Unpaid And Underrated - 032 : The Butt Plug Ratio

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Join our heros this week as they struggle with technology and fight with modern first world problems to produce this banger of an episode. In additon to their technical foibles, they dive into some December to Remember follow up and recap Joey's meet. 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 @natee561 (https://www.instagram.com/natee561/) On Instagram @MostlySquatVideos (https://www.instagram.com/MostlySquatVideos/) 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 Guests: Big Matt and Big Nate.

Hello everybody and welcome back to episode 34 of the unpaid and underrated podcast. It's a podcast by crew for crew and relentlessly mocked by the discord crew. I am your host, Big Joey. I am joined by Big Keith. Howdy. And everybody, since we're halfway through to episode 69, we finally did it. We finally got Big Matt, mostly squat videos on here.

Hey, Matt, how you doing? Hey, guys. Thanks for finally having me on the show. Matt. You there, buddy? You have to, uh... Is your microphone hooked up? I had an issue last week. What do you mean my mic's not working? It's not muted, like, from my end.

Jesus Christ. Are we ever gonna get this figured out? Hey, what are you guys doing? Yeah, this is basic. Give me a second. I'm gonna phone Nate. Alright. Oh, technical difficulties, my fat Irish ass. Yeah, Matt's audio's all messed up. Would you jump on and see if we can fix it like we did last week? There he is.

Hey. What's up? Long time no see, stranger. Well, Matt can't seem to sort out his audio. He looks pretty pissed. Well, Matt can't seem to sort out his audio. He looks pretty pissed. I've literally, can you, are you guys competent enough to just turn microphones on?

Is this just a difficult situation for all of you or what's the deal? I will have you know, I've never turned anything on in my life. I can expect that. Well, you know what? Okay. Matt looks like he's just going to hop off. Maybe, I don't know. He'll probably just hop on later. I can't believe you're doing this to me.

This is absolute bull. I'm just going to stick around. You guys can't seem to figure out this podcast thing like two weeks in a row without me. I've been cutting like 45 minutes of extra text and comments and things out of your messages or out of the whatever this is, this podcast thing. You guys just talk about stuff that isn't even the podcast and I have to cut it out. thing. You guys just talk about stuff that isn't even the podcast and I have to cut it out. It's, Oh, Nathan, can you cut my 60 minute epilogue about the thing I did with my, uh, you know, that one thing I'm not supposed to talk about it. Um, but you know, all right, I'm just gonna, I've got some segments. I've got lined up. I've had these in the, in the, my back pocket for

months. If Matt joins, whatever you guys can interview interview him i know you've reached into people's dms and all that but just we'll set him to the side um all right guys what are you drinking tonight because obviously matt probably was drinking some fancy ipa or something that he bought for 60 from who knows what brewery that micro batches with next to their socks or whatever he was he was probably on his 17th one and that's why he couldn't figure out his damn laptop because he's drunk on a thursday night at eight well i'm we can't expect him to you know be cooking dinner and getting onto a podcast all on the same night so yeah well it's a bummer we tried really hard to get him on um i have something morgan picked up for me uh the last time we were in the city we've had this brand before uh this is a water it's not a beer.

And it is called, if you remember candy can, it was that really weird, sweet one. I had, this one is called rocket ice, lolly, zero sugar,

sparkling water. So we're going to see if I hate this. Is that the same brand that had the burgers in it last time? No, that was Mentos. That was legitimately. Okay. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. I remember that one. Whoa. Double crack. Mentos. Yeah, you're right. Whoa, double crack. Oh, no. Yeah, so this is supposed to smell like, or taste like one of those red, white, and blue popsicles, I guess. Okay, that could be good. It's the wrong time of year for that.

It's also the wrong country to be enjoying that. Joe, you're not allowed to have that. It's actually delicious. I don't know if I'm going to do the whole can because, like, it's very sweet. But, yeah, I'm in. It's delicious. I'm rocking.

Yep. I've got me some Fair Life protein, the Wegmans 30-gram one. It was pretty much out of sparkling water. So I was like, what can I drink that's not just tap water? And here we go. It's the old reliable protein in a bottle. And it is in my nice, strong, and silly sippy cup for the retro, you know, thick foam cup. Koozie, that is.

Did you guys request those? Somebody requested that they make those. I feel like it might have been on this show. I kept requesting a skinny one. Yeah. those somebody requested that they make those i feel like it might have been on this show i kept requesting a uh a skinny one um yeah but that has yet to you know surface but i'm not sure who you know requests i mean it is night it definitely you know it reminds me of like the one that my dad would have used in like the early 90s at like a barbecue or something but i definitely don't like see these like i don't think i use these necessarily growing up or drinking at parties and shit but it definitely is like nostalgic to see it

and like feel it i think they're dope it's pretty cool um i just got water i didn't have any sparkling water in the house on my way down here to fix your guys's freaking podcast um so i just i have a i keep a silly pint at my desk, um, that I fill up with water and I just got this, uh, fancy, fancy Husky standing sit stand desk from home Depot for my birthday. And it's got a nice metal frame so I can snap a drink spotter onto the side of it. Genius. Genius.

Super safe. Super. But because I had to reef jigger my desk to be able to get with you guys and not use whatever um i don't get to use it tonight and i'm a little nervous i might this would be that would be on me to ruin the podcast if i just dumped my water all over my computer but i'll do my best so yeah just walk through tonight at least we're recording to the cloud so it wouldn't kill us too bad we're not we're recording locally keith and this is why i'm here i like to record don't even know he likes to record the cloud nope we're locally man that's how i send to get you know what

that's why nate's here yeah every since i went okay when we recorded to before you used to always do it to the freaking cloud i've never never done it to the cloud. Oh, my God. He always did. Not once. I share it in iCloud. No. Keith, we're going to have to put you on suspension here pretty soon. You better need to get in line. What are you wearing this week, guys?

What's the apparel business looking like tonight, Keith? I am representing our podcast with my Amazon made shitty heavy cotton that's like way saggy and big t-shirt, but it's got our name on it and that's pretty damn cool. That is cool. The unpaid and underrated podcast. Yes. I'm still wearing the Ouch Everything Hurts from last week.

No, last week I was wearing the Lyft one. But yeah, I just put on a random shirt. Interestingly, I have an unpaid and underrated shirt on its way as well i did i stole your idea and i was like amazon but for some reason this is coming all the way from china like there's just no local one stop yeah one like a hundred different places to get it from i think so it's whichever the yeah i just went with the top rated and yeah it's shipping all the way from like wuhan or something no i'm curious about nature oh shenzhen it was shenzhen

the shenzhen every you know everybody knows about shenzhen what are you curious about it looks like you have a working hard shirt but it's like it's coming off as like teal and i know mine is not that blue so you're you must have like, so your filter must be turning your shirt a different color or something. I don't know. It's going through the cloud. It's the cloud filter. Yeah, it's the cloud filter. Also, this is –

I hate you so much. I swear to God. I used to always record locally, and you told me you always recorded to the damn cloud. That's why we lost the file when you ran out of freaking cloud space the first time. I'm not making this shit up. It's true. Audience, please don't listen to a word he said.

This is the blue working hard tea. I threw it on because you guys make me work hard editing these episodes and fixing all of your mistakes. Matt's inability to record his own podcast or log on to Zoom. It's not even that hard. My grandma could do this and Matt can't get on here zoom it's not even that hard my grandma could do this and matt

can't get on here it's ridiculous yeah working hard tea um classic beefy i just needed a nice warm hug hug of a t-shirt i'll give you a hug if i ever actually meet you in person damn it no well if you would keith just couldn't be bothered to stay three extra hours at the arnold for me that's why i'm not gonna travel with my wife to stuff in the future. I don't think it'll be easier. When my wife says it's time to go, it's time to go. When I'm there by myself, I guess I get a little bit more leeway. Yeah.

Speaking of leeway, let me leeway us right into one of my favorite segments. What did you guys think about um last week's episode of the podcast i know seemed pretty dense to me if you ask me there were a lot of things said on that podcast that i did not understand keith i know you're up talk yeah yeah well not even sets it was like there is powerlifting politics that's i'm which i i i do listen to probably i think i've listened to pretty much every two white lights episode uh oh my word some of them are very consumable and some of them are very much like all right skip skip skip skip skip like i don't need to listen to like a fourth recap of like a random meet that i don't give a shit about uh but when they do get a chance to do

interviews it's always really decent uh they used to do i used to really uh like when they did uh they did they would do like a madden raid they would have like the power lifter give themselves like a madden rating and then they would give them they would give them a madden rating too so like like your squat bench and deadlift from like zero to 99 like what do you give yourself so i always enjoyed that and steve is part of that. Steve got into a lot of politics talk. I mean, that's kind of what it is. Power lifting and, you know, with USPL and power, the American IPF and all that shit going on.

It's, you know, nothing I haven't heard before. It was kind of, you know, funny to listen to him, like kind of like dumb it down for Tanner and Tommy a little bit sometimes and like put it a little more in layman's terms. You know, it was a combination of two podcasts i really enjoy but do definitely you know give massonomics the edge so it's kind of weird that they got the enemy on i don't know what i can give it this week uh this is on the five ipod touches scale i believe still so is there uh i don't know is there a negative iPod touch? If not, I'll go ahead and give it a five. Go ahead. Five,

five iPod touches. Valid score. You think having that guy on is the enemy. Wait till they get Omar on. Um, that'll be the day. Yeah. Let's skip that one.

So like I listened to it, it took me a little bit. And my thing did that. Like Apple did the same thing where just out of nowhere, there's 30 minutes left. And it was like, Oh, you oh you're gonna start again it did it to me again and i don't understand how to stop it um but i mean joe sullivan's always a really good interview right like but he's always in the drama um so oh sorry uh it wasn't joe sullivan it was the other dramatic guy steve so um i don't know they actually have big beef between them it's kind of funny

well but i mean people joe sullivan has beef joe sullivan doesn't get on with anyone but i mean it's just it's all the the stuff that i try and avoid as much as i can is that drama is that you know anything but silly goose time um but luckily tanner and tommy there to totally redeem it so i'm gonna give that five ipod touches nice yeah i guess that's a good outlook i uh i did a wild thing with this podcast this week um i this week's been a deload for me uh and i've just been sludging through workouts lately and deload was just sludging. And I was like, I walked outside and I saw it was like two hours and 30 minutes or more. It was almost an unpaid and underrated podcast length. Um, and I was like, Holy cow. I've been, I've been like falling behind on a lot of my,

uh, the shows I listened to, even though there's only one podcast. Um, but I was like, I need to like, listen to this while I lift, like I'm clinically insane. Uh, so I, I threw it on while I was doing my workout Monday morning and it was great because basically the part where they had the guest on, I was lifting and wasn't paying as much, but it was fine because I,'t know i i can't follow all of that stuff there's too much going on i think keith just fell out of his chair um just a slight technical difficulty i didn't know i needed to get you guys chairs delivered as well i need to get a row i've got a wobbly chair have you guys ever seen these i've been sitting on this ever since we started recording and it's like it's a stool but you need to get a rope. I've got a wobbly chair. Have you guys ever seen these? I've been sitting on this ever since we started recording,

and it's like, it's a stool, but you need to, like, use your legs to balance. Like, you can't, like, sit cross-legged or anything. Interesting. I sit cross-legged, like, 90% of the time we record. Yeah, so if you ever see me, like, wobbling or falling over, does this chair just... Anyway, sorry to interrupt, Nate.

