Unpaid And Underrated - 028 : Sucking the Celery Off

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big David. They dive right into great topics like geography, yolks, rock climbing, malls, magicians and hugh laurie. Links Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) Our Guest On Instagram @mills.85 (https://www.instagram.com/mills.85/) or @deficitjeffersons (https://www.instagram.com/deficitjeffersons/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big David (U.K.).

and welcome back to episode 82 of the unpaid and underrated podcast we are the podcast by crew for crew i'm one of your hosts big keith and i am joined by my good colleague here big joey hey as well as one of the davids we're not really sure who it is yet we'll probably have to wait till we get him on the horn but we do have one of the Davids. We're not really sure who it is yet. We'll probably have to wait until we get him on the horn, but we do have one of the Davids with us. Evening, gentlemen. How are we doing? Good, good. What are you drinking over there, David?

If anyone, no one's, we might throw this up on Instagram, but David has a beans and toast as his background thing on the Zoom call that's just hysterical. So I'm curious if that's what he's eating. I'm really curious what he's drinking. It's beans sparkling water.

Yeah. I'm not drinking beans, but I would eat some, not cool beans, but warm beans. Yeah, beans on toast with cheese. That's the key element. What am I drinking? I got a Maui Brewing Coconut Porter.

I like porters and the coconut kind of keeps it a little bit lighter. That's first. And then I've got a second can for when this really goes long. We dive right in, right? In a few hours time. Three hour podcast. That's our second can for when you know this really goes long and we we dive right in right in a few hours time

yeah that's our specialty now two hour 54 minute is the current pr but let's hopefully not break it tonight yeah that's kind of a good story on this one too so i got an ugly water oh hell yeah long uh long time kind of uh uh tanner. I've been meaning to send these to the guys, but I just decided I'm going to drink them now. It's been like a year. I haven't sent them to them. So this is discontinued ugly orange soda. So I'll be dipping into that.

That sounds anything orange would get my attention. Drinking it on our podcast and rubbing it in a little. Yeah, that's about right. I prefer that. There you go. Sounds good to me. What about you guys? Speaking of orange,

I did find my Poland Springs Gatorade that I made up last week. Like right before the podcast, I threw a little Gatorade packet into a bottle of water and I fucking misplaced it and ended up finding it in the bed underneath the blankets and shit.

I don't know how the fuck I ended up there, but I saved it just for tonight. Then when that's gone, I'll knock out a bubbly. That's last week's drink you're drinking? Yeah. Hell yeah. It's okay. I threw it in the fridge. I wanted to save it. The fridge will protect it.

Yeah, it's good. Nice and tart. I'm drinking a Keats, but I've got a whole cooler of water behind me, so Nice. We're staying hydrated this week. It's Black Friday over here, boys. So it's just nothing but work, work, work, work, work. That's this week? And then next week?

Or you guys, you're a week ahead, aren't you, for Thanksgiving? No, I'm like two months ahead for Thanksgiving. But when it comes to Black Friday, everybody wants in on the money to be made. So everything launches a little early. Gotcha. That's not fun. everything launches a little early. Gotcha. That's not fun.

Well, I'm wearing the Jefferson Deadlift shirt, if anyone's wondering. I just want people to know where I was from. I'm from America. I'm American. We like Jefferson Deadlifts over here in Thomas Jefferson. I don't know if we like Thomas Jefferson, honestly, but we like

Jefferson Deadlifts. What about you, Big Dave? What you got buddy okay political so i had to do a little bit of research to decide what to wear uh so i went back to my my massonomics account and i figured out which t-shirt was the first one i ordered and it was this one the lift hard live easy uh skull with the beer hat. So yeah, Leftover Livesey. Love it. I'm actually wondering if I have that one. I do not. It's on my eventual get list.

Oh man, I need to go through all this shit. I just have the original lift. Honestly, I had to shower right before the podcast and I was like, whatever shirt fits. So it happened to be this one. best blank right it's got a good blank yeah yeah i feel like i got out of the shower maybe about an hour ago it was a ridiculously long day i literally worked 5 30 to 6 30 p.m 5 30 a.m to 6 30 p.m got home and like i didn't have any

energy to take a shower like i sat on the couch and ate dinner and my wife was like you're gonna take a shower and i was like yeah and like an hour later she's like are you gonna take a shower yeah looking at the clock it was like seven something i really should take a shower because i had to like start getting fucking podcast ready so here we are yeah i got home from work and uh you know like i said it's kind of work work work right now and i guess i had phoned mor Morgan and just ranted for a few minutes. I got home and she was like, I built a fire, go outside. I just sat by the fire pit for about an hour. Then I just reeked of fire and cigars.

It was definitely time to come in and shower at that rate. Primal. Just a lot of fire burning. It's my favorite thing. Sitting by the fire, smoking a cigar, a little bit of music, scrolling Discord. That's like my

zone-out time. I feel like that was the one thing missing from Tanner's backyard party was a fire. There wasn't a fire at all, was there? I'm curious if he lives in a really nice neighborhood. They might have pretty strict regulations on fire. I only bring that up because everyone knows by your time that you're listening to this, it should be sold out.

Currently on November 16th at 841 p.m. Last I talked to Dave, there was eight spots left, maybe seven. So that's pretty crazy considering there was 90 spots open 48 hours ago. Well, there was 89 spots open. Jack the Ginger. There he is. He got his pre-registration. I was pretty happy. I don't know if anyone was paying

attention, but it kind of looked like Joey and I both posted ours at 11.59 that we got in. Maybe we got a little sneaky link from one of the hosts. I don't know. 11.59 that we got in. Maybe we got a little sneaky link from one of the hosts. I don't know.

Hopefully, everyone else has gotten signed up that wanted to. Kruperk. Kruperk. So you both signed up for powerlifting? Yes. I missed out on the strongman, but mostly because I'm not strong and I'm under 200 pounds

so some people say I'm not even a man so definitely wasn't getting in on that one yes I'm in on strongman not power so whoa how long is that flight? flight to flight to the twin cities

is like 3 or four hours. Yeah, three and a half hours. And then I'll drive from there. Outstanding. Not too bad. Which division are you in? Are you a big guy?

Are you a big, big guy? Are you a bigger, bigger guy? However they have it working. I'm a big guy. Yeah. Okay. What's that, the 200 to 250 or something? Smallest of the big guys. Yeah. Under 250.

Gotcha. Yep. I've done strong man at sub 200 and now I'm not sub 200. So yeah, 231 class. There you go. I signed up for the weight class. I, I, I want to be in. Um, but part of me is like, fuck it. Just gain as much weight as possible by then. Like just, just go hard on the protein and do the scants thing,

the peanut butter jam sandwich just three times a day. Just like get big. And then I started talking to Morgan, like the way that some of the podcast guests talk when they're that big, when they, they, she's like, don't you you dare don't you dare become a heavyweight so yeah we'll see yeah it's definitely not comfortable uh i'm not this

weight because i enjoy it i just uh like food too much currently it's not it kind of is what it is but i did see that uh kind of excited i you know damager went uh masters so that's one less 275 submasters i gotta beat uh you know place third so you go the weight class is in the jungle right the master's class is in the jungle because we just we're supposed to just throw ourselves off a cliff at a certain time we're all about the same age right 38 39 yeah actually yeah that'll be 30 gospel masters yeah i got i got i got one more season of submasters meets and then uh i'll be good to go because i i the the local meets i find myself doing lately i've been usapo because it's

like the only it's the only one i don't have to drive 90 minutes to do. I can literally drive five minutes and do it. So it's like as much as I don't love deadlifting on a power bar or whatever, doing 24-hour weigh-ins. And then it sucks because they do a morning session or an afternoon session, at least my local meet director. So I end up not being able to lift until like 2 or 3 in the afternoon. And I'm like, that makes such a shitty day. I don't want to be here until nine o'clock. I want to go home. Where was I going with that?

They don't have submasters. USAPL doesn't have submasters, so you're open until you're 40, and then it's either a five-year or a nine-year, whatever it is, but it's masters M1 and M2, whatever, but there is no submasters in USAPL. I've basically been open in that federation you know i can be submasters in like

every other federation in the world i do i do uh wrpf here and i guess i'm obviously doing xpc in the states but me and steve have been just dying because um now the running joke in our house is that we are internationally placed competitive athletes. But it's like the lift hardly live easy and like local meets. But like technically we are internationally international athletes. There you go. It turns out the wives are just not that into that. They don't think it's as funny as we do. I've never done a,

I've never done a power lift. I've never done power lifting me, but, uh, but in strongman, definitely, there's a stigma to actually competing as a master, especially if you've just turned 40.

Is it the same thing in powerlifting or you're just automatically... With powerlifting, you can choose. You have to pay extra money. So when you pay your $100, anywhere, well, powerlifting meets used to be $75. Now they're $125 and everything in between. There's something going on.

I think I've even paid, yeah, I think I've even paid $150 for one before. But with that, that gets you entry to one division. So that's either going to be open or submasters or masters or, you know, all this, you know, or, you know, juniors and all that shit, you can pay an extra 40 bucks and enter another division.

And then, so that basically gives you the opportunities to win medals in both classes. I don't love that just because it's like, I don't, the biggest reason I don't like that is my OCD of like open powerlifting looks weird after that, because you have,

you have multiple entries for one meet. So like, if you didn't look at it, right, you'd be like, Oh, this guy's done 20 meets. No,

he's done like 10. So I just, I don't see, I don't see the point of wasting the money for it. We learned on discord today, man, this is a, this is a sport.

You got to inch every little piece that you can to be the best that you can be. There is no looking down on any of it. I do agree with most of what was said in there, but the specific where I draw the line is like, I don't feel the need to sign up for multiple divisions, but that's just the selfishness of me. I'm like, well, if I'm submasters, I don't want you to go

open-end submasters and take my chance to get my fucking medal, because I'm vain, and I would love to still get a medal at the Lutard Live Easy Classic even if I only total 1,200 pounds, but whatever. That would be a huge PR for me, So I'll take it. Everybody's got a line. Yeah.

So speaking of lines and lines being crossed, I got a, you know, Tanner, man, what is up with the sleeves are overrated. Not really. If you actually watch the video that came out last week,

usually we're able to, I think he ended up releasing that video on Friday where they usually do Thursday. So we didn't get to talk about it last week. So we can touch base on it real quick uh did anybody get a chance to watch the sleeves is overrated from last friday yep yep collection yep so i think i think uh my knee-jerk reaction was like i don't agree with it that's stupid but then like when you watch his video he kind of like double talks his way out of it and i'm like okay well yeah i can

see the point of that so good video uh you know I definitely think it's going to get some clickbait attention just because it's like people are going to be like, hey, what? Sleeves are not overrated, but I don't know. He did explain himself well, and I agree with his general point. Yeah, I think it's really the spirit of overrated, underrated, right?

It's like, do I like new sleeves versus are they overrated? Yeah, I definitely wouldn't wear them if I didn't think I had to. Yeah, makes sense. Like I said, my MCL starts quivering when I get to a certain weight and it's like

some pressure would help. I started figuring it out. I think I can wear kinetic tape. Look it up. Yeah, I think at WRPF you can wear K-tape. There's one I mean, the Hack Squad. Yeah, that was a decent one. Yeah, especially because I have those collars.

You have Grant's collars, yeah. Yeah, I love those. They're fantastic. I tried them at the Lift Hard Live Easy, and I was like, okay, I'm warming up. I don't know how these work. I tried them once. I was like, I'm good. Give me the spring collars. I don't have time to learn something right now. I'm sure if I had them for a half hour, I'd be like, oh, okay, I know how know how these work. I tried them once. I was like, I'm good. Give me the spring collars. I don't have time to learn something right now. I'm sure if I had them for a half hour, I'd be like, oh, okay.

I know how to use these easily with one hand. But I did like his whole put the, you know, you have a plate on, you want to throw a quarter on. You don't have to take the collar off. You just fucking throw the quarter on and then move the collar over. And it takes like three seconds. That I liked. My favorite part about it was he didn't actually latch it all the way when he demonstrated it so that was probably my favorite part of the video they're actually a little difficult to use with one hand and it's it's i guess with my tiny baby

hands um because if you try and do it in like in a certain way obviously your bar spins so you just end up spinning the bar a little bit and if you're like already in a headspace it's so fucking frustrating right you just don't want to lift the weights um yeah you got to use two hands to close them yeah even i don't have big hands but but yeah i need two hands yeah but definitely prefer those over there i prefer those over the ones i had before they're actually the ones i had were kind of the same thing but they they were full on round colors and they just take up too much space. All about space saving here. Well, speaking of taking up too much space, you know, I got to thank a good buddy of mine, Big Mofo. I know I give him hell and everyone thinks I think he takes up too much space, but he is a pretty good guy.

He was one of the only person that actually reached out and offered to contribute a few bucks to the next sticker order. So thank you, Big Moto. You're a good guy. Don't let it go to your head, though. Because you gave him money. Everything else, piece of shit. Now you give him money. He's on your side.

No, he's actually he he he privately DMs me like random shit about the podcast, probably more regularly than most people. So he's he's you can tell he's a loyal listener and, you a good a good a good crew yeah it's good dude no more he asked him return as if he pitches your feet right yeah yeah yeah yeah with or without jizz on him he's happy dude it was like that everybody has line uh yeah Yeah. Apparently I crossed it with my big toe. Did you notice the Easter egg in the Hackspot video? Did you watch that? No, I watched. It was plain, wasn't why I was driving

home, and I just kind of more listened to it than watched it, honestly. So there was presumably a sneak peek of a drop-eye and it was wearing. Their long-sleeved so there was a presumably a sneak peek of a, of a draw there. And it was wearing their, their, their long sleeve shirt,

right? It was like a long sleeve t-shirt, isn't it? But like mass and on the, on the forearm, maybe. Yeah. Like a pocket tee pocket tee with,

yeah, some print down one. Gotcha. And then where they were and what looked like mass nomics polos that they're like speaking event thing, or was that, was that someone, did someone pull up an old picture? I thought that's what

someone posted a picture of what looked like them in a Mastinomics polo, but I don't know if it was recent or not. Kind of looked like it. But yeah, unverified reports. Yeah, I'm very curious of what all comes out next week because I would definitely

like to bulk up the wardrobe. I'll take a polo. That's Prime Masters marketing right there. Yeah, it did look like the Bench in 315 was back in stock behind him on the last podcast they were recording. So I was like, OK, if that comes out again, I'm picking that bastard up because I missed that one last time. I think I missed it twice. I was just like, I technically don't have a true 15.

I don't want to own that. And then I was like, well, you know, I've hit 315 with a two board and a three board, so that's close enough. Go a size high on those. Yeah, I got to go. I'm going to take that into consideration. That blank, the printing shrinks the shirt. Gotcha.

No, because there's a fair amount of print. Yeah. Gotcha. More blank talk. Come on, Tanner. Figure it out, buddy. They kind of hate that we're busting balls on that. I know I would.

I would just be like, really? You're going to just keep picking on my goddamn business? Thanks, assholes. They started it. They started it on Table Talk. That's true. And now it's one of the funniest things going right now. I enjoy it.

GGC is in the wild swing. I think tomorrow is the last day of announcements, and I still haven't won anything. Fourth year in a row, I won. Fuck all. I won $100 from one of the ambassadors. So Amanda, Big Bad Wolf, they're one of the ambassadors ambassadors right so manda big bad wolf they're one of the ambassadors for ggc like i think um amanda was on their twitch stream i won a hundred dollars on their giveaway

and can't use it yet so that's fun it's a hundred dollar us visa i have yet to find a way to use it so aren't you literally in buff and niagara falls at target like every three months it's online only it's just digital unless i can somehow type the gift card into that's annoying yeah so no it's it's really cool but i should have just well no i'm trying to back maybe you'd have to like yeah you have to i think i have it on my apple wallet I might be able to tap it in the US Online order shit and then pick up or something I don't know it's weird It's cool though I won something

Four years of GGC and I win something from Manda Save it for the zoo I tried to keep track Of who all won from the crew But it ended up being like seven people So it's like if you won and you're in the discord Congratulations we lost track of who are but you you did it we did another one no now one that i do remember is big jen won uh the uh the the the the free photo shoot basically

or the you know the photographer she's gonna have to pay the extra hundred bucks or whatever to get her pictures taken up look hard live. Live easy. Two, 2024. I think they're calling it part two. I think Tanner's calling it part two, and then Dave's calling it 2024. So we'll see what the end title actually ends up being. But congratulations, Big Jen, on winning that. Hell yeah. Let's see.

