there is no, we stupid. And then we talk about it for 45 minutes or something. So there is no... We don't understand the algorithm of our podcast yet either, of how it's going to react with the guest and the other co-hosts, but shit we say.

Shocked to my fucking core that nobody knew any Sesame Street characters. That honestly blew me away. That's sad, dude. I would love to... Dude, the count is the best. I love the count. He's got my favorite Sesame Street song. You've got bones, bones, bones. You've got bones inside of you.

I could go on and on about Sesame Street and the Muppets. Dude, I could go on and on about the Muppets. See ya! Should have saved my question for this week. I was a very unsupervised kid, and I had older siblings, so if there was a tv i didn't have the remote and if i was like five we were watching whatever like my you know 12

year old brothers were watching so i have little memory at all of ever watching like shit as a kid like i'm watching like r-rated movies when i'm like six so it's like i don't i don't have a uh a fond childhood memories of like watching like eg or ng rated shit just because that just didn't wasn't how i was growing up i missed out on a lot of random shit like that i feel you should revisit sesame street keith i think you'd really like it you know i've never seen an episode of uh the the one should be my neighbor show either what the fuck was that one called the uh you've never seen mr rogers neighborhood no like i i

like i know it like i've known of him for years but like i've never i think i was like oh what is this on pbs no i'm good i'm gonna i did watch you know what i watched randomly a lot of it's like you know probably like almost too old to watch. It was Shining Time Station. Like that was like the one that I think the trains was kind of the spinoff of, wasn't it? But it was mostly just like the kids. The kids in like the train can, what the fuck is, what's like the waiting room in a train station? They're just the train station. Like I just remember watching that a lot when I was 8, 9, 10 years

old or something. And what was funny is Cheech was like a fucking conductor or something I think at one point too, which was really funny. It was George Carlin. Okay, yeah. No, no, no. I believe Cheech Marin was there for a bit. And so was George Carlin.

But going back to the Mr. Rogers thing, there's a bit. And so was George Carlin. But going back to the Mr. Rogers thing, there's a phrase I've always kind of tried to live by. I can't say I'm always perfect at it, but it was, what would Mr. Rogers do? And it comes down to him, and honestly,

Steve Rogers, Captain America. Those are the two Rogers you should live your life by. You ask yourself what they would do in a situation, it probably the right call mr rogers was an absolute unparalleled like i don't we won't get too far but like he's like if you had to say angels existed he was probably one of them yeah because he just cared so much about making sure that children were raised with empathy and love and compassion and that no child should ever be left and felt alone i'll tear up thinking about it because everything i've ever read about the guy he was just that top level of person

and uh you know if you can watch his movie watch his movie but yeah even watching his show. Yeah, I would check it out. Yeah, it kind of bums me out that you haven't seen that, to be honest. Thanks, Bryce, for bringing that one up. My buddy is at work. We were talking about it the other day. Was it true that he actually had full-sleeve tattoos and was a big Army veteran guy? Or was that just all lore? They were blown so good, man.

He was. I believe he was in the Army, but the tattoos thing is a myth that I understand. I wish that part was true. Do you recommend watching the Tom Hanks movie then and then maybe diving into it a little bit? Absolutely. Watch that movie. It'll make you love Tom Hanks even more a little bit too.

Tom Hanks is up there. Cool. Well, enough of this sappy, make you cry everybody. We're getting a little too deep tonight, boys. Let's see. We knocked out the interview. We knocked out the silly question. We knocked out the ad read. What does that leave, Joey? I think there's one more segment.

Well, two more segments, but what's the next one? It's overrated and underrated. Hey, I like that one. Hey, Bryce, have you ever heard of overrated and underrated? I think it's come up a time or two. I might be able to understand it. Hey, Bryce, have you ever heard of overrated or underrated? I think it's come up a time or two. I might be able to understand it. Well, essentially, we've got a couple of hand-picked

items just for you, and you have to tell us whether they're overrated or underrated based on however you feel. It could be the worldview, your view, or Mr. Rogers' view. And you've just got to pick one. There's no riding the line. And you do have your druthers. Rogers view. And you're just got to pick one. There's no writing the line and you do have your druthers. All right.