You were saying? No, you're good. Something about iPod Touches. So, I don't know. Overall, I'd give it five iPod touches like the mathematics gym ones as well i think it's i think it was very worth it speaking of ipod touches i saw an oh this gives me an incredible idea so i saw a um or not me because i'm not competent enough for this but but I'm putting this out into the universe for Tommy. I saw a designer made like iPhone home screens that were like iPod classic style where and then like the time and stuff all fit inside of the top window of like the little iPod classic.

And then he had like, you know, the different colors that iPod classics came in. And then he had some other versions that he like designed stickers and put it like all over the ipod classic like you might do um and i think tommy should do like an ipod gym uh or massonomics ipod classic lock screen and then do like little massonomic stickers on the ipod and people could use it as a lock screen i think that would be killer i could not design that good enough. But Tommy, if you're listening, wink twice. We would like that. When you listen to this in six or seven months.

Yeah, he listens, but he's a little behind. When Tommy, hey, he's got a lot going on. He does. Busy guy. Busy guys. You know, he's so busy, you might even think that if he were to fly on a plane, he might fly first class. But if he didn't, I do know someone who did fly first class recently.

And that was a host of the show, friend of the show, Mr. Big Keith, the orange glaze. Why don't you, before you tell us about this experience, how would you rate? Flying first class? Oh, it was definitely a 9.5 out of 10 oh that's the glaze scale does not have okay at nine out of ten half points for one oh that's true so if anyone gets confused because when i rate stuff on instagram i do give myself the caveat of being able to go a 0.5 one way or the other uh because i randomly throw it up on instagram just as like a story for content or whatever and everyone's always like oh that doesn't match the other one yeah well i mean whatever but uh flying one to ten on a only a one scale increments uh we're talking about the glaze rating scale is what you're using okay yeah i'm using big nate's

orange glaze pick on keith scale yeah fuck you made this i asked you explain the ratings don't put this on me i got the website as a whole yeah and it's more now because tanner used it on they did that was that was that no that was yeah because i always get confused because i was able to catch last because they did a random tuesday recording this week that i caught like bits and pieces of so but yeah actually that was my favorite part was listening to uh to to harken back to the five ipod touches yeah tanner and tommy using the orange glaze scale to rate predator and tommy actually written at the exact same thing that i rated it so everyone can get off my chops so that that tommy and i both have the same opinion of predator and seven is not a bad score seven is a very good score it is completely possible that two people at two separate times in two separate locations of the country are wrong about the same thing it's completely possible

it's happened multiple times tonight when you and nate agreed against something that i agreed with your fucks anyway i still want to go back to like tell us what it's like to be part of the one percent like how was that experience that was yeah i don't know that overfly one first class again financially because i don't know if i've ever recovered from that but it was a present for my wife so thank you big stephanie for booking that flight for me and the whole crew weekend as a whole but i mean flying flying sucks no matter what flying is like a horrible crappy experience but uh she was very awesome and got me the seats. It was a decent sized plane, but it's still like the first the first class. It was one seat on one side and two on the other.

So she knew I would want the one that was just the the one off. So I didn't have to share it even even in first class sharing, you know, a row with someone isn't going to be great. So having my literal own seat, just no one around me. i wasn't the first one i was the second one back so i didn't have that i don't know what that someone's sump pump just kicked on or something it sounds like oh that's a heater in my basement there you go okay who has the bad sound quality now but it was just great man like it different flight attendant it was kind of because it was a four four flights over you know three days or whatever uh and like every different you could you could tell like how pissy the flight attendants was because some were like

bringing you drinks like right off the bat and like being like coming back to you like every five minutes and you assigned it and then i had the lady on my flight back was just like super crabby like you know one drink and then like i didn't see her again the rest of the two hour flight. I was like, oh, OK. But just just the extra just the extra space, not having to fight for overhead storage and then having to worry about getting your bag checked last minute and being like the one asshole that can't find overhead storage for your carry on. If you're like in the back of the plane, basically. So being able to actually put my being like one of the first 10 people on the flight and being able to be the one of the first 10 off was amazing. Like not having to sit there and do the whole, like, uh, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're boarding a section one now.

Now we're boarding section two and section three, like, like that section one, that's me. It's definitely worth it. Is it worth it financially? Um, if it's like 30% more than what your cheap ticket is, do it. If it's like 50%, maybe dumb, you know, if it's like 30% more than what your cheap ticket is, do it. If it's like 50%, maybe dumb, you know, if it's like double, you know what I mean? Like if it's,

if it's marginally more expensive, it's definitely worth it. But you know, at least do it once, but you will be spoiled. Uh, cause man, it's going to suck flying next to someone again.

Uh, so question, um, how are we going to get a private jet for us to get to aberdeen for the lift hard live easy classic meet i think it's the real question couple more sponsors for the podcast yeah we're gonna try to uh milk a little bit more out of our existing sponsor so we could get spirit airlines if you're listening uh and you want to sponsor the unpaid and underrated podcast fly us out i could definitely it's like

just a couple hops you know and we could all meet at keith's house or something be great yeah not very um so were all of your flights in first class on this trip yeah yeah okay so yeah it was great man it was great and it was the, because, like, she knows how much. Like, it was, like, all, it was basically, it wasn't the same plane, but it was the same layout. So, I was. Because he peed on it so that nobody else would sit on it. I was. I was.

Left a sticker. This is Keith. You know, row two, seat B, I think, or A, whatever. No, it was 2A. Yeah, because it was A on my side and then B, C on the other. So, yeah, 2A. That was great. So, yeah, it was. other. So yeah, 2A. That was great. So yeah, it was so much easier. And it was the first time I ever flew by myself either, too. First time I've really ever traveled by myself without my wife. So that was an experience.

So having it be first class really helped because I didn't have to like I was already anxious about traveling and walking through the airport and finding my terminal and all that shit. And then they changed the like literally every flight they changed what terminal it was like 10 minutes before you had a board it felt like it wasn't that way but there was two that they did change pretty pretty abruptly um so then having that just not having the extra pressure of like oh is this is this flight gonna suck is there gonna am i gonna be scrammed next to like three people that are actually bigger than me somehow like nope it was just as convenient as could be just keith on his own it was pretty much i was it was it was it was the way to do it um solo man um yeah first class has always been interesting when i went to went to europe um

my senior year at high school i did not fly first class. But I walked, like, the international flights first class seats look wild. Because I've, like, flown on, you know, I've flown to, like, New Mexico or, like, where else have I flown to? Like, no, I think we bused to Canada. Yeah, we bused to Canada when I've been a couple times. But, like, I've i've seen like you know standard pretty close first class seats and i'm like i don't know why i would pay from extra money for that but when i saw the ones for like international fights i was like one those have to be one million

dollars they look incredible but i was like that is probably worth the money because of turning to a bed and stuff too i think right yeah because like flying from chicago o'hare to london in a chair that doesn't really lean back is not the best to be fair it's not a not an exciting time but hey you got there um so speaking of places we've gone uh joey you went some places you did some things you saw some things you lifted some things you put them back down uh you had a hat on you took the hat off um very abruptly confused announcers with said hat yeah i just told i couldn't wear it yeah yeah you're talking about my meat on the weekend. My big meat.

Yeah. I mean, what is it big? Not to be confused with Keith's 20 meat sticks that he was excited about. How is your single meat stick? I was listening to that. And as soon as I heard it, just me in the background. Oh my god, and me and Nate dying.

It was very good. It was my second meet in this place for WRPF, and it was liftmas. But yes, you cannot wear a Christmas hat while you lift. They will not allow that. That's why I had to come out and take it off before I touched the bar. Can you wear any hat? No. Wow. Nope. No hat's in that fed. So that is why

I came out, took it off, and threw it on the ground because they told me, no, we'll red light you or make you take it off before you lift. I asked. Did alright. Went 8 for 9. First time I've squatted, so it was my first full power nice um but going into it i'm using juggernaut and i kind of recalculated the day before

and as you guys recall i was really sick last week so all of my like peaking lifts were while i was sick so i went from a 340 max attempt on squat down to like 325. And I got it easily. I kind of regret not going a little higher on that one. And then bench during warmup, I said to Steve, cause you remember big Steve also crew member. He was there with me.

I looked at him and I said, these aren't going well. Like my shoulder and my, like my packs are not happy right now. And that was during the warmup. Yeah. So got my second attempt. And then I said, fuck it.

Go to like, go to 180 pounds. Cause of my bench is trash. And Steve was like, that's too high. I was like, yep. But I'm either going to do it or not. And I did not. But that's, he says i shouldn't i should have went up two and a half instead of five kilos but i was like no i'm here to fail this attempt like if it goes up great if not i don't think i would get even what i just did again and then

deadlifts you guys know me deadlifts were. I actually gave up some weight on those just for the sake of having fun. Yeah, the one I saw moved like butter. Yeah, that was 441. And yeah, the juggernaut thought I was going to do 465. And then when I recalculated, it dropped me down to 441. But again, being sick, not eating, like, yeah, forcing hydration in myself, like, oh, I made weight too. I went at 74 kilos, so that was nice.

One fun thing, and I guess it's like, I did think about this. Keith, you would hate me at meets. You are not going to like me at the Live Hard, Live Easy. From what I saw in your story and what I saw in your comments on our thread, I was like, I agree with the other people that you're disagreeing with like 99% of the time when it comes to anything meat related. Your opinions on them and my opinions on them. Yeah, no, absolutely.

And it's not to say that they're bad people or wrong or anything, but I'm there to have fun. And people, people are not. And I don't want to... I'm not going to name any specific things or specific stories, but when you're doing a 30-person meet, you don't need a fucking photo, like your own photo crew. Some of the stuff that was going... People were... right like some of this stuff that was going like people were but did those people bring that like did one random person hire someone or did the meat director offer photo packages and people

just bought into it because there was a photo package okay well and then like the photo stuff in the corner with like the hood up and the headphones on and you you're in the zone and you're like i'm not i'm never gonna get along that. That's not at all what I'm doing when I go to a meet. I was doing shots in the back. I cracked a beer. I was eating sandwiches. And then I went out and ripped it. And it was great.

Every time I'd go out, I'd be grooving. Just dancing. I think at one point, right before my squat i started dancing and singing don't shit on the platform don't shit on the platform and so like the judges are dying the meat directors laughing a couple others are having fun but like i can see how people get annoyed with that kind of thing so sorry i'm here to have fun strong and silly so i've been, I've been thinking about how, how I, how to phrase this, but I think the,

the end point is I want to run a social experiment where Joey is Keith's meat handler and, and Keith is Joey's meat handler and just create like a documentary. No, experience. I would, I would, I would leave so much. we'd both bomb out and get

de-acquired for sure and like no each other no i think i would be fine because i would just stop paying attention to you yeah but then i would have to physically remove you from my way to make it to be able to like enjoy my day if it was the other way around like if you were my handler i'd be like yeah you're shit get out of here but if i was your handler you'd be you'd just be mad and like give up on the whole meat yep uh it would be mad i'm gonna make it work silly vibes only no i didn't big yep big steve competed right yes yeah how do you think he did well uh he did actually pretty good. He was kind of bummed that he messed up some of the conversions.

And I think he undershot his squat like 100 pounds. He was pretty pissed about that. Do you guys train in pounds? I do. No, he trains in kilos. Was it a pound meat then? No, it was a kilo meat. I don't know what happened, but I think...