And then what else we got? What is this? Bulk Barn. Is that anything? Is that you? Yeah yeah i added that because like like i've been like doom scrolling on tiktok and i think one of my favorite things to watch is americans experiencing bulk barn for the first time um i don't know what that is no so neither of you not a clue oh this is the best so in canada we have a place called the bulk barn and it is quite literally a place where you just go and buy everything in bulk quantity they got baggies reusable containers uh disposable containers but like

candy rice laundry detergent macaroni and cheese spices like spices peanut butter soap everything you can think of bulk barn carries and you go in and you just scoop it into a bag and you pay by weight based on the market price of this thing so i just i want to hear how many of the non-canadian crew out there have ever experienced bulk barn because watching americans utterly lose their mind in a place like bulk barn and it's like the prices are like cheaper or anything like that like a bag of m&ms is still a bag of m&ms yeah you get to control how many you get it just seems like work though like i mean i guess if you're like particular and i want a bag and a half,

not a bag. Like, I don't know. That seems like I gotta, gotta go in and like sanitation, like people coughing on everything. I get that. It's probably like,

everything's covered, but you're still open it up and reaching in with your hand and your hand could still be touching shit. Unless it's like the turn, the turn dial and stuff just comes out. Like that'd be all right. Now that my hand in there, the idea of bulk is it's in bulk, like that's yeah yeah i actually i kind of think

you'd enjoy it because it is you just get to dictate down to the very last ounce that's how much you're spending like a buffet for grocery shopping kind of plays in like i just want a little bit of this but i want a lot of that. Yeah, I go there a lot, mostly for candy, just because I don't eat a lot of candy, so I buy it in small increments. But yeah, I just would love to hear it from the rest of the Discord if you've ever heard of, or Google Bulk Barn and see it. But just watching it on TikTok,

Americans just be like, where am I? What is this? This is the greatest. Like, how big of a store is it? Is it like a huge Costco-side store? No, absolutely. No, let's go in between. like how big of a store is it is it like a huge like costco side store no absolutely yeah it'll be a gas station no uh let's go in between so it'll be usually be a retail space right it's not like there's not a lot of standalone bulk barns they're usually in like strip malls or something like that oh i've seen like health food health food stores like kind of have that same

thing right where you're scooping out and doing it but it's like very one one specific you know category of food or whatever right like not just general stuff yeah bulk buying is literally anything you can think anything you can even get vanilla beans uh they're dumb expensive but like you can get everything there saffron like one day i'll just do a video when i'm there just to send to to post in you and you and just be like this is what i'm talking about and i bet it blows everybody's mind and you can eat as much as you want before you before you check out and you were asked not to sample random follow-up you had mentioned strip malls and that got me thinking about like mall malls

and are malls dead in canada like they are in america like is that they've been like dying at this like dude i mean i guess i'm curious what's your take on malls in canada uh they're doing all right specifically the ones that make sense right like so i don't know if you guys have it down there i don't spend enough time down there so we have malls that are like destinations i think we have one of the biggest malls in canada out in i want to say alberta uh right it has like a whole indoor water park like it's like the biggest the mall in the world uh here in my town we have two one is called jackson square or the city center and it is a it's a dirt mall that's the there's literally a song called the dirt mall about this place

and then they have limeridge so like malls aren't dying um but they are constantly adapting okay um then go ahead i feel like it's like a lot of the ones around here it's just like everything is closing like all your big chains have been going out and like uh more recently like there's been like hospital like like like bigger hospitals have just been buying up spaces there for like outpatient shit and stuff and it's just like or or i mean at least that's the mall like the the one smaller mall near me uh but like there's still there's still a big thriving mall but it's i don't know if it's thriving yeah like still like it's the fancy mall and like the you know the rich suburb but i still don't know anyone that goes there what what's happening here a lot

is something called super centers uh and they are very pedestrian unfriendly um where everything is very big and far apart so if a mall does happen to close and get demolished they will build like a walmart and a grocery store and then the food court is like across the place and there's another small strip like even farther but there's no sidewalks there's no place to walk yeah we got that a lot of that yeah those i actually hate those because i think if you put those in the middle of an area where it is all accessible by bike and bus and walk and then suddenly it's like but don't go in there i hate i hate those places i think those are just not good for anybody. I think that their idea is to bring people in from outside of the community instead of rather than feed and help the community.

So I actually don't like those. But these places that are actual malls where you get to go and sit in a food court and you're inside and you get to go in there, those hopefully keep going a little bit. And strip malls are always going to be strip malls, just like one little row of buildings like you just go and there's your your rock and roll store your incense store and your bulk barn yeah i think out here like uh it's diverging right like the the regular mall uh by me is uh a lot of it's turning to housing right like kind of keith like you said like uh

stalls or housing taking up uh those are like your average or trashy malls and then but the ones they're doing well are like the high-end ones right the westfield like uh you know premium premium type uh stuff uh yeah those are doing pretty well. And that was Mall Talk. Mall Talk, man. Three countries, explain malls. That's pretty much it. Yeah, yeah. When we get the guest on the horn, we can ask him about UK malls, maybe,

a little bit later. Well, anything else you want to cover in general topics here before we get a little rating? Well, just speaking of GGC, big ups to big man.

Yeah. Big mad ass, former podcast guest, uh, and host winning, uh, one of the top males. That's pretty cool.

Good work to Matt. Yes. Congratulations. One of the mats. Sesame. I believe I'm assuming that's who we're talking about. Yes. Gotta be.

Yes. All be. Yes. Alright, so, relatively old segment here we got going. We're going to do a little rating of last week's episode. We've switched us over to Masonomics iPod Touches after retiring JD Powers. Just felt that it just was a little bland. It needed a little

spicing up, so now we do a little Masonomics iPod touches. So Big David, on a scale of 1 to 5, or 0 to 5 if you really didn't like it, what did you think about last week's episode, the Massanomics podcast, with Big Bama Burr, Stacey Burr? Yeah, so I didn't know anything about her. Not really a big powerlifting guy outside the knowledge that I've accrued by, by listening to the podcast. So, uh, but I did enjoy the rotisserie chicken talk. So just based on that, uh, I guess I'll give it, you know, mean media mode, uh, five touches. medium mode,

five iPod touches. Yeah. I love it. I love a good rotisserie chicken, but I'm with Stacey. I'll just eat a whole one and just absentmindedly just sit there and just suddenly there's no chicken left on that thing. Good talk.

Always down to Trash Texas. Yeah, Stacey was really funny. Kind of caught on right away. I enjoyed that. There was one part after she left that I think Tanner made Tommy full on laugh out loud. And for some reason, that caught me off guard. And I really enjoyed hearing that. Five. It's going to be five. it's going to be five iPod touches

nice I enjoyed it also I think I've heard a handful of podcasts that Stacy's done so I knew a fair amount of her and kind of follow her Instagram trajectory and seeing what she's kind of been doing after Powerlifting and dabbling in bodybuilding well pretty much not dabbling going like balls deep in bodybuilding,

you know, doing two shows in a year, just getting out of shit. So that was pretty cool. But I think my favorite segment was there at the end when, uh, Tanner was basically self-incriminating himself for not remembering something like not.

So the, he was talking about a Texas power bar and like the pins that hold them in place. And they're called roll pins. And like, I was one of the guys in my head going yeah you dumb fucker it's roll pins because he's literally like said it himself but it was just hysterical uh i really enjoyed that and the funny thing is it was the exact same night that we couldn't remember julius maddox's name because

we were like yeah the that guy that wants to bench 800 pounds i fucking met him like i'm just picturing this enormous man i was like why can why can't I think of his fucking name? So it was just funny because literally it would have been within the same half hour probably because they chose to record on our night for some reason last week, so I didn't get to listen to the live recording, you sons of bitches. That was just funny to me

that the similarities between our two episodes and that manner of us completely shitting the bed and remembering something that we actually know. It was just funny. So for all that, I'll go ahead and break out the five iPod touches.

Yeah, we'll give them five. It was exceptionally annoying because when we were talking about him, I pictured him because at the Arnold, I fucking cheersed him. We had a beer together, or at least a drink together. I don't know if he was drinking beer or not. I heard he was going to be the first

to break 800 and I was like, alright, cool. When we were talking about him, I knew him but I said TD Smash because he was also there at the Arnold with me because I spent most of my time at the Strength Co. booth and so my brain just was like couldn't tell the difference and then, yeah, of course it was fucking julius he's a big dude he's a really big dude

also we can't give shit to tanner for forgetting something like roll pins and let grayson get away with forgetting hannah's birth oh i've been having so much fun with that like like and in the fact that hannah's in crew now she joined the discord oh and i i called like that was something that like because someone asked me like who who do you want to see join discord and i was like oh hannah because she literally gave us the most in-depth fucking like uh questionnaire response of any human in history in this podcast so like her thoroughness needs to be appreciated uh but then grayson's lack of thoroughness of a fucking understanding a calendar and his fucking partner's birth date uh but hannah's hysterical hannah going

everybody wish grayson a happy birthday i want him to know because he forgot mine and we were all just like oh oh that was good and i think i i think i might have been the one who started that because i've i've been like uh if you've been a guest, you've noticed like I've I think I've friended pretty much anyone that I can find on Facebook. That's been a guest. I've tried to friend on Facebook. What the fuck is Facebook? I know. Right.

Like no one uses Facebook, but I've also I try to do it before the guest so I could do a little more deep diving research, which and then it helps. So so now I'm friends with like 20 crew members on Facebook that I wasn't before the podcast. And it's actually cool because I feel that they're they're they're more loyally liking my shit on Facebook that I wasn't before the podcast. And it's actually cool because I feel that they're more loyally liking my shit on Facebook than anyone else. But that's how I know, that's how I've seen a handful of birthdays. I wouldn't know that it was Nate's birthday a couple weeks ago or that it was Grayson's birthday last week. So then I'm able to share

that on Discord. And then if I hadn't done that, we wouldn't have fucking known about Grayson's complete fuck up. And it was hysterical. We've been busting his balls out of it for a week and Hannah's in on it. And it's been amazing. It's been my, literally my highlight of discord this past week and Instagram has all been

getting there too. We just got to get Tanner to put a, like a circle around Hannah's birthday on the next dash dashboard calendar. So no one can forget it. That's good. I actually, speaking of that, I hold Tanner that,

um, on the, uh, the 2024 lift, hardly That's good shit. Actually, speaking of that, I told Tanner that on the 2024 Lift Hard, Live Easy meet tee, it needs to have in memory of Brian J1008. Rest in peace. Still trying to get him. So somebody sent him a message inviting him to the Lift Hard live easy and he was he responded so we're just waiting on that answer i think that's going to be the that's one of the greatest long-running um like what do you call it it's like not a clean joke but like it's like a little bit of bullying, but only in a funny way. We're not making fun of him for him, but he just said something silly, and we just all have latched onto it.

It's honestly one of the funniest things that's happened, I think, this year. Well, it's nice when we can put our energy towards people outside of crew and not bust balls of bust balls too hard inside a crew and you know because there's there's enough that we all bust balls hard but it's kind of cool we can see a hundred people have the same agenda rather than like everyone just kind of nitpicking at each other it's kind of fun to like be like oh let's fucking

amass our crew and attack someone in a gently playful way yeah it's like there's got to be like a there's probably an anime scene or something it's just like somebody does one thing and suddenly everybody's not paying attention then they're all paying attention and they're like oh now that's our focus that's kind of what happened there and it's it's still great yeah well speaking of pay attention uh i want everyone to go ahead and just pay attention here for our upcoming segment. We've got a big Mr. David.

One of the Davids here has a special ad read he wants to read for us. And the floor is his. Yeah, so this is a really special ad read because I absolutely just made this up myself. I did not rely on any type of AI learning model for this. So, yeah. of AI learning model for this. So, yeah. Are you tired of the same old lifting podcasts lacking humor and personality?

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If you turn that in as like, yeah, you know, a, a homework assignment. Yeah. Well, is it time to get the,

uh, kick all these lucky lures out and get the guest on the horn? Joey. Oh, are there any lucky lose? I, I, I,

you know, if anyone's asking yet, we, we have 17 people listening live right now. We're about to kick them all out. You know, like, like as Tommy does, we're about to kick them all out you know like as Tommy does we're going to rate them as pedophiles and you know get them in trouble with fucking Zoom

alright that's twice today Big David is that you? me? how you doing guys? can we swear on this thing? well you can say jizz and pedophile apparently

that's a call back to the lives that you don't Well, you can say jizz and pedophile, apparently. That's a callback to the lives that you must not have. It was literally said the other day. No, I know. I know. What, am I going to not tease you? Well, just because Tommy said it. If I teased you as much as you teased me, your feelings would be more hurt.

My big brother said it. I have no brothers in the Masononomics i only have sisters all right big david first question yep first question what brings you to massonomics brings me to massonomics so yeah this is i have to think pretty hard about this i think what brings brings me to Masonomics is the algorithm. I like to complain about the algorithm, but somehow, I don't know whether it was through researching starting strength or trying to build my own deadlifting platform back in 2020 peak. Can't go anywhere. my own deadlifting platform back in, you know, 2020 peak, peak, can't go anywhere. Time,

gyms are shut, but somehow I found some massonomics content and, uh, and yeah, uh, since that first order back in June, 2020, the original lift short.

So listen to all the episodes and yeah, all the UNU episodes, as well as, you you know being relatively active in discord and having a meme account having a meme account kind of a kind of a lurker right yeah having a meme account so i can uh hide behind that to some degree. Not anymore. Not anymore. If we're talking timeline, I guess I only started lifting because of

COVID. I think because I was researching how to squat, how to deadlift, how to bench, right. All those things. Like I was just doing a ton of, ton of YouTube and Instagram, uh, research. Uh, and yeah, like I said, like through, I guess I found starting strength somehow and then i don't know if it was because of the i wonder if like the rip uh those guys were on the starting strength podcast yeah yeah sometime around there they were on riptoe's podcast with their what was it dog or piss yellow or dog shit yellow shirts yeah yeah uh so yeah somehow i found them yeah haven't looked back that's awesome yeah i kind of deep was

deep driving your instagram and like yeah like 2021 you started you know repping their shit pretty pretty uh regularly yeah yeah so i kind of built uh built the superior garage gym uh in 2020 uh kind of self self uh self-taught i guess because i couldn't go go and see anyone right gyms were closed uh yes i had to just kind of learn learn shit confession my first my first uh deadlift setup was using uh 50 pound gravel bags gravel i know is a yes hot topic uh i'm i'm reformed right i'm going to the meetings i'm now purely on sandbags so you're good you're good what are you using as a way like like you you like randomly had a barbell and actually just bought the sand but you had the gravel bags just wait were you using as a, like, like you, you like randomly had a barbell and actually just bought the sandbag. You had the gravel bags as weight or you just had a big fucking stick or something.

I think I posted this on my Instagram when, when there was this, you know, post your COVID lifting or your first, your first gym equipment or something. or something uh but yeah i'd like started this program this like uh i don't know like boot camp crossfit i guess style program uh in early 2020 and then when everything closed i was having to make it home right so i got like a wooden dowel and gravel bags and a bunch of stuff eventually i got you know an actual barbell and actual plates and deadlift platform and eventually i got a squat rack but yeah i was just making do those first first uh couple months um yeah yeah that was 2020 and then in later in 2021 that's when I started Strongman found a local Strongman Strongman Saturday group I've been doing some stuff at home but

I found like podcast adjacent content right starting string right yeah did some Strongman comps in 2022 went to comps in 2022

went to nationals in 2022 now I'm broken and injured and rehabbing stuff oh buddy that's not good anything specific or just all over just low back stuff yeah

heavy yokes and deadlifts. Yeah. Just got to really back in and build it back up slowly. Yeah. Yeah. So squatting and deadlifting. It's probably just because you stopped using gravel.

Could be. Yeah. It's definitely the sand that did that. Cause my back is fine. Well, I have my, I have my integrity. All right. So, uh, is fine well i have my i have my integrity all right so uh i just get it out of the way where are you calling us from uh so i'm in california i've been in california for uh about seven and a half years as you can

tell from the you know silky smooth accent that is not that is not where I'm originally from. That's not a Californian sound? I've never hung out with anyone in California on a podcast. Didn't you watch the clip I posted of the Californians? Yeah. And where's the accent from? Because obviously everybody bothers you about the accent.

