Unpaid And Underrated - 033 : Whipped Is What They Call It In Canada

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Carp. They dive into great topics like things you do in the dark, chicken nuggets, and ducks. 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 @coachcarp76 (https://www.instagram.com/coachcarp76/) Online at carpsgym.com (https://carpsgym.com) On Youtube carps_gym (https://YouTube.com/carps_gym) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Carp.

and welcome back to episode 44 of the unpaid and underrated podcast a podcast by crew for crew i'm your host big keith joined as always by my co-host big joey hey i'm here again and our special guest this week we've got mr eric carp Carpenter, a.k.a. Coach Carp. Hey, boys. What's going on tonight? Howdy. How are you guys doing? Well, we're a little late this morning, this evening, it is. It's not morning, it's this evening. And I've been off today, so my whole reference of time is just like, you know, very odd.

I don't think I've actually recorded on a day off before ever. This might be a first. So this is kind of cool. But with that being said, I'm still not drinking any beer because I don't want to ruin my tomorrow day off. So I'm knocking out some Poland Springs water with a little bit of a meal orange in it tonight. That is what I'm drinking. And I didn't have anything carbonated left. So just some fashion water with a little meal flavor.

Surprising you went orange there. Yeah, shocker. I was going to go red, but I figured I'd save that for you. Well, if you want me to crack into mine, I've got the classic Diet Coke, the original sparkling water. And that's a crispy crack on that one. And the Lift Hard, Live Easy.

That's a molasses-flavored sparkling water. What are you drinking, Big Joey? Oh, Morgan set this one up for me today. This is the Crew Premium Lager. I don't know if I can get that on... There we go.

So, for the audio listeners, it is not C.R.U. Umlaut, but it is C.R.E.W., which is close enough. We created it. Yeah, this is a crisp and refreshing lager crafted to honor the camaraderie found among fellow travelers. Sure. It's a Canadian company.

It's a basic lager. It does not taste fantastic, but it does not taste offensive. It's your favorite color, so that works. Blue? It looks purple from here, but maybe it's the video. And I also have the Liftard Livesey Drink Insulator. Same color as the

Cru Royale, if I'm not mistaken. It was, actually, yeah. Cru Royale with cheese. I'm wearing the, it was actually, yeah, let's be. True Royale with cheese. Well, I'm wearing the, uh, as far as what we're wearing this week, I got the old lift hard, live easy shirt and, uh, carbs. Looks like he's knocking out the massonomics seven year podcast shirt. But the important one I'm going to talk about is I'm pretty sure Joey's got a new fancy shirt on.

What do you got there? Yeah. Yeah. The you and you podcast I don't think I posted the did I post the back yet on Instagram? I think I saw it in a video I sent it directly to you

yeah so I saw it there so it's a red shirt it's got white you with the umlauts you and you podcast I did do it in Comic Sans because fuck you designers and then on the back it says for crew by crew mocked on discord by crew that's great i do enjoy that i uh and it was just an amazon special so are we gonna come out with uh merch i don't see it happening

because that's a lot of work uh but feel free to reach out to Big Nate or one of us and we can get you some higher quality images if you wanted to try to upload anything or just type out. I mean, literally, there's a million different websites. You can just type out the text and make the shirt. I think, Coach Karp, did you end up

getting one made? I think you had asked about it. I don't yet, but I do have the stuff you sent me. I was getting ready to say you guys had a new drop this week for the crew, but Joey made the version one of Keys, and now Joey's got different colors. I like the red. When I went to go order mine, I don't think they had a – the way I imported mine, it would have been hard to make the shirt red with the picture I imported, so I kind of just had to go black and white,

but. And I do like this because it feels almost like the, the writing is dyed in like it's not vinyl covered. I think it's screen printed. Yeah. So you don't have the itchy. Yeah. Like it's not heavy when I sweat or anything like that.

So I think this is, this was worth about the $30 I paid for it. It's less than an astronomic shirt. Yeah. It looks it looks like looks like you got a better blank than keith did mine's a little floppy mine's mine fits like a true 2x and i'm probably more like a 1.5 x oh this was a large and i opened it and i i put it on and i was like i don't think this is a large that's twice i've done that now. I better not be. I'm not buying any extra larges. Like, sorry, guys.

I'm going to be walking around like I'm in the baby gap. I'm not changing any more shirt sizes. I'll stop benching. Who was that? Was that Grayson that said Hannah's parents bought him a medium shirt? And anyone that knows Grayson, he's a smaller guy, but not a medium. Like small in stature and like he's like five foot four, but he's not a medium. He's at least not a massonomics medium.

And tear right through it. Yeah, for sure. Do you guys have a chance to watch any of the YouTube videos? We I think they dropped the crew fall ones last Friday, so we missed that. And then Jonah's gym tour hit today.

So there's two videos we have not talked about yet on this episode. I did not watch the gym tour one, but I assume you two did since you guys love that kind of stuff. So I'll let you guys have at that one. But I did watch the crew falls one.

Yeah, the gym tour was cool. I mean, I lived it firsthand, so there wasn't anything I really caught me off guard. What about you, Carp? Did you see anything in the gym that you were like, oh, that's neat?

I liked his all the platforms right in the middle. And then he had that that track area behind for like sandbag work. Bag, bag, that's neat. I liked all the platforms right in the middle. And then he had that track area behind for sandbag work. Bag, bag, you know what I'm saying? Either way. Oh, yeah. Depending on what part of the country you're from.

But then he had that, he said the one that was a powerlifting bench nationals. He had that special carpet. And a lot of guys were reaching out to him trying to figure out where you can get that carpet. Because it was really grippy for the bench nationals and so if the heaviest benchers in the world are using it and they like it then it must be all right and that is a thing like you hear a lot of guys go to these like these high payout meets and they just like rush to build a you know someone just got into someone's new to doing meat like being a meat director and just toss together a bunch of shit and think they have it all figured out and they buy some like shitty carpet from home depot and the guys complain about

it because their feet are literally slipping out on bench like you wouldn't think it's i mean it's not a big deal but it's a big enough of a deal that if you're there to perform at a high level and your feet can't fucking get planted on the ground like you're just gonna be a problem so that was kind of cool that he uh i i enjoyed that caveat as well in the video but uh i think the more fun video that we all watched was the the you know the, you know, Tommy and Tanner's crew falls recap of the, uh, the last weekend at crew falls. So I lived it. I don't really need to talk about it. What'd you guys think? I thought it was just funny seeing Tanner carry whatever it was, 20 chicken bakes in a big box that you guys, and you guys all got seating. I know you had to kind of wait,

you know, be strategic about the seating, but seating but uh and then apparently some of the other guys got uh sundays and things while they're waiting so there's no there's no telling how many calories got put down in about 20 30 minutes in there oh yeah i have so many hacks for the for costco like you get an ice cream and you get a drink and then you just like you don't do a sunday or anything you just get an ice cream and that's how you make like the cheapest float you just get a root beer and dump the the ice cream into the float but um fantastic and like i think i messaged in the discord it was funny because i'm like watching this video which is i know is supposed to be a fun video but i'm like whisper cheering you guys on during your lifts like when jake was like grinding through that deadlift i'm

sitting going get it up and then i was like i don't even know the guy and it's a video on my phone but i'm like yelling like i'm in a like in a meet like so that was pretty funny that but i mean that's just the kind of relationship that the crew has and the crew has built. Um, Tron kind of new to the crew, but just seems like he fits right in, just slid in like,

like a hot dog into a bun. Right. Right. Under those DMS. Yeah. He, uh, the showing up with the,

the, the Croy, the Crocs. Um, when he said, honestly, it's probably the funniest thing i've heard in a long time this chicken bake restaurant sells all these knickknacks yeah i laughed so hard like you know like i'm very familiar with costco i thought that was freaking hilarious so it was a good video and it was really fun to watch sad to see it end but it's keith one eye in it man they didn't they didn't want to let me go that was really funny like i like i didn't

realize because i had no i didn't see that image of myself until that video. And I was like, oh, I look as tired as I remember feeling. Like I visibly, like that's how I look when we usually roll into hour 2.5 on this podcast. It's kind of the exact face I looked. I'm not drunk. I'm just tired from drinking all night. Yeah, there you go. But trust me, I know because that's how they got me to top shelf. Like I was doing

the rounds with jen saying like bye everybody bye everybody and then bryce was like no like you could just feel him come in like like jaws he's like no we're going top shelf so like i know the feeling when you're trying to go and they're just like nah you're not leaving anywhere so believe me i know that well that wasn't the only uh you know those two videos might be in the top three of like you know crew content that has come out in the last few days so uh eric did you get a chance to watch the uh the we are crew ig video that we posted yesterday i did yeah with the uh let's see all the guys and oh yeah a couple seconds and the quick cuts yeah uh scans and some of the guys on there yes i saw that one i thought it was pretty

cool man nice yeah we uh i mean if if you're not on instagram a lot you know that has been a pretty virally trend the last few weeks uh we might have been about a week late getting it out but you know i think it's still relevant i think it's still funny i think everyone got it uh i think we all i mean it was pretty cool to like six or seven of us that took the time out of our you know busy lives to go record you know some of us but i did like three or four different videos in my basement so i i have a total like five minute investment but some of the guys you know was it a freaking big matt and big murph actually like you know went out of their way to meet up so that was really cool um so just like the fact that like all of us were like yeah i want to be

part of this i'm gonna invest however much time and effort into doing it and then you know nate whenever he had a you know when nate actually had a free minute was able to click clip it all together for us and we got it out there and they actually ended up talking about it a fair amount on last night's uh live recording during the supporting our members. So that'll be cool to hear next week. But I thought that was fun to be part of. Yeah, it's I know it's your guys content, but to me, it kind of harkened back to the the band to the. Yeah, buddy, lightweight to everybody joined in and did the old was that the insurance commercial spoof about it's my uh buddy like yeah that's right about that yeah

uh performing well 1600 views nice yep 19 shares only 76 likes but i mean considering our following counts yeah i don't we don't get more than if we get 50 likes that's a lot for our ig honestly so i'll take it so it's performing well and of course it should they they post they reposted it i'd like to see their um i haven't actually looked because i don't think they tagged any of us in their post they actually posted it on their ig yeah i don't know if you saw the message but tanner messaged me about the collaborator thing and uh i will talk about that off air yeah you'll talk with that off air off camera do it live but uh no that's cool i'll have to i'll have to check that out um

but yeah that was fun i was glad to be a part of it hope everyone enjoyed it and uh you know we'll try to i think it's cool that we have that's actually we have our platform now where it's like more communal like the crew crest you know unpaid underrated like it's like more communal, like the crew crest, you know, unpaid underrated. Like it's not just like one dude posting the video and kind of getting all the clout for it. And then trying to tag everyone. It's like, like our Instagram is like,

it is the cruise Instagram, you know? So I kind of look at it. It's like, it's, it's more of a communal place to put that rather than like an individual. So I think that was cool. I think everyone enjoyed being a part of it and,

you know, that's a good, that's a good way to word it. Cause I think that, you know, I, enjoyed being a part of it and, you know, that's a good way to word it. Cause I think that, you know, I, I have every intention of doing more stuff like that. Yeah.

I know that rang hurting kittens, which is another video I think I'm going to make. Oh yeah. We can talk about that. Let's not talk about that. Cause I'm going to make a video of that. I'm going to see if Nate can, can help me out with that.

But it's essentially just going to be a scent in the chat. I had said, I'm not typing all this. So I me out with that. But it's essentially just going to be, in the chat, I had said, I'm not typing all this. So I put out a video that just said, hi guys, this is what we want to do. We want to do it by this date. Let me know if you can record something and send it to us, blah, blah, blah. And then there was probably two hours

of just everybody in that chat ragging on me, bragging on each other, getting mad, cracking jokes. And like, I remember it's distinctly sitting at the table, laughing my ass off and workers like, what's so funny.

And I was like, I'm hurting kittens right now, trying to get them to do a video for me. And it's the funniest, I think just back and forth I've ever seen. So I might do just a video of some of the comments in that thread. Oh, yeah. That would actually hit.

Because everyone that would watch it, our viewers, the majority of them, wouldn't recognize the names and be like, oh, that's something they would say. It would just be funny. So to continue the trend of awesome stuff the crew is doing, it literally just got posted like an hour ago, so not everyone has maybe seen it yet. It'd just be funny. So to continue the trend of awesome stuff, the crew is doing it. Probably it literally just got posted like an hour ago. So not everyone has maybe seen it yet, but big Kevin posted a map of basically, I'm assuming he got the list from Tommy and Tanner,

just like a generic. These are the zip codes of supporting members. And he was able to, I hope he found a way to AI implement it because i hope he didn't sit there and type out fucking 300 zip codes because that would be tedious but there's a map right now i just shared it on our instagram it's on the discord uh where you can literally like see everywhere there's a sporting member uh there's a result there's a pin on the world map and i think that's pretty cool the only thing i wasn't sure about is if when there's repeat zip codes i don't think

there was two pins so because in rochester specifically i know there's a dude that lives like a mile from me that's actually a sporting member and i'd only saw the all the all the like there were three there were three pins and in like you know within like a 20 mile radius of my house uh but i knew the other two dudes and but the other guy he didn't see him on there so i'm assuming if it was a repeat zip maybe the year you know you didn't get a second pin. That's the only thing I could think of. But very cool nonetheless. And you and Steve are on there.

I'm assuming Steve and the other crew, because there's one in Hamilton and one south of Hamilton ish. Yeah, I'd be the one south of Hamilton-ish. Okay, and he's closer to Hamilton? Yeah, he's in Hamilton. Okay, so then there's the two. Yep. That's

cool. That's cool. We skipped over rating last week's episode. Oh, this is not a descending order, necessarily. Yeah, you're the guy to tell me not to follow the instructions. Well, I usually try to get the rate the last time. I have it at the end, but then

just as I type stuff out, it is know it is what it is but yeah let's let's uh eric would you think last week's episode of the massonomics podcast oh man that's a tough one um you know uh with a punter being on there you normally you would think hey uh this guy's a kicker. He's not that strong. You know, he's probably middle of the pack at best. And then you see he has that viral clip that goes wild all over the Internet.

And I thought it was funny because I remember watching that video live when I saw it. And I was like, man, this guy's going to get murdered for depth. Like, I'm not going to say anything, but like I can see the trolls out there in the world yeah so and that was one of the first things he said is that oh yeah i got all kinds of stuff in my dms about it's not ass to grass buddy so i'm definitely gonna have to give it uh five ipod touches on that one nice yeah uh i saw that or you know i did that was my i'm a i'm kind of a you know i'm a i'm a gatekeeper on depths but it is what it is the guy is significantly stronger than me makes a lot more money than me if you watch all his other if you watch any of his other videos maybe put the effort into watching other videos he can squat significantly more than that to depth and he can fucking pull like 700 for reps so i'm not

telling him shit uh but yeah that video was a little high but it is what it is it was still pretty cool um and that was that would have been the Sioux Falls recap episode of them too. So having them getting their perspective was probably – I enjoyed getting their perspective. And I hope as the listeners of both podcasts, you basically two days in a row would have heard the sister podcast give their opinion of how the weekend went and then me give my opinion of how the weekend went. So I think that was just good content all around, uh, for anyone that wasn't there. So for all those reasons,

uh, let's see on the glaze scale notes, but it's, it's not on the glaze scale. So we'll go ahead and do a five iPod touches. Uh, the good old glaze scale. Um,

yeah, uh, it kind of felt like the guy wasn't sure why he was there at first and it's again i've said it before it's kind of my favorite uh my favorite guest is they like you hear the second they catch on you know where they're like it's usually during overrated underrated is there something just like wait like has this been not serious the whole time and i i like that realization uh i did see the whole time? And I like that realization. I did see the video and I did see all the trolls and all of the, the depth hate, but I'm going to say something very controversial.

Generally the type of people that couldn't even hold the weight on their shoulders are going to be the ones to complain that he wasn't to depth. I get it. You know, people have done that to me. It wasn't to depth and i was like you can barely fucking squat two plates like like if i didn't crack parallel on double my body weight like calm down man it's fine um so that's just one of those yeah yeah i saw that too but um good episode hearing the the falls recap was really fun Made me kind of jealous I missed it, but also

I can only travel across the continent so many times in the span of one fiscal year. So I think I'm going to go ahead and give it... Kevin, if you're listening, I think we'll give this one a 5. So make sure you put that one on the spreadsheet.

5 iPod touches. Good rating. I think the average will come out, you know, on the backend. I'm not, I don't have a calculator, so we can't figure that one out.