Keith would love a pound meat. He did his second attempt and he walked out he was like that's that was too late and then he kind of did the math and he was like oh no like i should be going way higher than that and he murdered my bench and then i think he i think he did about the same as me on deadlift so for his first meet he did great um there was just on deadlift. So for his first meet, he did great. Um, there was just, you know, there's always the technical stuff that when it's your first meet, you're just not ready for even like my third meet. I'm still like,

Oh, your hand slid a little on your squat. Like we could have red lighted you. And I'm like, what? Like, I didn't even feel that happen. So,

you know, your sleeves can't touch your singlet. Yeah. Your socks. Right. Yeah. And that was one of those, like, you know your sleeves can't touch your singlet yeah your socks can't touch your knee sleeves yeah and that was one of those like you know they gave him a bit of a slap for on that on the wrist for that one so that was only it i think he had fun and i definitely think he wants to do it again uh having my kids there was amazing um saga fell asleep but oran was just like he wasn't all that excited but whenever i came out he'd be excited or whenever steve came out he'd be excited um so they've never been to a meet my wife has never watched me compete and she said that you know in case this is your last one i want to be

there because you won't be in south dakota steve's family was there and now his kid wants in oh cool and i think she's like 14. So we're going to have to work that out together. Um, yeah, absolutely. So it was really good. It was really fun.

And then it was also my birthday weekend. So naturally started drinking pretty early. Um, did the whole power lifting meet. Everything was fine. And then I went to play with Orin and went to suplex him we were having a suplex kind of fun thing and I told him to

tuck in his chin so that he didn't like land with his back arched instead he bucks his legs and sprains my fucking pinky finger I remember you saying that so I got through this entire meet without hurting myself and my four year old sprains my finger directly afterwards.

Welcome to fatherhood. Yeah, so I'm just running around with this big swollen pinky in pain. I can't grab the bar or anything, so that was it. And then we drank way too much. Ugh. Yeah, and then now it's now. Then I'm back to work and hate everything. No, we watched, I think I watched your deadlift, uh, with my oldest. And I was like, look,

Theo, it's big Joey. And he's like, Whoa, that's cool. And so I think I'm pretty sure when I put my youngest to bed today, they have this bit where they like to call me the wrong name. Um, I don't know know why but i'm pretty sure he said good night big joey and i was like good good night or no he's my middle child my youngest is four months old that wouldn't make any sense he can't so they so they so they get it from you because you don't know your kids apart then sounds yeah maybe it's just a you know it's part it's part of being a dad sometimes i call my oldest my brother's name i'll just be like jonathan stop that yeah wait one time one time i was trying to talk to saga

to get her to stop something and i called her my cat's name that's been dead for like six years you're not my cat and morgan looked at me she's like dude go to bed like what's wrong with you that's just like every other word out of my mouth is one of my children being the wrong name yep i'll be like yelling at one of them hey don't do that and they're like they're just like sitting quietly in the corner like we're fine what's wrong i'm like oh sorry i don't know who i'm upset with right now hey this this skinny cans fit in the new ones the leotard live easy ones okay i'm gonna try that it's not ideal like it's not it's not snug but it's not snug as a bug in a rug you'd need to wrap that with a drink spotter just for extra

safety probably oh drink spotter talk um all right well anything else to to wrap up your meat yeah no i'm i'm probably gonna try and do another one i might travel for this one right i might do a knot at that gym i love that gym actually and um there's a guy there robin he's the power daddy on instagram and he's kind of he matches me a little bit on the silly scale so scale when i went out when i went out for my third squad it it a one to 10 or a one to five scale? Yeah. Can you explain the silly scale for us? And is that compete?

Do we, do I need to make a website for that as well? It's a spectrum. It's not a scale. And he's like, I'm sitting there getting pumped. I think that was when I was like, it's like doing the don't shit on the platform dance.

Right. And then suddenly creed higher starts blasting. And I hear Robin in the back and behind the laptop joey i put this on for you because he follows me on instagram that was really really funny and then another person i knew i could hear in the back yell who did i all put on creed it was really it was really nice to have robin just kind of, you know, imagine the silliness. It's good. Next one, yeah. I probably got one more in me before July.

I hope. Jesus, that's a lot of meats. Wait, you're going to get another one in before July? Why wouldn't you? July's like six months away. Most meats sell out like months in advance, too, depending on where you're at. We'll figure it out. I was going to say,

like in Niagara, like we could do a meet together in Niagara Falls at some point, but all his shit sells out pretty early. And I don't think he has, like he's only doing like two meets this year because he's doing a bunch of travel meets. Dude, Joey's an influencer.

People pay him to be in their meets. I will. I was called on my own meet. This week, sarcastically by someone. Me too. Oh yeah your instagram yeah on my gym page some kid got butthurt that uh i want to give away from gluck's gym because like gluck's my buddy and he's like done a tour here so then the kid was like oh great another quote unquote like literally quote he literally put it in quotations

influencer one he was just trying to like jab at like friends giving friends prizes but it's like well i legitimately won like i was like picked out of a drawing you fuck so but also like haha you're an influencer and then i was doing a video for a super secret video that we're working on at ikea and i was like yeah why wouldn't i like i'll just do something there and i explained to morgan what it was and she's like oh so i can put you on influence in the wild and i was like fuck i was like now i don't want to do it you either live long enough to yeah what's the that i always mess the batman the batman thing you live long enough to see yourself become the villain or die as a hero or something you either die a hero you live long enough to see yourself become the villain or die as a hero or something.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. It'll take all three of us to get it. Yep. That's why we're all here. That's why I'm here. Because we can't get Batman quotes right and we can't figure out how to record podcasts. We can't get Matt right. Yeah.

What are Matt's doing? He's probably just trying to figure out how to get back on here. I don't know how long he's going to start his own fart podcast. If he can't figure out how to figure out the zoom call that he's, you know, and been invited on local recording, he'll use local recording. Probably.

That's the ticket. That's the, for the listening audience. I got a middle finger from big Keith on that one. Oh, I hate you guys. Keith, I want to get to get to your crew falls recap,

but I threw a couple of things in the show notes because I'm taking over now. And two of those, two of those things, one of those, I don't know. We don't have to talk about this if you guys don't want to, but it's just something that uh i've noticed as of late um with eddie hall and his like instagram presence have you guys do you guys

follow eddie hall if not this no i do i i feel that his i don't know i'm not i don't pay attention to his instagram but his youtube quality of content has not become my cup of tea the last couple years pretty much it's just like been more hoaxy and like how can i get more views and just not really provide good content anymore i don't know well his i did follow him and then i unfollowed him i think i might have actually unfollowed him on youtube to be honest with you i think i unfollowed him on instagram because i mean he's at all he's the greatest right but like he's just doing yeah silly things like pranks and and react videos and things like that so well he wasn't even he was he's been doing this just it's like a cycle for

him and of like video of girl like doing something provocative in the gym and then like you know like something yeah and then like walks up and like smells it or like yeah i don't appreciate that that's kind of just it's just been like everything everything he creates is like finding a new one of those videos and then doing the same it's like churning it out like clockwork and i've just been like what is going on but like i saw i saw one the other day that was kind of funny but he like drove like the world's smallest car through a gym and was like trying to work out while being in this tiny car which was kind of funny, but he like drove like the world's smallest car through a gym and was like trying to work out while being in this tiny car, which was kind of funny. But like anytime I've seen him do like the the whole like lick things, smell things videos, I'm just like, what what do people think about this? And it's all just like people just destroying him in the comments.

I'm just like, is he's like i mean obviously it's i mean the comments help like positive or negative they help interaction and whatever the algo but i'm just like i don't understand why this is the only thing this guy wants to create anymore if it's just whatever gets my name out i don't know i was curious if you guys had seen that and it seems like you guys both had the same feeling i did we're just like yeah i think i i think i unfollowed it the first time i saw it i was like oh yeah i'm not that interested in this car like no yeah because i he hasn't done anything um like he retired from well and yeah he retired ago and they did the boxing match and got his well didn't he rip his rip his oh yeah what is he the one that

he ripped it and then he got his ass kicked like six months later and then thor ripped his peck another six months later trying to get back in a strongman and powerlifting which is interesting i mean that strongman thing i mean he's competing at the arnold i am interested to see what that ends up looking like for Thor competing back at the Arnold. He was in that shitty movie I watched last week. The Kickboxer Retaliation?

Yeah, I saw you at that movie. Yeah, he was in that movie. I saw your rating, Keith, and I was like, Keith, this has Mike Tyson and Half-Thor and Jean-Claude. How did you give this a four? And then I started watching it, and I was like, Keith, this has Mike Tyson and Half-Thor and Jean-Claude. How did you give this a four? And then I started watching it, and I was like, oh, that's why. This movie sucks. What was that called?

Kickboxer 4. Yeah, Kickboxer retaliation. It's one where Jean-Claude actually plays... He's not... The character... Was it Chris Dukes? What's his... That was from the other movie. Was it, was it Chris Dukes? What's his, what's his, no, that was, that was from the other movie from,

no, he was, he was the same guy. He was one. No, he, no, he,

no, they, they made it sound like he was the, like the guy that was the Asian guy in the first movie. He was just him. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

But he was still the same character. I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure they made it like a revamp. It was not a good movie. It was shit. I thought it was so fun i missed tony jaw i was watching the expendables and he he showed up in it and like they he's clearly not in the shape that he was back when he did like uh the protector or all of those on back movies

um but they tried so cool for them but like tony jaw i missed that dude I think there was even like a fifth one or that one was the fourth one. And there was a third one and I watched them all. And I was like, just because I watch a lot of movies and I was like, this wouldn't. Well, I watched 75% of them at least. Yeah. So I did. I have consumed pretty much most of the ones that had Jean-Claude in them. There was there was a trailer. I'm trying to find it um i think it was called

i think this is it um this is one of those parts that you're talking about that we have to edit out where yeah we can't see what you're looking at like randomly talking about stuff and the audience is just like jesus we don't know i'm trying to figure out if this is it or not i'm watching it uh the trailer run on imdb right now so i remember seeing this on like twitter or whatever um it's a movie that thor was in and it was but it was the worst looking trailer I have ever seen in my life. And it was just like Thor had like a bunch of lines in it. And everyone was like, there's zero delivery. It was very bad.

And I think this is it. I'm watching the trailer right now. I'm curious if it was pre or post Bell's Palsy. I think it was a pre or post bell's palsy i think it was like it was pretty it was like someone recent because he's been doing acting for like a decade yeah no it was like i think this is it it's called pharaoh's war um yeah it's got uh what's that dude's name mike tyson hathor um it's the same movie yeah it was just a different name for the same shitty movie. Well, that's what I was like, wait a second, is that the same one I remember seeing?

Yeah, that must be it because, oh wait, is it Kickboxer Retaliation? I don't know. I don't think that's the same one. This looks exactly the same. What are movies? They all sound the same to most of us. It's all the same to me. It's all the same though what are movies they all sound the same to most of us it's all the same to me

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artillery mug? Probably Rogue. Yeah, Rogue. I cannot ever type Rogue correctly. Oh, you did spell it wrong. Good catch, Joey. My brain just read it as Rogue.

No, I was not letting anybody get away with that and you were correct when i'm on as a real guest and you guys slide into everyone's dms um we can talk about uh my brother's best man speech at my wedding and all of the spelling mistakes he called me out for there's some good ones in there i love a good best man speech. Yeah, so Aleko or whatever, Aleko, however you want to say it, Coop's favorite. He was just there. I know.