Yeah. I guess i should go least specific to most specific uh and even i mess this up great britain no british isles great britain united kingdom england to harken back to the par par episode like daneland like how specific are you gonna get there england yeah oxford oxford to be more even more specific that's an oxford so that's is that southern no that's not southern you you definitely don't have it's like uh it's like central i guess it's like right in the middle yeah uh of the at least middle of the southern part. If you're from England, you'd probably say southern.

Southern accent, but maybe more midlands. Midland? So Midwest? Midwest England. Midwest England, yeah. Midwest Europe. California's Midwest, right? It's in the middle of the West.

Yeah, I'm kind of Southeast... Well, my Southeast Western Northern California. It's a picture. So that's just going to get all of the British jokes out of the way that we're going to make at some point I'm sure there's gonna be there's gonna be many coming up

what uh well just in general you know like what brought you to America I guess like what was uh you know you're if you're 38 and you've only you know you said uh maybe over seven years so you literally you know from birth to 30 ish you were not America. So what brought you to America as a 30-year-old? Yeah, I mean work, a work opportunity. The company I was working at in the UK was acquired by an American company. Yeah, and that was an opportunity. And this was pre-kids, pre-marriage, actually. So yeah, me and my wife said,

if we don't do this now and we have kids in a couple of years, we're never going to do it right once we have kids. So let's take this opportunity. Gotcha. So you and your wife are both British, and then your kids are now American citizens? Yeah. Yeah. They were born here.

I guess they're dual, dual citizens. They have two passports, but yeah, they're American. What are their accents like? Uh, interesting.

Cause, uh, cause until they go to school, they're pretty, you know, they basically share our accent, right? They're mostly interacting with us

they're they're under five then i guess it sounds like yeah my oldest is five um so when she started going to school even a little bit preschool she would pick up some you know some hard r's and some some uh americanisms i guess but then mostly when she's around us she she kind of switches back right kids are kids are adaptable. They, they, they switch back and forth. They're like sponges, right? They're just absorbing what's around them. So yeah, they're pretty, pretty adaptable. But yeah, she, uh, uh, definitely hard because she's in school five days a week. She's, uh,

she's sounding a lot more American than she used to. Yeah. But is she spelling everything wrong? Like Americans do? She is. And I'm resigned even to spelling things wrong. My spell check is in American English. Fuck, so is mine. It's the worst.

I've had to train it. Yeah. Yeah. I like my U's. Yeah, you sure you want to put a U in color? Shut up, Siri. Of course I do. Yep. you want to put a you in color and shut up siri of course i do yep sorry we're just checking notes here that is there's a lot of this that happens like we just kind of just like both of us zone out for a second it's like nothing uh resonates

into the next one so so being here for seven years if you guys uh you're it's just you your wife and your kids and i mean to know no family over here yet so that's that's gonna be tough so when you guys like you know want to go home for the holidays can you even like justify going once a year or is that kind of like every couple years you kind of make the flight home that's gonna be like literal thousands of thousands of dollars to take a family across the ocean i'd imagine right yeah you it feels like uh used to be manageable and we used to uh pre-covid we we went back probably two times a year right like a summer and a winter trip but i guess with everything going on you know the the flight prices have definitely gone up that's definitely true so yeah

uh definitely raining it back to once a year now yeah yeah once a year it's uh once a year is enough yeah it's really tough with kids and you couldn't have got farther than california yeah yeah like florida might have made sense like it's a bit of a lighter smaller flight but no we're gonna go yeah how exactly far away can we get before flying over the top of the world makes more sense? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah, 11 hours. Oh, fuck that. It's a long way. Makes the flight to western, northeast South Dakota seem short by comparison. So, silver lining. Nice. So, I got a random question here. So, what's your

take on the office versus the British office? Do I have my druthers? Yeah. We could go pretty late. So, you're like two-minute cap. Two-minute cap, okay.

Okay. Okay. So you probably noticed in the discord, I, I, I'll try and shoehorn a us office reference in anytime, anytime I can. I think, I think it must be a David thing. Cause I felt like,

I feel like a big other. David does exactly the same thing. He has some good offer office references. I'm still not sure if there's more than one David. I'm honestly not you know i have not confirmed there's more than one david yeah that would be interesting if i showed up again right next uh on the next david episode yeah we do have another david scheduled in a couple weeks i'm curious if it's one of your burner accounts would be so in the way but you've never seen us both in the same room right same time uh yeah so so when when the british office came out and i was uh was it like 15 i used to work in like a it's like a menards equivalent it sounds like and me and a couple of others would

like quote that quote that thing all the time right pre-internet pre-memes you know all you do is quote quote stuff to your friends from memory uh so i used to love that and when the u.s office first came out i did not i did not like it right like i said it's not as good it's you know it's like a i don't know a dumbing down of the british version which was really short, right? It had six episodes, six episodes, and then two Christmas specials, I think. So you could binge that thing in like, you know, six 30-minute episodes, right? So you could binge that thing in a day easy. But it was kind of like groundbreaking, I guess, right? That kind of mockumentary style was, you know, definitely not the first to do it, but it did it really well uh but then when i not even when i moved to the us but certainly

when i started working a lot over here traveling to work over here i kind of i started watching it more and i got the i got the concepts and some of the some of the references that i didn't get before and and yeah now i now i it, but they're very different, very different, uh, shows, right? Like one is really short and maybe,

um, you know, the British office is kind of really short and, and kind of like, uh, you know, critically good. But if I'm going to put something on the background,

uh, and, and watch it over and over, right. I'm going to, you know, 200 episodes of the U Ss office uh yeah they're great but they're very different very different i've well i've seen actually a play-by-play of

the first episodes of each and those were almost the same yeah i think that's the mistake that that a lot of people make right that first season of the u.s office is they tried to do like a shot for shot remake yeah of the of the british one and it wasn't uh it didn't translate as soon as they started making into its own thing and making the characters into their own things instead of a copy uh then it got better so yeah season one you know wasn't good. Season two and three were probably the best, and then it tails off, right, the quality. Yeah. Especially after Steve Carell left.

Yeah, and then... What's your... I know you're not a big Will Ferrell guy, right, Keith? No, I'm not. What about Steve Carell over under? Give me Ricky Gervais over Steve Carell 100% of the time, every day, all day. What? That's a hot take.

Yeah, yeah. Name three shows Ricky Gervais over Steve Carell 100% of the time. Every day, all day. What? It's a hot take. Yeah, yeah. Name three shows Ricky Gervais has been in. I can't name fucking two that Steve Carell's been in. I can name two that I could. So Steve Carell or fucking Ricky Gervais. The really depressing one that's on Netflix. I can't think of the fuck's the name of it. Where his wife died.

What the fuck is the name of that? I watch it. I literally am up to date on it. I just can't think of the name of it. I know died. I forget the name of that. I watch, I literally, I'm up to date on it. I just can't think of the name of it, but I know what you're talking about. Something about life, something like,

yeah, after life. I think it is after life. That's a fucking, like you'll laugh and cry. Honestly, it's just like last week's episode. You're fucking laughing.

You're crying. Yeah, that's good. That's good. I just, I don't, I don't like Steve Carell. Honestly,

I do not like Michael Scott as a character. He's the worst part of the show, and that's going to get me roasted and I'll be the hot take of the night. But he is the worst part of the fucking show, in my opinion. Yeah, I'll have your back on that one. Actually, I just don't watch The Office. It's too much cringe humor, and I'm not into that. The mockumentary thing in general i've just never really enjoyed like when they're interviewing them off to the side like why what is ultimately

what is this documentary for i just never understood it like at least spinal tap made sense because it's like we're making a movie about our band but then suddenly it's like no we are suddenly interviewing all of these weirdos in scranton and like they're important people and we're gonna do it for like nine fucking seasons and it's just there's just a limit to my suspension of disbelief of watching that kind of comedy but again yeah i mean keith are the bad guys because we say things like that i just don't i don't get it i understand why other people get it. Because Parks and Rec can make me laugh. I love Parks and Rec. Parks and Rec is so superior to The Office. Aspects of that will make me laugh. But The Office, the cold open will make me laugh. And then I won't laugh again for the entire episode.

entire episode. Yeah, I can see that perspective. I think I'm more of a nose-breath guy. I like the cringe humor. I like a little nose-breath rather than a full-on lol or haha. Yeah.

But I can see that perspective. When it comes to Shorzy and Letterkenny, I will full-on belly laugh i'll have to pause it because i'm laughing so hard that's funny quality fuck even super troopers gets me like that sometimes still yeah i think the mockumentary style it's like uh you know it's like a a reaction to the to the laughter track sitcom traditional style right the friends and the three camera yeah yeah like the things that were popular in the mid late 90s or even you know much much

before right so it's just like uh a rebellion right against the status quo i guess of of comedies right uh you get those things that you know the challenge that challenge the status quo, right? Yeah, I like them. I like Borat and maybe Bruno to a lesser extent. Yeah, good example. Well, speaking of Bruno, I do want to give a quick update. We had planned to have Big Matt on for a special little segment. You and him were going to talk about Strongman.

I wanted to give him a little platform. I know you guys are both doing Strongman buffs. But once he kind of realized where you were from, he said that he had to go ahead and just decline just because of your heritage specifically. And he really wanted me to sell that to you. So sorry, he will not be joining us tonight. He was worried you were going to tax his tea for some reason. In 2023, not be joining us tonight he was worried you're gonna

tax his tea for some reason in 2023 that's still a thing he's worried about yeah yeah we we love to tax we love to tax um i'm glad i'm glad you uh associate him with bruno and not not borat so that's good i think he's gonna enjoy that i've never seen it either, so I don't know. Do I look like a... After listening to the way I talk about movies, those seem like movies I would watch. They are not. I'm thinking of the trailers. Isn't Bruno the one

that came afterwards? Bruno came after, yeah. There's a big difference. I know the Borat character is just the douche. There's full frontal man or nudity in both. That's good. After staying at the same hotel with Matt, I already got that.

I don't need that again. Yeah. You should watch them both and give us your birthday. Okay, I'm back. I'm going to guess. I'd say I'd probably give it a three and a four at best so i think i'll pass that comment fucking broke me i had to mute my microphone i was laughing so hard i think i will pick it up oh that's good because he's trying so hard to be

borat and then to just pull out that i'm glad you started with bruno which is the gayest character in the world oh so it was a it was a unbeknownst chirp that makes me even happier it was an indirect and Dave caught it Dave caught it and slightly just just like just took the shank

and broke the blade off that's good stuff that makes me happy I have been every the last couple days I have been, every, the last couple of days, I've been trying to respond to anything he says with the, the zebra emoji, just because his pants. And I don't,

I don't know if he's, he enjoys that or not, but I'm hoping it's supposed to be a dig, but if it's not coming off as a dig, it's not really worth it, but I don't know. Zebra or zebra, Joey?

So interestingly, it's zebra, but sometimes I'll say zebra to mess with people oh okay i might remember didn't i never got that yeah i i do i think we've already stopped i just say things weird just to mess with humans right like zebra is one of those ones where i'll just say it and my son will go like why like it's zebra and i'm like no it's zebra yeah i tried to teach my i tried not to use uh too much of the the british english with my kids so that they're not like uh what's that character in south park the british kid that gets bullied like pip or something i remember that so yeah so they're not like the british kid that gets bullied like pip or something i remember that so yeah so they're

not like the british kid in the american school that's getting bullied for the way they talk because they say zebra and zed and stuff yeah i guess but here in canada no it's still the same half the canadians want to be americans here anyway so okay this is a fun one so you were rock climbing in corsica and i think this is a paul floss kind of story is it lost story maybe uh that was like i don, 2010. I'm pretty far back. It's probably when I was most active on Facebook, at least. Yeah. So prior to getting to strongman and moving rocks relative to myself, I moved myself relative to rocks.

Right. It's all about perspective. So, yeah, I was I was into rock climbing kind of uh in my teens and even uh yeah late 20s yeah i did some fun fun trips uh memorable trips but yeah not in the last uh that was yeah was that 13 years ago and probably 60 pounds ago yeah yeah until uh well interestingly until i moved to the u.s i was it's pretty lean that's pretty light something about moving to the u.s made me gain weight i don't know shock um but most specifically it says to ask you about your pooping story that happened while you were rock climbing in Corsica. And then also, you have a ton of fun pooping stories.

Yes. And that we haven't had enough of these since Tyler left. I had three people to ask me to ask about your pooping stories. Legitimate. Oh, man. So I know the Corsica one. I can't think of any others, but I'll do the Corsica one and see if something flashes back. Try and stop short of gag-worthy.

It's not gag-worthy. I mean, it's gag-worthy for me, but yeah, it's not disgusting. So Corsica is like an island off of France, right? So we go to this island, right? It's not a small island, right? But not a lot of people around. We get up really early to get to this really cool rock climbing

location, right? We have to drive there at, I don't know, 6am or something. We start walking up to the start of the rock climb which is maybe, I don't know, it takes us 20 minutes or 30 minutes

it's not a short walk still early in the morning no one around, haven't seen anyone all day and we get to the base of the rock and we're ready to start we go year out first thing in the morning I I've had some coffee. I got to poop.

Right. But we're on the side of this side of this mountain and it's really just like a fire road. Right. There's no there's no sides. Right. It's either rock on one side or a sheer drop on the other side. And it's just a fire road going up the mountain. So I like I like think, where am I going to poop? so i like walk 100 yards up of the way still haven't seen anyone

and there's just nowhere to poop right there's like a foot a foot of grass either side of this fire road i haven't seen anyone you know okay i'm just gonna i'm just gonna squat down you know walk away from my my group and and you know find a piece of grass to poop in uh going to squat down, you know, walk away from my, my group and, and, you know, find a piece of grass to poop in. Uh, you know, squat down, you know, things are, things are starting, things are moving. Uh, and of course then, you know, it's a group of large group of hikers come by probably German. Let's say the German for the sake of sake of the story. And I'm made, I'm made poop, right? There's no going back.

I can't suck that thing back up inside and pretend I was just looking at grass or something. I just got to keep pooping, right? And there's nowhere to hide. So yeah, this group of, I don't know, I forget, I can embellish, right? So let's say it was 30 people. I don't know.

It's a long time ago. But I'm just making eye contact with them. Absolutely. Yeah. No, nowhere to hide. What can I do? Just yell Scheisser and hope they run faster. Once you started, there's not really any stopping midstream.