We're not big math. I love that. That hasn't gone away. No, I make a lot of movie references, like a lot of movie references. Like last week when you were talking about being stuck in a car and i said or in an uncomfortable place something like that and i was like like the

back of a volkswagen so that is from mall rat when they're talking about anal sex i've seen that i don't think i saw that movie like 20 years ago once and then and then you were like yeah it was really small and i don't know if you saw i like muted my mic and died for a second and like somebody finally caught it in the discord so what are you big math now is actually a super troopers joke from when i actually didn't know that i just thought it was well it's kind of i thought we were making fun of like matt and his name a little bit a little bit. A little bit. Because he was the one that said something to me about my math.

And I was like, what are you, Big Math? Like I said, a Big Matt. But it's also from Super Troopers where he says, what are you, the shoe police now? And it's funny because they're the real police. So I was like, what are you, the blank now? So I love that we're still doing the Big math joke because it makes me fucking die every time yes i enjoy a good harken uh i think i'm i still get fucking uh what's this ryan tag made a platypus thing today so like that's not gonna die either like that was like episode like

it's like episode like three or something yeah it was early yeah it was super early so by the way that's the segment of joey parley explains his movie references that nobody ever gets but me and like one other person i get most of them i get most of them all right good good good yeah the volkswagen one was really funny because like keith was like yeah it was really small and didn't clue into the joke volkswagen is on the fly just and hooker's in the trunk. Yeah. This week, I just randomly had enough time this week to actually listen to our episode. Because also, it was with the core three, with our quote-unquote leader.

So it was nice to... I don't know. I really enjoyed listening back to this one. But I definitely caught at least 10 things that I don't remember hearing live at all. So that kind of is going to maybe nudge me to like, maybe I should get back into listening to every episode but it's just like fuck that's another three so they're two and a half hours i gotta find now of my own voice yeah as well sit in the dark and masturbate to my own picture like it's weird man it's weird listening to your own podcast anyway someone so i wish we had i wish i had a time stamp because i want someone to clip that

and i'm gonna i'm sitting in the dark masturbating to a picture of myself that is that i parent off god that's gonna be the fucking show never again never again it was one time it's more like my warburg in fear isn't it no it is actually was there any crunchy peanut butter involved when you were sitting in the dark down there by yourself oh buddy let me tell you crunchy peanut butter is winning my poll that's because you rigged it with crunchy versus whipped and it's not a thing i had to ask this fucker if whipped is what they call it in canada because like he says weird shit all the time that is like just canadian speak and i'm like is that canadian no i'm just fucking with you no i was totally i don't ever know i wanted to be like

best peanut butter crunchy or and then the one that was gonna be the wrong answer um but no like i like both peanut butter but it was just funny that i was eating crackers with crunchy peanut butter and i was like i'm gonna trigger the fuck out of keith right now and then so big jake was like does whipped what does that mean and he says what is whipped what is whipped peanut butter i said it's boring is what it is he goes enjoy your gravel that's good well i i think it threw me off too because i think there is like uh there are so there's like different there's so many different variations of peanut butter where

they try to make it like somewhat healthy and for some reason i think there is like a more fluffy like not creamy there is like a more like lighter peanut butter, like not like healthy light, but just like it's I don't know. It's got more fucking air in it or something. I don't know. It's currently 58 to 42 in favor of crunchy ice cream or crunchy ice cream, crunchy peanut butter. That's. So you got some orange glaze talk here and then we can get into some predictions yeah yeah i just want to this is a really funny story um to me i hope nobody else laughs and i

just look like a big loser doing this um i phoned my wife on my way home from work and i was like um is there anywhere i need to stop because she's been on a baking frenzy and every year she goes on the bakes like like everything for my guys at work for the teachers for the bus drivers like everything because she just wants to you know spread love she goes oh can you stop um at the lcbo and get me some grand marnier i was like grand marnier yeah sure but you don't drink that what do you what do you says, well, I made these orange and clove chocolate bites, but they need, there's like a cream that I can toss them in that uses Grand Marnier. And the Grand Marnier adds an orange flavor. And I yelled, are you fucking making orange glaze?

She goes silent for a second. She goes, I am making an orange glaze yes yes i am that was funny i was like oh good i'm putting that in the show notes as soon as i pull over that's great and i know is she a casual like i know she's listened i don't want to assume she listened to every episode but i know she has listened to some of your episodes that's that's that's supportive so she actually got it then so that's cool too because if that had been like reversed and i asked my wife that like she she has no fucking clue what orange glaze is other than like one of the thousand fucking meme accounts that follows her that she doesn't

know who they are yeah like so that's i don't even know if she knows that i'm or that like i'm the original orange clay shout out to big stephanie yeah she is a she's a trooper uh she's not loving the whole uh she doesn't doesn't work from home anymore and with the holiday season and i just started my vacation so she's like miserable that like i gotta be home for the next like 10 days and she's gotta go to work uh so that's uh she's slightly annoyed at me just for the fact that i was able to use my pto well we're gonna do a quick little segment here which uh something we definitely did not steal from the sister podcast at all it's something joey and i came up with with nate help you know we're gonna go ahead and do three quick little topics where we mention something and joey and

i are gonna pick if we think it is uh you know, what the answer is going to be. I explained that extremely horribly, but it was great. It was great work. It was great work. Well, Joey, you want to take over and explain to me what I'm talking about? No, because I actually still don't know myself. It's just the 2024 predictions. We've got three little things here that we're going to, somebody submitted the question and we're're just going to answer it now,

and then in a year, compare it to our answers to see what actually happened. So, for example, how many bars will Tanner buy for the gym? And it was like under 10, over 10, or something like that. And then it turned out to be like 25, because Tanner's a nightmare. And that's why Joey has the English degree or the writing degree. And I do not because I couldn't I couldn't speak those words for some reason. You're the judge and I'm the law talking guy. But here.

OK, so number one, we we being the unpaid and rated podcast will produce more podcast runtime than massonomics so as in like when 2024 wraps up on spotify the amount of runtime for someone that listened to both podcasts to completion for the entire year we're going to edge them out my prediction i just want to say that i that to completion and edging are very different things. Oh, man, I got... Oh, man, I can't say it on the podcast, but me and my buddy, talking about something about that kind of sort of...

Oh, he's going to laugh when he listens to this in three months. Okay, so will we produce more material on podcast, more minutes than Masonomics in 2024? I'm i'm gonna say yes because i believe we're gonna last the entire year we're not gonna run out of guests we're gonna keep this train rolling and our average runtime will edge theirs out by probably at least five to ten minute average runtime so i'm gonna say we do have more minutes produced what about about you, Joey? I'm going to say no. And I'm going to say it's because of the next prediction,

which was we will have five or more non-interview episodes in 2024. And I think that we are going to lose half an hour to an hour on those episodes because I think if they're non-interview episodes we're not going to go for three hours we're going to go for an hour and a half or two hours yeah and five i think so what 52 weeks a year if we're doing five that's 10 of our episodes i'm gonna say we end up with a few more than that i'm gonna say that we're gonna go between seven to ten okay fuck and i'm gonna i'm gonna go just so there's a discrepancy just so it's more fun even though i

think like i honestly think it'll be five to six i'll go under because it's a good chance it still might be four because that's that's one a quarter um that means like and it's either you and i basically have a guest no show or you know because i don't think we're not going to get a get like we should be able to get a guy like we should be able to get a guest uh so it's going to be non-interview would non-interview would be drafted right yeah the real so that's what i was getting at like okay how many times does nate want to do that four times like i could see nate wanted to do that two to three times plus us having one random one where well there's also but then you you you might want to do a whole episode where you just recap

the arnold like we could do that they're definitely going to do a lift hard live easy round table um like we can do shit like that uh so joey's gonna go over i'm gonna go under and then the last one here okay so massonomics they will hit 475 supporting members in 2024 they're currently at 372 so but you know and this is december 21st in the next couple days they might gain two or three more supporting members so my caveat of that was like basically are they going to get 100 new followers in 2024 oh i don't know i'm saying no okay that's fair not because of them or us but just as people like 474 total or 474 cumulative because if it's total then we're gonna lose some before we like as we gain some

right people are gonna just say i don't their credit card's gonna expire they're not gonna renew and oh that threw a heart of bags yeah that threw a whole new element in me because i was a kid today i think that that just was welcomed back to the group. I didn't pick Dalton, I think it was. Oh, shit. Dalty? Hmm, do I want to agree with that? 475.

I think that was 372, not counting bots and shit, too. I fucking hate those bots. I don't know if that's 372 supporting members or 372 crew on Discord. Because there's at least 20 or 30 crew that aren't on Discord. I imagine. Supporting members that just aren't. Yeah. Whatever.

I'm going to say we are going to hit it just to be different. So we'll have to actually go back and like write these down after the fact but uh i think that we should get it well it'll be all right so someone remind us in 11 and a half months to uh look up these results and uh talk about it in you know one year and i think that might was there anything else yeah that's the 2024 predictions show notes blah blah blah okay well mr carpenter we haven't let you talk at all and i think i'm gonna put the spotlight on you right now would you like to grace us with a little massonomic sponsor read uh sure we'll do it live do you guys like beer parody shirts drink safety

podcast about nothing and then Podcast Podcast About Nothing. You might want to check out Massanomics. They have a lot of cool merch. Got one right here, the Massanomics Podcast Tee. And then various drink spotters behind me. And, you know, it's a fun time. A lot of living hard and living easy. And the guys are really silly gooses and make me laugh.

But I kind of consider myself a silly goose as well so i feel like it's uh my kind of people and uh just check them out at massonomics.com and buy some of their sweet merch love it well done i was uh i was afraid i forgot to ask you to do that like a week a couple weeks ago because i think i had you on the schedule for a few weeks now and then with last i don't know the last couple weeks have just been crazy. So I'm like, did I reach out to Eric and actually settle this up? Because usually I obviously be like, yeah, make sure you have a sponsor read ready. I was like, I don't fucking remember if I did that or not. So I'm glad you had that ready for us, bud.

So, well, what do you think, Joey? Time to kick all these looky loos out and see if we can get our guest on the horn. Sounds good to me. Go ahead. I'll kick everybody out. You call them up. All right. Hello.

Is that big carp? Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought we were going to have a,

there was a Keith internet connection deal there. I think we got it. I don't know. That sounds like a big Matt microphone issue. If you ask me. Oh yeah, it could be, it could be,

which also could be considered a big Keith microphone issue too. If you've been following along you got to plug your microphone in to have an issue with it yeah that hits home i had an issue myself today so mike's all around well we'll just go ahead and dive right in buddy uh what brought you to massonomics how'd you find us why why are you still here all that i really had to think back cause I had, uh, known some of the guys or seen them around, um, traced it back to kind of, I had seen the lift banner and a lot of basement Brandon's videos, classic banner, the, uh, the lift logo there. And, uh,

I was like, I had seen it around and I've seen some of the shirts, but I wasn't aware of Masanics as a company or the podcast. I had just seen some of their stuff out there. And the first time I remember seeing the guys was on actually the Starting Strength podcast. I know some of the other guys have said that, too. But I had been watching all those, the backlog of the Starting Strength podcast, even back when it was called Ask Rip. And then it later became the starting strength radio he had uh the other host on there and uh that's where i originally saw him

and the uh the classic the uh baby shit yellow shirt i believe it was is that is that the one all i know is i say it wrong every time and i get roasted for it so i don't fucking know anymore it's piss yellow or something i don't fucking know and. It's piss yellow or something. I don't fucking know. And then it's weird because they look at thinking back to that. Uh, even guys like Grant Brogy, I had known about him way before massonomics too, because he was part of that, you know,

part of the, uh, the starting strength stuff too. And before he even started making plates or equipment, I had seen him on a couple other podcasts. So I was familiar with him when he joined massonomics. Uh, and then when I,

my first piece of merch, um, was actually flags or flags, flags, flags. familiar with him when he joined massonomics uh and then when my first piece of merch um was actually flags or flags flags legs yeah before i bought a shirt actually i actually bought the lift banner the power lifting and the strongman when i redid my gym during like the 2020 purge and rebuy i had got rid of all my older equipment and i was like okay so we're gonna do it right this time we're gonna do the stall mats and we're gonna do the uh the banners and stuff because i don't like a bare wall and i knew i was moving so i didn't want to paint the wall so i did all banners so those are my first three banners and then when the white lift t-shirt came out that was my first actual t-shirt

or massonomics um and probably after that i started listening to the podcast regularly right around that 200 episode and listen to it from then on and then went back to the backlog I was about to say that I was the only one that's been through both backlogs but I think Mo Big Mo got me on that one so I will say I may be the only one to hit the uh the massonomics or crew uh cycle like in baseball where you, you know, you hit one or everything like for massonomics, it would be, it would be, uh, you know, being on both podcasts, cause I have done a read on the, the, uh, the sister podcast.

Now I'm a guest tonight and then I use both, uh, both code crews, unpaid crews, uh, unpaid uh unpaid code sorry uh unpaid codes for the uh the uh barbell rescue barbell rescue brush and then the obsidian ammonia so oh nice now you got now you guys can try to hit the cycle as well so you gave me a little bit of money and joey a little money i love it we appreciate that and yeah, there'll be more stickers to come. Yeah, that's how I got into massonomics. And I've loved it ever since. I wasn't ever a big beer parody guy. So I do have some of the beer parody shirts, but most of my massonomic shirts are non-beer parody.

So if you see if they have one that's not beer, because I've got, I've got little kids. So, and then if I coach and stuff, I can't wear those to the ballpark. I mean, I can, but I don't. For me, it's kind of like watching a coach smoke or chew tobacco in front of you. I try not to do that stuff around kids. So I wear those in the home gym, the ones I do have. The other one, my going out shirts, as they say, are not a beer parody. So I'm not as aggressive as Joey might be in public.

Nice. So I'm not as aggressive as Joey might be in public. Oh, nice. Well, as you mentioned, talk about your coaching. I had a lot of questions. People were like, is he a football coach? Is he like a legitimate coach for a living? Or are you just coaching your kids' sporting teams? Where does the Coach Carp come from? Coach Carp started several years back.

I was a little league coach i don't do that anymore like it was it wasn't my kids it was before i had kids okay me and my me and my buddies would coach a little league team um and they that's the kids would call me that but then also like at that time i was really heavy i was probably like 340 or something like that this is probably like 2015 2016 and i kind of went on a transformation and got down i lost about 120 pounds and then when i was doing that i had a lot of people coming to me for that type of coaching um i don't really do that anymore but um for a while i got really thin but that's where i kind of got into the massonomics and the actual powerlifting type training

is because i had been doing that a lot of cardio type stuff and not really powerlifting. I was doing some barbell movements, but not like I am now. And I got to really small and I was like, man, I'm weak. I don't like this. Like, I'd rather be bigger and stronger. So that's kind of the, that was kind of the progression there. But that's where the name came from initially was just, you know, like a eight, nine year old kid softball team uh baseball team that i coached with a couple of my buddies um and that was really fun for the times that we did it we did it for like three or four seasons and then

as i got older and had kids now i coach uh soccer when we do it like we're not doing soccer now but my daughter is doing basketball i'm not her coach for that but that's there's not saying i won't be down the road but i like coaching kids sports i think it's fun that's cool that's admirable i don't see a lot of people like volunteering to coach sports when they don't already have like a niece and nephew their own kid like some kind of connection to it already so that's that's uh you know i'll give you praise for that my friend uh we missed it real quick uh if anyone wants to find you on instagram um whenever we always close with it as well. But just in case someone wants to go figure out who you are right now in the middle of the podcast, if they don't already follow you, where can they find you at, buddy?

Probably the best place is just CoachCarps76 on Instagram. That's where I do a lot of my training stuff. And I'll post hacks and stuff like that if I get them. And then I've got a YouTube channel, Carps Gym. It's kind of a smaller channel, but I'd like to do equipment reviews on there, post hacks and stuff there too. So either one of those is a good spot. I think you'll find some good stuff there if you're into powerlifting training or any kind of home gym stuff.