Keith, how do you know? You shouldn't even be following this. I did not watch the video yet, but I might consume it at some point if I'm bored. Yeah, so Aleko made their heavy mug or whatever April Fool's joke, then made it a real thing, and it sold out in seconds, and they did a second batch, and that sold out or whatever. I think Big Luke got one. But this week, Bill, however the heck you pronounce his last name.

Keith, go ahead. I believe it's Henninger. Is it fuck now? It's Henninger or Henninger, but it's some some combination of Henninger. Dylan Dillam. Yeah. There's a lot of letters in there. Yeah.

They're they're making more or less the heavy mug, but it's going to be rogue and it looks like an artillery shell. It looks like. Have you guys seen it? Did you guys see it? It's not actually. I'm surprised I didn't see that because I follow like Keith. I expected you.

And Bill's wife. So I'm surprised I didn't. I've also worked a lot this week and haven't been on my phone very much. So people. I was just super, super glad that the guests we had lined up that I invested all this time in research and had this entire like three page show notes that I every spare minute that I did have, I had filled with Big Mac questions

from all his loved ones and good info, and he couldn't figure out his damn internet. My loved ones. My loved ones. Just the crew, probably. Well, dang it, I was hoping...

It looks ridiculous like this I was in the middle of looking it up and I got sad you need to find it find it while I stall for time I'll describe it visually to the users because I also couldn't find it I thought I saw a meme about it I was just looking for it and no I didn't but it looks like the Aleko

mug but then it has a gigantic cone on top I mean it looks like an artillery shell almost but I'm just like I don't like the I mean, it looks like an artillery shell almost, but I'm just like, I don't like the heavy mug. I get it. Like you could kind of put that in places. Um, this,

this thing, I, I don't even know if you put it on like a bookshelf. Um, as everyone's looking for it, they can't find it. Yeah. I can't,

I'm even looking on like the home gym community to see if someone posted it dude look at Bill's Instagram well everything would be a story that's expired no I think he posted it I've seen it in a feed um whatever

oh there it is yeah it's wow it looks like a fucking thermos that like tapers at the top that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen I just I don't know what you would do with it. I kind of like, I don't get it. And I mean, like military,

a dude, I get it. Like, well, the thermos, it goes inside of the cup. Like the top, the top part just completely slides inside the,

the male into the female or whatever the kids say. But plug looking thing, if you actually use it, if it's, if you put that in your butt you would die well i mean maybe that's why big mac couldn't figure out the audio tonight he's occupied wow what it doesn't make any sense uh it's funny though no i don't i don't i really don't get it like i get the i i get the mug part, but then throwing the shell on top of it, and then if it's just decorative or not functional... Because at least the other ones are functional mugs.

There's all these other people that have been doing Yetis with a nice knurled handle and stuff. JD Jim equipped had something like that. But I'm trying to grasp what Bill was trying to get from this. Sornex just dropped a knurled shot glass. Now that would actually be in there. I think it's like a two ounce like little like a metal shot glass.

It's knurled. Yeah, I kind of want to get one to brew espresso into if I ever brew espresso at home. Looks sick though. I always wanted to get like the rogue knurled rings. I think they're cool. Oh, like the wedding band? We've got a keychain from Home Gym Con

that was from that same company, JD Gym Equipped. It's literally just about the size of a barbell, but it's just a hollow ring that's knurled on the outside. It's just a key ring. It's actually pretty cool, though. It's cool. You've ruined the knurling on a key ring, though. All right. It's actually pretty cool though You ruined the knurling on a keyring though Alright well There's our

Heavy mug talk It's our rouge mug talk It's all lipstick and rouge I guess Yeah I don't get what Bill's doing with that I'm at a loss for words Dude riding the hype train I mean Aleko copied Ab Matt

I get the mug thing Just whole like throwing a shell on it and then making it like for anyone that didn't see it the the top shell part is literally the exact same or bigger than the mug itself so it turns something that's like six inches into like a foot so i don't know what you're gonna do with it yeah i don't know who knows i think my my four-year-old's up oh baby monitor's clicking but hey we'll move on my wife is in route um oh my other thing i forgot to say um when it was filling out the waiver form for the meet they ask you for your emergency contact so i put morgan i put her phone number and then they say relationship to lifter so i wrote in giant capital letters my wife

so i during weigh-ins i was just like steve's like what i was like i wrote my wife and you hear robin in the back go ha my wife right i knew that it was gonna be a good meet oh nice thumbs up from Zoom for that. That was perfect timing. Because I was because I was doing thumbs up. I don't know. I don't. Oh, yeah.

OK, it was. Oh, I hate this. Yeah, you can turn it off. What if I do this? Yeah, you got the heart. Oh, we got the love. This is fantastic. Nice.

If all the power now. 30, 30 some episodes in and we're just now figuring out what zoom can do it's because nature you can enable microphones you can get visual feedback that's entirely useless yeah uh speaking of fantastic things uh can you tell us about your your experience with 20 meat sticks this weekend? Crew Falls was amazing. I know everyone gives me shit and thinks I'm a gatekeeper or something, but if you missed Crew Falls, man, you fucked up.

It was amazing. It was a very expensive trip. Anyone that had to fly in, yeah, don't fly in. If you were two or three hours away and you weren't able to make it, man, that sucks because it was awesome. It was a blast. Flew out of Rochester Friday morning. Got to Sioux Falls, a.k.a.

Crew Falls, lunchtime. Big Grayson picked me up. Actually met up with the two West Virginia boys. Fuck. I know their names, but for some reason stew and oh my god that is so frustrating i there's literally in my phone too they're like my friends uh well if you're listening they're like my friends they're like my friends no emphasis on the like yeah yeah yeah so travis and big stewart i met them they uh they flew met them. They flew out of Pittsburgh, and I got into Sioux Falls like an hour or two before me, and we're already drinking.

Grayson picked us up. We went and met Big Tommy and Big Colton at a burger place. You know, had a decent little lunch there. Everyone kind of went their separate ways. Went and checked back into the hotel, kind of called it a night. Did end up going back out briefly that night for a very unorganized crew meetup um uh big matthew picked me up we went on a wild goose hunt to try and try to find the right bar because he had the wrong place in google maps and went to like some dude's house and then by the time we finally got to the place it i thought

it was gonna be a restaurant it turned out to be a lot more bar than restaurant and here i am like starving because i'm hadn't eaten since like noon and it was like nine o'clock at night and uh we ended up going to another place got some food i met up with big mason and big paul got some food had a good night part of the day well i woke up bright and early saturday at uh i don't know i think i was up at like four or five o'clock and i think i sent a message to the chat just being all excited to start today and are they on discord and this is this this caught me off guard because later that day someone said yeah keith keith's message at 4 a.m woke me up and i'm like who the fuck has their phone not on vibrate who who has their phone who has discord not completely like disabled for notifications like i don't know that's on you yeah i like i felt i i felt bad for like an eighth of a second and then i was like

wait a second that's not my fault that your phone made it like like like people are talking on there 24 7 it's not like are you getting woke up 24 7 by message i mean i so maybe he had discord unmuted specifically for the weekend because he was in crew falls like i maybe but i don't know nonetheless they kind of threw me off um got picked up and went to the original pancake house saturday morning um big grayson and big hannah picked us up and three of us had to fit in the back of grayson's car which is a very uncomfortable ride he had like a like a back of a voltagon yeah it was very small so like three 230 pound plus dudes like shoulder to shoulder like I had uh the uh Stuart was in the middle on the hump kind of leaned forward and I had to like almost put my arm around him just to like

not get it like a cramp it was so bad should have like laid across yeah it was it was brutal uh but we we got to the pancake house probably to wait about 20 minutes half or so, maybe until we got seated because it was just so crowded. I think we were basically a 20 top. So it just took a while to get a seat. So question about the Pancake Place. So this is the original Pancake House? Supposedly. I think I even asked, like, is there others?

And I couldn't get a solid answer. I think it it is a chain it's just called the original pancake house okay the chain but don't quote me on that because i was like is this ihop and then i saw the picture like i was like are they just talking about ihop and then i saw the pictures and i was like this place looks nicer than an ihop for sure like the eye on so on the orange glaze scale ihop is like three original pancake house was like a oh now they gotta ride the line between five egg omelets don't forget i might have given it i might give it an eight yeah an eight is extremely high praise for food for me so michelin star near level it was just cool like getting there seeing all the crew that i hadn't

seen before t Tanner was there. So it's first time I've seen Tanner since July. I had already seen half the guys the night before. So there was maybe five or six people that I hadn't seen yet that day. Met big Nate Moe for the first time in person. It was kind of ironic because we just literally had interviewed him like three days before. So it was kind of like I felt like I already knew him because we literally just talked to him for two and a half hours, like, you know, 48 hours before that, I think, um, just a lot of people, man, it was awesome. Um, not everyone made it to breakfast. I want to say, uh, the Nate Thomas and his wife, Abby did not make it for breakfast. And a couple other people

didn't make it for breakfast. I can't remember who it was, but, uh, I met big, uh, met big Trond, make us for breakfast i can't remember who it was but uh i met big uh met big trond uh tanner's high school buddy he was he was he was a hoot um it was kind of funny because if anyone following discord remembers like there was like almost like a fake rivalry between me and him because uh tanner you know tanner puts up the i got one of these shirts left and it was it was a large hoodie and tron had said something to the fact like oh i'll take it but in the meantime i had already like bought it for stephanie and then he was like he wasn't upset by any means it was just kind of a we were jabbing about jabbing back and forth about it and he like when he introduced himself uh he's like oh i guess we're sworn enemies so that was just it was just

hysterical because you know it just like instantaneously you're meeting these people when you just feel like you just you know your best friends you already know each other and on a much smaller scale from what the lift hard was. I'm just, we've already done lift. Most of us had already done lift hard. So like the level of ice breaking was like already done. Like it was just, uh, the couple of people, I think I met four new people this weekend, maybe four or five. I'd have to look at the picture, but, uh, it might, it might not even been that many.

Uh, and I think there were a couple of people that I, that were at like, like big Matthew was at the lift, hardly have easy, but I never actually talked to him. Uh, big Alec was at the lift, hardly have easy. I never actually talked to him. So I consider myself, I actually met them this weekend. So including those guys, yeah. Or if I've, you know, three or four people I met for the first time, but it was, it was just so much more like an intimate isn't the white word because it

wasn't like, it wasn't romantic, but it was intimate. Like it was just such a smaller thing. So, yeah, Pancake House, amazing food, great food. By the time this comes out, there should already be a recap video where Tommy had some fun with me because they brought out a platter of a literal like the biggest like think of like the biggest thanksgiving serving platter you could have and it had like 20 racks of butter and 20 racks of syrup on it and she fucking sat it right in front of me because i was just like i was basically the center of the table kind of and i was like right next to tommy and he was just giving me shit like the whole morning about like you got enough butter and

syrup there big guy or something like that it's like you know and here i am like a trick like hand like i'm like handing them out like they're shots because it's like just so much butter and i felt bad because like we probably only use like a third of the plate maybe maybe maybe half so it's like there's so much wasted butter and syrup but i don't know there was a five egg omelet a five egg omelet and three pancakes for like 20 bucks pretty much like out the door it was so good and i've never heard of a place like their stock omelet is five eggs yeah that's crazy and then i got i had the bacon omelet and the bacon was like it was it wasn't like like like really thin over overly cooked like just crappy you know bacon like big matt

probably makes it was like really nice like thick juicy bacon uh so very much enjoyed that then grayson still added a patty yeah yeah no it was funny because the the burger place we had went to friday i guess grayson was there the day before and did order a double patty but for lunch the next day he's he's stuck with the one patty uh so he was definitely he definitely got some jabs about you know the birthday and the double patty and wasabi and guacamole. Like, like there were so many guac. Yeah. There were so many, there were so many people that had like quick one liners just, you know, chirping at each other.