Yeah. That's my Corsica poop story. and they just proceeded to walk by you and kind of they just want i mean bust your balls or yeah no they just dirty just dirty looks i mean if they were german they probably probably used to that kind of thing right that's a big thing just everybody poops relax even my kids know that i was waiting for him to say that he like was like so close to the edge of the shit off the edge and i'm like that know that i was waiting for him to say that he like was like so close to the edge that he shit off the edge and i'm like that's what i was hoping happened yeah he's like i wanted to hide so i just held myself over the edge and no it's just just not seeing anyone the whole time

soon as soon as things start moving right that's when a ton of people show up uh and yeah just me making contact and just having nowhere to go eye contact just keep going that was it's fun fun time yeah that was that was gross i'm glad we heard that i enjoyed it i'm glad your friend and your wife both wanted us to know that specifically um but one of them i can't remember was your wife or your friend specifically said like multiple poo stories so that is hysterical that your friends or your friends or your partners see that you have multiple poo stories and you're just drawing a blank so i'm very curious uh yeah that's that is kind of amusing now you have to ask them about your poop stories which is not awkward at all i did uh i was scouring your facebook a little bit i saw

some pictures from your uh for your mountain climbing trip thankfully you didn't post yourself shitting but you did post yourself actually no sorry this was after one of your bike rides where you took a big fucking dive and you like one of your pictures is literally just like your ass just completely bruised up that had to hurt from what i saw that's not i would not want to bruise there yeah that was in my uh road cycling like triathlon uh era i guess that was uh when was that that was probably after rock climbing yeah uh see i used to used to run and reluctantly swim and and uh and bike a lot and that specific time i remember uh it was it was january so it's january in the in the uk and i went around this corner and there's some ice on the corner probably some or some diesel or something right something

it wasn't shit but it could have been shit uh and yeah just wiped out uh had had some some road rash on the butt and i guess i was young enough to just post that to facebook and yes and removed it yeah it is still there uh like 17 years later i believe or whatever there we go 2008 or something uh speaking of Speaking of spinning out, as someone from the UK, I'm just going to, is UK the proper, if I just say UK, is that proper? Or should I say? Yeah. Okay, so as someone from UK, like in America,

there are some different takes on what they call, you know, taking your car and driving in a circle really, really fast and spinning the tires. I call it a donut. Tanner calls it whipping a shitty. I think it's of a midwest thing they call it whipping shitties because no one that i know and no one that i've ever grown up with or lived around has even heard of whipping a shitty is give me your take on whipping shitties donuts or what are you guys calling over there where you're from where you were yes it's donuts i've never i've never heard

of never heard of whipping shitties i mean i guess maybe you guys spelled donut d-o-n-u-t right like we spell it d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t right had all those extra letters in for no reason so yeah that's the only difference yeah it's donuts i've never heard of whipping shitties before that yeah same and that but they seem to think it's the full podcast. Same. But they seem to think it's a very... I mean, I think I said it once in a conversation now, just to see if I could catch anyone, and they were like, wait, what? And I was like, yeah, that's something I heard someone say,

but yeah, I meant donut. And they're like, oh yeah, I did. Yes, I know what you mean. So it's good to know. Good to know. So triathlons biking is there anything that is there anything you've kind of gotten to and like didn't go all all in on like any of your like athletic hobbies or anything you kind of dabbled with and just like yeah i did this for a month it sucked i'm done because it seems like you've kind of went pretty hard on everything you've done

yeah i guess i'm not very good at everything i've done but yeah you're right i kind of uh gone hard like if i get into something me me and my friend joke like if i get into something like i buy all the equipment right like i buy all the shit once i've got everything i stop doing it right like i buy a nice bike i get all the stuff right uh and then once i go all the stuff i'm like uh actually i'm gonna try something else yeah well we did it we got everything we needed yeah i'm trying not to do that with with lifting and strongman and maybe even powerlifting uh one day but yeah we're only we're only about three years in so still time still time to change again how was

moving as far as like the logistics of i mean so i guess you were 30 you were you were married but you didn't have kids but you had to have did you guys have a house or were you renting like how was uh how much yeah you bring over here and how much shit did you just have to let go of and like what you have to rebuy like i just i couldn't imagine moving that far away and being like i have to fly or or fucking like barge or you know on a ship and do a shipping container if i want any of this shit to come with me yeah that was like part of the reason why we we did it right we um you know took the opportunity when we could when we were 30 because we we we had a house uh we owned a house uh but we didn't have a ton of stuff that we were attached to so so we came over here with um i think like six six suitcases right we got extra

baggage but but that was it right it was just clothes clothes and don't spray it um yeah we stole a lot of stuff and eventually we sold, sold the house when we, when we bought a house here in California. So, so yeah, we, in terms of stuff, we started again.

Yeah. Complete, complete redo. That'd be kind of, that'd be kind of nice. Like, cause I have so much, like I moved when I was,

I think I moved when I was like, I basically, yeah, yeah. We, we moved, I moved, I lived in an apartment for a few years and then we moved in, we've

been here for like 12 years. So like, I've still have shit. I still have a couple of things in boxes that I don't think I've ever like touched, but like, it's like a, it's like a memorabilia box that like my mom gave me fucking when I moved out of the house and it's like, I can't throw any of that away or I can throw some of it away, but like, I like just random shit like that, but like, I wish I could get rid of this, but it's like memories and all that. But stuff like that is still, still in England with various family members have

a box or two, some crap you don't actually need, but you also can't get rid of for whatever reason. I think everyone's got some of those, yeah. Yeah, I like to get rid of stuff. I like to purge. Me too. I just toss everything. My wife hates it.

If it's been on the floor for more than two days, it's garbage. Yeah. That's my rule. Things you own end up owning you, right? Yep. If you can step over it more than a couple times, then it must not be important. I'm throwing it out. And it's actually the worst.

She hates it so much. I was like, what's that? Your wallet? Pick it up or I'm throwing it out and it's it's actually the worst she hates it so much i was like what's that your your wallet pick it up or i'm throwing it like i'm such a that's how i am every time we move to i just toss so much shit so you gotta be well speaking of things you no longer have what's one thing you you wish you you know you could have had what's the one piece of Mastermind merch that you didn't get a chance to buy? Ooh, that's a good one. I didn't think about this one. It's the first time we've ever asked it. I especially came up with it for

one of the Davids. Yeah. I guess for completeness, lift shorts too, right? I have lift shorts 1, I have blue shorts too, right? I have, uh, I have lift shorts one, a blue lift shorts, I have deadlifter shorts,

I have, uh, uh, I have lift shorts three. I even have a special set of lift shorts three. One of the early samples, uh, I got for,

uh, 10, 10 I sent me, but yeah, no lift shorts too. Who was that? What was his name? No,

just the way you said it. Oh, I heard it. Did you say Tanner? No, no, no, no.

Well, that's a, that's a bit, we've kind of let go almost. Uh, did you say Tanner? Like, was,

was it, was it, did I, did I hear that right? I said Tanner. Okay. I just, now I'm,

now I'm, uh, overly pronouncing it. I'm overthinking it. i could have now now okay so i know uk and fucking ireland are not the same locations but oh here we go is tanner a name over there that was a good face that was a good face no no tanner well tanner's not a name uh or it wasn't a name for me that is a fucking tenor's not a name tenor's not a name yeah it's gonna be a story

maybe it's not like i don't know maybe maybe in 2023 people are naming their kids all sorts of crazy stuff uh but yeah tenor's not a name in the uk it's funny i saw again this random tiktok and i meant to send it to the guys and it was just like um like the whitest names you've ever heard and the one guy was like tanner and he's like but every tanner i've ever met is fucking jacked like you've never met a small tanner they're all giant buff dudes and then i was like i've only ever met two and yeah like yeah i can't think of another one i've met yeah so so like it is in the notes here uh and you've already kind of brought it up the pronunciation differences oh um what are some of your favorites because i know i've seen some of your favorites? Because I know I've seen

some of your memes where you kind of poke at us here. What are some of your favorites? The differences between how I, you, or Keith would say things. That's a good one. Well, I mask this, but

Garage, Garage Gym, in England, at least where I'm from, we'd say garage. Yeah, that's way fucking out there. Yeah, it's like I-D-G-E or something. Garage. It's like porridge. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Garage, garage.

No, and that makes sense. Because garage, there's a movie up here. I don't know if you, you probably haven't seen it. It's called Good Cop, Bond Cop. And the one French guy, he says, like, the word tattoo, it has three T's, one a and two o's but we in like english for some reason focus on the a it's a tattoo and so he's like he's constantly mocking them they're like oh yeah i guess it's this person tattoo because it's tattoo like there's so many other letters in it so i can

see how garage would make sense because like why are you focusing on that one last a fucking g and there's so many other more prominent letters in there that makes sense to me is there any other ones uh pronunciation yeah i feel like i i feel like i've uh uh i've learned learned to say it wrong so much that I've lost my identity. Yeah, I can't think of any off the top. That's the big one, right? That's the Masonomics adjacent one, right? That's funny because somebody told me to bring that up too. Somebody said to make sure we bring up your pronunciation in UK versus US.

No, that's fine. Syracote. Syracote-y. Yeah, I never heard that before. I saw it written down a lot of times, and I thought Syracote or something. But yeah, it makes more sense when you actually think about it. Uh, how most people say it.

That's funny that we've covered that one a lot. So I, I think I get an F for podcast, uh, preparation. Cause I did not know that you ran that meme account somehow, even though the fucking, the profile picture is your other profile picture.

How did I fucking miss that? Like, Hey, I did something. I was fucking spending like hours putting this shit together and like scrolling through your goddamn facebook and instagram where you only have like 20 posts but you literally have like 20 instagram posts there's like i couldn't get anything from it and then you have this fucking meme account that i didn't piece together with you you fuck so yeah yeah i was gonna say like i dropped the ball on that one

that thing rips us apart all the time i found found out who I was as soon as I could. I interact with it. Yeah, that's on me. There's so many goddamn name accounts, and there's so many goddamn people that have, like, Instagrams that aren't their names, and I'm trying to keep track of everybody. And it's like, especially with the influx this last couple weeks of people trying to get on the lift hard, live easy. There's just been, like, you know, that's why I put that up on Instagram, too. I was like, if your crew, like, let me know, like, I don't if we only have one or two mutuals

I'm probably not going to follow you back. Like especially if it's like one specific person because you're just like I'm sorry, but I'm not going to follow back like a previous guest, like friend that gave me information because then I was like, I don't, I don't know. I just want, I don't want to follow this crew specifically. So yeah, there's probably some crew out there that, you know,

follow us and I didn't get a chance to follow them back because I just didn't have enough mutuals so if that's you let me know it is really weird and you know because Dave's on it I guess you've already heard me talk about it it's weird to be a meme it's kind of

genuinely weird to open Instagram get a tag and see your face I love it it's it is it's hilarious and but it's like i think morgan said to me the other day she's like is that where you thought you would end up when you like kind of joined massonomics i was like no not at all but like it's great it's fun i'm glad people are paying attention because like we do this for the whole crew right so it is really fun but you are responsible for some of that the fuck am i looking at now i always i always get a kick out of it's like the most random shit

that people like pick up on and like like like like the threads that they pull of like one offhanded thing you say and i'm like yeah the threads that they pull of like one offhanded thing you say and i'm like yeah it's kind of funny but i did like i don't even remember saying that like there's been ones that i'm like i really gotta remember what's that like uh it's like a compulsion right like you hear something it triggers this thought this would be a great meme and and like most of the time i have to do it like immediately right i can't even like make a note of it and do it later because it wouldn't be as funny i have to make that meme immediately i've done that on this podcast yeah right like i've i've heard something i've been like just everybody shut up

i'm making something like yeah uh yeah it's really hard you just gotta you just gotta get it out scratch that itch. Yeah, I make, like, I don't know, a couple memes a week at most, and I don't know how some guys, like, blow out a couple a day. That's a bit much for me. I'm too busy. I'm too tired. So, like, podcast memes are one thing. Gym memes are easy.

Here's what you got to do. Get CapCut, find whatever little template is working and then just make the same meme but it's like change the wording slightly and that's just what i've noticed i almost made a meme about it last week but it's just like um like whenever a trending template is working here's all of the gym memes coming to say the same thing in slightly different words yeah yeah or just copy massonomics yeah it's a bit like it's a bit like podcasts i guess right like it's easy it's easy to do it when you have an idea right i've been trying to do one every day and that's really hard right like

it's it's hard to be consistent. Like, you guys doing it every week and the guys, you know, much more, much further ahead, right? Actually having the motivation and a couple episodes. Yeah. I mean, we're on episode 82. We're fucking right there.

You know, we're right behind them. Yeah. We don't have as much money behind us as they do so we're doing our best with our little budget i don't even post on instagram once a week i saw that the other day i said to morgan i was like i haven't posted in a week and a half how do i still have any followers like i don't understand and that's when i posted the rocklift thing but like to do once or twice a day like Tanner does or once a day like you do,

who's got the time? I don't. I got four accounts. It sucks. You've got one and maybe two and a half accounts. True. I got a couple. I got three and a half, maybe.

I do like how the transition of me running unpaid and underrated to you fully running it and me never looking at it. You're allowed to help, buddy. Feel free to tag and jump back in at any point. I know, but every time I do, I'm just like, no shit, he's going to want to see that message. I don't want to leave it on the ground.

The message is hard. That's what's tricky. It's like, one person almost needs to do the messaging and then they have like like just get on and post stories and like reels and post but like doing the messaging is tricky because i coordinate i do the i'd like schedule a lot of shit through that so if you see it and then it goes unseen to me that's why i was i was initially only that's what i'm nervous about personal yeah i mean i can go back to scheduling solely for my personal. And if you wanted to, like, tag, jump back in.

Because I got nothing but fucking, yes, share the duties more. I would be down with that. For the next two weeks, no. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm working 10-hour shifts, staring at a computer screen, not my phone. But, yeah, going further. I'm just going to start reposting uh you know david's memes and you know

do it you know slightly changing them you know he's one of our unpaid one of our unpaid interns are my uh now i guess when i just post a picture of like the guest with the host and like put our faces in people still find that funny like i'm gonna keep doing it like no matter what if they do or not but like is it old yet like i don't know what else i can do like jen's was really funny it's relevant oh yeah because like i got yeah that's maybe maybe that's what i'll do i might kind of like get away i mean it it's cool when i can like you know tag the the sister podcast and all of it too but getting like deep dive in jen's facebook or actually it was jen's husband's facebook because i had a message it was funny jen uh like the three or four people she had me message was all Facebook

messenger. It was actually, I think the first time I talked to someone on Facebook messenger for the podcast and it was like everyone. Uh, and then like, I was able to link to her, her husband's profile and I was like, all right, let's pick, find pictures of Jen, like 2011. It was like, you know, and I, so I, I made an initial one that I shared just with Joey and, uh, Nate and I, uh, group chat and she, and an initial one that i shared just with uh joey and uh nate and i uh group chat and she and then and then i shared it with jen and i was like can i post this and she was like i i hate how i look in that and then like she found me a different one and then i had to make i made it again and the one she found was actually better because it was just like it was

just the the the the face that i put my the body that put my face on was like more like obvious a child it was just really funny so so for the next one just put my, the body that put my face on was like more like obvious. The child was just really funny. So for the next one, just put David's face on Jen's face in that same photo and repost. Yeah. We'll have to do that. Yeah. But it's like a layer of funny,

like to me, that would be David can do that for me. And then I'll repost it. I like that. So have you guys noticed that Ryan's here? I, I don't have zoo. I only have our screens our screens up i don't i have to like go really deep down let's get him on yeah one of the one of the ryan's has been like i want to ask how his injuries are going i don't know he's been here for like half an hour of this yeah i'm curious if he just like

opens it up and like because usually right now because i was talking to him if he was paying attention he would text something the fact that he hasn't texted something i want to say it's it's idle or it's like it'd be funny if like the phone's across the room and he's listening to it in his headphones and he can't get to it and he's like he's he's he's running over to his phone and he actually falls and hurts himself or he's pooping yeah he's probably uh cleaning up his garage, right? He fucking better be. That gave me anxiety, those pictures. It made me fucking want to hurl.

I was like, oh my god, that's a gym. Get the shit out of there. What the fuck? Stop. Use it. David, your deadlift platform. Gym or garage or basement? Garage. Yeah, he got that in in the beginning as a little dig at me, you fucker.

But do you have, in California, is basements even a thing, though? No. Yeah, so it's a mood at that point, you know. It's a non-starter. You gotta have what you gotta have. That's funny. I've been to California and that never occurred to me.

There's a lot of, like, I have friends in the Midwest that never occurred to me. There's a lot of like, like I, like I have friends in the Midwest that like don't have basements. So like they basically like, do you mean like a tornado shelter? And I'm like, no, like a basement.

And they're like, well, I have like this little four foot thing, but it's not like a real, I can't do anything with it. No, not that like a literal basement. So they're just not common in a lot of places.

It's just strange to me because I've, I've never not had a base. I've never lived in a house without a basement like in my entire life yeah even in the UK they're not common right some era I guess have them or some cities but yeah

not widespread okay so you have your home gym and how many memberships do you have to other gyms how many memberships do i have to other gyms yeah good question uh stop keeping track shut up yeah do you have enough hands and toes i guess we hear it's a lot three three other gyms so uh a real a real gym i guess a commercial gym for the times that the real gym is closed or like like i'm doing right now right using a lot of machines uh because working around rehab stuff so that's two real gyms and then the third membership isn't really a gym membership it's the strongman like strongman saturday uh membership so on saturday i go down to a to it

is a gym but but we do specific uh strongman things it's the strongman club out here in uh in haywood um so that's how i found strong man. Uh, again, like through some weird quirk of the algorithm, I started seeing some, some posts found out there was, uh, you know, a local group doing stuff and that you didn't have to be 400 pounds to do strong man, which was surprising. Uh, yeah. Uh, so yeah, I do that, uh, most saturdays at least when i'm not super injured was the first time you touched a barbell on american soil oh that's a good question i think it was yeah at least at least in terms of like what you would consider a barbell yeah like i remember like growing up really wanting like the york uh you know concrete filled plastic weight set

i have a ton of those actually in the basement right now yeah the little screw lock ones uh but yeah in terms of what you grew up withbell, yeah. Yeah, I never. I did stuff like, you know, I played rugby and stuff growing up and we never did any weight, you know, weight training, right? Like it was like, you have to be at least 18 to go to the gym, right? So yeah, never did anything

until I was mid-30s. Yeah, 35. Sorry, the UK has age limits on the gym? That's a pretty common thing in a lot of places. Yeah, just like liability stuff, I guess. That makes perfect sense, but it never occurred to me to think about it.