Yeah, I definitely feel that you're putting a lot of the content out. It's stuff that I'm actually interested in. You're not doing a bunch of tech you know tech in the gym stuff and shit that's like you know power lifters got no interest in so everything you're usually talking about is like oh i can see the point in that product for the most part so i you know well i don't know that i watch all your stuff but i do follow you i probably watch the majority of it comes out so uh i always get a kick out of you know your your your edits and i can see your progression as you know as you've been doing it for a while now it's like uh maybe a little less clunky as they were

when i first started watching your stuff a while ago so thank you uh so you're doing good um man uh i i do appreciate you don't add as much audio as our our mutual friend jonathan does because he he he got me today i thought my fucking phone was ringing once and I thought there was someone at the doorbell the next time because he just puts all these random ringers and buzzers in his video and I'm just like looking around like is that something am I going off? So I just

figured you'd appreciate and get a chuckle out of that because I'm sure it's happened to you too. 120 pounds, man. That's crazy. That's that's I didn't. Yeah, i put it when your wife told me about that uh that was that's it that's crazy that's that's how did you uh manage that my friend uh honestly man it's a simple stuff kind of like i think you guys had spoon on before uh our big spoon man uh is you just kind of got you got to plan it dude like i'm not really on

it right now but like it just it proves to you that if you just plan and do your meal prep and stuff like that. And for the most part, like we at Lawless Party, you know, powerlifting guys, guys that train, like to lift for strength. A lot of us eat a lot of the same stuff anyway. Like, you know, you probably eat a lot of grilled chicken and steak and stuff like that. And then various carbs, whatever vegetables, whatever you want to do. Um, but I've found out like I eat most of the same stuff and I just tried to get stuff that I like. So if you're a guy that can eat chicken every day, you know, you can, you know, make that seven different ways and put four different vegetables with it and you got something different every day. So

some people can't do that. Some people can't eat chicken every day. And I think that's where they struggle. If you, if you can be disciplined like that. mean you i got really lean i had like the the shadow eight pack but i wasn't happy with my strength like and then you know i had to suck it in and do it at an angle but you know it was there and i've got pictures to show it but i mean i'm not trying to brag just like but it was like a year process of doing that so you know you don't it doesn't take a lot you know to get the ball rolling so anybody can do it if you know, you don't, it doesn't take a lot to get the ball rolling. So anybody can do it. If you're, if you're out there thinking, man, I need to, you know, trim down, I need to throw some cardio in the most of it is going to be just your meal plan. That's what it's going to be for sure. For sure. Uh, well, one of my buddies that I was talking

to at career falls said we don't get enough background information on the guests. So, uh, I'm not really sure where to go with that other than maybe ask a little bit more about what you do for a living. So you want to tell us what you do for a living or, you know, what, what's your career path has been or anything you want to talk about on that? Just so people better understanding of who Eric is and what he's done as professional life. Yeah. I'm kind of a blue collar guy. I mean, uh, the collars may have came become white over the years, but it's still blue labor type work. I'm actually in liquor sales now. I've been pretty much a vendor, what they call a vendor,

which you sell to grocery stores, convenience store chains, things like that, various products. I've worked for Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper Snapple, or I think it's called Keurig now, but it's the parent company that owns that. And now I'm working for a distributing company that sells liquor. So we do a lot of wine sales. We have hard liquor and stuff. But one thing most people don't know, if you're from another state, you guys probably have no idea, is that I'm in Nashville or close to Nashville, Tennessee.

And we've only had wine in grocery stores here for like the past six years so prior to that it was not even a category so when i left from coca-cola to came over here they were starting a new category and they were looking for salesmen that were already in the in the business and other other brands and other fields to use for their for their wine company now that's how I got involved in it because one of my old bosses transferred over and then he kind of told them about me and recruited some other guys from Red Bull and other companies like that. But I will say it's definitely helped my family.

I've got weekends off, which is really nice. Most days I'm home at a decent time, where before I'd work several really long hours. So that's kind of been my progression over the years. I went to MTSU, Middle Tennessee State University for college and did the human performance. And that's where I kind of saw some of the differences in how like we trained in high school to how like college and pro guys do it. And you'll see there when or when my experience was like, most of those guys are just freaks. It doesn't matter what,

what you tell them to do. Like they can probably do it or show them once or twice and they'll get it. So just like the guy, you know, the punter for the Rams, like some of that, he's just born with, like,

I'm sure he's worked hard over time and added to that. But, you know, guys like Dan Bell and all that, they have a certain, they started, they started at a certain point that not all of us do. you know i've been training my gym for five six years and my numbers are not anywhere close to those guys and uh but i'm still working hard you know so

um that's kind of the progression um and i've kind of been you know in that kind of position ever since like pretty much since college so probably going on what would it be almost 15 years doing that kind of job so uh it's like i'm out in the car a lot of times so i get a lot of windshield time so that's where like i catch up a lot of the podcast and stuff if i can't watch it i can always listen to it um and then that's one way like i went back and did the uh the uh all the old podcasts and listen to it on like 1.5 or something. You can get through them pretty quick, especially the early episodes. But I do have that much time to drive. I might work a 12-hour day, but I might be in the car five, six hours a day,

commuting around, stopping over here, then driving 30 minutes, and then that kind of stuff. So I do get a lot of time to do that, which I really like. So I'm not doing the same thing every day. I mean, you might be on a route in that area, but you're not, you're not doing the exact same thing every single day. So that's what I like about it. It's funny that you bring that up. We haven't had,

we just got alcohol in grocery stores up here. Oh really? Yeah. And then we'll be getting it in convenience stores probably in next year. And it's a very controversial thing around here i won't get into the politics of it all right it was here too yeah but i mean we're in the bible belt well you'd think we are based on the way some people talk but um it's funny because like other i think us and one other province are the only provinces in Canada where you can't get liquor in convenience stores. And that turns out,

and I, you know, I don't want to give too much away, but I ended up talking to the guy that's responsible for that. He's like, I'm retiring because I'm the guy that got alcohol into convenience stores. And it's interesting because I think your job is the only job that could easily take me from my

current job. And now that we have that opportunity coming, it's just a thing. Yeah, I was like, you know, I've always said Jaeger could pull me away if they gave me even half of what I make and full benefits. Like, you pull me away easy.

Right? Because I make and full benefits. Like you pull me away easy. Right. Cause I would love my job. So that's pretty funny. I think you would, because in that type of job, you'll get to do some fun stuff too. Like, you know,

you'll get to go do samplings and sponsor events and that kind of stuff. It won't be the same. I mean, depending on how you go and move up in the company, but I mean, anything, something like that, the sky's the limit. I told, I i tell my guys all the time like that work with me or adjacent to me is like if i could have had this job when i was 25 it would have been a totally different

trajectory like there's more opportunity in this type of position like there's really no limit to how much alcohol you can sell like people people are getting 20 turning 21 every year so yeah um i think you would like it if that's something you want to look into but you know if you ever have any questions man feel free to reach out i will but i can do for you it's just kind of like one of those things that aligned because i just it's been on my mind today because of all of the things that are coming out you know it's going to open up jobs for people to do your job up here in canada that's pretty cool. Without this podcast, we wouldn't have just made that crew-nection.

How would I say that? Nope. That was messy. Butchers. That was tough. But I do get crap all the time because I'm not really a drinker. I drink Diet Coke and stuff like that. I'm not a hard drinker.

I don't drink wine or anything. But I sell it for a living. I tell people I didn't drink regular coke either when i sold that but you know i sold a lot of it so you know it's it's better if you do because you can learn more about it like i've had training and stuff on some of that stuff and then they'll do the same thing for you so if it's something you're into i mean it's worth looking into yeah you can tell me what a Tannins is, but nobody cares. Oh, fuck. That was a wine joke. That was a wine joke. Yeah, I didn't get it.

I was going to segue into it. He's the no wine seller. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you and I clash on that. It was a good segue, though, because I wasn't sure what you just said said and that's pretty similar to when i get a text or a dm from eric i have to fucking decipher it because this son of a bitch uses talk to text non-stop with an extremely thick southern accent and doesn't proofread when he before he hits send so that was one of the things i asked two or three people uh that was it was multiple people said you know wanted me to bring up your uh or texting grammar uh and this is coming from me i'm a very bad texter with horrible

grammar and you beat me by like by like times three so is that something you get from a lot of your buddies giving you shit is like do you do you text that bad with your like family like i just i just know i'm busting your balls but harps gonna cry he's like nobody's ever said this to me man no no i'm in another group with with keith and uh that would be so fucking funny no man nobody's ever said anything to me what are you talking about like he he could have had you so good right there i only say shit like that when I already have a rapport, like Harp and I are in a group chat and stuff for home gym stuff. And he gets his balls busted there all the time.

I'm just curious if the, the, the, not necessarily the backstory, but just like you are aware of it and it's just, I don't know how to fix it. Yeah. It's not perfect. Like if I'm doing it, like I told you, like I'm in no car or something a lot of the time I'm doing something else and so i don't i can't sit there and type it but like i can talk it you know and like you're saying sometimes it just doesn't pick up the word or the dialect like a quick short story on that right there i tell uh messaging gluck the other day uh you know supporting member also yeah and uh he was like okay buddy you're just gonna have to try again

i have no idea what this is and and gluck was the main one i think he was the first one that mentioned like he had a he had like a whole paragraph of how like you need to text better basically and he wanted me to bring up like why you did not actually why but he just you know we all know why it's just you know we know what you do it's just funny because 99 of my correspondence with you outside of being on a couple other podcasts has been you know text back and forth and group chat stuff back and forth and i'm just like what the fuck did he say so and some of it has to do with like just stuff that we talk about like knurling and stuff like that yeah they're not common the iphone has no idea what knurling is it gives you some other like gnome or something you're not common words. The iPhone has no idea what knurling is. That's true. It gives you some other gnome or something.

You're like, no, that's not even close. But that's some of it too. But yeah, I'm aware of it. Supposedly there's a new hack where you can change it before you send it, but I still haven't figured that out. I think on Instagram, Instagram today allowed me to edit a DM,

which was like, I thought it let me do it a while ago and then it went away and then today it came back so i don't know if i'm getting that mixed up with iphone because i know i can do it on imessage now too which is awesome and i take advantage of that like daily but today it literally let me do it in a in an eye because it actually prompted me because i i i went to go copy and i i had like a whole paragraph and i looked at and there was like two fucking typos that changed the whole context of it so i was like okay let me copy it delete it and as soon as i went to copy it was like do you just want to edit and i was like oh yes because it like knew

what i was trying to do uh but that was a that was pretty cool that let me do that so i don't know i just it's all in good fun buddy you know uh oh yeah i'm with you it makes me laugh too sometimes oh i just thought it would i just i would say it would have been a good chance to fuck with you. It makes me laugh too sometimes. Oh, I just thought it would have been a good chance to fuck with you. Yeah, that would have gotten me good. Never heard of her. Yeah. But how about your YouTube? Is that getting where you want it to be or is it a slow burn?

Because I feel like you put a lot of effort into it. So you work 50, 60 hours a week. You're probably putting another 10 hours in YouTube and Instagram content, right? Yeah, I said that with the goal of the year. I just wanted to make one video a month. Like I told, like I said, hey, man, like it all stemmed from like talking to Joe Gray about a little, about a year and a half ago. And we were just talking, you know, on DMs and stuff like that. And all the stuff that's going on out there with other companies that do reviews, if you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, we'll get into that a little later.

Yeah, because if you don't like what they're doing, why don't you do something? And we kind of started having that talk. And I said, well, I don't know if it'll be any good, but I'll give it a shot. And so I set out to say, I'm going to try to make one video a month and see if I can you know that's all I'm going to commit to and then just as opportunities came you know sometimes it'd be three a month sometimes it's one a month I wanted to see if I could really get to a thousand

subs just for fun like there's no really I'm not really trying to make money or do anything like that I'm not doing it as a business or anything I'm just you know for fun and trying to get enough following to where it at least supports itself where I'm not out of pocket like for a website and all that kind of crazy stuff so um if it ever did something great but i'm not you know i have a good job so i'm not too worried about that but um i just like the equipment aspect of it man like i like you know

like the geek out on equipment i know like it's maybe not joey's thing but i know keith doesn't talk about oh yeah all the different bars and things like that um so i made it to i think about almost 700 subscribers so i'm not i didn't make it to a thousand but i didn't think i would get to 700 so there seemed to be a lot of people that like it um and i get a lot of dms and messages hey man that really helped me get this bar i couldn't decide between these two so can you help me out and you know sometimes people will buy from your link if you do that and then you know sometimes you're just helping guys out so i try to look at it from i've been a smaller guy and i'm a bigger guy so i like to look at it from the aspect of

is this piece of equipment good enough for at least an average person or if not a larger size person like if this bench doesn't hold 700 and this dude is 275, 300 pounds, is it going to collapse on him? You know, I'm not, I'm not looking to, you know, make money for other companies. I just want,

you know, to get the honest review. So that's kind of where I started with it. Um, I have got some free stuff from a companies. They have sent me some items. Um, but I always tell them,

Hey, you know, I'm going to say what I want to say. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to test it how I want to test it. And, you know,

it'll, it'll be, it'll be how it is. But, um, some companies are cool with that. Some aren't, but, um, I, you know i'm going to test it how i want to test it and you know it'll it'll be it'll be how it is but um some companies are cool with that some aren't but um i you know i'm not trying to make money off it so i don't care if they get mad or not but that's kind of way i look at it but yeah i think it's been fun that is definitely a grind if you want to make it a good video like try to edit it up and stuff try to make it you know decent but i learned a lot you know through the process so i think it's good for anybody to try that just because you can learn, you know, a little, even if it's for your reels and stuff, you learn a little editing tricks and how to put a video in,

how to put a picture over a video and stuff. I didn't know any of that stuff last year. So it's kind of fun just, you know, figure it out on your own. So I hope people get it. I hope people enjoy it, you know? Yeah, that's awesome, awesome man i find it hard enough to keep up with just putting out one or two fucking instagram posts a week on between all my channels so it's like i couldn't imagine like all right i gotta keep instagram happy yet make youtube content and i can only do so much cross containment not gonna uh you can only like just post the same shit on both platforms because then like the people going to go to either or the other. You can crop something from YouTube and make it a reel, but it's got to... Then that's a whole to-do

as well. I imagine you're putting a lot of time in it, but I've been. Keep it up, buddy. We'll get you to 1K one of these days. And then when we do, are we going to go to... Can we go to Wendy's and celebrate um because i hear you're like uh or you know uh let's see wendy's chops is a nickname is that uh that was a horrible

anyway i'm like speaking of segways you've got this little game you like to play that's where we was where we talk about your nickname, Wendy's Chops. That's got to be from my butt. I think I only gave you one of my hot days. But it was from a couple of them. That's probably from Dustin. It's like high school football days.

I grew up in a small town. When I first started growing up in grade school, that type of stuff, we had no stoplights or anything. It was a four-way stop town. I think it had 6,000 people or something like that. As I got older, it grew a little bit. We got more fast food chains and stuff like that. It was a big deal when we got McDonald's and Wendy's. like the only thing around like for 20 miles like there was other you know if you wanted to go to the big town you had to get you know to another restaurant but so we had a Wendy's in town and I had a buddy that worked there also so like I would go there like you know during the summertime probably every day every other day and I had like a certain thing I would get um they used to have the dollar menu back then or uh and then I don't know I think maybe it's only a Tennessee thing but they uh the double stack which is like a like a double cheeseburger but it's bigger than

the mcdonald's burger but you can get two of those a fry and a drink and it was like under it was under five bucks or whatever um so they used to make fun of me because i would get that was like my combo they called it the carp combo and at the time i had really long sideburns like you can see my beard now but in high school they're not you know we people just grew them out long so i had them all the way out i had a coach that called me elvis and then uh they called me wendy's child because they said they saw my car weenies all the time and i had long sideburns like that's funny that's where that comes from well it was a horrible segue but it was a really good story i enjoyed that that was the one that stuck bring back bring

back the dollar menus yeah no for sure i used to have uh wendy's was my jam i could go there like i used to go there all the time and i know exactly what i would order it would be like a junior bacon cheeseburger a small fry a small frosty and a water and it would be it would be like 417 or 437 or something so i know like and i would like that's back when all i had was cash back then so i would literally walk in with like the exact change because i knew what it would cost because i was fucking like 16 17 years old you know working for fucking beer and gas money basically so you know when i was you know it was like a treat for myself and i was like oh i know that's gonna cost five dollars or less so but

yeah wendy's was my jam growing up. Back when you could fill your tank up for $9.95. Yeah, back in the day. But yeah, that was definitely the nickname out of the list that I was given that I wanted to touch on. Yeah, that was late 90s. It was the only one that wasn't self-explanatory. You know, EC, Big Carp Sandwich, Carp, all those you know we don't need to get into those i don't think there there's no story there really that's not obvious with your last name

being carpenter uh so yeah the uh the big carp sandwich was a subway deal that they made up like so i got a couple fast food deals in there well i feel like i've been monopolizing this you got anything you want to talk to him about joy well throw me at the uh on the spot there oh um you've only had a half hour of me talking to think of something yeah but you're doing so well you're doing so i'll keep going so so big carp you know what was i making funny so i hear you're a shitty texture you know well i feel like i know ke already because we, you know, we're in another chat group and we talk quite a bit through Instagram.