It was great. And, and would you say that kind of, um, like having been on our podcast made that a little easier, made that kind of a lubricant that, that cause you said it wasn't intimate cause it wasn't, but probably a little more comfortable because these aren't strangers you're meeting that you've talked to on discord. These are people that you've talked to now for hours at a time. Yeah. Yeah.

I think I, I think if I looked at the picture, was there seven previous, like I think counting Tanner, there were seven people that had been on the podcast. So I six full interviews and then a couple guest appearances by you know big tanner so yeah yeah the people that were there 50 50 of the people that were there yeah it was because like including me and tanner 50 of the yeah it was nine out of the 18 people maybe i think had had some appearance on the podcast and the rest and there were another four i think I have four more scheduled and then in the coming months of people that were there too

so that was a that was another benefit is I was able to like literally hand per hand two or three people my phone and say please pick a date like I want you on the podcast pick a date yeah none of this none of this back and forth on Instagram it's like I'm right here right now like just what what which one of these dates in the next couple months works for you it's like oh so we gotta you know we got we got some bangers lined up in the in the coming months for everybody yeah i saw that um tell me about getting the camera kicked out from plank or or whatever that was that was actually that was that was posted that was that jumped forward all the way to the end of the night that was uh that was that was uh i was not there so

the whatever you read in discord from big paul on the recap was all the all the knowledge i have uh because we went from pancake house to jonah leo's gym got an awesome lift in like that was the highlight as cool as everything else was like like we were at the gym for like three hours probably between you know getting there and by the time we left it might have been closer two and a half but not it was like a full long training session uh a lot of us hopped in you know eight almost 20 people so you know we took over the one open combo rack with two open deadlift platforms a squat rack and another bench press i think because obviously he has regular gym members so i think one of the squat racks and one of the combos racks were already, you know, being used.

So we had to kind of, we had like seven or eight guys on one of the combos benching. So it was just kind of cool. Like Tommy was in our bench rotation and then like six other crew. So it was just really cool to be like, oh, yeah, I'm just, you know, these are my buddies. We're just benching. A lot of people worked up to some big PRs. I had a couple of little baby prs and everyone kept on having me go up and i was like i'm just i'm just here to have fun like i don't want to i don't want to hurt anything i was trying to do i was trying to do some rep work and like try to hit like a rep pr but my freaking knee was

destroyed and i know people are like oh well you're benching what's your knee have to do with it like try to do leg drive for like eight reps like that ain't it hurt i tried to do leg drive for like a triple and i could like had nothing but pain so i was like i can i'll just do a heavy single i guess and you know i chipped my touch and go and my pause pr i tried to my goal wasn't to actually get a touch and go my goal was to pause it but i had a big nate big nathan thomas uh loaded for me blind like so i didn't know if it was like 291 or 297 i had no clue what it was so i just got so nervous coming down with it that i didn't allow myself to pause it because i was just like i didn't i wanted to get it up more than i wanted to pause it and like miss i guess i was just afraid of missing so i just fucking i don't know nervously just you know did a very

light touch and just blew it up and it's like fucking rp like eight so i was kind of annoyed that i didn't pause it because i know i could have smoked i could have paused the fucker for like two seconds and still smoked it, but it just gave me more confidence going into my next meet and my next big training single day or whatever. So we wrapped up there. The boys did a, a full tour with Jonah and there's going to be a sneaky YouTube video coming out with me and Tanner in the coming weeks,

potentially. So that keep your eyes out for that. And we we did the Costco run which I still can't believe we went to fucking Costco for lunch like that's just a funny thing we literally had 20 like 200 we probably averaged 230 pounds well that's great boys we might average closer to fucking 270, but there were, you know, just huge grown men and, you know, some women walking in there. And Tanner just walked up and got, you know, 20 chicken bakes. And it was funny because a lot of us were like, well, it's going to take like 20 minutes for those chicken bakes to get made. I'm fucking starving and thirsty now. So I went up and grabbed a slice.

I ordered a look like the dollar 50 slice of cheese pizza and a fountain drink. And I was the first one to do that and everyone was kind of like it was like it snowballed after that to everybody else started getting their drinks and like three or four people started getting like ice cream sundaes and shit and like a slice of pizza before like 20 minutes where the chicken baits came out so that was that was hysterical and then uh they put the chicken bakes in pizza boxes so you know tanner's carrying three pizza boxes full of chicken bakes and handing them out like like like candy uh everyone just had a good time with that we got the hardest part was uh i was like man how where the fuck are we gonna sit because if you've ever been to a

costco in the middle of the day yeah it's fucking like you know there's no room but one table opened up like right by the food court like right right by the soda machine so like i sat down on it immediately and then we just kind of kept like keeping our eyes on it as soon as like someone was getting ready to get up we like it was basically a guy standing there ready to swoop in so within 10 minutes we had like the first four tables uh maybe the first five tables kind of all all crew so there were some good pictures and content of just like you know all of us just right there in a row so we didn't have to be too scattered uh got the chicken bakes oh dude the wind there like so i do clearly i don't think it was windy in july that i at least i don't remember

being windy in july but like we were walking out of jonah's gym and at least one hat went flying possibly two because i know someone someone someone someone someone might have actually lost a hat i know i saw i saw two people running for hats that weekend so it was it was tanner just blowing them off because he doesn't want them to buy hats it could be it could be a fart from his butt yeah but it kind of clicked in my brain like oh that's what dakota breeze like that's actually what that means like i never i didn't i don't think like i think i knew but it like it really clicked at that point because i can like invisibly seeing oh, that is the Dakota Breeze.

Did it smell like ammonia? I don't know. Nate kept trying to get me to do ammonia that weekend, but I was like, I'm good. I think I've almost sworn off ammonia until maybe. I'm clean for right now. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Let me rephrase it.

Jack Nate. Jack Nate. Yeah. Pop the stack here. I want to talk about chicken bakes for a second yeah um had you ever had a chicken bake before yeah i've had them okay multiple times they're they're they're not great you don't think that i had my i had the first one my first ever like two weekends ago okay um everyone's talking about how great these macros are all of the stuff it's

a meal like people are using it for a meal prep i ate one of those and was like i need now i have to go eat dinner still i like didn't feel satiated whatsoever and you had the costco one not the frozen one yeah the costco one and i was like uh i know how much like i know what i ate i don't want to eat more food but i was like i need to eat more food i'm starving so i don't think i felt really dumb but it was delicious it was delicious so if i had to give it a scale like if you factor in the macros and okay so if you assume that the macros are actually accurate and you factor in the macros and the flavor it's probably a fuck it's at least a seven i'd want to get a seven and a half if you factor in just flavor it's like a i don't take a six yeah if you if the macros are accurate maybe you can bump it up to an eight

but uh i don't know like the we're gonna eat chicken bake super crew but like i mean i'll get i'll get a chicken bake like once a quarter you know i'm right next to costco i've been getting chicken bakes i'm trying to think of a heck if i had a chicken bake before the first mention of it in discord or not but maybe maybe not maybe right around the same time but yeah now you know if i'm if i'm at costco five or six times a year i'm gonna get a chicken bake like half of those probably just for like the the the bit yeah you kind of have they're okay i mean they're okay i i think i think tanner kind of agreed with me because he did have his first one and he like you know what also if when you factor in the fact that it's like what is it 2.99 or 3.99 like they're they're yeah it's like 3.99 yeah they're

reasonable if they were if they were eight dollars they'd be like yes i would never buy one like i don't even know if it was it it's once you like if it was over five dollars i don't think it would be as good like the like the whole concept of it would just not work but the the the the 399 aspect makes it clutch but then yeah i think everyone pretty much ate their chicken bake uh i think we i think we ordered 20 and there might have been like one and a half or two and a half going back because a couple people didn't want to eat them. But for the most part, everyone pounded them down. Dang. And then I think we did a very quick intermission because we didn't we didn't do so.

That that lunch was like, but I don't think we got to Costco for like two or something. Like it was pretty late or at least we didn't eat till two. So by the time we got back to the hotel Saturday at like, I think I got to the hotel at three ish. And then we had to be at dinner at like 530. I was like, fuck. It's like I'm here. I am am like smoked after my workout like i didn't have time to like i that's why i don't think i posted my lifting like actual like uh post until like a couple days ago because i was like i got barely enough time to keep up on my some stories i don't have any time to edit videos and like actually like make my my my instagram post like i normally do so spent spent

a couple hours at the hotel and then it was time to go back out for dinner, which I don't think anyone was hungry. We went to some random place. Uh, we'd issue really good food. It was kind of like, it's almost like a deli restaurant kind of thing. So like you went and you're put your, but it was like, but like on a large scale, so like it could feed like 150 people at the same time. Uh, so you went and put your order in and then we went in the back and they brought out the food uh we were there for an hour and a half probably you know i don't think i'm not sure if everyone actually made it out for that i think a couple of the guys waited till the the the drinking to start to make it out um then we made our way to one of the first bar we're there for

probably an hour and a half that's where we got the really good picture of 90% of us at the tables. I had a couple tall Michelob alters there. Then we went to a little more club-ish scene. I think I had a couple Michelob's there. 11.30 rolled around and I started doing

my Midwest goodbye because everyone, I think most people had ended up walking. We ended up getting dropped off. Nate and his wife, Abby, dropped us off and then they went and parked and walked back, I think. And then I think we got to the second bar. We were like slowly getting back to the hotel that most of us were staying at. I would have loved to stay out later. But man, I was it was 1130 their time and it was 1230 in my body. And it was like, I've been up since four that morning. I was like, oh man, I'm a, I can

basically, I can stay and get drunker. I can, everyone was pretty, like most people were pretty shitty that like at that point, like everyone was like, Tommy was drunk off his ass, which was just hysterical. Uh, I had a good time with him shooting the shit and having him do a, my, my exit video and like watching him take like a solid 90 seconds to put the camera back together, fiddling with it. I was like, oh, this is going to be great. But I got a lot of good goodbyes from a lot of people. And I don't know. It was just awesome. having to stay longer and maybe get another hour of drinking in, but then having to potentially walk a half mile with like a,

a painful leg, uh, or have to figure out how to like drunkenly order my own lift for the first time. Cause I've never done that. Uh, when I actually rode back with, uh,

Nathan and Abby was the first time that I've fucking never had to use public. I've never had to do any of that. I've never, I've always either got a ride or had a shuttle or something. So it's fucking mind blowing to me. I also want, I just want to travel with Keith. I think that's what-blowing to me i also want i just want to

travel with keith i think that's what i'm learning today is i just kind of want to be a fly on the wall and watch this happen and i i really almost got left too because they well i was like well how long does it take the lift to get here and they're like literally 90 seconds and i was like fuck i was like give me 10 minutes and then order it so though and then it was literally there was still like there was 20 of us at the second bar, Lucky's, and we're all fucking like right in a little chunk, like right in front of the bar. So I'm like, but it was kind of divided.