Yeah. You can't go to the gym if you're like 12. I think a lot of places are even like 14 or 15, but only with a parent. And then maybe 16 to 18, maybe alone, but I don't even think. And that could be subject to like, you know, Tanner over there letting like 16-year-olds drive from like an hour away before football practice to come train, which is actually pretty cool. I remember him mentioning that

either on one of the podcasts of like one of the local high school kids was literally driving like 45 minutes because it was the only like think you mentioned that on one of the podcasts of like one of the, one of the local high school kids was literally driving like 45 minutes. Cause it was the only like place you could really get a good workout in before like actually going to school. I got one that wasn't really brought up and I'm curious. Uh, so have you assimilated at all to be an American football fan or are you still like diehard soccer guy from? Yeah so uh so i'm definitely not a soccer guy i was for a really short period growing up uh 1996 i i have a lot of trivia knowledge from 1996 had one of those uh you know those like sticker books you collected the stickers right in 1996 so i have a lot of 1996 soccer trivia knowledge but but after that it was, it was all rugby. Um, I was into, so yeah, uh,

American football is kind of, you know, it's rugby adjacent, right. Some, some of the same, uh, at least much more adjacent than soccer. Uh, so yeah, yeah. I like, uh, American football. Uh, I was, I was kind of, uh, following the Raiders, because that's... Oakland Raiders was the closest geographically to where I'm living. Not anymore. So I still kind of follow the Raiders a little bit.

But yeah, the 49ers are the geographical team that I would root for. Do you sit down and watch rugby matches now? Is that a pastime? Or is that even really a thing? Are there air rugby games? There's a few rugby games. The Rugby World Cup just finished a couple weeks ago.

That was on NBC and Peacock. They'd show those games. but it was in France, so they were 6 a.m. or early games. You can get a few club games here, but yeah, not a ton, not easy to watch it. Gotcha. What about cricket?

Cricket? I played cricket. I don't really like watching cricket. Cricket's like baseball. It takes too long. It's kind of boring. My cricket knowledge is about up there with Tanner's

baseball knowledge based on last week. Yeah. Even if you go to a cricket game or watch on TV, you're really going to drink. And then there's also cricket going on. I feel like that's baseball, right? You go there, you're drinking and you're eating. And there's also something to kind of keep you entertained at the same time yeah the sport's secondary to the

eating and drinking I can't wait to be asked what cricket is now in the discord because I don't know I think it isn't cricket honestly like the top two or three like played or like and like in the entire world it is

like the most popular sport in the world or like top like two or three like played or like like and like in the entire world it is like the most popular sport in the world or like top like two or three uh yeah i thought yeah it's huge in huge in india and pakistan and australia and you know all the all the uh the colonists, I guess, as we know some of the colonists, as we might call them. Yeah. Yeah. Are we the bad guys? Are we the baddies? Yeah.

You're probably right. I think soccer is number one in terms of... Oh, yeah, for sure. Pronunciation question. Premier, probably right right i think soccer is probably number one in terms of in terms of oh yeah for sure okay so pronunciation question premier premier premier premier league soccer well actually premier league football yeah and premier league cricket i've heard that one too yeah and it's funny because i would say premier unless i'm talking about football or cricket then i'll say premier oh right because you're more likely to hear it in british english right like that's what you would yeah it makes sense yeah you want to dive into some questions from the crew i think we've covered a fair amount of everything we have i had a i had a decent amount

from your wife and your buddy and some stuff I came up with, but we've got five or six here from the crew we can probably dabble with. And they're all going to be based on you being British. Most of us. So from Tanner, beans and toast. Why? So this is audio only podcast for now so you can't see the the delicious beans on toast behind me it is not delicious i can tell every i want everybody to watch everybody to to to listen to me right now it does not look delicious it probably is though that's the thing it's actually probably tastes

pretty great but it does not look good it honestly does not but go ahead with the rest of what you're saying what the bread is your problem there well because like i like beans and i like cheese but the bread has to be like the bread has to almost be like a non-flavored... I don't know. What is the bread typically used, or does it matter? It doesn't matter. Yeah, the bread's like... It's like a pizza, right?

You've got the bread base, you've got the tomato sauce-based topping, and then you've got a ton of cheese on top. I think I could talk about some beans and toast, honestly. What'd you add, Frank? Yes. spaced topping and then you've got a ton of cheese on top. Pizza or Jason? Some beans and toast, honestly. Would you add Franks? You could. Yeah, that's...

Beans and Franks and toast? For that extra disgusting protein? Yeah, I've seen that. It's not uncommon. It's kind of critical you butter that toast. The butter is key. But yeah, hot buttery toast, beans. Yeah, it's probably, if I had it for the first time today, as a 38 year old, I don't know if I'd like it, but it's probably a nostalgia base, right? You guys probably have those foods that you ate growing up that are objectively not good, but

are just nostalgic. What type of beans are there? Are those like baked? Are those like Bush's baked beans out of a can? I guess the bean flavor would be very... The bean juice would be very much associated with, like,

if it was going to be good or bad, I feel. Yeah, so American baked beans are much thicker, and you guys often have, like, bacon and shit in there, right? Yeah. Like, in terms of the canned ones. Horrible for you. Yeah, the British ones are a little bit more watery. I'm not selling it i guess i'm just trying to like i'm trying to like picture up i'm trying to like understand the flavor

like because the picture looks horrible but like i could see the i could i'm trying to like all right so like bread and butter like toasted bread and butter great like bush bushes baked beans cool cheese on top i guess like but all together like i don't know i think like i think american beans and toast would be better than british beans and toast because as far as like i obviously like i like beans by themselves i like cheese by itself i love bread like i could see it being a thing but also the macros on it is like trash it's all fucking carbs and fat like there's no pro i mean how much i don't know what kind of protein you're getting in a bean a lot a lot yeah there's a decent amount of protein in beans i think i think you can argue that it's like you know not not animal based so

it's not good quality yeah but yeah this isn't something you're eating if you're if you're really uh counting macros I don't think the particular picture behind you is that just something you googled or is that like your breakfast I just googled that especially for you guys I haven't had beans and toast for so the big question is

what's the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean nothing they're the same right no I've never had a garbanzo bean? Nothing. They're the same, right? No, I've never had a garbanzo bean on my face. Nice. I'm so sorry to everybody listening. I had to do it.

That's so good. I love it. Nothing a little squirtle can fix. Oh, Jesus. What's that that this line was implied i like i like taking it there i don't care i've got no fucking boundaries

spell it out i'm curious if i had been drinking if i'm like i'm curious about because i'm not drinking tonight but i'm curious if i'm more reserved or if i'm less reserved i've been drinking oh we're gonna find out of the zoo in about nine months. Yeah. I, uh,

that's going to be a fun trip. I, I, I'm not sure if my wife's going to make it out this year. I think she might bow out if my buddy Chris comes, uh, cause he's, he signed up for the strong man.

So if he comes, we'll be able to travel together. So, and then he's, if he's doing strong, man, he can actually help handle and video all my shit. So like,

that's, I mean, that's not, that is kind of why she came. Cause I didn't want to do a meet alone and she wanted to support me and everything, but I don't think she like, she doesn't get it.

Like some of those, like, I don't know. She just, like she loved her to death. She supported me forever. But you know, especially this,

this coming year, it's like with work, she's taking, she's looking at her job. So like her vacation is like half of what it used to be basically. Well, she worked from home. She worked for herself before, but now she has like like a real like 40 hour a week job and starts out with like two weeks of vacation which is like nothing so it's like already gone basically for 2024 just by like going some family shit so i get it coming

out and then morgan's listening to this when it when it's released i'll say the same thing i i want her there i would love to have the kids and her there, but it would be better without them. It will go smoother. It will go easier. It's less expensive. I don't have to worry about other people. I see what you're saying. How did that start? How did that tangent

start? Oh, yeah, because I've seen you at the zoo. There's a chance I'm flying at a buffalo. Yeah, I saw you looked into that. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'd much rather leave from Rochester because I don't have to drive 90 minutes to start my day.

We'll talk. I might actually genuinely drive to your house and leave my car there and go with you. Yeah. Are you coming out alone, David? Are you coming out? Yeah. I'll be coming in alone. You got a room with Bruno?

Yeah, maybe, if I'm lucky. Can we start bragging that you came the farthest? I think last year it was Scantz that came the farthest. Can we just start saying you came all the way from oxford yeah like it's a total lie but like you've got an accent nobody's gonna question us i'm actually going to be in oxford to uh the week before so i get back to california on sunday and then i fly out to the lift hard live easy classic on fucking classic so take a picture in

oxford and then be like oh i'm here and like we'll just start bragging about how you flew the farthest yeah and nobody will question it it'll be like the borat movie because people will be too embarrassed to question like oh he's got an accent he's from a different place at least you're used to those big flights already because i'd be i feel like i'd be fucking still jet lag from that like massive flight, like on Sunday when I got a turn on and like, you know, obviously the third flight is going to be nothing, but like I didn't have weeks to fucking recover from that.

So yeah, but you can always use that for excuses as why, as, as while the show didn't go as planned, the meat didn't go the way I wanted. But if you just, if you just get strong, stay strong and use your strength,

like a little jet lag, isn't really going to hurt. Yeah. Also, you know, an 11 hour flight with kids you know and then a four hour flight on my own you know that feels like relaxation time it's me time so so i'll be flying back from south dakota and then four days later seeing creed in toronto so i know it's not the same thing but like i just want to put it out there that i got tickets to see creed because that's really important to me nice good stuff my uh i know i know you reached out to my wife i all this creed talk in the discord it it triggered a core memory uh and you really have to be submasters to maybe even appreciate this so i've known my wife since like high school uh and i remember kind of really

distinctly that when i first went to or maybe not the first time i went to her house but but one of the first times i went uh you know back in the day it was all about the the cd rack right the cd tower right you'd have all your cds lined up uh and she had a few cds not not a big music person uh but the only cd she had that she owned that was not a disney soundtrack or a movie soundtrack was a creed album uh and and you know all the all you know 20 20 almost 20 years later yeah all the all the creed talk in the disco re-triggered that memory she's a big big creed fan great it's a my brother got me into it and that would have been about the time that um my own prison came out um because that that album was fucking amazing and i i could probably recite the entire album to you word for word right now and i remember just before creed got re-big again i started listening to it again

and i distinctly remember i'm in the kitchen and i'm just telling my wife how important creed was to hard rock and naturally she's giving me the the wonderful look she gives me the uh-huh okay and then it's just funny that here we are now creed's back together and everybody's talking about butt rock and like it's just like the world is resetting. You just let nature go. Nature finds a way. Yeah. Reminder to all the crew out there, right? There's only probably less than a month until you get your Spotify

wrapped for the Spotify users. So you've got to hammer that butt rock now so that your top genre is going to be butt rock for the year. I actually think my top song is one of Creed's songs. I think it was last year. I started listening to Nickelback it was a while

ago, maybe even a year ago, where I think it was over underrated for Tommy. And Tommy said underrated for Nickelback and I went back and listened to it and I'm like, you know, I'm going to appreciate this maybe initially in an ironic way but but now actually i think i i've tricked myself into actually liking them that's how it starts i

remember ripping on my brother because my brother was like i like nickelback and i was like i bet you do and then one day i was just like do i hate nickelback or did the internet tell me i hate nickelback yeah and like so the photograph song sucks i'm sorry that song is terrible it's just nostalgic crap but like they have songs that are genuinely incredible and i don't know if you've listened i keep telling people to listen to it listen to the song san quentin if you like hard rock at all listen to the song san quentin off the recent album it It's like metal. It's a weird version of D-Gent metal. Gent, I think they call it, or whatever that version is.

Really? And they have a song with Dimebag Daryl. I secretly think they're heavy metal fans who just happen to also make middle-of-the-road trash rock sometimes. So, you've got my vote for the nickelback they're

probably happy with their systems because they're i'm sure they're multi-millionaires because and they do what they want yeah like we're nickelback we do what we want and it's like let's uh yeah let's just make all this money and we're good just keep you know turning out the shit that like the masses want but like you know the poor fans of just music think sucks, but that's okay because we're literally multi-millionaires. So fuck you. Yeah, it's all there in Rockstar, right?

Everyone's still a big Rockstar. That song's great. And it's got Billy Gibbons? Tim Gibbons? Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. He's the voice in the background. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Trivia. Yeah, I'm a ZZ Top guy, obviously.

What a... Another side to answer here before we get back to some of the questions. Have you met any crew in person? And if so, who have you met? I'm not sure if you've had a chance to run across any. Have you met any shows or anything you've done for your strong man and different events or expos you've gone to no i haven't i've met i've met uh well i haven't met any crew i've met more guests

podcast guests than i've met crew uh yeah i was gonna ask about that earlier it looks like you've met a fair amount of like pretty famous strong man and whatnot yeah Yeah. So yeah, I haven't made any crew. I was, I mean, I was supposed to come to Left Hard Lesbizy, but I got injured. I was supposed to do a strongman comp with Big Toby and a few other guys came out to watch him and I couldn't get to that.

So yeah, no crew. Kind of sounds like you're dodging us. Yeah. Yeah, it feels like it like it i mean he's proceeded to tell us 19 times that his back currently hurts and he's probably gonna bow out of 2020 yeah yeah just he's gonna be like oh guys 11 hours my back hurts yeah yeah yeah so in those seats now yeah not not the meat i wanted um uh yeah so no crew yeah but a fair number of uh but you look like you're about the same you look like you're about the same height as tom stolman so how tall are you buddy oh yeah uh so uh uh so i'm about the same height as eddie hall and eddie hall i

think lists himself as six two or six three so i guess so I guess I'm 6'2 or 6'3. But if I measure myself, I'm actually 6' even. Gotcha. Yeah. Eddie was 6'4, 450. That's crazy. He was at least 450 probably. That's crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. So the Strongman guests are probably what drew me into the podcast specifically. I found some of the content and like the deadlift platform stuff but yeah like actually listening to the to some of the strongman guest episodes that was that was the thing that really really hooked me i think yeah and world's strongest man has been out here in sacramento or close to here in sacramento a couple years in in the last few years i've been able to go to that and that's cool nice pictures with a bunch of the guys um into big alan thralls you know gym and competitions uh also in sacramento uh yeah you met up yeah to uh what was it uh third street barbell met silent mike and jim

mcdee yet that might be where i haven't yeah i haven't been to their gym, but I did meet them at I did meet both of them at the first Sacramento World's Strongest Man, and then I met Big Jim again at the second Sacramento World's Strongest Man. Jim's great. I talk to Jim multiple times

a month in DMs. It's not just me sending him shit. They'll send me stuff every now and then. It's kind of cool because Jim's the man. Yeah. In fact, I think it was the first one, maybe even the second one too. I'm standing there and I'm repping Masonomics stuff, right?

Of course. As you should be. Only because we don't have t-shirts yet. That's the only reason. Yeah. I'm And I mean, I'm in the background of a ton of world's strongest man 2021 in the blue left shirt. I'm talking about that.

But I, but I get a message from, from Tanner saying, uh, are you a, are you a world's strongest man or something? Right. And it's because Jim has messaged Tanner saying, Hey, there's someone here in a left shirt. Right. And then Tanner's messaged me because I've already said on discord, I'm going or something Tanner saying, hey, there's someone here in a left shirt, and then Tanner's messaged me, because I've already said on Discord I'm going or something. Yeah, it was kind of weird. But yeah, Sacramento's kind of got a lot of strength stuff going on.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so speaking of some strength stuff, let's get into some of these questions uh big colty wants to know about using a yoke for every event i'm not sure if that's a specific question to you or uh this is rough um yeah so uh was it like april this year i did uh there was a strongman competition yoke only competition. Jesus.