Yeah. And, and, and to be fair, I feel like I know Joey because of the podcast, but I don't ever talk to him like this. Yeah. And that's kind of why I was letting, like, I'm not, I'm not going to over dominate anything because, you know, next week our guest is I'm somebody I'm very familiar with and I'm sure I'm going to do the same thing to Keith. So, you know, so um so i gotta say it says that you're a big movie guy so if you watch 75 of all movies or do you finish your movies uh yeah i'll watch them i watched a bunch of bad ones

uh kind of i don't know if anybody told you but um probably for almost 20 years i worked at a movie theater so from all the way from high school almost 20 years like off and on like yeah at least 15 like yeah it was a good i think i was uh but i mean it's like one time i was just a guy that you know did started the movies and sold the popcorn and another time i was a manager so but it was the same chain. So I saw for about 15 years at least, probably, maybe a little longer, I saw almost every movie that came out because we had to preview it. If it came out in the theater, I probably saw it. So when we were playing the Has Tommy Seen It or things like that,

I'm like, oh, dude, how did you not see that? But I'm like, oh, wait, I worked at a movie theater for like 20 years, and he hasn't. So that was part of the old thing is you had to watch it before you played it because everything was on film back then so if there was something wrong with the film and you had a customer come watch it and you never knew that there was a hole in the film or that it jumped cut to somewhere thing that because sometimes you get a brand new print what they call print which is the actual film that you run through the projector and other times you would get it from

another theater so if they messed something up in transit or they had an issue at their theater and cut a piece of it out, you would never know. So unless you watched it beforehand. So we had to do all that too. And now everything's digital. As I was leaving, it all became digital and hard drive and stuff like that.

But you can, they still preview them to this day. Cause you could have a corrupted hard drive or something. And that's, that that's all digital now but that one time it was all film that ran through a projector yeah i worked for a theater in high school honestly like looking back now like it was obviously it was minimum wage but it was like the funnest job i ever had as far as uh like you know i think i was 16 working with a bunch of anywhere from like 16 to 20 some year olds because it was a college town. So I always had someone there to buy me beer and shit.

But I didn't pay for a movie because, let's see, so I worked there from basically sophomore year of high school until, I don't know, I worked there for a couple years and I went and worked at Outback as a busboy, I think, and make a little more money. But I still knew people that worked at the theater until I moved out of town like eight years later. i didn't pay for a movie for fucking like years because i still knew someone that worked there and all you had to do is hey you know what's his face that i could go in and

you know and nine times out of ten i walked up and i still could recognize at least like the people that i used to work with were now like the managers and shit so it wasn't like you know it might have been like one person that was still fucking selling popcorn that you know i had started with but for the most part everyone had like moved up anyone that was still there was like a manager so it was still cool to you know not pay for a movie for years and years and years so i was uh able to you know have some pretty cheap dates basically by you know i get half off at whatever restaurant i was working at and then i go to a free movie so but yeah it was a fun i remember like we would do uh like late night showings or something if we'd get like a new uh new clip in and we'd watch it the night before or you know and just uh get getting the posters

were cool because we always had like you could sign up for which movie poster when it like left the theater like who could claim what you know poster and you put up in your house and shit so i had i had movie posters for years what or what time were you what time was that when you're working in the movie uh like 01 to 02 probably so like sophomore year high yeah do you remember like a big movie during that time major uh one of the matrixes i think matrix 2 came out and that was a big one. Fuck. Fast and Furious or anything like that. That was around that time.

Austin Powers. There was definitely an Austin. The one with Beyonce was definitely out when I was in. A bunch of kid movies. I think some of the Star Wars were coming out maybe. I watched so much stuff there. i'd have to really think back but that was a that was my first real that was my first pay stub job like

actually like not just something under the table getting you got a w2 yeah i actually had like a real job and it's like working with like like like not just like on a construction site it's like someone's fucking kid so that's what i always tell that's what i always tell people it's like they're like younger kids like you should always work in a restaurant in retail or in the service industry like that because you learn so many things that'll help you later in life and movie theater like you know you have a lot of fun but you have customers so it's customer service and all that stuff like i think everybody needs to do that at some point in their life especially when they're younger it helps a lot when i was uh first started in the industry i'm in now it was in a mall that had a movie theater and it you guys talking brought up

something um where we were yeah all right uh where we were we were situated by an entrance and you said that like in the old days you'd get the film from either directly from the company or so the security on those films was insane like i think they came in on armored trucks right like they would come in completely locked they got giant padlocks on them like that was kind of... We had a company that only delivered those. I don't know if it was Armory, but it was like a van that only had

padlocks on them and everything. You didn't get the key until it was delivered. The key would come in the mail and then the package, you could open it when you got to the... I guess you could break into it or whatever, but it was pretty secure. Like it was a,

it wasn't like UPS or FedEx. It was like a third party company that only did that. Yeah. I was speaking of life skills. Sorry. Speaking of life skills, Eric was talking about, I think with the biggest life skill I learned at that young age,

working there was how to hustle and how to do like barter. Cause I would barter free entries with like other people in the mall for like food and shit like like the dudes at the pretzel place i would because like because when we basically had like these refund tickets that if anyone ever had had to leave the theater or had like basically a free entry coupon to any movie uh and you were supposed to tear it and if you were working the door you're supposed to tear it in half and give them their ticket back but i would just pocket them and then try to fucking turn around and trade them and sell them and shit because i was like 16 i was looking you know i was just needing money i didn't give a fuck these places these were stealing my labor for minimum wage i don't give

a shit so i learned how to like be intelligent and make side money and hustle money and uh i would always let like my i would always let my good friends in but if i just kind of casually knew you it was like i don't know know, give me like $2. I'll let you in. Like, sure, I'll let you in for free-ish, but also, you know, give me a third of what the ticket is because I need to make some extra money tonight. And then just bartering with other restaurants in the place was, you know, that was definitely my jam back in the day. Yeah, that's a nice hack. We used to do the same thing.

Like, when I was in management, I used those to, like, like it was a holiday or something and all the kids got to work like all of our teenagers you know like so if i was like 25 and they're all like 16 we'd go get like oh charlie's or something and i would trade the tickets like hey we're gonna be let everybody come watch a movie and just let us let us you know feed all my guys or whatever and uh that's i used to the same thing but in the, we just had a big role of them. So you could just go, here you go, Charlie's manager. Have a good night. That's good stuff.

Well, I think we definitely covered work and in movie theaters. And we got a few other things we could chat with. So you're a girl dad. Do you ever, are all of them into sports? Have they followed your footstep on that or, you know, kind of go on their own. Yeah. Uh, well, like, uh, in the gym here at home, like, uh, my daughters play soccer, uh, and my, we just signed up my youngest for, uh, basketball. So, um, funny story on that.

Her, her grandfather was a good basketball player, you know, back in the day. And, uh, that his actual nickname was smoke uh like you know oh it never missed or whatever so if you go to like a a theme park or something like he's one of those guys that could win a win a draft or whatever like he doesn't really miss and uh those are usually rigged with like a smaller diameter right right so that's how you know that's how you know somebody's pretty good or whatever. And so, like, my daughter had practice the other day, and she kind of sandbagged. Like, when she doesn't know a lot, she's kind of got anxiety

when she's with new people and stuff. But she knows how to play. She knows how to dribble. But if it's, like, a group of people she doesn't know, she's hesitant to get in there. So it kind of takes her a while to warm up. And then normally once she's practiced with people, you know, she's fine. But so she's kind of, like, standing on the side and not wanting to get in line with other kids and

stuff and then she gets up there and uh takes a shot and the coach looks at me because it's nothing but that i mean it's like okay maybe that's luck and then she does another one and she makes like a couple in a row and my wife has it on like instagram whatever and i'm like i get after the i get after the thing i tell him later i said yeah man you got the granddaughter of smoke over here. Like didn't miss a shot in the practice, but you know, everybody thought she couldn't play cause she was standing on the side,

but this took her a little while to get warmed up. But, um, yeah, here in the gym, I've got them some, uh, some kids equipment.

I've got some little bumpers and stuff for them. Stuff with plate snacks, you know, like, um, they really love that. Um, yeah,

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So I'm proof that I've used it. And yeah, we do appreciate that. You've like for the first month, I think I had three purchases on the Barbell Rescue and you were two of them and Tanner was the third. So I really appreciate that. And then once they started talking about on theirs, it's been I think we've got like six in the last couple of weeks. And Joey got one that that's hopefully doesn't get stuck in Carroll stream for six months. No, cause they're, they're shipping it a different way. It's actually in Maryland right now.

So, but yeah, I've got them. I've got them, the little plate stacks, donut stickers. I got them some pink bumper plates and stuff like 10 pounders. And I got a little kids junior bar and a mini Oso bar. It's like a five pound bar and 20 pound bar. Um, but one of the coolest things was last, last summer,

whenever, uh, Kurt Locker came to visit and he showed, uh, my oldest daughter, nine Ellison that, uh, how to do the Jefferson deadlift.

So that's not her favorite. That's her favorite lift. That's awesome. And she's entered the last two contests. So doing the Jefferson, as you know, it's like a 50 pound deadlift, but she loves it, man. And she's like, Dad, can I do my lift?

I'm like, all you want. Like, you know, I don't ever push it on them or tell them, hey, it's all play for them. So, like, I just let them do what they want. Like, here's your guy's stuff. You know, have at it. Here's the clips. Here's the collars.

Here's the bumpers. And just go to town. But, yeah, I really like it. And maybe the girl that thing may have come from, uh, my mother-in-law. She did, she makes the, uh, she, I don't know where she gets them, but she has given me a girl dad shirt. So I've got like a hoodie and a girl dad, like when we went for like a Halloween, uh, we walked around, I was wearing the girl dad hoodie.

And I met a guy the next road over. He's like, Oh, are you in the, are you in the girl dad, uh, Facebook group or whatever? And I'm like, nah, man, what is that? And he's like, uh, so. He's like, oh, are you in the Girl Dad Facebook group or whatever? I'm like, no, man, what is that? He's like, apparently there's another group that you can join. It's all guys that are dads and have daughters.

Just a good local guy told me about it. That's the first thing I've heard about that. I have been wearing the... If I go to a ball game, I don't always wear my Masonomics shirt, but I do wear the Girl Dad shirt to the ball practice stuff like that you know they get a kick out of it i think well it's it's nice to be part of i mean i love being part of massonomics and crew it is nice to be in a couple other niche things too like i don't want to make my entire personality fucking massonomics is i mean like if you want to do that go tanner i'd love that but

i like to be slightly more diverse um but yeah massonomics is probably 70 of my personality but uh you know it is cool to you know know that we're not all like you can you can be part of other things you don't have to be so pigeonholed and my only group of friends can be supporting members but you know that's one thing I won't gatekeep on is fucking have lots of friends. I told Tanner the other day, I said, man, I tricked you. I tricked you into selling me a $9 calendar instead of a $30 calendar because I was about to buy this $30 shirt to get that calendar. But you ran a sale, so I had to spend $9.

Oh, I'm so mad about that. So I opened it, and I was like, it's the last large i'll go no show and i was like you know what man no because the shipping is the same cost as the shirt that's fucking stupid i'm not gonna do that and then like half an hour later i was like all right yeah i'm gonna do that and then it was gone yeah that's just so quick and there it was gone yeah i think unless you want a daddy's home shirt there there's not much left in stock. I do not. I know, right?

Let's see. I had one. Okay, so here's one I want to touch on. In this episode, I've already watched you house two Diet Cokes. And that kind of leads into there's a whole story about you going out with one of your buddies at Cracker Barrel. And, you know, you just got a ton of you. You went back and got 10 different refills of Coke or something to that extent.

So that's not necessarily a funny story, but the fact that I just saw you drink two or three Diet Cokes in the last hour is just hysterical because that wasn't going to be one of my questions. So big Diet Coke fan, I see. Yeah, like I said, it's the original sparkling water. Oh, yeah. But I will say uh all fairness to the massonomics guys i have drank more sparkling water the past couple years following massonomics

than i have in my entire life so same um the best one i've found is uh in my opinion is the water loose i think they have really good flavor um but yeah that was uh we were on a trip to king uh not king's island it was uh six flags with my buddy and his family and you know at the park the drinks are like i don't know ten dollars for a coke or something it was something crazy like that like the beverages there um so we we go there all day we had water and stuff but um i hadn't had i didn't have to diet coke like all day and you know as a, my mom, that's all she bought. That's what we always had in the house. We'd do that or sweet tea.

In the South, we'd drink a lot of sweet tea. We go there, and my buddy's like, man, did you just drink a Diet Coke? We haven't even got our food yet or anything. I'm like, yeah, man, they're free. You buy one, the next one's free. That worked that lady to death, man, as a teenager having a refill. I was like, I'll save you time.

Just take that picture, set it right down here, and I'll tell you when to come back and get the picture. And so his dad thought that was the craziest thing he'd ever seen. That is funny. And say, like, I don't really have a high tolerance for caffeine. So, like, it doesn't really, like, most pre-workouts don't really. I mean, I get up for a workout, but nothing crazy but you know i just have a high tolerance like where my wife oh you do if she drank okay i got you no i do like if she had um if she had half a diet coke she wouldn't be able to sleep and you know that's just just some people are real different i just i don't respond that as much to caffeine i guess a follow-up be a follow-up. It's 10 o'clock here.

It's 9 o'clock where you're at, and you just drank two Diet Cokes. If I drank two Diet Cokes at 9 or 10 o'clock, I wouldn't go into bed until 2 in the morning because that's just enough caffeine to keep me up. Yeah, man. I'll fall right to sleep. I'll be the first one to go to sleep. Yeah. It's a blessing and a curse.

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and use code unpaid on any order to save 15%. Nice. So I think we're just under the 90 minute mark, so I think I'm going to go two or maybe two more. I got one I want to do. I don't know if there's any of what's left that you wanted to touch base on, but I'm going to do a little Fuck, Marry, Kill with Big Carp, a little FMK.

You ready, buddy? Yeah, let's do it. I'll have an answer. I can choose my druthers. Yeah, you can use your druthers all you want. We're going to go with Basement Brandon, Adrian Gluck, and Cooper Mitchell. FMK. You son of a bitch.

I had the same one down for you. Two birds, one stone here or whatever. That's funny. I'll answer it after you. Two horses, one ass on this one? Yeah, I get that That's funny. I'll answer it after you. Two horses, one ass on this one? Yeah, I get that wrong every time. I still don't know. Okay.

Oh, man. Can you say them again? FMK, Brandon Gluck and Coop. Brandon Gluck and Coop, FMK. There's no timeline attached to that? Just in general? Oh, look. Tonight, right now.

9.59pm EST on 12-21-2023 EST. Oh, man. I'm going to have to kill Coop. As of today, he's gone. Then I'm going to... I'm going to F Mr. Campbell Fitness and marry Adrian Gluck to Jim, aka G-Jim. On mine for you, I had Campbell Fitness, Ggr prior to 2019 and g gym which was the original glucks gym

whenever his uh his server would share it just share it as gym or whatever you type in you type in ggm and it went to gym so uh he had to change it to glucks gym but so all of them had a previous name and uh so i'm gonna marry i'm So I'm going to marry Gluck. GGM does just sound like a typo. Yeah, yeah. And Otto corrected the Gm so he had to change it. I told him, I said, man,

it came out cool because I think his logo with the two Gs kind of reminds me of the Mandalorian head armor talking back to a his episode um but yeah i'm killing coop because i think ever since uh he became corporate that is it's not the same so that's immediate kill there um brandon campbell i love all the stuff he does uh if you could marry two i'd probably i would probably marry him but since somebody has to be effed and married, he's going to be that one.

And then Gluck, I think he has the broadest. He does a little bit of everything. He's got powerlifting stuff. He's got some technology, but he doesn't get too far into the technology where I'm not interested. He will have a treadmill or something from time to time. But it's mostly bars and stuff that i'm really interested in you know pieces of equipment uh home gym stuff not commercial equipment uh and then brandon you just want to f with that man because it's he's got one of the nicest gyms or

nicest basements besides keith probably in the probably in the u.s you know what i mean he might edge me out a little bit but i'm not sure if he's getting me completed. A little home cooking. Good stuff. So what's your answer there? I had the same one written down. It says quiche. Do I need to answer it in your manner or answer it the way I posed it? Because I don't know if it would.

I think it'd still be the same. Because I can't look as cool. I don't. Yeah, I don't. I can't. The names was just for fun. But yeah, no, I just. Either way.

Yeah. It's the same as I did. Be fair. Yeah. Or killing yeah it's the same same as i did that be fair um yeah or killing coop for the exact same reasons i don't appreciate sellout fuckers um and just he's completely changed his content like coop 2018 was fucking great like he contributed to me growing my gym and just being like oh i can have 20 barbells and like really be into this niche thing and like invest a lot of time and money in my home gym hell yeah that's awesome but then like he does not produce any of his own content of any value anymore it's all like just you know for the man basically uh between brandon

and gluck i love gluck but brandon is definitely a little more hyper focused on barbells and powerlifting specific which is that that's me to a T like I am a powerlifter. Luck just did his first meet. I don't know that he loved it. Um, whereas Brandon's done like 20 meets. So I guess I'll marry Brandon and fuck luck and kill coop. Yeah.