There was like, you know, five or, you know, almost 10 people over here and almost 10 people over there. So I had to shake, shake hands and kiss babies and say goodbye to everybody and, you know, get the whole Tanner lean in and tell me how, how glad he was. I came and all that jazz. And then the other side fucking bryce and mason wouldn't let me leave they kept fucking like pulling me in and they were like keith you can't go anywhere keith you have to stay keith they could have helped you

order a lift i'm sure they know how oh but uh i think one of the funnest part i had too is like half drunkenly recording half drunken people and just trying to get them to say shit about the weekend not knowing like how good the content was going to be and just being like oh i'm gonna have to watch this tomorrow before i do anything with it because i don't know like how shitty people are getting uh oh we're getting the text from you late night of just like he just is sending videos all night of just hey it's big keith here it's like yep still be i don't know how keith's gonna use this video but we have 40 seconds of keith telling him telling us hey it's keith and then 10 seconds of so what do you think it's good heart attack oh but but uh i fucking had

like six beers i don't know well yeah and you're like i'm five beers deep i don't know if any of this is good i'm just like i'm going to bed i wake up and there's like 10 more videos and i'm like what is going on well i didn't want to miss the opportunity because it's like oh no it's gonna be i don't care if i even put it on my own instagram like this is gonna be good content and there was the i think his name's big alec right from oh he had the best one yeah him saying our wives and our girlfriends don't understand it but we get it i was like that's i need that clip and that's the only clip i need that's incredible yeah downright awesome that was good yeah um i really enjoyed the picture of upkeith's nose i i gotta tell you that like that was a good one. When you posted that, I laughed so hard.

And then I think one of the Davids memed it. Yes. And that's when I think I kind of got crying. That was so funny. I saw Davids memes of it first, and then I saw Keith's post. And I thought Keith's post was also a meme. And I was like, where's the original picture? I don't understand.

And then I finally figured it out yeah i just like it's like he's just leaning back and trying to get everybody in but you just didn't need to be in it like we know you're there you took i wanted to be for me like i think i don't even know if that one made it to unpaid i was like i'm also like i spent a thousand dollars or more to go have a fun weekend. I want to be in some of the pictures. You need a selfie stick or something then, because it was just really funny. Just just just this picture of up your nose and then the rest of the gym. I thought that was fucking hilarious.

I need to find branded selfie sticks on Amazon. He can order himself. So I'll actually keep it with him. I'm paid an underrated selfie stick. Can we put can we get that in the massonomic store is like a a thing people can buy can we get branded selfie sticks it'd be good but yeah that was uh more or less it i know and then it sounded like they went to one more bar that night and uh just to recap what paul had said they wouldn't let tommy in with his camera so they were like fuck We want to come in. So they kind of like went around the block and, uh,

Paul's Paul's wife, uh, took, put the camera in her purse. And then I think big Tron put the microphone in his fanny pack and they were able to get it in. I don't know if they actually gave it back to him inside and he actually did any content in there or not, but at least like he didn't have to like run. Cause I think everyone had pretty much walked from the hotel.

So it would have been like a fucking half mile walk to go put the thing in a locked vehicle. So I honestly don't know if they got any more content or not. But let's see. When I was back at the hotel at 1130, and I think I saw Mason posting pictures back at his apartment at like 2. So I guess they all probably called it maybe two hours after I dipped and then half an hour to get home. I don't know how you guys do that. My birthday, we started at six o'clock. I was in bed by 1030.

Like, like a mess. Like I came home and I was just laying on the couch on Morgan's lap because the hotel has really small couches. And the curtains were so symmetrical. It was making me dizzy. And I was just like, I never want to be like this again. This was the worst. I don't know how you guys, I haven't been able to drink till two since I was like fucking not everyone.

Uh, I think, let's see, uh, big, big Nate Moe drove back home. Big Jake drove back home. Cause a lot of the guys that like were in, uh, lived a couple hours away and stay at a hotel, they were like, yeah, I'm not going out to dinner and drinks. I got my bulk of my day in. Nia, Hannah and her boyfriend, Grayson, did not come out, I don't think, for dinner. No, they came to dinner. They dipped after dinner. How many patties did Grayson get?

What did Grayson get for dinner that night? I honestly don't know if they even ate because I think they were still so full from fucking... I know Hannah literally just got a hot alcoholic beverage of some sort that she was very... She couldn't drink for... It was a hot toddy.

So it was some kind of apple cider, spiked apple cider stuff with a cinnamon stick in it. But she like it was a i think a hot toddy so it was some kind of like apple cider like spiked apple cider stuff with a cinnamon stick in it but she said it was so hot she couldn't fucking drink it for like a half hour uh and she got a slice of key lime pie that she was you know pretty enamored with i really don't remember what the fuck grayson had uh i will know it was something with two patties on it yeah i'm sure i had an amazing freaking for some reason i ordered a grilled cheese with bacon. It was so good. I was so full from freaking the chicken, bacon, everything at lunch.

I just wanted something, not that like a grilled cheese is light, but it wasn't like a big steak sandwich or anything like that. But it was pretty good. It was really good food. Everything I ate the whole weekend was freaking good. I mean, you know what they say about Sioux Falls? It's like the food capital of the world. It's probably on par with going to New York or Chicago, Paris.

Anyone flying into Sioux Falls in July that's going to rent a car and go down. Sioux Falls, the town, I think they said, is like 10 times bigger than Aberdeen, but the airport's only like four times bigger. I think it's a seven terminal, so I guess it's technically seven times. I'm not sure Aberdeen is a one terminal terminal but just like the airport itself was very small i i left i had a 12 30 flight i left the hotel at 10 and i was through security at my gate at like 10 26 or something and i was like oh now i've got two hours to kill fuck yeah there's a there's an airport that's like 10 minutes from us some the flights are in and out you can't get everywhere with there but it's kind of it's like maybe i don't know maybe

seven terminals but there's never a line of security like you can go like five minutes before your flight and just get on basically it's it's awesome i think i got lucky though because like i looked like i would there was one person ahead of me at the line and then when i looked back as i was getting through there was like 30 people in line so i was like i must have just timed it perfectly because like oh that would that might have actually taken an hour but it only took me 10 minutes to get through so i was pretty stoked but all in all the weekend definitely give it a nine nine out of ten hundred percent loved it reserved for the top 10 percent as the global says you look how many screens do you have up you have you're you're able to reference so much stuff i

love it um but yeah i did see a little behind the scenes uh massonomics uh looking they were uh because you know that tommy and tamra don't live in the same town anymore obviously so i don't think i only seen each other in person like once a month or every few weeks so i kind of saw them doing some uh some some i can't spoil anything but they were talking about some upcoming products and whatnot and uh because i think i did end up you know getting a kruber from tanner back to the hotel after costco and they were uh in the parking lot just shooting the breeze and uh kind of like oh that's kind of cool just seeing like a little a little behind the scenes but uh one might say behind the meat curtain yeah yeah good stuff i think that's the official i believe the official terminology per tanner

we have to stay canon here but i don't know i i just like feel like i don't look at tanner and tommy as like these like people that are like these like mythical creatures online that I hardly ever see like I've literally spent a week with them they're like my buddies now like I felt the other way in July a little bit but like after spending this weekend with them it was like that much more like oh these are actually my friends now like these are people I can consider my friends they're not like just my sisters yes they are my sisters there's a lot of sister talk easy um but yeah that was crew falls any any specifics I think I covered a lot of sister talk. Easy. But yeah,

that was crew falls. Any, any specifics? I think I covered about all of it and I tried to keep it. I tried to throw as much on Instagram as possible and tag a bunch of people and shit, but it was just, it was a blast. I hope people saw it online and were like,

damn, I feel like what are two people make it out next year? Like from like seeing what they saw from all the videos that Tommy's going gonna put out and all the stuff that we put out on our page like i think that'd be cool sounded awesome looked awesome wish it could have been there um i think i mentioned after you had announced that you had your had received it as a gift i was like yeah keith's going and my wife was like well how much is it um because because we uh our anniversary's that's sunday actually um congratulations thank you and we never know what to because it's so close to christmas and like we never know what

to get each other and so she was kind of just like well maybe i'll just do that kind of situation and then i kind of broke down the prices and she was like, ah, I don't think even, even flying economy. Yeah. You'd be at 800, $900 probably with a hotel and all that. Well, a couple,

a couple of weekends ago in November, I snuck to New York to see a band called Peck with my buddies, like super last minute. And I think that cost that trip in and of itself costed like $30. So she, like, and my, it was like last minute.

My wife's like, ah, for your birthday, like whatever, I'll try to survive with three children at home. The youngest, like not even four months old. Go,

go. I was like not in New York for 24 hours. And I was like, I don't, I know you're talking about me going to Aberdeen, but you nearly died when i went to new york for less than 24 hours i don't think it's a good idea for me to fly to aberdeen i just don't think that's a good idea she's like yeah actually you're probably right

um yeah someday so we'll see on the the so that what i'm hearing is that's confirmation that the lift hard live easy 2025 big nate will be on the roster we'll see we'll see we'll see i mean you're gonna do just are you gonna have a are you gonna have a fourth newborn at that point that's gonna keep you from uh we'll also see that's uh we'll figure it out we'll figure it out everything will be fine yeah everything will be fine i gotta my wife wanted she was like last year before we we knew we were gonna have louis um she was talking about like renting a camper like an rv and doing like a whole road trip across america to get to aberdeen and stopping all of these places and whatnot and then going back um i was like i don't want to do that did you guys see the cigars that uh Tron had posted that like they actually say like it was crew royale, like crew with the umlaut and like Tanner legit thought that was something he made.

And he's like, yeah, these were like, oh, was it not? No, no. They're like they were like 18, 20 some years old. Like they were produced like fucking 20 years ago. And there was so much talk about like like like how did they do this? This is this is ours. We created the like crew with the you and the um the, the, the, the umlaut. And we created the umlaut.

Like there was like, there was like literal confusion between like, like Tanner and him having a conversation. It was so funny. That's actually crazy. Yeah. Actually, like, like I could see like, like Tanner, like processing, like, oh, you did not make those. Like this was something you found.

And I think he said he even drove he said oh tron had a whole thing where like i think he got him from minnesota maybe wherever he got him from it was like an adjoining state i believe but he couldn't get him delivered through like the website he had to go so he fucking drove like hours out of his way to go pick him up specifically for that weekend so like that was impressive like that dedication dang committed but yeah it was a blast speaking of blasts uh i think we have a another sponsor we need to hear from obsidian ammonia um somebody want to tell me about obsidian ammonia yeah it is a based this is my first time reading it so let let me, let me see how, how, how well I can do this. So based out of Ontario, Canada, Ossidia,

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our text channel keith should wax poetic about the crew falls and the great memories he had there um i put together a little game uh since keith i know you spent a long time preparing for matt and he bailed on you. I wanted to make your night worth it. I don't have any meat sticks for you, but I do have a set of topics wide-ranging for yourself and your co-host, Big Joey, for a little game you might call unpaid or underrated. Are you familiar with this game?

I am. It's a very fun game. I don't think we've been on this side since we've changed it to unpaid. No, we have not. Flipping sides tonight. I wrote down a bunch of things um because i you know i was really just thinking and and all that time that you're talking about crew falls uh there's a lot to talk about there was a whole weekend we usually do six so whatever you want to do though you know i got whatever you want to give us so i did i did some deep dives i've got some stuff that's pretty

off base uh i ran one of them by Joey, and Joey said, I don't know about that one, so we'll keep it. Yeah, I agree. We're going to keep a PG-13 here tonight. All right, so our first one, this one's for you, Keith. And the problem is I'm trying to rack my brain if some of these have already been done with you guys. But you guys uh but you guys

have had you know i mean if do over it if it is one we've heard before do you want us just pass because you said you have enough extra or just want to yeah i will i'll make them up shoot i don't care i can do anything i want we'll do it live we'll do it live yeah um let's go ahead and you know let's figure it out yeah like 60 hours of content on this podcast. Something gets said twice, no one can catch it. Is that where we're actually at? 30 times, like, probably average two. Get you the official number.