As usual, Keith, I'm going to have you do the first three. Cause I think that we've been all right. Everything's riding on this. Everything's riding on this game. Okay, Keith,

go ahead. Don't, don't mess this up. Big Bryce. I think you got the gist of it. So number one for big Bryce of overrated and underrated. This comes from our good friend paul floss he wanted to know what you think about private liberal art schools

oh under underrated dude private liberal art schools yeah underrated why is that a private liberal art school stole all my money what's a private liberal art school stole all my money. What's a private liberal arts school? And that's still underrated? I think that would be overrated. What's a private liberal arts school? I don't know. It's like a private college. It's not like a state college.

It's like a private school. More expensive, basically, right? Yeah, I don't know. It's like a liberal arts college. I don't know. I had to take like foreign language classes and like i don't think it made me a better person or anything but it was fun i took american sign language as my foreign language hell yeah yeah it was cool i that would actually be useful i'm like yeah i actually have used it quite a few times there's this uh guy that's that's deaf that I run into at the bars,

and I always talk to him in sign language. I obviously do a horrible job, but he'll teach me new signs and stuff. It's super fun, actually. Your accent is shit. Yeah. I'm drunk, so I'm probably slurring my fingers. I don't know. All right.

All right. Big Bryce. Number two. Let me see what I want to pick. Oh, there we got a good one. What do you think about bounce houses? Ooh. Overrated. Overrated. All right. Why are we asking you this?

I don't know. I helped at a golf tournament earlier this summer and like i was i like there was like a golf there was like a big obstacle course one and i pointed at this kid i was like you me we're racing and i like didn't really fit in there very well he like he dusted me he beat me so bad it's probably that, overrated dude that kid cheated that is not the story we got, we got the story that you worked at an

inflatable house store you basically oh yeah I did, actually I forgot about that did you not go put up inflatable houses at kids parties and shit yeah I did that too, for a couple months one summer, I forgot about that, I put up inflatable houses at kids' parties and shit? You forgot. Yeah, I did that too. For a couple months one summer, I forgot about that.

I put up tents and inflatables. Did you forget that? That's hysterical that you forgot that. The look on his face was like... I was an amateur carny for like two months. Amateur carny. Did I get the wrong show notes? What the fuck?

No, no, no. I forgot I did that. That was like five years ago. I put up inflatables and it was terrible. I hated it. Overrated. Inflatable house is overrated. My third and final. This will be from one of the hosts with the blonde hair.

He wants to know what you think about the crowbar. I actually just got that it's a... Is it supposed to be a pun? It think about the crowbar. And I actually just got that it's a... Is it supposed to be a pun? It's like the crowbar, the physical tool, but it's also, is it called the crow comma bar? Or is it like the crowbar and it's a picture

of a crowbar? I don't get it. I think so. I think it's supposed to be a pun. The sign is just like this giant... It's like a neon sign of a crow with a top hat and glasses. But yeah, for sure underrated.

Gotcha. Good deal. Oh. Alright, I guess I'll hand that over to Big Joey. Let him round that out. Okay, I've got two that are probably funny and one that you might have to remember you worked somewhere once overrated or underrated

Ikea ooh I've never been but I'm gonna go underrated because I feel like I would break the furniture it doesn't seem like very sturdy furniture okay so the reason I was

asking that is I think your family works in furniture yeah yep my uh my grandparents own a flooring and furniture store and i grew up i started i delivered furniture like as long as i can remember i sold my first uh first piece of furniture when i was in second grade i was just like hanging out at the store and this lady walked in and i was like everyone was busy. I was just hanging out at the store. And this lady walked in and I was like, everyone was busy, and I was just like, oh, I'll help her. And I took this old lady to a rocking chair and she bought it.

That's great. Speaking of Big Bryce in second grade, look out on the Instagram this week because I believe we have a picture of him roughly around that age. He's a grown man. He's a man among boys

basically at that age. He was chair-selling age. I'm chair-selling age, yeah. I'm selling chairs at that age. Delivering furniture. Now, did you consider yourself the chairman of the board at that point? Oh, man. Yeah, probably. I was the chairman of the

board. It was a family business. All right. Overrated or underrated? Seeing Taylor Swift in concert. Ooh. I'm going to go underrated, dude. I mean, I didn't know that much of the music, but she puts on a good show. Lots of costume changes, fire techniques.