Yeah. Here's a side note on that. What I will say is I like Brandon. I don't have anything against Brandon really. It's a, but me and Brandon are both supporting members of Gluck. Maybe Keith is, too. The No Wine Cellar is also a Gluck-supporting member of Patreon.

So like I said, I put my money where my mouth is. I'm not scared to support things that I enjoy. I answered it basically the same way. But I see why you go Brandon Campbell, because he's more powerlifting specific and you know, he's got, he's got a national master's total. So you can't argue with that.

No, the, the real question is, has, has Joey heard of all three of these people? Hey, that's actually going to chime in and say, here's a fun story.

I know who those people are. Yeah. That a boy. Well, well, two of them are, they've all been, they've all been on the sister podcast. Yeah, that's true. And two of them are they've all been they've all been on the sister podcast yeah that's true and two of them are supporting members that's true so let's say i know the two

supporting members and i've heard of the one that isn't that's that's good stuff yeah never once watched any of their content no no i think i've watched some of brandon's when i was looking at purchasing some things, I definitely watched Brandon's things. I was going to say, you may have watched Brandon's adjacently because he made that video on that bar that you... Yes. The Bells of Steel? He's actually...

I watched his video before buying mine, and he gave it a glowing review, to be honest with you. I had that bar. I liked it. It's a good bar. I think Gluck might kill me for not marrying him, though, because him and his wife fucking drove like eight hours

to come to my gym and tour it for a YouTube contest. You're supposed to marry the one that took you on the most dates there, Keith. But solely for the fact... Who brung you, man? I'm sticking to my answer. You know how hard it was for me to not say what I said'm sticking to my answer i just you know how hard it was for me to not say what i said in a southern accent just so you know because the first time i

heard it was it is all right that cook went on my nose that's the spirit i had to burn a little when he said that i was like oh man well i gotta buy i mean i got a bunch more home gym content stuff but i'm gonna probably yeah i think we're gonna move on uh get into some uh overrated underrated that's not our game unpaid and underrated unless there's anything jumping out of joey that he must ask nah i'd get all sappy i'm not gonna start talking about being a girl dad i'm gonna okay yeah i just want to say uh i will say that somebody said here um for the longest time you had written on the mirrors in the garage uh ellison and emory's weddings oh yeah as a reminder and that would harken back to what we talked about with nate about doing what we do now for later and for them.

So, oh, OK, I got you. Just want to say, yeah, man, on that one. Well, whenever Joe, I think that's Joey. I've heard him say it multiple times that he's trying to get off the toilet when he's 80. You know what I mean? That's why we squat and deadlift. Like, even if you have a little knee issue here or something like, you know, that's the long game, man. So, yeah, my old old house we had mirrors in the

in the gym or in the garage we don't have that here but um that doesn't mean i can't put it somewhere else but yeah you're right i had wrote that on there because i had uh at the time i think they were what three and five and you know i gotta be around and that's back when i was a lot heavier too so i was like man i gotta be around whenever it's their time to, you know, their time to shine. I want to be able to go to all their ball games and do that stuff. So thank you for saying that, man. I appreciate it. Yeah. That's a, it's definitely a, suddenly all the things that you were doing, you know, you're not doing them for you anymore. And yeah, it's all connected.

Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. I also want to point out that you once fell asleep in a drive-thru. Man, they're hammering me with the fast food talk. I want to get away from the sappy part and immediately go into falling asleep in a drive-thru. I'm assuming alcohol was not involved. You were just a tired boy no yeah not not alcohol i mean in college i did i drank more in college than i than i do now for sure but it was not alcohol related um me and my buddy dustin were equipment managers for the mtsu or middle tennessee football team so that's probably the most i've worked in my entire life honestly like like all the other jobs i did kind of that's why i say you get some kind of service job whatever because they don't it will make you harder in life.

But there you had to go to class during the day, which, you know, everybody does. But then if you had football practice, but we weren't on the team, but we were the guys behind the scenes. So we got there right after class. We got there before the guys did. We're the guys closing everything down in the evening. So, like, you know, sometimes they might have practice until 4 or 5. We're not getting out there until 8, 30, or 9 sometimes if we have laundry or like you have to do the laundry all kinds of stuff put this stuff away um so like out here where we

live it was actually wasn't even a big chain that it was like it was like the only one for like i'd ever seen now there's like five in the same town but at that time there was just one and so we had to drive across town to get it, but it was like the best chicken that we'd had at that time. And yeah, man, we were sitting in the line because they're not really a fast at, you know, service over there. They said they make it to order. So we actually fell asleep in the drive-thru and had to get called to that. And like, you know, three or four spots back before you get your food,

we're going to sleep in the car, man. So that, that definitely happened. That's funny. It was the best chicken I ever ate once i woke up though tell you that midnight snack at that point right yeah right basically all right and and before we get into unpaid and underrated uh i have two uh three questions from the crew The first one is unnamed. How many magpins do you own? Oh, man. You guys got time? Follow up.

Follow up. What's a magpin? Can we just say a lot? What's a magpin do? So it's a pin that you would... Instead of having to use like a... It's how you attach attachments to a power rack. This is a mag pin.

But it's a magnetic one, so it doesn't have the detent pin on the end that's like a pin in the ass to push through. I see. Yeah, this one is... Bells of steel. Yeah Yeah it's like a hitch pin It's like a bougie hitch pin

Basically is what you hear There you are So there's a Beelzebub one And there's a surplus strength one Yeah I have All different brands I've got Oak Club, several He has over 10 for sure

Yeah probably 20 Okay so got no club, uh, several. He has over 10 for sure. Yeah. Probably 20. Okay. So I'll, I'll, I'll take the over 10 as a win. Yeah. Yeah. It started out as a,

as a video review thing. And then people are like, Oh, what about this one? What about this one? What about this one? And I'm like, well,

there's only one way to find out. You got to get all of them and see. And so some guys sent me, sent me some and, uh, some people didn't. And some guys are here locally and like they gave me, sent me some and, uh, some people didn't, and some guys are here locally and like they gave me some. So,

um, about half of them were purchased. Half of them were sent to me, but I was planning a roundup video, but I'm still waiting for a few more to come in, but several magpens to answer your question shortly. Yeah. Um,

I got a bunch of, I got a bunch of old ones. If anybody needs the regular ones, there's a, there's there's a trash bucket over here of old magpens this guy's just swimming in magpens from Jen top three gym hacks for home gym owners

if you were to narrow it down to three elevator pitches these are the three things you should do. One of the things I think I say to a lot of people is, if you're going to train with barbells, get at least two. Like two power bars or whatever kind of training you're into. If you're doing powerlifting, that could be a deadlift bar and a regular bar too, if you wanted. Um, but I think it saves time. Like I like to, like in the rack,

I like to set up my squat and then be warming up the next lift. So if you have two power bars, um, cause you know, SBD or whatever, you know, power lift type training, almost everything is barbells. Um, it could be specialty bars too, depending on what you're, what you got going on. Uh, but that would be one hack is to get at least two barbells um it could be specialty bars too depending on what you're what you got going on uh but that would be one hack is to get at least two barbells that way you're not tied to changing the weights and you're gonna have more you're gonna need more plates for that too but or you're gonna have to move the plates back and forth but if you have a good amount of plates and two barbells you can you can be warming up one lift while you're doing you know in the work

sets of the other lift that's one a big time sa me. Uh, especially when I get home in the later in the evenings and stuff, I don't have a lot of time to trade. So sometimes it's hitting, hitting the big stuff. Um, that would be one. Let's see. What else would I say?

Number two would be by strength. Co plates. Make sure you have those. Yeah. I got any, any, any iron plates will you have those. Yeah, I got some. Any iron plates will work. No, I was just kidding. They make the best sound.

So I've got some neoprene plates. I've got some knockoff iron plates. And I've got strength co-plates. And that clunk that you only get from those flat iron plates that are like flush you don't get from anything else that's a good clunk that's just me yeah probably another one uh to save time uh save space really more than time is uh getting a bench that's able to stand up so when you're not using it you can prop it in the corner, sit it over there.

Like if you don't have, if you're limited on space, like I'm in a one car bay, I have a lot of stuff in one, one area, but my wife parks on the other side. So I used to have two benches. I thought I needed a,

I thought I needed a F a flat bench for, for bench, something like that. But if you have a good adjustable bench that has a longer back pad, you can use that back pad as the flat bench if it's the right height like yeah you got to get one that's you know ipf specs or whatever if you're doing power lifting stuff but um that's what i do i've got the rep 5200 2.0 but the back pad is i don't know it's almost five feet long or four and a half feet

long so it's it's just the same size as a regular, you know, bench pad. So I only use that back portion. And, uh, and then when I'm not using it, I just will it in the corner, will it over there. You still got room for the lawnmower or stuff like that. Um, I would say magpens are a hack. You don't need them, but I just think they're cool. And, uh, you can do stuff like putting your logo on there, you know, you can see that like you can do all kinds of fun stuff like that. And I would say, uh, really just making your gym your own like whatever style you're into whether it's you know

if you're like a mass numbing banners just make it your own like whatever type of training you're into whatever type of equipment you like try to get uh one that you know you're going to train with and if if you like the equipment you're going to use it more often so that's that's really a hack too just you know sometimes it might be a cost a little more but it's worth it if you like it and you enjoy it and then you know if you don't have access to that try to go try it somewhere that somebody else you know has it or meet up with a buddy or go to a gym that hasn't tested before you buy it that's you know i hate you to spend money and then you're like i don't like this bar like you know maybe you get to go try it somewhere.

Some coming up like home gym car. I don't know. Keith knows about that, but that would be a hack to try before you buy whenever you can. So you don't have to sell it down the road. You know, that's probably off the top of my head. That's probably the hacks.

The very in depth off the top of your head, buddy. So go follow his YouTube and hear a lot more about all that. Yeah. It's all my Keith. I could, you keep asking me, I could keep keep asking me i could keep on going probably yeah yeah i was just trying to i i i knew we could uh go all night talking about gym stuff uh let's see so uh yeah big tanner wants to know are goldfish actually baby carp i think it's just i think it's just more a pun on your name being Carp. I don't know if there's more to that.

Maybe my delivery was bad. I don't know. The only thing I can think is he's seen my Ted Lasso banner, the Believe I had made by actual Plate Snacks. Link in the description. Code unpaid. Yeah, he's code unpaid. But that's one thing that Plate Snacks can do.

He can make you any... You got something you you want a marvel banner or whatever that guy can handle it reach out to him but um i do have a believe banner you might be able to see right there it's uh but uh marco place snacks made that off of the ted lasso movie fantastic his own his kind of his old version of that uh where it actually looks like it's a banner but it looks like it's taped on the wall so i had to like it do it he shattered it like if you want to go see it go check out instagram whatever but it's on there cool um he shattered it where it looks like it's actually something that's been stuck to the wall like so it's cool um that might be what he's talking about in the goldfish reference that's the only thing i can think and then on my belt that delphic trick made

me i had him put a little carp fish on there okay um like the carp is not i mean that's my last name like but it's the it's kind of a double meaning there because the fish and everything but uh growing up we had a pool and uh they used to call me uh like the manatee or whatever because i can swim really far underwater i can swim back and forth at that time i haven't done in a while but i can swim back and forth underwater you know without having to come up for air. They used to call me the Big Carp or the Manatee, so that's kind of where that joke came

from. I don't know where Tanner's getting it from. I'm guessing it's Ted Lassman. I know. I have to dispute, man. I don't think you were ever called Manatee because it's not on my list as nicknames, so I don't know if we can give you that one. Yeah, it was there,

man. Okay. I guess since you, you have to get back with the windy chops. Whoever told you when these shops, it was all right. Uh, what's one piece of home gym equipment you regret selling.

And there's probably not a whole lot. Like that's good. good normally what i like to do is like i mean i've sold a lot i've sold a ton i mean you can just look on facebook marketplace to see that but but the 2020 purge was like hey man this is my chance to get rid of all this and upgrade to nicer stuff which is pretty much what i did so when people see this they're like man that dude is rich or whatever. No, I just flipped a lot of stuff and like use other people's money to buy my stuff. Like, you know what I mean?

I mean, I have a decent job, but I'm like, I can't just go spend, you know, thousands of dollars on a gym. Like I took a Titan rack and sold it for double the price. And then,

you know, bought a different brand rack. So that's, that's pretty much how that happened. But, um, I mean, I lost my train of thought on that one. That was all good, man.

If nothing instantly came to mind, that's a tough question. I think I used to have bars I was nostalgic about that I let go of, but it's more a nostalgia thing. I wish I kept on this certain bar. I have a stainless steel version of it now, but I only had a black oxide, but it was the first bar I owned. So maybe it'd be cool to still have that one kind of thing but if you don't have that it's yeah well that's that actually that sparks uh what i would say is a bar that i did sell that um it was the same bar that joey has it was my first real power bar um that one like in tennessee it's gonna rust and it's not gonna like you would have to do a lot of maintenance and even with barber rescue all that is you're still to be putting a lot of time and stuff in it.

But I would like to have kept it just because it was my first bar. And I mean, it's gone now. So like that's one maybe. And then I will say I feel like a lot of the Kabuki stuff I have owned and it's no longer here. And I feel like some of it is just overrated. Like I've got other stuff since then that is just as comparable, you know, that not in price, obviously, like probably much cheaper stuff. But as far as like training in the gym, I don't notice a big difference. So that's what there are. So that'd be another hack maybe he said earlier.

Like some of the stuff, there are some good brands out there that are budget and make good stuff. That might be another hack for somebody else out there. But that's really the the only bar that one bar like i really like that bar i wish i would have kept it just to say it was my first yeah because before that i had the cheapo you know the cheapo bars everybody gets like you find wherever but that's probably it the stripped out hex bolt i love i love that bar but again it was my first real bar right so

of course I love it and it does actually require quite a bit of maintenance bare steel I'm always putting oil on that thing like once every two or three months but I'm in a basement so yeah I've got bars in here that are stainless steel and they've already started

the patina and stuff like that so if they say hey this bar will never rust that's not true because everything rusts around here hey you want to do me a favor there big big carp can you uh you want to do a little barbell rescue ad read for big joey to tell him all the things that he'll be able to do with it in a couple weeks whenever it shows up well if you're uh if you're a power lifter uh you definitely be able to use it for getting the chalk off your bar um a nice uh scrub down and oil like uh i just love the uh does he not have one yet is he getting it's on its way it's yeah okay i'm just you'll see it's it's really good i've had some some cheapo bars or just you can buy like a hardware store brush but you're gonna

like this a lot more because it actually goes around the bar. And then if you have that bar, you need to oil it. You don't have to worry about the oil dripping all over the floor and all that because it will be contained inside of the Barber Rescue brush because it catches all that. So you'll be able to oil down the shafts and all that, and it'll clean it up for you pretty good, man. It's a little effort, and it goes a long way. I've been eyeing them ever since i first heard of them i've been trying to i've been eyeing the barbell rescue but it just couldn't i couldn't make it make sense because i had like a steel wire brush and i had everything but then once we got the code i was like could be in a loser buy your own product

what what color did you get did you get a color black and red okay all right i've i've been i i've really hoped Kim can get enough people that like orange to justify doing a whole other mold in orange or whatever, because that'd be kind of sick, and I would definitely buy the inserts in orange, but for now, I've just got the old standby for the OGs, but

code unpaid at Barbell Rescue, save you 10%. Appreciate everyone that's been ordering so far, and that is your ad read for that this week, and I think we're going to move into unpaid or underrated. We good with that, everybody? Are you familiar? Do you want to explain the rules to me?

Because I usually butcher them. So, Big Eric, how the hell do you pay unpaid or underrated? There's druthers. Yep, yep. I'm familiar. And, yeah, you just can't ride the line, man. You have to go one way or the other. And for anyone that's a newer listener, because I think our numbers are picking up a little bit.

Big Nate shared us where we were at. I mean, it kind of looks like it's picking up at the beginning. So I don't know if people are just listening to the first couple or people are getting into the new episodes. But if this is your first episode, legitimate it it is it's our take on unpaid or underrated uh art shit it's our take on overrated or underrated with unpaid being overrated well it's because it's so instilled with me now it's so ingrained that unpaid is you fight so hard to memorize it it's hard to not right but then you forget that there's people that don't know what we're talking about and and I do want them to understand the game.