In, shoot, 32 episodes published. Where's the button? Where's the button? Metrics, metrics, metrics. Total duration, 65 hours and 49 minutes. Nice. That's a good amount of time to come in some years. Yeah, that's substantial.

It's nothing compared to like 570 hours Massanomics has, but we're getting there. Well, I swear to God, we are going to beat them in 2024, though. That is my sole goal. We're going to catch up to 500 hours? No, no, no. For the wrap, I want our Spotify wrap, basically,

to put out more minutes in 2024 than they do. I don't think it'll be hard. All we have to do is just not miss a week, because our average episode has got to be just a hair more than theirs with our longer ones. Morgan is cooking something at 10 o'clock at night? Yeah. Well, she's making dessert things.

I want some. No, it smells like burnt popcorn. I want popcorn. It's making me gag so bad. I can't smell your fart through the microphone, Joey. It's not going to work. I forgot about that. No, whatever it is i it's actually you'll probably keep like i keep making a face it's because i'm getting a whiff of whatever's

going on in there i want some um all right keith my first unpaid or underrated topic for you the geek squad uh this is this is in every sense of the way the topic wasn't just going to be technology in general but we uh we specified it to geek squad i like that when someone did their homework uh unpaid one million percent i made the mistake of taking my shitty eye my uh my older phone in there to get a new battery put in and they kept it for like literally 10 days i think like and it was like early on in our podcasting days i remember joey not remembering that i said hey i don't have my phone anymore and then like he needed to reschedule the episode or something and i'm like okay well i would have seen it on discord but i'm not going to see a group chat for like a week uh But yeah, I did not have my phone for a week. It was horrible.

And then it's because they ordered it and they just told me, oh yeah, it'll be here in like a day or two. It took like seven days for the fucking battery to deliver. With everything going on, Keith. It was miserable. So yeah, I will never go to Best Buy or the Geek Squad again for any Apple issue.

I will 100% only ever go to the Apple store. I was trying to save myself time because I don't drive by an Apple store. I have to go like 20 minutes out of my way-ish to go to the Apple store. I was just, I was trying to save myself time because I don't drive by an Apple store. I have to go like 20 minutes out of my way ish to get to an Apple store and like the next town over. But I was driving by Best Buy like every day for like a month straight going to the same job sites. I was like,

Oh, this, this, this will be convenient. And it was not the most inconvenient thing I do in my life. I think when I got my phone back, I had like literally like a hundred missed text. I was like, life. When I got my phone back, I had literally like 100 missed texts. I was like, cool.

Yeah, that was two-fold because also you need Geek Squad to use Zoom, apparently. But Joey, unpaid or underrated, the public sphere. It's a recurring topic for you, this public sphere.

Yeah. You know something like... Keith, what do you mean? It's a recurring topic for you, this public sphere. Yeah. I don't know what that means. You know something like... Keith, what do you mean? Joey talks about this like every other episode. Yeah, it's underrated, I guess. So actually, it's funny because I brought it up to Morgan again today. We were at Ikea, and we were just waiting in the lobby for morgan she had to run to the car for something and it was me and my two-year-old and she's like just woken up from a nap so she's

a little groggy and she just doesn't like she wants to stay close to daddy yep um and i can like i see this couple come in the door and get the old ocular pat down and right away i was just like you're a problem and sure enough this dude like i i swear he didn't even look and he missed saga by like half a foot like he was just like in his own world houring through this like a little slightly crowded lobby and it's just like you know like i can just tell you that you're the type of person you just are not aware of your surroundings you're not aware of how the fact that you're shouting at your wife is taking up my ear space how you not looking where you're walking might hurt my daughter and then of course the initial reaction was and if he does knock her over i might knock him over because you know it's not an

accident this is just who you are and it's just i just firmly believe that people need to be aware of space which is the public sphere you need to be aware of all of your space at all times. And that is your visual and your air, your auditory and how much you might smell to other people because your space infringes on their space. Space isn't next, like technically just physical space is all of it. And sometimes it means mental space. Sometimes I mean,

shut the hell up and let people just be over there miserable or whatever. Like you're allowed to do that too. i it's a very important thing to me yeah don't you contradict that opinion at a powerlifting meet though by everything you said at the beginning of the episode so we have this game we like to play we have this game like part of that was in jest but because i get everything you said you kind of like gave it the caveat like i understand why they would think that yeah and even then like but it's like a lot just like a couple things you touched on i was like oh but i would feel they like i obviously if someone hit your kid that's i'm not talking about that i'm just saying like like being aware of the things that you do

distracting other people like yeah that was exactly what you described you did at the meet but yeah but the the alternative is what do i sit in the corner and just do i sit in the corner and eat saltines and hope that like this is going to be fun for me too no because i'm not you know i wasn't trying to bust your balls too hard it was just you're not wrong and it's something that i'm vaguely aware of but at the same time like i am also having fun if people aren't there to also have fun i feel feel like Joey's self-aware though. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not like, I'm not crop dusting people that are on the bench.

Right. Like I'm not just walking by and going, Oh, cause I'm not aware of space. I'm just like having fun before I go up for my lift. And if that bothers people, there is a certain level of like people are allowed to exist in their own space. And sometimes that space can infringe on yours,

but there are, you know, you don't scream obscenities in the middle of an Ikea lobby. You don't knock over two year olds. You don't, you look over your shoulder when you're changing lanes, like shit like that, that just like the,

that decision will affect somebody else. Oh, you and I, Greg, you and I agree on that a hundred percent on like, well, 99% of that. I agree with everything you said there.

I was just, the caveat of it, just the way it was worded, I was like, wait, wait, wait, that kind of. No, shut up. Have fun at meets. Go home. Oh. I do have fun when everything works out the way it's exactly supposed to. That's when I have fun.

I have a really good public sphere story, but I don't know if I can share it on the podcast of a mistake I made when I was in New York. But just, I'll summarize it here, and I'll tell you two it later. I just don't want to throw anyone under the bus. So we're on the subway. I'm wearing a, so the band,

one of their bits is they lately have been wearing bathrobes for their show. The dude? Yeah, so it's like schvitzing it's like a bath house the last album was called schvitz jewish bath house you know it's schvitz sweat um uh and so they wear a bathrobe so i was like i want to wear a bathrobe to the show i bet you a bunch of people would bunch of people did yada yada but i didn't we were just in the streets of new york all day and i didn't know how to carry it the whole day i didn't want to like carry the bathroom because they're kind of bulky you said a bathrobe so i just wore a bathrobe through new

york yeah all day um which i was like new york no one will even bat an eye everyone was in their tracks to look at me and we're just like what's this because i was like walking with two dudes that are just like wearing t-shirts like i just this didn't make any sense what this dude was doing um but we're on a like a packed subway absolutely packed um like almost you would wait for the next one to get on and i'm just talking to my buddy miles um about like life um and i start talking about a topic that is not something that you would um apparently you would want to yell and i thought i was talking in a very like uh calm volume where only him and i could hear each other we got off the train and i was like dude you were literally

screaming everyone in the train was had stopped and was just looking at you and he's like you're a man in a bathroom screaming you looked absolutely insane but yeah so yeah yeah you should be aware of your public sphere especially when you're in new york on the subway i have i have two two things to add to that um i think a good example of of for me was the t-shirt I wore to breakfast in South Dakota because that was the reason it was so embarrassing for me is because

I was suddenly aware of the space that I was taking but the other one is what you described there I call the funny hat story which all of my friends know exactly what it means when I say it. It's the idea that I went to a party once and I decided to wear a silly hat. And then I walked in the door and I got the laughs. But I got to fucking wear that hat all day.

Yeah. Yeah. So whenever. So we're always just like, oh, it's the silly hat story or it's the silly hat conundrum that like, it's probably funny for a second, but now you just have to babysit that hat all day. Yeah. Imagine babysitting a whole stinking bathroom. The streets in New York, it's even worse. Um, all right.

Public sphere. Uh, Keith, I was gonna, was going to throw you a curveball, but we'll keep this one easy. Unpaid or underrated IMDB? Ooh. Damn, that's tough. I will always use it for the rest of my life, but it used to be underrated, be on it used to be underrated now it's unpaid because they got rid of fucking being able to have message boards and shit on

there like circa five years ago they like killed message boards which i get like the message boards were toxic and there was like the most fucked up shit like so the stuff you were talking about on the subway probably is what was getting talked about on the message boards like i don't think so but like no like i remember the message boards being like the most cruel like like just think of like the most toxic like tiktok fucking assholes like like just saying negative stuff to you it was like that uh but like you'd have to like sort through that to get like a good review of the movie or like like like backstory of the movie and stuff so like i miss the message boards immensely.

So for that reason, I am going to give current IMBD an unpaid rating, but it used to be underrated. But I would still use it. It's so chock-a-block full of ads though. It's, I don't know. It's spammy as heck. I think I might've sent it to you. I put it in my Instagram story for a couple of weeks straight.

Probably. There was an app, a dude I follow named Casey List, ATP Podcast. Shout out to Tommy. He's a fellow listener. He developed an app called Call Sheet that solely exists to replace the function of finding, I know that guy, what movie was he in? And it's just no ads, just really easy ui built for searching that stuff and i used that and i was like this is what imdb could have been instead of just like an ad infested junk thing

i was like this is great imdb it's handy though it's for sure handy i've got over a decade of actually i have like 12 years worth of ratings and then i went back and rated every single movie i've watched in my life before that so like I'm too invested to import it somewhere else. And I think I even did. You showed me a different app like that. Yeah, Letterboxd. And I tried it, but it was too different. And I don't do different, dude.

I'm too old to do something different at this age in my game. Letterboxd is great, though, because it's mostly pretty big movie critics, people that think a lot about movies. But the reviews, like I just go to letterboxd after I watch a movie and I just read reviews and they are the funniest, like so quippy and like so smart that it's like, it's solely good for just go on letterboxd. Like we just watched,

um, uh, what it like leave the world behind or whatever that new Netflix, uh, movie is. It's like the, it was like Michelle and Barack Obama were like producers on it. Um, it's got, uh, Oh shoot. What's her name? Um, Julia Roberts, uh, the dude from my watch list, the dude from Swan song, Kevin Bacon, uh, the dude that looks like Kevin Bacon. Um,

yeah, it was, and I like, I was like, I need to go read the reviews. I need to go read these comments. I was dying laughing. They're so good. So Letterboxd, shout out to them. Joey, I have... I did a deep dive on your Instagram. I went back decades

and I found... I wanted Keith to use this forever ago when you guys did a one-on-one podcast and I'm still debating if I don't think I'm gonna you posted a picture with a caption that I just thought was hilarious and I guess if it's on Instagram it's probably fair game we'll cut it if you don't like this but I want to know Joey unpaid or underrated chocolate butt plugs for Easter. I don't even remember what you're talking about. Okay.

It's so funny. I would do that. I was scrolling, and I saw it's just like you holding. I swear we talked about that once too. Yeah, it was just me and you, Keith. I was like, you need to ask him about this. Yeah, I omitted. It's just foil-covered chocolate.