It was great. Yeah, T-Swift is one of the entertainers of our time. One of the big ones, right? Yeah. Alright, the last one's for all the marbles. And I hope you know why it's on here, because I don't. Overrated or underrated?

Possums. Oh! That's tough, man. I i'm gonna go overrated uh our my house in college we called it the possum palace because it was like a bunch of like we all played o-line and we were just like kind of big like messy dudes so we were like we're possum palace like we thought it's funny and we saw a possum in our yard one time. And then like, um, a couple of them got in.

So like the dryer vent from went from the basement to like this little window. And like the, the thing that blocked off the dryer vent was like gone. And, uh, one day our basement started smelling really bad and and we traced it back to the dryer vent. And so we took the dryer vent off, and two possums fell out, like little baby ones.

Oh, my God. And one of them was, we thought they were both dead. We're like, oh, my God. And so we went to go get a shovel or something to scoop them up, and one of them was gone. And we're like, oh, my God, one of them is gone. And my friends are freaking out. So we just had this possum loose in our house.

A dead possum. We got it out. We scooped it up in a net and we put it outside. Then a couple months later, somebody came to our house. We were all at the crowbar. Somebody came to our house and was trying to find us.

I don't know. Our doors just weren't never locked too. This guy stumbled over to our house and was trying to find us. I don't know. Our doors just weren't never locked, too. This guy stumbled over to our house and was like, we weren't there. He just left the door open. My friends and I, we all got home from the bar, go to bed, and my buddy wakes up, and there's just a possum

beside his bed, staring back at him. We have a possum infestation. You have to be careful what you call your house, because I might manifest some possums, you know? So did we get an overrated or underrated on possums there? Possums are overrated. They'll take over your life.

Yeah, but they're so harmless. They're ugly as shit but they're harmless and they smell bad they are harmless bad like they won't they won't even bite you they'll just they'll like be sad you noticed them i love possums all right so that was good that was a good successful last one I think you passed overrated and underrated good I can't believe I didn't get the inflatable one and like it happens

yeah all right I think the next portion is we've already alluded to it it's where you get to ask us a question what do you got for us okay are you guys you guys are familiar with the cartoon Tom and Jerry yep to ask us a question. What do you got for us? Okay.

You guys are familiar with the cartoon Tom and Jerry? Yep. Would you say that you're more Tom or more Jerry? And if you had to pick, which one would you be? Which one's which? Tom's the cat. Tom is the cat and Jerry's the mouse. There's advantages to being both, I think.

I feel like I'm a Tom just because I'm always doing shit that sometimes doesn't work out, but I'm consistently doing it. I'll never give up doing something. I will always continue to do something. I don't know. Jerry's fucking smug like I'm

not I don't consider myself to be a smug little prick yeah I don't consider myself to be smug like that I consider myself to be a dedicated worker like the cat so yeah that's me um god you remember there was it Tom and Jerry

that had that little puppy that would sneak up on the cat and scare the cat and it would fly up to the ceiling and then the dog would be all proud of itself and walk away yeah i'm the cat i'm the cat i i don't know i i i want to say i'm the jerry because i'm just so good at getting out of bullshit situations. But yeah, he's a smug little jerk. And I don't think I've been called that in at least six months. So I don't

smug little jerk. I'll go with Jerry. Part of being in customer service is finding solutions to help people so that they no longer want to kill you. And I would say that that's a talent of mine nice that was a good question i like that was definitely uh that was fun

off the wall so we appreciate that um do they do they still serve whack at bw3s and and in new york like like i've never really heard anyone call it BW3s. I've just been wondering, what even is whack? Isn't that the third W in BW3s? Oh, I don't. I'm not positive. I think I just. That's what people.