Oh, okay. That sounds miserable. Yeah, it was. How do you do that? Yoke uphill, yoke downhill, yoke straight. Yoke over and across. Yoke squat. Yoke squat was the first one. How do you squat a yoke?

Oh, on a platform, right? You're on a platform. Terribly, because you're starting from the bottom, right? You're starting from the bottom, so you're not getting that, you know know you're not going down first and getting that stretch reflex back up and it's kind of like a like a half squat so it's like you know it's kind of weird um that was one of the things that really aggravated my back uh yeah so yoke squat i think was the first event yoke bench which which is like a, like, it's not

a full range of motion, right? So it's like a, I don't know, three board press bench, but it's also, you know, it's like three inch diameter too. So you don't have really good grip, uh, and it's swinging around, right. A lot more because you've got the, you've got the, you know, everything's hanging down. Um, yeah. So yoke bench, what else do know everything's hanging down um yeah so yoke bench what else do we do i guess like an actual yoke run and then i think we did like a like an arm over arm pull where we pulled the yoke uh and a yoke deadlift right which again is like a partial

range of motion but it's a three inch diameter so grip is a problem and it's further right in front of you uh i think um uh shout to to the orange glaze right he used some of the videos from that in uh in one of the one of the hype videos yeah so yeah using yolk for every event uh definitely overrated somebody somebody was like i'm gonna do a strongman event but all i have is this yoke well yeah send it's only that's slightly better than just using stalemats across the board i guess and p yeah p gravel sandbags our our friend uh chad gbt wanted to know and this actually makes more sense now that i that I'm fully aware of your

meme account. What's it like being the British version of Mostly Squats? Ooh. It's actually a pretty high praise because as much shit as we've given him, he's got some fucking fire memes and his account's blowing up. Yeah. Yeah,

he definitely does. Yeah, I was about to say that. I think that's a compliment, right? Even like, I made some comments on his post and I get like 600 likes on it or something, right? He gets some reach somehow. I think probably whatever he did to sell his soul to the devil to get a head start on race for first comment I think he's also done to the Instagram guys and got some special treatment in the algorithm him and Dr. Mike went and had a special meeting with some people in charge yeah how many of these guys can we

jerk off at one time good stuff let's see yeah I just want to say this one in Matt's accent. That's all. T belongs at the bottom of the Baston Haber. Nice. That's it.

It's just that's all he wanted to say. And I just wanted to say Baston Haber. I think that was good Boston accent, but what do I know? I'll never forget, honestly, at the zoo, I bought a round of shots and Matt's like, I can't drink shots. And I was like, don't worry, man, I'll drink them all. And he looked at me and in his full accent said,

you went out drinking me. And it was just in that Boston accent. And I was like, okay, we'll see. And it was just so funny. And I will I was like, okay, we'll see. And it was just so funny. And I will never remember just, I'll never forget, sorry, just the deadpan look and the Boston accent. You ain't out drinking me. It was the best moment, I think, at the zoo,

aside from getting dragged on to top shelf. Good to see you guys. So Tanner and Jake both kind of asked a little bit about lift hard leave easy and how do you think you're going to stack up in general when you're you know in your in your weight class when the in the with the big man um who we got we've got uh mostly squat videos we've got uh i think uh uh what do you guys call him? Big Heart? Yeah, Big Heart. He is Big Heart internally.

Is it Heart or is it Hot? Like H-A-W-T. Hot. Wicked Hot. Yeah, I think we've got some monsters there. I think I probably, oh, we've got Big Toby. I guess we've got Big Scantz. Or maybe not. He's not sure yet. But yeah, there's some monsters there i think i probably uh oh we got big toby i guess we got big scants or maybe not he's not sure yet uh but yeah there's some monsters there i don't think i'll i'll uh stack

up against those guys but but uh but i'll do my best and i'll have fun and maybe i'll hit some personal prs there you go that's all that matters now strongman strongman prs are just weird though aren't they because it's like it's like well this is my pr on this log that weighs this much and this gym has a different log that weighs 17 pounds more and the diameter grip is different and it's like this is from the guy that has the spreadsheet of every pr no no no that's what i'm saying like it would drive me crazy because i yeah i i it would almost be infallible to actually track all that different shit because if you're just traveling to different gyms and stuff they're all going to have different equipment or if you're tracking your competition

lifts you have no fucking clue what actual like the implements they're going to use and how to correlate that into like well this was at a this was at a 21 inch deficit versus a 17 inch deficit or something i don't think so keith i think at some point weight is weight and if if i'm lifting at home with 120 pound log but i'm at an event and they have 130 pound log and i lift it the same amount of times that i do my 120 that's a pr like i think that weight is weight at some point i think we as power lifters are just a little spoiled in that we get to choose this is the bar and this is the kilos and this is the form and this is the call and this is the yeah i think we're you and i just in what we do are just a little spoiled in how easily we can track that shit like the a pound and a half or two and a half pound

or a three pound or a five pound pr in strongman is almost fucking useless because of just how many variables there are but prs are still going to be prs i think i'm could be wrong yeah yeah i think uh you know if you're training for a strongman, like if you're specifically training for a comp, then you're going to train as close to those events as you can. And then as long as you're – whatever you're training on, even if it's not the same equipment or the same dimensions or the same range of motion, right, you're just trying to get stronger over a period of time, right?

So, yeah, there was a lot more variability like you know you might you might hit a certain weight in the gym on a certain piece of equipment and then go to the comp and it's you know different equipment or different rules or whatever right um there's a lot more variability yeah and and i i i like that like i think uh maybe it's like powerlifters who get into strong man, they get a little too wrapped up in like, you know, and I think we kind of made this joke with, with big Jake,

right? Like exactly what bar we're lifting on exactly what high, exactly what, like, I just like to, I just like to turn up as prepared as I can, but, but not over stress the details and,

and whatever I can do on the day I can, I can do. Yeah day i can i can do yeah yeah i definitely i definitely send some strongman in my future like you i don't know if you guys saw the video of me just that rock i yeah so you're washing off a rock right yeah i literally was washing that rock to bring it into the gym i haven't even weighed it yet but i asked my dad i was like that rock under the tree because he has like a whole garden out there. And I was like, can I have that rock? And he was like, be careful. Like I had to get like one of my strongest friends to lift that up into the truck to

get it home. And I had to go under a tree to get it. So I couldn't. So like he had to hold up the tree. We had to like roll it out. Like it was a whole to do. And I picked it up and I was like, I had to walk it to the backyard to wash it. And I walked it to the backyard.

My wife was back there and I dropped it. And then I laid down and I was like, like breathing heavy and dying. And I went, yeah, that's the guy I want that rock. Yeah. I've seen,

I've seen Facebook marketplace posts where they, you know, it's like landscaping rocks and they post like free if you can lift it you can have it now hell yeah i've been very very very close to just going to get those rocks i do not need just because just to feed you know feed my ego but not yet not quite there yet i'm gonna fucking lift it yeah sorry keith you had one in mind go ahead no oh i was just gonna uh i was gonna see if we wanted to segue into a little fuck mary kill that joy wants to ask you oh i got a question actually about about fmk okay because i my understanding of fmk i think is different from how you guys have been playing it on previous episodes okay so the kill obviously is pretty straightforward right that's the one you like i could afford to

get rid of that yeah yeah marry marry to me is like which one am i i like but i'm comfortable you know you know being around the rest of my life be careful your wife might listen to this you know right that's like the comfort option i think previous guests have used the fuck option it's like also a hate kind of thing no no i think i think i think fuck is like you know what's the quick you know the quick uh the quickie yeah me and you were gonna me and the me and that f we're gonna have a really good short period time yeah right right yeah that's how i maybe i've been misunderstanding that but that's okay okay at least it's like international international rules yes when you ask me that question fuck is yeah i'm gonna enjoy you for a few minutes and that's

about it mary is yeah we're gonna settle down i could i could enjoy you for a few minutes and that's about it. Mary is, yeah, we're going to settle down. I could, I could handle you for a while. Yeah. And kill is, yeah, I'm good without you. Yeah. Good. Okay.

Yes. I got the rules. So there's no druthers. I don't think we, I think this is the first game where there are no druthers. That is how you have to play this game. Okay. So FMK,

David Bowie, David Beckham, David Blaine. Bowie David Bowie, David Beckham, David Blaine. Bowie or Bowie? Oh, Bowie's in space. Bowie's in space. Is it Bowie or Bowie? So he himself said it's a made up name.

So you can say however you want. Yeah. So Ziggy Stardust, David Beckham or David Blaine I've got to say kill I don't know actually this is good I've got to say kill david beckham agree

okay i guess i have to say i have to say yeah and i have to say fuck david lane right it's kind of like do some magic but I don't want to live with you. Stop hiding everything. Yeah. Why are you in like a glass cage or something? He did do that, didn't he? Yeah. For like, I don't know. It probably wasn't actually that long, right?

Like seven days or something. Yeah, so marry David Bowie. All right. yes i'm married david bowie all right any any any uh agreement disagreement i don't disagree actually i'd probably go the same way fucking david beckham marrying posh spice she was mine i don't know i'd probably put beckham a little bit I don't really know David I don't watch fucking magician's shit I vaguely remember just like back when I had Cable there'd be like a special every now and then other than that like I've never had a magician come across my feed ever in my life

I don't think so I only vaguely know who David Blaine is from like something he did 20 years ago David Blaine is probably one of the top ever to do what he does and i'm not like a magic lover like i'm not out there like looking for magicians to follow and and enjoy but like some of the stuff he did at the time that he did it when there was like there was david copperfield there was chris angel they were the big famous guys and they were doing big elaborate bullshit.

Just stuff that, like, we're going to make an elephant disappear, blah, blah, blah. And then David Blaine would just walk up and, like, pull a piece of string out of his stomach that he just swallowed. And it's fucking weird. It was weird and wild and so different and up close. So I actually kind of like David Blaine, but since I don't love magic that much, I would go fuck David Blaine too. There's this other

guy, this guy I saw on America's Got Talent. He's really scary too. He was really fun. Clack, I think his name was. Alright. We've got our second sponsor read coming before we jump into the last segment um we have two kind of sponsors going right now we've got code unpaid with obsidian ammonia which i encourage you guys to use as often as you can

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snorts of it from people around me uh yeah i think i'm gonna you know be a periodic ammonia user so i'm gonna you know i'm gonna run the one that i have out eventually i'll have to look in i was on his website kind of looking at like which which one of these scents would i kind of be like least disturbed by i guess and nothing really nothing really jumped out at me. So I'll have to, but it did look like the dim Mac thing was like a completely different, like, like level. Yeah. In like its own little extra bag for like safety or some shit,

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We might wrap this up under two and two hours, two and a half hours. We're lucky. We're getting close. We don't have to, though. We're good. I ain't got to work for more so I'm good fuck I'm so happy I'm so happy I get some money unpaid and overrated time

no should we go over this one because it seemed like fuck marry kill was a struggle for you what do you is there anything unpaid or under well the struggle was in he you know fuck off I'll bust everyone's balls i don't care i'll make me feel bad about it uh are we doing unpaid and underrated wrong

in your opinion no you are not okay well that's good and you are familiar with it because you are a loyal listener so let's dive right in i want to ask you unpaid or underrated celery what do you think about celery oh celery is completely unpaid it contributes nothing what uh it contributes nothing uh except this like you know it'smonia, it's like a weak ammonia taste to me. Like weak piss. Like weak piss? Ammonia is like strong piss, but

celery is weak piss. Yeah, it's piss adjacent. That's good stuff. Yeah, completely unpaid. When's the last time you had celery or do you just straight up as an adult you see it and you're like yeah i'm not touching i mean i'm not gonna eat a stick of celery like even if you put whatever peanut butter in it i'm gonna eat it uh if it's in like uh i don't know what would it be in like a, I don't know, what would it be in like a soup or a stew? Yeah.

I'm gonna, I'm going to try and eat around it. The piece accidentally slips in. I guess I'm not going to like gag, but, but I don't like it. Yeah. So if you order wings and it comes with celery,

you're just going to eat your wings and leave a stack of celery. Uh, so here's, here's a hot take. also think bone-in chicken is unpaid i'm i'm not i'm not a butcher i i'm not i'm not preparing my own meats uh just give me not bonus wings but but bonus chicken i'm so happy i'm so happy you called it bone-in chicken because i started doing that and it's taking off. It's a bone-in chicken wings. And I said it once and my guy I work with was just like, what did you call it? I was like, oh, these are bone-in chicken wings.

And then he was like, I hate that. And then I swear to God, an hour later, he was like, I'm going for bone-in chicken wings tonight. And I was like, yes, take it, Bill. I've been eating a fair... I really think I've just been assimilated into the crew so hard that I always dislike bone-in wings, if you will.

And I get wings once a month now, and I fucking love them, and I eat the shit out of them if they're good. Bad, I'll never fucking go to the BW3 again and waste my time and calories and just food on shitty soggy wings i'm gonna be give me a nice crispy wing i'm fucking i'll enjoy that i eat wings like once a week i garlic parm or barbecue i'm happy uh but no so that was a wild

answer because i've never heard somebody have such a stance on celery i fucking enjoy celery because i like peppery tastes so that was pretty wild is there like something that triggered it like did you like drink so much celery one day you got sick and never want to do it again like pao dyer or no no like i like i like green every other green vegetable right that like everyone hates uh, uh, but yeah, celery just, just, yeah, just don't like it.

Something about. Well, unpaid or underrated. What's your opinion? And you have to explain this for most people, I think, cause I didn't know what it was. What do you think about bread sauce?

Okay. Uh, so, so bread sauce is, is definitely underrated um bread sauce is uh it's a milk an onion based sauce that also has bread in it. So it's traditionally eaten with, uh, with, uh, uh,

with Christmas dinner, which would be more similar to an American Thanksgiving dinner, right? Like Turkey or some kind of, some kind of, you know, weird poultry, not chicken.

Cause, cause you know, every other day it's a day. It's a goose. It's a goose for you. Yeah. And then the bread sauce is there, you know, as a side to that, you know, really to make that dry old turkey meat or

whatever, not so dry. Yeah. So it's not well known. So it's definitely underrated. Again, objectively, it's not well known so it's definitely underrated uh again objectively it's not good but nostalgia you know it's pretty powerful hell of a drug you said so milk and oniony so is it more like a is it like a chip dip kind of like if you had to like like it would be like a french onion dip like not not but like is the texture of the flavor or anything like like compare it to something that is and like American food, I guess.

I'm picturing it. I'm picturing it. It's creamy onion breadcrumbs. Not breadcrumbs, or croutons. Yeah, it's not like croutons. It's like thick and stodgy. It's not objectively good.

Would it taste better with celery in it? Would you eat it off of celery if you had? If the only way you could ever have bread sauce again for the rest of your life was to eat it off of celery, would you? Well, what if you just had to use the celery as the utensil and you didn't actually have to consume it? So you still had to kind of go

mouth, but you could just kind of suck the bread sauce off. I'm just sucking the celery off yeah yeah do you hate celery that much or do you love bread sauce that much uh i think i would do that yeah you're not gonna get much celery taste from that so what about what about fennel fennel yeah i guess that's celery adjacent it's so salad but it's so delicious but it has that uh what is that taste is that like licorice it's black licorice taste yeah yeah yeah but more subtle i guess right yeah uh i like fennel fennel sausage especially oh yeah like yeah that taste that's good right in like a in like a stuffing or something that's really good i'll be a celery so there's something about celery oh i want to investigate this so much more

so everyone do us a favor and make some uh big david celery memes and you know we'll really enjoy them and i'll post the shit out of this coming week i want to know what it was celery killed my dad or something something repressedressed memory. So I'll wrap up my third one here. Let me pick which one I want to go with. Let's go ketchup. What do you think about ketchup?

I'll keep all mine to food. Unpaid. Trash condiment. Yeah, I don't really like any condiments a lot. I'm not a big condiment yeah I don't really like any condiments a lot I'm not a big condiment guy

except bread sauce yeah something about ketchup and I think this one probably is some kind of repressed memory Joey like you're thinking because both me and my sister my my older sister who's much closer to me in age uh we both hate ketchup and uh but apparently we used to love it right like

as kids we'd like put on everything everything was covered in ketchup we'd love it but as you know teenagers or adults at some point we just started hating it so I'm sure there is some traumatic experience that is now linked with ketchup but yeah when you were on the side of the mountain taking a shit did the Germans walk by? were they holding ketchup?

do you think that might have been what happened? Heinz! Heinz! alright that wraps up my trifecta of food questions I hate ketchup too so I'm with you on that one it's like I could just literally put

tomatoes on my burger why would I mash them up and mix them with sugar and then put them on my burger? That doesn't make any sense. Like vinegar and, yeah, of course. Yeah, it's pretty nasty. All right, so that leaves me with some fun ones. You got a handful of the pixel?