So I guarantee there's at least one person that this is their first listen, whether it be someone that's close with Eric or a random crew that's just like, oh, they keep talking about it on the Mathnomics podcast. Let me give it a shot. And they just listen to the most recent download, and that's this one. So unpaid or underrated. Eric, I'm going gonna go with oh let's go with feel free to take any of the ones i've added yeah i know it seems like i have not been participating but i know i want to say it is genuinely because i think you two will give

better content than i could just interject with my dumb assery. You did edit some of them, though. Yeah, I've just added like four and edited one. No, we're good. It just threw me off, but I'm picking it up. Okay, so Eric, let's go. I want to know your unpaid or underrated opinion on sharing food.

Oh, Joey doesn't share food. That's funny because that's a friend reference and i don't like friends like my wife is a big friends person and uh but big carp doesn't share food so like you try to take fries off my plate you're getting that hand smack you know what i mean like uh or like when your wife take a drink out of your soda and you're like man what what the like you just give them that look like you know but so that's the kind of inside joke with my wife like uh that happened early on in our relationship and uh she's like she's like oh joey doesn't share food and tells her friends like you know they're all friends they all like to show friends okay that's not one of mine. That's not one of mine.

Actually, there is another deeper part of that. During the old high school days when you had a lot of that fast food talk from earlier, kind of harking back to earlier in the episode, McDonald's came out with the 20-piece Chicken McNugget back in that time.

I had a bonus room above the garage is where I had a lazy boy chair. So up there I was up there eating after a football practice one day. I had the 20 piece chicken nugget. And my my sister was like, hey, can you. I was like, hey, I'm going to McDonald's. You need anything? She's like, no, I don't want anything. I was like, OK, like okay fine like you know i would have got her something obviously uh but she sees me doing something like on a video game or something i think in playstation at the time she comes up crawls underneath the the stairwell grab some nuggets i see her do it so i get up to chase her out of the room and she just jumped

from the top stair all the way down oh shit hits the ground bounces into the wall makes her body print in the wall and she tells mom i pushed her i hope she listens to this episode and there's a dispute at christmas that would be so great like i didn't do that you son of a no no like there's no way i pushed her man i wasn't even but if i would have grabbed her man who knows what would happen but she definitely would have not eaten my chicken nuggets. But, uh, she just like, she knew if I called her that she was in trouble. So just, she just went, woo. So it goes 15 steps.

So this predates, you know, your wife or anything. This goes back to like, like adolescence then probably even like you just. Yeah, I was probably like, you know, 17 or 16 or 17, like, you know, playing high school football. And, uh, yeah, man, I was like, I don't, I'll like you know playing high school football and uh yeah man i was like i don't i'll get you a combo just let me know but don't eat fries off my plate man yeah that's the stereotype or you whatever you want get get two if you want it but don't eat off my plate yeah i i famously order a second hash brown even when she says she doesn't want

anything because i'm like sure you don't here's your hash brown yeah like there's your home gym hack right there yeah always order a second hash brown you didn't get me a donut i'm like yeah fucking didn't want one you didn't want one where's my coffee all right but like i'm i'm kind of the same way i don't i think we've already talked about i don't like body fluids so when people eat touch my food with their mouth i don't want to touch it because now your gross saliva is on it but like i've had to get over it as like the primary driver in the household my wife has to hand me all my food if we're eating at a drive-thru on the go and she takes the mom tax so oh this wrap looks good bite and i'm just like like i can't get mad anymore

because i want the wrap like there's no second wrap for me to have, but it's the mom tax, I call it. I had to just get over it, but I'm with you. It used to drive me fucking insane, to be honest. All right. Yep. You got another one? I was just going to say, yeah, it's overrated. Oh, yeah.

Well, I don't know what the fuck overrated means so it's unpaid no sorry unpaid yeah yeah there you go yep yep uh speaking of completions come again yep uh let's see um let's see unpaid or underrated i'm gonna go with personalized license plates known as i guess guess we call them vanity plates. Yeah, so vanity plates, unpaid or underrated? Vanity plates, yeah. Back in the day, I did have a CARP license plate with my football number on there. 69?

CARP 69? No, 76. there so 69 uh carb 69 70 76 76 but uh right uh no 69 is the amount of chicken bakes i order when i go to costco like uh i'm gonna say uh well i said recently my wife got me one that says carbs gym for the front of my car too so i can kind of go either way on that so well is that a that's not a vanity plate though that's just a personalized like well so in tennessee do you have front and back license no we have just on the back so i'm not gonna i i'm gonna then i'm gonna say that's just like a that's decorations i'm talking about okay so like because like a vanity plate you have to go to the dmv and pay

like like 100 bucks a year to have or something, don't you? Especially if it's vanity and it's customized. You pick the spelling here, instead of $70, it's like $200 or something like that. Because you're paying the vanity plate plus the personalized vanity plate.

So, yeah, when you get older you're like oh man that's definitely not as important as i thought it was like i will remember another code for less money so yeah that's that's unpaid man unpaid i guess even though i liked it at the time it's still unpaid so when's the last time you think you had it on your car oh that would have been like college yeah like like mid-2000s okay so like you it was a five-year thing you did when you were in your early 20s i got you yeah until i started you know having to pay all my own stuff like you know when you're

playing football and uh you have a little side job at the movie theater it only covers so much so your parents kind of supplement like i've always worked like since i was 15 in some type of capacity but you know all that you know five five dollar an hour job doesn't pay all those bills so like you know the parents usually but back then also gas was only ten dollars for a whole tank so five dollars went farther than it does now but yeah it's unpaid well i'm going to wrap my portion up with. Oh, I feel bad stealing this because I think he edited it for himself, but I think it's going to be. No, please do. It's going to be funny.

I'm going to go with specifically McDonald's ketchup, unpaid or underrated. McDonald's ketchup. Is there something more than unpaid? Can it be like triple unpaid? Mick unpaid? Did we call that Brian? Yeah. Dude, unpaid, unpaid, unpaid,

unpaid, because in the modern era, it's unpaid all the way. There was a time when I think they actually had Heinz ketchup, which is the number one ketchup, by the way. There's no other ketchups. That even harkens back to a sister podcast, early episode where Big Tyler Effenstone is a ketchup guy, I think, too.

And yeah, Heinz is the only ketchup. McDonald's came out with their, I think it was the late 90s, they came out with their fancy ketchup which is something that they they produce and sell so if you ever look at the packets it will say mcdonald's fancy kit but at one time it had the flip thing on the back where it was the hans bottle and now you see like all the other chains but yeah dude i cannot stand mcdonald's ketchup i quit eating mcdonald's because they switched the ketchups like now that the mcnugget story and all that from back in the day that was was, you know, back in the day.

Or I had my own ketchup available. You would take your own ketchup to McDonald's? Not to McDonald's, but like, you know, take it home. Yeah, then take it home and use my house ketchup. I see, I see, I see. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So unpaid, okay. So that was, I had three unpaid.

Damn, I think I hit all your, I don't like these. So let's see what Joey, let's see if Joey can find anything you might like. Well, I think one of them. If not, that's fine. I think one of them is going to, I'm taking a gamble on it. But I want to go first and foremost, unpaid or underrated, flavored cola. One of my favorite drinks is vanilla Coke. So what do you think about the flavored vanilla, flavored diet colas and stuff like that?

Yeah, I'm not a fan. Like, I don't want anything in my tea or anything. I don't like lemon tea or lime coke none of that stuff like uh nowadays everyone has the not everyone but a lot of the chains and stuff have the uh the mixed fountain like you can choose whatever you want yeah i've seen those those those fountains do not taste the same it's not there i don't know if it's because it all comes out the same spout and like you're getting blind mixing in everybody's drink or whatever. But they just do not taste right.

So I don't like anything added to my, I mean, they make different variations of, you know, Diet Coke and stuff, the different lime and different ones, cherry and all that. I don't like anything. I don't like any fruit in my drinks, whether it's tea, Coke, anything. So I'm going to say unpaid for sure. Yeah. Yeah. whether it's tea coke anything so i'm gonna say unpaid for sure yeah yeah i vanilla coke was here in canada for a brief time and then you could only get it from uh places that imported it so i used to buy vanilla coke all the time because it was just my favorite drink i haven't yeah i

even brought it up just because my wife we found a sugar-free um, off-brand one that I kind of like, but I took it out of my thing today because it has 45 milligrams of caffeine, and I don't drink caffeine after a certain amount of a certain time of day. So that's fun. All right. So that one, definitely. This is the one that I think is going to fall flat, but I'm going to try it anyway because it'll make somebody happy.

Unpaid or underrated Magikarp's Splash Attack. I don't know what that is. Alright, yeah, that was a Pokemon joke I thought would go somewhere. Magikarp is a Pokemon and the joke is that it's Splash Attack. I've been to movies and all that, but Pokemon

is not one of my things I got into. Somebody's going to go, that was funny, Joey. Thank you for asking that. I'll take your word for it. So I'm moving on to the last one. Unpaid or underrated barbell safety clamps? I mean, I think they're, I think they're, what does that be? Be underrated or unpaid?

Yeah, I think they're, I think they're underrated. I've, I've, uh, back in, back in high school, man, like, like bench was always one of my better lifts. And, but my, I guess over time it worked out or there's some, some some high school jokes in there too where one arm is way stronger than the other so i would have i would be locked out like this man and i'll be like don't you don't you effing touch this bar because i'm going to get it like i've got the strength to get this and it would be literally like a seesaw type deal like i could get this arm locked out and if it was like a really heavy weight like you know the moderate it's not but like we're maxing out or something so i always had to clamp my bars because if not i mean that thing will go even if you start doing that the

plates start sliding on the bar so normally on bench i would say no collars but like on something like that where you go for a max attempt and you probably have spotters uh so it'd be like one of these deals then you would just lock it out eventually but if they ever touch the bar man like you're gonna have a bad day if you touch that bar but you know over time it's it's evened itself out and you know different training styles back then it was all touch and go so nowadays i try to do actually powerlifting bench press but um yeah i'd say they're underrated because they can save your life if you do them right but always have uh always have your uh spotter set if you don't have if you're lifting alone make sure you're you've got some type of safety precautions other than those always what are your preferred style of color

uh i like the uh the massonomics are the best ones i've got man yeah made by the strength code so if you guys didn't jump on that or you weren't at the lift hard, live easy. Like I actually got mine through the website, but, um, they have the same colors, uh, from straight co and there, uh,

they can last a lifetime. There's a one piece on there that you can adjust. So if it wears out, they can just be replaced. So really they could last you forever and not plus the red. I got the red. So they just pop, you know,

I got the red too. Yeah. I, the only thing I really like the strength coat colors. Now, I don't know if you know, but Bells of Steel made one exactly the same, but they put magnets in them so that you could just clip them to the side of your... I heard that was coming. I haven't seen it yet, or I haven't tried it, but I've heard that. Yeah.

That might be a hack. I asked the strength coat. I was like, are these magnetized and they were kind of like why would we do that and that's because i knew what bells of steel was releasing i was like well i'm buying yours anyway like i'm not right i'm not gonna not get these but it's like i wonder if i just put a magnet on the side of these myself just so that i have somewhere to put them but then i never clued into me. You just leave them on the bar. Like you just,

just leave them on the bar and then you stack all the weights and then you move them and you slide all the weight side. Like when Tanner did that with the video, that never occurred to me. Cause one of my biggest problems is where do I put these while I'm loading the bar? But just leave it on the bar. It's way easier. All right.

I think you, I think you passed unpaid and underrated. Although we had to gloss over the Magikarp one. I wish I could have helped you out there, but that's out of my purview. I was like,

it's got Carp in it. Maybe it'll go somewhere, but no, it's fine. I always get like Carpe Diem or some kind of play on that. You know, weird stuff like that all the time. So that's the first Pokemon?

First Pokemon, yeah. We did it. We did it, crew. Before we hand the reins over to you, I do have one question. What's up with the red? Where's the red theme come from? What inspires that for you? I've just always liked red, personally. I just like the color. With red and black,

growing up in sports, all our stuff was blue. I just thought it looked cool, honestly. They usually go together. Then coming into the massonomics world, a lot of the stuff is red and black, a lot of black tees. So whenever a red tee came out, I was like, man, I've got to definitely have a red tee. But I just think they look good together.

You can do one panel. You can get the uprights in one one color and then you match your stuff. So it's a lot easier to match mix and match attachments. If you have a one color, cause almost everybody makes something in black. So you can get, you know, like Sears is orange.

So you can get orange and then all your other stuff can be black. And it, you know, it seems like go together. I just like the red and black look. That's good enough. And they answer for me, but.

Damn my car is black and red. My gym's black and red. Well, it seems like go together. I just like the red and black look. That's good enough an answer for me, bud. Same. My car's black and red. My gym's black and red. Well, it's all black now, but it was black and red. Same. And also, NWO Wolfpack. Right. Right. WC.

Anything you want to hit us with, big guy? Let's see. I know we went over that one, and we kind of took each other's on the FMKs. Let me see here. I'll get Joey back in the mix here. Let's do FMK for Joey. Power lifting, strongman, or wrestling, FMK. I don't think y'all have done that one before I tried to get stuff that I know you have done

that's good I don't know what he's going to kill you have your druthers on FMK as well so like I want to marry Wrestling because it's just been a part of my life for so long so long but like i can just not i don't think i've actually watched wrestling since pray why i died i don't think i've actually tuned into anything since his match and then he

disappeared and i was like well then i never need to watch this again um but like I still like kind of maintain contact you know what I mean like I read up and I watch some of the YouTube highlights and things like that um I've never done a strongman anything and but I intend to like at some point I'm going to and powerlifting is what i do but i definitely would say it's not the only thing i ever want to do so i would say then we're gonna marry wrestling it's just been there like i said we said it earlier dance with the one that brung you um so mary wrestling probably fuck powerlifting and kill strongman today ask me again next year and see if that's different yeah i knew that would be hard for you because i knew you i know you're at least a fan of a strongman and wrestling and powerlifting you probably are too because you're doing it but

i didn't know what was going to happen with the strongman in the wrestling. I love powerlifting because it's fun. It's easy and it's what I've been doing. But if somebody said tomorrow, you're never allowed to do that again. Go train strongman. I don't think I would mourn powerlifting. Like, I don't think I would, like, mourn powerlifting. I'm not like some of the people where I'm not listening to Two White Lights and talking about all the powerlifting drama and all the federations.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. One thing to me in outlaw country, we both agree with, fuck the feds. Right? I have no patience for that kind of stuff. So, yeah, that was a good call. Now, Joey, are you familiar with the movie coming out tomorrow with Zac Efron, The Iron Claw? Yes, I am. Yes, I am. That's about the Von Eriks.

Is that on your immediate watch list? It is on. Yeah, actually, it is. I don't know if it'll still be in theaters by the time I'm free to go see a movie. But the reviews have looked okay. If you don't know about the Von Eriks, it's a very tragic story. There's only like one that's left alive. Yeah, and it's been pretty sad. They were supposed to be like...

There's like families in wrestling because there always has been there's the hearts from from calgary right bret hart own heart stew heart jim knight heart all those um you know there's the mysterios um there's one other one i'm just forgetting for some stupid reason but there's always a family business the Von Erichs should have been the road the roads the Von Erichs should have been like the I don't want to say mafia but like the powerful

family and they just died they all just died like in horrible ways so it looks pretty good movie yeah spoiler alert I didn't know that so i would have actually probably it might hurt less when i watch it and like the fucking main character starts to die off

like oh fuck okay well now i know that one of them died up in canada like just went off a bridge yeah sorry we we hijacked your questions there eric so yeah it's all it's all good stuff man i said druthers, so I want to go FMK for Keith. Whatever you got. I'll do... This one could have been for either one of you, I guess, but I'm going to go with

Keith on this one because he took my other one earlier. Sorry, buddy. Let's go FMK, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, and Will Ferrell. Oh, we're killing Will Ferrell because he's fucking horrible and isn't funny and has never produced anything that is worth my time at all whatsoever. So Will Ferrell is dead before I even remember who you said the other two were. So Jim Carrey or Sandler.

Ooh, fucker. So this is where it's getting because like the fuck is like it's like a quick hitter basically where someone that like because you you you could in a in in the moment like want to fuck someone more than you want to be married to someone but like the whole fucking thing it's like i i guess i i personally would rank it as like you know mary is like the number one fucking fucking is the number two, and then killing is the number three in that scenario. So Sandler, Carrie, lifetime achievement. Ooh, Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler, fuck or Mary. Ooh, man, I think I got to fuck Jim Carrey and Mary Sandler. Because like Jim Carrey probably peaked higher for me but sandler i think's done more i don't can't even say that because jim carrey's done so much fuck that's tough

i do like i do a good one and they're both is a good one and neither of them are like my favorite because a lot of it is like it resorts to like the stupid comedy which is like i can only take so much of before i'm like all all right, that's, that's funny, but it's like not when it's repetitive, it's not as funny, which I don't know which, um, fuck,

this is tough, but yeah, I guess I'll, I'm going to marry Sandler and fuck Carrie. Yeah. I used to get told I looked like Adam Sandler when I was younger, but I don't know if I still, I think that's when I had longer hair and actually like grew it out a little bit and it was like super curly.