So like in the foil, hey look at this. It's a cool snowman or it's a cool gnome and then you open the foil and it's literally just shaped like a butt plug. It's just like a pointed round piece of chocolate and i just remember opening it and looking at i think i was with morgan at the time and i was just like why do i have a butt plug now in my hand like so that's so chocolate butt plugs probably underrated oh yeah probably underrated because like you know they taste great

you heard it here first who knows i need to do research yeah yeah it also speaks to like what um because like i did a a deep dive on my own instagram i was looking for something and just like the way that instagram used to be and like how people posted on there versus like the way people post now is just vastly different um and it was like i went back and there's like just pictures of me just like when instagram had like their original filters that you couldn't even edit it was just like you put a filter on and we would just try to see how many filters we could add on to the same picture to make it like as terrible as like it was just so much just goofiness of and you know you only followed your friends random people on the internet didn't exist no algorithm back in the day and like the way that

worked then is you could post and be like oh i'm having an event tonight and it would show up in people's feed in that time and now you post something i might not see it for five days yeah you're like oh i want to go to that event oh that was five days ago shoot looks i'm not going to that yeah and for the for those keeping track at home and for big kevin who has the spreadsheet go ahead and mark down two two times butt plugs were talked about on this episode it's a horny episode it's a good butt plug ratio yeah good butt on title um all right this has been an enjoyable episode i think it's uh i think it's maybe it's a good thing big and big matt couldn't figure out how to, you know, get his mic to work. Yeah, I would agree.

That guy sucks. Um, any who, um, Keith, uh, speaking of, uh,

butt plugs, um, I got, I got, this is how I guess this, I don't know. I have a couple. I want to run by Joey.

I got a couple. I want to run by you. Um, hit me, buddy. Roundabouts. Traffic circles. I know you're a big traffic guy everybody's always commenting about keith and his traffic dispositions which is fine i had a huge debate today with my buddy at work with about four-way stops and how i think he does

them wrong and but i won't diverge that that's not around around about there, bud. No, no, I know. So around about traffic circles, everyone to call them. I overall under, yeah, I'll go underrated. They can be really cool when they're like easy and just like the one lane, you can just get in and out and they're not overly complicated when you're like, when they're like twice as big and there's multiple lanes and you don't know

what fucking lane to get into. People, people like think that they're allowed to fucking cross two lanes at once and fucking hit you. It's like, oh, that's always fun. Definitely had a lot of close calls in some of the bigger ones, but the smaller ones in small towns, yeah, they're a great idea.

So overall, underrated with the caveat that some of them suck. And they do... A little bit but they show uh studies show that if you replace a four-way stop with a roundabout there's something like a 60 to 80 percent decrease in accidents sounds right i i believe that statistic wholeheartedly i think roundabout's pretty great i like them uh if you're local to the akron ohio area where i'm from

one of our main roads that people frequent masson road in green ohio shout out uh that road um they just put in like five roundabout like they replaced every intersection and put in like five roundabouts back to back and people are losing their mind but also people do not like there's been roundabouts in green for forever and people cannot figure it out like yeah you're not supposed to get in accidents in these things but i'm like people are going to die like yeah because nobody you have to yield to the car that's already in the intersection it's it's so easy it's so easy you're supposed to yield for pedestrians the yielding for pedestrians one is hard but we don't

have pedestrians where we're like there's so the one right here by my house big sign yield for pedestrians so you're in the roundabout and you're like oh because it's right by a school you're like oh those kids need to cross i will stop but the idiot behind you is like oh it's my turn and just veers into the thing and like almost hits you because they're not paying attention so i can see fear i'm a i'm a big fan of using my four turning my four-way flashers on in a moment like that like if i like if there's like a you know if big dave is in his fedex truck doing a delivery and he's like taking up you know he's pulled off the side of the road but he's still in the lane and i have to cross into the left lane to pass him like i throw my

flashers on for that i know 99% of the world doesn't and people look at me like i'm stupid but like it's just i'm in a company truck 99% of the time like anything i can do to make my truck more visible yeah that's a good call though it is actually if i'm backing out of something if i'm backing out of like a congested area i'll throw my flashers on just for like the 30 seconds like i don't know that's just something i've always done. I drive my lights on 24-7 too just so my tail lights are more visible. So when I do, I'm just a more visible vehicle.

Massive truck needs to be more visible. Yeah, roundabouts. You couldn't make it orange? An orange truck? It'd be pretty visible. Paint the whole world orange. Paint the world orange. Joey, you've been a

self-proclaimed foodie. You've said you're into food. I was. My wife. I was. Lately, it's just chicken wings and beer. But I'm sure the question will still work. I like the chicken tenders.

lately it's just chicken wings and beer but i'm sure the question will still work i like the chicken tenders um indies uh so my wife and i like hulu relaunched uh gordon ramsay's kitchen nightmares and we've been watching that occasionally um and well okay um so the question here is unpaid or underrated Gordon Ramsay. Definitely. Well, so probably unpaid in that he's like the biggest name in culinary on the planet. Right. Like for me to say he's underrated would mean that I somehow know more than millions of people around the world. It would be hard to say. It's like... However,

I love the dude. You know, everybody wants to highlight on when he's mad. But when he's not mad, he's kind, he's a good leader. Have you ever seen him with kids? On the cooking show with kids? the dude just is

clearly got the headspace but then the like the insults and the anger got him famous so that's just kind of what everybody focuses on when he's like calling people names which he is very talented at yes um but you know you watch some of the earlier episodes of kitchen nightmares and like, he's, he's not that at all. Yeah. And then one day I think he snaps on some like 16 year old that somehow called himself a chef and was ruining this woman's business. And like,

he just snaps on the kid and you're just like, but the kid, that kid had to come in. I'm sorry, dude. So definitely. Yeah. And unfortunately he's got to be unpaid because like i said i don't know

more than millions of people around the world yeah i don't know ramsey is really interesting because like watching this kitchen nightmares and i just i'm to the point with like reality television and just social media i just don't believe anything is real like i just believe everything is staged yeah i'm just watching this show and i'm like i don't even think these restaurants are real at this point like they're doing so many things bad like i'm just like watching i'm like gordon like this is just a script at this point like there's like it's like i know everything that's gonna happen in every single one of these episodes and i was like i wonder what joey thinks about gordon it's good to know yeah like i can see that definitely. Like what is that?

Annie's bakery. Like in the later, later, later episodes where. I don't know. We just, we started. Oh, okay. It's like you, if you go, there's kitchen nightmares and then there's like kitchen nightmares, 2023 in who, like there's two different shows now. I haven't seen that.

I haven't seen the new ones but you know this lady was like advertising fresh but it was frozen oh yeah and like just arguing with him and all that and like she ended up getting pretty famous for being just an awful awful guest and restaurant owner like she was taking their service tips or something and putting it towards the house yeah yeah like she ended up getting flamed, but yeah. Yeah. I just haven't watched the new one yet. It's good to,

to your point about, uh, Oh, sorry. My wife walked up and wanted something, but I couldn't understand what she was wondering. You were distracting me there. My,

my wife, she wanted the baby monitor. I stole it. Um, how dare she? No, like to your point about him being really kind, like one of the guys, he like, just was like, we need to go to therapy. And like, My wife, she wanted the baby monitor. I stole it. How dare she? No, like to your point about him being really kind, like one of the guys he like just was like, we need to go to therapy and like is like taking him to therapy. And like that's part of the show is like them just like sitting and he's like, you need to talk to somebody. And I was like, this is interesting.

This is this is a Yelly Gordon Ramsey. But yeah, seems like a cool dude, though. Yeah. All right. I think Um, all right. I, I think I have, I got one more. I want to,

uh, let's do this. What you got? Um, I've got one. You guys do a lot of country talk around here around these parts. Um, and my dad,

he's got one, one of his, his favorite country artists. Shout out, shout out big Tim. Um, Johnny cash. Unpaid Big Tim. Johnny Cash. Unpaid or underrated from both of you, Johnny Cash.

And we'll wrap this game up. I'm probably going to get roasted, but unpaid. He's got like three songs I really like. But like he's so yeah, it's a tough one. I know Joey's gonna say the other opposite i'm sure but i don't know like if you look if you like go to his discography he's got like 400 songs and like maybe you recognize like three of them um like like you know i don't know me personally i enjoy some of his stuff but overall i don't know yeah for me he's unpaid but I still really like him. But I don't think he's as good as...

Like, he's so famous and so popular, I don't think... If I play the game the way you're supposed to, and it's not my personal opinion of him, so don't give me any shit, but I do think he is, in reality, slightly not as good as people think he is. But I do enjoy multiple other songs my first published article was actually a eulogy for him when he died it was the first time I was ever published in something public

and so I think I knew that, that's why I brought it up I think that. That's why I brought it up. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. I think that I'll tell you, I take umbrage with the premise of the question. I find that Johnny Cash is rock. I don't think Johnny Cash is country. If you compare it to what country was at the time, I would say that I don't see him as a country artist. would say that i don't see him as a country artist um i'm also good i'm also gonna say unpaid because i don't think most of the songs i like by him or even by him i think they were written by uh chris christopherson uh so i would argue yeah i actually agree with keith there i love johnny cash if it comes on i'm not changing. But I can't think of the last time I went, I really want to listen to Johnny Cash right now. I don't think that's come up in years.

Since the eulogy, I think. So, what do you call those albums? Records? No. So the two records he did before he died that he did hurt and um well that's that's a song off the album wasn't it called hurt no it had a lot of covers on it too didn't it yeah no there's an era it's i want to say not it might be def jam it was the record label he was on at the time so yeah he did

that's when he did when the man comes around hurts give my love to Rose I think was the name of the song where he's like crying in the middle of the song because it was right after she died that shit is powerful

but the stuff that he's the most famous for i could take it or leave it most days yeah a boy named sue doesn't do a ton for me but i do like the uh one one piece at a time always makes me chuckle but it's not like it's not even it's almost not even a song like it is a song but it's more like a ditty one piece of time solid song but yeah but it's like i said i don't know it's such a weird it's like it's such a an odd thing to sing about but and also like i think he's that was i don't know if that was one of the songs it was like from like the 50s or 60s too and it was just so like dated by the time i heard it as a kid that was like oh okay this is like a 50 year old

song but it's still kind of interesting but yeah ring a ring of fire is hard to beat but yeah the more recent uh hurt for sure. I play it was, was hurt in original. Was it a cover? Ooh, I know this answer. I want to hear what Nate was going to say. It's a cover.

Yes. It's a nine inch nails cover. That's what I thought. Yeah. Cause I do have, yeah. And there was another one. There was,

what's the, did he do like rat in a cage or something as a cover to, um, rusty cage. I don't know. Something in a cage. Yeah. I'm looking at at the discography there's so many of like those it's like american and then like that's it's the american yeah it's the american albums yeah um it's like the man comes around celerity man unchained uh american recording ain't no grave uh ain't no grave was a good one yeah i think is it one

like my first experience with johnny cash as a teenager working at the movie theaters uh uh was that benicio del toro movie where he like got in a knife fight with someone in like the early 2000s uh and it was like a it was like a survivalist kind of thing i don't remember exactly what it was but that was literally the premise of it was like benicio del torres and some other like famous actor like knife fighting for like three hours um and johnny cash like when the man come around i'm pretty sure it was like playing through the credits so when we're like sweeping up the movie theater waiting for the the next you know basically have to go through the aisles and sweep up all the popcorn and shit i just remember that like song blaring for like you know three months straight while that particular movie was in the

in the theater fuck that's bugging me I can't think of the name of that but we'll look at it later we'll have to restructure glaze search so you can find it put a discography shirts in there as well yeah well good luck good luck

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