There's an obvious one on there. I don't think I'm going to go with the obvious one. Yeah. So unpaid or underrated. This one comes from Big Hot. The Dinny Stones. The Dinny Stones. The Dinny Stones. Hmm.

Good question. I think I'm going to go underrated. I think most people in the general population have no idea what they are um i think uh i think in the strongman community right there's like a seems to be like a big awareness of them and maybe it's you know within that group maybe it's a little unpaid but yeah generally generally underrated um yeah so so We talked about the specific competition.

I've also done two rock or stone based competitions. Both times having Max Dinnystone lift up to the full weight.

I've picked up the full weight uh and i've and i picked up the full weight uh twice uh at those competitions uh so yeah i love the dinny stones uh or i love the dinny stone lift uh maybe one day i'll you know i'll be going to scotland to try out for real what is the full Dennystone weight? It's about 730, so it's like 315 on the small side and 415 pounds on the bigger side. Jesus, I can't imagine picking up 400 pounds with one fucking hand.

It's a pretty small range of motion. It's kind of like a suit. It's like a Jefferson. In fact, when I was training for it, did a ton of jefferson deadlifts right it's like split sounds and then it's just about how much pain you can tolerate on the it is too it's just how much you hate your thumb i've got uh i've got the denny stone replicas so i've played like i'd love them and them. It's finding room to do them. And it genuinely just comes down to like...

I've never... Okay, so I enjoy the calluses from powerlifting, because sometimes you're rubbing your hands together and you're like, that feels good, I could go for a lift. I've never fully had blood bruises on my hands until the time I tried to max out on the

dinny stone and like where the the the soft part of your right under your fingers they just turned to blood bruises they were just yeah and it was great i was like i'll do that again yep i even got like a blood uh blood bruises under the under the, under the thumbnail, right. Where the thumbnails been so much from the hook grip. Yep. Yep. The nails didn't pull off luckily, but, uh, yeah, pretty painful. Uh, yeah. Yeah. So definitely, uh, well, I guess I almost read the line, but, but, uh, underrated overall. Okay. Um, so unpaid or underrated overall. Okay.

So unpaid or underrated. American actors doing British accents. And I can't think of an example. So if you have one, that'd be great. Yeah, it's much more common for British actors to be in American movies, right? Or as American characters. Yeah. Good question.

Like my, my, my thought is definitely unpaid, but now I struggle to actually think of a, an example where someone's really done it badly. Oh, Bridget Jones, right. That was pretty bad renee zawega yeah uh winona rider i think too uh winona rider did a really bad one in in a movie as well um yeah i'm paid okay paid yeah and then

the crew can kind of back us up on that one and let us know so then I was trying to look up some and nothing's really like Google's Sherlock Holmes Sean Austin and more of the rings Angelina Jolie and

Maleficent there you go. Peter Dinklage and Game of Thrones. Did he do a British adjacent? I'm just... The top 10 list, none of them jump out

at me going, oh yeah, that was an American doing a British accent. I don't know. Moving on then. So unpaid or underrated british actors doing american accents oh i guess i guess i'm pretty not the person to ask right like i uh you guys would be bad bad to tell me that do you have an american accent impression i do not no just nothing you've worked on yeah i feel like i should um maybe it's something i can work on you know build up to for for july just walk up to matt with your own boston accent just fuck yeah that would be fucking great yeah yeah here's something yeah so yeah i don't think i i don't think i'm a good judge but uh

but yeah let's say let's say uh let's say underrated i guess well i i i think i've mentioned it before they always end up just sounding like house to me. Right. So like he did it in house, um, Hugh Laurie, right. Love Hugh Laurie. Great comedy stuff. Slapstick from his early days.

Good musician. If you've ever actually, um, I don't know how much you like Americana blues. Keith, but Hugh Laurie has an incredible two albums where he does probably American blues better than most Americans. And then he was house and he just does like the whisper kind of talk. And then Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange does the exact same voice. And then I just started

hearing it all the time. a british actor would do an american accent it just sounded like hugh laurie as house yeah i can see that he's got a very british very you know stereotypical british accent i guess right the real so let's talk let's go with um i am drawing a fucking blank on his name right now the guy that played Batman Christian Bale Christian Bale is he British

yeah I think so doing the house voice right it's all just it's just all whispery crumbly like deep guttural voice like not the Batman but like even his bruce wayne voice was that way um we talked about him last week or the week before

he's like the world's best actor and he's retired now daniel day lewis now he did really good versions of it but he always had to go like over the top and do like weird, weird American accents. Right. Also, I think he's very British. So I think he's, I want to say he's Australian, but I could be wrong.

Is it? There are a lot of Australian actors that do like that, that, that one catches me off guard a lot. So, uh, I'll Google that. I get,

I get confused. Yeah. I get, I get confused I get confused for Australian all the time really? I watch I can see that I guess I watch Chicago Fire and if you want to watch that

Chief Bowden it'll blow your mind if you didn't know he is not American he has the deepest most strongest stoic American voice in the show and his voice literally like his his voice literally is his character and then i saw him on like a youtube clip just talking in his fucking i honestly don't know if it was uh so long ago that i saw it if it was british or if it was

australian i think it was british but it was just like wait what you're not actually like chief boden's voice that blew me away i was like like, goddammit. Is that the guy that was also in House? Was he like a young guy that was also in House? It is, right? He's an Australian, for sure. He was also on Chicago Fire for the majority of the shows. Here in his voice,

he's got a Chicago accent. I don't really notice it necessarily but once you see them like on the red carpet talking and then you go back and watch the show that's the only time i think i ever really notice it but if you just put that out of your mind it's like yeah that's just a character uh daniel d lewis is from kensington oh okay yes very very british uh i just don't remember did we get an unpaid or underrated from you on that one uh i'm gonna say underrated i think like uh i guess voice coaches have got better right like

maybe i don't know maybe 30 years ago there was some bad bad stuff right maybe before that even but yeah i think uh i think for the most part you know i'm still surprised by uh you know like keith was right like when someone turns out to be british or australian they sound very american to me at least so i got a couple i got two short follow-ups i guess um have your has your british accent decreased any in the last seven, eight years? Yeah. Yeah. So if I go back to England, my family, my friends, they'll make fun of me.

Right. It's definitely, I don't know, softened or, yeah yeah, it's changed over time. Um, yeah, yeah. So it's definitely changed. Um, and yeah, it's just easier, you know, speaking to Americans all day. So I'll, so I'll, you know, I'll change words that I would have, I would have used or drop use or, or drop L's or whatever it is, right? It's just easier. Yeah. And then the second part. So this kind of harkens back to something that Joey and I talked about a few podcasts ago.

I think he brought it up specifically like they, I think he even had said that they had a term where you're listening to someone with an accent and you end up kind of regurgitating their accent a little bit to them. Is that something you get like with coworkers or people you're around potentially you know you know what i mean yeah yeah i think um i think like definitely in the long term right like the more the more you're around uh things the more you you pick it up and, and, and change. Uh, yeah, not, not like, you know, if I'm going to talk to someone for a few hours or a couple of days, right.

Or I'm somewhere for a few days, then, you know, definitely not. But, but yeah, seven, seven and a half years, like, uh, yeah, it changes, changes some things. Now, I don't know if you're much of a drinker. Do you, do you drink? Oh yeah. Uh, do you't know if you're much of a drinker. Do you drink? Do you drink the booze here and there? Yeah, not a ton. I guess what I'm getting at is my wife will tell me if I'm pretty fucking shitty,

I get drunk once a year, my West Virginia fucking twang comes out really bad, I guess. So I guess I'm like, have you been drunk in the last seven years and fucking sounded completely like your old self? Uh, good question. I, no one's ever told me that I do. Yeah. I think, I think it's more likely if I'm like, you know, if I'm slurring, I sound more, I'd probably sound more American, right? Like, like, uh, you know, those Ts would turn to Ds, and yeah, maybe it was slurring a little bit more.

So yeah, I think it would probably go the other way, WMS. All right. Well, that concludes a little unpaid and underrated, and to see we knocked out pretty much everything. I think it's time to hand it over to you there, Big Dave. You want to hit us with some questions? You're just going to hit us with me material anything we answer yeah to be totally subjective to memes we all yeah we all have some memes to make here so i kind of have a couple i still have a couple uh unpaid underrated uh topics for you guys but

i guess the first the first i had one question too. What do you think they're going to do for the 400 episode? Are they two out or three out? They're close, right? Two or three, right? It's not far. I don't know. Billboard? But in Sioux Falls

they'll do a crew falls billboard because it'll probably coincide with the December to remember oh yeah that would episode 400 would be the week of I'm not sure what's going to be 400 but I would fucking kill to like have them do some kind

of either a party cast or a round table or something there's been talk of that actually I think that does coincide with episode 400. I'm going to be in goddamn Peru Falls at like noon on Friday. Let's make a podcast happen, guys.

Let's fucking do it. But I don't know. Let's Get Stupid did their 200s in a strip club last week, so I don't know. That would be interesting. But there's no more silver dollar in Aberdeen, so I'm sure they're curious what they have in Sioux Falls.

Go to Aberdeen and make our own strip club. Yeah, we'll get big Bryce down there, take his shirt off, and we'll be all set. Okay. That's our conspiracy theory for the day. What is your behind-the-scenes take on is your behind-the-scenes take on it?

Behind-the-scenes? I don't think I have any behind-the-scenes special knowledge. I guess I could make something out. Yeah, yeah. Start the Discord rumor mill. What are we here for? Yeah, billboard would be good. Yeah, the crew falls thing is

an interesting... Yeah. I don't have any... Maybe a crew gift or some kind of big drop, but yeah, I don't have any special insight. Like them. I think Tommy even said... Tommy's like, I don't know what we did for 300.

I'm like, I don't either. What the fuck did you do for 300? When we do... When we do our 100th episode I'm going to call it the 100th too. We're not going to play with that one. No, actually, I genuinely think it would be funny if we released shirts that just say episode something.

And just maintain this joke going for as long as possible. I mean, what joke? But yeah, just episode something and it would be our 100th episode celebration yeah it was 300 the colon that was a colon episode 300 they've had a few it might have been i i was just thinking about the other day someone was talking about like someone made a meme about like how they the inception of the live hard live easy and how it kind of took so

long to get off the ground and And I was like, I remember yeah, whatever the call-in episode was at least 18 months ago, my question was about the Live Hard, Live Easy. And that would have been in July, I think it was summertime of

2022, I guess. It was a solid year removed from it. And they were still like, they didn't It was a solid year removed from it. They were still like, they didn't really have anything solidified at all because it didn't get planned until like fucking January or February. So that was definitely harkened back a little bit when someone

had posted like the origin of some meme about the origin of the Live Hard, Live Easy, I think. And I listen back to, I don't listen, I kind of remember back to i don't do back catalog or even repeat episodes and i kind of think of tanner being like it is gonna happen we hope everybody like you can kind of sense the hesitancy because they weren't even sure people were gonna fucking show up and now there's and now they can't even keep us back yeah right like

90 people in 24 hours or whatever like yeah that's great yeah plus the 20 well everybody's strong man yeah there's over 100 people that decided to spend a thousand dollars to ish to come out you know it's gonna be 500 i mean i guess you can you can exclude the the local people that basically don't have to pay much but still there's over 50 of us that are going to spend like a literal vacations amount of money to come out for a weekend and hang out with the boys i said i was coming even if i wasn't lifting and i just happened to also be lifting and i just i do appreciate the kind of evolution and and what we did with massonomics here because it went from genuinely

we don't know people are going to show up to guys stop trying to show up like there's so many of you we did it we did it crew and that is our answer on the 400th episode guess the the meme the meme today that i think grant and the strength co-posted oh that was funny with like the two attractive ladies and the guy in the background i was like that is so fucking accurate as to what the live hard live easy is going to be and there's i think that like some of these big names that like canceled last minute or just aren't coming i think eventually might regret it just not being there for day one or day two so maybe you show up next year but yeah i'm missing out i'm curious if they reserved any spots for quote-unquote celebrities but i don't even care like i don't even want anyone to kind

of come steal the spotlight from us because i do like i think it's going to be cool just like i think us meeting like our friends that we like like we met probably you know 30 of us or whatever but there's gonna be there should be at least 50 people well whatever some like 30 to 40 50 people that our crew that we talked to on discord and instagram that we're's going to be at least 50 people or whatever, some 30 to 40, 50 people that our crew that we talk to on Discord and Instagram that we're actually going to meet again for the first time. On top of the 30 people that we met last year, that's going to be cool.

I'm excited about that. I don't need a famous person to flake on us again and be like, I don't know, just not even have that even be in the equation. Just keep them out or either come or just don't say I'm just kind of my opinion on that. Mm-hmm.

Yep. Okay, so I got a couple of unpaid underrated topics. Both of us or for a single one of us? A few are for just one of you and a few of them are for both of us, so I'll let you know.

So, first one for Big Keith. Unpaid or underrated American barbell? That's a good one, actually. That's like, fuck. Probably unpaid, but

it's because I haven't had a chance to play with the Chewy bar too much yet. If I had a Chewy and I fell in love with it, I'd probably go under. Currently unpaid because my one American barbell bar is an American Mammoth bar, which they don't make anymore because it's extremely passive

knurling and I don't love it. It's an extremely well-constructed bar, but for being a power bar it is trash as far as the neural so for that being my main experience with american barbell unpaid i've also listened to a few pod at least one podcast he did and like the guy that owns the company is very much a commercial gym guy making commercial gym equipment and just like doesn't really give a fuck about the home gym community I mean and they it literally

took like in the entire discord of the whole you know the home gym discord to like you know prod them enough to you know actually recreate the power bar make a good one but then it's I don't like they have like well we have this like we have this really aggressive version and we have this less aggressive

version and no one understands the fucking Tpi and you have to special order if you want the sharp one i'm like no just fucking make the bars put them on the goddamn website and explain which one's the sharpest so for them not getting their shit together for their power bar unpaid for sure but yeah i can understand that yeah i uh earlier, whenever it was, four hours ago, about starting my home gym in peak 2020 COVID time when there was whole Reddits devoted to when Rogue is back in stock on stuff. from Ohio to California is super expensive. So I, my first barbell and my first weights were American barbell because some guy basically just took a truck to Vegas, right, where American barbell is kind of based, filled up his truck with stuff, right, bought stuff Barbell is kind of based, filled up his truck with stuff, right, bought stuff kind of wholesale, I guess, and set up shop in the Bay Area and just selling stuff to

like people who wanted it, right, like individual stuff, right, not commercial stuff. So I ended up getting stuff, you know, a little bit more expensive than the Rogue sticker price, but with zero shipping, right, so it ended up being like basically the same cost and i think uh i think the quality of the stuff i got is is higher than you know some made for home gym stuff right because it's like commercial grade right like much more durable so so i i would say like from my perspective i'd say underrated uh but yeah very different experiences i guess yep and my answer could change in the future if i actually get a chewy underrated. But yeah, very different experiences, I guess. My answer could change in the future

if I actually get a Chewy and I fall in love with it, but I don't like their indecisiveness and the fact that people have been trying to get them to make a deadlift bar for five years and they can't figure it out. It's just like, it's not fucking hard. Just make a 27 fucking millimeter bar that's got whip and make it stainless.

Well, making it stainless steel is the hard part because it's not fucking hard. Just make a 27 fucking millimeter bar. That's got whip like, and make it stainless. Well, making a stainless steel is the hard part because like it's stainless steel is too hard to be whippy basically. But I don't know, like, I guess it's, it's, it's hard because I'm so in fucking vested in the home gym community to like, like grass that like,

all these like big companies that literally make all their money selling commercial gym equipment, just kind of dabble in the home gym equipment field, like are neglecting us. But like, well, they're neglecting like such a sub market of their, like if they make a million dollars,

like they're only getting fucking like a hundred thousand dollars from gym equipment, like home gym equipment or whatever. So like, I get it, but it's just as a home gym guy, I'm going to always support companies that more home gym focus, which even rogue isn't rogue is fucking rope. Doesn't get the fuck by the home gym., which even Rogue isn't. Rogue doesn't get the fuck

by the home gym. Right. Yep. Sorry, I kind of got there. Good answer. Big Joey. Unpaid or underrated? Might be pronouncing this wrong.