So maybe that was it. But yeah, I don't think if i still i think that's when i had longer hair and actually like grew it out a little bit and it was like super curly so maybe that was it but yeah i don't think i look like him anymore one thing you could say is they're all heavy hitters for sure and then recently satter sander won that uh mark twain award for comedy so if you ever saw that i do remember that whole yeah he was in it almost turned into like a roast isn't it from like all his buddies yeah pretty much that's funny that was good he's got a fucking good good for him grabbing a trophy wife too is there of those three is there follow-up questions of those three is there a skit or a scene in the movie that is your favorite from any of one of the three and that you can that that you can call up that's something you just thought was hilarious or you know it could be could be uh on tv days saturday night live or it could be on the TV days, Saturday Night Live.

It could be movies. I was not a Saturday Night Live guy. I'm sure I'm completely going to miss something. Then Jim Carrey was on the other show on Fox. Was it Firefighting Dan or Firefighting? Firemarshall Bill. Firemarshall Bill. It was on Living Color.

It was called Living Color. Let me show you something it was yeah it was on that it was back when like i remember watching that when we first got like better cable and we're actually able to get fx and like the mid 90s early 90s probably he did that um vanilla ice remix so white white baby or something like that yeah with his hair with his hair and everything. Nothing's jumping out at me. Okay, that's fair enough.

I'll think about it and I'll throw something on Instagram on the podcast page in a couple days when I actually think of something, but I can't think of anything right now, honestly. You guys want to do FMK or transition to something else? Whatever you got, man. You got 10, 15 minutes.

Do whatever you want. Okay, we'll do a couple more. Actually, here's what. I will do this. It's kind of something different. It's a little game, sort of. I like to call Mount Rushmore. So you have picked your top four in this category.

It kind of harkens to the sister podcast being in South Dakota. And Big Keith. Give me your Mount Rushmore comedy movies. Oh, God. Killing me. I don't know. I've never liked them. Your personal top four doesn't have to be what the world thinks

is the top four. What you think are your top four. Outside Providence. Out Cold. It's kind of a comedy. It's more action-y, but like Mystic River. The Russell Crowe hockey movie. There's some really there's some really funny shit in that.

Oh, fuck. What would the fourth one be? I think it's something new that I don't remember the last like new movie. Dirty. So not the not the one with Johnny Knoxville, like Dirty Grandpa with Robert De Niro and Zac Efron. I think I can't remember if that was Dirty or I think it was Dirty Grandpa, right? No.

I know what you're talking about. I'm not sure if that, there was a, there was two movies that came out in the same couple of years. One was one of the, one was a jackass movie basically. And then one was the, yeah,

the one is Johnny Knoxville dressed up as a, yeah. So not that one, not that one with Robert De Niro I can't remember what it's called but I know what you're talking about I remember laughing my ass off at that I was just like I'd have to like look up the orange glaze scale

and actually like go to comedy and then like pick like the top because I'm not like I really am not like comedy is not my I like movies but I don't know I don't I gotta say I'm very proud of you for naming four movies i've never fucking seen or heard of in my life like that's that's hard to do some of those cold out cold is kind of a cult classic so many times it has the same main character as mall rats like the guy i can't remember the guy's name but uh yeah that was earl earl wait no not earl the other guy the earl's buddy uh jason lee's friend that was on going on

the dating show or whatever yeah he's the main he's the main character in out cold fuck is that actually him how cold the guy in the guy in Alcoad is one of two brothers it's like two like twins that were I'm pretty sure that's him it might be his brother but like there was not the O'Donnell twins but like I can't think of what his name is I can see his face but I can't think of his name

was it Jeremy London yeah that's him when Jaws pops out of the water honorable mention which actually probably would have knocked any of those off the table. Dazing Infused. Oh, that's a good one, yeah. Which also had one of the Landons in. I think it was his brother, though.

All right, all right, all right. The London, whatever the fuck. The two twin brothers. No, London was Michael Landon. He's from Little House on the Prairie. Yeah, London is a fuckingael landon he's from little house on the prairie yeah london is a fucking place and where big david's from i can't believe i just like remembered michael landon from little house when i said it too that's i knew i was someone was gonna roast me for that no i'm not roasting yeah i'm just all right i watched a lot of little house in the prairie

as a kid it was one of the few shows well yeah it was on syndication like all summer long it was just like we all did like it usually be like back-to-back hours of it, too. Alright, well, we're going to transition to Joey there. Same question for Joey. What's your Mount Rushmore on horror movies? Okay. So, obviously, Paranormal Activity.

I've made my passion about that movie very serious. It's going to be up there. Ros, very serious is going to be up there. Rosemary's baby is going to be up there. Um, hard to, uh, are you could argue that one's not a horror movie.

Um, unless you're really paying attention. That movie is very, very, uh, anxiety driven. Uh, the Babadook I think would be up there as well,

just because of its approach to mental health and guilt, where if you're really watching the movie, you'll clue into that kind of stuff. It's a lot deeper than a simple, there's a scary ghost guy. And last, probably Insidious. That was pretty good. I remember that one. and last probably insidious yeah insidious is incredible right up until about the last 10 minutes um yeah which one we insidious is the one with um the tiptoe through the windows, right? With that one. Yeah, I remember that one scene in the car, man. That was rough.

Yeah. There's another one, too, called Sinister. And Sinister is pretty much a series of snuff films. And it's very uncomfortable. Not in the way that some of the other movies I've talked about.

Human centipede uncomfortable? Well, no i would think um bone tomahawk uncomfortable that one was like scarring i don't want to watch that ever again but um sinister was very kind of like because they never really show it but like they show people watching it like that one uh and annabelle i think you could put Annabelle up there. Right? As a fifth. If I had to remove one and add one. Right, right.

Because I really liked The Conjuring. But it wasn't as good, I think, as the first Annabelle Origins was. And then The Conjuring stuff just all went insane. And they just expanded a universe. But I think that's those four. And maybe with the addition of Annabelle as the gift shop. Fair enough. Yeah, I knew that was kind of your genre.

So I figured let's see. He had some good insight on that. And like I said, it's not what everybody thinks. It's what Joey thinks. Yeah. Because they're your ratings, not our ratings. So suck his dick. Yeah.

You could honestly ask me every week because I watch, I try and watch one every week. And sometimes I end up watching shitty horror movies because what I'll do, and this is probably stupid to be honest with you, is I pay for them. Ew. Yeah. So many streaming things you can get them bootleg. that I know but I'm committed I finish it whether I want to or not right

so I might see a preview and I'd be like okay yeah that one and I'm halfway through and I'm like this movie fucking sucks but I paid $4 to watch it so I'm watching it yeah that's exactly it and so some you know they can't all be zingers but I paid $4 to watch it. So I'm watching it. Hello to the bar. I got to spot it. You know? Yeah,

that's exactly it. And so some, you know, they can't all be zingers. And, um, you know, I've watched a couple of that where I watched one that was supposed to be

like, this is the most uncomfortable, scary movie. It was fucking garbage. And then you just randomly watch one. Then you're like, so some scuba divers find a house under a lake. And there's a cult family still somehow alive, drowned in there.

And you're like, that's not going to be good. It was fucking great. Like, it will shock you how you're like, I really want to finish this movie to see how it ends. So I do enjoy my horror movies. Thank you for asking. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay.

I got a couple of questions and, uh, we'll see. I can go to either one of you. I think I'm going to do, uh, let's see. I have some for both of you.

So I'll start with Keith. What's the, what's the best lift you've seen in person that has affected you in some kind of way? Like any lift that you've seen in person that has affected you in some kind of way? Any lift that you've seen someone else do and how it made you feel for whatever reason? Is there anything that stands out

that was shocking to you? I watched Dan Bell and Thor at the Arnold last year. I was like two feet away from both of them when they did their expo at the at the rogue the rogue booth and they worked up to like i don't know 800 or something so anything huge but like to watch thor basically tap out and then like essentially like i heard through like one

of the other guys that was handling dan or helping him out like yeah thor didn't want to go up and he asked dan not to go up either even though dan could have fucking kept going up and so seeing that was kind of cool i was like i was like like a huge powerlifting fan essentially see like a powerlifter beat a strong man at a power you know so uh as far as like did that inspire me or anything not really like i don't know like in person there was a local dude that uh he has pulled 800 a couple times in competition i think the one time i saw him it was actually really cool it was when i was fairly new to powerlifting and they were doing a deadlift only uh meet but they were doing it on like a pier at like a beach uh so we were literally like

like on like i mean it was like a a beach like one of the local lakes like on uh lake ontario uh at like just like one of the city fucking beach parks whatever but like see it watching the deadlift meet and watching a dude at like 220 fucking rip up like 750 or something for the first time like that was the biggest lift i'd had ever seen in person at that time which was pretty cool um yeah i would say those i mean i've seen a bunch of like smaller dudes lift bigger weights and stuff, but do I remember anything specifically? Like I,

I don't know. I'm sure I saw some gym lifts of like buddies hitting huge numbers and stuff, but, uh, I would probably go with, well, yeah, seeing Dan in person,

like with Thor and being like getting there like early. Cause I knew it was, cause it was a, it was kind of like a last, it was like a day or two notice. And I didn't really saw it unless you were following their social medias so like knowing to be at the booth like a half hour early and just fucking stand there with nothing going on to then like have a fucking perfect seat or a standing room only obviously uh and then like that would that killed

like an hour at the arnold just like fucking enthralled of like oh that's that's pretty cool that's i've listened to him on like 10 different podcasts and like he's just fucking pretty i can't remember he was i think he was drinking beer on all honesty or at least he drank beer immediately afterwards so dan yeah yeah yeah well i can't confirm yeah because i was drinking with dan all saturday like me that's like meeting big jonathan at some type of competition man he's you know he's he's starting him before he's even we see he's going man oh yeah yeah uh at that same arnold um so i did watch mitch win mitchell hooper win the strong man i was there i watched him carry that log up the ramp crack a beer and celebrate his win so if i have to answer

that same question it's probably that at that same event though i did see tamara walcott um strapless that's the thing she set the record for the women's elephant deadlift bar or elephant deadlift yep and then the person after her matched her lift. But remember Tamara did not wear straps. Because Tamara is a power lifter who just happened to go and demolish the strong man. So that was strong woman. That was awesome. I also happened

to see Shane Hunt wrap 800 or 750 I think. At the strength co-booth during the deadlift party. I've seen that clip. I haven co-booth during the deadlift party. That was impressive. I've seen that clip. I didn't, haven't seen it live.

I saw that clip. Oh, you will probably see me or hear me in that clip because I was right front row center, pretty much just making sure that like, I was kind of helping, but not helping. Like I was just kind of in the way, but like if somebody needed something,

I didn't like, I would turn and grab it or something or like help load the plates. So, uh, yeah, that was, I was definitely there to watch that. And that was the first time I'd ever seen him. I, then I found out he was the guy that kept bailing on massonomics pretty much that day, but watching him do that for fun. He was just like, yeah, I'm going to do that. And that was, that was pretty insane. He's not a massive guy like Dan or anything, he i mean he's pretty lean guy 42 or 275 yeah he's lean

yeah yeah but he's strong dude okay that was before you went super crazy on social media well yeah and and you know i know you left that day keith but i think you really you would have loved that because that was i was front row center i was watching i think taj yeah taj fit bod taj she is on instagram was there um jonathan oldham julius maddox td smash shane hunt dan bell um like i just sat there just partied with these dudes while they just deadlifted yeah and it was it was probably the coolest part of anything I've ever done. I'm jealous that I had to leave that morning. Yeah.

Yeah. From everything I hear. Sorry. No, you're good. I was going to say, from everything I hear, I wasn't there, but it kind of became the animal cage that year because there was no animal cage the last couple of years. It pretty much was. So that was kind of the only thing that wasn't already in the competition. Yeah. no animal cage the last couple years it pretty much that was kind of the only thing that wasn't already in a competition so yeah but then the coolest part is grant then as soon as that was over it was just opened up to anybody what do you want to lift put up put anything on the bar

right so yeah it was really cool nice okay so if i got an example for you guys that's kind of adjacent to that. How many crew do you think you've met in person for both of you? Oof. I don't know the answer. I'm just wondering what you think. I know Keith has done a lot of stuff recently that's probably most of that number.

I kind of covered that the other day. I don't consider that I met everyone that was at the Lift Hard, Live Easy. Do I have to shake their hand and talk to them? Like, like I met some people twice. Yeah. Yeah.

He did too. One with one, I opened it too. I mean, I mean, like at the lift, hard, live easy.

Like I fully walked up to people and was just like, Oh, Hey. Oh yeah. We met last night. Okay. Like I had to do that like like twice and there's still people that like there's one person that was i think at the breakfast who i still don't remember their name i gotta be at like fuck i'm 50 plus because I mean, that's that's that's I mean, plus you factor in because I met like Kevin was at the Arnold. I met a few guys at the Arnold that didn't make it to lift hard.

So I got a couple more there. A couple guys like like Chad was here lifting a couple weeks ago. But I mean, OK, so how many do we say the lift lift? There was 60 at the lift or hard. At least 40 of those were crew. So, yeah, I've met over 50 probably under 70 more than 50 how many would you

say a year ago a year ago 12 months ago zero for sure I'm gonna go with one probably just one okay yeah no two because it would have been Eddie Big Eddie and Matt Sesney for sure. I'm going to go with one, probably just one. Okay. Yeah. No two. Cause it would have been Eddie,

big Eddie and Matt says, me. Ah, that's just the offer. Well, yeah. Cause the, I knew I met Matt at a meet the year before,

like, and we were both really, we both realized we were in the supporting members and then we were both doing a meet in buffalo and we were like oh see you there and like we you know hung out all day and shit and that was pre arnold pre so that would have been like 2021 i guess i don't know and then i'm at eddie fucking like two cup at least a year before or the arnold that i went to last year i don't think it was anymore as far as a year ago and then yeah mine's a lot easier it's only two it was uh per locker when he came here and then

big jonathan when he was in national doing that uh the strip the uh surplus strength boost they did they did a kind of similar competition or like deadlift off or whatever type of deal thank you and yeah he repped i think he repped 700 for like five or something. Yeah, I did see that. In cowboy boots and a speedo. And a cowboy hat. That was something impressive.

I think I might get four. Actually, pre-year. I'm sorry. I can't even, because there's people I met that like, oh yeah, your crew. Hey, like the Arnold, a whirlwind. The Arnold was even more of a whirlwind than the Lift Hard, Live Easy. Because at least the Lift Hard, Live Easy people knew who I was. That the Arnold at the time, nobody knew who I was.

So I would just be getting introduced to people just left, right, and center. Tanner and Tommy, oh, hey. How many times have you met Justin, Big Action Jesus? He's a lovable dude. Love that guy. And he was just like, many times have you met Justin big action Jesus and he's a lovable dude love that guy and he was just like oh do you know that guy do you know that guy do that and I just was like like in autopilot shaking hands also smashed by that like by four o'clock on Saturday no

just on Miller you can just hand because this is what you I was just having fun and people just kept there kept being beers my hand and so yeah I would say it's it's easily 50 plus I will be closer to 70 as well actually I have this here which

is signed by several people there's at least some of them on there including I think big Karen and Huck Finn on there, including, I think, Big Karen and Huck Finn are on here, too. Oh, nice. Actually, I think Shane Hunt's on here as well. That's... Yeah.

Yeah, I think I... I'd say I'm about that... Probably just a hair more, maybe with... I don't know if with the lift hard, because you might have met a few more people at the Arnold, but I feel like most people that you met... You met Nate. I haven't met Nate. But other than that, I'm trying to think who else you would have met at the more people at the arnold but i feel like most people that you met you met nate i haven't met nate but other than that i'm trying to think who else you would have met at the arnold that i didn't meet the day before that morning i don't know and then everyone that we we say that the lift hard is a wash fuck i barely i barely remember meeting you

like that is how many people i met at the ar Arnold that way and then I met another four or five people at Crew Falls and then I've got a couple guys out here that are technically crew that I've met that probably will never I don't know if they'll ever go out but yeah no that's that is cool to think about like

collectively at least 50 people that you've shaken hands with and met in person solely because of this podcast because of you know the sister podcast that's pretty nifty i i know i know your number got up a lot in the past year that's that's all i want to know what would it be a year ago how much has changed it's been pretty crazy yeah if you ask me another year from now too i think we're gonna break 100 because there's gonna be at least there's gonna be at least 40 because I basically have to meet like 40 new people this year. I don't know.