I think at one point, didn't they rebrand as BWB? I always call it. If I'm speaking, I call it Buffalo Wild Wings. I think I typed it out as BW3 the other day, and maybe that's what you're getting at. I don't know. When I went and had the crew meet up in Aberdeen at BW3s or Buffalo Wild Wings,

that was the first time I've been in one in at least 10. I think I've only been in one twice. It might have been the second or third time. Their food sucks ass. It's horrendous, but I always thought it was interchangeable. It gives me diarrhea every time before I leave

Buffalo Wild Wings. It just hits that nerve. They have a sauce, though. Interestingly, they are the reason that I'm hesitant to order hot sauce in most places. Because I generally walk in and I order the hottest thing you have well they have one of

the hottest things you can get at a chain restaurant so i walked in there and i ordered the mango habanero thinking yeah this will be fine and it was not it was hotter than hell and so then i ended up like it was like ptsd for hot sauce because now we'll go somewhere and then i'll go i'll just i'll just take the hot i don't want the suicide my wife's like you're gonna be disappointed order the suicide and then my brain goes no it's gonna be that thing again and then every time i'm disappointed because it's not hot enough like it's like this could be hotter but that's i will say that about buffalo wild wings that mango have an arrow that that'll mess And then every time I'm disappointed because it's not hot enough. It could be hotter. But I will say that about Buffalo Wild Wing.

Does that mango have an arrow? That'll mess you up if you're not careful. Do they have that in American Buffalo Wild Wing? Yeah. I want to say one of the friends of the podcast had it this Saturday before the Friday before the meet and was probably shitting his pants the whole morning next morning. And I want to say, was that the second hottest one? Because Big Matt ordered whatever the hottest one was and basically died and then came back to life

and then ordered the other one that was almost just as hot. I got a kick out of that. I'm not a hot food guy. It's all over. It's all foreign. Hot wings the night before meat is insane to me. Yeah, you're asking for chicken sliders easy that way.

Get me a barbecue and garlic parm all day. I'm not doing anything above a mild or a medium at the most. Do you ever do your suicide hot with a medium? And then just like, do you do 50-50 wings? Because I can see the benefit of that. Eat a really, really hot one, eat a medium, benefit of that. Eat a really, really hot one. Eat a medium to mild one. Eat a really, really hot one.

I'll order Cajun with a side of your suicide. And I'll dip the Cajun in the suicide. As you want, rather than the app being stuck with a 12-pack that are uneatable because they're so hot. That makes sense. And then I can control how much sauce is on it so that my lips don't... I remember the one time I had a friend, a friend restaurant owner i did my birthday party at his house and i said can you make me a ghost pepper sauce for my wings and you ate one and your lips went purple and swelled up and everybody was just like on fire nobody could eat them so it's just like

well can i have that on the side now so that I can control it? So it's not burning my face off. There's a, there's a guy here in Brantford, Ontario. I don't know if he's still open. He, we have a history with him back in our old party days.

And then he opened a restaurant far away, but he actually won the award in Canada for the hottest wing in Canada. It was called the Blackenstein. And like we, we would just, we sat there once me and steve actually it was me and steve that went wow i'm going back like eight years ago and we watched these kids walk in and order it and just die like these kids just died in front of us not like real but like like every orifice bleeding like whatever thing can come out of them because these wings were so hot these kids were so arrogant me and steve were just like no we're not doing that today yeah no thanks i don't want to bleed out of my eyes today oh my god yeah like as soon as he

brought it out i could smell it from the table to side and And I was like, no, I'm so glad I didn't do that. All right. Well, I think we can bring it on around down. And finish diving right in and dive right in. So you can follow us. I had unpaid and underrated podcast and the website is unpaid intern podcast dot com. Big Matt sent his apologies. underrated podcast and the website is unpaid intern podcast.com. Um, big Matt sent his apologies.

Uh, he really wanted to join us today and he just couldn't make it. Uh, something came up. I don't know what it was. He just said, Hey, there's an emergency. I can't come today.

So, you know, um, all our love out to you, Matt. Hopefully we'll, uh, we'll get you on next week.

Uh, big Bryce, where can we find you? You've, you've got a couple of spots there. Um, perfect little sweetie's gym and and the big SXY74. SXY, the big daddy cool. Big daddy cool.

Just like Kevin Nash. Just like Kevin Nash. Keith, where can we find you, buddy? I am KeithHoneycutt73 on Instagram and follow my orange gym, the No Wine Cellar. I'm Joey. You can find me at Joey underscore Maleska, but who cares? Just follow me on Unpaid and Underrated. Keith and I

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