Weber's Burgers. Alright, Weber's Burgers? might be pronouncing this wrong uh weber's burgers all right weber's burgers do you know what i'm talking about no i might have to give you some context so uh so i have a follow-up if you don't uh but i i've been to toronto a couple times but the best time i've been was in summer we drove up up to Muskoka Lakes and stayed in a cottage up there. And on the way up from Toronto City to Muskoka, we stopped at this roadside burger place that was like crazy busy. Yep, I know it. Look up the name, Weber's Burgers. Yep.

Yeah, actually. You're underrated. I've never had it. And because I refuse to stand in those lineups and for those of you trying right for those of you that don't know weber's burgers is um on the side of a very very busy highway and they are so fucking busy that they have a parking lot in front of their building and then they have a parking lot on the other side of the highway with a bridge that goes over the highway to them and you have to order sometimes hours hours in advance and i remember driving by and looking and saying to to my wife like what is that why aren't

we why aren't we there look at that crowd and she well, you hate crowds. That's why we're not there. And then she told me the story of what they are. And yeah, I've actually never had them because I have zero patience for waiting that long for anything. So I'm obviously going to have to say unpaid because lineups are for people that care about that kind of stuff. But it is likely a very, very good hamburger. I remember the line.

I do not remember the burger. So I have to agree with you. Yeah, that might make some sense. But yeah, I just distinctly remember coming back and going, wait, is that parking lot so that I can walk to Weber's? Mm hmm. Because and she's like, yeah, it is. Holy shit.

And then there was a candy shop the candy shop actually across from weber's probably was way more important because it's this weird little place on the side of a highway that has all this candy from all over the country and parts of the u.s it has a weird little like elf play land off to the side and then they have like this really old stainless steel um playground in the back and my kids like three because we're coming back from muskoka and yeah we stop and i look at the slide and i was like i fucking remember that slide from when I was his age. Those have been banned. And he was just like, yay! And I was like, oh, he's gonna get tetanus tonight.

But yeah, that's funny you bring that up. Thank you for the description there. It took me a second there. But no, I have no patience for those types of lineups. Yep, I'm with you. So I did a little bit deep dive this one's a big key unpaid or under rent unpaid or underrated erie pennsylvania erie pennsylvania is uh so that's a that's a town uh about three hours for me and about three hours my parents so

we meet up there periodically because neither of us really want to drive six hours uh to like spend a weekend together so like that is like a a hub little area that we can both get to and you know a long morning drive so specifically for that reason that it's like allowed me to see my parents more while they're still on this earth. 100% underrated. The town itself, unpaid, but the trips to Erie are extremely

underrated for me. What about the television show Erie Pennsylvania? I don't know that I've seen it or heard of it. Erie, Indiana. It was Erie, Indiana, was it? Okay, thank you for correcting me on that one yep uh it was like a kids show it was like uh it was x files for kids yeah yeah right right i remember it being good but i'm sure looking back it wasn't great more mullets than i want to remember yeah nice uh okay a lot of these are for keith

that's fine he's way more important than i am i mean well i guess let me let me ask big joy first i'm paid or underrated the name david i just know so many fucking Davids like there's just no end to the amount of Davids I know and it's it's not like like have you ever met somebody and they don't know their name and then they say a couple

things and you kind of guess their name like yep I don't Kyle don't kyle maybe a kyle it's actually i hate to say it's a keith i've met enough keiths to know when a keith is in my vicinity um it's not a bad thing um i don't have that with david's because like we're david i know so many davids and they're all so different yet like now that i'm thinking of all the davids i've met in my life

there's like one or two outliers but i can kind of sense davids now um so probably unpaid just in the sense that like i don't think I named my kid a David but I'm also not my parents why do you ask that question it's mostly for Keith because I know Keith has shunned the name

his birth name don't fucking say that I did it I'll go on a fucking tantrum was that the first episode where I had an emotional breakdown explaining why my name was Keith and why I don't go by David? I didn't fucking choose it because I was a fucking one-day

old person and I was just told this was what my name was. You don't get to pick your fucking name. Exactly. Oh, so you do remember. Yeah. That's great. that's actually fantastic that was one of my favorite like little like rants on this podcast that was good

shit okay I'll bring it in with this last one this one's for both of you um uh because I know this is a big movie podcast and that's what we mostly like to talk about movies and so movies we didn't talk about Star Wars this entire episode

holy shit that's crazy I am not I am not a Star Wars guy is it a tricky one? might be a hot take, I'm not a tricky one so unpaid or underrated I'll ask Joey

first again fight scenes unpaid or underrated uh i'll ask joey first again fight scenes unpaid or underrated okay so like we were talking about this the other day i'm a sucker for Western and noir. So, revenge movies, fucking love revenge movies. I'll watch them all day, every day. That's why John Wick is one of my favorite movies of all time. Noir movies, Brick was fantastic. But the problem with fight scenes is they're either amazing or not. And there's rarely ever a, eh.

You know what I mean? So, best fight scene? Probably the hallway fight in Marvel's Daredevil. Probably one of my favorite fight scenes in this series, not the Ben Affleck. Which was, of course, just a bit of a redux of the hallway fight in Oldboy. But Daredevil felt a little more gritty and kind of violent. Second best fight scene in several years, John Wick in his house when they first show up.

The assassins. And when he breaks that one guy's neck over the side of the counter. I love fight scenes. I think when they're choreographed properly, they're fantastic, but when they're not, they are not, and they are very obviously not great. John Wick was the best because John Wick was choreographed, written, directed by stuntmen. That is why...

In some fight scenes, you can tell when they're using a stand-in because they're not choreographed by somebody who tell when they're using a stand-in because they're not choreographed by somebody who knows what they're doing in John Wick you don't realize that he's killed the same guy three times in the same scene

and that guy has been shot, ran off camera put on a different wig, came and got shot again and that's how good they did that movie so underrated came and got shot again. And that's how good they did that movie. So, underrated. What are you, Keith?

I thought that was going to be a just Joey question, sorry. I was not thinking of an answer the entire time for that, you fucker. You said I was going to ask Joey this one. He said Joey first. Joey first. Fight scenes in movies. Hmm. Honestly, they're probably unpaid.

There's not great... I loved all those movies growing up as a kid. I'd fucking watch Only the Strong and fucking Lionheart and all that shit. Like watch those adults. And it's just like the most like core, like the most like, uh,

telegraphed fucking fish, shitty action scenes. Uh, I don't know. Like, did that make the movie? Do I like action movies? Yeah.

Are they, do I need a fight scene to be 17 minutes of a 30 minute episode of a TV show or something? No. Um, they, they over like warrior does a good job because I feel like warrior has enough story with like, that's like the most, I mean, and then that even has like excessive fight scenes. Like you just said, you don't need 17 minutes. Yeah, but I i i would say warrior does it well but warrior is good though like if if there was like a shitty like uh what was the one on um tnt a few years ago into the badlands into the badlands i think was just not

as good of action scene i don't know maybe the first couple you can tell when they lost their budget basically and like the shit just went down go i guess whereas like warrior seems like a kept it budget so i guess overall unpaid but like because there's more bad and there's good i guess i'll put it like that there's more bad action scenes and fight scenes and specific fight scenes and movies and they're good i i agree with you i agree with keith like for me a fight scene like just just isn't believable I guess right like it it just takes me completely out I'm like can you how do they do it right like from from uh I guess probably like ever since like the matrix started doing wire you know what the wire stuff right without hovering around like that kind of extreme

yeah yeah i don't know but comic book fight scene right like that's over overused you'll notice that i didn't bring that up um i did bring up keanu reeves though and it is worth noting that when keanu reeves does an action movie keanu ree Reeves sets records. He sets Speed, he set The Matrix, he set John Wick. Whenever he's been in an action movie, he resets the entire culture of action movies. With that said, I agree with you, but that is not one of the things I brought up in a fight scene. I brought up the choreography, because I also watch wrestling. And what is wrestling it's broadway it's dancing it's violent but it's choreographed right like yeah i'm gonna drop you six feet on

your back but like i'm gonna tell you when i'm gonna do it it's not a real fight scene so i think that if you're watching movies for the believability of movies, you might want to reconsider why you're watching television. Right. Like something like, uh, I don't know, like, uh,

like fight club, right. Doesn't have fight scenes in that Marvel or comic book. I mean, that's certainly fighting, right. Like much more, I would say watch,

um, not believable, but gritty i guess so john wick is not a great example because gun fu is fucking ridiculous but it's because it is a comic book style fight scene um the the daredevil thing i brought up is the opposite of that it's genuinely genuinely violent and gritty uh There's one called The Protector with Tony Jaa. Tony Jaa does not use wires.

He does not use any of that shit. That's fun to watch. That's a lot of gross broken bones, though. A lot of gross broken bones. But I can see what you're saying. I can see what you're saying. Action movies aren't my go-to.

Yeah, and then there's the you know stuff much before that right like uh in fact uh uh shit uh michael cain in gold in gold member right austin powers three where he says to like the henchman like that's not how this works you guys come at me one at a time and i i give you one blow and you're out yeah like that kind of like james bond style like no you come at me one at a time i hit you once and you're down i'm like that's it i'm the hero i do love in kung fu movies where uh he they do that they'd come on the one-on-one but i always watch the guys in the background because they're just dancing they're just dancing. They're doing a crab shuffle waiting for their chance to go and attack the guy. If two of you came at the same time,

you'd just win. One at a time. That wraps up Unpaid or Underrated. I think you guys passed. I think you guys passed. I'm glad to hear that. Before we get to our outro, I do want to do a little follow up on last week from the best of my recollection

we were kind of asking how many Canadian listeners we thought we had so we got Joey sometimes, Joey's wife Scantz Big Mabel who's actually it's not, that's just funny I think he is a Matt if I believe but it's so it's not like a just funny he made it i think is i think you think he is a matt if i believe but it's it's it's it's so it's it's not like a female named mabel because like my cat's named

mabel so every time i see that on the discord i'm like is this a this is okay that's cool there's a girl with my cat name i'm like no this is a dude that's just like a play on his name i think uh and then there was someone else oh wow big the matt the other uh the the british well i don't know the the big man that actually lives in europe uh right yeah i think oh yeah he he yeah dutch he he claimed that he was from europe uh yeah canada i think it was a joke i'm not really sure i i just i caught it and i was like he said he was the president of ontario right no that's alex so alex yeah so alex is alex has been to canada okay so he's not canadian no but it's really funny that everybody thinks he is and him and i have joked about that before but he does

listen um i could just afford matt said something too maybe it's definitely Dutch Matt is legitimately Canadian I think it is four so I saw Alex's joke comment and then I did see Dutch Matt's real comment so that's four or five and that's a follow up from last week

alright well I just want to say one thing and it's one thing we have not really brought up i saw it it's funny you brought it up in the discord recently because i was thinking about it lately uh start leaving us some reviews uh i can't see the american reviews i can only see the canadian reviews and i only have two so if you guys are listening and you want to leave a five-star review make fun of us mostly ke Keith, leave me alone. I'm fragile. And yeah, that would be really cool.

It would be fun to see us get some reviews pushed up to the top of the comedy podcast. Are we listed as comedy or fitness? That's neat. I don't think there's a fitness adjacent. I hope it's not fitness. We do not talk fitness. I would. So I had a buddy that listened to my podcast because he thought it was going to be because he like knows me and knows how

i hold jim oriented how i didn't oriented that i am and he didn't understand what i was in massive that he he was like he he literally he legitimately said you guys didn't talk about listening waste very much i have no clue what episode he listened to but i was just like i'm like i feel bad because like i i literally i legitimately don't push this podcast on people because it's like there's 500 people that would get it like at most like unless you're like maybe i mean possibly more because we do talk enough about massonomics that you could you you could not be crew but follow massonomics and kind of get it but unless you intend to be crew like like we're literally like why do you listen to the podcast david i'm curious why do i listen yeah i ask myself that question every every week i was just thinking that that's a good that's a good answer i'm legitimately curious this is something i've

never asked before i don't know i think uh this is kind of a serious answer, I guess. When I was starting my gym, and I've said this like 20 times I think in this episode, right? It was peak COVID, right? I wasn't seeing anyone outside my four walls of my house. So I was lifting on my own. I was researching on youtube how you know technique and programming and building shit and you know i did watch a lot of coop stuff at that time sorry big keith uh so then when i so then when i found yeah so then when i found the podcast it was like it was like uh you know community and you know like uh like uh your least favorite

office character right michael scott like you know i love inside jokes i'd love to be part of one someday right when you're not getting you're not you're not getting an in-person community maybe you maybe you look for it somewhere else so just the idea that uh i was listening and i you know somehow like i related to some elements of of i don't know midwest life or south dakota life uh i understood some of those things a lot of things i didn't you know uh connect with but some things i did yeah so I keep listening to the podcast. I'm in the discord, masonomics.com slash join.

Yes. Plug for the, plug for the crew. That is a great, that is a great answer, but unless I misspoke my question, why do you listen to our podcast? Oh, why do you listen to this? I thought you said. We were literally talking about that thing on the radio.

I wanted to know specifically. I was talking... Their podcast. The podcast. The podcast. The two E's, right? The podcast. Meme material.

Yeah, meme material. I was waiting for him to circle back around. Is he going to talk about us and how it correlates? Because we're a subsect of them. i was like yeah he's just talking about their podcast i don't get it yeah i don't know i'm pretty active on the discord so you know a lot of weeks i don't get to listen to the podcast maybe till like wednesday thursday and i feel like i'm missing out on their podcast right and then i don't listen if i don't listen to your podcast for a couple days i'm missing out on a lot of the chat right like a lot of people listen to it right away

uh so i guess if i didn't listen i wouldn't be able to make relevant meme content and you know join in the discussion right but i've also then you know learned about people i didn't you know know a ton about or you know seen a different side of people who are also pretty active in the discord so yeah same answer really right like community and uh niche inside jokes that's that's kind of my goal like my goal like with this especially now it's like lift hard is going to be a thing like before it could have just been like the arnold there's a lot of people by the arnold but now with the lift hard it's like yeah we're like now you're going to know a thing. Before, it could have just been like the Arnold. There's a lot of people who go to the Arnold, but now with the LiftWard, it's like, yeah, now you're going to know 30 people that

you didn't know because you listened to them talk for two and a half hours. Oh, well, I think we just hit three hours. Let's bring this one up for a later. We did it. I'm going to pee. We've been talking for three hours. By the time it gets cut and edited and shit, Jen probably might have edged you out,

but it's going to be really close because we've definitely been recording for three hours. Love it. Alright, well, speaking of that, it's time to get out of here, guys. Time to really dive right in, actually.

I'm Joey. Like I said, if you're following or listening to this, you follow me. I'm fucking exhausted. I'm getting worse and're following or listening to this, you follow me. I'm fucking exhausted. I'm getting worse and worse with the outros. Like you guys, like at first I was like, and follow us here and like have fun. And I'm like,

just because it gives me anxiety that you don't say it. So now I play the music just so we can go. So, all right. Instagram, unpaid and underrated podcast website, unpaid intern podcast.com. I'm vain. So please go follow me. Big Keith, honey. God, well, right. Instagram, Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. Website, UnpaidInternPodcast.com. I'm Vane, so please go follow me, Big Keith Honeycutt.

Well, shit, no. KeithHoneycutt73 on Instagram. Go follow him on Orange Gym, the wine cellar. And one of these Davids is going to tell you where you can find him. Hold on. Did you just say it gives you anxiety if I don't say it and then you said it wrong? Yes, absolutely. So now I have more anxiety.

So now I got to do better next time. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, bro. I'm almost too tired to have anxiety. Yeah, you can find my very rarely posted to personal account, I guess, at mills.85, and

my meme account, much more interesting, and crew adjacent Deficit Jeffersons. Thanks, boys. And of course, use our deficit Jeffersons. Thanks boys. And of course, use our codes when you can. I think we already touched on it earlier, but yeah, no big Matt this week. He

basically bailed again. He had his personal reasons and, uh, we'll see you next Tuesday, boys.