It's probably going to be doable. We should just get a booth. There's a lot of new faces. Just get it. Just get a booth at the LiftArt. Yeah. Get a booth at the LiftArt. Live easy.

In between warm ups and sets, like one of us is just always there. I do want to do a lot. Code unpaid. Like one of us is just always there. I do want to do a lot. Code unpaid. I do want to try to do a lot more content this year, though, even if it's just the react videos. But like without my fucking 30 second monologue, introducing myself every clip. Everybody's big Keith.

Yeah, we know, dude. We know. Here's a selfie about my nose. It's such a good weekend. It's such a good time. No, I look forward to meeting more dudes and chicks and crew and cookies and all the meat sticks chips that it is yeah meat sticks yeah give me all them i what i'm not looking forward to is uh meeting more meme accounts how many how many

i'm so many i'm so confused on who anyone is now with all these meme accounts and we get they're not they're not very good at hiding it it's all yeah it's all getting kind of obvious but that's okay people are having fun yeah no it's just it's just funny like oh and there's like it's i came across a couple because i've been going through my instagram list and kind of like unfollow not not unfollowing people i know necessarily just unfollowing like people that i've been following that like all right why am I following this person nowadays like I'm I want to get my follower count down people that I'm just like

wasting I want my feed to be more of my friends and less people I don't care about I think I've come across a couple old meme accounts that like aren't even active anymore there was like a couple different massonomics accounts that are like legit meme accounts that haven't had anything since like 2021 and I was like wonder who's that are like legit meme accounts that haven't had anything since like 2021.

And I was like, I wonder who's that is like who just stopped playing with their meme account. OK, I got one, I think it might be a good one for both of you. What you got? This is kind of harkens back to the Big Dave episode. He said he doesn't slap the bass in the band Rule 17, but he said that came off of the movie zombie land kind of play on that. So in that movie, Woody Harrelson is going around looking across the world for Twinkies. Yep. In that, if that happened today and you guys,

what would you search the world for? What type of food or snack cake or whatever would you be looking for if it was you is there anything any type of food or beverage that you would be searching in an apocalypse type situation yagger that was maybe too easy for joey yeah it was way too easy uh no because at that point like that's a detriment. Probably all just chips. I can see myself going a certain amount of time without them and then being like, oh, fuck that.

We've got to go and find some of those right now. In the vein of it being a pastry or something not satiating, not protein-based to keep me alive in an apocalypse uh just something that's like a sweet tooth kind of thing uh swiss rolls swiss rolls are my jam like that's if i had to like have like one like little debbie snack food to rule them all like swiss roll was just like you know one sea hare above the rest in my book

would that be one of your unlimited calorie items if you picked one like mine would probably be ketchup but would yours be the swith roll no I don't I would I'd probably not I'm gonna stick with the the cheesecake and ranch but the but the whole like you're not gonna fucking want ranch or an apocalypse

because it ain't it wouldn't have been fucking kept it will be fresh yeah yeah no and then like I you know I not going to want a rotten cheesecake, so you got to go with something, like, in that, because that's why the whole Twinkie thing, is, like, Twinkie also literally survived Apocalypse to harken back to, like, what is it, a fucking, well, that's kind of contradicted by

John McClane when he bites into the one in Die Hard, and he, like, bitches about it being all, like, 10 years old or something, but, like, that's the thing, like, aren't Twinkies supposed to taste the same through an apocalypse or something? Alright, that's fair enough. I've got a few more questions, but it's up to you guys.

Do you want to keep it rolling or do you want to shut it down? One more, one more and we'll call it our night. Okay, this one is... If they're separate, do one more each, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, daddy's getting tired. This one could be for Joey. Has he seen it? The movie Howard the Duck?

Yep. Do I remember anything from it? Nope. It's Marvel lore, so I don't know. Yeah, no, it is Marvel lore. Rumors that's coming out as a movie. In fact, he's in The Last Guardians of the Galaxy as well. He's in two of them. Yeah, he was in The Last Guardians of the Galaxy as well. He's in two of them.

Yeah, he was in two of them there. And I think he appears in the last Spider-Man movie too, oddly enough. He's made two appearances in something. But definitely saw that as a kid when I should not have. Right. A lot of guys remember their first shot at a naked duck. Yep. Yeah, naked duck dick.

Yep, definitely have seen that. That might be the episode title then. Naked duck dick? Yeah, that might edge out the other one. That might edge out whatever we talked about earlier. That's good stuff.

All right, Keith, you want to do a straight question or a FMK? Whatever you got, but whatever you think is going to be funnier. Okay. Well, that's a straight question. Where did the name, the no wine cellar come from? Your orange gym. Yeah, my buddy helped me come up with it. I think was i think he i think i knew i wanted to name my gym because i at the time when i had first because i want to say like i had the physical

gym for like at least a year before i coined the name before the name was coined uh and at that time i was training at another buddy's garage gym uh called the the pain clinic which was a really witty kind of just play on words and it was just cool so i was man, I need to come up with something like that and try to be original and all that. And my, one of my coworkers came over to work out one day and I think he just, he, he, I, at the time I was like, I, I, I seldom drank. I wasn't the drinker. I was like the group of people I worked with. They were all fucking like raging alcoholics, basically you're functioning alcoholics. And here I am like, I'll drink two or three beers like at most uh so he already knew i wasn't a big drinker uh he knew it was like it was a basement so you know i don't know somehow he basically came up i don't remember if he had the whole

name the no wine teller if he just gave me the idea i really can't remember because it was legit like seven years ago or something but it was essentially to the fact around that like i you know i'm not a drinker and you know don't fucking complain when you're trying to work out so it's just the no wine cellar and there's i wish i had a better story but i don't know i think it's a great fucking name it just needs a little better story i guess yeah i'll say like i knew of his gym way before uh massonomics because i've seen him like on facebook groups and stuff like that didn't know keith at all but i do remember his gym and the name i just thought i found it interesting so uh even before massonomics i knew uh grant brogie and uh keith honeycutt i guess

that's good that's in good in in good company yeah no complaining in the gym is is is like top 10 stress relief like i fucking i said it the other day i think i was uh right before my meet i hit the rack on my walkouts twice like for like just top sets no i don't mean i hit it twice like i hit it on the one set and put it back and then on the next set i hit the time and i was just like that's it i'm never lifting again i'm so fucking mad at this walkout like do i not know what i'm doing am i so stupid like it just went on for like an hour so no complaining in the gym is very important i don't drink in the gym though is that enough that kind of uh it makes me chuckle even more

with the the odd couple memes that came out today. And, like, it really, like, you and I are the fucking odd. I don't, like, that show predates me. Was it a movie or was it a show? Like, that predates me so much. I don't even fucking know what it's about. Other than I'm assuming it's just two dudes that don't, that see eye to eye on everything. And it's just, like, that's just, that is us to a T.

And I just find that amusing. That, like, you know we we get to the same place but we don't take the same path to get there kind of thing yeah isn't it isn't it basically the precursor to grumpy old man now i get okay so that makes more sense but that's the same two guys oh it is it was walter mathau and uh jack woman i think they're like 20 and then they're like 80 i might actually have to go fucking uh see if can dig, dig some of that up then. Cause I actually really liked grumpy old men and grumpier old men. Like there were just two old fucking horn dogs.

Like there's your old grandpa movie or whatever. You're like, yeah, he's into the grandpa comedy. Yeah, no, it's definitely like, um,

it's a mindset thing. Actually at the meet, I was just like, I put in mind of my, I think my, my squat or something. And I was like, yeah, I'm going to fail that. And then she was like, why do you talk to yourself like that? And in my head, I was like, I can see externally why you think that's a negative thing.

But like me saying that out loud is actually me going, no, I'm going to fucking lift that. Right. Like when I hit the walkout and i'm like i never want to lift this again that's the initial reaction but then the overcoming reaction is i'm gonna fucking lift that like i'm not i'm not gonna give up just because my brain told me this sucks so it's it is yeah you're right it's a different journey for me sometimes so i need i reserve the right to be mad at it yeah and then i'm gonna overcome it i guess for me the whole aspect of the no wine cellar it's just like i don't know

don't give up like because i can buy fucking you know me i complain about everything but it's more of uh like don't complain about shit you can't fix i guess like complain about the shit i don't know like i i complain about the shit i can fix and i fix it like i'll complain about like oh this asshole put the fucking plates on the goddamn plate tree backwards like i'm not even talking about that it's just more like i don't know like don't complain to the point that you stop lifting don't complain to the point that you're making excuses of why you can't lift like like uh so here's another so that's why i own specialty bars like oh my back hurts okay i own ssb now and i can fucking box squat i have a hex bar i have a fucking i have a neutral grip bench

bar i can fucking still squat bench and deadlift some variation so like that's to me that's where the no wine is like even if you do want to wine still fucking put the work in kind of thing absolutely it's one of the things my boss my boss learned about me very quickly is he'll come to me and he'll be like here's a change we're going to make and i'll go that's so stupid it's going to make everything hard i'm i hate it i hate that you did this without consulting anybody who it affects thank you for letting me get that out i'll do it and that's like, that's how I need to control or how I need to approach things. Right?

Like if it's, if it's a problem, fix it. And if it's not a problem or if you can't fix it, then it was never your problem. That's, you know,

anyway. Well, I feel like we've, we've hijacked. Is there anything you want the listeners to know about you, Eric?

Anything you didn't get across? We're about to probably bring this in for a landing. I just wanted to, I feel like we've got a lot of good content early. And then Joey and I kind of hit our stride with some certain things we wanted to vent about and anything you want to hit us with anything we didn't cover. No, I just say, thanks for having me on guys. I thought there'd be some other guys that would make it on here before me, but you know, thanks for having me on guys I thought there would be some other guys that would make it on here before me but

thanks for having me on yeah I covered all the stuff I thought would be funny or at least make you guys think so I don't really have anything else if you guys are ready to go if there's anything you want to ask me I hope that you get out of this

I kind of hope everyone gets out of this is just get more followers get more friends and crew more opportunity to maybe someone you didn't realize lives in Tennessee lives in Tennessee and you fucking go grab a beer with them or something I talk about it all the time

I want this podcast to be for everyone fucking get to know each other stop fucking hiding in the shadows. Like, become, you know, more friendly with each other. That came out weird. Most importantly, find a reason to show up at the Arnold. Or the Lift Hard, Live Easy. That.

Or Crew Falls, or Home Gym Con, or anywhere that at least one. No, just do the ones I'm going to forget the rest. I'm not going to the fucking world. If Joey stays in Canada, I might go to the Arnold, but he's going to go. I got, I don't know.

I got to stay home. I, I financially can't recover from 2023. So I don't think I can do the Arnold this year. Well, kind of like Keith was saying, I'm not opposed to having guys come over and train. I've met a few guys here and there locally,

like whether they're buying equipment or they just come over to try something out. I'm not opposed to getting a couple days a week, having a crew or having a couple of guys that are in the same type of training. So if that happens, you know, feel free to reach out. I've told Grant when he's in town, Kurt Locker, Kurt Locker actually came here, but Grant here But Grant, hey if you're passing through

And you don't have anywhere to go, you can come lift here We've got Strenko plates, we've got Massanomics banners, so come on through It's the go-to plates Yeah, didn't you and I have a bet On who got the most views or something Was that just a push-up bet or something I think, between

Yeah, that was one of our early on I think that was like two years ago now the gluck video versus the kurt locker and then i don't think yours came out yours came out later ours came out earlier but uh i guess gluck had did that other one before yours but um yeah r.i.p to that guy but yeah you murdered me and like in the in the video gluck says hopefully this has uh tens of thousands of views and keith goes yeah hopefully and he's got tens of thousands of views that's all right now the the other guy you just mentioned he uh he passed away within the last six months or so sorry to hear that um but he actually has a there's like a dog one thing i was gonna talk about earlier never got to uh he's got a a benefit that's essentially it's a strongman

show to raise money for the place where he would go to New York City to stay for free while he was getting his cancer treatment in New York City. So he's like, you know, he started this when he was still alive and then he passed away earlier this year, I believe. And so I think his

family and some other people have kept it going on. So I might actually end up throwing my name into that. I obviously have till tomorrow to sign up for it or not, or till Saturday to sign up for it or not. I'm actually going to do a strong man training session with my buddy, Chris tomorrow to see if I can even touch the, the entry level weights for the amateurs, not the amateurs.

What's the, for the novice class. Obviously I have to be able to like, I have to overhead press. I have to log an actual clean and press like 165 farmers carry 250. It's a stiff bar deadlift, which is

a raising bar. You can get in wherever you want. And then I think a stone lift starting at like 150 or something. So pretty light, but I've never done a stone. I'm assuming 150. Like an Atlas stone lift? Yeah, done a stuff i'm assuming 150 like an atlas stone lift yeah like a stone over bar so not yeah yeah all right like a yoke or something yeah like over the so i don't i don't know so they're doing like half of those events tomorrow so i'm gonna just

see what i can do and you know if all of it feels horrible and be like yeah no i'm not gonna sign up but i think i have the option to potentially just sign up for the deadlift portion of it only just to like, I mean, even it's like 50 bucks just to fucking get donate toward, towards the dude's charity. So I think I'm going to do that regardless as long as they'll just let me just do deadlift only.

But if I can even come close to like at least doing one rep of everything, I'll, you know, maybe I'll do the whole thing, but we'll see. But sorry, I only mentioned that because you had mentioned the, the,

the gentleman, uh, Steve who had passed away. So I was like, oh, let me plug that real quick. Alright, so we have this game we like to play. It's called... And on a sad note there, but

yeah, this has been episode 30-something of the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. You can find us on Instagram at Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. We have a website that Nate probably puts way more time in than Joey or I do doing anything else just to keep it up. And that is unpaidinternpodcast.com. Shout out to Technically the Guy. Yeah. Can't even think of the last time i looked at that website and i i know it's doing great i was i was i was scouring it today because i was actually trying to figure out where he got the uh i wanted to see what our current number for minutes produced was because i'm going to use it for part of the segment and then i was like i couldn't find it and i didn't

want to bug nate so but i know somewhere i can click on it and actually see like how many minutes we put out but uh yeah that website's actually got a lot of good stuff he actually makes profiles for everyone so you can see like because i was confused i was like oh because nate wasn't listed as a guest i think he was listed as a guest once and then as a host once and kevin was a host once and you and i have been hosts for almost every episode so it's just it's really cool uh he does put a lot of effort in that so go ahead and you know at least check out the the the podcast website once or twice if you get a chance uh you know nate would appreciate any positive feedback you got for him on that i think we have a blog we have one current blog post i believe uh big carp you want to hit him one more time where they can find you on the

gram and they're in your uh yeah just hit me at uh coachb76 on Instagram. That's probably the best place. YouTube, if you're into equipment reviews and stuff like that, check that out. Most of all my stuff I put out is on Instagram. I just want to say thank you guys for doing this, man. I listen every Tuesday. Like I told you guys, I have a lot of windshield time.

Just catching up with you guys and hearing all the stuff that's going on out there. I really like it. Keep it up, guys. Appreciate that, man. Appreciate that. Do you want anyone to find you this week, Joey?

Are you back to your? Yeah. Like, come on. It's actually really funny. I still get new followers. Going to war with the bar. I still get new followers that are like crew. And I'm just like, really?

Like, we haven't already been following each other. I think that's, I honestly think that's just us. We're helping the community grow. So then people just see it and like the recommended. And it was like, Oh, that guy's got 20, the same people.

I'm just going to follow him. And maybe like there might be people following you that don't even know what the fuck unpaid and underrated is, but they're still crew. Like, yeah. That's yeah. So I'm at Joey underscore Malesko.

One thing I do want to say is a a couple five-star reviews won't hurt so if you're on spotify or apple music and you want to throw something our way um i'm in canada so i can only see the canadian reviews um but you know you happen to be listening and you haven't done that yet even if you're going to roast us a bit do it on five stars. Yeah, we would definitely appreciate that. We're on the road to 10. So I am Big Keith. You can find me on Instagram at KeithHoneycutt73 or my

orange gem, the No Wine Cellar. And until next time... Oh, wait. We forgot to mention that Big Matt, we still don't really know what happened last week. He never really got back to us. He couldn't figure out the audio. We texted him and called him multiple times this week to try to get him rescheduled for some of the openings we have in 2024.

He helped us make that video. So we know he's engaged. But we'll get him on. In the future. But until then, we'll go ahead and see you next Tuesday.